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See, sometimes, the power of the sun itself is classified as a sort of [[Elemental Powers|Elemental Power]]. The effects of sun-power are many and varied: you could shoot ultraviolet rays to give people nasty sunburns, perhaps channel a beam of light to fry a vampire, maybe heal people with the mystic power of sunlight -- somehowsunlight—somehow. And of course, you could always just go straight to the nuclear fusion. Atomic fire is always a nice way to make sure your target is dead, and it's much easier to [[Hurl It Into the Sun]] if you can make a little mini-sun.

The power of the sun is a lot like a fun little cocktail of [[Playing Withwith Fire]] and [[Light'Em Up]], with an occasional side of [[I Love Nuclear Power|nuclear weapons]]. If elements oppose each other, the power of the sun will generally be opposite [[Lunacy]].

{{quote| ''"Unleash the power of the sun!"''}}

* The Ripple in ''[[Jo JoJoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]''.

* Teppei from ''[[BtB't X]]''. It turns out to be the key to {{spoiler|taking down [[Eldritch Abomination]] Raphaello}}.

* [[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]: Solarbeam attack, anyone?

* In ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' WarGreymon's most powerful attack consists in throwing a sun. He even has the image of a sun on his wings, although he's officially a [[Playing Withwith Fire|fire-elemental]]. Wizardmon is also thought to have sun-powers.

** Solarr is the [[Light Is Not Good|villain version]], using his solar powers to [[Kill It Withwith Fire|burn people]].

* [[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Bookcomics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]] has Sun Boy.

* The [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|much dreaded]] [[Kool Aid]] comic featured the Thirsties, [[Light Is Not Good|evil]] sun creatures with [[Light'Em Up|light powers]].

* Seemingly half the point of ''[[Sunshine (Filmfilm)|Sunshine]]'' is to demonstrate the incredible radiant power of the sun. Everyone's lives both depend on and are threatened by the sun during the movie, and while the Sun is dying, it is still incredibly powerful.

* ''[[Tangled]]'' rewrote "[[Rapunzel (Literature)|Rapunzel]]" [[Recycled in Space|with solar powers]]. They seem to be primarily life related, allowing their vessel to regenerate injuries and someone else's age. They can be activated by song, and as of yet [[White Magic|no offensive uses have been seen.]]

* The [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Die Another Day (Film)|Die Another Day]]'' uses a [[Kill Sat]] that reflects and focuses sunlight into a single destructive beam that can be targetted anywhere. Of course, it can also be used for beneficial purposes, such as providing warmth, which it does exactly once.

* In ''[[Codex Alera|Cursor's Fury]]'' Tavi's forces [[Blow You Away|windcraft]] a [[Solar -Powered Magnifying Glass|giant magnifying glass]] in the air at high noon to focus the sun's rays into a [[Death Ray]] to incinerate the [[Wolf Man|Canim.]]

* {{spoiler|Tiffany Aching}} at the end of ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Wintersmith|Wintersmith]]''. {{spoiler|[[Chekhov's Skill|She transfers the heat]] from the sun itself into the titular Winter spirit in order to stop him.}}

* [[Robin McKinley]] 's ''[[Sunshine (Literaturenovel)|Sunshine]]'' features a protagonist who draws her magic from exposure to sunlight, and whose health actually deteriorates without said exposure, in what may be the ultimate case of seasonal affective disorder. Appropriately enough, she uses said power to get involved in a war against vampires.

* The Sunstones from ''[[Dinotopia]]'' are [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|stones powered by the sun]].

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* [[Badass Boast|I am the child of the sun!]] [[Kamen Rider Black RX|Kamen Rider!]] [[ThisPunctuated! IsFor! SpartaEmphasis!|Black! RX!]]

* The starship ''Destiny'' in ''[[Stargate Universe (TV)|Stargate Universe]]'' was designed to travel across multiple galaxies without a crew for an extended period of time. By the start of the series, it has traveled across billions of light years. How did it find the power to drive its engines across such massive distances? By diving into stars and scooping up solar matter, of course.

*** For example in 3.5, clerics of the sun god Pelor can take the Sun domain. Which, in addition to giving them many heat and light-based spells, including the extremely powerful Sunburst, which [[PunA Worldwide Punomenon|lights up]] everything within 10 feet of the cleric, allows them to perform a "greater turn undead", which focuses powerful sunlight instead of positive energy. Instead of merely scaring undead away, a Greater Turning ''turns them to dust on the spot''.

* From ''[[Mage: The Awakening (Tabletop Game)|Mage: The Awakening]]'' and ''[[Changeling: The Lost (Tabletop Game)|Changeling: The Lost]]'' have "spells" that work like this. The major difference between these and ones that make a lot of "fake" light is the ability to mess with [[Vampire: The Requiem (Tabletop Game)|vampires]].

* Seeing as the default player characters in ''[[Exalted (Tabletop Game)|Exalted]]'' are all the chosen of the sun god, this is a bit commonplace. For one thing, the sun in the sky [[That's No Moon|isn't actually a sun]] -- it—it's a massive weapons station that helps decide which beings are "creatures of darkness" and thus [[Good Hurts Evil|worthy of receiving the pain from the Unconquered Sun's cleansing light]]. There are several attacks and spells that allow a Solar to harness this power.

** For a somewhat darker twist, there's the sorcery spell Total Annihilation, which draws on the destructive potential of a ''different'' sun -- Ligiersun—Ligier, the ever-burning green sun of Hell. It's pretty much a fantasy nuke.

* ''[[Warhammer (TabletopFantasy Game)|WarhammerBattle]]'' has Solkan, one of the gods of order, which is a solar deity that may offer his followers fire and light powers. Like all the gods of order, he doesn't show up very much (except for some refferences in the novels); [[Knight Templar|considering how he is]], [[Light Is Not Good|that may be a good thing]].

* ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering (Tabletop Game)|Magic the Gathering]]'' puts sunlight in the white part of the color-pie. Shown to devastating effect in cards such as Wrath of God.

* In the ''[[Boktai (Video Game)|Boktai]]'' games, the protagonist Django uses the "Gun Del Sol", a solar-powered gun that shoots sunlight (and later a solar-powered gauntlet called the Sol de Vice, which gave melee weapons similar powers). Very useful for a vampire-hunter. What was especially interesting was that the game had you power the gun using ''real-life'' sunlight. A UV sensor on the game cart made sunlight shine into the game world when it detected sunlight.

** The same gun is a hidden weapon in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]''.

** The Gun Del Sol is also a weapon (in this case, a chip) in the ''[[MegamanMega Man Battle Network]]'' series. True to form, it's more effective when jacked-in to an outdoor location.

* In ''[[Pokémon (Franchise)|Pokémon]]'', there is the move Solarbeam: a powerful grass-type move that has the user charge up sunlight for a round, and then fire a beam of pure solar energy at the foe. There is also Sunny Day, which generates intense sunlight for 5 turns. During that time, Fire moves are empowered, Water moves are weakened, and Solarbeam's charge-turn is eliminated, making "Sunnybeamers", Pokémon with Sunny Day ''and'' Solarbeam, extremely powerful, especially if they also know fire moves. The move Weather Ball changes its typing and becomes twice as strong during abnormal weather: it becomes a Fire-type move during intense sun. Finally, there is the move Morning Sun, which restores a Pokémon's health. How much is restored is dependent on the weather, and it heals the most during a sunny day.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics a 2A2]]'', the Geomancer spell Shining Flare generates an intense burst of sunlight for fire damage. It can only be used when the weather is sunny.

** While not explicitly coming from the sun, the Flare spell in many Final Fantasy games is described as generating a nuclear fusion reaction. This leads to variants like Flare Star, which at least ''looks'' more like a sun going nova in the party's face, and the [[Woolseyism|rename]] of Bahamut's signature Mega Flare attack in ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]'''s SNES translation: Sun Flare.

** In ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'', Sephiroth's flashiest attack is Supernova, where he attacks the party by blowing up a (''our'') sun at the party. Funny thing: he can use it multiple times and it ''[[Slap-On-The-Wrist Nuke|cannot kill the party]]''.

** Patchouli Knowledge has Sun as one of her seven elements (alongside [[Playing Withwith Fire|Fire]], [[Making a Splash|Water]], [[Dishing Out Dirt|Earth]], [[Extra Ore Dinary|Metal]], [[Green Thumb|Wood]], and [[Lunacy|Moon]]). Spells with this element include Royal Flare (alone), Hydrogenous Prominence (Sun and Water), Photosynthesis (Sun and Wood), and Royal Diamond Ring (Sun and Moon).

* In ''[[Mega Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|Mega Man]] 10'', one of the robot masters is Solar Man, from whom Mega Man [[Mega Manning|acquires]] the Solar Blaze weapon.

* In ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'', the power of the sun was the major power source of the [[Precursors|Kingdom of Zeal]]. Eventually though, the seemingly limitless power of the Sun Stone, which stored the solar energy, was all used up, and they turned to the power of [[Cosmic Horror|Lavos]]. [[And Man Grew Proud|That didn't turn out too well]]. The player is able to take the now-powerless "Moon Stone" and place it in a patch of sunlight (on an island that for some reason never changes its position for ''millions'' of years or is affected by an apocalypse) and retrieve it in the future, where it has finally absorbed enough sunlight to be used to create Lucca's strongest weapon and a very powerful accessory.

** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'', the Sun Song is as useful for stunning undead as it is for moving the sun through the sky to change the time of day.

* Helios in [[God of War (Video Gameseries)|God of War]], being the god of the sun. He '''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|even shouts it]]''' before blinding Kratos with intense sunlight from his head.

* ''Cosmology'', a school of magic in ''[[Romancing Sa GaSaGa]]'' consists of spells which use the Sun's power to heal allies or cause damage to enemies.

* In ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' you can use the [[Classical Mythology|Helios]] Solar power station to run your [[Kill Sat]]. Solar [[Death From Above]]

* In ''[[Sinfest]]'' [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162351/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3513 Monique glorifies its shining on all living things.]

* In ''[[The Mysterious Cities of Gold (Anime)|The Mysterious Cities of Gold]]'' it's one of the city's secret - they can channel sunlight into an energy weapon.

* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' we have Princess Celestia, an alicorn goddess with the power to raise and lower the sun (and while her sister is... [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can|away]], the moon as well). It's been seen weaponized once, though it's not quite as powerful as some fans expected from a [[Physical God|physical goddess]].

* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', [[Playing Withwith Fire|Firebending]] is ultimately this, and even the [[The Dark Side|corrupted]] form of Firebending is tied to the sun. While firebending still works at night, it is much weaker at that time. During a solar eclipse, even the most powerful firebenders are unable to conjure more than a spark.

* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'': When Master Shake steals Frylock's magic jewel he proclaims that "[He] has the power of a thousand suns"

* ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]] the animated series'': The Ancient Shamash is a magical orb with this power from the episode "The Lost City of the Sun".

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