History Main / TheFaceOfTheSun

* An ad for Sprite used this, with a smiling sun-face on a bottle of juice coming to life and the mother and children running terror from it.

* WesternAnimation/{{Lazoo}} features "Sunny" as a recurring character. In Cock-a-doodle Sneeze they even wake her up prematurely so as to begin the day earlier. She lying on the ground.

This is OlderThanTheyThink: Many classical and medieval works of art depict the sun, "Sol", in this manner, though obviously not in a cartoony fashion. This was codified in medieval heraldry, where the sun was a "sun radiant" if it had rays but no face. A sun with both rays and a face was "the sun in his splendor" (the modern flags of UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} and UsefulNotes/{{Uruguay}} present a distinctive South American form of this, the Sun of May, which takes some influence from depictions of the Incan SunGod Inti; a similar sun appears in some Peruvian and Bolivian symbols). This is common illustration in [[http://califia.us/Folklore/lecture6c.htm folklore]]; see for example, [[http://califia.us/Folklore/6universe_sm.jpg here]].

This is OlderThanTheyThink: Many classical and medieval works of art depict the sun, "Sol", in this manner, though obviously not in a cartoony fashion. This was codified in medieval heraldry, where the sun was a "sun radiant" if it had rays but no face. A sun with both rays and a face was "the sun in his splendor" (the modern flags of UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} and UsefulNotes/{{Uruguay}} present a South American-influenced form of this, the Sun of May). This is common illustration in [[http://califia.us/Folklore/lecture6c.htm folklore]]; see for example, [[http://califia.us/Folklore/6universe_sm.jpg here]].

Compare TheManInTheMoon. See also LightIsNotGood and SinisterSentientSun because, as said before, some of these examples are either evil or creepy. Also see WeirdSun.

Compare TheManInTheMoon. See also LightIsNotGood because, as said before, some of these examples are either evil or creepy. Also see WeirdSun.

* ''Webcomic/TheRedac'' got a sun with a childish, cartoony face, and terrible manners, even burping in his first appearance. There's also a pig-faced variant [[http://the-redac-extras.webcomic.ws/comics/pl/914619 picking its nose]].

* ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'' has a baby-faced sun. The actual reason for the sun being that way is that it represents the toddlers and babies who are watching the program.
** A new baby takes over the role in the reboot... [[GenerationXerox who just so happens to be the daughter of the original face.]]

** Recently (in the manga) he's been shown as furious, presumably, it was hot. In the evenings, he's been seen as extremely tired.

* Tweedledee in "The Walrus and the Carpenter" segment of ''Disney/AliceinWonderland''.

* ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeastTheEnchantedChristmas'': During the medieval/Renaissance woodcut ArtShift depicted in "Stories", the lines "I know a tiny place/Just a dot, too small to measure" are accompanied by Earth seen depicted in space with the rest of the solar system, and the sun appears this way, just as described above in heraldry ("the sun in his splendor"). It also appears this way a bit earlier in the song.

* In a sketch in Season 3 Episode 3 of ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'', an art professor is perplexed that a serious painting, ''The Flight of the Israelites'', portrays the sun as wearing sunglasses and giving a thumbs up. The artist refuses to see the problem until the professor points it out -- if the sun is the main light source in the scene, [[TheGogglesDoNothing what purpose to the sunglasses serve]]? They agree that it would work better if the sun was smoking a spliff.

** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3,'' An angry sun appears as an enemy in one of the desert levels and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu can be killed]] with a Koopa Shell.

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* Modern depictions of the [[Myth/IncaMythology Inca]] and [[Myth/AztecMythology Aztec]] sun gods tend to be this. Its unclear if they have true precedent in the original cultures or if it is Spanish heraldry fucking things up.

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* ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' had this accompanied by a pink glade of flowers and a rainbow during a montage in "Total Recall".

* The cover of the Music/MoodyBlues album, ''In Search Of The Lost Chord''.

* In UsefulNotes/{{Tarot}} decks, the Sun Major Arcana is usually represented this way. Depending on the deck and your tastes, it may however be more or less NightmareFuel-ish.

* In ''{{Tearaway}}'', the sun has a hole in it leading to the world outside the game, and shows the ''player's'' face (a live feed from the Vita's front camera).

* In ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'', the sun and moon have faces and occasionally make quips about what's going on down at ground level. They transform into one another at dawn and dusk rather than rising or setting.

* ''ComicBook/Grimjack'' occasionally ventured to a dimension where the inhabitants were cute sentient animals. The sun of that dimension also was sentient, complete with a face.

* ''Webcomic/TheRedac'' got a sun with a childish, cartoony face, and terrible manners (he burped in his first appearance). There's also a pig-faced variant [[http://the-redac-extras.webcomic.ws/comics/pl/914619 picking its nose]].