History Main / ShrineToTheFallen

* In ''VideoGame/{{Insanity}}'', [[spoiler:Emiko]]'s bedroom was kept exactly the same after she died. In a flashback, it's revealed that there was another reason for this besides memorializing her; [[spoiler:Shigeki believed he could resurrect her and so wanted her room maintained so she could still use it]].

These are typically created with a photograph and a number of votive candles or incense, but traditions vary from culture to culture. In Asian cultures, shrines to the dead are a traditional part of the mourning ritual and are placed either in a prominent position in the home or, if the household is wealthy, a place can be purchased/rented at the local temple. There are even shrines for the anonymous dead or women who died unmarried (so they don't come back as a StringyHairedGhostGirl).

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* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', the Normandy SR-2 has a wall that bears the names of all the crewmembers who have died over the course of the series. Depending on your actions, it can become a very crowded memorial...
** The disaster variant also shows up on the Citadel in the Docks level, where refugees leave pictures and other mementos of dead or missing family and friends. As the game goes on, the wall gradually fills in with more memorials. You can help [[spoiler: Ashley and Cortez]] make their own additions as well.

* In ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'', there is a memorial wall for every soldier that has died during the game. In the background, you can see pictures taped to the wall, [[LibationForTheDead with shot glasses in front.]] As the casualties rise, [[WarIsHell the number of photographs and shot glasses increase.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', after [[spoiler:Mahiru]]'s death, Hiyoko creates one for her, except she made it so poorly that everyone is horrified by it.

* Case 5 of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' has [[spoiler:Amara's tomb, which was built at the former site of the music theater. According to Athena Cykes, the tomb "cost some $800 million [in U.S. dollars] to build, and took 400 workers five years to complete. Special memorial rites were also conducted at various points of its construction." The tomb even has a portrait of the Holy Mother, a sarcophagus that is said to act as a freezer for Amara Sigatar Khura'in's mummified body, and other portraits that paint her in a good light and her husband Dhurke Sahdmadhi in a bad light. Ironically {{Double Subver|sion}}ted in that, although it turns out that Amara is still alive, no one would ever imagine that the tomb would end up [[DueToTheDead as a final resting place for her husband]], who died at the hands of her brother-in-law Inga Karkhuul Khura'in in his effort to save Maya Fey there]].
** When you examine the altar [[spoiler:at the former Sahdmadhi Law Offices]] as Apollo Justice, Datz Are'bal explains that the place has a shrine to the fallen victims of the Defense Culpability Act.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}''. The Firelights have a mural of the faces of those who died, most of them fighting Silco's crime organisation. Ironically one of the faces is of a young Powder, [[ThatWomanIsDead even though she's still alive as Silco's chief enforcer Jinx]].

* During the second season of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', the team visits a room in Mount Justice called "The Grotto", the Grotto houses shrines to fallen heroes, including the second ComicBook/{{Blue Beetle}}: Ted Kord, the Second Robin: [[ComicBook/RedHood Jason Todd]], and Tula aka Aquagirl.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'', the Fa family shrine is the home of the ancestral spirits.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' reveals that the Ferengi homeworld has one of these -- only it is for ''finances'' that were lost in war.

-->-- '''Captain Price''', ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare3''

Compare EmptyBedroomGrieving, the main Western variant of the "shrine" where the family of a deceased person (especially [[OutlivingOnesOffspring parents for children]]) to keep the deceased's bedroom exactly how it was when they were alive, and not using it for anything else because it would be the final admittance that the deceased is never coming back.
Sometimes they will [[EmptyChairMemorial leave a chair for the deceased]]; this is especially noteworthy if said chair was the deceased's favorite.

* An EasterEgg in ''VideoGame/MaxPayne 2'' is a hidden shrine for a deceased programmer, consisting of a room with just a photo, his name, and birth and death dates. As well as some [[NightmareFuel creepy music]].

* Part of Captain Price's StringTheory in ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 3'' becomes a Shrine to [[spoiler:Soap]] after the latter's death. There are also references to a clock tower at the SAS barracks, where fallen comrades' names are engraved. [[spoiler:Soap finally gets his name on the clock tower]] after Task Force 141 is successfully reinstated.

'''As this is a trope about deaths, there may be some spoilers.'''

* ''Film/{{Zebrahead}}'': After [[spoiler:Dee Simms]] is murdered, the other kids cover his locker with pictures, flowers, and notes.

Compare EmptyBedroomGrieving, the main Western variant of the "shrine" where the family of a deceased person (especially parents for children) to keep the deceased's bedroom exactly how it was when they were alive]], and not using it for anything else because it would be the final admittance that the deceased is never coming back.

* ''literature/MyStory'': At the end of ''The Trenches: Billy Stevens, The Western Front'', Billy states that a memorial was set up in Carlisle to honour the memories of the local men who died in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. [[spoiler:He notes, however, that his friend Robert Matthews' name isn't on it. This is because, during one attack, Robert knew that if he charged the Germans as ordered in one battle, he and his platoon would've been gunned down like the ones before him, so he refused the order. He was arrested for desertion and sentenced to death by firing squad. The fact that he isn't being honoured, but is seen as a coward, becomes a source of vexation for Billy.]]

* There was a public one for Vita in ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}''. It starts out as just a photo of her and a few candles, but as the series progresses it becomes increasingly more elaborate. By the end of the series, there's a life-sized statue of her surrounded by pictures and news clippings.

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'': The crew of ''Galactica'' set up one to the victims of the Cylons' attack on humanity. The toll is so great it takes up an entire hallway. Subsequent episodes see more photographs being added as characters [[AnyoneCanDie get killed along the way]]. In the series finale the hallway is dismantled when the crew are forced to abandon the ship and Hot Dog takes it on himself to gather up the unclaimed photographs.