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Compare [[Deface of the Moon]].
 
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Mars Attacks (Film)]]!'', 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 (Film)|Batman Forever]]'', Two-Face defaces "Lady Gotham" (a Statue of Liberty stand-in and a [[Mythology Gag]] to the comics).
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* Not really a defacement, but other [[Alternate History]] stories have replaced Liberty with "the Statue of Remembrance holding forth the sword of vengeance" (in [[Harry Turtledove]]'s TL-191) or Britannia with her trident (in cases where New York was reconquered by Britain at some point.)
* In the novelisation of ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|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."}}