Anime and Manga
"I'm about to use the power of the sun! If you don't fear its power, then C'MON!"
— Banjo Haran, Daitarn 3
Borrowing the power of the sun, here's my special move! SUN ATTACK!!
— Banjo Haran, Daitarn 3
The flower that bathes in the sunlight, Cure Sunshine!
Comic Books
"If only I could hold a sun in my hand, I would purge all worlds of life. Wipe them clean of sin. I would burn whole cities, boil oceans down to their bedrock."
Fanfiction
Bright as the sun and fast as light! I'm Cure Banana!
Faithful as the summer sun! I'm Glitter Banana!
"My associates, who will appear with me in our next broadcast, were men of power–at least some of them were. But even those who had no power at all have gained power enough to challenge the Three Cheesy Marvels, and those who had power before have acquired the might to beat them. And they did. All of this was done by a power we tap every day, to warm our bones, to raise our crops, to keep the chlorophyll producing oxygen for all life to exist on Earth."
"The power of the sun."
"I devised a method of directly tapping the great energy of the sun, through a lattice of receiver-transmitters we installed at a point near enough to the sun to be efficient for our purposes. Don't worry, men of Earth, it's far beyond your capacities to reach. I don't feel insecure about revealing its existence. The receivers empower my associates. As a result, the Monster Society of Evil have become monsters beyond your greatest nightmares."
"The power of the sun."
"I devised a method of directly tapping the great energy of the sun, through a lattice of receiver-transmitters we installed at a point near enough to the sun to be efficient for our purposes. Don't worry, men of Earth, it's far beyond your capacities to reach. I don't feel insecure about revealing its existence. The receivers empower my associates. As a result, the Monster Society of Evil have become monsters beyond your greatest nightmares."
Films - Live Action
"The power of the sun... In the palm of my hand..."
— Dr. Otto Octavius, Spider-Man 2
Literature
Re beamed overhead, charging Menkaure's body with His invigorating light. The power coursed through him, raw and unchecked. As long as Re held vigil overhead, Menkaure was nearly invincible.
— Graveyard Shift by Michael F. Haspil
I am a god and I am not a god. Either way, you are my creatures. I keep you alive. Inside I am hot beyond all telling, and yet my outside is even hotter. At my touch you burn, though I spin outside the sky. As I breathe my big slow breaths, you freeze and burn, freeze and burn. Some day I will eat you. For now, I feed you. Beware my regard. Never look at me.
— The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
"What is it with these cold snaps?" Zook shivered, still emptying his bazooka into the Drow horde. "Why can't I be attacked by nice weather for a change?"
"Oh, a sun worshipper, are you?" cried out Kaos, pressing a button. "Then catch these rays."
A beam of brilliant sunlight blazed down on Zook, knocking him off his feet.
"No..." He groaned, his bark instantly cracking in the heat. "Drying up."
"Oh, a sun worshipper, are you?" cried out Kaos, pressing a button. "Then catch these rays."
A beam of brilliant sunlight blazed down on Zook, knocking him off his feet.
"No..." He groaned, his bark instantly cracking in the heat. "Drying up."
— Skylanders: The Mask Of Power, "Cynder Confronts the Weather Wizard"
Live-Action TV
Tabletop Games
Nicol looks at the cloudless sky and the dizzyingly brilliant sun. The sun is magnificent, bolder and brighter than anything else, dazzling and powerful, the antithesis of shadow and fear.
Video Games
"Illuminate the world, Golden Trillion! Shine upon our righteous path!"
— ZedΩ, Azure Striker Gunvolt 3
Astarion: What in the sweet hells were you thinking, activating that lance? I was right there! Gods, do you have any idea how much that hurt?
Astarion: Well, apparently there's a limit. Somewhere between a nice summer's day and the full, concentrated power OF THE SUN!
—Baldurs Gate 3, Astarion's reaction when he is resurrected after being killed by the Solar Lance
Web Video
"Sun, you grow my food, you kill my enemies. You're totally worth the skin cancer."
— Son Goku, Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Revenge of Cooler
the sun is a deadly lazer.
Western Animation
Real Life
"Sixteen hours ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam" which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare. The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid manyfold. And the end is not yet. With this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement the growing power of our armed forces. In their present form these bombs are now in production and even more powerful forms are in development. It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East."
— President Harry S. Truman, August 6, 1945
