History Main / ThinkerPose

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' has the family locked in The Louvre overnight, where the works of art come to life during a rare planetary alignment. The Mona Lisa falls in love with The Thinker at first sight, only to leave him for his indecision. The Thinker moves to another piece of artwork and forces Eustace to take his place.

* Speaking of Schwarzenegger, the very last thing seen in ''Film/{{Conan the Barbarian|1982}}'' is an older Conan, now king of Aquilonia, sitting on his throne with a similar pose.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': Parodied in "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E1ThePatrickShowCashesInStarGames The Star Games]]" when a sculptor is carving a statue of a [[ItMakesSenseInContext coffee cup]]. Squidina smashes it with a club and turns it into ''The Thinker''. The sculptor asks what happened, and the statue responds, "I'm-a thinkin'!"

Creator/AugusteRodin's famous {{sculpture|s}} ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker The Thinker]]''[[note]]which is only a small part of his ''The Gates of Hell'', a sculpture based on Dante's ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]''[[/note]] has been imitated countless times as a stock pose. Rodin actually [[OlderThanTheyThink took this pose]] from Classical Greece; {{sculptures}} and {{paintings}} of people positioned similarly are generally meant to convey introspection and melancholy. SlouchOfVillainy can be a villainous version when done on a throne.

Creator/AugusteRodin's famous {{sculpture|s}} ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker The Thinker]]''[[note]]which is only a small part of his ''The Gates of Hell'', a sculpture based on Dante's ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]''[[/note]] has been imitated countless times as a stock pose. Rodin actually [[OlderThanTheyThink took this pose]] from Classical Greece; sculptures and paintings of people positioned similarly are generally meant to convey introspection and melancholy. SlouchOfVillainy can be a villainous version when done on a throne.

* On the foreground during [[http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/arcade/a/alt.htm the final battle]] of ''VideoGame/AlteredBeast'', there are some statues/petrified humans, one of which (on the left) looks like the Thinker.

* In ''VideoGame/{{ULTRAKILL}}'', Cerberuses are [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]] that look like featureless humanoid statues, and they hibernate in the iconic thinker pose.

* In an episode of the first ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' anime, Ed and Al have a fight during which Ed uses pillars of stone made with alchemy to force Al to imitate the statue's pose.

* ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' has ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}'s SlouchOfVillainy resembling this on his DeathWorld of Apokolips.

* Terry Brooks used the Thinker to describe Uhl Belk, the Stone King, from [[Literature/{{Shannara}} The Druid of Shannara]]. Makes some sense when you realize that the Four Lands are actually [[spoiler: the north western corner of the US AfterTheEnd]].
* ''[[Magazine/{{Analog}} Astounding]]'': The [[Recap/Analog1957 October 1957]] issue has [[https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v60n02_1957-10_Gorgon776 this cover]]. The subversion is that the MasterComputer is implied to be [[ArtificialIntelligence doing the thinking]] for the [[LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine white-labcoated]] scientist with their head upon their fist.

* A CGI version of the statue appears in the opening of the game show ''{{Jeopardy}}''.

* One of [[https://overwatch.gamepedia.com/File:Winston_VP_The_Thinker.png Winston's unlockable victory poses]] in ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' is based on and named after The Thinker.

** In "Insecurity Guards", one of the statue in the museum is one of a starfish sitting on a toilet is in this pose.

Creator/AugusteRodin's famous sculpture ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker The Thinker]]''[[note]]which is only a small part of his ''The Gates of Hell'', a sculpture based on Dante's ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]''[[/note]] has been imitated countless times as a stock pose. Rodin actually [[OlderThanTheyThink took this pose]] from Classical Greece; sculptures and paintings of people positioned similarly are generally meant to convey introspection and melancholy. SlouchOfVillainy can be a villainous version when done on a throne.

* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' depicts main character Hisao Nakai in the Thinker pose in one of the images featured in the beginning of one of Rin Tezuka's acts. Rin herself is depicted as the Venus De Milo (she was born without arms).