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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 (
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
** 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 ''[[
== [[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
* 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:
== [[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.]]
* ''[[
** 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]] ==
* ''[[
** 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
** 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
* 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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