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* The 50's ''[[Monolith Monsters]]'' features growing towers of crystals that fall and shatter; anyone exposed to their shards begins to turn to stone. What makes it worse is that the crystalline stones expand and even explode when coming in contact with water. |
* The 50's ''[[Monolith Monsters]]'' features growing towers of crystals that fall and shatter; anyone exposed to their shards begins to turn to stone. What makes it worse is that the crystalline stones expand and even explode when coming in contact with water. |
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* The Monkey King's petrification is at the center of the plot of ''[[The Forbidden Kingdom]]''. |
* The Monkey King's petrification is at the center of the plot of ''[[The Forbidden Kingdom]]''. |
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* A weapon turning living beings into ash was developed in ''[[Star Trek Nemesis]]''. |
* A weapon turning living beings into ash was developed in ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]''. |
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* In ''[[Seven Faces of Dr. Lao]]'', Medusa turns a disbelieving townswoman to stone. (She gets better.) |
* In ''[[Seven Faces of Dr. Lao]]'', Medusa turns a disbelieving townswoman to stone. (She gets better.) |
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* In ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy 2: The Golden Army]]'', when elves die, their bodies turn to yellow stone. |
* In ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy 2: The Golden Army]]'', when elves die, their bodies turn to yellow stone. |
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* One of XANA's attacks in ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' is to turn everybody in school into stone with a greenish gas (episode "Triple Trouble"). |
* One of XANA's attacks in ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' is to turn everybody in school into stone with a greenish gas (episode "Triple Trouble"). |
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* This becomes the fate of Omnifarious from ''[[Static Shock]]''. |
* This becomes the fate of Omnifarious from ''[[Static Shock]]''. |
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* As per mythology, the Gorgons can do this in their appearance in ''[[American Dragon Jake Long]]''. |
* As per mythology, the Gorgons can do this in their appearance in ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]''. |
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* ''[[Freakazoid]]'' In the episode "Statuesque", Jeepers invents a watch that turns people into stone with the help of a demon named Vorn the Unspeakable (who looks [[Cthulhu Mythos|very familiar]]). He ends up turning Steph to stone, but they rescue her and turn Vorn into stone. |
* ''[[Freakazoid]]'' In the episode "Statuesque", Jeepers invents a watch that turns people into stone with the help of a demon named Vorn the Unspeakable (who looks [[Cthulhu Mythos|very familiar]]). He ends up turning Steph to stone, but they rescue her and turn Vorn into stone. |
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* The animated ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]'' has Agent K turned to living stone by an alien amplifier device in one episode. |
* The animated ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]'' has Agent K turned to living stone by an alien amplifier device in one episode. |