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[[File:krangmtrushmorewz4.jpg|link=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|thumb|350px|"So that's their plan? They wanna put Krang's face up there and scare the country into submission!"]]
Villains, especially cartoon villains, are remarkably narcissistic and prone to childish vandalism. Whenever there's a landmark with a famous face on it, there's a good chance the villain will demonstrate his need for attention by putting their own face on it instead (or some ridiculous caricature of a real face, to emphasize their whimsicality). Mount Rushmore (which features U.S. Presidents [[George Washington|Washington]], [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]], [[Theodore Roosevelt|Teddy Roosevelt]] and [[Abraham Lincoln|Lincoln]], in case you've forgotten) is an especially frequent target of this; the [[Statue of Liberty]] and the Great Sphinx of Giza are other popular venues for refacement.
An alternative, less sinister refacement would be simply adding more heads, either for parody purposes, or of notable future presidents.
Compare [[Deface of the Moon]]. A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Monumental Damage]].
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* ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' has Robotnik often building large statues (including a Great Sphinx with his face), then Sonic deface them.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* During his reign over ancient Rome, [[A God Am I|considering himself the embodiment of a god]], the emperor Caligula replaced the heads of many statues of the gods with his own. He also made his horse a consul, so go figure. This makes this trope [[Older Than Feudalism]].
* The Sphinx predates the ancient Egyptian civilization we are familiar with by quite some time and some Egyptologists claim it originally had the face of a lion, until a later pharaoh changed it to his own face. Said Egyptologists are savagely mocked and ridiculed by most historians, however, so this may or may not be true.
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* A Russian example: the city of Samara once had a monument to the tsar Alexander II the Liberator. When the Bolsheviks came to power, they replaced the statue with Lenin. The humorousness of the situation is that the statue of Lenin was too small for the huge pedestal.
* A statue of Lenin in Odessa, Ukraine was altered into a statue of Darth Vader as part of a desovietization campaign. This was done because the relatively minor nature of the changes was far cheaper than building a new statue entirely.
* During his term as president of the United States, [[Donald Trump]] expressed several times his desire to add his face to Mount Rushmore.
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