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[[caption-width-right:350:Even lions can admire [[CallBack balls of gas burning billions of miles away]].]]

-->'''Sugata ''(to himself):''''' So the problem becomes a question: who sent Ikaros to Tomoki?

* ''Theatre/LesMiserables'': InspectorJavert does this as he sings "Stars", emphasizing his [[Determinator steadfast devotion]] to what he thinks is right, as he gazes at the stars alone and relates more to them than to other human characters. [[spoiler: The DarkReprise turns this on his head as, in the midst of an [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity existential crisis]], Javert sings that "...the stars are black and cold," moments before deciding to kill himself.]]

* ''Theatre/LesMiserables'': Javert does this as he sings "Stars", emphasizing his steadfast devotion to what he thinks is right, as he gazes at the stars alone and relates more to them than to other human characters. [[spoilers: The DarkReprise turns this on his head as, in the midst of an existential crisis, Javert sings that "...the stars are black and cold," moments before deciding to kill himself.]]

* ''Francise/{{MenInBlack}}'':

** In the second film, [[spoiler: the memory-wiped K finally gets said memory back after looking up at the stars, knowing that there's more out there.]]

* ''Francise/MenInBlack'':

* ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon'': After Jen and Lo's love scene, they spend an intimate moment gazing at the stars in a hot spring, while Lo recounts his childhood.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': While stopping for the night as they escort Fiona to Duloc, Shrek and Donkey stare at the night sky, as Shrek points out the constellations, all of which are about famous ogres.

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** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', Kiara and Kovu have a scene where they're staring up at the sky and pointing out different constellations, like a rabbit and "two lions killing each other for a scrap of meat". Kovu admits it's something he's never done before, while Kiara had done it all the time with Simba. When she mentions the "kings of the past" story, Kovu gets upset and asks if she thinks Scar is up there, too.

* In ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', AI Nicole has been working on projecting a Mobian form for months, as she reveals to Sally's one night. Nicole tells Sally she dreams of watching the stars after she reverts to her handheld form Sally lies down and realizes she never properly looked at the stars before.

Some equivalent scenes at other times a day are [[ThatCloudLooksLike cloud watching]] and WatchingTheSunset.

* In ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubLove'', Atsushi Kinugawa and his EvilFormerFriend Kinshirou Kusatsu lie on their backs stargazing as children. They promise to remain friends (they don't) and each make a wish on a shooting star. There's a repeating motif of shooting stars in the sky which parallels the relationship between the two. [[spoiler:The two wishes end up being central to the plot, as the apparent failure of Kinshirou's is his StartOfDarkness]].
* ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'' has a unusually somber example. A distracted Ikaros is staring at a brilliant full moon when a suspicious Sugata confronts her about her identity, powers, and origins. Her dour responses convince him that as far as Ikaros is concerned, she ''is'' the blank slate she claims to be.

* Chapter 56 of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' has the student council watching the Autumn Moon. Kaguya tries to turn it into her latest BattleOfWits with Shirogane, but -in true YouWereTryingTooHard fashion- Shirogane's innocent love of the stars turns him into a full blown romantic that reduces her to putty in his hands.
* In ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Akio has a planetarium and telescope in his house. Akio likes to look up at the stars on his ceiling and make philosophical observations, and he often dispense advice to Utena during solemn sessions of stargazing. These scenes develop the Akio-Utena romance, as Utena grows to trust Akio during these sessions. The fact that the stars are a planetarium show and not real is symbolic, representing the fact that [[spoiler: almost everything in the world of Ohtori Academy is an illusion created and manipulated by Akio.]]

** The comic has this as an EstablishingCharacterMoment for Skywise (who else?) at the beginning of the very first story arc, where he and Cutter has a moment of friendship together after the rescue of Redlance, and right before the forest is set on fire. The scene has a parallell at the end of the ''Final Quest'' arc, where the two paraphrase the same conversation, while they prepare for the final farewell.
** Also, a couple of instances where Skywise uses this as a pick-up line for getting an elven girl to lie down. This happens with Ruffel early on, and is later taken up by Newstar, to get ''Skywise'' to comply.
* In ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', AI Nicole has been working on projecting a Mobian form for months, as she reveals to Sally's one night. Nicole tells Sally she dreams of watching the stars, after she reverts to her handheld form Sally lies down and realizes she never properly looked at the stars before.

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', Kiara and Kovu have a scene where they're staring up at the sky and pointing out different constellations, like a rabbit and "two lions killing eachother for a scrap of meat". Kovu admits it's something he's never done before, while Kiara had done it all the time with Simba. When she mentions the "kings of the past" story, Kovu gets upset and asks if she thinks Scar is up there, too.

* As Sir Bowen and the dragon from ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'' prepare for a night's rest ''al fresco'', Bowen points out the constellation Draco in the night sky, and suggests calling the dragon by that name. The dragon replies that he'd feel honored to be named after an array of stars.

* ''Film/LadyBird'' has a star gazing scene involving Lady Bird and her first love Danny. She asks him to pick a star for them and then they start cuddling. Afterwards they discuss a name for their star with Danny suggesting "Claude" which Lady Bird finds too pretentious so she suggests "Bruce" instead.

* ''Literature/{{Saturnin}}'': The unnamed narrator and his love interest Miss Barbora spend summer at his grandfather's beautiful villa. They watch stars together on the terrace, try to see a shooting star and are mostly silent. The narrator muses whether it was right when he decided not to try to kiss her. However, he has a very specific idea about their first kiss. He wants them to simply "kiss", not to "kiss her" or steal the kiss from her.

** In "Counterpoint", Janeway and Kashyk spend a {{UST}}-filled brainstorming session together, including gazing at an aurora-like star cluster. SlashFic fans have also noted the amount of times Janeway and Seven of Nine have a close conversation in Astrometrics.

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* ''Disney/TheLionKing'':

* "Episode 3: Backdoor" of ''VideoGame/Code7'' begins with Raven standing on the roof of the hideout, looking at the stars for what she feels is the first time and contemplating who she really is. It is up to you and [[CheerfulAI META]] to try to cheer her up.

** In ''Disney/TheLionKing2'', Kiara and Kovu have a scene where they're staring up at the sky and pointing out different constellations, like a rabbit and "two lions killing eachother for a scrap of meat". Kovu admits it's something he's never done before, while Kiara had done it all the time with Simba. When she mentions the "kings of the past" story, Kovu gets upset and asks if she thinks Scar is up there, too.

* In Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog, AI Nicole has been working on projecting a Mobian form for months, as she reveals to Sally's one night. Nicole tells Sally she dreams of watching the stars, after she reverts to her handheld form Sally lies down and realizes she never properly looked at the stars before.

* In Carl Orff's opera ''Der Mond'', Petrus's monologue about gazing upon the earth from on high and seeing the world-wheel turning beyond the clouds captures the mood, if not the letter, of this trope.

* In Carl Orff's opera ''Der Mond'', Petrus's soliloquy about gazing upon the earth from on high and seeing the world-wheel turning beyond the clouds captures the mood, if not the letter, of this trope.