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The Monolith
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A large black slab of 1:4:9 proportions,note there are more proportions than that if you are capable of looking at it in more than three spatial dimensions placed in reference to the Monoliths from 2001: A Space Odyssey. (The original monoliths were ancient, mysterious, and bizarrely powerful.) One of the Stock Parodies. Compare Also sprach Zarathustra. See also Sinister Geometry. Not to be confused with the DC Comics character, a heroic golem; the Marvel Comics character called The Living Monolith, who's an X-Men villain; Monolith the top-down shooter; The Monolith Monsters; Monolith Soft; or Monolith Productions. |
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Tread Marks' "Moon" level has an enormous, pitch black monolith in the center of the map. | |
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The Black Club weapon in Kid Icarus: Uprising is basically a monolith on a stick. | |
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A very obvious parody of the opening sequence to 2001 appears in Startopia, but with the bone being replaced by a doughnut. | |
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A reoccurring character/phenomenon in Station V3. | |
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Checkerboard Nightmare featured an verminous infestation of monoliths◊ during 2002: | |
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One Foot in the Grave parodied the "ape discovering tools" scene, with a new fridge as the monolith, and styrofoam packing formers as the bones being smashed by the elderly protagonist. | |
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In The Labyrinth of Time, the Monolith can be seen half-buried on the moon through a window in the Lunar Museum. | |
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In the Star Trek: Enterprise parody "Farce Contact", Hoshi Sato reaches out to touch the Monolith which promptly topples over onto Captain Archer's foot. In retaliation, his beagle takes a piss on a billion years worth of alien technology. | |
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In Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space, the mysterious black monolith that was orbiting Jupiter now serves as the President of Earth's coffee table. | |
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An episode of The Simpsons opens with a parody of the Dawn of Man sequence. While the other apes start developing tools after making contact with the monolith, the Homer Simpson ape simply reclines on it to take a nap. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the name of the computer on the Tanker is MONORITH. The tanker itself is called "Discovery". | |
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Mischief Makers: The Emperor usually appears in the form of a monolith with golden glyphs that vaguely resemble a human form drawn on it, as well as a single red gemstone-like eye. It's just a disguise. The Emperor is actually human. | |
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In Monster Rancher, there is a monster called 'Monol' with telepathic communication, ancient secrets, a deep voice and a story to tell. | |
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They debuted in Epic Battle Fantasy 3, appearing in Volcano Peak and The Rift as incredibly dangerous foes. | |
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Epic Battle Fantasy 4 initially featured it exclusively as a summon which could be found in the Waste Disposal Plant. The Battle Mountain update reintroduced them as a Mini-Boss in the titular area. | |
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Epic Battle Fantasy 5 reintroduced them as high-level foes in regular gameplay, with a much larger version, the Cosmic Gigalith, serving as the penultimate boss. They end up playing a major role in the plot, acting as the primary tool of the Big Bad and a source of powerful technology for Lance's forces. | |
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Community - in Biology 101, Jeff, exiled from the study group, is knocked out with monkey gas chasing Chang through the air vents. He comes to in the final scene of 2001, in a bare, bright white study room. He sees himself eating his cel phone with a knife and fork, then as Pierce, then as Leonard in bed pointing at the Monolith, represented by the study desk sat up on end. | |
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LEGO Island 2 had a monolith on Ogel Island with monkeys in space suits dancing around it. | |
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In the Belgian comic Le Grand Pouvoir du Chninkel, the creator god U'n appears in the form of a monolith. Or rather, since the end hints this comic was a prequel to 2001, U'n is the monolith. | |
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When Animaniacs made fun of 2001, the monolith appeared first as a television set, then as a remote. | |
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In Neon Genesis Evangelion, SEELE keeps in contact with NERV via monolith-like holograms when the organization's members want to remain concealed...or when they just want to be sinister and unnerving. By the time of Rebuild of Evangelion, in line with their Ancient Conspiracy atmosphere, the council are adapted into actual living monoliths, which makes defeating them as simple as turning them off. | |
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The Bureau X Com Declassified: Titan is a mid-boss that deploys as a floating monolith, then immediately transforms into a saucer that fires death rays. | |
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The Science of Discworld has a large black object that gives information to apes... but it turns out to be a chalkboard. | |
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A Bonkers episode in Raw Toonage has him flying by a monolith who says "Dave, is that you Dave?". Bonkers replies "No, wrong movie". | |
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In Asura's Wrath, random Monolith-like structures pop in the background of the fight against Chakravartin. | |
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Hidden among several sculptures in a museum, in The Day the World Broke. | |
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Shows up in a Spitting Image sketch, being interviewed by Barry Norman. | |
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In Monster Rancher, there are monsters called Monols. Guess what they look like. | |
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2001 is one of Metal Gear's recurring Stock Shout-Outs, so monoliths appear a couple of times: In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the name of the computer on the Tanker is MONORITH. The tanker itself is called "Discovery". In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, GW, a computer influencing human development, is seen to be a huge, elegantly-illuminated black slab following the 1:4:9 ratio. |
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In episode 13 of A Certain Scientific Railgun, the girls went to a swimsuit photo shoot, complete with a holodeck to provide proper backgrounds for the shoot - which promptly glitched out and placed them on the Moon, complete with the Monolith and Also sprach Zarathustra. | |
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Featured in SimEarth as a tool to accelerate a species' development to sapience. | |
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It shows up in one of the endings of Please, Don't Touch Anything 3D. | |
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The Epic Battle Fantasy series has Cosmic Monoliths, black rectangular prisms covered in Tron Lines: They debuted in Epic Battle Fantasy 3, appearing in Volcano Peak and The Rift as incredibly dangerous foes. Epic Battle Fantasy 4 initially featured it exclusively as a summon which could be found in the Waste Disposal Plant. The Battle Mountain update reintroduced them as a Mini-Boss in the titular area. Epic Battle Fantasy 5 reintroduced them as high-level foes in regular gameplay, with a much larger version, the Cosmic Gigalith, serving as the penultimate boss. They end up playing a major role in the plot, acting as the primary tool of the Big Bad and a source of powerful technology for Lance's forces. |
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In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, GW, a computer influencing human development, is seen to be a huge, elegantly-illuminated black slab following the 1:4:9 ratio. | |
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Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! has a monolith you can interact with in Stanton's Liver, although it requires a little bit of looking and maneuverability to get there. Running into it leads you to some nice loot chests and a a very loud Jump Scare. | |
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Zombidle: One of Bob the Necromancer's allies is called "Carl the Monolith", and is pretty much based on one of these. A being who's hand-forged in the deepest layers of Hell and Made of Evil, he's also a Tagalong Kid with a goofy grin, kid's cap, and schoolbag, and is also as annoying as one. In-game, he doesn't fight, but he boosts the damage of all of Bob's minions by a factor of 3 multiplicatively per level. | |
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In homage to Aaron's origin, the Watchers' transport gateways look like this in Earth X. Eventually it begins being Lampshaded. | |
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Tripping the Rift has a monolith installed on a primitive world. In this case it actually contained an evil empire who used the monolith as a base of operations in order to enslave the unwitting civilization. | |
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In Chorus Skating, the last Spellsinger novel, two huge black rectangular objects appear on the beach when Jon-Tom is about to have his final sing-off battle with the villain. True to this trope, they were indeed sent by a mysterious alien from another level of reality ... as amplifiers to give Jon-Tom's duar a much-needed and decisive boost. | |
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Appears in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory film as part of Willy Wonka's matter transmutation device. Sort of. It appears in its original introduction sequence on a TV before it is replaced by a Wonka Bar, which happens to have similar dimensions to the Monolith. |
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In 2010: The Year We Make Contact, it is capable of reproducing, causing Jupiter to reach critical mass and turn into a star. | |
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Xenosaga, along with Xenogears, features several Monolith-like objects, dubbed Zohar(s), along with the Anima Relics. | |
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The Army Men RTS features a monolithic PS2 in the eighth mission (to them, it's an unlimited power source). It's even introduced with Also sprach Zarathustra. | |
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Jurassic Park: Trespasser features a Monolith in a normally-unreachable area of the third level. Getting close via noclip causes a droning track to start playing until you head back to the regular playable parts of the level. | |
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The last Comedy Central episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Laserblast, ended with Dr. Forrester re-enacting the scene where an old David Bowman reaches toward the Monolith before being reborn as a Starchild; Forrester reaches for a monolithic VHS tape labeled "The Worst Movie Ever Made". | |
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The animated movie of Gumby opens with the Monolith hovering in space over an alien's satellite dish, before it splits into the two slabs of clay that Gumby and Pokey are made of. They fuse back together at the end of the movie. | |
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The cover of The Who's album Who's Next shows the band walking away from a monolithic concrete slab. After having peed on it... | |
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The robots, TARS and CASE, from Interstellar were inspired by the aesthetic of the monolith, though they are capable of segmenting themselves. | |
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They appear in Dungeons of Dredmor. Sometimes you get a sidequest to sacrifice an item to it. | |
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Appears briefly in an episode of Futurama, with an "Out of Order" sign on it. As well in another episode, "The Sting", it is parodied as Fry's coffin. Leela opens it and experiences the same effects as Dave Bowman in the movie. Another episode, "Mobius Dick," had it floating among other familiar, wrecked spaceships (USS Enterprise, LEM module, the space ship from the cover of ELO's album 'Out of the Blue', etc.) with a bite taken out of it. |
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In Fez, solving the first half of a certain optional puzzle causes a monolith to appear and hover in the air. (This one has a square cross-section, rather than the original size ratio.) The second half of this puzzle—making the monolith disappear again—is notorious for being the most obtuse puzzle in the entire game. | |
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In Kerbal Space Program, monoliths are scattered around the solar system. Black ones are found around the main planet and its two moons, and one single dark green one appears at a randomized spot for each bodies. While they are not perfectly square, they are jet black mysterious objects, and finding the green monolith rewards you with the unlocking of a random technology. | |
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The Fablehaven series has the vault where the Translocator is kept. The preserve where said vault is located is named Obsidian Waste in its honor. | |
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Main character Cher's cordless phone in Clueless, complete with Also sprach Zarathustra. | |
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The cover art for the 6th album of the deathgrind band Cattle Decapitation aptly named "Monolith of Inumanity" depict a monolith that have an effect quite different, if not opposite to the original. | |
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Questionable Content: A "floating black slab emitting a low hum" appears at the coffee shop. The bewildered clerks eventually decide that they should make it a latte, and it pays and leaves. Then Faye bumps into it, spilling the latte. She feels bad, buys it another one, and makes it a cup holder. It pays for that too, then zooms off into the sky, leaving everyone confused. It's a bit of a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment. | |
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Possibly referenced in The LEGO Movie with the top of Lord Business' tower when it comes off and flies over Bricksburg. | |
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Lucy includes a flash drive at the very end of the movie, just after the titular character gains control of 100% of her brain and offloaded every bit of her accumulated knowledge into it through an organic supercomputer derived from her own flesh. When Morgan Freeman's character turns it in his hand, we can even see what appears to be stars inside it. | |
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As well in another episode, "The Sting", it is parodied as Fry's coffin. Leela opens it and experiences the same effects as Dave Bowman in the movie. | |
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In one FoxTrot strip published around New Year's Day 2001, Jason invokes this by building a snow monolith and dressing in an ape suit, hoping that one of the bones he throws into the air will turn into a spaceship. | |
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Greta Gerwig's Barbie (2023) starts with an Affectionate Parody of the entire opening sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey: little girls replace the apes, baby dolls represent the bones and primitive tools of the original, and the background music is Also sprach Zarathustra. The monolith is—what else?—a gigantic version of the original Barbie doll (Margot Robbie), which the girls stare at with wonder. | |
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The Patrick Star Show: "The Prehistoric Patrick Star Show" begins with a black monolith in the foreground. Some cave fish run up to it and start hitting it. It collapses forward like a cardboard cutout. They run away, then sit on it to watch Patrick's show. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 has the Pylons on the world of Cadia. They have a clear purpose, stabilizing space around the nearby Eye of Terror to create the only reliable way in and out of it, but how they do that is a mystery. One of the background materials has a character outline a theory that may as well be the plot of 2001. Current canon has them as just a leftover weapon of a war the Necrons, the local Antimagical Faction, waged ages before the Eye was even there (it's not a total coincidence; the Eye of Terror occupies the space that used to be their enemy's territory until the Eldar blew themselves up). | |
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Cross Time Café actually has it as a Recurring Character, nicknamed Rocky. | |
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The titular Ark in Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim. The cutscene where it is raised features Also sprach Zarathustra-esque music. | |
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A parody of 2001 (including the Monolith) appears in Monty Python's Flying Circus episode 38. | |
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EVE Online has a Monolith in the Dead End star system; it is at Planet 5 - Moon 5. | |
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Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot has The Minilith, a card able to double one's weapon strength. Comes with a handy on/off switch. | |
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In the Caveman Chapter of Live A Live, you can find one in a hidden cave provided you do a specific action. Offering a bone to it will net the player a smaller monolith, the Rock of Rocks which significantly boosts IQ, can scan the HP of (in the original) and also disable a target's limbs (cannot be able to move or attack with physical skills) if used as an item. Did we mention that said item's infinite-use? | |
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Similarly, The Monolith is featured as a tool to accelerate the brain and social evolution of more primitive civilizations in the Space stage of Spore. The game itself features another Shout-Out to 2001. The cutscene to the entrance of the Tribal stage was partly lifted from the introductory sequence of 2001, along with implications in the Creature and Tribal stages of extraterrestrial observation, and in the introduction to the Cell stage, panspermia. | |
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Twin Tribes: The cover art for "Monolith" is of the titular vertical slab of stone. It appears as the instigator of The Corruption that comes from outer space in the music video. The 2nd time the corrupted heroine touches it, she disappears. | |
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Stone Trek episode "20001 BC: A Space Oddity". After its Also sprach Zarathustra introduction, the monolith is picked up by a dinosaur-crane piloted by the Flintstones and dumped on a rubble pile. | |
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The way the Machine Emperor tablets are placed on earth in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds look similar to the monoliths. They also look like the Ka tablets from the original Yu-Gi-Oh!, which also tended to look like this. | |
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Via the character of Machine Man, who originated in the 2001 Marvel comic book continuation and lately in Nextwave, this selfsame Monolith exists in the Marvel Universe. | |
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In Stellaris, one anomaly you might find on a planet is a strange rectangular object that when scanned gives you survey data of a distant system. | |
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Least I Could Do uses one as a gag for the 2001st comic | |
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Rat-Man once published a parody of 2001, where the monolith that originally made apes intelligent is rediscovered and a scientist wants to use it to make humankind Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence. Another (non-canon) story narrates about two Star-Crossed Lovers (actually the author and his fiance) who meet and get separated throughout history as part of an alien experiment. In the opening scene they are cavemen and find a monolith, which turns out to be a blackboard. |
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The Monolith appeared in an episode of Mighty Mouse involving Time Travel. | |
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Similarly, in Kris Straub's next comic, Starslip, the members of the Consortium all have their brains transferred into telepathic monoliths. | |
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Destroy the Godmodder: The Black Monolith is a look-alike of the titular monolith, and can look into one's self to grant their deepest wish. Of course, it has no sense of morality, so people who are really stupid or evil can get to the Monolith... Leading to undesirable results. | |
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Lebia Maverick of Silent Möbius owns a supercomputer named Louie that takes this form. | |
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One issue of The Tick's comic-book had him and Arthur versus a town full of hick Mad Scientists who'd gained their super-intelligence from a monolith that had fallen in a local cornfield. | |
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Duke Nukem 3D featured a monolith at one point. It contained a teleporter. | |
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The Electric Company (1971) had a series of animations where the monolith either rose from the ground or floated forward through space toward the front of the screen, then crumbled to show a letter dipthong or small word, subsequently pronounced by a deistic voice. | |
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Shouting at the Ground by Zoviet France, features a half circle one, sitting in the middle of a field of dry grass. | |
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Parodied in Weebl & Bob. | |
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