History Main / TakenForGranite

* In ''Spiderman 2000'', the Sandman -- by letting him connect with cement, thus creating beton.

*** Actually, thus far, he ''is'' gone for good in that timeline. Both of the ''LegendOfZelda'' sequels taking place in the [[spoiler: ''WindWaker'']] timeline have unrelated {{Big Bad}}s -- and one takes place an unspecified vast amount of time after [[spoiler: ''WindWaker'']] such that [[spoiler: Niko]] is the only character from the previous games to still be alive and no-one even seems to remember that they once lived in [[spoiler: the flooded Hyrule]]

* Minor villain Evergreen from ''FairyTail'' has this as her power, which she uses through eye contact.

* Not a typical attack, but a real danger of using senjutsu in ''{{Naruto}}''. If the user's body draws more natural energy than it can balance with its own chakra, their body transforms into stone, usually having features resembling their summons.

*** On Third Movie, one of the main villains, a ninja called Ishidate has a gauntlet/glove with an Medusa-esque eye on it that can turn anyone he touches into a statue. Sakura can cure any limbs he petrifies, but not when he goes LiterallyShatteredLives on his opponents. That's at least two RedShirt Soldiers helping Naruto and his team.

Also an odd FetishFuel, since there is a fandom for erotic petrification out there, ([[RuleThirtyFour believe it or not]]). [[OrSoIHeard Apparently]] it's one part BDSM fetish, one part Erotic Horror, and one part GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe.

* One area in ''JadeEmpire'' features a guardian fox-spirit attacking the locals by petrifying them and smashing the statues [[spoiler:because said locals are trying to free an [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned demon]]]]. It tries it on the PC [[LetsYouAndHimFight as soon as it sees you]], but because the the petrification doesn't take due to the PC's Spirit Monk powers.

Being Taken for Granite happens a lot in children's literature, because, unlike death, it is reversable.

* In the first PercyJackson novel, Percy and his friends encounter a masked lady who has a garden full of stone animals, stone people, stone satyrs, ... It's the real Medusa. And since Percy's friend Annabelle is the daughter of Athena, Medusa wants a lot of payback.

*** On Third Movie, one of the main villains, a ninja called Ishidate has a gauntlet/glove with an Medusa-esque eye on it that can turn anyone he touches into a statue. Sakura can cure any limbs he petrifies, but not when he goes [[LiterallyShatteredLives]] on his opponents. That's, at least, two [[RedShirt]] Soldiers helping Naruto and his team.

** One of them, Door (the male one) in the New Blood series became the tyrant of a people of humans. One way of killing servants that displeased him was making stone from the floor flow up over their skin until they were completely encased in it, effectively crating a statue with a corpse inside.
* Grey Gargoyle from the MarvelUniverse has the power to turn anyone into an immobile statue for one hour (or himself into a very mobile rock bruiser.)

* In ''{{Willow}}'', the village sorcerer gives Willow a pouch of magical acorns and says, "Anything you throw them at, turns to stone." This turns out to be true. [[spoiler:However, at no point do they actually do Willow any good. He tries to use them in a fight with a troll, but he drops the acorn and instead of turning the troll to stone, it just petrifies the wooden plank it lands on. He actually manages to hit Queen Bavmorda, but it turns out that [[MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours Bavmorda's magical kung fu is rather stronger than the village sorcerer's]], and she shakes off the effect with ease.]]
** One of the acorns did Willow some good in the [[AllThereInTheManual novelization.]] [[spoiler:After rescuing Fin Raziel from the island; a monster which Bavmorda had summoned or created to guard the lake came after Willow and Raziel, and Willow threw an acorn down its throat.]]

* Disney's ''{{Aladdin}}'': The King of Thieves: The villain was fooled when catching the Midas Hand that Aladdin's father tossed by holding the hand resulting turning into gold.

* In ''HarryPotter'', people not actually killed by the basilisk are petrified. Happened to Filch's cat (she looked at the basilisk reflection in a water pool), Nearly Headless Nick (already dead), Colin Creevey (saw it through his camera's lens) and Hermione (saw the reflection in a mirror)

* Terry Pratchett's early novel ''The Carpet People'' has a termagant whose gaze turns people to stone — the irony being that the beast is actually quite friendly and doesn't do it on purpose. Its own tears cause the statues to come back to life, unless they have been that way for many centuries.

* This happens to [[spoiler: Slobo]] in ''Young Justice'' as Darkseid turns him into a, still aware, statue towards the end.

* Azelf from the ''{{Pokemon}}'' games can petrify anyone who harms it for all eternity, unless it wishes to reverse it. There's no such move in the game capable of this, however (all paralysis-inducing moves are [[ShockAndAwe Electric-]] or [[GreenThumb Grass-type]]).
** You forgot [[BadassNormal Normal]]-type.
*** Also Ghost.

* Used rather horrifically in this [[http://www.oglaf.com/porkchisel.html Oglaf]] comic. ({{NSFW}})

* ReBoot has [[theVirus the Medusa Bug]], with the additional effect of disintegrating anything infected for too long.