History Main / WarMemorial

* ''Fanfic/{{Coreline}}'': The MegaCity of Los Angeles has the Memorial Wall to those who were lost during [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the 23 Hours of Madness]]. The wall is made of an indestructible hyper-alloy and is as tall as the {{Arcology}} it was built next to.

* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': There's a massive memorial to [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar the half of the population that were Snapped away]] in San Francisco. Presumably, there are similar monuments in major cities all around the world. After spending five years trapped in the Quantum Realm, Scott Lang frantically searches through the memorial to make sure his daughter Cassie is still alive, only to find his own name mistakenly listed.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersEarthspark'' episode ''Warzone'', Megatron takes the Malto children to a memorial on the site of the war's final battle. It has walls of names similiar to the ''Avengers: Endgame'' example on the page image, and a hologram of the Allspark at the center.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E3BartVsLisaVsTheThirdGrade Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade]]". When Bart and Lisa go missing during a field trip, Groundskeeper Willie tearfully chisels their names on the school's Field Trip Memorial: "Ach. Why is it always the kids with the long names?"

* In ''WesternAnimationTransformersEarthspark'' episode ''Warzone'', Megatron takes the Malto children to a memorial on the site of the war's final battle. It has walls of names similiar to the ''Avengers: Endgame'' example and a hologram of the Allspark at the center.

* Parodied in a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' skit where both Franchise/GIJoe and COBRA have memorial walls of their fallen comrades. However due to the NeverSayDie nature of the cartoon they don't actually have any names until Mutt's dog Junkyard dies from eating a chocolate statue of Roadblock. Cobra Commander, irritated by his lack of names (outside of Major Blood who was injured getting a root canal in February 1985) blows the brains out of a random COBRA agent named Wilson just to add a name.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/FamilyGuyS4E25YouMayNowKissTheUhGuyWhoReceives You May Now Kiss the... uh... Guy Who Receives]], Mayor West commissions a war memorial to honor Quahog soldiers who perished in the Gulf Conflict. Unfortunately he chooses a solid gold statue of Dig 'em the Sugar Smacks mascot, which is completely inappropriate and [[PointlessCivicProject drains the town's coffers]], leading to protests calling for his resignation.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/FamilyGuyS4E25YouMayNowKissTheUhGuyWhoReceives You May Now Kiss the Uh... Guy Who Receives]], Mayor West commissions a war memorial to honor Quahog soldiers who perished in the Gulf Conflict. Unfortunately he chooses a solid gold statue of Dig 'em the Sugar Smacks mascot, which is completely inappropriate and [[PointlessCivicProject drains the town's coffers]], leading to protests calling for his resignation.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Mayor West commissions a war memorial to honor Quahog soldiers who perished in the Gulf Conflict. Unfortunately he chooses a solid gold statue of Dig 'em the Sugar Smacks mascot, which is completely inappropriate and [[PointlessCivicProject drains the town's coffers]], leading to protests calling for his resignation.
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade". When Bart and Lisa go missing during a field trip, Groundskeeper Willie tearfully chisels their names on the school's Field Trip Memorial: "Ach. Why is it always the kids with the long names?"

* ''Memorial'' by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon. A scientist plans to detonate nuclear material to create a permanently radioactive crater that will deter Mankind from atomic war. He [[GoneHorriblyRight succeeded too well]] when an attempt by the authorities to seize the material accidentally achieves critical mass and detonates it, triggering a nuclear war and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt creating a memorial of a different kind]].

* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', a memorial to those lost in [[Film/ManOfSteel Zod's attack]] has been erected in Metropolis. The memorial also has a large statue of Comicbook/{{Superman}}, something that's very controversial InUniverse, since many feel he is responsible for the devastation. During the film, it gets vandalised by Wallace O'Keefe, a man crippled during the attack, who paints "False God" on the statue of Superman, and [[spoiler: the whole monument gets destroyed by Doomsday]].
* ''Film/FatherAndSoldier'' is set during ''UsefulNotes/WorldWarI'' ends with a view of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in Paris. The film suggests that one of the protagonists, who is from Africa, is in fact the unknown soldier.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': There is a memorial garden with a number of statues and large stones with the names of those who have died keeping the monstrosities behind Dooms Doorway contained on Themyscira.

* In ''FanFic/FromFakeDreams'', a ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' FanFic, Saber and Gilgamesh realize that Shirou's reality marble is a memorial to the deeds and lives of the heroes who wielded the originals of the weapons inside it.

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