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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS1E2WitchesBeforeWizards Witches Before Wizards]]", [[Characters/TheOwlHouseEdaClawthorne Eda Clawthorne]] helps cheer [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]] up after she falls victim to a scammer by taking her to see [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome the entirety of the Boiling Isles at sunset]], making a point that while the world may seem cruel and ugly up close, there's beauty to be found if you look at it from a different perspective. A single shooting star can then be seen streaking across the sky as if to punctuate her point.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': During ''[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E15TheDeepEnd The Deep End]]'', Mabel attempts a FirstKiss with Mermando and you can see a shooting star go by.

** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'': Upon being attacked by Diego in his [[{{Animorphism}} Scary Monsters]] form, Johnny and Gyro and holding him behind a door until Gyro sees a falling star towards the direction of a hill where he spots the formation of the Big Dipper, showing the location of a Corpse Part.

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* [[PhysicalGod Amaterasu]] of ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' fame can create shooting stars with a flick of her [[ArtIntiatesLife Celestial Brush]] in the night sky- an ability only relevant during exactly one instance, but it's pretty either way.

Despite not [[https://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/255-What-is-a-shooting-star- actually being stars,]] a lot of people around the world see them as something with magical powers to [[WishUponAShootingStar make a wish on]] and they even have some religious ties in faiths like Christianity and Islam.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS1E2WitchesBeforeWizards Witches Before Wizards]]", [[Characters/TheOwlHouseEdaClawthorne Eda Clawthorne]] helps cheer [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]] up after she falls victim to a scammer by taking her to see [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome the entirety of the Boiling Isles at sunset]], making a point that while the world may seem cruel and ugly up close, there's beauty to be found if you look at it from a different perspective. A single shooting star can then be seen streaking across the sky, as if to punctuate her point.
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* ''Anime/{{Daltanious}}'': When Kaori bemoans that she'll never see her missing brother again, Tanosuke tells her to have hope. Just then, a shooting star passes, and Kaori takes this as a sign he's right. The next day, the two travel to it's location. [[spoiler: It turns out the "shooting star" is actually a Zaal Bemborg sent by General Mizuka]].

* ''Anime/SquidGirl'': A miniature Squid Girl meets and is befriended by Eiko, who takes her in as a pet. The two are shown in a montage doing everything together. The scene concludes with an aged Eiko lying in a hospital bed, expiring from old age as the narrator says that mini-Squid Girl has a life span of 150 years, considerably longer than the average human. Cue mini-Squid Girl crying out in grief and anguish as a shooting star streaks by in the night sky overhead. This is the point where it was revealed to be a [[ImagineSpot dream]] had by [[AbhorrentAdmirer Squid Girl's obsessive stalker Sanae]], who was upset that she wasn't the one to grow old with Squid Girl in the dream. Eiko wonders how this is her fault.

* Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon examples:

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', during "I Can Go the Distance", Hercules is admiring the night sky and a shooting star goes past as he's singing about his desire to be accepted. And later on, during a romantic scene between Hercules and Meg, a shooting star goes by to make the scene more romantic.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Applejack's parents have been heavily implied to be dead numerous times in the series. One such implication is seen in "Apple Family Reunion", in which Applejack wishes they could come to the eponymous reunion, and then two shooting stars go by.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "Witches Before Wizards", Eda helps cheer Luz up after she falls victim to a scammer by taking her to see [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome the entirety of the Boiling Isles at sunset]], making a point that while the world may seem cruel and ugly up close, there's beauty to be found if you look at it from a different perspective. A single shooting star can then be seen streaking across the sky, as if to punctuate her point.

* In the Shah Rukh Khan film ''Zero'', SRK's character [[MagicRealism somehow]] has the uncanny ability to countdown from 0 and allow shooting stars to appear. When talking to his love interest to demonstrate his powers shooting star ''storm'' falls down to represent their feelings for one another, with the second one even being seen by astronomists who are unable to explain ''how'' this phenomena works.

* ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': When Anna and Hans escape to the roof together during the song "Love is an Open Door," a shooting star passes by.

Not to be confused with WishUponAShootingStar, which is more about the wishing side of things then the actual aesthetic though they can overlap. Also a sister-trope of StargazingScene and a SubTrope of GarnishingTheStory.

* VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate: Near the end of the opening cutscene to World of Light, a shooting star flies across the ruins of the world [[BigBad Galeem]] laid waste to. The shooting star is revealed to be Franchise/{{Kirby}} on a Warp Star, revealing him to be the SoleSurvivor of Galeem's wrath.

* After Guybrush buys the Sea Monkey in ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'', he and Stan (who sold it to him) stand on the dock and bask in its glory. Then a shooting star zips by. This apparently makes Stan change his mind about selling the ship...until the mast falls off.