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Skyscrapers [[Captain Obvious|are very tall and covered in windows]]. This makes them a useful canvas for a creative person to turn into a message an entire city (or the world) can see.
 
[['''Skyscraper Messages]]''' come from lighting specifically chosen windows in otherwise dark buildings to make recognizable images or words. The trope, of course, only occurs at night.
 
A poor man's version of [[Rushmore Refacement]] or [[Deface of the Moon]] if a villain is behind it.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* An episode of ''[[CSI]]'' had a business do this to try and win back his former fiance. {{spoiler|He rejected her in favour of his boss' daughter. Then changed his mind and invoked this trope. She turned him down (albeit quite gently) but his boss (who was watching from that very building) killed him for rejecting his daughter}}.
* In ''Furuhata Ninzaburou'', such a window lighting event ''breaks'' the suspect's alibi--thealibi—the hotel where he was staying was spelling out its name in lights, and if he was in the room with the drapes open, then it would have ruined the character.
* One episode of ''[[Barney Miller]]'' has a call about a man on a ledge. It's quickly followed by a report that the man is writing on the windows. Barney asks "It's not a jumper?" Wojo replies "Unless it's a suicide note."
 
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