Give Me a Sign: Difference between revisions

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* From [[Deadpool]] :

'''Al''': Thanks for squat, Big Guy. }}

* Voiced by Thorold Stone in the [[Apocalypse]] film series movie ''Revelation'' when he isn't convinced that there is a God other than the self-proclaimed Messiah Franco Maccalusso, which he doesn't believe is God either. He later gets his sign from the real true God when he and several other Christians get sent into the furnace and are supernaturally protected from the flames.

* Played for laughs in ''[[Oh, God!]]''. To prove His divinity, Jerry asks God to make it rain. He does so... inside Jerry's moving car.

'''God:''' "Why should I spoil everybody's day?" }}

** In one of the sequels, Bobby Shelton, a struggling musician who sold his soul to the devil, prays to God that He would give him a sign. He receives it in the form of a rainbow that appears bright in the sky at night.

* In Douglas Adams ''[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|So Long And Thanks For All The Fish]]'', God left his final message to his creation (in fifty foot-tall letters of fire) on the side of a mountain. It reads {{spoiler|"'''WE APOLOGISE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.'''"}} Marvin got to see it before he died. [[Tear Jerker|It made him feel a little better.]]

* Spider Robinson's ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon]]'' short story "Have You Heard the One...?" includes this. Jake Stonebender is telling a story about going to a musical gig.

* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] novel ''The Hour of the Dragon'', men pray during [[The Plague]], and take its ending with the king's death as a sign, and a mark of favor for his brother and heir. Conan has none of it:

* Played very seriously in ''[[The Emigrants]]''. Kristina who has been very religious her entire life begins to doubt the existence of God after all the hardships she's had to endure and begs God to exist and to give her a sign that he does.

* In ''[[The Curse of Chalion]]'', Cazaril asks his friend Palli to pray for a sign {{spoiler|about whether he should ride on a mission for Royesse Iselle.}} Palli is skeptical, not the least because Cazaril himself had been skeptical about such things in the past, but agrees to try. {{spoiler|Later, a perturbed Palli tells Caz: "Pray for guidance, you said. In my sleep, if you please. I was killed five times in my dreams last night, I'll have you know. Riding somewhere. Each time more horribly. In the last dream, my horses ate me. I don't want to put my leg across anything, horse, mule, or sawhorse, for a week at least!"}}

== Music ==

* The Fiery Furnaces' "We Got Back The Plague" notes that about the time [[George W. Bush]] was elected, there was an actual case of bubonic plague in New York.

Early November we got back ''the plague''! }}

* DMX's "Lord Give Me A Sign."

* In French works, often played for laughs by having a swan appear for no good reason (in French, the words for "swan" and "sign" being homonyms).

* In ''Shrek [[The Musical]]'', from "Travel Song":

'''Donkey''': Oh look, a sign! Yunita Pal Avenue straight ahead! }}

* In ''[[Endstone]]'', Kyri has gotten news that her daughter is [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|driven mad]] by the [[Artifact of Doom]], and her estranged husband refuses to help her. [http://endstone.net/2009/05/25/issue-1-page-19/ She sees a morning star as a sign to have faith in the gods].

* In [[Dubious Company]], after Tiren has second thoughts about joining [[Evil Overlord|Kreedor's army]], she goes AWOL and gets lost. She looks up at the moon and sees Walter's ship.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** One notable example is Homer begging God for help, and the phone rings: "This is God... frey Jones. I heard about your story..."

** Another Simpsons example is when Homer asked for [[Genre Savvy|no sign]].

** After Homer realises that he can't afford to send Lisa to an independent school, he walks past a music shop:

'''Homer''': Eh, works for me. }}