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[[File:monolith.jpg|thumb|350px|Set up a few hundred more and we'll have the hugest dominoes course in the world!]]
A large black slab of 1:4:9 proportions,<ref>there are more proportions than that if you are capable of looking at it in more than three dimensions</ref>
Compare [[Also Sprach Zarathustra]].
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* Via the character of Machine Man, who originated in the ''2001'' [[Marvel Comics|Marvel comic book continuation]] and later in ''[[Nextwave]]'', The Monolith exists in the [[Marvel Universe]].
* The Watchers' transport gateways look like this in ''[[Earth X]]''. Eventually it begins being Lampshaded.
* One issue of [[The Tick (comic)|''The Tick'']]'s comic book had him and Arthur versus a town full of hick [[Mad Scientist
== [[Film]] ==
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* A very obvious parody of the opening sequence to 2001 appears in'' [[Startopia]]'', but with the bone being replaced by a doughnut.
* [[Warhammer 40000|Don't stand too close, they bear a great evil within...]]
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** The Pylons on Cadia are a more subtle reference, although they have a clear purpose (stabilising space near a gaping scar in reality), one of the background materials has character outline a theory that may as well be the plot of 2001.
* The video game series ''[[Xenosaga]]'' also features several Monolith-like objects.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The [[Web Serial Novel|blog novel]] ''[http://fartago.blogspot.com Fartago]'' is about a tribe of cavemen reacting to life since the arrival of
* The ''[[Protectors of the Plot Continuum]]'' have a much larger version of the monolith in the Tomb of the Unknown PPC Agent; it stretches all the way up to the ceiling, and every victim of the [[Secret Police|DIS]] has their name written on it in ''[[The Lord of the Rings|ithildin]]''. The Tomb itself used to be DIS Central, until it was destroyed and the memorial built out of the remains.
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