History Main / TheVitruvianPose

* ''World In Action'', an ITV documentary, had this as its IconicLogo which was the subject of StockParodies in British culture of that usage; this was not carried over to its successor series ''Tonight'' that launched on 8 April 1999, which went for a plainer TitleCard instead.

* The opening for ''WesternAnimation/IronMan'' features the Vitruvian pose as Tony has finished suiting up.

* Webcomic/{{Tamberlane}}: In a WorldOfFunnyAnimals Oakewood, an old librarian, figures out the origin of Tamberlane, a human child, after many months of research, [[https://www.tamberlanecomic.com/comic/316/ when he stumbles on Vitruvian Man drawing in an old book.]]

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* ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'': One of the Kanohi Ignika's forms has a vague Vitruvian Man shape on the mask.

* ''Series/Eyewitness'': In an episode on Flight, [[https://youtu.be/9KIfN2PH4Ps?t=647 A 3D CG version of it]] appears and morphs to show how human proportions would be if we could naturally fly.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E24TopBolt Top Bolt]], Twilight makes a Pegasus version to teach a class about wing symmetry during a Wonderbolts class.

[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man The Vitruvian Man itself]] is a sketch by Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, actually part of a larger work about ideal human body proportions and how they relate to fractions, and it's named after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius Roman architect]].

Overall, the Vituvian pose's resemblance to a crucifixion pose does help its popularity a lot. One could even say it's practically a science fiction equivalent of crucifixion, though not limited to that genre.

You wanna add some flare about high intelligence and history to the setting? You wanna convey a character is advanced (technologically or otherwise) to the audience? Bring in ''The Vitruvian Man''

1. the sketch itself appears.
2. A character is depicted in the same pose(s). Bonus points if the character has extra pairs of limbs to really mimic the sketch's two poses suporposed over one another.

Overall, The Vituvian pose's resemblance to a Crucified pose does help in popularity a lot. One could even say its' practically a science fiction equivalent of it, though not limited to that genre.

Note that this can preclude more comedic uses, especially if the subject is not exactly a genius.

* [[https://dudeism.com/ The website]] for the religion Dudeism, inspired by ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' features the dude in the Vitruvian Man pose, with him holding in his hands a bowling ball and beer and a V-sign

* In ''Literature/AllTomorrows'' the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Qu's]] subjugation and re-engineering of humanity is [[http://www.sivatherium.narod.ru/library/Ramjet/pics/06.jpg illustrated]] with a Qu hovering over the Vitruvian Man holding a weapon. While the cover shows a Bug Facer (one of humanity's post-Qu descendants) in the Vitruvian Man pose next to two of his descendants created by the Machine People.

* ''{{Toys/BIONICLE}}'': One of the Kanohi Ignika's forms has a vague Vitruvian Man shape on the mask.

* ''VideoGame/Fallout4''

* ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'': A parody of the Vitruvian Man drawing can be seen in the opening levels of ''2'', and sees the pose assumed by Sackboy's ally Larry Da Vinci, himself an intelligent creator and clear expy of Leonardo Da Vinci, the original's creator.