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See also [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]], which is sometimes invoked for some of the more bizarre sky-types. Compare [[Zeppelins Fromfrom Another World]]. The sub-trope [[Binary Suns]] is a specific example.

* ''[[The Vision of Escaflowne (Manga)|The Vision of Escaflowne]]'' had Earth hanging in the sky.

** The Digital World in ''[[Digimon Savers (Anime)|Digimon SaversFrontier]]'' had rocks floating in the sky and it sometimes had electronic textures onthree itmoons.

** The Digital World in ''[[Digimon Tamers (Anime)|TamersSavers]]'' era had arocks digitalfloating representation ofin the earthsky floatingand init thesometimes skyhad electronic textures on it.

** ''[[Digimon Xros Wars (Anime)|Digimon Xros Wars]]'' had this used, not to show that they were in another world, but that they went from one section of the other world to another section, with the island zone having a pattern in the sky

* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Anime)|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' played the double moon version during a chapter with the Moon {{spoiler|and the Hyper Galaxy Dai-Gurren}}.

* ''[[Darker Than Black (Anime)|Darker Thanthan Black]]'' has as part of the back story that the normal sky of the Earth disappeared when Hell's Gate opened ten years ago, taking with it all constructs found above the Stratosphere. Attempts to reclaim space only result in silence from whatever is sent up there. Instead, the stars in the night sky are all artificial and bound to a particular contractor, blinking as the contractor uses its power and falling from the sky when the contractor dies. The moon has disappeared and even the sun is altered; every few years, the sunspots move around so much that the sun looks like a giant glowing eye for a while.

* In ''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|DragonBall Z]]'', Namek has a green sky (and blue grass), and three suns that illuminate the planet's entire surface at all times. And lollipop-shaped trees.

* In ''[[Stellvia of the Universe]]'' space, and thus the night sky, is green now. This is justified in that Earth is in a part of space still suffering the effects of the supernova explosion of the star [[wikipedia:Beta Hydri|Hydrus Beta]] ( which almost destroyed human civilisation ) and so occupies what seems to be a nebula. {{spoiler|Space changes colour again later on}}.

* ''[[Cowboy Bebop (Anime)|Cowboy Bebop]]'' has a cracked moon in Earth's sky and tons of debris that rains down upon the Earth on a daily basis. Of course, few people live there, opting instead for other, terraformed bodies in the Solar System with even weirder views of the heavens.

* Speaking of space westerns, ''[[Trigun (Manga)|Trigun]]'' appeared to take place on wild west Earth at the beginning, but the twin suns, five moons, and purple night sky caused by three or more moons shining at one time is a tipoff to the contrary... along with all those alien-looking people and weaponry... and those giant Plant systems.

* ''[[Allison and Lillia]]'' has, in addition to its Alien Geography, a moon which is much closer to the Earth, orbiting every eight days and producing spectacular solar eclipses on a disturbingly frequent basis. Strangely, however, calendar months are still roughly 30 days long...

* In ''[[Trinity Blood (Light Novel)|Trinity Blood]]'', Earth has two moons: the normal moon, and a new "Vampire Moon", which is {{spoiler|the colony ship the Methuselah used to travel to Mars and back.}}

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|End of Evangelion]]'' ends up with Earth surrounded by reddish ring {{spoiler|made of blood}}. The sky looks even worse in the middle of the film.

* In the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Anime)The Movie|the ''Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' OVA]], a large planet with Saturn-like rings is visible in the sky over the North Pole.

* In ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story (Video Game)|Star Ocean EX]]'', Expel, a medieval Earth-like planet where the action takes place, has two moons, one glowing blue and the other glowing red.

* In ''[[Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing (Anime)|Last Exile Fam theThe Silver Wing]]'', Earth has six moons. Of course, {{spoiler|not all of them are actually moons}}.

* Used in ''[[Avenger (Anime)|Avenger]]'' to show viewers that it is really Mars where the action takes places.

* The setting of the ''[[Elf Quest]]'' comics also has two moons -- andmoons—and is called the World of Two Moons, in honor of the fact.

* In ''[[With Strings Attached (Fanfic)|With Strings Attached]]'', at the beginning, when Paul is awakened by John and discovers they're outdoors in a field somewhere, he angrily assumes John spirited him away, despite John's vehement and frightened denials. Trying to find a hidden camera crew, he notes that the full moon is setting over the nearby forest. Then, on the beach, he does a double take when he sees the crescent moon over the ocean... and then he knows John wasn't responsible for this predicament at all.

* ''[[Star Wars]]'' had Luke framed against a simple but gorgeous twin sunset in the first movie--itmovie—it's the first shot in the film to really drive home the point that this isn't Earth, and succeeds spectacularly, despite being one of the film's simplest effects - it's just a double exposure of a real sunset. It also featured the rebel base on an Earth-like moon orbiting a giant, red gas-planet.

* ''[[The Quiet Earth (film)|The Quiet Earth]]'' (see the illustration) ends with Zac on an alien world, or radically changed Earth, immediately obvious because of the weird clouds and ringed planet rising in the sky.

* [[The Reveal]] in ''[[Galaxy Quest (Film)|Galaxy Quest]]'', when the huge dome opens and Taggart finally realizes where he ''really'' is.

* ''[[Stargate (Filmfilm)|Stargate]]'' (the movie) showed an alien sky with three full moons visible at the same time. This turned out to be the basis for the planet's identifying symbol in the Stargate dialling system.

* The 1980 version of ''[[Flash Gordon (Filmfilm)|Flash Gordon]]'' features an immense sky full of vivid, multi-colored clouds visibly surging and roiling. The "sky" may in fact be more akin to a nebula, as continent-sized "moons" are seen to float in it. Its relationship to the "Sea of Fire" the heroes fly through to reach Mongo is unclear.

* The "sky" in ''[[The Truman Show (Film)|The Truman Show]]'' has an artificial quality, as it's painted/projected against the interior of an enormous dome and the moon is stationary in the same place, day or night. The "moon" is really where the mysterious director of the Truman Show resides and watches over Truman's life, and can in emergencies be used as a giant searchlight.

* In ''[[Avatar (Filmfilm)|Avatar]]'', the gas giant Pandora orbits, and its sibling moons, are prominent in its sky - as is, in one scene, either Alpha Centauri B or the drive flame of an RDA starship.

* Malacandra{{spoiler|, otherwise known as Mars,}} in [[CSC. LewisS. (Creator)Lewis|CS Lewis]]'s ''[[Space Trilogy]]'' has giant chunks of pink coral for clouds, set in an electric blue sky. {{spoiler|It turns out the "clouds" are the Martian surface and the bulk of the story takes place in deep, narrow canals.}}

* The novelizations of ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]'''s Mirrodin block had the four moons (corresponding to four of the five colours of mana) as its main plot element. The third set in the block, Fifth Dawn, is about what you'd expect. The better known world Dominaria has two moons, the Mist Moon and the Glimmer Moon or Null Moon {{spoiler|which turns out to be an artificial construct storing mana and is destroyed during the climax of the ''Wheatherlight'' saga.}}

* [[Isaac Asimov]]'s short story (and later, novel) ''[[Nightfall (Literature)|Nightfall]]'' takes place on Lagash, a planet with six (!) suns and one moon. This is a major plot point, as when the moon eclipses the sole sun remaining on one side of the planet (after the others have all set), which happens every 2049 local years, Lagash's people go insane and destroy their civilization. It wasn't just the darkness that drove the people insane; it was all the ''stars'' in it. Their astronomers had theorized that there might be other star systems, as many as twenty or even a hundred - a number which another character whistles at, commenting that it would reduce their world to insignificance. Earth's sky would be enough of a shock, but Lagash is close to the center of the Galaxy, and the splendor of a star-packed sky - the sudden revelation of how vast the universe ''really'' is, and how indescribably tiny they are by comparison - is enough to crush even the most "prepared" mind.

* ''The Andalite Chronicles'', a prequel to ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'', has a piece of [[Phlebotinum]] create a small universe based on the memories of the main characters. The sky is a patchwork of bright blue with fluffy clouds (Loren's memories of Earth), deep red (Elfangor's memories of the Andalite homeworld), and sickly green with lots of lightning (Esplin 9466's memories of the Yeerk homeworld, [[Continuity Drift|problems with that notwithstanding]]).

* In the ''[[Co DominiumCoDominium|Warworld]]'' series, the Alien Sky is an important plot point, as the moon Haven has a day/night cycle 87 hours long, so having a heat-radiating Brown Dwarf in the sky can mean the difference between freezing to death and merely losing a few toes.

** Another [[Co DominiumCoDominium]] setting is the twin planets of New Washington and Franklin, which are tide-locked so that each sits unmoving in the same part of the sky every day when seen from the surface of the other.

** ''[[Ring WorldRingworld]]'': the Ringworld sky is dominated by the Ring, and "night" is produced by the Shadow Squares.

* [[Dragonriders of Pern|Pern]] has two moons--Beliormoons—Belior is the larger one, Timor is the smaller one. Since the dragonriders often use the moons' positions as coordinates for going ''between'', it's likely that they can be seen during the daytime. However, the plot-important aspect of the sky is the Red Star, which starts raining Thread onto the planet once it gets closest to the sun.

* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[GauntsGaunt's Ghosts]]'' novel ''His Last Command'', when Mkoll and Maggs have gone through a [[Cool Gate|Chaos warp gate]] -- the—the stars are all wrong, and there are massive stone blocks floating in the air.

* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]] [[Ultramarines (Literaturenovel)|Ultramarines]]'' novel ''Dead Sky Black Sun'', not only is the sun black, it never moves.

* In ''[[The Wheel of Time (Literature)|The Wheel of Time]]'', the [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can|prison of the Dark One]] is accessed through a simple tunnel into the mountain Shayol Ghul – but the view from the inside is "a sky that was not the sky of" the normal world, with "wildly striated clouds streaking by as though driven by the greatest winds the world had ever seen." Given the [[Fire and Brimstone Hell|other atmospherics]] and the fact that the [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place|Pit of Doom]] is literally outside the universe, this may just be to freak visitors out.

* Inverted in the [[Diane Duane]] ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' novel ''Spock's World'', in which Sarek finds Earth's tiny, silvery moon a bizarre spectacle that helps him come to terms with the idea that he's really on another planet.

{{quote| '''Spock''': "Vulcan has no moon."<br />

* The appearance of the first clouds to appear over Fourecks for thousands of years invoked this trope in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'' for some local [[Discworld]] wizards, who'd never seen such a thing before.

* The planet Erna of the ''[[Coldfire Trilogy]]'' has three moons--Primamoons—Prima, Domina, and Casca.

* In [[Clive Barker|Clive Barker's]] young adult fantasy book ''[[Abarat (Literature)|Abarat]]'', it's seeing the unfamiliar stars in the sky that really hits home for Candy Quackenbush that she's in another world.

** The planet Krop Tor in ''The Impossible Planet'' had a ''[[Unrealistic Black HoleHoles Suck|large black hole in the sky]]'', as well as hurricanes created by whatever said black hole is currently consuming.

* Pylea in ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' has two suns, not that we see either more than once. Conveniently for any vampires present, neither are of the undead-frying variety.

* The ''[[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Land of the Lost]]'' has three moons (and sometimes two suns), but given what's learned about the Land during the series, they may not be exactly... real.

* Planet Hell (the "planetary surface" soundstage) from ''[[Star Trek: the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek theThe Original Series]]'', which always had a different-colored backdrop. I mean, sky.

** An [[Egregious]] example is when Vulcan was seen in ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Film)|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]'' with two really big moons in the sky, even though it had previously been said that Vulcan doesn't have any moons. A [[Fan Wank]] [[Retcon]] turned these into a sister planet with its own moon ... And then the eleventh movie actually put characters and a starbase ''on'' the sister planet so one of them could watch {{spoiler|Vulcan get destroyed}} in a flashback.

* ''[[Stargate SG -1]]'' loves putting many moons and big moons into an alien sky - probably because [[Stargate City|nine-tenths of the planets look like British Columbia]], so you have to show variation somehow. The trend started in the Stargate film, where Abydos has three moons. This trope was used quite well in any episode where [[Muggle|Muggles]]s were invited through the gate; they'd say the planet looks just like earth until either they encounter alien technology or a cast member tells them to look up... at the gas giant or pair of moons in the sky.

* ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' does this all the time, as the series is set in a solar system with lots of gas giants and habitable moons. The "first episode" features, in its first scene a celestial object hanging in the sky that you really wouldn't want to see on Earth, because it would mean the moon had suddenly and drastically reduced the distance between itself and Earth and altered its surface features.

** Done on ''Earth'' in ''[[Power Rangers RPM (TV)|Power Rangers RPM]]'', to show just how much damage Venjix has caused. Outside of the [[Domed Hometown]] of Corinth, which projects blue skies onto the underside of the dome, the world is covered with a yellow filter to suggest yellow toxic clouds, high radiation levels, and storms of dust.

* In the ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]]'' miniseries, when DG first wakes up in the O.Z., she finds herself in a huge forest with two suns in the sky, just to make it clear that (all together now) she's not in Kansas anymore.

* Many ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' settings have multiple moons.

** ''[[Dragonlance]]'' has three [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|morally-aligned]] moons -- Solitarimoons—Solitari (good, white), Lunitari (neutral, red), and Nuitari (evil, black) -- but only so long as the gods are around.

* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' features a world with two moons, one normal looking, the other a sickly, evil green.

* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' has this in spades - pretty much every planet has, or is implied to have, a screwed-up sky to some extent. Considering the million-something habitable worlds that make up the galaxy, that's quite a lot, and it's pretty much justified, as well. A Warp Storm over a world is liable to induce the most horrifying variety of this, too.

* ''[[Exalted (Tabletop Game)|Exalted]]''

* In ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]'', Dominaria has two moons. One of them is artificial. And Mirrodin has four [http://magiccards.info/5dn/en/84.html (and later, five) "suns."]

* ''[[Skies of Arcadia (Video Game)|Skies of Arcadia]]'' deserves a special mention here. Six moons (and no visible sun, despite there being a normal day/night cycle), and they're arranged in such a way that you can only see each one in a particular region of the world. Besides the Moons hanging over their country of choice, just try to fathom how that map works when you really think about it. (The two ends of Glacia should not be connected to each other if the world is round...) Of course, the game is premised on the assumption that there's no ocean and [[Floating Continent|all the landmasses of the world are floating in the sky]], so [[MST3K Mantra|maybe we should just relax]].

* One of the many links between ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'' and ''[[Tales of Phantasia (Video Game)|Tales of Phantasia]]'' is the names of Phantasia's two moons: Sylvarant and Tethe'alla, the names of the two worlds in Symphonia. When the original world was split in two, the residents of each world named the one moon that remained in their world after the other world, to "explain" where the missing people went. This caused some confusion when someone from the world of Tethe'alla came to Sylvarant (whose people had long forgotten about the other world).

* The world of ''[[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]]'' has two moons, one large and familiar-looking, the other small and red. Its predecessor ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'', set in the same world, only had one. {{spoiler|Turns out the second moon showed up after Dinopolis was pulled from an alternate timeline to the one the games are set in}}.

* ''[[Sid MeiersMeier's Alpha Centauri]]'' is set in the Alpha Centauri star system, which consists of two mid-sized, sunlike stars (Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B) and a red dwarf (Alpha Centauri C or Proxima Centauri). The planet you colonize (officially called Chiron, usually called Planet) is the second planet of Alpha Centauri A; Alpha Centauri A and B orbit around each other in an 80-year cycle. Since the orbit is elliptical, this means Alpha Centauri B's actual distance from Planet varies noticeably, and every time Alpha Centauri B approaches perihelion (i.e., gets its closest to Alpha Centauri A) Planet gets warmer, causing the [[Starfish Aliens|native life]] to pester your bases even more for a period of 20 years. However, you rarely get to see the actual sky of Planet in cutscenes.

* ''[[Drakengard (Video Game)|Drakengard]]''

* The first few levels of ''[[Serious Sam (Video Game)|Serious Sam]]: The Second Encounter'' are supposed to take place in South or Central America, on our Earth, in the Mayan age. However, as you near the end of this set, the sky goes completely dark, and a bit later on the night-time sky is blue-purple and... is that a nebula? Cool and beautiful but quite bizarre.

* ''[[The Elder Scrolls (Video Game)|The Elder Scrolls]]'' Series features two moons in the sky: Masser and Secunda. One of these moons is reddish-brown while the other is grey. Oh, and when the moons aren't full, you can see stars behind the dark parts ([[A Wizard Did It]]) The constellations and nebula shown on the night sky are also completely different, creating a beautiful spectacle. In [[Another Dimension|Oblivion]], the skies are even wierder, even during daytime.

** Also in ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Video Game)|Morrowind]]'', the sun is '''fucking huge.'''

** In ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Video Game)|Oblivion]]'', entering the eponymous Oblivion World lands you in somewhere closely resembling hell, with a red stormy sky. Going near an Oblivion Gate in Tamriel causes the same sky effect, which can be very unsettling.

** ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Video Game)|Skyrim]]'' continues this trope in fine fashion, not only including many of the aforementioned delights, but also with some spectacular auroras going on. Whilst they fit with the northern, snowy province, they are far more extravagant than those featured on Earth and come in some pretty otherworldly colours. One of the [[Words Can Break My Bones|Dragon Shouts]] you can learn even clears away all the clouds, mist, and rain to show off how pretty the sky is.

* ''[[Borderlands (Video Game)|Borderlands]]'' has planet [[Crapsack World|Pandora]], whos moon isn't exactly round.

* ''[[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV]]'' follows the "one normal moon like Earth's, one special plot-related moon you get to visit" pattern.

** The game confirms that {{spoiler|the world of ''[[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV]]'' ''is'' (sort of) Earth, and that the Lunarians on the second moon (which wasn't always there) came from a planet that was between Mars and Jupiter before it was destroyed, causing the Lunarians to move to a second moon orbiting Earth. The moon that the heroes don't get to visit is the one that exists in real life. The Lunarians move their moon away in the epilogue of the game.}}

* The world of ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]'' has a fairly normal blue sky with one moon... except that the moon is enormous, taking up at least a quarter of the sky in most of the backdrop images. It is also, as the characters learn during the third disc, covered with monsters, and the "Lunar Cry" which carries those monsters to the planet below causes the planet-facing side of the moon to temporarily sport a huge blood-red spot with a milky white center that makes it look like a giant alien eye.

* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: MajorasMajora's Mask]]'', an intimidating moon growing ever-larger in the sky serves as both a timepiece and to remind players that (despite widespread recycling of character models) they're in the parallel world of Termina, not in Hyrule. Additionally, as the moon nears collision, the sky turns a sickly green during the day and reddish during the night.

* ''[[Grandia II]]'' has a moon similar to ours, and a smaller red one -- Valmarone—Valmar's Moon. {{spoiler|You get to land on it.}}

* The world of ''[[Wild ArmsARMs]]'' contains two moons. The usual boring old moon, and the new moon Malduke {{spoiler|which is actually a huge orbiting military base built by the [[Precursors]] and also serves as [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]}}.

* Na Pali, the planet where ''[[Unreal (Video Game)|Unreal]]'' takes place, has two suns and two moons, which lead to some interesting landscapes and light effects. ''Unreal 2: The Awakening'' has some skies being almost completely dominated by other planets and their rings.

*** The aurora-like things you see in Outland are actually parts of the Twisting Nether that is bleeding physical world after Draenor was ripped apart by opening too many portals to the Nether. The Netherstorm zone is a result of an extreme version of this process.

* The entire ''[[Marathon (Video Game)Trilogy|Marathon]]'' trilogy counts, every time you get to go outside. Especially on the planet L'howon, where most of the second and third games take place.

* In ''[[Quake (Video Gameseries)|Quake]]'' the sky was filled with ominous purple clouds; in ''[[Quake II (Video Game)|Quake II]]'' the sky of the alien planet Stroggos was reddish-orange and sometimes had orbiting asteroids visible.

* In ''[[Fable I (Videovideo Gamegame)|Fable I]]'', the moon takes up a fifth of the sky, even during daytime.

* The ''[[Homeworld (Video Game)|Homeworld]]'' game has coloured space(s); in imitation of the art of Chris Foss, often seen on paperback covers of the seventies and eighties. Ship design and colours, too.

* In ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'', the map Ctf_Doublecross originally had ''seven moons''. Although one could write this off as a glitch or a mistake due it being nixed in a later update.

* In ''[[Deadly Premonition (Video Game)|Deadly Premonition]]'', the sky turns weird every time there are enemies around.

* The Sky of Lennus in [[PaladinsPaladin's Quest]] is mostly normal, save for having multiple large purple moons. The flora, fauna, and overall terrain is far more alien.

* [http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-page&page=gen_skyonalienworlds Here's an article] from the [[OrionsOrion's Arm]] encyclopedia that makes detailed predictions of what conditions would produce what sort of Alien Sky.

* ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'': [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003904 Alternia] has two moons (third panel on the linked page), one large and green, one small and pink which has its own little natural satellite. Its sun is also large, red, and invariably described as blistering. Then you have the various Lands inside the game incipispheres:

* The worldWorld of Vytal inRemnant ''([[RWBY]])'' has two moons, one of which is's [[Weird Moon|moon is shattered]].

* The planet in ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' had two moons. But, of course, one [[That's No Moon|wasn't really a moon]], revealed as part of the [[Planet of the Apes Ending]] of the first season.

* The ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' episode "My Three Suns" took place, appropriately, on a planet with three suns, one of which stretched from horizon to horizon. The humans and robot had no problems functioning there, though it was Death-Valley-level hot. In the [[Alternate Universe]] episode "The Farnsworth Parabox", the second universe has a psychedelic-colored sky. Amusingly, later in the Alternate Universe episode there's a shot of the (alternate) Earth from space, and it shows that the weird psychedelic sky is only a small patch over New New York. The rest of the planet looks normal, which indicates that it's probably Farnsworth's fault as all differences between the two universes were caused by coin-flips going one way instead of the other. That must have been some coin-flip...

* An interesting variant in ''[[Superman: theThe Animated Series]]''. It's a cloudy day, and [[Card-Carrying Villain|Luminous]] taunts Superman, saying he can bring Superman to [[Brought Down to Normal|normal human levels]]. Indeed, Superman has been getting weaker and weaker. Finally Superman goes outside city limits to punch rocks and the clouds break. And that's when it hits him... the sun is RED.<ref>Actually, Luminous used a satellite array to filter certain wavelengths of the sun's rays, which essentially has the same intended effect.</ref>

* ''[[Visionaries: (Animation)|VisionariesKnights of the Magical Light]]'' The alignment of Prysmos's triple suns acts as a catalyst for the Age of Magic/Science. They are often seen throughout in the background of the series.

* ''[[Xyber 9: New Dawn]]'' has Terrana, which has two moons, with both usually visible in the night sky at the same time.

* In the last few seasons of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', the sky is red instead of its normal blue. This wasn't actually done by an alien but rather to convey the relatively more serious tone of those seasons.

* ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|Thundercats 2011]]'' has Third Earth, which orbits a gas giant with a great spot visible on its surface. Two moons are also visible.

* Occasionally one has such experiences on Earth, too. Ever wake up in a dust storm? When the millions of residents of Sydney, Australia woke up on 23rd23 September 2009 to a completely opaque red sky, there seemed to be only two things they could describe it as, neither of which any of them had experienced: The Apocalypse, or Mars.

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