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Apparently, they built the thing out of [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]], because it's also a major weirdness[[Weirdness magnetMagnet]]. If the [[Big Bad]] or [[The Dragon]] are going to attack, they'll attack [['''Tokyo Tower]]''' at the precise moment that the protagonists are visiting it. If the [[Ordinary High School Student]] and her friends are going to be [[Trapped in Another World|sucked into another dimension]], it'll happen while they're visiting Tokyo Tower. [[Kaiju]] and [[Robeast|Robeasts]]s seem to [[Monumental Damage|knock it over or blow it up]] on a regular basis. The government might secretly [[Weaponized Landmark|turn it into a superweapon.]] In fact, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100623131011/http://www.tapanime.com/fandomfun/humor/animeguide.php Livin' and Lovin' In The Anime Universe: A Basic Guide]'' warns, "Try to stay away from Tokyo Tower. It appears to mark an inter-universal nexus."

[[Truth in Television|The top was bent by a powerful earthquake]] on Friday, March 11th11, 2011.

* ''[[CLAMP]]'' often features Tokyo Tower as the site of an important event.:

** Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu are sucked away to Cephiro from [[Tokyo Tower]] at the start of ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]''. Their schools were holding student trips there on exactly the same day. {{spoiler|Once the first part brings a [[Downer Ending]], the girls are brought back there to square one. At the beginning of part 2 (at least in the anime), the three go to the Tower on their own to speak about their experiences... and are brought back to Cephiro to help deal with the choosing of a new Pillar.}}

** The [[Alternate Continuity|various versions]] of ''[[X 1999]]'' are fond of having the climactic battle there. (In [[The Movie]], even more [[Anvilicious|Anviliciously]]ly, the magical shield Kamui generates there is a glowing golden sphere which visually evokes Japan's identity as the land of the Rising Sun.)

* The tower is the key to accessing deadly doomsday weapons on the moon base in ''[[Please Save My Earth]]''.

* In the anime ''[[Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto]]'' (''Someday's Dreamers]]''), the Tokyo Tower is 'bent' by a girl's magical powers. This was in a desperate attempt to impress someone, so she couldn't muster the power to fix it. Fortunately, her tutor apparently can, as the tower appears intact in subsequent episodes.

* The [[Tokyo Tower]] is seen in both the [[Anime]] and live action [[Film]] versions of ''[[Death Note]]''.

* Lampshaded in ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' - the Nishizawa Radio Tower may look nothing like the Tokyo Tower, but does all the things the Tokyo towerTower would in other anime, etc. One time Giroro gets warped into a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where he finds a derelict Nishizawa radio tower in ruins. {{spoiler|Turns out the tower was merely obsoleted and abandoned along with the surrounding land, and there's three other towers not far away that have also undergone this.}}

* In ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'', X-Brawn drives to the top of the tower to chuck a bomb into space.

* It gets ''knocked into orbit'' along with a monster in ''[[Super Dreadnought Girl 4946]]'', and manages to impale the monster when they hit the moon.

* The Tokyo Tower was seen in ''[[G Gundam]]'' being destroyed by Domon Kasshu to root out the Devil Gundam's minions, or rather the mind-controlled Shuffle Alliance members.

* The tower is also featurdfeatured in the [[Hana no Ko Lunlun]] Japan OAV. Togenishia and Yabooki are seen hanging out there alongside some highschoolhigh-school kids.

* ''[[Kamen Rider Kabuto]]'', Tokyo Tower is located near where many of the big events happen and is even used on occasion. For example, "a one-of-a-kind tulip". In the AU movie, it's even bent down from the explosion in Shibuya.

* The setting of ''[[Makai ToshiToushi Sa GaSaGa]]'' consists of four "worlds" connected by a huge tower, one of which (the "World of Ruins") resembles a devastated Tokyo cityscape, with the tower represented on the world map by a likeness of the Tokyo Tower. (So, the Tokyo Tower actually does "mark an inter-universal nexus" in this game.)

* The web comic ''[[Okashina Okashi]]'' ("Strange Candy") does a major [[Lampshade Hanging]] of this in its opening episodes by doing an [[Everyone Meets Everyone]] where six different groups from six different alternate universes all get sucked into an interdimensional vortex from their own universe's version of [[Tokyo Tower]].