History Main / FantasyLandmarkEquivalent

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* A special episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'', "Abra-Catastrophe", involves Timmy gaining a wish-granting muffin that allows anyone who bites it to have a single wish of theirs granted. When his elementary class' pet monkey, Bippy bites into it thinking it's food, he apparently makes a wish that changes the entire world to an {{Expy}} of ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'' complete with such as an Ape-ified Mount Rushmore, an Ape-fied Abraham Lincoln Memorial, an Ape-ified Statue of Liberty, and the Ape-fied Sphinx. In addition, this also turns landmarks into banana versions such as the Golden Gate Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, and the Elizabeth Tower.[[note]]Later in the special, Crocker captures Wanda and uses her powers to rule the world and transform all the landmarks into his own version such as Mount Crocker, the Statue of Crocker, the Crocker Memorial, and the Eiffel Crocker.[[/note]]

* A special episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'', "Abra-Catastrophe", involves Timmy gaining a wish-granting muffin that allows anyone who bites it to have a single wish of theirs granted. When his elementary class' pet monkey, Bippy bites into it thinking it's food, he apparently makes a wish that changes the entire world to an {{Expy}} of ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'' complete with such as an Ape-ified Mount Rushmore, an Ape-fied Abraham Lincoln Memorial, an Ape-ified Statue of Liberty, and the Ape-fied Sphinx. In addition, this also turns landmarks into banana version such as the Golden Gate Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, and the Elizabeth Tower.[[note]]Later in the special, Crocker captures Wanda and uses her powers to rule the world and transform all the landmarks into his own version such as Mount Crocker, the Statue of Crocker, the Crocker Memorial, and the Eiffel Crocker.[[/note]]

* A special episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'', "Abra-Catastrophe", involves Timmy gaining a wish-granting muffin that allows anyone who bites it to have a single wish of theirs granted. When his elementary class' pet monkey, Bippy bites into it thinking it's food, he apparently makes a wish that changes the entire world to an {{Expy}} of ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'' complete with an Ape-ified Mount Rushmore, an Ape-ified Statue of Liberty, and even turning landmarks like Big Ben into bananas.

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* At the beginning of ''Film/Barbie2023'', there's a cutaway gag where Stereotypical Barbie drives through an equivalent of Mount Rushmore in Barbieland that depicts the very first Barbie, Christie, Kira, and Teresa dolls. [[spoiler:When Beach Ken brings the patriarchy ideology to Barbieland, prompting the Kens to take over and rename the world to "Kendom", the dolls' faces are replaced by that of horses, due to Beach Ken thinking horses are a defining symbol of masculinity]].

* In the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' explicitly shows that Tony Stark bought the [=MetLife=] Tower and converted it into Stark Tower, which turns into the Avengers Tower for the rest of the MCU's runtime.

* PlayedForDrama at the end of ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'', where the protagonist Leo encounters [[spoiler:ape police at the foot of what appears to be the Lincoln Memorial, but is in fact a memorial to Thade, the ape main villain of the movie]].

* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':

** ''Literature/SmallGods'' has the Library of Ephebe, a collection of all the works by the great Ephebian philosophers, as a verison of the Library of Alexandria.

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'' parodies Avengers Tower from the MCU by having Vought Tower be in roughly the same location as the [=MetLife=] building.

* The Ride/DisneyThemeParks Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty Castles were modelled after Neuschwanstein, the famous BigFancyCastle of King UsefulNotes/LudwigIIOfBavaria.

* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' uses some delicately-placed servings of AnachronismStew to show famous landmarks in a sort of 'hybrid' state if they would lack features that would make them recognizable to modern audiences; for instance, in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'', St. Peter's Basilica in the Vaticano District bears its iconic dome underneath a series of scaffolds circa 1499, despite the fact that construction on the dome didn't start until 1506.

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* In ''WebVideo/TheMonumentMythos'', there are dozens of national landmarks in the USA and abroad that are home to some form of EldritchAbomination; the first episode, "LIBERTYLURKER", details an alternate version of the Statue of Liberty which eats immigrants on Ellis Island and has a massive waste containment tank. Later episodes imply that [[spoiler:the titular Liberty Lurker is none other than George Washington, twisted due to his time in Wonderland]].

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** In the Egyptian-inspired Lost Desert, landmarks include pyramids, the tomb of King Sutek which resembles the sphynx, and Coltan's Shrine which resembles the obelisk.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' fictionalises the names of some real life monuments and landmarks. This was almost certainly done in response to the 9/11 attacks which took place shortly before the game was released.
** The Paris levels get hit with this trope hard. The Louvre Museum is rendered simply as "Generic World Famous Museum" while the nearby Eiffel Tower is rendered as the "Paris Tower" with three pillars and a round base instead of the four pillars and a rectangular as it exists in our world. This actually creates a mild ContinuitySnarl with VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert, as a cutscene there displayed the real-life Eiffel Tower. Beta screenshots show the tower was supposed to look much closer to the real-life version before being altered.
** Other real life monuments mostly avert this, but their presence is heavily downplayed, presumably to avoid a ButThouMust case of MonumentalDamage in light of the aforementioned 9/11 attacks. The Statue of Liberty, Washington Monument, the Smithsonian, the British Houses of Parliament, Golden Gate Bridge and others all appear but are not mission critical unlike the Paris Tower. The Twin Towers do appear in a Soviet mission and do have some mission relevance, but their destruction is optional and they lack any identifying label in-game, as they are simply marked as "Building".

* ''Series/TheBoys'' parodies Avengers Tower from the MCU by having Vought Tower be in roughly the same location as the [=MetLife=] building.

** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' shows a renovation to the Statue of Liberty, where it's being converted to hold Captain America's shield in order to memorialize Cap after the events of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.

** Mentioned in ''MenAtArms'' are Ankh-Morpork's Triumphant Arch (Paris's ''Arc de Triomphe'') and the Colossus of Morpork (the Colossus of Rhodes), although whether they count as "landmarks" is debatable, since Bloody Stupid Johnson made them pocket-sized by mistake.

** While the National Mall is largely accurate to the way it's depicted in Real Life, the Jefferson Memorial is much further south than it is in real life.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' plays with this; one episode has Steven and Lapis Lazuli fly to Empire City (Steven's AlternateUniverse version of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity) and we see the Empire State Building there... but the second-tallest structure we see seems to be ''The Eifel Tower''.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' plays with this; one episode has Steven and Lapis Lazuli fly to Empire City (Steven's AlternateUniverse version of TheBigApple) and we see the Empire State Building there... but the second-tallest structure we see seems to be ''The Eifel Tower''.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': The Statue of Liberty is depicted as a pony in this universe.

* Providing the page image, a special episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'', "Abra-Catastrophe", involves Timmy gaining a wish-granting muffin that allows anyone who bites it to have a single wish of theirs granted. When his elementary class' pet monkey, Bippy bites into it thinking it's food, he apparently makes a wish that changes the entire world to an {{Expy}} of ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'' complete with an Ape-ified Mount Rushmore, an Ape-ified Statue of Liberty, and even turning landmarks like Big Ben into bananas.

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* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' franchise has a parody of the Statue of Liberty called the Statue of Happiness that holds a coffee cup instead of a torch.

** ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' shows a memorial to the first responders of the Battle of New York atop the reconstructed Grand Central Terminal, replacing the statute of Hermes from real life.