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* Parodied in ''[[School Rumble]]'' during Harima's hermit/god phase, when he also displays a [[Friend to All Living Things]] persona.
* ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'': After mentioning how Yuno ("Juno") (<ref>In most European languages the J in "Juno" pronounced like an English "Y".</ref>) is the goddess of marriages, Miyako has Yuno stand in front of the glass door to show off her divine power. Behold the power of backlighting...
== Comic Books ==
* Luke Skywalker is [[media:luke our savior 2388.jpg|drawn with one]] in the
▲== Fan Fiction ==
* Kyon is seen that way by Kanae in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'' after fighting a giant robot at the beach.
== Film ==
* Kirk's entrance in ''[[Star Trek
* The ending of ''[[Batman|Batman Forever]]'', the Bat-signal filling in for the light.
** In the fourth installment, again as a [[Call Back]].
* ''[[The Crow]]'' has this during the "I do care" scene in the movie, with Eric silhouetted by the sun in the big window.
* It happens in ''[[Ghost (film)|Ghost]]'', just before Sam goes to Heaven. Notably this is the only time in the entire film his girlfriend sees him as a ghost.
* It happens a couple of times in ''[[A Hard Day's
* ''[[RoboCop]]'', when he busts the drug factory.
* ''[[The Frighteners]]'' has this as [[Michael J. Fox]]' character gets booted back to life by his ghostly afterlife pals. Who've got the holy light behind them.
* Jake Blues' release from prison at the start of ''[[The Blues Brothers]]''.
== Literature ==
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: [[The Bible|Jesus and company]]. Heaven is a pretty bright place,
* Aslan in ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' books.
* [[God]] is so bright in [[The Divine Comedy|Dante's writings]] you can't see him at all, while God in ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' is like this for the first few minutes... then becomes a grumpy, rather repellent old man.
** Also shamelessly ripped off by ''[[Jerry Springer: The Opera]]''.
* Gandalf the White in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.
* In the ''[[X Wing Series]]'' novel
== Live Action Television ==
* ''[[NCIS]]'', one of the first episodes of Season 7, pulled off by - who else? - Gibbs, after {{spoiler|shooting the bastard who tortured his team, beating the crap out of said bastard's lackeys, AND arriving in a few minutes from a mile away. Not impossible, but nothing is with Gibbs.}}▼
▲* NCIS, one of the first episodes of Season 7, pulled off by - who else? - Gibbs, after {{spoiler|shooting the bastard who tortured his team, beating the crap out of said bastard's lackeys, AND arriving in a few minutes from a mile away. Not impossible, but nothing is with Gibbs.}}
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', when Rose becomes the Bad Wolf, she exits the TARDIS glowing and backlit by golden light. Bonus points for her hair having that weird I-look-like-I'm-underwater-but-I'm-not thing going on.
** The Doctor in "The Fires of Pompeii" when he {{spoiler|goes back to rescue Caecillius and his family}}.
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* The cast of ''[[Touched By an Angel]]'' always get the glowing treatment whenever they reveal their identities.
* Used comedically in ''[[Seinfeld]]''—a priest sees Elaine, in a modest white dress, backlit by the window with the sun behind it, and think's she's the Virgin Mary.
* Played with in an episode of
* In Season 5 of ''[[The Amazing Race]]'', the editors used a version of the Holy Backlight on, of all things, an airport departures board when they were talking about their faith. To underline the effect, they also added a sound effect of a heavenly choir. On the next leg, the same sound effect was used, along with a shot of a line of white-robed nuns descending an escalator, when they were able to secure seats on an earlier flight that hadn't been available the day before.
* An episode of ''[[Cold Case]]'' reverses this by {{spoiler|having a Holy Backlight incident be the trigger for a serial killer's mania, leading to his first murder: the poor backlighted sap.}}
* In Part IV of the HBO [[Miniseries]] of ''[[Angels in America]]'', as Prior is in the graveyard telling Belize about his visitation by the Angel, he is aptly lit from behind, so much so that Belize shields his eyes.
* A ''[[
* Parodied in ''[[Scrubs]]'' with Kevin Casey, who simply blinks and asks the nurse in the next room to turn the incredibly bright light away from him.
== Theatre ==
* In ''[[Angels in America]]'', the Angel is described as "four divine emanations - phosphor, fluor, lumen, candle." In stage versions and the TV miniseries, this usually means she is back-lit to an almost blinding degree.
== Video Games ==
* For some inexplicable reason, Eliwood rescuing Ninian in ''[[Fire Emblem]]''. It even comes with a [[Pietà Plagiarism]] bonus!
* Rosalina's first appearance in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''. Appropriate, since she [[Wild Mass Guessing|might be]] [[God]].
== Web Animation ==
* Used in conjunction with [[Lens Flare]]s for Saltman's [[Calling Your Attacks|"Salt Laser"]] attack in ''[[Banana-nana-Ninja!]]'': [http://www.banana-ninja.com/episodes/OCBZ_Saltman2.html Battle of the Elements.]
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* In ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'', Solid Snake appears exclusively in this manner.
* [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/skater910/1172125605987.jpg Godly Kitten]▼
* Dechs, the ''[[Antihero for Hire]]'', loves doing this, with the help of a portable floodlight. At one point, Crossroad complains about it, calling it his "Ghost of Christmas Past schtick".
== Web Original ==
▲* [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/skater910/1172125605987.jpg Godly Kitten].
== Western Animation ==
* Sab Shimono's character in ''[[Where The Toys Come From]]''.▼
* Parodied (what else?) in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Bart's Girlfriend": Bart first sees Jessica when she steps to the church podium to do a Bible reading and she is immediately surrounded by a Holy Backlight. Bart exclaims "There IS a God!"... then we cut to outside to see that ''a lighthouse'' is shining its light directly at the church window.▼
▲* Sab Shimono's character in ''Where The Toys Come From''.
▲* Parodied (what else?) in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Bart's Girlfriend": Bart first sees Jessica when she steps to the church podium to do a Bible reading and she is immediately surrounded by a Holy Backlight. Bart exclaims "There IS a God!"... then we cut to outside to see that ''a lighthouse'' is shining its light directly at the church window.
{{quote|'''Random Guy''': I'm telling you the light would work better if it pointed it out to sea!
'''Sea Captain''': Arr, shut up! I know what I'm doing!
''[a boat crashes against some rocks the distance]''
'''Sea Captain''': Arr, I hate the sea and everything in it. }}
* Done by [[Ninja|Prowl]] who, to quote [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page Transformers Wiki],
* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "A Tale of Two Santas", as Bender is about to be executed for being Santa Claus, each of the main cast enters dressed as Santa declaring [[I Am Spartacus|"I am also Santa Claus!"]], despite the fact that Santa is a robot. Zoidberg enters last, backlite and dressed as Jesus. [[And Zoidberg|"And I'm his friend Jesus!"]]
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