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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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** 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.
* Unsurprisingly, Medusa Girl has this ability in ''[[Monster Girl Quest]]'' (the attack is called "Eye of Petrification") but in this case, it's a time-delay attack. If Luka is hit by it, he'll turn to stone in three turns (and be defeated instantly) meaning he has that long to defeat her.
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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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** [[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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