Fantastic Light Source: Difference between revisions

* Early in ''[[Crimson Spell]]'', Halvir gives Prince Vald a fairy in a jar to use as a light source, instructing him to smack it and make the fairy angry to make it glow. Vald, who is a nicer person than Havi is, sets the fairy loose as soon as Havi has left.

 

* In ''[[Tangled]]'', Rapunzel uses her magic hair to find the way out of a flooded cave.

* On ''[[Despicable Me]]'', one of the Minions is used as a glow stick.

* ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'': the biolumiscent flora of Pandora.

* Occurs at the climax of ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick|Pitch Black]]'' with the {{spoiler|glowing worms}} found in a cave. The {{spoiler|worms}} helped keep the light sensitive monsters at bay long enough to allow {{spoiler|the survivors to make it to the shuttle}} at the end.

* Princess Eilonwy's "bauble" (AKA the [[wikipedia:Golden Pelydryn|Golden Pelydryn]]) in the ''[[Prydain Chronicles]]''.

* ''[[Labyrinths of Echo]]'' has fungi in fishbowls that emit pleasant orange light when irritated (the switch is connected to little brushes). And magical luminescent lamps for blue light.

* In the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] novel ''Splinter of the Mind's Eye'', when Luke and Leia enter a series of caves, they discover it isn't totally dark due to a light-emitting fungus growing on the walls.

** A more common one from ''[[Star Wars]]'' is [[Laser Blade|the lightsaber]] itself.

* ''[[Dune]]'' has glowglobes, free-floating lamps equipped with antigravity generators. Like many other aspects of the Duniverse, they have also been borrowed by ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''.

 

* The [[Living Ship]] ''[[Lexx]]'' has bioluminescent internal organs.

 

 

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