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* During [[The DCU]]'s ''Last Laugh'' [[Crisis Crossover]], some of the Jokerized villains added Joker smiles to Mount Rushmore, the Statue of Liberty, and other landmarks. The Joker himself seemed to view this as too obvious to be funny.
* The Joker himself got in on this during the Rock of Ages arc when he temporarily gained godlike power. Pretty much the first thing he did was to create a 10,000 mile long Joker grin, causing huge earthquakes.
** Likewise during the Emperor Joker storyline, the Joker acquires omnipotence again and remakes the world in his image including a cube shaped Earth with the major landmass on each side being shaped like his face. In a sense, this is ironically subtler than the above mentioned statue gag since you have to be in space to see it.
* Noted comic book author Peter David tends to do this. Terrorists bomb emotionally vulnerable parts of America, including half of Mount Rushmore. Then [[The Hulk]], who hasn't quite been mentally stable in a while, smashes the rest of it to powder. It's restored by the [[Deus Ex Machina]] "Molecule Man", who can do pretty much whatever he wants. Then some years later, Captain Marvel, a trained cosmically powered warrior, uses Rushmore to launch himself into Kree space (he had to power up to aim right as planets move). A few moments afterward...much of Rushmore crumbles. And IIRC, in DC continuity, in ''Young Justice'' George's face exploded outwards as there was a secret base inside it.
* The ''[[Wolverine]]'' Arc "Old Man Logan" involved Hawkeye and Wolverine driving along the side of Mt. Rushmore while on their trip across the country. The two-page spread depicting this shows that the current President, assumed to be some version of the Red Skull, is shown to have had his "face" added on the left side of the mountain.
* A one-time chapter opening page joke in ''Bowling King'' had ''all'' of the faces on Mount Rushmore replaced with main character Shautieh Ley's face. Uh, four of them, that is.
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* Not in-story, but: [http://images.darkhorse.com/covers/300/d/decadetpb.jpg the cover] for a [[Dark Horse Comics]] anniversary paperback has a Rushmore of their characters ([[The Mask (comics)|The Mask]], [[Concrete]], [[Grendel]] and a [[Predator]]).
** [[Grendel]] itself shows Mt. Rushmore as sporting additional heads in the Orion Asante era.
* For a time, the National Geographic Kids magazine featured a comic/puzzle called "Can You Rescue Flash Hawkins?" starring a young reporter, and readers had to help her escape from a sticky situation at the end of each short comic. One of these featured the bad guys (known as the "Nubbins Gang") using a ''gigantic spray paint cannon'' to vandalize the faces on Mount Rushmore.
* A ''[[Spy Kids]]'' comic printed in [[Disney Adventures]] had the inverse: the bad guys planned to pull off the entire sculpture, place it onto a robot body, and make a gigantic Presidents robot. What they were they going to do with it? Even they didn't know...
* In a Silver Age story, Lois Lane and Lana Lang somehow gained superpowers, which among other things they used to carve self-portraits into rock formations in close vicinity of Mount Rushmore.
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* In ''[[Mars Attacks!]]!'', the Martians replace all faces of Mount Rushmore with their own.
* The Kryptonian supervillains in ''[[Superman II]]'' stop by Rushmore to carve something new with their heat vision. No points for guessing what.
* In ''[[Batman Forever]]'', Two-Face defaces "Lady Gotham" (a Statue of Liberty stand-in and a [[Mythology Gag]] to the comics).
* In ''[[Richie Rich]]'' the Riches avoid the evil route and make their own Mount Rushmore with their faces instead of refacing the existing one. A rare case where the characters are nice enough not to ruin a national monument, but narcissistic (and rich) enough to feel the need to make one of their own (it does cover their vault).
** However, Regina mentions "Mount Richmore" was their sculptress' idea and Richard even lampshades how pretentious it is (though he seems more concerned over how his cheeks look "puffy"). The 'Richmore' is blasted to bejeebers by villains trying to kill the heroes.
* Part of the [[Viral Marketing]] for the [[Watchmen]] film includes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5WsciSNVS0&feature=channel_page an informational video about] [[Super Registration Act|the Keene Act]] which reveals the heads one at a time and fourth is not Lincoln but rather ''[[Richard Nixon]]''. Yes, this makes little sense even given the [[Alternate History]] that ''Watchmen'' is in, [[Rule of Funny|just go with it]]. Also, it's not actually ''showing'' the monument, just an animated version, so it's possible it doesn't "really" look like that.
* A deleted scene from [[Star Trek V|the fifth]] ''[[Star Trek]]'' movie revealed that a fifth (presumably presidential) head--that of a black woman--had been added next to Washington sometime between now and the 23th century.
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* In the novelisation of ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', it's mentioned that Mount Rushmore in the future has ''five'' presidents' heads, the fifth being Elaine Salinger.
* In ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', the statue of Admiral Nelson in Trafalgar Square (renamed Victory Square) is replaced with one of Big Brother.
* In [[The Prefect]] by [[Alastair Reynolds]], some of the action takes place in an abandoned 'Amerikano' base. The decor includes some scenic panoramas, including
{{quote|"a rock face carved with enormous stone likenesses: eight vast heads, the fifth and seventh of which were women."}}
* One tie-in storybook based on the film ''[[Cars]]'' had characters visiting Mount Rush Hour, which comprises of the stone faces of [[George Washington|George Washingtire]], [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferswagon]], [[Theodore Roosevelt|Thefordoor "Tready" Cruisabout]], and [[Abraham Lincoln|Abraham]] [[Stealth Pun|Lincoln.]]
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* While he doesn't go around refacing monuments, Dr. Robotnik of the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' games loves to put his face on everything else, up to but not limited to: space stations, aircraft, his own robots, and TV screens. The ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' Robotnik actually had his base within a giant statue of himself.
** In a somewhat ironic twist on this trope, Sonic pulled this off in the ''Adventures'' series, though they were on monuments that Robotnik had commissioned to be built.
*** This was actually [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] and used in an early ''Archie'' comic. Bunnie observes that Robotnik loves putting his face on everything, which inspires Sonic to make a gigantic mud-statue of the villain. While Robotnik is entranced by the "beauty", Sonic pushes it over on him, trapping him in the muck.
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* In a weird usage in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4'', {{spoiler|Liquid Ocelot's base/submarine seems to have a pastiche of Mt. Rushmore on its hull, with the faces of [[Single-Target Sexuality|Big Boss]] and his clones on it.}}
* In the final act of ''[[Marvel Ultimate Alliance]]'', you visit a version of Stark Tower (which was your base in the first part of the game) in a world run by Dr. Doom. The giant hologram of [[Iron Man]] in Tony Stark's lab has been replaced by...guess who?
* In ''[[Command
** And in the expansion to Red Alert 2, Yuri re-carves the Moai statues in his own image. They have [[Eye Beams]].
* One of the ending pictures you can get in ''[[The King of Fighters]] '98 Ultimate Match'' is a [[Rushmore Refacement]] featuring Geese Howard, Krauser, and Mr. Big.
* In [[Brutal Legend]] you can carve the faces of various characters into Mt. Rockmore. The first time you do this, you replace the face of General Lionwhyte. Later, after you defeat Lionwhyte, Dovinculus will change Mt. Rockmore once more - to display his face. You can change it back again.
* The protagonist of ''Number Munchers'' for the Apple computer does this in one [[Cutscene]] between levels.
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* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "When Aliens Attack", it's mentioned that New York once had a super-villain governor who stole the world's most famous monuments, including Mount Rushmore. A sight-gag reveals he added his face to it.
** Another ''[[Futurama]]'' example: The statue of Abe Lincoln in his DC Memorial was at some point replaced with that of an alien conqueror sitting on a throne of human skulls.
* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' episode/TV movie "Abra-Catastrophe!" has Crocker doing this not only to Rushmore, but to the sphinx and the Eiffel Tower -- which ''doesn't even '''have''' a face''! Early in the same storyline, Mount Rushmore was transformed to have Gorilla versions of the Presidents when monkeys took over the world.
* In one of the season finales of the first ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon, it's revealed that the villains are headed towards Mt. Rushmore. Raphael theorized (and we're treated to his imagining) that Krang wanted to put his face on there and "scare the country into submission."
** There's another episode where the Turtles go to a future ruled by Shredder and the Statue of Liberty has been changed to a statue of Shredder holding up a laser gun.
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* In ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', Mad Mod does this, turning the four Presidents into extremely ugly versions of himself. (or are they the faces of the four [[Beatles]] members?)
** Beatle faces, his 'do.
* In an episode of ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', several of the Joes are blasted "sideways" into an [[Alternate History]] where [[Bad Future|Cobra Commander has beaten them]]. They find that every national landmark from The Lincoln Memorial to the Statue of Liberty now sports a Cobra operative's likeness.
** In ''[[Transformers Animated]]'''s Allspark Almanac II, Cobra Commander's is one of the two additional faces (well, insofar as his mask is his face) seen on Mount Rushmore. The other is Richard Nixon, as it happens. It's implied that Cobra Commander's presidency was completely legitimate, though.
* The opening sequence of ''2DTV'' had President Bush pushing the nuclear button, which causes his own carved head to emerge in the middle of Mount Rushmore, the top of its head to flip up, and a nuclear missile to come out.
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