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* The headquarters of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', both in the animated series and eventually carried over into the comics, is shaped like a big capital T.
* Titan Tower was later parodied in the comic book ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' with the team's "Z-Building".
* In post-Crisis ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'', Lex Luthor's Lexcorp building is shaped like an 'L' if you look down on it. The top of the building slopes in a sharp diagonal to emphasize the 'L' shape.

* The Reboot ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperheroes'' had [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/43/c7/84/43c784f2fd19cd6f59e969ef87b8aec2--popular-legion.jpg an HQ]] that looked like the Legion L-symbol from above. (And if viewed from an angle.)

* ''ComicBook/{{Orphanimo}}'': The reason [[BigBad Hari Vallalkozo]] wants the orphanage is to make room for his ultimate project; the V-building; the tallest building in the world, in the shape of a V. Eventually, a rival of his beats him to it with a Y-building, which Vallalkozo then plans to top with an H-building (courtesy of his [[TheStarscream evil right-hand man Hanz]]). Eventually, neither of his projects gets build. Also, when Vallalkozo is temporarily presumed dead, his ex-wife Ursula takes over his company and plans to build a U-building. This doesn't get past the blueprints stage either.

* The head offices of the publishers who make the eponymous book ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' is shaped like a capital H, although why it's shaped like this and not some alien lettering is never explained, but could be down to that "long string of pretty meaningless coincidences" that are apparently a side effect of creating an Infinite Improbability Drive.
** There is also the head offices of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation, which owing to unforeseen problems that caused the whole thing to partially sink into the ground, is left with the above-ground upper portions appearing to spell out "Go Stick Your Head in a Pig" in the local language.

* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in the M Dimension, one of many alternate universes [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls The Author of]] ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'' drifted through. In that reality, ''everything''- including buildings, people, and household objects- was shaped like an M. The Author found his experience there extremely frustrating and baffling.

* ''Radio/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'' tells us the headquarters of the mighty Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is housed in a series of gargantual skyscrapers whose shapes were meant to spell out the Company logo '''Share And Enjoy!''' in mile-high letters. However, owing to one of those design and planning blunders the SCC is renowned for across the Galaxy, the ground underneath was geologically unstable and could not bear the weight. Therefore the mighty skyscrapers plunged into the ground in a localised earthquake and are buried for half their height. Those parts still visible from above ground now appear to read '''Go Stick Your Head In A Pig!''' in the local language.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Homer the Vigilante", a criminal claims to have buried a fortune under a big letter T. The entire town then goes mad hunting for it, and several sight gags include T-shaped buildings such as the "Big T Burgers & Fries", the "Big T Building", and the "Big T Theatre" (with Ice-T appearing with Booker T. in concert).
* ''WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons'': In one Screwy Squirrel cartoon, Screwy escapes from an insane asylum whose buildings spell out NUTZ.
* The Lexcorp building in ''WesternAnimation/KryptoTheSuperdog'' is shaped like the letter L ([[ComicBook/LexLuthor guess what that stands for?]]).

* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' "ComicBook/EmperorJoker", a near-omnipotent Joker reshapes some buildings in Gotham City to spell "Joker" during his VillainSong.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': The Titans Tower is in the shape of a giant capital T. When the [[ThePsychoRangers HIVE Five]] took over the tower briefly, they were in the process of converting it into an ''even bigger'' H when the Titans took it back.
* A ''Super Chicken'' cartoon on ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' has a ridiculous visual gag where the narration has characters running into an alley and a vacant lot, showing them running into giant block letters on the street spelling out "ALLEY" and "VACANT LOT".

* ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'':

* Titan Tower was later parodied in the comic book ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' with the team's "Z-Building".

* In the Comicbook/AmalgamUniverse ''X-Patrol'', the ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol''/''Comicbook/XForce'' amalgam (which also included a lot of ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' elements), was based in the X-Building.

* ''Radio/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' tells us the headquarters of the mighty Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is housed in a series of gargantual skyscrapers whose shapes were meant to spell out the Company logo '''Share And Enjoy!''' in mile-high letters. However, owing to one of those design and planning blunders the SCC is renowned for across the Galaxy, the ground underneath was geologically unstable and could not bear the weight. Therefore the mighty skyscrapers plunged into the ground in a localised earthquake and are buried for half their height. Those parts still visible from above ground now appear to read '''Go Stick Your Head In A Pig!''' in the local language.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': The Titans Tower, as seen above.

* Related, the first five dungeons of the original ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'''s second quest spell Z-E-L-D-A, one letter per dungeon.

* The animated ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''' Titans Tower, as seen above.

* Taken UpToEleven in the M Dimension, one of many alternate universes [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls The Author of]] ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'' drifted through. In that reality, ''everything''- including buildings, people, and household objects- was shaped like an M. The Author found his experience there extremely frustrating and baffling.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Titans Tower, territory tailored to the Teen Titans' tastes.]]]]