History Main / LivingPolyhedron

* ''VideoGame/DancingBlock'', a UsefulNotes/{{Supervision}} game, is set in "GB (Geometric block) Kingdom in another end of the universe", and has a Mr. Dancing Block as the protagonist.

* Polygon Man was a failed {{Mascot}} for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation in North America, meant to symbolize how many polygons the machine could render. Ken Kutaragi hated the design and Poly was quietly retired, but he eventually returned as the FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale''.

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* All inhabitants of Literature/{{Flatland}} are two-dimensional polygons. There's also a Sphere, which claims to inhabit a Sphereland with other 3D shapes.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Pinwheeling four-sided sentient triangles also crop up in ''Literature/TheLightFantastic'', but these are explicable as part of a trainee Shaman's [[MushroomSamba communion with the Sacred Mushrooms]].

* The creators of the Dome of ''Literature/UnderTheDome'' are [[spoiler:described as "dodecahedrons wrapped in leather" (though this may be a case of YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm - this takes place in visions, wherein one of them implies that it has no physical body).]]
* The Literature/MrMen and Little Miss characters are all sorts of shapes, but they are all two-dimensional in illustrations. Most are circles, but Mr. Grumpy, Mr. Strong, and Mr. and Little Miss Birthday are squares, Mr. Rush, Mr. Cool, Mr. and Little Miss Christmas, and Mr. Strong's redesign in [[WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow the television series]] are triangular, and Little Miss Sparkle is star-shaped.
* ''Literature/TheGodsThemselves'': The Rationals and Parentals that inhabit the parallel universe are ellipsoids and parallelepipeds, respectively.

* ''[[http://www.pixelpower.on.ca/supervision/games/DancingBlock.jpg Dancing Block]]'', a UsefulNotes/{{Supervision}} game, is set in "GB (Geometric block) Kingdom in another end of the universe", and has a Mr. Dancing Block as the protagonist.

* The Bomb-type enemies in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' are living icosahedra that start battles at half health and eventually self-destruct to deal massive damage of their respective element.
* ''VideoGame/JimmyAndThePulsatingMass'': The Secret Meridian world, which represents Jimmy's struggles in school, has shapes as enemies, like the Triangle, Square, Pentagon, and Hexagon, which are literally just those shapes with eyes, or the Land Fish and its variations, which have strict geometric shapes.
* ''{{VideoGame/Control}}'' has a benevolent being from another dimension that takes the form of a polyhedron. Because of this it's called the Hedron for short. Unfortunately, its dimension of origin also has a virulently malevolent entity, that comes to be known as the Hiss, which seeks its destruction as it is the only thing that can inoculate people against its infection.
* ''[[VideoGame/{{TheTwentyFifthWard}} The 25th Ward]]'' hits you with one when [[spoiler: the rotating polyhedron that serves as your interaction menu is revealed to be the current form of Kozuke Kurumizawa, the main antagonist of the game, [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou who has been observing you all along during the game]].]]

* Loser from ''WebAnimation/BattleForBFDI''. Arguably the pentagons that scared Eraser and Pen.
* Oodle the Doodle, a triangle-shaped LivingDrawing, from ''WebAnimation/AnimatedInanimateBattle''.

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* InUniverse: In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' Sue Ellen writes a graphic novel about a country of triangles and a country of circles in conflict with each other.

* The eventual BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' is a maniacal, one-eyed triangle named Bill Cipher. Supplementary in-character interviews suggest his home dimension is much like what's described in Flatland, [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed and he burned the whole place down for his own goals]]. When he's given a physical form he becomes a PhysicalGod, able to warp reality at whim and [[OneWingedAngel assume a monstrous form]] as a three-dimensional, multi-armed pyramid.

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'': [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Xellos]] usually hides behind a fairly decent human-like disguise, but his true form is a black cone.

* ''VideoGame/TheTwentyFifthWard'' hits you with one when [[spoiler: the rotating polyhedron that serves as your interaction menu is revealed to be the current form of Kozuke Kurumizawa, the main antagonist of the game, who has been observing you all along during the game.]]

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros [[NamesTheSame for Nintendo 64]]'' had the Fighting Polygon Team, a series of monochrome, very low-res clones of all twelve playable characters that attacked in a ZergRush towards the end of arcade mode. They were replaced by higher-res mooks in later installments.

* ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'' has the Dodecahedron, a living geometrical solid with a NiceHat. He only likes to use one face at a time, but each of his twelve faces expresses a different emotion; he finds it odd that Milo can live with only one.

* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has a lengthy story involving an alien LivingShip shaped like a https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/756 gigantic white cone.]]

* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has a lengthy story involving an alien LivingShip shaped like a [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20130511.html gigantic white cone.]]

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': The Strong Bad Email "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail181.html web comics]]" features a fictional [[AnimatedAdaptation Saturday morning cartoon adaptation]] of the [[ShowWithinAShow fictional computer game]] ''Secret Collect''. Since ''Secret Collect'' is [[{{Retraux}} supposedly an Atari-era game]] with all the characters being just large pixels, the animated adaptation makes the protagonist into an anthropomorphic cube.

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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The ([[BizarreSexualDimorphism male]]) Rykornians are living rhombuses with four thin leaf-like limbs for locomotion.

* Loser from ''WebAnimation/BattleForBFDI''. Arguably the pentagons that scare Eraser and Pen.

Sometimes they may be SiliconBasedLife, while other times, they're constructed of HardLight. Not to be mistaken with a CompanionCube (though some polyhedron-shaped CompanionCube{{s}} might be treated as if they were alive), or a RandomNumberGod. It's not uncommon for amateur video games to feature a square or a triangle as the protagonist (and sometimes explicitly have a title along the lines of ''Triangle Adventures'', etc.), since such heroes are very easy to draw and animate (if they're indeed animated at all).

Sometimes they may be SiliconBasedLife, while other times, they're constructed of HardLight. Not to be mistaken with a CompanionCube (though some polyhedron-shaped {{Companion Cube}}s might be treated as if they were alive), or a RandomNumberGod. It's not uncommon for amateur video games to feature a square or a triangle as the protagonist (and sometimes explicitly have a title along the lines of ''Triangle Adventures'', etc.), since such heroes are very easy to draw and animate (if they're indeed animated at all).

* The creators of the Dome of ''Literature/{{Under The Dome}}'' are [[spoiler:described as "dodecahedrons wrapped in leather" (though this may be a case of YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm - this takes place in visions, wherein one of them implies that it has no physical body).]]

* [[spoiler:The creators of the Dome of ''Literature/{{Under The Dome}}'' are described as "dodecahedrons wrapped in leather" (though this may be a case of [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm You Cannot Grasp The True Form]] - this takes place in visions, wherein one of them implies that it has no physical body).]]

* ''Literature/TheGodsThemselves'': The Rationals and Parentals that inhabit the parallel universe are ellipsoids and parallelepipeds, respectively.