Living Statue - Other Uses

Other Uses

In science fiction and fantasy the term often has the opposite meaning: humans (or other humanoid creatures such as elves) who are immobilized by technology or magic and sometimes disguised as real statues, often remaining conscious in the process.

• In Michael Moorcock's fantasy novel The Queen of the Swords, the heroes encounter the Frozen Army that once set out to fight an evil goddess but were turned into living statues instead.
• In the Anne Rice novel The Queen of the Damned, vampire queen Akasha and her husband Enkil turn into statues after remaining motionless for centuries.
• The 2005 movie House of Wax, which depicts a town full of ultra-realistic wax statues who are, in fact, real living people encased in wax.
• In the British TV Show Doctor Who, there is a race of aliens who are quite literally "living statues."