Every once in a while, there’ll be a touching, emotional scene in a movie or a TV show where a Supervillain conquers Washington D.C., and uses the Lincoln memorial as a perverse, oversized, throne room.
G.I. Joe’s Serpentor’s done it. So has Transformers’ Megatron. (Megatron fit in Lincoln’s “lap” a bit better.)
Even in the new Planet of the Apes…
…General Thade somehow manages to alter the timeline, resulting in his face on the statue, instead of Lincoln’s. That kind of counts.
So…are there any other villains who’ve done this, too? Or just those mentioned above?
In a very early issue of Thor, he faces a resurrected Merlin whose corpse has been transported from England.
At one part in the story, Merlin animates Lincoln’s statue and it goes on a rampage around D.C. eating cars and climbing skyscrapers, it eventually has to be taken down (i.e. thrashed) by Thor himself.
I believe this may have been spoofed in an episode of Dexter the Boy Genius or some such.
In the episode of PINKY AND THE BRAIN called AMBULATORY ABE. the Brain trys to take over the world by fixing mechanical legs to the statute and pretending to be Lincoln returning to straighten things out.
I had someone do it in a claymation of mine that I made to amuse a friend of mine - because he always said thats exactly what he’ll do ‘when he is ruler of the world’.
South Park did something similar when magician/cult-leader David Blaine brought the Lincoln Memorial statue to life to terrorize the town so Jesus & His Super-Duper Friends (the prophets of all the major religions plus the superhero Seaman & his pet bird Swallow) made a giant living statue of John Wilkes Booth to take the Lincolnzilla down.
The villian (whose named I’m blanking on right now, recovering fanboy that I am) from the limited run Marvel Comics series The Nth Man did this too. IIRC he used his reality-warping powers to increase his physical size to fit the throne.
