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Aka [[Cathedral Climax]], a subtrope of [[Climbing Climax]]. If someone climbs up one of these with a weapon in real life, duck. See also [[For Doom the Bell Tolls]].
 
::''Not to be confused with the video game series [[Clock Tower (Video Gameseries)|Clock Tower]]''.
 
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== [[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 (Anime)|Haibane Renmei]]'' (one of the main characters works there).
* ''[[The Castle of Cagliostro (Anime)|The Castleof Cagliostro]]'': the final confrontation scene inside a clock tower is a rather famous one.
* 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 (Manga)|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 (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', most especially in the episode with the Time Card.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In ''[[The Blue Blur of Termina (Fanfic)|The Blue Blur of Termina]]'', the Clock Tower serves as not only the central landmark of Clock Town, but also the main entrance to the rest of Termina from the Subterranean Forest.
* Focan in ''[[With Strings Attached (Fanfic)|With Strings Attached]]'' has a clock tower that chimes the weird time units of Ketafa. The four are so rattled when they first hear it that they dub it Gib Neb. Later, John and Ringo are taken up to see the view—it's the highest building in Focan by a lot—and the vista they see becomes significant to John not long afterwards.
 
== [[Film]] ==
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** And in all of them it's the ''same'' clock tower, just in different time periods.
* In the film [[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It|Lemony Snicket's]] ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', the [[Lemony Narrator]] hides out in a pretty fantastical-looking [[Steampunk]] clock tower, visible only in silhouette.
* In the ''[[Harry Potter (Filmfilm)|Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' movie there's a clock tower on the grounds of Hogwarts (unseen in the previous two movies), and there are a lot of meaningful shots focusing on it, time being an important plot point at the end in both the book and the movie.
* In Chaplin's ''[[The Great Dictator]]'' there's a scene where Hynkel shows off an ornate clocktower to Napoloni and Napoloni claims that it's inaccurate.
* [[Harold Lloyd]]'s ''Safety Last'' has him dangling from a clockface on the side of a skyscraper, though that's not actually a clock tower as such.
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* Speaking of homages to ''Safety Last'', [[Jackie Chan]] payed another homage to that movie in his earlier movie ''Project A''. In it, there's a fight sequence inside a clock tower and later a dangerous stunt involving him falling off the top of the clock tower.
* ''[[The Hudsucker Proxy]]'' does this one from the inside.
* The 1978 adaptation of ''[[The Thirty -Nine Steps]]'' features a scene where Richard Hannay has to climb on the face of 'Big Ben'
* [[Orson Welles]]'s 1946 film ''The Stranger'' culminates in the Welles's character {{spoiler|being impaled by a clockwork figure}} in a clock tower.
* In ''[[Hook (Film)|Hook]]'', the pirate town is dominated by a clock tower constructed from the corpse of the giant crocodile that Captain Hook finally managed to kill. Figures into the climax when {{spoiler|it's brought back to life...}}
* The never-named Albert Clock in Carol Reed's Ulster Noir, ''Odd Man Out''.
** Used to connect the two points of view as the film makes its surreal way to the climax at midnight.
* Dr. Ramzi in ''[[The Dead Pit (Film)|The Dead Pit]]'' conducted his experiments in the basement of the local mental hospital's clocktower.
* Half of the climax of ''[[Cars]] 2'' takes place inside Big Ben.
 
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* One stands at the center of Clock Town in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: MajorasMajora's Mask (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask]]''. It's not only the entrance to Termina from Hyrule, it's also where the endgame takes place.
* ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Curse of Monkey Island]]'', there is one on Plunder Island in Puerto Pollo.
* The [[Gay Paree|Parisian]] level in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]''. In the console version, the time corresponds to your system clock.
* There's two clocktowers in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' - one in the London section of Neverland in the first game, and one in Twilight Town in the second. The first is the location of that world's [[Cosmic Keystone|Keyhole]] and a [[Bonus Boss]], while the second is a hangout of Roxas's - {{spoiler|in both his real life with the Organization and his life in the digital Twilight Town}}.
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* There's at least one level in each of the ''[[Castlevania]]'' games that takes place inside a clock tower, complete with moving gears, pendulums, and [[Goddamned Bats|medusa heads]].
* Zasalamel's stage in ''[[Soul Calibur]] III'' is located inside a clock tower.
* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Tick Tock Clock]] in ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario 64]]'' and ''[[Mario Kart (Video Game)|Mario Kart DS]]'' -- also a [[Gimmick Level]] in that depending on the time displayed on the clock you enter to reach the level, the clock will operate at a different speed, and different speeds of activity may be necessary to complete certain missions (the clock can even be stopped).
* The Garal Clock Tower in ''[[Treasure of the Rudras]]'' {{spoiler|The Clock Tower is a countdown timer for [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]] the world will end but the Tower is a timer, one Death Knell for Every Day that passes upon activation, the tower serves another purpose, the clocks on the sealed doors with a clock face above them start to move upon activation, it moves a total of 8 times in one cycle, which unlocks if the clock hand is at the 12 O' Clock position}}
* Spagonia from ''[[Sonic Unleashed (Video Game)|Sonic Unleashed]]'' and ''[[Sonic Generations (Video Game)|Sonic Generations]]'' has a huge one in the center of the city, reminiscent of Big Ben. Sonic has to climb the tower in both his regular and Werehog form (in ''Unleashed'') at some point to traverse through their respective acts.
* Gondolir, the main human city in ''Eternum Online'', has a clock tower in its center.
* The player character in the [[Game Boy Advance]] version of ''[[The Sims]]'' lives for a short while in a clock tower.
* One of the levels in ''[[Thief|Thief 3]]'' takes place inside a clock tower.
* Many iterations of the game series ''[[Clock Tower (Video Gameseries)|Clock Tower]]'' will prominently feature a clock tower at some point. I know, I was shocked too.
** The clock towers don't show up for quite a while in some games. [http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/ClockTower3/ This LP] of ''Clock Tower 3'' uses the lack of a [[Clock Tower]] as a [[Running Gag]].
* Also featured in ''[[Resident Evil]]'' 2 on top of the R.P.D. and 3 & 4 as just stand alone towers.
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* The playable introductory scene to ''[[Bayonetta]]'' is a fight that takes place on the face of a smashed clock tower as it plummets down a seemingly endless cliff.
* In ''[[Deadly Premonition]]'', the Community Center has a large clock tower, which serves as the site for two of the three final boss battles.
* The Scarlet Devil Mansion from ''[[Touhou (Video Game)|Touhou Project]]'' features one and is the stage for the mansion's [[Ninja Maid]] Sakuya in the fighting games.
* The teaser trailer for ''[[Mass Effect 3 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 3]]'' shows a human soldier sniping out of a broken Big Ben.
* Hibikino High's place of legend in the 2nd game of the ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' series is a clock tower named "the Legendary Bell". Its bells are normally broken and can't ring, [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|but it's sort of magical]] and will ring to give its blessings and grant eternal happiness to couples making their [[Love Confession]] near it on Graduation Day.
* In ''[[Persona 2]]'', Seven Sisters High's Clock Tower is used as the first boss battle setting.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Mage: The Awakening (Tabletop Game)|Mage: The Awakening]]'' features a [[Prestige Class|Legacy]] called [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|The Cult of the Doomsday Clock]], whose goal is to destroy all of history. Their headquarters is an extradimensional clocktower, which contains [[Alien Geometries]], warped time, and is home to their [[Eldritch Abomination|time-consuming masters]] who sit beneath the motto "It is always later than you think". The Clocktower also contains [[Portal Network|doorways to any place on earth]].
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* With as much [http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Weird_Time_Shit weird time shit] that goes on in [[Problem Sleuth (Webcomic)|Problem Sleuth]], The Clock Tower of Cartesian Alignment has [[Subverted Trope|absolutely nothing to do with the plot.]]
** It ''does'', however, {{spoiler|become [[Weaponized Landmark|a sniper cannon.]]}}
 
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* An ''[[Adventures in Odyssey]]'' video had Dylan fetch a parrot.
* A Christmas episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' also had a parrot-fetching; parodied by using a giant ''digital'' clock, complete with Fry falling off of and grabbing onto the darkened segments.
* In the ''[[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]'' episode ''The Clock King,'' the titular King uses the hands as a deathtrap to scissor the Mayor. He and Batman also fight on the hands and in and amongst the dramatic (but impractical) steampunkish gears inside. The scene is a direct visual [[Homage]] to ''Castle of Cagliostro''.
** An episode of ''[[The Batman (Animation)|The Batman]]'' had a three-way fight between Batman, Catwoman and Ragdoll inside Gotham Clocktower.
* The title characters in ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'' move to a clocktower after Xanatos gets out of prison.
* A ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' episode has a clocktower fight at the end. Tohru falls and grabs onto the clock hands (guess how that turned out...).
* The [[Classic Disney Short]] ''[[Clock Cleaners]]''.
* This appears in Disney's version of ''[[Peter Pan]]'' - as well as the sequel, ''Return to Neverland''.
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* In ''[[The Backyardigans]]'', a James Bond-themed episode has the villain Lady in Pink scrambling to the edge of a clock tower's hand to retrieve a bottle of chocolate syrup. Pink falls off, but Agent Secret swoops in to save her in time.
* Big Bentley from ''[[Cars|Cars 2]]''.
* One episode of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' had all four of the turtles bound to various parts of a clock tower, to be eliminated at midnight.
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
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