History Main / CueTheSun

* Inverted in ''BlackBloodBrothers'' when Jiro is facing off against [[spoiler:Cassa]]; it's not the sun that makes his skin burn, it's the ''rain''.

* In ''ThePaleKing'', Creator/DavidFosterWallace says that a rural Midwest sunrise is as soft and romantic as someone’s abruptly hitting the lights in a darkened room.

* The first ''NinjaGaiden'' game ends with Ryu and Irene watching a sunrise and Ryu saying "Look, the sun is rising. Everything is so bright now. The darkness is finally over." The third game also ends with a sunrise.

->''Here comes the sun\\

It's all right...''

** Stover's ''Literature/LukeSkywalkerAndTheShadowsOfMindor'', has, near the end, a scene where Han and Leia sit outside of the Millennium Falcon waiting for the world to end. They could fly off the planet, but they can't escape -- [[NoWarpingZone gravity well generators]] are preventing escape into hyperspace and causing massive solar flares, massive solar flares are killing everything that isn't shielded by the bulk of Mindor, and the bulk of Mindor is about to [[EarthShatteringKaboom go to pieces]]. Everything that they could do has been done, and they don't know what Luke is doing. So they decide to sit outside, have a picnic, get in a LastKiss, and watch the sunrise, thinking these would be their last moments. [[spoiler: They aren't.]]

* ''[[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor]]'', has, near the end, a scene where Han and Leia sit outside of the Millennium Falcon waiting for the world to end. They could fly off the planet, but they couldn't escape - gravity well generators were preventing escape into hyperspace and causing massive solar flares, massive solar flares were killing everything that wasn't shielded by the bulk of Mindor, and the bulk of Mindor was about to [[EarthShatteringKaboom go to pieces]]. Everything that they could do had been done, and they didn't know what Luke was doing. So they decided to sit outside, have a picnic, get in a LastKiss, and watch the sunrise, thinking these would be their last moments. [[spoiler: They weren't.]]

* Satirized in Creator/BusterKeaton's ''TheScarecrow''. The opening title, "Slowly and majestically the sun steals gradually over the hill-tops," is followed by the sun shooting straight up from the horizon and then hanging in place.

* In ''BloodRayne2'', the entire plot revolved around a group of vampires creating an artificial cloud barrier called the Shroud which would block out the sun's rays and allow them and their demonic minions to wander the earth freely. Interestingly, they accomplish this, and the Shroud seems for the moment anyway to be permanent (Rayne going so far as to say that she felt "for some reason" like everything would go back to normal after she killed the final boss). The last cutscene shows a SequelHook that implies a third game about a Rayne-led organization that defends humanity in this vampire-ruled world.

* This is one of your powers in ''{{Okami}}''. Of course, you are playing the incarnation of the sun goddess. Very early in the game you summon the Sun just to dry somebody's laundry...

* Subverted, played straight, and possibly reversed in ''SuikodenV'', where the plot centers around a set of runes related to various times of day - and which can be used to call down the fearsome power of the sun itself upon your foes! And since the runes end up on both sides of the central conflict, 'cueing the sun' in SuikodenV is synonymous with wholesale destruction for one side or the other...
** It even serves as the pre-battle wipe every time you have a RandomEncounter...

* The sun rises during the final mission of ''AceCombat 5''; if you shoot down the optional fighters quickly enough, your wingmen remark on the beautiful sunrise and the hope they have for the future.

* Used heavily in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIFiy51T8IE Credits]] of ''LiveALive''.

* ''MishimaALifeInFourChapters'' begins and ends with a sunrise as well as having a plane break through dense clouds during the eponymous characters WorldOfCardboardSpeech moment.

* The final boss of KirbyTripleDeluxe is fought high in the sky, with a gigantic moon in the background. In the end, Kirby is grabbed and hopeless until Dedede comes to bring him his EleventhHourSuperpower. From that point on, [[CurbStompBattle the battle definitely turns to Kirby's advantage]] and the rest of it is fought in front of a glorious sunrise.

* Happens a lot in ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'' for numerous reasons thematically. The first is obviously to imply that the heroes are, well, heroes, can't you tell? Look at this heroic shot! The second is as part of a symbolic bet between Ukoku Sanzo and Koumyou Sanzo, the first being thematically attached to darkness and the second to the moon. Their bet is over who will be the rising sun who finally defeats Ukoku, and Koumyou obviously bet on his student, Sanzo. The third is just the obvious fact that the main characters are [[JourneytotheWest traveling west]]. What else travels west? WHY, THE SUN! There are actually more, but they mainly support Sanzo's thematic ties with the sun as per the bet Koumyou and Ukoku made, so I won't bother mentioning them. So I suppose this could perhaps be the most justified use of this trope? Ever?

* {{Justified|trope}} in ''Manga/{{Digimon V-Tamer 01}}'', as storms form when powerful monsters fight one another.

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* Spoofed in Jeff Smith's ''{{Bone}}''. After the Great Red Dragon lets the townspeople catch him, the townspeople tell Phoney (who has set himself up as a "dragonslayer") to finish him off. Phoney, who has no intention to actually kill any dragons, let alone the Great Red Dragon, insists on waiting until sunrise to slay the dragon. Unfortunately for Phoney, the sun rises in the middle of his impassioned speech on the subject: ''"The heavens themselves shall determine...'' oops."

* An overcast clears when Cure Passion makes her debut in ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure''. Same with the more appropriately-named Cure Sunshine in ''HeartcatchPrettyCure''.

* Inverted by ''[[GaoGaiGar GaoGaiGar FINAL]]''. The Sun (or [[ThatsNoMoon the machine disguised as it]]) gives the villains ridiculous regeneration, so when it's activated and starts shining brightly, the battle suddenly gets a ''lot'' tougher for the Brave army.

* An overcast clears when Cure Passion makes her debut in ''FreshPrettyCure''. Same with the more appropriately-named Cure Sunshine in ''HeartcatchPrettyCure''.

* In ''DetonatorOrgun'', the eponymous character's WaveMotionGun is solar-powered. Guess what happens in the fight against the BigBad.

* In Creator/GrahamMcNeill's TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} HorusHeresy novel ''Fulgrim'', [[spoiler:Lucius]], having [[TurnCoat betrayed them]] and [[spoiler:[[FriendOrFoe tricked him into killing loyalist Space Marines]]]], [[DyingAlone walks away from the dying Solomon Demeter]]. Solomon is glad of the peace, but sees the diminishing light and feels as the world was marking his death.

* ''[[NintendoWars Advance Wars: Days of Ruin]]'' takes place in a [[AfterTheEnd meteor-devastated Earth]] covered in clouds of dust and ash. The sun rising in the epilogue is a pretty big deal. As a bonus, the final level is called Sunrise.

* The sun is one of the enemies in ''IWannaBeTheTribute''.

* The "Light of Dawn" solo in ''BrutalLegend'' causes the rising sun to appear and motivate your on-field troops. It can only be played by Eddie.

** ''Film/FrightNight'' has a simpler version where the hunters have had a harrowing time fighting the vampire and are barely holding him back when the sun comes up. As the vampire reels in horrified realization, Peter Vincent, now having passed his trial by fire, notes, "You are out of time..."

* In ''HocusPocus'', the rising of the sun marks when the spell allowing the three witches to live again for one night on Halloween runs out because they didn't succeed in draining the lives of the children of Salem. They go "poof."
* During the final battle of ''[[Film/{{Blade}} Blade II]]'' (which has taken place entirely at night) inside the top of the BigBad's EvilTowerOfOminousness, the MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter is [[TheVirus bitten by the mutant vampire]] (who just happens to be her brother). After the hero wins the battle, she requests he [[DyingAsYourself destroy her before she becomes one of them]], prompting him to walk outside to the end of the tower's pier-like balcony cradling her limp form, allowing the sunrise to turn her to dust in his arms and blow away in the breeze.

* In ''TheProposition'', a sunset coincides with [[spoiler:the shooting of primary villain Arthur Burns. Although Not Quite Dead, he spends his last few minutes going outside to watch the sunset. Charlie, who just shot him, goes and watches it with him.]]

* The entire story of ''{{Collateral}}'' takes place at night. At the end, when [[spoiler: Max has killed Vincent and gets away with the girl]] we see the sun coming up, showing us that night's finally over and order's restored.
* The most recent ''PrideAndPrejudice'' movie ends with Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth confessing their love for each other at dawn, finally embracing as the sun comes up.

* At the end of ''TheLandBeforeTime'' Littlefoot climbs up onto a ridge, following the spirit of his deceased mother in the form of a cloud. When the cloud dissipates, he sees the Great Valley spread out beneath him, bathed in sunlight. Cue the [[TearJerker water works.]]
* The film ''MorningGlory'' cleverly uses a sunrise shot to close the film - which is very apt as it is about a morning TV show - and watching protagonists walk into a sunrise is that much more interesting than seeing them ride off into the sunset.

* In the ''Manga/InuYasha'' episode "Miroku's Most Dangerous Confession", Miroku and a possessed Sango square off. Just as Miroku affirms his intention to purge the demon from Sango, the sun starts to peek over the horizon in the background.

* Inverted in the Final level of ''FreeSpace 2''. As you try everything you can to get at least some of the fleeing ships to the jump point before they are picked off by shivan ships before the system is cut off from hyperspace to trap the shivan fleet, the small star in the distance suddenly starts to grow bigger and brighter, leaving you only half a minute to reach the jump point before the explosion reaches you.

* In the biomancer story in ''TalesOfTheQuestor'', the biomancer trying to create a plant that can extract the bauxite contamination from a polluted region. While he's able to breed a plant that can thrive in such conditions, it isn't producing a berry to contain the mineral meaning that the plant is not a perennial, which makes planting them en masse impractical. Futhermore, the authorities then confront him about the questionable regulatory chicanery he pulled to start the project and vow to come back with a legal writ to have the "useless and dangerous" crop destroyed. On the morning of day that would have happened, the biomancer is awakened by a glaring light coming from the window facing the field. When the biomancer opens the window, he is confronted with a whole field plants with metallic berries glittering in the morning sun, which means his project has become a complete success, creating the raw materials for this medieval society to create aluminum and some experimental breeds he was growing as a subproject were producing ''rubies and sapphires''! Translated, he and his fiancée are now rich beyond their wildest dreams.

* ImpureBlood [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter001/ib008.html Must escape by dawn]]
* In ''{{Exiern}}'', Tiffany's identity crisis arc is brought to a conclusion with her reaffirming her identity by triumphing over the latest EvilSorcerer as [[http://www.exiern.com/?p=1791 dawn breaks over the castle battlements]].
* In ''{{Erstwhile}}'', [[http://www.erstwhiletales.com/maidmaleen-33/#.T29_k9m6SuI Maid Maleen describes her new happiness as the sun shining on her again.]]

* In ''{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1811 Lil' E's reaction to darkness]] and [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1812 Seymour's to the return of light]] key off this.

** [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest THE MORNING SUN HAS VANQUISHED THE HORRIBLE NIGHT.]]