History Main / OurFounder

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': The Memorial Hall has statues of four of the seven founders of the City, with two of the other three being statues of the respective mentors of two other founders, and one instead being commemorated with an Ouroboros stone. The Founders are the main characters of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed'', where it's revealed that [[spoiler:two of them are the children of [[TheHero Noah and Mio's]] past incarnations, the mentors were older versions of [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1 Shulk]] and [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2 Rex]], and the other two founders with statues are a son of Shulk and a daughter of Rex. As for the other founders, one of them is mentored by Shulk and is the daughter of Reyn and Sharla from the first game, one is mentored by Rex and is the daughter of Zeke and Pandoria from the second game, and the one commemorated with an Ouroboros stone is [[GodWasMyCoPilot Riku]] from ''3'' - who also turns out to be one of Riki's children from the first game. There is one other member of the Founders who is not commemorated at all - A, the LiteralSplitPersonality of ''Future Redeemed''[='=]s BigBad Alpha]], both of whom are the latest incarnations of the Trinity Processor core Ontos, previously known as Alvis in the first game.]]

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': The Memorial Hall has statues of four of the six founders of the City, with the other two being statues of the respective mentors of two other founders. The Founders are the main characters of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed'', where it's revealed that [[spoiler:two of them are the children of [[TheHero Noah and Mio's]] past incarnations, the mentors were older versions of [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1 Shulk]] and [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2 Rex]], and the other two founders with statues are a son of Shulk and a daughter of Rex.]]

* ''VideoGame/BugFables'': The Ant Kingdom has one of these. In a variation though, it's not of the queen, but a clumsy common ant now called "The First Settler", who got lost while the queen and the rest of her convoy had gone to a different direction. Instead of leaving that ant behind, she led everyone to find the lost ant, found them, saw this spot as fitting, and Kingdom was soon founded there. In her humbleness, she had a statue of that ant erected as the founder monument.
* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'': Hope's Peak Academy has a statue of its founder Izuru Kamukura to this effect. It conceals a hidden underground facility.
* ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'' has a replica of the Disneyland statue, but with WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit instead of Mickey, as Oswald is Wasteland's ruler.
* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'': There's a statue of the protagonist of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI''.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': In many platformers, and in some spin-offs such as ''VideoGame/MarioKart'', the world is littered with stone depictions of BigBad Bowser. Most of them are actually in his castle, though, along with big portraits of him and doors carved in his image.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': The Goddess Hylia throughout the series. Mount Hylia, Hylia River, the Hylian people, and even the Kingdom of Hyrule itself are named after her; the Sheikah Shrines in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' where Link acquires new abilities are dedicated to her; and a statue of her can be found in the ruins of the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Temple of Time]].
* ''VideoGame/Mother3'': New Pork City has a giant Porky statue which serves as a bonus boss.
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** ''VideoGame/SonicCD'': Two examples are the EasterEgg at Wacky Workbench, and the giant statue at Stardust Speedway.
** ''VideoGame/Sonic3DBlast'': Act 2 of Panic Puppet Zone revolves around climbing a path that surrounds an Eggman statue.
** ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'': Hang Castle. Sonic calls attention to an Eggman statue at a certain point in the stage. [[spoiler:And then it flips over to show [[{{Foreshadowing}} Metal Sonic]].]]
** ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'' has Eggman finally build Eggmanland and one of the first things Sonic sees is a giant gold Eggman statue in front of the gate.
--->'''Sonic:''' I'll never understand Eggman's tastes.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrails'': Dreichels Reise Arnor, the 73rd emperor of the Erebonian Empire, has a statue of him found at Dreichels Plaza in front of Valflame Palace.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': Medina Village was founded by Ozzie after Magus lost the Fiend-Human War in 600 AD. His descendant is the town's mayor, and after you defeat Magus, they dance around Ozzie's statue (because Magus is no longer quite so inspiring). Defeat ''Ozzie'', however, and all of this vanishes -- the fiends, without anyone to stir up antihuman resentment, founded the town themselves, and Ozzie's descendant is now a janitor. The change is reflected by the attitude of the townsfolk and the background music. Prior to defeating Ozzie, the townsfolk are hostile to outsiders, the music is dark and foreboding and creepy chanting fills the main square. After kicking Ozzie's ass, the townsfolk are friendly and the music is cheerful and upbeat sans chanting.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX'': The very last shot of the story is of such a statue of Ephemer at Scala ad Caelum.
* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock}}'':

* Provost Willem fills the role in ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' as the original founder of what would become the Healing Church, though he gets no recognition, as in his last years he was branded TheHeretic and tossed back into the decaying ruins of the College of Byrgenwerth, staring into the depths alone in his wheelchair.

* Several examples in ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'':
** The Dorado and Castilo maps each have a statue of Guillermo Portero, war hero and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive founder of LumeriCo]] who was born in Dorado. The reason for the statue on Castilo is unknown, as it's a different statue (and asset) but clearly the same man.
** Overwatch's Swiss headquarters (eventually) had a giant statue of their leader, Strike Commander Jack Morrison. This is eventually a point of contention between Morrison and his rival Reyes, who had been passed over in favor of Morrison for leadership of Overwatch, in the "Uprising" comic: Reyes, whose covert ops department Blackwatch had been shut down by the UN, refused to help in the London crisis, even in planning a response (which he ''would'' be allowed to do under the UN sanction). When asked for help, he [[MemeticMutation shrugged]] and said "[he's] not the one with the statue".

* Though he arrived a few years after its official founding, Laurentia from ''VideoGame/NexusClash'' remembers larger-than-life adventuring pioneer Lucien Moreau this way. In reality, he was a BrokenAce whose [[WellDoneSonGuy expectations]] damaged the lives of all of his children, but Laurentia loved its mythology and he was useful enough as a heroic founding figure for him to get ShroudedInMyth with his actual problems permanently swept under the rug.
* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': The first [[PortalNetwork Waypoint]] is a statue of TheDreaded Braccus Rex, a SorcerousOverlord who forged a tyrannical regime in Rivellon, now merely part of an ancient ruin.
-->'''Ifan:''' Imagine having the gall to want a hundred generations gazing at your own face.
* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', FolkHero Wyll's personal questline sees the party meet Balduran, the legendary GentlemanAdventurer who founded the titular city. [[spoiler:He's revealed to be the party's MysteriousProtector known as The Emperor, and [[ThatManIsDead isn't too interested in his old life]]. Wyll's father, the current duke, understandably isn't thrilled to learn their hero is now an AmbiguouslyEvil {{cthulhumanoid}} and suggests they [[AwfulTruth keep it between themselves]].]]
* In ''VideoGame/BeyondASteelSky'', Saviour Joey is being praised as the one freeing the city from the tyranny of LINC, and creating the current city as is. He has a museum dedicated to him, and a statue outside the museum.

->''"The plaque for Burbank was filed in May first, 1887, by Dave Burbank, a dentist from the East Coast who got a wild hare up his ass one day and said, 'I'm gonna go west and form a town', and indeed he did! End of story! That's it, that's all that happened... Burbank was all like, 'Hey do you mind if I, uh, form a town here?' 'Sure, go ahead!' The end!"''

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/InAGoodCause": The story opens by describing the statue raised to commemorate the ideals of Altmayer, and the TwistEnding reveals how completely irrelevant he was to realizing it.

-->'''Reymanaud''': Sometimes I think the owner stationed me here just so I'd be forced to ever gaze upon the battle of the buldge waged beneath that shimmering statue's smallclothes.

* ''VideoGame'/BugFable'': The Ant Kingdom has one of these. In a variation though, it's not of the queen, but a clumsy common ant now called "The First Settler", who got lost while the queen and the rest of her convoy had gone to a different direction. Instead of leaving that ant behind, she led everyone to find the lost ant, found them, saw this spot as fitting, and Kingdom was soon founded there. In her humbleness, she had a statue of that ant erected as the founder monument.

* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS IOU}}'' has a statue in the middle of the "Pent" marked "Our Founder". Said statue is humanoid-shaped, but worn down with age, and has hints of tentacles on the face. Oh, and testing showed it to be older than the universe.

* In S3E01 of ''Series/TheMandalorian'', Din returns to Navarro to see a statue of IG-11, the Assassin Droid that sacrificed itself to help fight off the Imperial Remnant in Season one. Some of it is actually made from its remaining parts.

* Much like Atatürk, [[UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin Lenin]] used to be everywhere not just as the icon of Soviet Union, but also an icon of the socialist revolution worldwide. The Soviet collapse caused a significant amount of these statues to be taken out as part of the [[HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection Decommunization]] process in former Eastern Bloc countries; however, many still remain in Russia and Belarus where even some new ones have been erected.[[note]]While no longer remotely Communist, those nations tend to have fonder memories of the Soviet Union than most other former Soviet republics, as a result of nostalgia for being one of the two superpowers of the world.[[/note]] Until 2015, Ukraine also had thousands of Lenin statues, but only two remain after stricter decommunization laws were passed. Both in [[UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone]]. Though not all the statues were destroyed, some were instead [[https://time.com/4086228/ukraine-lenin-darth-vader/ altered to depict other subjects]].

* The Roman Colosseum was named for the 98-foot bronze statue UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} made of himself, and which later emperors converted into a statue of the god Sol and moved next to their new stadium.

* The city wherein ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' is set has [[Theatre/{{Harvey}} Elwood P. Dowd]], in a subtle and clever nod to [[NotSoImaginaryFriend the premise of the show]]. Of course, Foster's Home itself has a bust of Madam Foster, which Bloo promptly... [[IncrediblyLamePun busts.]]

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/LuckyLuke: [[WesternAnimation/LaBalladeDesDalton The Ballad of the Daltons]]'', a statue of the late Henry Dalton is seen next to the orphanage that was built thanks to his money. More specifically, it's a statue of Henry Dalton on a horse and ''about to be hanged''.

* In the radio version only of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', the 15-mile-high statue of Arthur Dent on the planet Brontitall. (He didn't found the society there, but he inadvertently inspired them to alter their entire way of life.)

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* A statue of Stanley Steamer in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''. Or, it may not be a statue at all, but Stanley himself, bronzed.

* At the end of ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'', [[spoiler:Shouko shows the aliens a pantheon of sculptures representing the ''kamitsuki'' whose HeroicSacrifice made the founding of the Empire possible, with pride of place given to [[TheHero Haruto]].]]

* In S3E01 of ''Series/TheMandalorian'', Din returns to Navarro to see a statue of IG-11, the Assassin Droid that sacrificed itself to help fight off the Imperial Remnant in Season one. Parts of it are actually made out of the remaining pieces of IG-11 himself.

* In ''Film/OsmosisJones'', the "founder" of Frank is (what else?) [[SpermAsPeople a sperm cell]].

** Inside the Gold Saucer in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', there's a golden statue of its founder, Godbert Manderville, wearing nothing but his smallclothes (which is his [[BriefsBoasting choice of attire]], mind you). The man who runs the counter across the statue has this to say: