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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Star Wars]]'': [[A New Hope|The rebel base on Yavin IV]] is a pyramid. Many of the Yavin IV scenes were shot in the ruins of [[wikipedia:Tikal|Tikal]] in what is now Guatemala, making this more of a case of "Build Like a Mayan."
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Discworld/Pyramids|Pyramids]]'' is, you guessed it, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|about pyramids]] - or, more accurately, a very reluctant Pharaoh who is called back to govern his backwards kingdom after the death of his father, and his similarly reluctant duty to construct a pyramid for his funeral, which his chief advisor (not evil but horribly misguided) insists must be the biggest and grandest pyramid ever built.<ref>It turns out that ''these'' pyramids indeed [[Pyramid Power|can re-sharpen a razor]]</ref>—because they manipulate time: they can keep their occupants perpetually young, but mostly just functioning as a literal ''time sink'' keeping the country of Djelibeybi stranded in the past even in the modern day. Now the Great Pyramid is about to be finished. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Michael Moorcock]]'s ''Queen of the Swords''. The City of the Pyramid is an immense ziggurat with houses on each terrace.
* ''[[The Ancestral Trail]]'' has the Great Pyramid of Loktar plonked down in the western part of the continent, with no evidence of anything else Egpytesque.
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=== [[Card Games]] ===
* The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' cards "[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Level_Limit_-_Area_B "Level Limit - Area B]"] and "[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Level_Limit_-_Area_A "Level Limit - Area A]"] both have big pyramids in the background.
 
=== Tabletop RPG ===
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== [[Video Games]] ==
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** ''[[Super Mario Land]]'' as a whole has a much more Egyptian bend than the rest of the series, with pyramids appearing routinely in level backgrounds and replacing the castles as most end-world stages.
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** ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' has various pyramids in World 2, Desert Land - including one that serves as its own stage.
* Sandopolis Zone in ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles|Sonic 3 & Knuckles]]'' has pyramids in the background of Act 1. Act 2 is set entirely in one. And that goes for almost every single desert level in the Sonic series. Apparently the ancient Echidnas built pyramids...▼
** In ''[[SonicNew AdventureSuper 2Mario Bros. Wii]]'', Dr.a Eggmanpyramid usesis visible in the interiorbackground of athe pyramiddesert-themed asWorld his base of2 operationsstages.
** The Slipsand Galaxy from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' also has a pyramid which also has sand-slides for good measure.
** And again in the first [[Sonic Adventure]] the ancient echidnas live in a jungle with a Mayan like pyramid which appears in both flashbacks and the present day. A copy of that pyramid later appears on a space station in Sonic Adventure 2.▼
▲* Sandopolis Zone in ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles|Sonic 3 & Knuckles]]'' has pyramids in the background of Act 1, including one that serves as a backdrop for the stage boss. ActSonic 2enters isthis setpyramid entirelyfor inAct one2. And that goes for almost every single desert level in the Sonic series. Apparently the ancient Echidnas built pyramids...
* In ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star Fox]] 64'', the base on Katina is a pyramid.▼
** In ''[[Sonic Adventure 2]]'' Dr. Eggman uses the interior of a pyramid as his base of operations.
▲** And again in the first ''[[Sonic Adventure]]'' the ancient echidnas live in a jungle with a Mayan -like pyramid which appears in both flashbacks and the present day. A copy of that pyramid later appears on a space station in ''Sonic Adventure 2''.
▲* In ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star Fox64]] 64'', the base on Katina is a pyramid.
* The second scenario in ''[[Rollercoaster Tycoon]]'' took place in a vaguely Egyptian desert, complete with pyramids (which guests can't enter) and sphinxes.
* The community map "Egypt" in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]''.
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