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* [[Sailor Moon]] holds her scepter up in a few pictures.

* Sakura from ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' holds up her staff whenever she activates or converts a card in the second season.

* In [[One Piece]] , Zoro was trapped in Mr. 3's [[Death Trap|Candle Set]] and was being coated in wax. Unable to cut himself free, he adopted a pose like this, so that when he suffocates and dies, he'll still be in a cool pose.

* Nightcrawler does it on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20141031215623/http://www.comicsblend.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Excalibur-6.jpg cover] of ''[[Excalibur (Comic Book)|Excalibur]]'' #16 as a parody of the ''[[John Carter of Mars]]'' books.

* Three examples in ''[[With Strings Attached]]'':

** The Hunter does this with his [[BFS]] several times, once to chase away some bandits and once as a [[Victory Pose]] after he slaughters Poison Wolves.

** As'taris stands up and does this while he's flying on George [[Giant Flyer|(a pegasus at the moment)]], which breaks George's rhythm in the air and nearly throws his riders off.

** In a gender-bender, Aurion does it after (seemingly) defeating As'taris.

== [[Film]] ==

* This is apparently necessary to use the powers of the Sword of Triton (Blackbeard's sword) in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: On Stranger Tides''

* Serves a purpose in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld/Pyramids|Pyramids]]'', where Teppic stands on a pyramid and stabs the sky with his knife to provide a conduction point for the time flaring out of it.

* One of the books in ''[[The Belgariad]]'' by David Eddings has the main character do this on accident. He was trying to attach the Orb of Aldur to the [[BFS]] on the wall, only for said sword to fall off into his hands. Expecting it to be incredibly heavy, he overcompensates when lifting the surprisingly weightless sword so it points skyward. Everyone is suitably impressed nonetheless, though the fact that he didn't die when the sword caught fire probably helped.

** Later on in the same series another character gives several speeches to gather an army (incidentally the betrothed of the above character). After each speech, she jumps on her horse and brandishes her sword. Nearing the end of the series, said betrothed convinces the protagonist to do the same thing for his army, which has fought for him and deserves something in return. He gives in, but is very self-conscious about the whole thing.

* [[Zorro]] combines this with [[Rearing Horse]] for extra awesome.

* In the ''[[Farscape]]'' episode "Crackers Don't Matter" John Crichton prepares for his battle with T'raltixx; [[Lock and Load Montage]] - heat-absorbent paste(pre-digested by Zhaan to increase its potency<ref>''"IT'S PUKE?!"''</ref>), dorky flight goggles, a cap soaked in the same bio-paste, a cape (solar-reflecting flare wrap), a shield (an armored section of Aeryn's Prowler), and D'Argo's Qualta blade. He then strikes this pose while humming "[[Ride of the Valkyries]]". Upon seeing this Aeryn simply folds her arms and says: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltn1s-v-XjE We are going to die.]"

* Whenever a warrior wins a battle with their sword on ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]'', chances are high that they'll perform this move.

* [[Manowar]] likes to do this in their covers.

** So much in fact that you could probably get away with renaming this trope "Swords in the Wind".

* Gallagher does this in his 1984 special ''Over Your Head'', during his signature Sledge-O-Matic routine. He smashes open a reticent newspaper box which has taken his money, retrieves his paper, and poses like this afterward.

* Many [[Tabletop Games]] figurines, including one used in ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]''.

* The current art of the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' card [http://magiccards.info/autocard.php?card=holy%20Strength Holy Strength]{{Dead link}} takes this pose (though the arms aren't overhead. The card's direct opposite, [http://magiccards.info/autocard.php?card=unholy%20Strength Unholy Strength]{{Dead link}}, inverts this trope.

** [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=270445 Thalia] from Innistrad adopts a similar pose

* In one of Nightmare's victory poses in ''[[Soul Series]]'', he thrusts his [[BFS|sword]] skyward.

** His ([[Enemy Without|former]]) [[Brainwashed and Crazy|host]], [[The Atoner|Siegfried]], also had this as a victory pose. He stopped doing this in ''Soulcalibur IV'', instead choosing to bring the sword out of the sky and hold it in front of his face.

** Activating one of the Jedi Knight's stances (Shii-Cho, I believe) does this briefly.

* In the [[Real Trailer, Fake Movie|trailer]] for ''[[Homestar Runner|Peasant's Quest]]'', Rather Dashing, who finally looks, smells, and is on fire like a peasant, holds his sword high to an [[Audible Gleam]]... for a second or two before his arm is tired. Then he walks away,

* [[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]] and [[She-Ra]] do this to active their [[Transformation Sequence]]s.

* Carl does this on the poster for [[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]] [[Colon Cancer|Colon]] [[The Movie|Movie]] [[Department of Redundancy Department|Film For Theaters]].

* This is spoofed by the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Make Love, Not [[Warcraft]]". Randy gets a flash drive containing a patch for a manna-draining Runeblade for the MMO ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. When he's given it, and just before inserting the flash drive into a USB port, he stabs the sky with it.

* The title sequence for ''[[Adventure Time]]''.

* In modern fencing, the salute has three steps, the first one is Stab the Sky, the second one is [[Staring Through the Sword]]. The third is [[Swipe Your Blade Off]], but without the blood.

* This posture resembles Jōdan-no-kamae, vom Tag and posta di falcon.