History Main / OurFounder

* The main setting of ''Franchise/LapisReLights'', Flora Girls' Academy, has a statue of its eponymous founder at its entrance.

** In ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'', statues of Comstock can be found all around Columbia. A similar statue is also shown at the beginning of Rosalind Lutece (or Robert Lutece via a Tear), the scientist responsible for Columbia being [[FloatingContinent able to float]].

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** Hyrule Castle in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' has a statue in the central hall of the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Hero of Time]].
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', Zora's Domain and Goron City have statues of Mipha and Daruk, the old Champions of those respective races. Having the statues specifically pointed out to [[AmnesiacHero Link]] is enough for him to recover his memories of them.

** Cornell University has one that is across a quad from a statue of the first president. A local legend says that if a virgin walks between them, the two statues will stand up, walk across the quad, and shake hands to congradulate each other on the university's chastity. They have yet to get out of their seats. That's a joke variant on the traditional story, which is that they shake at midnight on the anniversary of the university's founding (or sometimes some other significant date). Footprints are painted on the sidewalk between them.

* Many countries do this for national heroes; Dublin's O'Connell Street has statues of Daniel O'Connell and Charles Stewart Parnell at each end.
* Apparently, every town and city in Britain was founded by either Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, or both.

* [=McDonald's=] for years had brass plaques at the entrances with "Our Founder, Ray Kroc"; the [=McDonald=] brothers themselves getting short, if any mention. Wendy's does something similar with a photograph of their founder, Dave Thomas, in some promotional materials, as well as in framed posters all over any given Wendy's location.
* Somewhere in Apple, Inc. headquarters is a framed Apple I motherboard with the caption "OUR FOUNDER".
* Possibly the most infamous example, the statue of Saddam Hussein that was pushed over.

* One can hardly go anywhere in Kingston, Ontario without being reminded that Sir John A. Macdonald (Canada's first Prime Minister) grew up there and got his political start there. Among other things, there's a Sir John A. Macdonald Boulevard, a restaurant called Sir John's Public House, Sir John A Macdonald Public School, a Sir John A Macdonald Hall at Queen's University, and a life-size statue of him in City Park.
* The largest statue of UsefulNotes/OttoVonBismarck is located near the Port of UsefulNotes/{{Hamburg}}. During the German Kaiserreich (1871–1918), which Bismarck helped found, Bismarck was very close to everywhere, especially after his death in 1898. Every major city has a street or square named for him and there are statues of him in many places as well. Even herring has been named for him, because he supposedly once said he liked its taste and German fishers were so grateful, they named one type of preparing it after him.

* Much like Atatürk, Lenin used to be everywhere not just as the icon of Soviet Union, but also an icon of the socialist revolution worldwide. TheGreatPoliticsMessup 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 a 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]].

* Several appear in ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'', mostly of the main characters of the [[Literature/{{Mistborn}} previous trilogy. The most prominent one is of [[BattleCouple Vin and Elend]], and is located at the park in the middle of the city.

* In ''Film/OsmosisJones'', our founder is (what else?) a sperm cell.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Master did this, rather epically, in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]].
-->'''Martha:''' All over the Earth, those things. [[RushmoreRefacement He's even carved himself into Mount Rushmore.]]

* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': PlayedForLaughs when the PlayerCharacter's mentor, Meistr Siva, [[spoiler:[[DeadPersonConversation poshumously]]]] asks for one single small favour in exchange for her aid in saving the world... a big statue of herself in the great city Arx, glowering out over the harbour.

** Alberto Malich, founder of Unseen University. When Malich returns from [[TheGrimReaper Death's country]] in ''Discworld/{{Mort}}'' and destroys his statue, they believe the statue has come to life. When Malich goes back, the wizards recommend that the replacement statue be constructed in a very secure dungeon.
** In ''Discworld/InterestingTimes'', Rincewind finds a statue of One Sun Mirror, founder of the Agatean Empire, on a pedestal of gold in a lake of quicksilver beneath a huge artificial hill built by the Forbidden City. He notes the inscription on it, which simply says "One Sun Mirror". The implication being that no-one standing there could fail to know who that was.
** There's a statue of Khuft, the founder of Djelibeybi, in ''Discworld/{{Pyramids}}''. It shows a noble figure with a patriarchal face, an outstretched hand and a chin you could crack rocks on. When Teppic has a vision of a toothless and rather shifty old man in a grubby loincloth, it takes him a while to make the connection.

* In the pig level of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons: Virtual Bart'', just before the battle with the executives guarding the rest of the captive pigs, a framed picture of Krusty's head with the words, "OUR FOUNDER" on the plaque of the frame can be seen, as well as busts of Krusty's head.

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* In TheFilmOfTheBook ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'', there is a statue of Helm Hammerhand in Helm's Deep, though it is not named in the dialogue. It may be mentioned in the director's commentary, though. They don't directly name the statue, but his horn is explicitly named at least once.
-->'''Theodin:''' The Horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep, one last time!

* Cornelius Coot, the founder of Duckburg, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck and entourage's duck-inhabited home town, in the Creator/CarlBarks-penned issues of Walt Disney Comics. One instance had [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Uncle Scrooge McDuck]] and a foreign Raj competing to build the biggest one; it got to the point where you couldn't see the statues in their entirety from within the town borders.

** Act 2 of Panic Puppet Zone from ''3D Blast'' revolves around climbing a path that surrounds an Eggman statue.

* UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington provides the name of D.C.'s capital and has a rank of permanent superiority that can never be surpassed.

* Statues of [[UsefulNotes/NoMoreEmperors Sun Yat-sen]] are, oddly enough, found in both [[RedChina the People's Republic of China]] ''and'' the UsefulNotes/{{Taiwan}} (Republic of China). Despite the vast ideological and geopolitical divergence between the two governments that claim to be the legitimate rulers of China, both consider Sun to be their founder on account of having led the rebellion that ended the . In mainland China he's known as "Forerunner of the Revolution" and in Taiwan he's "Father of the Nation". Naturally, the PRC also has has statues everywhere of its founder UsefulNotes/MaoZedong and the Taiwan has lots of statues of ROC president UsefulNotes/ChiangKaiShek. Both claimed to be the rightful successor to Sun Yat-sen and to be creating the version of "China" he intended.

* In the ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' chapter "Jägermonsters to the Rescue", it turns out that [[spoiler:in Agatha's two-year absence, Gil has topped Mechanicsburg's city walls]] with towering statues of Agatha. While not its founder, Agatha ''is'' the Heterodyne, and therefore the rightful ruler. Dimo describes them as being over 150 meters tall. For the non-metrically inclined, that's ''500 feet''. Agatha is... less than pleased.

* Much like Atatürk, Lenin used to be everywhere not just as the icon of Soviet Union, but also an icon of the socialist revolution worldwide. TheGreatPoliticsMessup 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. Until 2015, Ukraine also had a 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]].

* Much like Atatürk, Lenin used to be everywhere not just as the icon of Soviet Union, but also an icon of the socialist revolution worldwide. TheGreatPoliticsMessup 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 Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus where even some new ones have been erected.

* The Creator/JoelSchumacher's ''Film/BatmanForever'' and Film/BatmanForever'' has enormous statues of unspecified men (and, inexplicably, a replica of the Statue of Liberty) littered around Gotham City.

* Like the ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', example above, Metropolis in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' has had a statue of Comicbook/{{Superman}} erected after after his [[Film/ManOfSteel victory against Zod]]. This outrages a lot of people, (and it's implied [[HumbleHero Clark]] isn't too fond of it either) notably because said statue is in the middle of a memorial for the victims of Zod's attack, and plenty of people blame Superman for the tragedy.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':