One episode of the 1978 series Space Pirate Captain Harlock reveals that The Sphinx of Giza is actually an ancient Mazone superweapon.

In a Osaka-centric episode of Smile Pretty Cure!, the titular magical girls ended fighting the Tsutenkaku Tower after Majorina transformed the well-known landmark into the rampaging Akanbe of the Week.

In Nurse Witch Komugi, the Tokyo Big Sight convention center is featured as a giant Transforming Mecha, Big Sightron/Cytron.

The old Statue of Liberty (or what was left of it) was destroyed in one of Domon's Dynamic Entries. The blast fires from the torch, naturally.

The new Statue of Liberty found on the Neo-American space colony is actually a Wave-Motion Gun.

In Heavy Object, the secret weapon of the Information Alliance is a massive seaborne fortress created from Manhattan island.

The sequel, GaoGaiGar FINAL, features Mic Sounders defeating his opponent by playing a bass solo on the cables of Tower Bridge after his disc player is broken.

Later on, we see Weaponized Planetoids when they possess the moons of Jupiter.

The Primevals in GaoGaiGar can assimilate pretty much any organic or inorganic matter and convert it into a body, but a few of them use landmarks thus, we get Monsters of the Week based on the Great Wall of China, two pyramids (one in Egypt and one in Mexico), a Moai and the Sphinx.

Getter Robo Hein uses the Statue of Liberty as a giant cannon/jet piloted by a Humongous Mecha.

On an episode of Battle of the Planets, the bad guys are able to retract the head of George Washington inside the mountain from Mount Rushmore where it becomes the face of a giant lava-monster thing.

If the opposition ever discovers the location (or even existence) of the weapon, Monumental Damage or a Monumental Battle are all but assured. If the landmark is sufficiently old, this could end up as a Lost Superweapon. The Lincoln Memorial ◊ is a popular subject for this trope apparently, the idea of Giant Stone Abe getting off his ass and kicking someone else's has some appeal Nerdgasm levels double if the landmark transforms into a mobile battle platform or Humongous Mecha. Merely housing personnel, labs, or arms isn't good enough at a minimum, the superweapon should be hidden inside the landmark, while a sign of true genius is making the landmark the weapon itself. What's even cooler than a Monumental Battle? When said monument takes part in it.Ī sister to Landmarking the Hidden Base, this trope takes the view that the only thing cooler than placing a covert headquarters inside a world-famous monument is placing a mountain-cracking Weapon of Mass Destruction inside a world-famous monument.

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