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* ''[[Doonesbury]]'' has some portions take place in and around the White House, or uses exterior shots if Trudeu hasn't settled on a symbol for the [[Invisible President]].
* Blown up twice in ''[[Give Me Liberty]]''.
* Shows up from time to time in [[Captain America (comics)]] comics.
* During the time in [[Superman]] comics when [[Lex Luthor]] was president, the white house showed up a lot.
== Film ==
 
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* ''[[Commander in Chief]]''.
* ''Veep'', the upcoming [[Trans Atlantic Equivalent|American adaptation]] of ''[[The Thick of It]]'', is to be set at the office of the ''Vice'' President. While the VP has his own residence (Number One Observatory Circle), that is almost exclusively a residence, and his office tends to be in the West Wing, so this show will probably be set there.
* [[Cory in The House]] had the The White House as it's main setting.
 
== Theater ==
 
* Much of the second act of ''[[Of Thee I Sing]]''.
 
== Video Game ==
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** ''[[Duke Nukem|Duke it out in D.C.]]'', an [[Expansion Pack]] in which [[Excuse Plot|the president has been kidnapped by aliens, are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?]]
** ''Prime Target'', a game based on the ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]''-engine in which a senator has been murdered by [[Western Terrorists]] on the orders of [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Corrupt Corporate Executives]] as part of a coverup by the pharmaceutical industry, and as her friend, you avenge her and expose them by [[One-Man Army|singlehandedly killing everyone]]. [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|There are ninjas involved]].
*** Oddly, this game averts the [[Moral Dissonance]] trope - when you find the senator halfway through the first level, you [[Exact Eavesdropping|overhear a conversation]] where the CCE's plan to frame you for the crime instead of their previous plan - "After all, who are they going to believe? A senator, or a guy off the street who just killed half a dozen men?"
** ''[[Deus Ex]]'', a tactical stealth game, was originally going to have a level requiring you to infiltrate the White House. Sadly, it ended up on the cutting room floor.
** Subverted in ''[[Fallout]] 3'': While the Capitol building, National Mall, an many other places are all intact and explorable, the Whitehouse proper is bombed beyond recognition, and bathed in radiation.
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** Although {{spoiler|a former resident ''is...''}}
* The ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2'' level [[Military Alphabet|Whiskey Hotel]] features a [[Ranger|Army Ranger]] assault on the captured White House.
* ''[[Command and& Conquer]]'' games feature the White House with some fequency.
** In the Nod ending of ''Tiberan Dawn'', you can target the White House for an Ion Cannon strike.
** White House appears the Washtington DC missions in both Soviet and Allied Campaigns in ''Red Alert 2''.
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== Web Original ==
 
* In the [[Alternate History]] ''[[Decades of Darkness]]'', it is burned down by the Halifax Powers (Britain and New England) and rebuilt in the new capital of Knoxville, Tennessee.
 
== Western Animation ==