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{{trope}}
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Character flies in front of a full moon, making a silhouette. Popularized by ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'', almost to the point where it has become a [[Stock Shout Out]].
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{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', [[Captain Obvious|of course]], does this a lot.
* Sakura does it at the end of the ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'''s first episode after activating the Fly card. Tomoyo happened to be testing her video camera on the moon at the time. Oops.
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== Comic Books ==
* One [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] comic makes use of this trope when Willow is flying Andrew to Scotland.
* ''[[Rising Stars]]'': [[Anti-Hero|Randy Fisk]] does this with {{spoiler|[[Too Good for This Sinful Earth|Cathy Holmes']]}} [[Heroic Sacrifice|body, after they die in the process of]] {{spoiler|[[Healing Hands|bringing him back to life]]}}, cremating them with his [[Hand Blast]]. Possibly somewhat [[
== Film ==
* ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
▲* ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'': [[Trope Codifier]] at the very least; this is the iconic shot of the film, as seen in the page image.
* Many Christmas movies feature an ending scene where a silhouette of [[Santa Claus]] and his reindeer traveling away can be seen in the front of the moon.
* ''[[The Naked Gun]] 2½''{{context}}
* ''[[Last Action Hero]]'', with Danny on a bicycle no less.
* ''The Tall Guy'', starring [[Jeff Goldblum]] - dancing in front of the moon in a ''rabbit costume''.
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* Happens at least twice in the ''[[X Wing Series]]'', involving Star Destroyers (and obviously not with ''our'' moon).
* In the famous scene from [[Sherlock Holmes|The Hound Of The Baskervilles]], Watson and Henry Baskerville notice a
== Live Action TV ==
* Similar to the aforementioned Film example, many [[Christmas Episode
* In one scene of ''[[Top Gear]]'''s Botswana special, the three presenters' heads appear in silhouette against a rising red moon (red because of all the dust stirred up by their day trip across the Makgadikgadi
* ''[[Eureka]]'''s season four [[Christmas Episode]] gave us Santa's sleigh being silhouetted against the full moon.
* ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze]]'' has one right in the opening. Given the show's space thematic it was pretty dang predictable.
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== Western Animation ==
* Similar to the aforementioned Film example, many [[Christmas Episode
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation|Tiny Toon Adventures How I Spent My Vacation]]'': Byron flies in front of the moon, with Buster and Babs in tow, and crashes into E.T. and Elliot.
* The [[Grand Finale|series finale]] of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' ends with Kim and Ron flying off in her [[Cool Car]] in front of a (what else?) full moon.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Astronomy Tropes]]
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[[Category:Artistic License Astronomy]]
[[Category:Flying Tropes]]
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