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* 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]]}}.
** Asuka is, in fact, associated with the Sun several times throughout the series.
* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'', Lockon tries "grabbing" the Earth {{spoiler|while he delivers his [[Famous Last Words]]}}.
* ''[[Love Hina]]'': Keitarou does this to the Tokyo University clock tower.
* See the finale of the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (Animeanime)|2003 anime adaptation]] of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Mangamanga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]''.
** Edward is very fond of doing this in the 2003 anime openings. He just never learns, does he?
** Used in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Mangamanga)|Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' episode 45, where Greed announces his intention to [[Take Over the World]] and then makes a grabbing gesture toward the moon.
* Subverted in ''Hellsing'', where Alucard does this to the moon.
** In the OVA series, Maxwell ''caresses'' the moon for a second while giving a speech.
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{{quote| "[[Badass Boast|He takes the burning sun in his hand and withstands the heat!]]"}}
* ''[[Sorcerer Hunters]]'': Carrot does this in the opening credits animation.
* Mayuri Shiina of ''[[Steins Gate|Steins;Gate]]'' does this with some frequency. Okabe calls it [[Gratuitous English|Stardust Shake Hand.]] {{spoiler|He does it himself at the climax of [[He's Back|Episode 23.]]}}
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* One character in ''[[American Gods (Literature)|American Gods]]'' mimicks taking the moon, conjuring up a silver coin for the protagonist Shadow. When they meet again in a metaphysical place, she asks him for the coin back and ''literally'' puts it into the sky as its moon to light his way.
** [[Leprechaun|Mad Sweeney]] does the exact same thing, only with the sun into a golden coin, showing off for Shadow while drunk(er). By the time he realizes that the coin he plucked was not just ''any'' coin and tries to get it back, Shadow's already buried it with his recently deceased wife. {{spoiler|This act leads, through separate means, to Sweeney's death and his wife's resurrection.}} Later on, Shadow learns to do this himself.
* A famous bit of symbolism in ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' involves the titular [[Anti-Hero]] reaching to grasp the light across the water (at Daisy's mansion).
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the ''[[Merlin (FilmTV miniseries)|Merlin]]'' miniseries, the wizard appears to grab the moon and manipulate it like a coin, but then revealed that it was "[[Perspective Magic|just a trick]]". [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|I gotta say, some trick!]]
* Part of [[Mahou Sentai Magiranger|Magishine]] and the [[Power Rangers Mystic Force|Solaris Knight]]'s [[Transformation Name Announcement|rollcall posing]].
 
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Coyote shows Annie the extent of his powers by [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=492 plucking the moon from the sky for her to touch]. It's [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=493 left ambiguous] as to whether he actually removed the moon or employed some trickery to make it look like he did.
** Well, [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=502 that changed] [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=503 a couple of strips later]...
* ''Inhuman'' goes into Cinne's thought process a bit, punctuated by him [http://inhuman-comic.com/comic347.php "pulling up the sun"].
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== [[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 (Animation)|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 (Animation)|Exo Squad]]''. but the sun is obscured by clouds.
 
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