History Main / SinisterGeometry

* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' has the Dunwich Building which in its virulent underchambers stands an obelisk, worshiped by feral ghouls. [[spoiler: It was built by Richard Dunwich, the brother of Constance Blackhall, who worshiped Ug-Qualtoth. The last surviving Blackhall wants the Krivbeknih but the Lone Wanderer destroys it, pressing the book against the obelisk and killing those of unclean blood of a firey death.]]

* The season requisite BigBad [[EldritchHorror Eldritch Horrors]] of ''Series/GaroTheOneWhoShinesInTheDarkness'' and its sequel ''Goldstorm'' are Zedom, who uses weapons made of cubes, and Ladan, whose sealed form is a bunch of triangles, respectively.

* Sinister-looking polyhedrons occasionally pop up in ''Webcomic/ABeginnersGuideToTheEndOfTheUniverse'', invariably bringing trouble. For example, the Stone Cube sprouts into a MookMaker [[GrowsOnTrees tree]], while a Stone Tetrahedron transforms into a troublesome EnigmaticMinion. By the time a Stone Dodecahedron pops up, the protagonist has had enough and [[FrickinLaserBeams lasers]] the heck out of it before it can do something nasty.

* In ''Manga/{{Heroman}}'', the [[BugWar Skrugg]] are big fans, what with their saucer-shaped mothership, conical landing craft, and gigantic, spherical weapons of mass destruction. For bonus points, as with Ramiel above, ConspicuousCG is liberally applied to emphasise their otherworldliness.

** Bonus points for excellent use of ConspicuousCG: the Mugann are completely computer-animated, unlike most of the rest of the show, which is more traditional. This just serves to emphasize their "alienness".

-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''' summarizes ''Film/{{Phantasm}} II''

* The structures on the Aparoid homeworld from ''VideoGame/StarFox Assault'' were symmetrical. The Aparoids are bent on assimilation.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek'', the director's commentary points out that Lord Farquaard's palace, dungeon and castle are very ordered and geometric, unlike Shrek's home which is much more organic in appearance.

* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek'': The director's commentary points out that Lord Farquaard's palace, dungeon and castle are very ordered and geometric, unlike Shrek's home which is much more organic in appearance.

* ''Film/Shrek'': The director's commentary points out that Lord Farquaard's palace, dungeon and castle are very ordered and geometric, unlike Shrek's home which is much more organic in appearance.

* In Amazing Adult Fantasy a giant mysterious sphere appears from a visible orbit around Earth during a time of Cold War-like political tension. Impervious to damage it inspires paranoia in leaders across the globe to point that an eerily confident man claiming responsibility for it can demand anything of them. After fulfilling his request of dismantling their nuclear weaponry, the sphere disassembles, revealing itself to be hollow. The [[InvokedTrope whole scheme]] was a ParanoiaGambit for world peace.

** The entity Jesse talks to manifests as a spiral pattern, and has the ability to banish the Hiss through Jesse.
** The Oldest House itself has a Brutalist design, meaning lots of block shapes and uncomfortably straight lines. It houses the FCB, dedicated to securing dangerous paranormal phenomena.

* The cylindrical alien probe from ''Film/{{Star Trek IV|The Voyage Home}}''. Borg cubes. However Gene Roddenberry originally intended for the Borg to use spheres, since the Borg were supposed to be the most efficient species and it can be mathematically proven that a sphere is the most efficient shape (in the sense that no other shape with the same surface area will have as great an interior volume). However, spheres were too hard for the special effects people to produce so he was forced to use cubes instead. They do launch a sphere in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact''.[[note]]One of the EU novels does have a scene where several Cubes stack together, which would be difficult to do with spheres.[[/note]]

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': Borg cubes and other spaceships. The enormous First Federation ship, which is a sphere made of spheres each larger than the ''Enterprise''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'' has this in the Pyramids, giant interstellar ships that either serve or ''are'' [[EldritchAbomination The Darkness]]. Diametrically opposed to the Darkness is [[BigGood The Traveler]], which manifests as a giant moon-like sphere, as a case of ''Benevolent'' Geometry.

* The hollow, cylindrical Rama, from ''Rama''.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Ramiel, the fifth Angel, is a translucent octahedron, and its sinister nature is infinitely greater in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion''. Leliel is a mobile, circular hole [[AlienGeometries with a spherical "shadow"]] hovering above it. Leliel is also infinitely thin. And it leads into higher-dimensional space. Or something. Another example would be Armisael, a double helix in a perfect circle.
** In the ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' film remakes, Ramiel can now change into all kinds of new alien shapes and does so in ways that, while renderable on a computer, [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm are virtually impossible in reality]], while other Angels are best described as complicated pieces of geometry with [[UncannyValley off-putting human or animal traits somewhere along the line]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'' has this in the Pyramids, giant interstellar ships that either serve or ''are'' [[EldritchAbomination The]] [[BiggerBad Darkness]]. Diametrically opposed to the Darkness is [[BigGood The Traveler]], which manifests as a giant moon-like sphere, as a case of ''Benevolent'' Geometry.

Compare BigDumbObject, and AlienGeometries. See also FuturisticPyramid.

* The cylindrical alien probe from ''Film/{{Star Trek IV|The Voyage Home}}''. Borg cubes. However Gene Roddenberry originally intended for the Borg to use spheres, since the Borg were supposed to be the most efficient species and it can be mathematically proven that a sphere is the most efficient shape (in the sense that no other shape with the same surface area will have as great an interior volume). However, spheres were too hard for the special effects people to produce so he was forced to use cubes instead. They do launch a sphere in ''First Contact''.

* The octahedral Cranassian {{Power Crystal}}s in the ''VideoGame/{{Raiden}}'' series, which power the final bosses of most of the games. The [[DiscOneFinalBoss Loop 1 Final Boss]] of ''IV'' is an icosadodecahedron.

* The Citadel featured in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' is an enormous triangular pillar that dwarfs and overshadows ''an entire city''.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[OurAngelsAreDifferent Ramiel]]: [[UsefulNotes/RoleplayingGameTerms 1d8]] [[VisualPun times as powerful as any other Angel]].]]