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== [[Anime]]/[[Manga]] ==
* Ayumi from ''[[Kaze no Stigma (Light Novel)|Kaze no Stigma]]''
* A major plot point in ''[[Kowarekake no Orgel]]'', since Flower has only seen it before on TV.
* The civilians on ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]''.
* Gretel does this in ''[[Black Lagoon]]''.
* ''[[The Littl' Bits]]'' episode "Let's Go to the Sea".
* The whole point of the series ''[[Aria (Manga)|Aria]]''.
* The [[Beach Episode]] in ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'' started like this.
* ''[[Gun X Sword]]'' has an episode "Thank You Ocean" where captain Kaiji really really likes the briney blue.
** Earlier in the series, Wendy also displays some awe of the ocean in "Light My Fire." Van, naturally, is unimpressed.
* Featured in episode 9 of ''[[Toradora (Light Novel)|Toradora!]]'', appropriately titled ”You, who are going to the sea”.
* Discussed in ''[[Blue Gender]]''; Kaido's [[Shallow Love Interest]] for an episode or two mentions never having seen the sea, Kaido describes it in comparison with the nearby lake and promises to show her one day. He runs to be back with Marlene within the same episode.
* Exhibited by the titular character in the [[Beach Episode]] of [[Kaichou wa Maid Sama-sama]].
 
== [[Film]] ==
* In the ''Legend Of 1900'' a film with [[Tim Roth]], a guy the main character meets talks about seeing the ocean for the first time and hearing it scream (metaphorically) that the world is immense. Later he meets the man's daughter and she seems to think similar things about the ocean.
* The very timid ''Ninny in The Invisible Child'' by Tove Jansson is terrified of the sea for the reasons other characters would be awed.
* In ''[[Blast Fromfrom the Past]]'', Brendan Fraser's character (who has been living in a fallout shelter for 30 years and has only just come up into the sunlight) has what might be described as a religious experience when he finally sees the ocean.
* An ongoing theme for Red during the last half of ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]''.
* Seen at the end of ''[[Lord of the Rings]]''
* Used in the movie ''[[Plague Dogs]]''. Todd is the first to decribe the ocean's vastness and Sniffer is the most enthusiastic to get to coast.
* The [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] in ''[[Once Upon a Time Inin Thethe West]]'' is motivated by a desire to see the Pacific Ocean before he dies from his illness.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* One of the earliest examples appears in the ''[[Anabasis (Literature)|Anabasis]]'', when the Ten Thousand (the army of Greek mercenaries fighting their way through hostile Persian territory) reaches the Black Sea: the Black Sea was dotted with Greek colonies, meaning that the worst of the Ten Thousand's troubles were over.
* In ''[[So Long and Thanks For All The Fish]]'', this is subverted when two old ladies see the ocean for the first time. "It's not as big as I was expecting", says one.
* In the novel ''A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend'', neither the main character nor the titular best friend have ever seen the ocean, so they have plans to go together. Then the best friend, well, dies, and the main character decides she's going to take her friend's ashes and go see the sea anyway. I don't remember whether there was awe, but the longing part was a major plot point.
* True for [[Expy|Kenshin]] in ''[[Half Prince]]'', even though Kenshin, being an NPC, hasn't even heard of the concept of the ocean, and the ocean he stares longingly at once he finally gets there isn't real.
* A major point in the book ''Kira Kira''. (No, not [[Kira Kira (Visualvisual Novelnovel)|that one]])
* Tolkien was clearly fond of having a character who'd never seen the sea be impressed by it on first sight. The same happens to Tuor in ''[[The Silmarillion]]''.
* Most of [[David Eddings]]' works feature a moment of this. He also put something of a twist on it in ''[[The Malloreon]]'', when the main characters are being chased by [[Our Zombies Are Different|the Raveners]]. When they reach the seaside, the ghoulish creatures immediately retreat, because, supposes Belgarath, "they're afraid of the one thing that's hungrier than they are."
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Played around with Garet in ''[[Golden Sun (Video Game)|Golden Sun]]'', who has never seen the sea. We do see his surprise once when he sees "its vastness", then again when he is told that what he saw was a (really big) lake / inland sea. Later, when the party obtains its [[Cool Ship]], Garet says they're going to see the real ocean.
* ''[[Narcissu]]''
* This is justified to the point of a possible subversion in the game ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'', and ''Baten Kaitos Origins'', respectively. The characters in both of these RPGs are shocked to see the ocean because it's non-existent for most of the games, and this is a large part of the plot (hence the subtitle "Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean"). As a result, and especially in Origins, the characters thought the ocean was a myth.
* In ''[[Dark Cloud (Video Game)|Dark Cloud]] 2'', Max, who had never been out of [[City in Aa Bottle|Palm Brinks]] before the start of the game, was awestruck at the sight of the ocean at Veniccio.
* This happens in ''[[Tales of Vesperia (Video Game)|Tales of Vesperia]]''.
* In ''[[Mitsumete Knight (Video Game)|Mitsumete Knight]]'', this occurs in the Event "Dusk-colored Sophia", where Sophia silently and profoundly gazes at the dusk-tainted ocean.
* [[Kana: Little Sister|"Today, I saw the ocean. I'm not afraid any more."]]
 
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