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* Sano finds out about what happened to his mother this way in ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' (he prays to it under the guise of wanting to eat dinner faster)
* In [[The Kindaichi Case Files]], the body of one of the victims is found under such a memorial, and Kindaichi takes that to be a sign that the murderer wasn't the [[Complete Monster]] he claimed to be.
* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Vi VidViVid]]'', the "Yagami Family" keeps a small shrine to {{spoiler|the first Reinforce}} in their house, shown with a picture and a food offering.
* Pegasus from [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] has a tower room and portrait dedicated to his dead fiancée.
* In ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'', the Fujioka family has a photo of Haruhi's mother in their living room.
 
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* There was a public one for Vita in ''[[Transmetropolitan]]''.
* ''[[Batman]]'' kept Jason Todd's Robin costume on display in the Batcave.
* In ''[[Nth Man: theThe Ultimate Ninja (Comic Book)|Nth Man the Ultimate Ninja]]'', Dr. Yagyu kept his son's room locked and intact after he died from pneumonia. He eventually opens the room and passes on his son's possessions after adopting John.
* In ''[[Y: theThe Last Man]]'', the Washington Monument becomes a shrine to men, all of whom but one died in the [[Gendercide]] that kicks off the plot. It's lampshaded that this is because of the monument's phallic interpretations.
 
== [[Film]] - Live Action ==
* Since India is one of the countries where this is [[Due to Thethe Dead]], a large garlanded picture of a dead family member is extremely common in [[Bollywood Movies]], usually as a shorthand for a character's offscreen death, or as a quick way of telling the audience that someone is a widow, a widower or an orphan.
* Mr. Miyagi has a shrine to his wife in the original ''[[The Karate Kid]]'' movie.
* In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', Eddie keeps the desk of his [[Dead Partner]] in the same state as it was the day he died. It has been covered in dust and cobwebs over the years.
* In ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'', [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|Orin has a closet shrine to his mom, complete with candles]].
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[Dead Like Me]]'', Reggie makes one out of [[It Makes Sense in Context|toilet seats for George]].
* ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]: Back To Earth'' implies that an extra bit of the ship has been built (or at least cleaned up specially, which is a pretty big deal for Lister) just to house a commemorative gravestone to Kochanski. {{spoiler|Who turns out not to actually be dead anyway.}}
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' had a shrine to the fallen onboard. [[Anyone Can Die|It was a big one.]]
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]'', there's one for {{spoiler|Beat and Rhyme}}, after they died in a car accident.
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' there are a couple of in-game places that commemorate deceased Blizzard employees or their relatives. One of them is even called similarly to this trope's name.
* An [[Easter Egg]] in ''[[Max Payne 2]]'' is a hidden shrine for a deceased programmer, consisting of a room with just a photo, his name, and birth and death dates. As well as some [[Nightmare Fuel|creepy music]].
* The space MMORPG ''[[Earth and Beyond]]'' had a sector with space monuments to space exploration. There were monuments to the dead astronauts of Apollo 1 and Challenger. When the shuttle Columbia was destroyed on reentry a new monument was added to the game to honor the astronauts who died in the disaster.
* In ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]] Chapter 5: Rise of the Pirate God'', {{spoiler|1=Club 41 becomes a shrine to Guybrush, whose [[Martyrdom Culture]] is due to his [[Heroic Sacrifice|Heroic]] (or rather [[Stupid Sacrifice|Stupid]]) Sacrifice for saving the entire Gulf of Melange from the [[Hate Plague|Pox of LeChuck]]. The Club even has barrels of Grog, [[Sam and Max Freelance Police|Banang]], and root beer, along with votive candles, Guybrush's commemorative photo, and a wreath to be used as kindling next to [[Dead Guy Onon Display|Guybrush's corpse]] [[Due to Thethe Dead|for cremation]]... unless his [[Ghost Pirate|spirit]] can repossess his body in time, that is.}}
* In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', a memorial is built onto the refitted ''Normandy SR-2'' to honor the twenty-three crew members who were killed in action on the original ''Normandy'', plus anyone who was lost during the Suicide Mission in [[Mass Effect 2|ME2]]. Any current or former crew members who die throughout the game have their names added to it. The refugee camp in the Citadel docks also has an ad-hoc memorial wall made of photos and keepsakes.
* In ''[[Dragon Age 2]]'', {{spoiler|after Leandra's murder, Hawke refuses to touch ''anything'' in their mother's room.}}
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Diego and his robots have one for Jeanne. Overlaps with [[Stalker Shrine]], considering [[Dogged Nice Guy|how he acted towards her when she was alive]].
* Tina of ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' has one that has a bit of an overlap with [[Shrine to Self]]. You can work out how that makes sense on your own.
 
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* Celebrities often get massive shrines outside their homes (or somewhere associated with them) after they pass on. Princess Diana and Michael Jackson are two pretty good examples; the shrine outside Buckingham's gates was so massive that it actually started to block foot traffic.
* This also seems to happen for victims of drive-by shootings and car accidents, especially if the victim was very young.
* The fictional character {{spoiler|Ianto Jones}} from ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' received this in the real world after he died in ''Children of Earth''.
* Like the above example, after the final episode of ''[[One Foot in Thethe Grave]]'', many people left flowers and tributes at the filming location where the fictional protagonist, [[Grumpy Old Man|Victor Meldrew]], was killed in a hit and run.
* Can often happen at the sites of major disasters or terrorist attacks, where people leave ad hoc collections of notes and mementos to remember the dead.
* When [[Audie Murphy]], a highly decorated WWII veteran and former movie star, died in a plane crash in 1971, near the top of a mountain in Virginia, the local chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars decided to build a memorial as close to the site as they could. They cleared and expanded the nearest mountain trail, and built a small stone monument with a plaque in 1974. Over the years, hikers have built a small wall or cairn around it, just by adding one stone per person to the existing pile. They occasionally leave other items as well. The informal addons are more impressive when you realize that most hikers tackle this trail because it is a relatively easy one, and have only vaguely heard of Murphy before they reach the monument.
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