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''Red is grey and yellow, white''<br />

''But we decide which is right''<br />

The Moon. Cold and distant, alone and lifeless... yet, it's the only celestial body whose light can pierce the pitch black night. So when a character is shown moon gazing, it means he or she shares many of these lunar traits: they are isolated and introspective, melancholy... yet oddly hopeful. All this just by having them look quietly at the moon, or using it as a big old backdrop.

* In ''[[Field of Dreams]]''.

* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone]]'', after he arrives in Hogwarts and everyone is in bed, Harry's up looking out his window at the moon. It fits into the "melancholy yet hopeful" category as it marks the beginning of a new life for him, yet it's a somewhat sad scene because of the backstory with his parents.

* Both the big baby and the clown in ''[[Toy Story 3]]'' do this. Which is pretty darn appropriate considering their shared backstory.

* In ''[[An American Tail]]'', both Fievel and Tanya stare at the rising moon during their [[Distant Duet]].

* In the same vein, Collin Raye's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9hyl-tVFJM Somebody Else's Moon]" is a tearjerker about a man watching the moon and thinking of it as belonging to somebody else now just as his former sweetheart does.

* Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is in minor and is a soulful and introspective song he wrote for a lover.

* ''[[Lunar]]'' has a funny variation on this. Throughout the series, there's a celestial body that unquestionably fills the same role as the moon. It's distant, cold, and lifeless, but nevertheless always shining through the night and a source of hope and wonder. It's present in every night scene, most memorably shining behind Luna during [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROt6hC7WWio Wind's Nocturne], as well as playing a massive role in the plot of ''Eternal Blue'' and being the focus of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRm_PJQe3p8 the Eternal Blue Theme]. So, what's the twist? It's not a moon at all. The characters are ''living'' on its moon, called Lunar or the Silver Star, while gazing up towards the frozen planet it orbits, the Blue Star.

* ''[[Fragile Dreams|Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon]]'', the game in the trope picture at the top. It's used as a prominent symbol of isolation and loneliness. To really hammer the latter aspect, the girl pictured above and the male protagonist of the game may be the only two people left in the world.

* [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Asama Sakuya]] from [[Girls Love]] [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Akai Ito]]'' gazes at the moon sometimes. {{spoiler|She's the [[Last of His Kind|last of her kind]], a tribe which had strong connection to the moon. She has been alone ''[[Who Wants to Live Forever?|for the past 1700-years]]''.}} In one ending, she {{spoiler|dies, and Kei prosaically laments how Sakuya's soul is going to the moon.}}

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