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** And in an inversion, Brox discovered a spell that turns inanimate objects into living creatures.
== [[Film]]
* In ''The Snow Queen's Revenge'', the Snow Queen [[Disney Villain Death|falls into lava]]. The ending of the movie shows her body to be intact, but completely turned to stone along with her staff. Her eyes glow before the credits roll, hinting that she is still alive. Given that no sequels have been made since, and that she is the SNOW queen fallen into LAVA, however, we can assume she doesn't survive for much longer, and even if she does, her staff (which unfroze her at the film's beginning) isn't doing anything this time, so it's safe to assume she's not going anywhere.
* The fate of the villain Saluk in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin: The King Of Thieves]]'', when he grabs the movie's [[MacGuffin]], The Hand of Midas, with his bare hands during the climax, accidentally transforming himself into a statue of gold.
* It's okay, everyone. Admit that it happens in ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''. C'mon—that movie's practically a historical landmark of culture now anyway.
** Okay. After Frank-n-Furter turns Colombia, Janet, Rocky and Brad into statues, he dresses them up in makeup and corsets, turns them back to normal, forces them to do a floor show, then makes them join him in a synchronized pool orgy. You asked for it.
** 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.
* In
* 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 ''[[7 Faces of Dr. Lao]]'', Medusa turns a disbelieving townswoman to stone. (She gets better.)
* In ''[[Hellboy 2: The Golden Army]]'', when elves die, their bodies turn to yellow stone.
* Used several times as an ending in the [[Choose Your Own Adventure]] style "Give Yourself [[Goosebumps]]" books. In ''The Curse of the Creeping Coffin'' you are turned into a statue and ghosts 'tease you and pinch your stone nose' until the end of time. In ''Shop Till You Drop... Dead!'' two endings turn you into a mannequin and a cardboard cutout.▼
* Used in the ''[[Choose Your Own Adventure]]'' book about being sent back in time to the Ancient Greek Olympics. If you successfully win the Olympics, you will travel to the temple of Zeus and pray for your trip to Ancient Greece to never end. [[Jerkass Genie|Yeah...]]▼
* In one of the ''[[Grail Quest]]'' books you can encounter the legendary Medusa herself. Though she has a relatively low chance of actually hitting you, a successful hit means that she has managed to turn you stone and that's it. Game over, go to 14. She also has ''100'' Life Points, meaning she will have plenty of chances to hit you. On the bright side, if you do manage to defeat her you can walk away with a fortune in gold.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
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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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* In the ''[[Magi Nation]]'' storyline, Tuku is a character who was petrified for a thousand years. In an interesting twist, he is aware of everything that he can see, and still feels things like itching and lack of sleep. A short story, from his petrified point of view, can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20100701202427/http://dukenostalgia.com/mnd/story/glimpses3.html here].
* In the CCG-meets-Monopoly game ''[[Culdcept|Culdcept Saga]]'', there are several monster cards including a Medusa and a Cockatrice that can turn a monster they attack into a Statue. Depending on your strategy this can be either a good or bad thing. Statues do not recover HP during a Lap Bonus, but they do have a pretty good chunk of HP to start off with. Of course, if you give your Medusa an effect that lets it attack first while defending its territory, turning the opposing monster into a Statue means it can't attack the Medusa at all.
▲* Used several times as an ending in the [[Choose Your Own Adventure]] style "Give Yourself [[Goosebumps]]"
▲* Used in the ''[[Choose Your Own Adventure]]'' book about being sent back in time to the Ancient Greek Olympics. If you successfully win the Olympics, you will travel to the temple of Zeus and pray for your trip to Ancient Greece to never end. [[Jerkass Genie|Yeah...]]
▲* In one of the ''[[Grail Quest Solo Fantasy]]'' books you can encounter the legendary Medusa herself. Though she has a relatively low chance of actually hitting you, a successful hit means that she has managed to turn you stone and that's it. Game over, go to 14. She also has ''100'' Life Points, meaning she will have plenty of chances to hit you. On the bright side, if you do manage to defeat her you can walk away with a fortune in gold.
== [[Theater]] ==
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** In ''[[God of War: Ascension]]'', the third Gorgon sister Stheno is encased in stone within the Bog of the Forgotten in multiplayer; she can still unleashing her petrifying gaze onto those unlucky enough to stand too close. Obtaining a golden shield (the same one that Perseus had in ''God of War II'') and reflecting her gaze back will shatter the stone and free her, also petrifying enemy players nearby. The player who freed her gains the ability to use her magic to petrify and kill enemies within a certain radius.
* In Part IV of ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius|Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn]]'', the order goddess Ashera lets out bursts of energy which were intended to have this effect on the warring humans and laguz. Everybody who is not indoors, sufficiently strong, Branded, or fighting for Ashera is Taken for Granite, Part IV accordingly concerns itself with stopping her before she can do it again and reversing the effect.
** In ''[[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Fire Emblem: Thracia 776
* ''[[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]]''.
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** In Val'sharah, there is a group of harpies that can curse victims and turn them to stone, keeping them as macabre trophies. It's possible to restore them, something you have to do for one quest. Their leader, Seersei, can do this to the player if her Stoneblood Embrace attack hits enough times, although she also claims, [[Bad News in a Good Way|"Pah! You're too ugly for my collection. Better to kill you!"]]
* Happens to both {{spoiler|[[Crossover|Asura and]] [[Street Fighter|Akuma]]}} in ''[[Asura's Wrath]]''. Not that it stops them from still trying to fight.
* At the beginning of ''[[Dishonored|Dishonored 2]]'', when Corvo (the protagonist of the first game) and Emily (his daughter) first confronts [[Big Bad|Deliah]], she does this to one of them - [[Sadistic Choice|the player has to choose]], a very important decision, as the one who escapes is the player's avatar for most of the game, with the goal of saving the other.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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** Watch out for Medusa [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0087.html while visiting the women's restroom].
* ''[http://www.kdingo.net/champ/pics/main.php?g2_itemId=2344&g2_highlightId=2345 Idle Minds]'' is a comic about a woman turned into a (fully aware) statue for a week for spying purposes and must keep herself sane. [[Better Than It Sounds]]. The author also did some Filler material for ''[[The Wotch]]'', including Anne accidentally turning herself into a cookie statue.
* In ''[[The KAMics]]'', Nikki was on the wrong end of a [https://web.archive.org/web/20121019103434/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/4820482/ Petrifacto spell] (it was later reversed).
* ''[[The Dragon Doctors]]'' uses it a lot, both offensively and defensively:
** In the "last victim" arc, a [[Complete Monster]] {{spoiler|kidnaps magic users, traps them in caves and enclosures with air-permeable force fields and a sheet of paper with a spell to turn them -- and them alone, not their clothes -- into stone. They can't turn back until he returns, in supposedly ten days. One of his highlighted victims is stuck that way for ''centuries'' because another one killed him using a petrification spell that she already knew. Said villain almost noticed, as it turns the clothes to stone as well, which he mentions right before she breaks out)}}.
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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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* Variants appear in the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''. The mutant Gorgon is a psi with the knack of making you think you have been petrified, which of course petrifies you. The mutant Michelangelo (also known as Stoner) does something nastier. He literally causes nearby stone to flow over your body in a thin coating, turning you into a living (but not for long) statue.
* A gorgon is found among the students of Harlowe Hall in ''[[Tales of MU]]''. Though normally a background character, she got [http://www.talesofmu.com/story/book0x/balancing-scales a spotlight story] where she described her culture. She has the traditional [[Evil Eye|Medusa gaze]], which is normally restrained by a shimmery membrane over her eyes. The effect wears off, though one seeing her own uncovered eyes in a mirror could lead to an endless cycle of petrifying and thawing - racial [[Nightmare Fuel]].
* Basilisx of ''[[Super Mario Bros Z.]]'' can do this with a simple stare.
* In ''[[Arcana Magi Zero]]'', everyone and every object, including the museum walls, are turned to stone by a shadow-shaped basilisk. Alysia Perez [[And I Must Scream|experiences the pain]] first hand.
* ''[[SCP Foundation]]'':
** [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-409 SCP-409] is a quartz crystal that
** There's also [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-602 SCP-602],
** [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1013 SCP-1013] is a classic cockatrice in all but name. It calcifies the outer layer of your body, then happily pecks a hole in you and eats what's inside.
* Medusa, from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' is the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of the gorgon myth, and shares all the powers of her mythical namesake, including the ability to turn people who meet her eyes to stone.
** Gorgon can turn people's skin into a layer of stone that is just thick enough to keep them from moving. The effect wears off after a while. Anyone who is strong enough can break through this thin stone shell... if they don't mind [[Squick|being flayed alive]] when their petrified skin shatters.
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** [[Sealed Evil in a Can|Discord was imprisoned in a statue]] by Celestia and Luna for being a evil tyrant that ruled Equestria in everlasting chaos and suffering. [[And I Must Scream|He found it quite lonely being encased in stone]] (bonus points for said imprisonment [[Fridge Horror|having lasted well over one thousand years at the very least]]), but then again they wouldn't know that, would they? [[Even Evil Has Standards|Because ''he'' doesn't turn ponies into stone.]]
* ''[[The Smurfs]]''
** In an early episode, Gargamel turns himself into a Baby Smurf to infiltrate the village. (This would be long before the real Baby Smurf appeared.) While there, he uses Papa Smurf's "cactus petrificus" plant to make a potion to use on the Smurfs that petrifies them, although he eventually realizes it's too slow and decides to try something else.
** In one episode, the Smurfs were a victim to a spell that petrified them and half their forest, and would have stayed that way had Peewit not been able to convince two feuding sorcerers to stop fighting with each other and recite the incantation together that reverses the condition
** Gargamel himself was a victim of a potion he devised (possibly the same one as before) that turned him and his cat Azrael into stone. Papa Smurf [[Save the Villain|restored him to normal]].
** One episode had an evil wizard turn [[The Archmage| Homnibus]] into ice; Papa Smurf used a spell that surrounded his house in chilling wind so he wouldn't melt while they tried to find the cure. Unfortunately, they left Greedy to watch him, who carelessly started cooking - with a fire. They barely got back in time.
** Another episode had a weird variation. Smurfette becomes so addicted to Greedy's annual smurfberry candy, that after eating her whole allowance, she uses one of Papa Smurf's spell books to give herself a "smurfy touch" and turn anything into more candy. Naturally, it leads to an accident with Brainy. Worse, Smurfette panics, and while she runs to find help the other smurfs find him and think he's just a sculpture made by Greedy. She fortunately get back in time before they try to eat him.
* In the [[Grand Finale|series finale]] of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', the Golden Goose has the ability to turn anything it touches to gold...then it's revealed that it also works on people. The episode revolves around trying to reverse the effects of the touch affecting everything on earth... {{spoiler|They manage it, but not before everyone on earth is briefly turned to gold}}.
* An episode of ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]'' has Delia, Lydia's mom, enter a Neitherworld art contest where it turns out if they win they must agree to become a part of the art museum by being turned to stone. Eventually, Lydia and Beetlejuice are able to rescue her and turn her back to normal.
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