Basic Trope: A famous landmark used as a weapon.
- Straight: The Statue of Liberty's torch arm is actually a Death Ray in disguise.
- Exaggerated:
- The Statue of Liberty is a Humongous Mecha in disguise with a vast assortment of weapons.
- Every landmark in the world is this.
- Downplayed: ???
- Justified:
- In the future, the US Army added weapons to the statue to act as a disguised superweapon.
- Rule of Cool.
- The landmark in question is made out of an outdated weapon, which is now being broken out.
- Inverted: The Omega Death Cannon, a supposed powerful superweapon, is just a landmark.
- Subverted:
- It was a just a lie and the statue isn't a weapon.
- A translation error made it seem that the landmark is used as a weapon, when in reality "stadswapen" translates to "city coat of arms".
- Double Subverted:
- The US army adds the weapons later.
- The lie/translation error is an Accidental Truth.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- No landmark is a weapon.
- No weapon is disguised as a landmark.
- Lampshaded: "Commander, I inform you that we have finished adding a laser to the Statue of Liberty."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: The Big Bad uses the statue's laser to attack New York.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "Commander, should we add weapons to the Statue of Liberty?"
- Conversed: "That show was so cool! They gave the Statue of Liberty a goddamn laser beam!"
- Deconstructed: Everyone rejects the idea because they think it's silly and ridiculous.
- Reconstructed: The people behind the idea do it anyway, and it proves to be valuable in defending America.
- Played For Laughs: The Statue of Liberty conceals a bunch of silly weapons like boxing gloves on springs.
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