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More likely to produce [[Tears From a Stone]] than most rock -- but still not very likely.
It does not count if they transform and untransform on their own (unless they cannot move, such as in ''[http://www.dragon-tails.com/comics/archive.php?date=020222 Dragon Tails]'' and ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' 3). If the character ''can'' transform on their own and remain mobile, then this is an [[Elemental Shapeshifter]].
Being Taken for Granite happens a lot in children's literature, because, [[Never Say "Die"|unlike death]], [[No Ontological Inertia|it is (probably) reversible. Usually]].
If a villain [[Genre Savvy|knows]] that this effect can be potentially reversed, you can expect them to consider [[Literally Shattered Lives|smashing the "statue"]] to ensure the person cannot be brought back.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[
** 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 ''[[Melody of Oblivion]]'' the Monster named Medusa does this and then collects the statues, she especially likes pubescent boys (each Monster does something like this to people who see their true form).
* In ''[[SD Gundam Force]]'', the Bagu-Bagu inject a chemical that turns organic life forms into stone. All life on Zero's home planet Lacroa was given this treatment. Near the end, they turn most of the residents of Neotopia to stone, but after regaining his Soul Drive, Captain Gundam reverses the petrifaction by reprogramming them in the [[Cyberspace|Brain World]].
* Cockatrimon in ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' and (briefly) ''[[Digimon Savers]]''.
* Ash in the climax of ''[[Pokémon:
** Also happens in {{spoiler|the very end}} Fire Red/Leaf Green saga of ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', when {{spoiler|one of the villains blasts the main characters with an attack from Darkrai. It colliding with Mewtwo caused a reaction that turned the main characters into stone. The next arc uses this as Emerald's reason to pursue Jirachi -- to wish the effect reversed.}}
** Another ''~Pokémon~'' example: Pokemon Hunter J has a bracelet device that she uses to petrify Pokémon in order to steal them. It apparently also works on people, because {{spoiler|Pyramid King Brandon got turned to stone when he jumped in front of the beam. He is healed though, thanks to Regigigas.}}
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** Then there is Negi's tragic backstory, wherein almost everyone in his home village except for him, Nekane and Anya was turned to stone. Said Count is one of the demons who did that.
** More recently, Fate lived up to his threat: he used magical darts to do this to {{spoiler|Beatrix, Sayo and Yuna, when they attacked him in an attempt to rescue Asuna.}}
* There is a manga, ''[[
* In her first appearance in ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', Alisa Southerncross does this to two pursuers by turning her headband (actually a part of her amorphous alien adoptive father) into a cluster of snakes (a clear reference to the Gorgon, which another character recognizes).
* In the ''[[Inuyasha]]'' special "The Woman Who Loved Sesshoumaru," a one-shot villain turns an entire village full of people, and later on Miroku, Sango, and Kirara, into ''glass''.
* A demon in the original ''[[
* Anacondy, a member of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] in ''[[Yes!
* Happened to Yui, Freeze and others in a second season episode of ''[[
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', one of the filler episodes involves a town being infected with a disease that turns everyone's skin into some sort of bark/stone substance.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Boa Hancock has the ability to turn people into stone with the power of her Devil Fruit, the Mero Mero no Mi. Though said people have to be at least remotely smitten with her, [[Ms. Fanservice|that's not too big]] [[Most Beautiful Woman In The World|of a problem]]. The effect is perfectly reversible however, only resulting in minor memory loss to the victims (that is, if she revives them before they're shattered, such as the case with the shattered limbs of pirates at the Battle of Marineford]].
** Mr. 3 of the Baroque Works can also use his hardening wax to petrify people, and unless the victim is saved in time, the effect is slightly less reversible than Hancock's.
* In the first season of ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'', this happened to [[Squishy Wizard|Clef]] after he was struck by a spell from [[Big Bad|Zagato]].
* During a [[Filler]] arc in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'' the villain Noah turns the Kaiba Bros. into stone after Seto loses by risking to use Last Turn, causing Yugi to take over and continue the duel. When Noah gets fed up with everybody, he threatens to turn all of Yugi's supporters into stone, and does, in this order: Duke, {{spoiler|robot-monkey!}}Tristan, Serenity, and Joey. And when he turns Tea into stone, Yugi goes through an [[Narm Charm|over-the-top]] [[Heroic BSOD]], until Hikari no Yugi tells Yami no Yugi that he's not alone, and everybody that was solidified gives him support, leading to {{spoiler|1=Yugi reviving Kaiba's Blue-Eyes White Dragon, fuses it with 2 more, uses Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon to kill Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi, defuses BEUD back into 3 Blue-Eyes, siccing them on Noah, thus winning the duel and saving everybody.}}
* In ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'', {{spoiler|Souma's Orochi-granted powers eventually petrify him.}}
* In ''[[Samurai Deeper Kyo]]'', the "true" Mekira turns Yuya to stone from the waist down, and completely statue-fies the newly [[Heel Face Turn|heel face turned]] Santera. They recover after Akari gets seriously peeved and does away with Mekira.
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== Card Games ==
* Not exactly a petrification, but the [[Flavor Text]] from the ''[[Magic:
** Mechanically, creatures like basilisks and gorgons usually just destroy creatures outright, though this is often flavored as petrification (see the card [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=146053 Mass Calcify] for a spell example).
*** [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=3242 Basalt Golem], on the other hand, turns enemy creatures to stone. In an emergency, your opponent can still use them for blocking (at least, blocking creatures that aren't Basalt Golem).
**** Similarly, [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=39900 Aurification] turns them into gold.
** Story-wise, there's also Lord Konda, the villain of the ''Kamigawa'' block. He became immortal when he captured the daughter of the ruler of the Kami, but was eventually defeated when he was turned to stone and shattered (it's implied that he's still alive, just...i n pieces).
* In the ''[[Magi
* In the CCG-meets-Monopoly game, ''[[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.
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== Comics ==
* In a [[Fables|Bill Willingham]] [[Spin-Off]] featuring [[Sandman|Thessaly the witch]], the titular witch falls into this trap when she notices that she's surrounded by odd statues wearing [[And I Must Scream|horrified expressions]]. Her last thoughts before she gets turned to stone are exasperated self-recriminations for falling into such a stupid trap.
* Stone Boy of the ''Legion of Super Heroes'' [[Legion of Super
* The "final" fate of [[Thanos]] in the [[Marvel Comics]] of the 70's; undone in the late 80's.
* In ''[[Elf Quest]]'', some of the magic users among the Gliders of Blue Mountain [http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ12/DisplayOQ12.html?page=12 spend their lives in apparent trances], focusing their minds on specific limited tasks such as opening and closing portals or correcting flaws in the rock, while their bodies remain almost completely inanimate. It is hinted (though never actually confirmed) that [[Big Bad]] Winnowill keeps them this way to prevent them from revealing things they have learned about her.
** 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.
* Once while fighting the [[X
** Doom actually counted on Storm being incapacitated due to panic. The extremely dire gathering of storm clouds outside couldn't possibly be related to her, could it? No, I'll prop her up by the window and go about my plans. Who cares there's no other possible explanation? Because it is a perfectly natural storm, surely there's no way the window could be in danger.
** 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.
* [[
* This happens to {{spoiler|S[[Lobo]]}} in ''[[Young Justice (
* 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.}}
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== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[
** 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.
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== Films -- Animated ==
* 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.
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* In Part 2 of ''[[Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows]]'', this is what happens to {{spoiler|Bellatrix Lestrange}} before she gets blown to pieces.
* 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 ''[[
* Han Solo, frozen in carbonite in ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'', later [[Wax Museum Morgue|put on display]] in Jabba's palace then eventually unfrozen in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''.
* In ''[[Willow]]'', the village sorcerer gives Willow a pouch of magical acorns and says, "Anything you throw them at, turns to stone." This turns out to be true. {{spoiler|However, at no point do they actually do Willow any good. He tries to use them in a fight with a troll, but he drops the acorn and instead of turning the troll to stone, it just petrifies the wooden plank it lands on. He actually manages to hit Queen Bavmorda, but it turns out that [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours|Bavmorda's magical kung fu is rather stronger than the village sorcerer's]], and she shakes off the effect with ease.}}
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* A weapon turning living beings into ash was developed in ''[[Star Trek Nemesis]]''.
* In ''[[Seven Faces of Dr. Lao]]'', Medusa turns a disbelieving townswoman to stone. (She gets better.)
* In ''[[Hellboy (
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== Literature ==
* The witch in [[
** There is also a pool which turns anything which touches it to gold in ''[[Narnia|The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.]]''
* 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.
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* 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.
* The heroes of [[L. Sprague
* ''[[
** In ''[[
** In ''The Patchwork Girl of Oz'', Unc Nunkie and Dame Margolotte are turned into marble by the Liquid of Petrifaction.
* In ''[[Harry Potter (
* In [[Ray Bradbury]]'s ''[[
* Trolls in [[The Lord of the Rings
** 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 Tales of Faerie]]'', 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.
** Played with in ''Spearwielder's Tale'', in which one character is outraged that Tolkien wrote about trolls that turn to stone in the sun because 'real' trolls do not, and that probably caused many deaths from people running from trolls turning to laugh at them when the sun came up
* A random nameless fire-witch in [[Patricia C. Wrede]]'s ''[[Enchanted Forest Chronicles|Talking to Dragons]]'' turns people to stone, including Shiara. Daystar kisses her; she gets better.
** And in the first book, ''Dealing With Dragons'', Cimorene meets a prince who's been turned into a living, moving stone statue, having rather hilariously [[Take a Third Option|messed up]] a standard fairy-tale scenario.
* In ''[[Sabriel]]'' the title character encounters and frees a naked man transformed into a wooden figurehead on a ship.
* In ''[[
* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s early novel ''[[The Carpet People]]'' has a termagant whose gaze turns people to stone, the irony being that the beast is actually quite friendly and doesn't do it on purpose. Its own tears cause the statues to come back to life, unless they have been that way for many centuries.
* Used as a form of execution in the ''[[The Darksword Trilogy|Darksword]]'' trilogy. In the second book, {{spoiler|Saryon}} intentionally throws himself in front of the executioner's spell while holding the eponymous Darksword, both [[Taking the Bullet]] and trapping the Darksword in his stone hands. {{spoiler|He gets better.}}
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* In the first [[Percy Jackson]] novel, Percy and his friends encounter a masked lady who has a garden full of stone animals, stone people, stone satyrs, ... It's the real Medusa. And since Percy's friend Annabeth is the daughter of Athena, Medusa wants a lot of payback.
** In ''[[The Heroes of Olympus]]'', Midas does this, too.
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "[[Iron Shadows in
* At the end of ''[[Duel of Sorcery|Changer's Moon]]'', {{spoiler|Serroi is turned into a tree as the [[Equivalent Exchange|price]] of defeating Ser Noris}}. (She gets better in the ''Dancer'' trilogy.)
* In the novella "I Like To Watch", the protagonist turns her restless adventurer sister into stone by watching her thoroughly. It's some sort of a an ultimate "you're better home" statement from the protagonist, who spent her whole life in their childhood home, watching things rather than doing them.
* In ''Master of the Five Magics'' by [[Lyndon Hardy]], [[The Dragon]] for a minor antagonist steals a heat-resistant ointment from the hero's mentor, slathers himself with an extra-thick coating, then taunts the hero for not having enough as they both venture into the heart of a volcano. He's [[Hoist
* Prince Nakel from ''Adventures in Agapeland: The Music Machine'' is rumored to have this power, and as his castle courtyard is filled with stone statues, it may very well be true.
* ''[[
** Dale is also temporarily turned into a lead statue.
* In ''[[
* A variation in the first ''[[Secret Histories]]'' novel: a captured water sprite is frozen into a statue. And is [[And I Must Scream|completely aware of it]].
* ''[[The Witches]]'' by [[Roald Dahl]] has an anecdote about a boy who was turned into stone. [[Nightmare Fuel|The process was apparently slow.]]
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** Subverted in ''The Time of Angels'', when {{spoiler|the Angel in Amy's mind makes her think she's turning to stone. She isn't, but it takes the Doctor biting the affected hand to snap her out of it.}}
** Also in the old series, this happened in the Season 26 serial "Ghost Light" - the victims were petrified by the story's [[Big Bad]], [[Light Is Not Good|Light]], because of his fear of change and evolution (they had 'adapted' to a new situation, and so he ensured they would 'never change again').
* The second season of ''[[Big Wolf
** He gets doubly screwed too, {{spoiler|turns out that the cure is also a poison so when he gets turned back he finds himself blind, sweating horribly from a fever, totally unable to care for himself, and with a touch of leprosy (apparently he spits out some teeth).}}
* In the first episode of ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'', Iolaus takes on a "she-demon" while Hercules is in a [[Ten
* Happened to Madison in ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force]],'' at the hands of a cockatrice-themed [[Monster of the Week]], so she was naturally sympathetic when it happened to Jenji later on at the hands of a Medusa-themed one. This also occurred to Urara, Madison's counterpart in ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]'' (the Mystic Force episode was in fact a near copy of the Magiranger episode).
** Of course, it also happened to Jason, the original Red Ranger, many years before in ''[[Power Rangers
*** Who was, somewhat ironically (or not), the [[Sixth Ranger|Gold Ranger]] at the time.
** ''[[Engine Sentai
* A book in the ''[[Goosebumps]]'' series was called ''[[Be Careful What You Wish For]]'' and showcased the trope of this name. In the ending of the TV adaptation, which differed considerably from the book, a girl wishes that "wherever I go, people will come to admire me" - and instantly turns into a statue.
** In the TV adaptation of "Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes," Major McCall (Mr McCall in the book) is turned into a lawn ornament at the end.
* Occurs to ''[[
* Played for laughs in ''[[Look Around You]]'' series 2, which has an item about a disease called Geodermic Grantitis (Cobbles), which turns people into vaguely human-shaped piles of rock. Victims can slide around, and can see, hear and talk despite their lack of visible eyes, ears or mouths. The disease has one compensation: {{spoiler|its victims can fly}}. A leaflet, "Coping with Cobbles", is available at pharmacies and quarries, price 1p.
* In the instructional series ''[[
* One recurring obstacle (well, we see it twice but this was a year when no one won) on ''[[Knightmare]]'' was a giant gorgon head that once turned not just the Dungeoner but the Guides (who are normally immune to harm) to stone.
* The fact that that he possessed an "Off" Switch meant ''[[Star Trek:
* Done on ''[[
* 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.}}
* There's a [[Star Trek TOS]] episode, ''By Any Other Name'' where aliens turn the crew of the Enterprise (except for Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scotty) into little styrofoam polygons.
* 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.
* ''[[Friday the 13th: The Series]]'': The Shard of Medusa is a jagged piece of black rock. Those who hold it for long periods become paralyzed. Stabbing such victims with the Shard turns them into stone. What do you do with your new statues? If you're an artist with more ambition than conscience, you put them on display for fame and fabulous fortune, of course!
* Bob Bishop from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' can turn anything he wants into gold. It was only used on inanimate objects in the series itself, but in the webcomic we see it being used on a person. That person was then hauled away and melted down.
* ''[[Eureka]]'' features several people petrifying in the aptly titled episode "Stoned".
* ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' has a variation with a knife that turns people into glass.
** And, of course, there is the process known as Bronzing, which is said to be done to those that have the potential to do the most damage to the world. [[And I Must Scream|And they're conscious the whole time!]]
** There's also a hybrid of an artifact and a computer virus, which changes people's DNA into a silicon-based configuration, changing their body parts into diatomacious earth. Needless to say, this is incompatible with life.
* One villain in ''[[
** One of the Titans can turn people to stone. She turns Whitelighters to stone and shatters them to steal their teleporting powers. Paige is turned to stone, but is saved from the shattering and later returned to normal.
* ''[[
== Music ==
* The song [[Black Sabbath
* Owen Pallett's "Basilisk" is [[Conversational Troping]] on the subject. Though a cheerful and catchy song, it's rife with subtle [[Nightmare Fuel]].
{{quote| [[Rage Against the Author|Owen,]] Owen, protect me<br />
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* This was the trademark of the Gorgon Medusa, cursed by the Greek gods such that whomever looked ''at her'' became turned to stone (Medusa'a own gaze was actually harmless). This goes back at least to Pherecydes and Pindar, Greek writers of the 5th century BCE. But for various reasons most depictions flip it around so that it's ''her'' gaze that turns people to stone.
* The gaze of the [[The Basilisk|basilisk]] can petrify a victim. Depending on accounts, the mythical cockatrice could either kill or transform victims into stone by looking, touching, pecking, or breathing at people. And as if that was not enough, both monsters can also spread lethal poison.
** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* The Catoblepas was a bull-like creature whose gaze could petrify instantly. However, it was [[Cursed
* In [[
* Inverted in the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Pygmalion carves a statue based on Aphrodite and falls in love with it; Aphrodite sympathizes with him and brings the statue to life so he can marry her.
* King Midas' Golden Touch turned his daughter (and in some versions, his wife as well) into a golden statue. Not Stone, but pretty much the same idea.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* Common in [[RPG|RPGs]] of all sorts, usually as one of the [[Standard Status Effects]] but also occasionally as a plot element.
* In ''[[
* In the ''[[
** Mana storms will occasionally sweep an area, hitting it with various elemental and illusion spells. These include the Petrify spell, which a small town in the Australian Outback learned to their misfortune.
** Additionally, a Seattle nightclub known as the Alabaster Maiden has a statue out front which is supposedly the body of a mage whose spell backfired on her.
** Some Awakened creatures have the power Petrifying Gaze, which acts like the Petrify spell.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons
** As well as your standard medusas, cockatrices and basilisks, the gorgon (a bull-like creature with metal scales for skin) could petrify creatures with its breath.
** 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]].
** In the [[
** 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:
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*** 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.
** One of the archdevils can even turn people to iron; he also has a power that instantly rusts metal, and likes to render his enemies [[Deader Than Dead]] by turning them into iron and then rusting them to pieces.
* In ''[[
* In the ''[[Champions]]'' adventure ''The Great Supervillain Contest'', one contestant was Brother Basilisk, who had the superpower of (temporarily) turning creatures to stone.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[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.
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* 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 ''[[The Winter's Tale
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== Video Games ==
* In the beginning of ''[[
** 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
* In ''[[Tomb Raider]]'', Lara can be turned to gold by standing on the hand of a giant statue of King Midas.
** This also happens in the remake, ''Tomb Raider: Anniversary'', and in this edition Lara is also encased in stone in a boss battle (which she can somehow break out of).
* Happens temporarily in ''[[Legend of Mana]]'' during one of the three main plots. Here "temporarily" means about 5 seconds of cutscene.
** 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.
* {{spoiler|Palom and Porom}} do it to themselves in ''[[
** Also, "Stone" is a status effect in nearly all the games in the series, most of which treat it similarly to Death; since it never wears off through time, if all party members are petrified, the fight's over. Later games in the series have it so that if a petrified character is struck with a physical attack, they shatter and can't be revived until the battle's over.
** {{spoiler|Red XIII's father}} from ''[[
** Early on in ''[[
** The Fayth in ''[[
*** 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.
** ''[[
*** {{spoiler|Also, a l'cie who had transformed into a cie'th for long enough will eventually turn into a cie'th stone}}
* This has been used in the premise of two ''Zelda'' games: ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
** Also used ''by Link'' in the ending of {{spoiler|''[[The Legend of Zelda:
** ''Wind Waker'' features Dark Chuchu that turn to stone in the sunlight. This is the only way to destroy them: petrify them, then smash them.
** Also in ''Wind Waker'', your initial visit to {{spoiler|the underwater castle of Hyrule}} has Moblins and Darknuts petrified in the middle of combat.
*** That actually falls under [[Time Stands Still]].
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle
*** The boss of the 8th dungeon in ''Seasons'', the aptly named "Medusa Head", has [[Eye Beams]] that turn Link into stone if they hit you.
*** And in ''Ages'', when Veran starts fucking around with the past, some people disappear and some turn to stone. Including a little kid, whose grandmother spends most of the game crying over.
* Elaine in ''[[
* The PC in ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]: Shadows of Undrentide'' goes through this, for a blessedly short time.
** You do get to see the effects of the other people/creatures who stood in the way of medusa, you can restore them, unfortunatly all but one (a sphinx) will attack you the instant they are freed.
** Poked fun at in the sequel: you can hear a tale about an elf whose stare can turn people into a stone. Not into stone, but into '''a''' [[Baleful Polymorph|stone]].
* Philia of ''[[
* 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.
* Mario loves this trope.
** In the initial ''[[Super Mario Bros. (
** Mario could turn into a still statue with the Tanooki suit that was invincible and could kill nearly anything by falling on it.
** In the Nintendo Power ''[[Super Mario World (
* The cockatrices in ''[[Nethack]]''. {{spoiler|Hearing their hiss}} produces a delayed action petrification which can be cured by {{spoiler|eating a lizard or drinking something acidic}}. On the other hand, {{spoiler|touching one with your bare flesh,}} will instantly petrify you. The statues of petrified monsters can be destroyed in order to retrieve the items they were wearing or carrying.
** More interestingly, their corpse still turns anything it touches to stone. Meaning an adventurer (or monster) with a pair of gloves can wield it as a one-hit-killing weapon. With the right equipment, you can even turn yourself into a cockatrice, lay a few dozen eggs, and throw them at your enemies for instant petrification.
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* A variation occurs in ''[[Super Smash Bros]] Brawl'': characters are turned into trophies when they are defeated in battle or through machines used by the Nintendo villains. They can usually be revived just by touching the trophy stand that appears beneath them.
* 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 ''[[God of War (
** In ''God of War II'', Kratos does it again with Medusa's sister Euryale. There is one game, and one more Gorgon, left.
** Despite this, Kratos doesn't fight Stheno. Instead, your main method of turning enemies to stone on the third game is to summon a Gorgon Serpent once you upgrade your {{spoiler|Hades's Claws}} to level three. Also, doing the brutal kill on a Gorgon will freeze every nearby enemy, much like if you block a Gorgon Flash on the second game.
* In Part IV of ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius
** In ''[[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Fire Emblem: Thracia 776']]', {{spoiler|this is stated to be the final fate of the ''Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War'' first generation playable characters who survived or escaped the Barhara massacre.}}
* ''[[Total Annihilation Kingdoms]]'' features the Basilisk and the Acolyte's Turn To Stone spell, which does [[Exactly What It Says
* Happens for about five seconds in ''[[Jade Empire]]''.
* Seen in Sailor Venus's subplot of ''[[Sailor Moon Another Story]]''.
* ''[[
* The Nashkel Carnaval in the game Baldur's Gate has a stone fighter as one of the attractions. If you decide to use a stone to flesh spell on it, it will turn back into a NPC that can join your party.
** Basilisks will also pop up in several areas, including one set controlled by an insane gnome. One of your dialogue choices when talking to him is funny, but when you [[Fridge Logic|think about it later]], is truly callous - "Okay, Mr. psycho gnome, I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but we're really not interested in your rock garden". Those are real, very unfortunate (or stupid) people, not just statues!
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** 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.
* In ''[[Fate/stay
* ''[[Kirby]]'' can [[Mega Manning|obtain a power]] that functions like the Mario-turns-self-into-statue variant.
* 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.}}
* If you have a [[Relationship Values|good relationship]] with [[The Gunslinger|Magoichi]] in the second ''[[Onimusha]]'', there will be a bit where the [[PC]] is turned to stone and you'll play as Magoichi while searching for a cure, and to help various peasants who've also been petrified. It's an [[Surprisingly Easy Mini Quest|easy sidequest]].
* ''[[
* ''[[King of Fighters]]'' villain Rugal Bernstein had a hobby of taking fighters he killed in combat and turning them into statues... by dipping their corpses in liquid bronze. And that's just the start of what this [[Complete Monster]] likes to get up to.
** Also in ''The King of Fighters 2003'', the final boss Mukai has the ability to petrify you for a few seconds either by grabbing you, or through a full screen petrifying flash attack.
* Azelf from the ''[[
* In ''[[
** Near the end of the [[Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World
* The Romans in ''Spartan: Total Warrior'' have a superweapon that uses a Medusa to fire a paralzying beam. After you beat the boss you can use the Medusa Shield, based on Athena's Aegis shield from Greek mythology after Perseus slew Medusa, to petrify groups of enemies.
* In ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]'', a curse covers an entire kingdom with thorny vines and turns all the people and a cat into statue-like plants (except the King, the Princess and one soldier- all of whom have their own curses.)
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* In ''[[Ogre Battle]]'', the way to recruit Saradin is to cure his petrification. The problem is, there's a statue of him in every town in the region, and only one has Saradin trapped inside of it.
** Fortunately, the [[Applied Phlebotinum|sacred bell]] used to fix him will only be used up when you actually use it on the right statue.
* In ''[[
* This is essentially the entire motivation behind the original ''[[Star Ocean 1|Star Ocean]]''.
** Shows up in the other Star Ocean games as one of two status effects that get you an instant game over if everyone is afflicted by it.
* In Dimitri's ending in ''[[
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
* On the backstory of ''[[Guild Wars|Guild Wars Factions]]'', when the [[Big Bad]] Shiro was defeated the first time his death released an explosive wave which turned both an inland sea into solid jade and the entire Echovald forest into stone, along with any living creature unfortunate enough to be caught in it, this event was called "The Jade Wind" in the game.
* '''Sunlight''' does this to every normal human in ''[[Digital Devil Saga]] 2''. This means that only a fraction of the Earth's population isn't petrified; the statues we do see are all very crumbled, so it is safe to assume that everyone turned to stone is also dead as a doornail. [[Nightmare Fuel|Yikes.]]
** From the same game, the Stone ailment is very much like the [[Final Fantasy]] type - with the added caveat of every physical attack which hits a Petrified character instantly counting as a Critical hit, furthering the damage and possibly giving more turns to the attacker, depending on the game's mechanics. Hit 'em enough and... [[Literally Shattered Lives|well, there's no need to explain that, is there...]] Plus, if a petrified caracter is hit by a Force, Earth, Gun or Physical-type attack, there's always a high chance of it instantly killing the character. [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|You'd be surprised by how many of the demons can do this]]. On the other hand, at least it reduces or nullifies most other forms of damage, barring the non-elemental Almighty.
* ''[[Adventures of Lolo]]'' has Medusa and its cousin, Don Medusa. Both are capable of petrifying Lolo (and/or Lala in ''Lolo 3''), and will zap on sight, even if Lolo/Lala isn't looking their way. Don Medusa is the more dangerous of the two, because it can move back and forth.
* One area in ''[[Jade Empire]]'' features a guardian fox-spirit attacking the locals by petrifying them and smashing the statues {{spoiler|because said locals are trying to free an [[Sealed Evil in
** The [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Master Li}} also uses this tactic towards the PC to break his resolve and see the futility of his battle resulting into a [[Battle in
* In ''[[
* 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.}}
* The Hippogriff boss in ''[[Main/Ptitle 8 zbvq 64 h|Demon's Crest]]'' starts the fight as a statue. When you headbutt it, it awakens and fights you. Throughout the fight, it sometimes turns back to stone and must be headbutted again. Once you defeat it, the Hippogriff turns to stone one last time... [[Literally Shattered Lives|at which point you smash it to pieces with a final headbutt.]]
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* As expected, given the source material, the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|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.
* [[Bad Powers, Good People|Emil]] of ''[[Nie R]]'' has the uncontrollable ability to cause this with his gaze, and so he spends hundreds of years cooped up in a mansion with a blindfold. He later gains the ability to control it {{spoiler|after fusing with his sister into the ultimate weapon.}}
* The introductory Dwarf adventure in ''[[
** In addition, quests in Monster Play often involve you looting pieces of stone from trolls petrified this way (called "Sun-Touched Trolls").
* Archibald Ironfist, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]] II: The Succession Wars'' is sentenced to this in the canonical ending, "for some future generation to take mercy upon". The main characters of ''[[Might and Magic]] VI: The Mandate of Heaven'' frees him from that state a decade or so after the Succession War, but for very good reasons (they need to learn something from him to keep the world from blowing up when they save it). The main characters of the RPGs can also be turned to stone as a status effect, but that is more easily reversible<ref>Given that a stone-to-flesh spell is limited by how long someone has been stone, Archibald likely had been stone for too long for even a stone-to-flesh scroll to work</ref>, while ''HoMM'' appears to take the stance that if you are turned to stone in the midst of battle, you are effectively dead.
* In ''[[Desktop Dungeons]]'', the Gorgon have a Death Gaze ability, which causes instant petrification when a player's health is less than half (or, for the boss form, [[Medusa]], anything less than full).
* Getting Cursed in ''[[Dark Souls]]'' will cause this for you.
* [[Mr. Exposition|Franklin]] in ''[[Drawn (
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', in the Deepholm area, there is a group of basilisks that petrify their enemies. Their work is scattered around them. It's worth noting that their targets were already made of stone, but now they're made of stone and can't move.
* Happens to both {{spoiler|Asura and [[Crossover|Aku]][[Street Fighter|ma]] In ''[[Asura's Wrath]]''. Not that it doesn't stop them from still trying to fight.}}
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* Lampshaded in [http://www.triquetracats.com/?date=2008-03-10 this] page of ''[[Triquetra Cats]]'', Petra gets turned into a statue, but because she's an earth mage she can still move.
* 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]].
* In [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0053.html her first appearance] in ''[[The Order of the Stick
** Part of O-Chul's torture regimen while Xykon's captive involved a "Basilisk staring contest." Jirix notes he technically won, presumably petrified and unable to blink.
** 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.
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* ''[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]]. <s>Unfinished, but writer promises to continue soon ([[Famous Last Words]], I know. Still worth a look.)</s> Finally finished after nearly a year (or 7 days and 4 hours, [[Webcomic Time|depending how you look at it]])
** The author also did some Filler material for ''[[The Wotch]]'', including Anne accidentally turning herself into a cookie statue. Oh, and a whole season of sunday specials, if I'm not mistaken.
* In ''[[The
* ''[[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, by using a petrification spell that she already knew (he almost noticed; it turns the clothes to stone as well, which he mentions right before she breaks out).}}
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** And of course, there's the crystal people, though as a subversion, a crystalline friend was once {{spoiler|turned human to have surgery done to her.}}
* Used rather horrifically in [http://www.oglaf.com/porkchisel/ this] ''[[Oglaf]]'' comic. ([[NSFW]])
* One ''[[Johnny Wander]]'' [http://www.johnnywander.com/comics/123 story] involves a [[Kid
* ''[[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.
* One wizard in ''[[
* Happens to the Jones family in ''[[
* Happens to a customer in [[Mike Bookseller]] [http://www.krrobar.com/mikebookseller/comics/297.html here] when Mike smiles.
* 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.
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* 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, turned to stone by a shadow-shaped basilisk. Alysia Perez [[And I Must Scream|experiences the pain]] first hand.
* [[
** There's also [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-602 602], a invisible sculptor that supposedly turns humans into statues. At least in the story its based on.
** [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1013 SCP-1013] is a classic cockatrice. It calcifies the outer layer of your body, then happily pecks a hole in you and eats what's inside.
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** The appropriately-named villain Stone can transform himself into a living statue, giving himself [[Super Strength]] and [[Nigh Invulnerability]]. The Brazilian hero Estatua ("The Statue") has the same power. Granite Man and Golem are both like that permanently. Surkha Khamba ("Ruby Monolith") can turn herself into solid ruby.
* The ''[[Neopets]]'' arc "The Faeries' Ruin" has this happen to all the Faeries, as well as {{spoiler|Hanso and Xandra}}.
* In ''[[We Are Our Avatars (Roleplay)|We Are Our Avatars]]'', [[User:Ozbourne]] and [[Mega Man (
* The [[Distressed Damsel|Lost Lady]] in the fourth year of ''[[The Questport Chronicles]]'' was turned to stone by [[Love Makes You Evil|a wizard that she scorned]].
== Western Animation ==
* 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.}}
*** {{spoiler|However, it's not the real Mystique after all.}}
* Several episodes of ''[[
* Happens to Jackie on ''[[
* Used several times in ''[[
* A favorite [[You Have Failed Me|punishment]] of [[Big Bad|Zordrak]] from ''[[The Dreamstone]]'' is to turn the offender to stone and throw him into a pit where he gets broken down into gravel by ravenous monsters.
* Similar to Shadow Master from the ''[[Double Dragon]]'' cartoon trapping failing [[Mooks]] in his mural.
* Happens to Monkey Fist in ''[[Kim Possible]]''. It's uncertain if it's permanent or not, but he's still turned to stone in his brief cameo in the final episode.
* The ''[[Iron Man (
* The garden-full-of-statues variety cropped up in ''The Challenge of the [[
* ''[[Teen Titans (
** Also, at the end of the season 2 arc, Terra turns to stone while using her powers to extreme effect to stop the volcano from forming under the city.
* One of the central goals of ''[[Conan the Adventurer (
* One of XANA's attacks in ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' is to turn everybody in school into stone with a greenish gas (episode "Triple Trouble").
* This becomes the fate of Omnifarious from ''[[Static Shock]]''.
* As per mythology, the Gorgons can do this in their appearance in ''[[
* ''[[
* The animated ''[[Men in Black (
** Lampshaded by Agent J at the end of the episode.
* The fate of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
* The effect of King Basilisk's special ability in ''[[Huntik]]: Secrets and Seekers''.
* The [[Exactly What It Says
* In ''[[Spider
* [[Re Boot]] has [[The Virus|the Medusa Bug]], with the additional effect of disintegrating anything infected for too long.
* An episode of ''[[Goldie Gold and Action Jack]]'' featured a villain who used chemicals to turn people into stone. He managed to get Jack's hand.
* On ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'', the Moon Men Gidney and Floid were armed with "skrooch guns" that could paralyze people for a set amount of time, ranging from a few seconds to decades.
* Subverted on ''[[The Herculoids]]'', when a medusa tried to use her power on Igoo, but accomplished nothing because Igoo is ''already'' made of stone.
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** [[Sealed Evil in
* [[The Smurfs]] in one episode 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 that turned him and his cat Azrael into stone. Papa Smurf [[Save the Villain|restored him to normal]].
* In the [[Grand Finale|series finale]] of ''[[
* An episode of ''[[Beetlejuice (
* The [[
* Happens to Roderick in ''[[
** Also happens to Hamton in "Pluck O' the Irish" when a banshee turns him to stone with her hypnotic stare, the only way to break the spell is to get the banshee to laugh.
* In the [[Betty Boop]]'s "Snow White", the wicked queen/witch thwarts Bimbo and Koko by turning them into statues (they get better) - just another turn in a massively surreal cartoon.
* In [[Princess Gwenevere and
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