The Monument Mythos
 | This Work page is a stub. You can help All The Tropes by expanding it. If you have checked or updated this page and found the content to be suitable, please remove this notice. |
 | This page needs visual enhancement. You can help All The Tropes by finding a high-quality image or video to illustrate the topic of this page. |
The Monument Mythos is an analog horror web original series featuring a number of Eldritch locations across the United States the viewer is likely to already know as national landmarks.
Available on Mister Manticore’s YouTube channel, and ran from 2020 to 2023. A playlist can be found here.
Tropes used in The Monument Mythos include:
- Alternate History: Many things in this history of the United States occur differently than in real life.
- Big Applesauce: The Libertylurker resided beneath the Statue of Liberty.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: The corner folk are seemingly capable of traveling between and jumping between planes.
- Body Horror: Riley Tillon had his internal organs folded.
- Everyone Is Satan in Hell: Those opposing James Dean liken him to Satan. A poster is shown saying "JAMES DEAN IS SATAN" in DEANDEMOCRACY.
- Historical Domain Character: Many make an appearance or are referenced.
- Ulysses S. Grant, and Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the designer of the Statue of Liberty in LIBERTYLURKER.
- Ronald Reagan in LINCOLNLOOKER
- James Dean, Richard Nixon, George Wallace, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, and Stanley Kubrick appear or are mentioned in DEAMDEMOCRACY.
- Landmarking the Hidden Base: The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, contains the Libertylurker and effectively a mass grave.
- Living Statue: An odd variety. The American government puts someone inside the Lincoln monument, where they can only peer out of his eyes be fed an odd suit. At least once the wrong person is chosen.
- Loads and Loads of Characters: Pulls in many Historical Domain Characters.
- Monumental Damage: Played with.
- Typically inverted, bad things happen to people at monuments.
- On August 7th, 2003 Mount Rushmore is defaced with graffiti.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: It takes the Americans four years to stop making changes to the plans of the Pedestal for the Statue of Liberty.
- Our Presidents Are Different: James Dean becomes the 37th president of the United States.
- The American president has the authority to designate someone a Lincolnlooker without a trial for as long as they are president.
- President Evil: What some believe James Dean to be.
- Rushmore Refacement: Happens to Mount Rushmore at the end of RUSHMOREREVENGE, though it’s more of a distortion of existing heads than an ego-trip.
- Weaponized Landmark: A odd example more about suffering than destruction. The Lincoln Memorial is used as an instrument of torture for one person the President of the United States just doesn’t like.