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[[File:um_4330.png|link=My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|frame|[[Punny Name|Ursa Major and Ursa Minor]].]]
 
 
When something/someone of tremendous power wants to show off, they may reveal themselves to be ''literally'' made of stars. A... [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Celestial Body]], if you will. Perhaps it's part of their nature, perhaps they've acquired it somehow, but they invariably have cosmological bodies within themselves. They range from having a "mere" planet, to having have an entire ''Universe'' inside them. ''[[Up to Eleven|Or even more]]''.
 
The Celestial Body itself comes in many forms, from the [[God in Human Form|seemingly average looking guy]], to a [[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|marble ball]], to an [[Cosmic Being|impossible thing from the beyond]]. No matter the form, they always invoke [[Bigger Onon the Inside]].
 
They tend to be [[Reality Warper|Reality Warpers]]/[[Reality Warper|Reality Warping]] objects of [[Pun|cosmic]] scale, and may occasionally also have a [[Stellar Name]].
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Pyramids|Pyramids]]'', one of the multiple (and simultaneous) mythological explanations of night in Djelibeybi is that the sky goddess arches her (moon-and-star-containing) body over the land.
** Another ''[[Discworld]]'' example is Fate, whose eyes consist of a starry night sky.
* Zandramas, the [[Big Bad]] of the ''[[Malloreon]]'', has stars beneath her skin, in increasing number. After her side is defeated, she is transformed to replace a missing galaxy.
* In ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'', the warriors of StarClan have stars in their pelts.
 
== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* A [[Starfish Aliens|species of aliens]] that excist on a different plane took this shape (As a boxer with a hood..?) in Chakotay's dreams in [[Star Trek: Voyager]] when the ship went through so called "[[Negative Space Wedgie|Chaotic Space]]" where the laws of physics are different.
 
== [[Mythology]] and [[Religion]] ==
* The [[wikipedia:Nut chr(28)goddesschr(29)|Egyptian sky goddess Nut]] may have been the [[Ur Example|Ur-Example]].
* On a related note, a lot of people in [[Classical Mythology]] were turned into constellations, the most famous being Orion.
* In Hinduism, one interpretation of Vishnu's blue color is that he contains the entire universe within himself, and therefore resembles the night sky.
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* [http://i51.tinypic.com/11tr1hd.jpg The Starborn] of ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''.
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]'' campaign ''The Fungi from Yuggoth'', section "Day of the Beast". When the Sphinx is turned into the Beast (an avatar of Nyarlathotep) its face falls off, revealing a black oval void filled with whirling suns and galaxies.
* [http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=107317 Celestial Ancient] from ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]''.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Trag'oul, a dragon/deity in ''[[Diablo]]'' lore, is described as a dragon whose entire body is made from stars, and who bears the world on his spine.
* Algalon of [[World of Warcraft]], along with a lot of the Titan architecture. He also drops [[Cool Sword|daggers that look like this.]]
* ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Video Game)|Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' features the Cosmic Guide, a creature who resembles Rosalina (the goddess who helped Mario/Luigi on his quest to save both Peach and the entire galaxy from [[Big Bad|Bowser]] in the first ''[[Super Mario Galaxy (Video Game)|Super Mario Galaxy]]'' game), but her body is made of stars, who helps the player complete a certain level only after it is failed too many times. Unfortunately, the Guide thinks that that's cheating, and as a result once she completes the level for you she will immediately give you [[Easy Mode Mockery|a bronze Power Star]] because of your ineptitude.
** The first ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' game also featured creatures that either resembled Mario or Luigi, but his body also appeared to be made of stars.
* Utsuho the Hell-Raven from ''[[Touhou]]'' has a cape that has the starry depths within them.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'' has anyone with [[Game Breaker|First Guardian]] [[Reality Warper|powers]], who seem to have their entire bodies be full of stars when they use them.
** The Genesis Frogs bred by players of each Sburb session take it further, in that {{spoiler|each is literally an entire universe.}} Similarly, {{spoiler|Snowman appears to have such a link to the Alternia universe; killing her caused the universe's destruction.}}
* In ''[[Nedroid]]'', Reginald tries to pick up a lady with [http://nedroid.com/2011/06/pickup-artist/ space pants].
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The Ursa Major and the Ursa Minor of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' are made of stars (Their two namesake constellations to be precise).
** Nightmare Moon's mane and tail are shadowy clouds full of stars.
** In [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E4 Luna Eclipsed|Luna Eclipsed]] Luna has regained this trait partially.
* The three generals of the Beast Planet in ''[[War Planets]]'' appear to be made out of this (it's actually antimatter).
* In ''[[Fantasia]]'', Nyx (at the end of the Pastoral Symphony sequence) might qualify, as it's not clear whether the night is her body or her mantle.
* Alien X from ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force (Animation)|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'' has a black body resembling space with tiny white stars scattered throughout. [[All There in the Manual|According to]] [[Word of God]], it belongs to a race known as Celestialsapiens. It is by far the strongest of Ben's Omnitrix aliens, with full-on [[Reality Warper]] powers, but unless two-thirds of the personalities residing within Alien X (Ben himself, the aggressive and rage-filled Bellicus, and the [[Love Freak|loving and passionate]] Serena), Alien X remains completely still as it needs an order to do so much as ''walk''. Ben is forced to be [[Power Trio|the Ego]] and negotiate between the two, to ill-effect. Since it was [[The Load]], Ben vowed to never use Alien X again after his first transformation, although he eventually reuses it in ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien|Ultimate Alien]]''. The results there were somewhat better, although it still ended up backfiring.
* Nocturne, the ghost of sleep in [[Danny Phantom]], has his entire body except his eyes and face-mask as stars in space.
 
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