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* Trolls in [[The Lord of the Rings|Middle-earth]] are petrified if they're exposed to sunlight. In ''[[The Hobbit]]'', Bilbo and his dwarven friends are captured by trolls, but Gandalf provokes an argument between them so that they won't notice the sun rising. In ''The Fellowship of the Ring'', Aragorn, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin stumble upon the very spot where that happened as they're rushing from Weathertop to Rivendell.
** The trolls of the ''[[Discworld]]'' series are a variant of this: trolls cannot be turned to stone, because as silicon-based life forms, they are essentially ''already'' living rock. It's just that their brains work better in cold temperatures, so if they leave their mountain homelands, they get stupid, and if it gets too hot, their brains shut down entirely and they go inert until nightfall.
** Also in ''Valiant'', the second book in Holly Black's ''[[Modern Faerie Tales
** Played with in ''Spearwielder's Tale'', in which one character is outraged that Tolkien wrote about trolls that turn to stone in the sun because 'real' trolls do not, and that probably caused many deaths from people running from trolls turning to laugh at them when the sun came up
* A random nameless fire-witch in [[Patricia C. Wrede]]'s ''[[Enchanted Forest Chronicles|Talking to Dragons]]'' turns people to stone, including Shiara. Daystar kisses her; she gets better.
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* In the ''[[Champions]]'' adventure ''The Great Supervillain Contest'', one contestant was Brother Basilisk, who had the superpower of (temporarily) turning creatures to stone.
* In ''[[In Nomine]]'', some angels serving David, Archangel of Stone have the ability to temporarily convert their enemies into stone, the unfortunate victim remains aware, but unable to do anything until it wears off (which for weaker foes could take a while).
* In ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'', the Chaos Dwarfs can use magic, unlike regular dwarves, but at a price. They begin slowly turning to stone, from the feet up, once they begin the path of a spellcaster, and it cannot be reversed. Eventually, the completely petrified sorcerers are placed along the roadway to the Tower of Zharr-Naggrund.
* ''[[Arkham Horror]]'' features the petrifying solution from ''the King in Yellow'', used as a powerful one-shot magic weapon, one that also negates the endless ability and removes the victim from play. Amusing given the source material.
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* ''[[Total Annihilation Kingdoms]]'' features the Basilisk and the Acolyte's Turn To Stone spell, which does [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. The expansion pack introduced the Creonite freeze weapons, which have a similar visual effect but are supposedly turning the target into frozen ice statues.
* Happens for about five seconds in ''[[Jade Empire]]''.
* Seen in Sailor Venus's subplot of ''[[Sailor Moon: Another Story]]''.
* ''[[Earthbound]]'' has the Diamondized status effect, forcing you to lug the perma-paralyzed body until he was healed.
* The Nashkel Carnaval in the game Baldur's Gate has a stone fighter as one of the attractions. If you decide to use a stone to flesh spell on it, it will turn back into a NPC that can join your party.
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* The ''[[Neopets]]'' arc "The Faeries' Ruin" has this happen to all the Faeries, as well as {{spoiler|Hanso and Xandra}}.
* In ''[[We Are Our Avatars (Roleplay)|We Are Our Avatars]]'', [[User:Ozbourne]] and [[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] got petrified once and over time, they began to enjoy it if it occurs to them again.
* The [[
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