History Main / SolarCPR

* In the end of ''[[{{Ouendan}} Moero! Nekketsu Rythm Damashii! Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! 2]]'' [[spoiler:the sun dies, and the two rival cheer squads act together to raise everyone's spirit level enough to ressurect it.]]

* Implied to be an upcoming subplot in ''MassEffect3''. In ''MassEffect2'', recruiting Tali has her investigating a sun which is dying too quickly. Chances are, in ''[=ME3=]'', we get to save such sun.

Either through natural causes or galactic vandals who go around StarKilling [[ForTheEvulz for fun]] and [[StepThreeProfit profit]], the local star is set to die; this usually involves YouFailPhysicsForever even ''with'' liberal uses of {{Phlebotinum}}.[[hottip:(Science!):(Most people have no conception of how [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale vast a sun is]], nor what happens during a stars life as a main-sequence star. Our sun is 30% brighter now than when the earth formed, and some time in the next 0.5-1.1 billion years it will grow bright enough that the earth will become uninhabitable in it's current orbit. But our sun has billions of years left before it leaves the main sequence, and it's not quite massive enough to ever go nova.)]] You can imagine the desperation a planetary civilization will feel when it's ''their'' turn to see their sun die. Cue an attempt at SolarCPR. A [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien sufficiently advanced]] civilization may develop a MagicAntidote or solar-scale {{World-Healing Wave}} that can stop this from happening (or at least discover a group of aliens who do).

A civilization facing the natural death of their sun may well use this antidote as the ultimate rejuvenating skin cream to give their sun a few extra billion years of life. Typically, they "kick start Helium fusion", though they may do something much more wonky like reverse the flow of time. Alternately, they might give a gas giant planet or nebula the breath of life and move there.

* In ''AllStarSuperman:'' [[spoiler:Superman]] dies fixing the sun that had been turned red/blue.

** After Hal destroys the GreenLantern corps, the Sun-Eater was killing Earth's sun, and he does a HeroicSacrifice that saves it and restores the damage. In the process, it shone green for a day.

* This is the plot of ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'', using a type of bomb to restart Earth's dying sun.

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* The titular device in ''The Neutronium Alchemist'', the second book of ''TheNightsDawnTrilogy'' by PeterFHamilton is capable of turning gas planets into neutron stars.

* In ''The Sands of Mars'' by ArthurCClarke Mars's moon Phobos is turned into an artificial star to make Mars more livable for humans.
* In ''Phoenix'' by ClarkAshtonSmith the sun is resurrected with a bomb that ignites the elements.
* This trope triggered the asking of IsaacAsimov's ''[[http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html The Last Question]]''.

* ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_a_Life_(TNG_episode) Half a Life]] a planet's sun is going to go supernova in a few years. The one scientist they have whose work has come closest to fixing the problem is required by custom and law to commit suicide at age 60, just a few days away. He refuses, and his planet refuses to use his research because he's a traitor to their way of life.

* Implied to be an upcoming subplot in ''MassEffect 3''. In ''Mass Effect 2'', recruiting Tali has her investigating a sun which is dying too quickly. Chances are, in ''[=ME3=]'', we get to save such sun.

* In the end of ''[[{{Ouendan}} Moero! Nekketsu Rythm Damashii! Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! 2]]'' [[spoiler: the sun dies, and the two rival cheer squads act togheter to raise everyone's spirit level enough to ressurect it.]]

* An entire episode of ''CourageTheCowardlyDog'' is based around this.

Either through natural causes or galactic vandals who go around StarKilling [[ForTheEvulz for fun]] and [[StepThreeProfit profit]], the local star is set to die; this usually involves YouFailPhysicsForever even ''with'' liberal uses of {{Phlebotinum}}.[[hottip:(Science!):(Most people have no conception of how [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale vast a sun is]], nor what happens during a stars life as a main-sequence star. Our sun is 30% brighter now than when the earth formed, and in 500 million years it will grow bright enough that the earth will become uninhabitable in it's current orbit. But our sun has billions of years left before it leaves the main sequence, and it's not quite massive enough to ever go nova.)]] You can imagine the desperation a planetary civilization will feel when it's ''their'' turn to see their sun die. Cue an attempt at SolarCPR. A [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien sufficiently advanced]] civilization may develop a MagicAntidote or solar-scale {{World-Healing Wave}} that can stop this from happening (or at least discover a group of aliens who do).

* In DoctorWho earth's sun is held back from expanding into a red giant for five billion years, until the funds ran out.

* This is the plot of ''{{Sunshine}}'', using a type of bomb to restart Earth's dying sun.

* The first level of ''SuperMarioGalaxy'' involves rescuing one of the Grand Stars stolen by [[BigBad Bowser]] by turning off a machine that is slowly sucking out its power.

*** [[IncrediblyLamePun Checkov's Sun?]]

* During the ''{{Mystara}} Wrath of the Immortals'' StoryArc, the player characters have the opportunity to help end the Week Of No Magic that afflicts the world. One result of their success is that it revives the internal sun of the Hollow World, which had shut down in the absence of magic.

* Some cultures have believed, or [[{{Mayincatec}} are notorious for having believed]], that periodic HumanSacrifice was necessary for this trope.

* In ''Wolfsbane'' by Frederick Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth Earth's moon is turned into an artificial sun to keep the Earth livable since it was stolen from the solar system by aliens. The moon needs to be relighted periodically.

* In ''AllStarSuperman:'' [[spoiler: Superman]] dies fixing the sun that had been turned red/blue.

* This is the major plot of GeneWolfe's ''{{Book of the New Sun}}''. The Hero goes on an epic journey of self discovery and meets some benevolent alins with the power to kickstart the sun, but he has to prove himself, and by extension everyone else, worth of the gift.

* ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_a_Life_(TNG_episode) "Half a Life:"]] a planet's sun is going to go supernova in a few years. The one scientist they have whose work has come closest to fixing the problem is required by custom and law to commit suicide at age 60, just a few days away. He refuses, and his planet refuses to use his research because he's a traitor to their way of life.

* Implied to be an upcoming subplot in ''MassEffect 3''. In ''Mass Effect 2 '', recruiting Tali has her investigating a sun which is dying too quickly. Chances are, in ''[=ME3=]'', we get to save such sun.

** Or, maybe a huge Chekhov'sGun.

* Implied to be an upcoming subplot in ''MassEffect 3''. In ''Mass Effect 2 '', recruiting Tali has her investigating a sun which is dying too quickly. Chances are, in ''[=ME3=]'', we get to save such sun.

* In the ''StarTrek'' origional series episode ''All Our Yesterdays'', the population of Sarpeidon is evacuated through time portals because their sun is about to go nova. However, the death of the star is not actually averted.

* In ''GreenLantern'', Blue Laterns can rejuvenate dying stars with the Hope of those on a nearby planet, the process turns the star blue.

* In ''2010'' by ArthurCClarke the alien monolith turns Jupiter into a star, which gets the name Lucifer.

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* This is the major plot of GeneWolfe's Book of the New Sun. The Hero goes on an epic journey of self discovery and meets some benevolent alins with the power to kickstart the sun, but he has to prove himself, and by extension everyone else, worth of the gift.