You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. In Monster Rancher , there is a monster called 'Monol' with telepathic communication, ancient secrets, a deep voice and a story to tell. 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.
They also look like the Ka tablets from the original Yu-Gi-Oh!
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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. The Watchers' transport gateways look like this in Earth X. Eventually it begins being Lampshaded. Or rather, since the end hints this comic was a prequel to , U'n is the monolith.
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. A Space Odyssey is the Trope Maker. It functions as an Upgrade Artifact. Via the character of Machine Man, who originated in the Marvel comic book continuation and lately in Nextwave , this selfsame Monolith exists in the Marvel Universe.
The book also states that the ratio continues beyond that but humans are only able to perceive its presence in three dimensions. The Year We Make Contact , it is capable of reproducing, causing Jupiter to reach critical mass and turn into a star. And by , it's revealed they can do a whole lot more. Though interestingly enough, it no longer works as a Star Gate. The books were sequels to the movie. So, this lends support that it was never a Star Gate in the movie universe. Even the Monolith in the movie isn't treated with respect.
On first seeing a picture, a scientist says casually, "Damned if I know what it is" then asks for coffee. Appears in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory film as part of Willy Wonka's matter transmutation device. 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. Main character Cher's cordless phone in Clueless , complete with Also sprach Zarathustra.
The monolith from makes a cameo appearance in the Frank Zappa movie Motels. Don't worry about this big, black Monolith thing that's blocking out the sun. 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 The Science of Discworld has a large black object that gives information to apes 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. The Electric Company 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.
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. Shows up in a Spitting Image sketch, being interviewed by Barry Norman. Community - in Biology , 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 , 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. 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 The artwork for Led Zeppelin 's album Presence features photos of various people whose attention is drawn by a small black object. This was apparently inspired by the original monolith.
The official story is even weirder; they claim it perfectly mirrors the ending of Don Giovanni , which neither of them knew about Shouting at the Ground by Zoviet France , features a half circle one, sitting in the middle of a field of dry grass. 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.
Warhammer 40, 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 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. It's even introduced with Also sprach Zarathustra.
In Asura's Wrath , random Monolith-like structures pop in the background of the fight against Chakravartin. Duke Nukem 3D featured a monolith at one point. It contained a teleporter. They appear in Dungeons Of Dredmor. Sometimes you get a sidequest to sacrifice an item to it. Epic Battle Fantasy 3 has three different kinds of Monoliths that serve as elite foes. The ones that fit this trope best are the Cosmic Monoliths , which are shaped very much like the Space Odyssey Monoliths.
You probably won't last long against them. The sequel adds some more Monoliths although they are much weaker compared to the previous game. Also, the aforementioned Cosmic Monolith?
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It's not present as a foe, but later on in the game you can learn to summon one to assist you in battle, and it's the strongest summon in the game. First, you fight one. Then three more appear. 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. Lloyd broaches the subject of advertising. Don asks Lloyd for more information, and learns that computers are a growth industry, it is clear that Don is setting Lloyd up for a pitch.
After Lloyd leaves the office, Don goes to see Bert to talk about getting Lloyd's company as a client, but Bert shoots him down immediately, and puts him in his place. Don leaves angrily and steals a bottle of vodka from Roger's office.
He starts drinking it straight from the bottle, but then pours out a soda can and puts the vodka in there instead. He flops down on his sofa. Roger and Mona arrive at the commune. Mona and Margaret have an argument, and Mona starts to leave, but Roger gives Mona the keys to the car and tells her to leave. Back in his office, Don wakes up on the sofa, obviously still soused.
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He gets up and makes a phone call. He invites the person on the phone to a Mets game. They tell him about their voluntarist philosophy about work. Don is with Freddie in his office. Freddie was the one Don called. Freddie tries to steer Don out of the office without his drunkenness being noticed, but Don spots Lloyd and confronts him. He says "You talk like a friend, but you're not. They pass Peggy's office. Peggy hears that they're going to the Mets game. Joan is leaving too, but she stops to talk to Peggy, who is clearly not pleased to see Don leaving work, and ignoring his assignment.
She says she is happy at the commune.
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He kisses her on the forehead and says goodnight, but then a fellow member of the commune comes to get Marigold for sex. Freddie brings Don home to Don's apartment instead of to the Mets game. In the next shot, it is morning, and Freddie offers Don some coffee, and talks to him about his drinking.
He picks her up, and they both fall in the mud. Seeing that violence won't work, he tells her that she needs to be there for her son Ellery. Roger walks down the road, away from the commune.