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

* [[Supergirl]] did this to her ex boyfriends with a touch, at least according to [[media:Adventure_Comics_389_5296.jpg|this cover of ''Adventure Comics'' #389]].

* 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).

* Gorgon, one of the few [[Wolverine]] foes that outmatched him in everything Wolvie was good at, could turn people to stone just by looking at them. Unfortunately for Gorgon he was not one of those mutants with immunity to his own power. Wolverine defeated him by popping his shiny ''reflective'' claws at just the right moment.

== Live Action TV ==

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

** The Doctor defeated the angels by {{spoiler|having someone run into the TARDIS and letting the "angels" converge on it, and then dematerializing at the last second. The angels all turn to stone, because they're left standing in a circle ''looking at each other''.}}

** The [[Tie-in Novel|original novel]], ''The Stone Rose'', involves this happen on an involuntary basis to a certain Rose Tyler. {{spoiler|And later the Doctor.}}

** "The Five Doctors" involves a villain looking for Rassilon's secret of immortality. It turns out, though, that {{spoiler|the supposed "immortality" is a trap Rassilon laid for megalomaniacs. Borusa becomes immortal by being turned into a [[And I Must Scream|paralyzed, living stone face]] on the base of Rassilon's coffin.}}

** In The Big Bang [[Apocalypse How|all matter in every point in history in the universe is erased]] except for the Earth, and if not stopped in time all universes everywhere will have never existed. Several Daleks and Cybermen were present at Ground Zero, and as a temporary side-effect of their histories never existing are turned into stone after-images before being erased permanently.

* 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.

* Bob Bishop from ''[[Heroes (TV)|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".

** 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 ''[[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|Darkstalkers]]'' Vampire Savior has him defeating [[Ms. Fanservice|Morrigan]], and about to drink her blood. Cut to Dimitri's tower, him sitting on his throne, and a Statue of Morrigan. He states that she ''turned herself into stone'' to resist Dimitri's power. He goes on to state that [[Resistance Is Futile|resistence is futile]] and one day he'll reach into her closed mind, and wait forever, if need be. Giving us a rare example of self-imposed Taken For Granite. Given the ending, its doubtful she'll ever return to normal... [[Multiple Endings|at least in this ending]].

* 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.]]

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