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Star Scraper
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A seriously tall building. So tall, it may literally reach into outer space. So tall, it would be impossible according to real-life physics as we know it. Common in Speculative Fiction, these buildings tower over their surroundings or may be part of a city of similar buildings. Indeed, it is not uncommon for them to be a single city in their own right. To qualify as a Starscraper, a building must be clearly over 1,000 metres tall, or around 3,281 feet tall (for reference, a typical story is about 3.3 metres (11 feet), although some stories can be larger than others). The tallest building on Earth, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is 828 metres tall (or 2,717 feet tall). For a city entirely made of those, see Skyscraper City. Compare Space Elevator, which is an elevator designed to extend past the atmosphere. When the Starscraper is the home of a villain, it becomes an Evil Tower of Ominousness. |
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Adventure Time: In the Season 6 episode "The Tower", Finn builds an enormous tower reaching into space with a psychic arm in order to find his father and get revenge for him causing Finn to lose his right arm. | |
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The Fang, the fortress of the Space Wolves, is so high, spaceships dock to its peak. The complex is carved out from the inside of a naturally-occurring mountain(!). The air circulation currents running from bottom to top of the mountain are strong enough to be used as a transportation network between levels. | |
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Super Mario Galaxy 2: The skyboxes of Slipsand Galaxy and Clockwork Ruins Galaxy contain many absurdly high towers in the distance whose floors cannot even be seen and they tower way above the navigatable area of the galaxy. | |
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The Tower of Akenash in Styx: Master of Shadows looks to be about the same height as today's tallest buildings, but it is significantly wider: the interior vertically houses a medieval city, and the horizontal distances are closer to that of a town than a building. Furthermore, the Tower still extends some distance underground. | |
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In the ending credits of the anime adaptation of Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, Yachiyo rides an elevator. According to the floor numbers, the building she's in is at least 2,611 stories tall. The tower is actually a metaphor for her lifespan as a magical girl, and the floor number is the number of days she survived — just a little above 7 years. | |
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Buildings with hundreds of floors are common in the Honor Harrington universe. Justified by the ubiquity of counter-grav technology. | |
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Arthur C. Clarke's 3001 contains four towers that reach from the earth to geostationary orbit. Which means they're about 36 thousand kilometres tall — nearly three times the diameter of the planet itself — and several kilometres in diameter. "Seriously tall" doesn't begin to describe it. The engineering problem of actually making something that big and not collapsing under their own weight was solved by constructing them largely from diamond, which was harvested from space (huge amounts of it were ejected from Jupiter in 2010). They also double as space elevators and people lived on every floor to create vertical communities. They also link up to a single ring structure at geostationary orbit that completely circles the world to form a massive spaceport. It was unfinished even a thousand years in the future, and Frank Poole (who was recovered and revived at this point) privately doubted that it ever could be finished. | |
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While not quite an extremely tall building, the starscrapers in Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy are named such — as they are skyscrapers IN SPACE. Hanging off the outside edge of rotating space habitats. Planet-bound versions play the trope straight; they're even designed to bend slightly to reduce the strain from crosswinds. | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: In Parallel Works 8, Earth was shown with conical drill-themed buildings that reached the stars during the first war between Lordgenome and the Anti-Spirals. | |
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Kirby: In Kirby 64, the second planet Rock Star's stage 4 and the subsequent boss take place in an impossibly grand octaeder-shaped building. The final part takes place in a tower that reaches so far into the sky that it's higher than the clouds. Nutty Noon, the fifth level of Kirby's Return to Dream Land, takes place in a tower that extends high above Planet Popstar. It eventually extends far past the clouds themselves — even midway through, you can see the curvature of the planet in the background — by the end, you're looking at far-off planets amid the distant reaches of the cosmos. |
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Eberron: Sharn, the City of Towers, is built in a region with Reality Bleed from a dimension that enhances flight and levitation magic. Its towers rise up to a mile high, with the ultra-prestigious floating district of the Skyway above even them. Most of the transit takes place with flying vehicles such as Soarsleds and Skybarges. | |
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Nutty Noon, the fifth level of Kirby's Return to Dream Land, takes place in a tower that extends high above Planet Popstar. It eventually extends far past the clouds themselves — even midway through, you can see the curvature of the planet in the background — by the end, you're looking at far-off planets amid the distant reaches of the cosmos. | |
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Toriko: The Gourmet Tower, a massive tower filled with gourmet eateries, so big it has Airships to bring people to the higher floors of the tower! | |
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Oblivion (2013). The protagonist flies his Future Copter from a Sky Tower located atop a 3000-foot spindle. Another such tower is simply placed on a high mountain. | |
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Half-Life: Full Life Consequences featured "the tower that was big onto the sun" that the Dark Man and Combines resided in. Whether squirrelking meant the Citadel or a different building is up for debate, but the ICTON Garry's Mod production took it literally and used the Citadel model to stretch from ground to Sun in the skybox. | |
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Super Mario 63 has the central spire of Bowser's Castle, which is so tall that it reaches into space. | |
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While there's no definitive height given for the buildings in Judge Dredd, the 2012 reboot Dredd places the height of the mega-structures dotting the landscape as over a kilometre tall. | |
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Thunderbirds Are Go: One episode has an architect buld one of these in order to break a world record, only to discover that someone beat him to it. In response to this, he installs elevator lifts to raise the building even higher, only for it to overtax the electric grid and cause a fire, necesitating International Rescue's help. By the end of the episode, the observation deck is cut off, putting the architect back at square one. | |
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Tower of God: The Tower has more than 134 floors, with each floor covering an area the size of North America, and the whole of the known universe exists within it. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV: The tower called Heaven-On-High in Othard. It actually disappears into the clouds. | |
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The Shard in Mirror's Edge Catalyst is 8000 feet (2.4 km or 1.5 miles) tall, more than four times the height of its original Mirror's Edge counterpart. | |
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In Homestuck, players of SBURB (or SGRUB) alter each others' houses with the game. Since one of the main goals is to reach increasingly high-up Gates in the sky, their houses eventually become these as a matter of necessity. Examples include John's house, Terezi's, and Jade's. Later panels show that these towers are nearly as tall as the Baby Planet's diameter in the late game. Even later on, they are tall enough to dwarf their planet. | |
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Parodied in Who Framed Roger Rabbit with the Toon Hotel in Toontown which according to the lobby elevator is "450 floors" even though it still looks like it exceeds that. | |
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Tartarus in Persona 3 has 262 floorsnote The reason why this is a spoiler is because when you reach the 164th floor, on top of the Harabah block, the game gives you the false impression that you reached the top. You spend most of the game climbing it, and fight the final boss on top of the tower. | |
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On Lua in Warframe, there are six Orokin-designed spires and three circumlunar rings connecting them, which are big enough to be seen with the naked eye from Earth's surface once Lua is shifted back from the Void in "The Second Dream". | |
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Steelport in Saints Row: The Third has some belonging to the Syndicate. No heights or floor counts are explicitly given. They tower as far over normal skyscrapers as the normal skyscrapers tower over lesser buildings, with the tallest of them, the gigantic red-and-black Syndicate Tower, measuring in at approximately 965 metres, about 130 metres taller than the Burj. | |
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Ringworld by Larry Niven: The party pays a brief visit to the homeworld of the alien Puppeteers. It is mentioned that "on Earth few buildings were more than a mile high, here none were shorter." | |
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Batman Beyond. The title sequence highlights the scale by initially showing Old Gotham, a city whose skyscrapers are on par with a modern-day metropolis before Neo Gotham comes into focus and dwarfs the older buildings in comparison. In addition to public transportation which travels from building to building, there are also elevators that go up and down as essentially vertical trams. | |
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In Altered Carbon, the ultra-wealthy Meths live in gigantic, architecturally impossible towers that pierce the world's perpetual cloud cover by several hundred metres, letting them enjoy perfectly sunny weather every day without the filthy masses toiling in the Wretched Hives on the ground offending their sensibilities. | |
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The eponymous Ar tonelico actually reaches out into space. All of humanity lives on it or one of two similar towers, since they're the only things tall enough to reach over the cloud Sea of Death enveloping Ar Ciel. | |
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The Color Classics cartoon "Greedy Humpty Dumpty" has Humpty Dumpty as the king of Fairytaleland, who orders the wall around his castle be built high enough to reach the sun, in the mistaken belief that it's made of gold. It does not go well for him when he actually gets there. | |
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Hero: 108: In one episode, High Roller plans to conquer the Moon, but can’t figure out how to get there, not least because he can’t solve his city’s traffic problems without creating housing problems and vice versa. When Woo the Wise suggests he simply build taller and slimmer buildings for everyone to live in, he decides to use this scheme to instead travel to the Moon. But when he gets there, he finds that there is nothing there to conquer. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Tower of the Gods in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is so tall it can be seen from almost anywhere on the map. In Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, as you throw more Rupees into the pool on top of the Rupee Tower, it grows taller, allowing you to fly out to more distant locations. Eventually, it becomes so tall it goes right through the freaking moon... just in time for the final showdown with Uncle Rupee. |
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Halo: Inverted in Halo 4: On the artificial "shield world" of Requiem, giant Forerunner structures hang down from the ceiling in the sky, dropping down to nearly ground level. It's actually rather striking, in a beautiful way, since because the "ceiling" is so high that it can't really be seennote (the ceiling is actually visible, but is so distant that one has to look carefully beyond the clouds above to see its texture), the overall effect, visually, is of unimaginably tall skyscrapers that are floating off the ground. The Forerunner Saga novels mention that the Precursors built towers that essentially bridged planets. They were also completely indestructible excluding a Halo's main weapon. |
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One What If? article discusses a billion-storey tower in "Billion-Storey Building". The tower is so tall it extends ten times past the Moon's orbit. | |
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The Tower of Salvation in Tales of Symphonia reaches "unto the heavens", and the player never sees its top from the outside. When the player reaches around the topmost areas of the tower, you can actually see space outside and there's even areas that have no gravity, turning them into a variation of Frictionless Ice. | |
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The Cardinal's tower in Mutant Chronicles is so high that on the top floor, gravity is negligible. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: One of the many things the title characters built and lost in a single day comes from "The Doof Side of the Moon", where they built a starscraper that touched the Earth's moon. When Doofenshmirtz rotates the moon, he ends up dragging the starscraper out of the ground before Linda can see it. | |
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Eureka Seven: Most people live near or in some very, very tall tower-cities. | |
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Gargoyles has the Eyrie Building in NY. With the Wyvern castle built on top of it, the building can touch the clouds. | |
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The Tower of Bab-il from Final Fantasy IV has its foot in the underworld (which is deep enough that airships have ample sailing space above its mountains), crosses the surface through a huge hole, and culminates high in the sky, way higher than the tallest mountains on the world map. | |
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The Last Redoubt/Great Redoubt from The Night Land — the main pyramid is seven miles tall, with a 3/4 mile observation tower on top of that. | |
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The Dark Tower in Somewhither rises to a height three times as long as the circumference of the Earth (which means it's approximately one-third of the way to the Moon.) | |
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This is the goal of the Rabbids in Rabbids Go Home. They want to build a tower of junk that reaches all the way to the moon, so go on a mad robbery spree to take everything not nailed down to throw onto the pile. | |
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In Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, as you throw more Rupees into the pool on top of the Rupee Tower, it grows taller, allowing you to fly out to more distant locations. Eventually, it becomes so tall it goes right through the freaking moon... just in time for the final showdown with Uncle Rupee. | |
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The Kobold Tower in Shippu Mahou Daisakusen is a tower so tall that it extends into orbital altitudes. | |
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Ourus from Jupiter Ascending has buildings which extend into space. | |
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The infinite tower where The Vertical World takes place stretches onwards in both directions with seemingly no end. Part of Ruska's goal is figuring out what's at the bottom. Turns out there is a "bottom", but it's not connected to any kind of ground — and more, there's a "true bottom" which represents the edge of the world's reality. | |
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The Tower of the Gods in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is so tall it can be seen from almost anywhere on the map. | |
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The plastic administrations building of Shachihata, in OFF is so tall that the elevator has you manually type in a five-digit floor number between 00000 and 99999. Yes, including the basement and secret floornote Typing in "99999" takes you to the roof, rather than an actual floor, the building has a whopping 100,000 floors. And that's not even counting the fact that at least one floor has several floors of its own. That's quite a lot of floors for a building that merely imports parcels of plastic. | |
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In The Bible, mankind wanted to stay together and build a city to dwell in rather than disperse across the earth as God instructed. They included plans to build a tower that reached not only the stars but heaven itself. Naturally this didn't sit too well with God and He put the kibosh on these plans by confusing the language of mankind (which until that point had only consisted of a single language, universally understood and spoken by everyone). | |
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Simon Whittlebone (driver of Mr. Slamm) in Twisted Metal 2 is an architect who dreams to build a "structure so grand it will reach the gates of heaven" and was fired for his rather unhealthy obsession with it. Finishing the game as him has Calypso give his construction vehicle the power to build much faster and, within days, he has singlehandedly created a tower that reaches above the clouds and even is starting to reach into outer space. In his mad ramblings about him being God, Simon ends up falling from the roof of his tower and, as Calypso narrates, has left a permanent dent in the street where he landed. | |
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The Forerunner Saga novels mention that the Precursors built towers that essentially bridged planets. They were also completely indestructible excluding a Halo's main weapon. | |
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Octan Tower in The LEGO Movie has an "infinitieth floor" where the Kragle is kept. Also the building is so tall that there is a loading bay for cargo spaceships. | |
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The Sunspire in Unreal shows up in the skyboxes of several maps before you actually reach it. There are seven or eight regularly spaced levels near the entrance, another two near the top, and there is a lift that rides at such high speeds the Doppler effect comes into play, which you spend ten solid seconds on before you reach the other end. And that is because it's only the top half of the spire that's built into. Its purpose? To send you even higher up to a Floating Continent. | |
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Spearpoint, the last human city, and its counterpart on the other side of the world in Terminal World stretches from the ground all the way past the planet's atmosphere, tapering continuously. One character theorizes that they are a form of Space Elevator from before the fall of mankind and the creation of the Zones. They are hollow, and lead to a portal inside the planet for starships to use — hence why they extend out of the atmosphere. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Fang, the fortress of the Space Wolves, is so high, spaceships dock to its peak. The complex is carved out from the inside of a naturally-occurring mountain(!). The air circulation currents running from bottom to top of the mountain are strong enough to be used as a transportation network between levels. |
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In the first episode of Cyber City Oedo 808, Sengoku and company must deal with a hostage situation in a building tall enough to reach into low Earth orbit. | |
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In Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, the Obelisk, which is said to be the place in the Vortex World closest to Kagutsuchi, is 142 stories tall. Near the end of the game, the Demi-Fiend calls down the tower of Kagutsuchi, which comes down on top of the Obelisk, and the resulting tower is 666 stories tall. Luckily, you don't have to visit every floor, and some elevators allow you to bypass dozens or even hundreds of floors. | |
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The Thief and the Cobbler: ZigZag, the Evil Chancellor, has a tower that is ridiculously tall. The minaret with the three golden balls is supposed to be the tallest in the city but seems fairly normal in comparison.note Technically speaking, Zigzag's tower is outside of the city. | |
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In Sourcery, the New Tower, built of solidified magic, temporarily rose a mile above Ankh-Morpork. | |
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Dragon Ball: Korin Tower is so tall that it takes days to get to the top, and not even aircraft can reach it. This is part of the challenge that Korin himself sets to people that seek the Sacred Water: to climb to his residence at the pinnacle of the tower without falling off by accident or from exhaustion. Korin's Tower is linked via the Power Pole to the even higher Kami's Lookout. | |
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The Destiny Tower in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers and Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon consists of 99 floors, and wild Steelix live there, so every floor is at least ten metres in height. Therefore, it's safe to assume that the tower is a thousand metres high at minimum. | |
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The geography of Dungeon Fighter Online includes two continents that may be part of complete worlds, one of which happens to be above the other. (The bottom's sky and clouds eventually turn into the top's ocean and abyssal fogbanks... somehow.) There's a tower connecting them, which players will find fairly early on. While the playable area of the tower isn't that big, it's implied that as players work their way through the multiple in-tower dungeons, they're unlocking access to rapid transit systems and skipping over most of what really is a monumental climb. | |
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In Updraft, the bone towers which constitute the city all reach well above the clouds, and their lower levels are essentially abandoned; as far as their inhabitants are concerned, the above-cloud portions of the towers are the whole world. | |
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The Neo Arcadia Tower in Mega Man Zero 3 used to be a space elevator connecting Earth and the Moon. It doesn't go quite that far anymore, thanks to the Maverick Wars, but its top floor is still high enough for the curvature of the Earth to be visible. | |
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The mysterious tower in The Place Promised in Our Early Days is so tall it surpasses clouds and mountains. Built in Hokkaido, it is visible from Tokyo on a clear day. That's a distance of more than 800 kilometres as the crow flies. For Europeans, that's more than double the distance between London and Paris. For Americans, that's one-fifth of the way between New York and Los Angeles. | |
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The setting of The Towering Inferno, which is set aflame by faulty wiring, is treated as one of these, even though it's only about half the necessary 1,000+ metres. It's "the tallest building in the world" at 138 stories and 1,673 feet (505 metres) tall, which, as of July 2014, would only put it at #5. | |
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Sword Art Online: Castle Aincrad. So big, it's essentially a world within a world (though it's actually the playable world of the fictional SAO game, it does get ported to Alfheim in the second arc). The largest floor is 10 kilometres in diameter, and each one is 100 metres high. Given that there are 100 floors, that makes it 10 kilometres high. But then, that's not counting the fact that it all floats in the sky. The anime also depicts a massive structure extending almost as far down, below the first floor. The Alicization arc has Central Cathedral, which is 100 floors tall and is easily the tallest structure in the Underworld. Kirito and Eugeo are imprisoned in the basement and are forced to fight their way to the top. |
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Gods of Egypt: Set's obelisk is 2,220 cubits tall, which makes it even taller than the Burj Khalifa. | |
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In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, the Hoenn region has the Sky Pillar. Its exact height is never clarified, but from the summit, the player can only see the blue sky and clouds drifting by below. One wonders how such a tall structure has managed to remain hidden for so long. The Pillar may or may not be of human origin; little of its history is ever given. The player may battle Rayquaza at the summit. | |
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The tower of Asframore in The Wandering is an incredibly high one. Its Babel inferences are right there in the story, as Neshi and his team of Jerusalemites find plaques with Scripture quotes from the Book of Genesis. The purpose of its height was to set up a demonic-looking statue in defiance of the Almighty. | |
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While its height is never mentioned, the model for Barad-dûr (Sauron's fortress) in The Lord of the Rings movies would be over a kilometre high if scaled up to full human scale. Arguably justified since it takes a literal divine being to keep it together and it promptly toppled over after he died. note Supplemental material indicates that it's a kilometre and a half high. | |
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One of the arenas in Unreal Tournament, DM-Morpheus.note Inspired by the Jump Program scene from The Matrix, hence the name. Successors also appear in Unreal Tournament 2003 (DM-Plunge) and 2004 (DM-Morpheus3). To quote the map description: | |
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The Clamp office building in Gremlins 2: The New Batch. One scene shows a jet airliner passing by. | |
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