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* The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' monster Ryu Kokki is a giant demon made entirely out of human skulls.

* In ''The [[Spongebob SquarePants]] Movie'', SpongeBob and Patrick arrive at an ice-cream stand surrounded by skulls. (Turns out it's [[That's No Moon|a trap set by an anglerfish.]]) Patrick at first appears to notice the skulls and shouts to SpongeBob as if to warn him... but turns out he's just asking for chocolate.

* The catacombs under Venice in ''[[Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade]]'' had niches in the walls that contained only skulls, one to a niche. Justified in that the skull is the "densest" indicator of death, those niches were probably high-density tombs and crypts. The body may not reside there, but the skull and the soul are there.

* ''[[Terminator|Terminator 2]]'': The opening 'Future War' segment features an apparent ''carpet'' of [[Nothing but Skulls]], seemingly specifically so Skynet's mecha can symbolically crush them beneath their feet and treads as they engage Resistance troops in yet another bitter firefight. A [[Shout-Out]] to this can be found in the losing [[Full Motion Video|cinematics]] of ''[[Wing Commander (Video Game)|Wing Commander]] III'', with a [[Mega Neko|Kilrathi]] foot in combat armor doing the crushing.

** Parodied in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'' when Cohen and his Silver Horde learn from a local that the claiming of the throne of the Agatean Empire is traditionally accompanied with "seas of blood" and/or "a mountain of skulls". The Horde eagerly begins quizzing exactly how many skulls this precisely means, and their informant gets testy: "I don't know how big a mountain! A lot of skulls!"

** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Last Hero|The Last Hero]]'', mention is also made of the now retired Pamdar the Witch Queen.

** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'', the Tooth Fairy has a mountain of teeth.

** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Night Watch|Night Watch]]'', it's mentioned that the Temple of Small Gods sorts the bodies of the dead by what bone they are. The entrance of the tomb holds the skulls.

* ''[[Gaunts Ghosts]]'', ''Blood Pact'': A rumor circulates about a valley filled with millions of [[Madness Mantra|dusty skulls with the tops sawn off]]. To the point that it scares the crap out of hardened veterans of several wars, and even freaks out Gaunt himself a bit. Of course it helps that the entirety of the building they're camped in is thoroughly evil.

* In the ''[[MST3K]]'' episode "[[Cave Dwellers]]" there's a giant snake pit with lots and lots of skulls. "Oh look, anal-retentive snakes, they lined up the skulls!"

* Episode 2 of the first ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''An Unearthly Child'' was called ''The Cave Of Skulls'', it featured [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|a Cave full of Skulls]].

* [[The Empire|The Coalition States]] from''[[Rifts]]'' uses a skull motif for ''everything'' in its armed forces, from rank and unit insignias to body armor and [[Powered Armor]] helmets, to the front of troop transports, helicopters and [[Tank Goodness|battletanks]], to their [[Humongous Mecha]] (both humanoid and [[Spider Tank|spider-walkers]]), and of course their [[Skele Bot 9000|skelebots]].

** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'': In the Shadow Temple, there are rooms where the floors, walls and ceilings are made entirely out of skulls.

* ''[[Castlevania Symphony of the Night]]'': There are two rooms in in which the floor is made entirely of skulls, and there are huge piles of them in the background. The boss fought in this room is a giant floating ball of corpses that was hiding in said skulls before you entered, and in the upside-down castle version of that room, you face [[That One Boss|Galamoth]].

* In ''[[Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri]]'', there are Secret Projects playing the same role as Wonders do in ''[[Civilization]]''. The cinematic for one of them, "Dream Twister", involves (among other nasty things) a photo of a pile of skulls.

* ''[[Team Fortress Classic (Video Game)|Team Fortress Classic]]'': In a crossover with [[Ludicrous Gibs]], a mod made it so that not only did the body spawn more bones than was physically possible, ''all of them were skulls''.

* ''[[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]'': The giant snake pit has piles of nothing but skulls.

* The Pillar of Skulls (see above under Tabletop Games) is visited in ''[[Planescape Torment]]''.

* ''[[Romantically Apocalyptic (Webcomic)|Romantically Apocalyptic]]'' usually averts this, but once had a mountain of skulls in [[Shout-Out]] to The Apotheosis of War

* In the ''[[TMNT 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' episode "The Trouble With Augie", Donatello eventually founds a mass grave organized in this manner. While one can see bits and pieces of other types of bones, skulls are by far the most common.