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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:graspthesun.jpg\|frame\|Gotcha!]] {{quote\|''Follow the sun! ''Su~n! ''Catch the sun! ''Su~n!''\|''[[Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan]]'' [[Theme Song]].}} A visual motif wherein a character who is about to attempt some superhuman feat reaches out towards the sun (or the moon, Earth, etc.) with their hand, as if to grasp it. The camera then switches [[POV Cam\|to his point of view]] as the hand "grabs" the selected celestial body via [[Perspective Magic]]. This symbolizes the human will to seize things that are just too big for them. Line 15 ⟶ 14: Compare [[Got the Whole World In My Hand]] and [[Pan-Up-To-The-Sky Ending]]. {{examples}} == [[Anime]] == * In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' ([[The Movie]]), Asuka clutches at the sun while trying to get up {{spoiler\|after she gets fragged by mass produced Evas but [[Crowning Moment of Awesome\|refuses to give up]]}}. Line 35 ⟶ 34: * In ''Supreme Power'', Hyperion flies into orbit for the first time as a boy, and looks down at Earth. Light from the sun gets in his eyes, and he puts his hand in front of him, over Earth. He pulls his hand back... and then puts it back in front of the world, as if to clutch it. == [[Fan ~~Fiction~~Works]] == * Done in ''[[~~Sinner Blue Darks Misfortune (Fanfic)\|~~SinnerBlue: Dark's Misfortune]]'' by the eponymous protagonist. == [[Film]] == Line 68 ⟶ 67: == [[Western Animation]] == * Invoked but avoided, by nature of the "fight", in the final showdown of ''[[The Flight of Dragons]]'': when [[Big Bad\|Ommadon]] threatens to ~~[[Grasp the Sun\|~~rip the sun from the sky above]] and use it to scorch the land, [[Unfazed Everyman\|Peter]] [[Logic Bomb\|defeats the spell]] [[Shut UP, Hannibal\|by stating as fact]] [[Magic Versus Science\|that the "sun" he's reaching for is actually an afterimage]]. * Not exactly the sun, but in ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'', after sending a drone to spy on the Little Green Men's Unimind, [[Big Bad\|Emperor Zurg]] does this as he observes the mystical orb through a screen. * General Shiva tries doing it {{spoiler\|just before his death}} in ''[[Exo Squad]]''. but the sun is obscured by clouds. Line 77 ⟶ 76: {{reflist}} [[Category:Camera Tricks]] [[Category:~~Heliotropes~~Solar Tropes]] [[Category:Hand Tropes]] [[Category:Grasp the Sun]]