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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime]] ==
* Sylvia was once tied to the hands of a clock tower in the ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'' anime.
* The clock tower in the city in ''[[Haibane Renmei]]'' (one of the main characters works there).
* ''[[The Castle of
* Chapter 3 of [[Ann Cassandra]] features a clock tower as both a crowning achievement for the man who built it and the site of a{{spoiler|n almost}} disaster.
* ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5]] GoGo'' has one in which Syrup lives with Mailpo until episode 25, and ''[[Suite Pretty Cure]]'' has another as Siren and Trio the Minor's base.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', during the [[Shifting Sand Land|arabasta]] [[Story Arc|arc]] the [[Big Bad]] [[Animal Theme Naming|Crocodile]] places a huge cannon that would have been used to kill practically everyone in the city in the clock tower overlooking the square.
* Features prominently in ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', most especially in the episode with the Time Card.
* And in another CLAMP work, ''[[CLAMP School Detectives]]'', the clock tower is big enough that the villain and heroes can be inside it at the same time and not know where each other are.
* Appears mostly as a backdrop in ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' at first. It's in the town, and Drosselmeyer's realm has a bunch of gears around. Curious. At the moment of climax, though, {{spoiler|we find out this is where the device that Drosselmeyer uses to write from the afterlife lives}}.
* The Campanile in ''[[Aria (manga)|Aria]]'', based on the Real Life [[w:St Mark's Campanile|St Mark's Campanile]], is a landmark in Neo-Venezia. It's the setting of the climax of the OAV ''Arietta''.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* That clock tower everyone calls Big Ben, actually the Palace of Westminster clock tower in London - renamed "[[w:Elizabeth Tower|Elizabeth Tower]]" in 2012 on the occasion of [[Elizabeth II]]'s Diamond Jubilee.
** Big Ben is the bell that sounds the hour.
* The Kremlin clock tower, more properly called Spasskaya Tower, in Moscow.
* The Custom House Tower, with its four clock faces, was the tallest building in Boston (by law!) for most of the 20th century.
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[[Category:The Tower]]
[[Category:Settings]]
[[Category:Building Tropes]]
[[Category:Climbing the Cliffs of Insanity]]
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[[Category:Timepiece Tropes]]
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