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** And they find themselves enjoying it.
* In ''[[Hellraiser III Hell On Earth]]'', Pinhead is trapped as a statue, but frees himself after a certain amount of blood.
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* In ''[[Ernest Scared Stupid]]'', the troll Trantor's signature power is to turn kids into little wooden dolls that give him his power.
* Medusa in ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' (1981) turns a few of Perseus' soldiers into stone statues before being killed and beheaded by Perseus. After she's dead Perseus uses her head (and eyes) to petrify the Kraken.
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** In ''[[The Marvelous Land of Oz]]'', Tip escapes the clutches of the pseudo-witch Mombi before she can turn him into a statue.
** In ''The Patchwork Girl of Oz'', Unc Nunkie and Dame Margolotte are turned into marble by the Liquid of Petrifaction.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (novel)|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'', people "fortunate" enough to not directly meet a basilisk's gaze are ''petrified'' instead. Though the term confused some people, with even the cover blurb of the American edition getting it wrong, this means being indefinitely paralysed rather than actually being turned to stone like in many other cases. {{spoiler|This happened to Filch's cat (she looked at the basilisk reflection in a water pool), Nearly Headless Nick (already dead), Colin Creevey (saw it through his camera's lens), Hermione (saw the reflection in a mirror), and Justin Finch-Fletchley (saw the basilisk through Nearly Headless Nick). Penelope Clearwater was a book-only victim that saw the reflection at the same time Hermione did.}}
* In [[Ray Bradbury]]'s ''[[Something Wicked This Way Comes]]'', Jim and Will are at one point under a spell that renders them walking statues. When they are left motionless in the [[Hall of Mirrors|Mirror Maze]], visitors mistake them for more of the wax figures there, not noticing the wetness in one "statue"'s eyes.
* 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 this area as they're rushing from Weathertop to Rivendell.
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* Tepoztecal's first appearance in ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' had one of these being reversed. He had been turned into a statue using unexplained methods for unexplained reasons, and Monica accidentally released him by reading an incantation. Fortunately, he did not seem to be conscious throughout.
** In another strip, Monica startles a gorgon, and immediately gets turned into stone by her. Luckily, the gorgon is friendly (and also happens to be a [[Fan Boy|big fan of Monica]]), and reverses the process.
* In the ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' parody of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' "Torg Potter and the Chamberpot of Secretions", characters start turning mysteriously into chocolate. It's suspected to be the work of {{spoiler|a "chokolisk"}}, but it turns out they've instead been victims of a [[Jerkass Genie]] who just randomly happened to interpret everyone's wishes as "Turn me into chocolate." This parodies the way the {{spoiler|basilisk in ''[[Harry Potter and
** Note that turning into chocolate is considered death here, not a magical condition that can be cured, but Torg manages to turn everyone back with a wish of his own after he gets past the first wish by wishing that Torg Potter be turned into chocolate. The villain controlling the genie takes to be reverse psychology and commands the genie to obey exactly... which doesn't bother Torg since contrary to what almost everyone thinks, [[Exact Words|he's not Torg Potter]].
* Ashley Madder in ''[[Tales Of Gnosis College]]'' steals a mysterious chemical from Professor Corwin's laboratory and assumes that it is "perfume". {{spoiler|Later, at a session as a model for a student artist, she expresses the wish that people might be able to see her beauty forever. Uh oh.}}
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