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There is often an ambiguity as to whether the petrified person is completely turned to stone, or whether they are 'encased' in a thin layer of stone in a manner similar to [[Harmless Freezing]]. You can often see this when a character is only partially petrified - they will seem only to be encased in stone, and may break out. This is probably to avoid the obvious circulatory problems with having a completely petrified limb.

 

 

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* In ''[[Mega Man NT Warrior]]'' (anime), the viruses Pharaohman.exe creates can turn Net Navis to stone. He uses them to prevent people from stopping him (because in that universe, most people are absolutely useless without a Net Navi during a crisis). Net Navis turned to stone can't even log out, trapping them in the network. The effects seem to not happen instantly, however, as Sharkman.exe is able to successfully shut off the electricity (Pharaohman.exe was attempting to hijack a [[Kill Sat]]) before he completely turns to stone. However, it was all in vain as Pharaohman.exe manually turns the power and hijacks the satellite anyway. Thankfully, every Navi turned to stone reverts to normal after Pharaohman.exe is deleted.

** Stoneman.exe can also do this, on people in the real world, because [[The Ditz]] businesswoman, who picks him up, accidentally expressed her wish to turn her boss into a stone so he'll stop yelling at her. The result is Stoneman turning ''everyone'' in her office into the stones.

* In ''[[Saint Beast]]'', while plotting to break Judas and Luca out of hell, {{spoiler|the other four Saint Beasts are betrayed by the Goddess and turned to stone.}} After years pass, [[Chekhov's Gunman|Saki]] manages to free {{spoiler|Goh.}}

 

* Stone Boy of the ''Legion of Super Heroes'' [[Legion of Super-Heroes (TV series)|cartoon]] and [[The Legion of Super Heroes|comics]] is a Substitute Legionnaire who can turn into an immobile statue. However, he manages to use this power effectively anyway.

* The "final" fate of [[Thanos]] in the [[Marvel Comics]] of the 70's; undone in the late 80's.

** One of them, Door (the male one) in the New Blood series became the tyrant of a people of humans. One way of killing servants that displeased him was making stone from the floor flow up over their skin until they were completely encased in it, effectively creating a statue with a corpse inside.

* Grey Gargoyle from the [[Marvel Universe]] has the power to turn anyone into an immobile statue for one hour (or himself into a very mobile rock bruiser.) He has to touch the target with his right hand.

** This was also one of Doom's earliest plots while facing the Fantastic Four themselves. "I'll turn you all to statues, with ''liquid titanium steel''!"

* At the end of [[The Golden Age of Comic Books]], the vastly-powerful Spectre, DC's Spirit of Vengeance was abruptly forbidden to kill anyone by the [[Moral Guardians|Comics Code Authority]]. DC's response was to have the Spectre inflict massive [[Transformation Trauma]] on his victims instead—the text about the subject mentioned him turning one villain into a burning candle, then snuffing the flame, while accompanying panels depicted him turning another into inanimate sand. Just kill me, please!!!

** That said, the Spectre himself died in a manner that resembles this somewhat, being thrown in a barrel full of cement and tossed into a river.

* [[Tom Strong]] once wondered why his archenemy Paul Saveen had a collection of statues of other supervillains. One of them was [[Those Wacky Nazis|Ingrid Weiss]].

* In ''[[Asterix]] and Obelix All at Sea'' this is revealed to be the effect of magic potion overdose. Bonus points for the resulting statue being ''actually made'' of granite.

* The Phantom Blot did this to Minnie's village in ''[[Wizards of Mickey]]'', which is what set her off on her own quest. {{spoiler|She eventually suffers the same fate in the second arc.}}

* One of the wizards' more often used powers in ''[[Douwe Dabbert]]''.

** Bizarro Supergirl has [[Eye Beams]] that cover the victims with a stone shell. Because that's the opposite of [[X-Ray Vision]]. Apparently.

* The Fearmaster in ''[[Marvel 2099|Punisher 2099]]'' had a whole collection of women turned to statues with his molecular engineering powers. Each of them is a different material, you know, so it doesn't get boring. Gold, diamond, that sort of thing. He calls it the "Endymion Room", after a poem by John Keats about eternal youth and beauty (more or less).

** Brittany had been turned into a statue before, but on that occasion she was animate... a super-strong, super-fast granite statue under the magical control of Atlantean sorceror Gyphon.

* In ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'', Brian's character is turned to stone by a medusa in "The Stone Menagerie", leading to a [[Literally Shattered Lives]] scenario.

 

 

* In ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', Paul is turned into a [[Made of Diamond|diamond statue]] and later blown up.

** Also, on two occasions George turned himself into a rock and a chunk of metal, respectively. And he did a boulder monster too, though that's alive.

** And in an inversion, Brox discovered a spell that turns inanimate objects into living creatures.

 

* 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.

* 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 ''[[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.

* A weapon turning living beings into ash was developed in ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]''.

* In ''[[7 Faces of Dr. Lao]]'', Medusa turns a disbelieving townswoman to stone. (She gets better.)

 

* One of the short stories in ''[[The King in Yellow]]'' has a sculptor and dabbler in science discover a new element which changes objects to marble, {{spoiler|temporarily}}. He keeps a swimming pool full of the stuff in his house, which is kind of asking for trouble.

* The Baaz Draconians in ''[[Dragonlance]]''. Upon death, they turn to stone which traps your weapon, then crumble to rubble in a couple of minutes, but seeing as they attack in large groups and you're left without a weapon, getting the weapon back might prove to be a problem.

* The title character of Margaret St. Clair's story ''Thirsty God'' doesn't literally get turned to stone. After he's raped a humanoid girl, he takes refuge from her family in a "shrine" that's actually an ancient biological processor, and the process wasn't designed for humans. When he wakes up he finds that he's a lot bigger than he used to be and incredibly thirsty. But he's still not big enough to fight the girl's relatives so he falls asleep again. A little while after that he wakes up again, feeling even thirstier, and sees that the girl's family have gone. Thinking it's a trick he decides to get up, but can't make his muscles obey him. A little while after that he's visited by the first of many primitive, waterlogged creatures who are going to force his transformed body to painfully absorb their excess moisture (symbolism, anyone?) for years to come while he can never move again. (Also the story implies he's just one of many who have shared this fate.)

** There are several recent ASFR variants on this story, whose protagonists are forced to experience pleasure rather than pain while paralyzed.

* ''[[Land of Oz]]'' series:

** 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 [[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.

** 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]]'', wherein the protagonist actually uses this to {{spoiler|her troll-friend/love-interest's advantage when he is dying from injuries. Val exposes him to sunlight, turning him into stone and buying him some time.}} Notably, the effect is temporary and only lasts until nightfall.

** But it's okay, 'cause he was the bad guy.

 

* There's an episode of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' about an alien race who were the basis of the Medusa myth.

* The Weeping Angels from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' have this happen as a defense mechanism whenever they're seen "because you can't kill a stone".

* In ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'', people who have their [[Life Energy]] drained by [[Our Vampires Are Different|Fangire]] become glass-like and translucent. Only once do we see anyone actually shattering because of this, however. On the other hand, the show completely averts [[No Ontological Inertia]] since once somebody's been drained, they're effectively dead.

** ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze]]'' had a [[Monster of the Week]], modeled on [[Greek Mythology|Perseus]], whose left arm was an armored gauntlet with a relief of Medusa's head on it. Initially it only worked with physical contact, but his [[One-Winged Angel]] form upgraded it to [[Eye Beams]]. {{spoiler|However, when he used it on the main character it wore off after some time, apparently since he was in the middle of a [[Heel Face Turn]] and his heart wasn't in it.}}

* Queen Admira from ''[[The Hugga Bunch]]'' special has the power to freeze people in place, which she uses on Bridget after the girl accidentally insults her. Later, Bridget's friends from the Hugga Bunch are able to restore her to normal through [[The Power of Love|The Power Of Hugs]].

* In an episode of ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'', a villain put on a ring that was purported to make one immortal. It "immortalized" him in a way he hadn't bargained for. Removing the ring did not restore him.

* ''[[The Adventures of Sinbad]]'' had a [[Mad Artist]] villain who could turn anything he touched while wearing magic gloves into stone, and gathered a collection of beautiful women this way. He's defeated when Sinbad grabs his wrist and shoves his hand into his face.

 

* The song [[Black Sabbath|"Iron Man"]] tells the story of a hero who was "turned to steel in the great magnetic field" while traveling to the past. However, this was only temporary, and he was revived several hundred years later to "kill the people he once saved" for revenge, because no one tried to help him when he was in his metal state.

* Owen Pallett's "Basilisk" is [[Conversational Troping]] on the subject. Though a cheerful and catchy song, it's rife with subtle [[Nightmare Fuel]].

From a life everlasting }}

 

* Many stories claim that trolls could only come out after dark, as sunlight turned them to stone. Strange-looking rock formations were said to be trolls that missed this curfew.

 

 

* In ''[[Promethean: The Created]]'', this is an inherent problem of the villainous Pandorans. Without the innate alchemical energy of a Promethean, they're stuck as inanimate objects—they thus hunt Prometheans for this energy. Additionally, the innate human reaction to seeing a Pandoran is disbelieving horror that forces them back into this state. Unusually for this trope, they normally ''don't'' appear as just a statue of themselves. This does happen sometimes... but more typically, they become something more innocuous—an "ordinary" statue, a piece of driftwood, a rock, or similar.

* In the ''[[Shadowrun]]'' game setting:

** There are spells that can turn people to statues of stone, ice, salt or glass.

** In addition, beholders, (spherical [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?|aberrations]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|with lots of eyes]]), have a Petrify ray. Aside of being a weapon, it's commonly used for food storage and sculpting (often combined with charm before and [[Disintegrator Ray|disintegration]] after). One beholder in a sourcebook [[Mad Artist|begins sculpting his victims so their faces looked more like him]].

** A magic item called Eyes of Petrifaction could turn anyone who put them on to stone. However, 25% of them instead acted like the eyes of a basilisk or medusa and petrified anyone who met the wearer's gaze.

** Used in a number of adventures and supplements:

*** Another B-series module, "Palace of the Silver Princess", takes place in a cursed palace where the rightful inhabitants have all succumbed to this trope.

*** Going into Strahd's crypt in "I6: Ravenloft" without neutralizing or avoiding a magical trap can get you turned into a statue, not of granite (which is relatively easy to fix in D&D), but of several metals layered on top of one another.

* In ''[[GURPS]]'' magic there are a two versions. Flesh to Stone turns the target entirely into stone or metal and Partial Petrification works piece by piece, specifically so that the target can be tortured.

* In the ''[[Champions]]'' adventure ''The Great Supervillain Contest'', one contestant was Brother Basilisk, who had the superpower of (temporarily) turning creatures to stone.

* 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.

 

* In ''Die Frau ohne Schatten'', the Emperor is condemned to turn to stone {{spoiler|and he's almost completely petrified in Act III until his wife the Empress frees him}}.

* In [[Lord Dunsany]]'s ''The Gods of the Mountain,'' {{spoiler|this is the ultimate fate of the seven beggars who impersonate the gods.}}

 

* In ''[[Bionicle]]'' the Matoran in the realm of Kharzani would be turned to stone if they even so much as ''sat down'', and were forced to remain standing and working at all times.

 

* In the beginning of ''[[King's Quest: Mask of Eternity]]'', everyone in Daventry are turned to stone by the [[Big Bad]]. It's only dumb luck that our hero managed to grab a piece of the titular [[MacGuffin]] to protect himself.

** In ''[[King's Quest III to Heir Is Human]]'', the hero must defeat a Medusa-like creature that lives in the desert. {{spoiler|He takes his cue from Perseus, and shows the monster her own reflection (though in a hand mirror, and not a polished shield).}}

** Also, near the end of ''[[King's Quest V Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]'', {{spoiler|Cedric the Owl}} gets turned to stone by accident {{spoiler|via Mordack's weakened wand magic (don't worry, he gets better)}}. {{spoiler|Graham ends up like this too if he didn't save Cedric from the [[Harping on About Harpies|harpies]], as the owl is the only reason for [[Taking the Bullet]].}} Of course, this only happens on the MS-DOS PC version and any other adaptation ''except'' the PC CD-ROM adaptation, where {{spoiler|he}} is just killed by {{spoiler|Mordack's}} magic.

** Also, one of the questlines has this happen to [[Casanova Wannabe]] Gilbert, who got "hard" on a [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-basilisk woman]]. When he pushed her too far, he got ''hard'', indeed.

** The Fayth in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' are people who are turned into statues so that their souls can be used to summon large beasts. It's unclear if they become the summon themselves (all we know is that a summoning "draws energy from them"), but they are shown being able to manifest as spirits within the chambers that hold their statue.

*** Given in battles where you're fighting specific Fayth you can't call them in yourself... this troper thinks it's pretty much as good as said that the Fayth are the summons themselves.

** {{spoiler|Llednar Twem}} in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]''. What's worse? {{spoiler|He [[Literally Shattered Lives|crumbled]]}} shortly after that.

* Elaine in ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]'' was turned into a gold statue by a cursed ring. And Guybrush set off to cure her while leaving the statue in the beach of an island inhabited by pirates. Obviously, it was promptly stolen and he had to go and search for them afterwards.

* Philia of ''[[Tales of Destiny]]'' is first discovered by the heroes in a petrified state.

* In ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'', it shows up a status effect that immobilizes the affected characters until cured, and results in a game over if everyone is affected by it.

* In ''[[Tales of Graces]]'', the effect is temporary and curable by taking damage, but the hit that frees you from it will deal a ''lot'' more damage.

* In a pretty solid mimicry of the Dragon Tails example at the top, ''Mage Knight: Apocalypse'' allows Sarus, a biped dragon, to turn himself to crystal, making himself completely immobile for 10 seconds. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqR35rsmddk See it here].

* 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.

* ''[[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]]''.

** Medusa makes an appearance in ''Lament of Innocence,'' along with a shot of the many soldiers who've tried to kill her that she's turned to stone. Leon can only be petrified as a status ailment, though.

** Many of the Post-SotN games add Gold [[Goddamned Bats|Medusa Heads]], which can petrify you on contact.

*** See also the Cockatrice card in ''[[Circle of the Moon]]'', which can add a petrification effect to your weapons or abilities.

* Malcolm, the evil jester in the original ''[[Legend of Kyrandia]]'' game absolutely loved doing this to whoever crossed him, including Brandon at the end if the player wasn't careful.

** In particular, Kallak, the royal wizard, was turned to stone at the beginning of the game, but his eyes were left alive so that he could watch his homeland being destroyed. {{spoiler|At the end of the game Malcolm himself is petrified, only to be revived and become the protagonist in the third installment.}}

* In ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', the Engineer has a weapon called the Golden Wrench that was given to 100 users during the Engineer update. The only difference between it and his regular wrench is that when you kill someone with it, they turn into a <s>gold</s> Australium statue instead of a ragdoll.

* The final boss of ''[[Monster World IV]]'' has an undodgeable attack that temporarily petrifies you. {{spoiler|Your pet Pepelagoo then [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrifices himself]] to block the boss's petrifying gaze.}}

* This seems to be part of the reason the Patapon empire falls again in the soon to come [[Patapon]] 3 (as one of the side effects of opening the Pandora Box.)

* ''[[Neopets]]'' love doing this to their faeries.

* In ''The Magic Candle II'', one level of the [[Big Bad]]'s fortress is decorated with members of a nomadic tribe who had this done to them.

* As expected, given the source material, the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' series of Gold Box games contain numerous enemies with the ability to petrify the heroes. Luckily, mirrors (and, later, polished silver shields) allow the heroes to reflect the creatures' horrid gaze and turn the enemy to stone.

* The introductory Dwarf adventure in ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]'', which has you getting Dwarves out of the Silver Deep mine, ends with Gimli battling a cave troll, but before you can help him, both of you are hit with a stun effect. Before the troll can finish off Gimli though, Gandalf shows up with Gormr and blasts away part of the mine with his magic, letting in the sunlight and turning the troll to stone (see Literature above).

** In addition, quests in Monster Play often involve you looting pieces of stone from trolls petrified this way (called "Sun-Touched Trolls").

* Getting Cursed in ''[[Dark Souls]]'' will cause this for you.

* [[Mr. Exposition|Franklin]] in ''[[Drawn (series)|Drawn]]: The Painted Tower'' is turned to stone by a curse. {{spoiler|In the sequel, you can free him from the spell.}}

 

* A running gag in ''[[The Wotch]]'' has Scott Winters and [[Prophetic Name|Rosetta]] frequently turned into stone statues. They remain conscious while they're statues, but eventually get used to it. Likewise Natasha Dahlet (pronounced "dolly"), leader of the [[Straw Feminist]] group D.O.L.L.Y. - guess what ''she'' gets turned into when Miranda catches up with her. (Note: the creators of ''The Wotch'' have close ties with the ASFR community, although ''The Wotch'' has no sexual content.)

** Cassie is also turned into a life-sized wooden puppet at one point and remains this way for some time before anyone remembers to turn her back.

* Happened to Black Belt from ''[[8-Bit Theater]]'' [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2002/04/10/episode-137-quick-decisive-action here] after Black Mage attempted to stop a temporal paradox. There was an extremely popular [[Epileptic Trees|theory]] which suggested that the statue would be revived to bring BB back after his [[Plotline Death]]. That theory was quite decisively disproven in a [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/11/10/episode-622-now-shut-up/ later strip], intended to shut up those fans who [[He's Just Hiding|refused to accept that Black Belt was dead]].

** There's also [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0591.html a greater devil] turned to stone by Vaarsuvius with a Prismatic Spray. He certainly makes a kickass tombstone.

** The ''Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tails'' book has a bonus comic involving a medusa who's unable to practice her hobby (sculpture) because everyone keeps taking it for this. {{spoiler|She ends up getting a job at [[Cryogenic Sleep|Applied Lithogenics Inc]].}}

** Watch out for Medusa [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0087.html while visiting the women's restroom].

* ''[[The Dragon Doctors]]'' uses it a lot, both offensively and defensively:

** Earlier, the whole team<ref>minus Kili, who was busy elsewhere</ref> is petrified when accidentally looking at a gorgon. Sarin, the [[Catch Phrase|total magical badass]], immediately de-petrifies herself and solves the problem.

** In the "Thieves of life" arc, the bad guys use petrification for "crowd control"

** Early in the comic, it's shown that Sarin tends to stoneskin herself when under attack, allowing her to shrug off daggers while keeping a freedom of movement.

* Used rather horrifically in [http://www.oglaf.com/porkchisel/ this] ''[[Oglaf]]'' comic. ([[NSFW]])

* ''[[Hitmen for Destiny]]'' has a [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/thorsby/destiny/series.php?view=archive&chapter=27061 trantoros] which can turn themselves into rocks for extended periods of time, but can't move during that period. A few strips later, they're used as projectiles and as a perpetual motion machine.

* Happens to the Jones family in ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'', thanks to an [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2773.html encounter with Gorgons]. Complete with [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2766.html trope referencing pun].

* 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 ''[[American Barbarian]]'', [http://www.ambarb.com/?p=348 the god turns to stone -- and then to ash].

 

* 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]].

* 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.

* The [[Damsel in Distress|Lost Lady]] in the fourth year of ''[[The Questport Chronicles]]'' was turned to stone by [[Love Makes You Evil|a wizard that she scorned]].

 

* Mystique is turned to stone by Apocalypse in ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]''. In this case, it's eventually revealed that Apocalypse turned Mystique's shape-shifting abilities against her, and if Rogue absorbed her powers for just a moment, Mystique could break free.

** {{spoiler|She shoves her off a cliff instead, shattering her.}}

** [[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 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

* 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.

* In ''[[Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders]]'', it happens to Fallon and Tamara and their animals (temporarily) and then to Lady Kale and her crew (permanently?) at the end of the second season. Also, all of the people and animals in New Camelot are cursed into suspended animation in the finale of the first season, and Archie turns into a crystal for a while in one episode.

 

* [[wikipedia:Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva|Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva]] (FOP) is a rare, genetic bone disease which causes bone cells to form in connective tissues (such as ligaments, tendons and muscle), thus immobilizing and confining its sufferers in a rigid and painful prison, essentially turning them into a [[And I Must Scream|living statue]]. The fact that this is an irreversible and often slow process makes it far worse than any of the fictional examples listed above.

** It also comes in a non-progressive variety.

 

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