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Portal Statue Pairs
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Since ancient times, mankind seems fascinated with creating pairs of impressive statuary to flank and "guard" gateways, archways, or entrances of important buildings or areas. They may stand silent vigil over the entrance to a Temple of Doom, an Interdimensional Portal, a Place of Power... or just the entrance to a city, plaza, library, or other important area. These edifices are meant to invoke a sense of awe and wonder, and perhaps also dread and introspection, upon those who pass between them. These can be actual Gate Guardians if they are weaponized. They may also be Landmarks of Lore, especially if they represent characters from some myth or legend, or memorials of great kings or rulers. (Why are they usually in pairs? Perhaps because we humans like a certain amount of Fearful Symmetry.) Not to be confused with Knights and Knaves, the classic puzzle where there are two portals, and two guardians (not always statues) that must be questioned which is the correct path. Examples |
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In Disney's Talespin, The lost city of Tenabulon has a giant pair of stone scarabs on either side of it's main entry. The wings of the scarabs function as the city's gates and will open or close depending on what notes are played on the control bells. | |
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In The Return of the King, there's the two Watchers of Cirith Ungol are grotesque, three-headed statues that flank the gate to the corrupted tower of Cirith Ungol. They're haunted by phantoms that repel trespassers with the force of their will and raise the alarm if anyone gets through. | |
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In the Peter Jackson film The Hobbit, the dwarven kingdom of Erebor is depicted as having two giant statues of dwarves standing on either side of its entrance. | |
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Hero of Sparta II has sphinx statues in the Egypt levels, showing up in pairs facing each other where they'll attempt frying you with their eyes if you can't run past them in time. Said level is a rather direct reference to The Neverending Story. | |
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In the Port of Gont in the EarthSea trilogy, the land entrance to the city is flanked by two dragon statues. | |
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In Animalympics, the path to the Animalympic Stadium is flanked by statues of past atheletes, ending with two elephant discus-throwers whose trunks form the arch of the main entrance. | |
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SCP Foundation entry SCP-531 consists of seven pairs of brass statues of Egyptian-style cats, approximately 2½ feet high. When facing each other, they are relatively benign, however persons near them experience an extreme aversion to passing between them, and as such this psychological barrier is a good deterrent to keeping people out of any rooms beyond. If however the line of sight between the two statues is broken, an observer will feel compelled to meet the gaze of one of the orphaned statues themselves. Once the gaze is met, they will be unable to break their gaze and will be physically transmuted into a duplicate SCP-531 over the course of approximately one hour. | |
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World of Warcraft: Two giant dwarf king statues flank the sides of the southern entrance of Loch Modan. The Dark Portal connecting the worlds of Azeroth and Draenor is flanked by reliefs of two hooded, looming figures, holding swords planted tip-first into the ground. (Who or what they represent never gets mentioned.) |
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Inuyasha: Two giant statues (Gozu and Mezu) guard the gate to the demon's netherworld and come to life whenever approached. They state that if anyone wants entry to the netherworld, they must first be slain, as Kagura found this out the hard way. The statues, however, let Sesshomaru pass through freely due to him owning the Tenseiga, a sword that has the ability to cut down anything that's not technically "alive". | |
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In the "Gathering" episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Yoda takes padawan younglings to the mysterious Crystal Cave of Ilum, where they will seek the khyber crystals to create their own lightsabers. The entrance to the caves is a large circular chamber with two giant statues of Jedi on either side. | |
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The entrance to the lost city of Belur in the Uncharted: The Lost Legacy video games features two giant statues of Ganesh flanking a waterfall. | |
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The Stormlight Archive: The legendary Oathgate teleporters look like empty platforms in the physical world, but in the Cognitive Realm, the Spren powering them appear as a pair of titanic Living Statues that float overhead. Crucially, they can grant or deny use of the Oathgate at will. | |
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In the series Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Great Gates of Azulon was a giant flaming net guarding the port of the capital city of the Fire Nation, supported by two giant dragon statues on either side and a giant statue of Azulon in the center. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: The card Guardians of Meletis depicts two giant statues of a past ruling couple flanking the river leading to the city they ruled. | |
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In Centaurworld, the Rift portal connecting the human world and Centaurworld is flanked by two statues of human women on the Centaur side. (On the human side, it's flanked by statues of two centaur women.) | |
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The Lord of the Rings: In The Fellowship of the Ring], the Argonath, also known as the Gate of Kings or the Pillars of the Kings, was a landmark on the northern edge of Gondor in representing two of the earliest kings of Gondor. In The Return of the King, there's the two Watchers of Cirith Ungol are grotesque, three-headed statues that flank the gate to the corrupted tower of Cirith Ungol. They're haunted by phantoms that repel trespassers with the force of their will and raise the alarm if anyone gets through. |
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In The Fellowship of the Ring], the Argonath, also known as the Gate of Kings or the Pillars of the Kings, was a landmark on the northern edge of Gondor in representing two of the earliest kings of Gondor. | |
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In The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, the door to Mycroft Holmes's study has two alcoves on either side of it, each with a bronze statue of a woman holding a clock. (These were later seen flanking W.C. Boggs's fireplace in Carry On at Your Convenience.) | |
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The statues at the entrance of the Final Valley in the Naruto series, flanking a waterfall, depict two antagonists of an ancient mythic battle that created the valley. | |
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The library in Between the Lions has two lion statues in front of its entrance (likely an homage to the New York City Library). | |
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The twin Art Deco statues in Batman Returns in Gotham City Plaza in front of City Hall (flanking the giant Christmas tree) invoke this (as well as being a nod to the statuary in New York's Rockefeller Plaza). | |
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In Pokémon: A pair of statues of a generic Pokémon, possibly modeled after Rhydon, flank the entrance to all of the Pokémon Gyms in every iteration of the Kanto and Sinnoh regions. In Pokemon Heart Gold And Soul Silver, the location preview for the Tin Tower shows the entrance flanked by two statues of the legendary Pokémon Ho-oh, which is eventually battled there. |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: The entrance to Armenelos is via a bridge whose pillars are formed of two gigantic statues, resembling Hellenistic sculptures. | |
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In King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!, the path leading up two Mordak's castle is flanked by two giant cobra statues. They're actually more than they appear, with a pair of glowing eyes that fire lightning bolts at any intruders. The only way to get past them is by using the crystal you managed to get from Queen Icebella's cave after you defeated the yeti. | |
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Twin battling stallions form an archway over the entryway to the Dothraki capital city, Vaes Dothrak, in Game of Thrones. | |
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Zuul and Vinz Klortho in Ghostbusters are definitely of the Gate Guardian variety, even able to come to life and attack people. | |
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The entrance to Kirkwall in Dragon Age II is flanked by two giant bronze statues of weeping slaves. This is because the city had historically been the main hub of slave trade for centuries during the heyday of the Tevinter Imperium, before the slaves finally rebelled and formed an independent city-state. The statues are a somber reminder of the city's dark past. | |
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In The Rise of Kylo Ren comic book series, Luke Skywalker, Ben Solo, and Lor San Tekka visited a Jedi outpost on Elphrona. The comic depicts it as looking much like the temple at Petra in Jordan, except that there were two giant Jedi statues on either side of the entrance. | |
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There are two lion statues in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade at the entrance to the Temple of the Sun that harbors the Holy Grail. | |
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The Lord of the Rings The Argonath, also known as the Gate of Kings or the Pillars of the Kings, was a landmark on the northern edge of Gondor in representing two of the earliest kings of Gondor. The Two Watchers at the gate of Cirith Ungol were of the Gate Guardian variety. |
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The two sphinxes of the Southern Oracle in The Neverending Story are weaponized, Gate Guardian versions. | |
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