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[[File:TheWorldIsJustAwesome.jpg|link=Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|frame| Be sure to use [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|appropriate]] [
{{quote|"Some kind of celestial event. No - no words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful... I had no idea."|'''Dr. Ellie Arroway''', ''[[Contact (film)|Contact]]''}}
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Sometimes these moments happen during gameplay where you do something extra-awesome for the very first time. See also [[That's No Moon]] though that usually consists of fear, and [[Above the Ruins]] for when characters are looking down at something that's been destroyed.
"They Should Have Sent a Poet" is an alternate trope namer. Not to be confused with thinking that [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Dio Brando's Stand]] [[Evil Is Cool|is awesome]].
See also [[Scenery Porn]] and [[Visual Effects of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Visual Effects of Awesome]] (may indeed be considered the cinematographer/animator/special effects crew's [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]]). Can make someone realize they have something [[Worth Living For]].
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* ''[[Discovery Channel]]'
** Of course, the ''[[
*** Or Adam lighting Jamie's sleeve on fire...▼
*** There was an earlier Discovery ad which had Jamie and Adam standing in a white room with the other planets of the solar system rolling by; Jamie explicitly states "I think ''the world is just awesome''", noting how other planets are unsuitable for human life. Naturally, it ends with Adam wanting to [[Stuff Blowing Up|blow something up]].▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* ''[[Kiki's Delivery Service]]'', as Kiki swoops into the main setting.
* ''[[Spirited Away]]'', as the main character walks into the bath house.
* ''[[Macross]]'' / ''[[Robotech]]'': Arrival of the Zentraedi fleet.{{context|reason=Wasn't that when (avoiding spoilers) the world became substantially less awesome? Please explain.}}
* In the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime, a Pidgey dreams of flying into space. He does, and tells Meowth how beautiful the Earth is, before he can't fly any higher and descends.
* Happens a lot in ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]''. It's good to see that they're using all of the money from the franchise in a good way for a change.
* ''[[Voices of a Distant Star]]'': Several of these moments for Mikako: Seeing the Lysithea, the Jupiter/Io flux tube, the plains of Agartha (the last of which immediately preceeds an almighty [[Tear Jerker]] moment so be warned).
* A much more down-to... well, earth example (but no less applicable)
* ''[[Strike Witches]]'' has this in episode six of its second season. After scaling to astronomical heights to dispatch a Neuroi tower, Sanya and Eila use the moment to look at the Earth below, and also to make up after an earlier fight.
* ''[[The Place Promised in Our Early Days]]'' borders between this and [[Scenery Porn]], especially during the finale.
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* The comic ''[[52]]'' has a "the Multiverse is just awesome!" scene. "Welcome home."
* A lot of the surrealism in ''[[The Sandman]]'' can be like this. A little girl becoming a bird, any scene where we are shown the castle of the Dreaming or in a dark version the palace of Lucifer, all the Gods visiting Morpheus in Season of Mists, Morpheus' hair and Delirium shaping little soap bubbles into a multitude of signs and figures in Brief Lives.
* In a ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Star Wars: Empire]]'' comic, a number of Rebels [http://thefannish.org/images/scansdaily/swempire26/blz02.jpg land on a new world]. A rather young Luke Skywalker [http://thefannish.org/images/scansdaily/swempire26/blz05.jpg has some time to kill]{{Dead link}}, and he spends it running around exploring and [http://thefannish.org/images/scansdaily/swempire27/lukeisaprettygirl.jpg looking at things]{{Dead link}} until he finds some [http://thefannish.org/images/scansdaily/swempire26/blz07.jpg graves]{{Dead link}}.
* ''[[Elf Quest]]'' somewhat subverts this: the character Skywise has spent his entire life obsessing over the stars, and ''finally'' gets a chance to fly a spaceship. He makes the walls of the ship translucent to show everyone the beauty of space, only to find that his best friend Cutter (the comic's main character, who suffers from fear of heights) just wants to close his eyes and get back to earth.
▲== [[Commercials]] ==
▲* ''[[Discovery Channel]]'s'' [[Trope Namer|motto]], as seen above, is like this. Their recent advertisements to the tune of Boom de Yada makes this a variation, for this is ''our'' planet Earth, not a fictional universe, which makes it both a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] and a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].
▲** Of course, the ''[[Myth Busters]]'' ended up ruining it a little by posting a blooper reel of Adam and Jamie trying to get their lines out for a similar commercial, eventually coming to a (joking) agreement that it ''was'' awesome "until (they) came along", and that it's now "going to Hell". Kinda fitting, actually, seeing as their part of the "Boom de Yada" commercial has Adam tied up and being boiled alive in a homemade hot tub by Jamie...
▲*** Or Adam lighting Jamie's sleeve on fire...
▲*** There was an earlier Discovery ad which had Jamie and Adam standing in a white room with the other planets of the solar system rolling by; Jamie explicitly states "I think ''the world is just awesome''", noting how other planets are unsuitable for human life. Naturally, it ends with Adam wanting to [[Stuff Blowing Up|blow something up]].
== [[Film]] ==
* When John Preston stops taking his meds in ''[[Equilibrium]]'' is this trope: his first look at the world outside is to see beauty for the first time, and we're carried along with it.
* ''[[Contact (film)|Contact]]''. As well as the awe-inspiring sequence that contains the
** The same goes for the original pullback-into-the vastness-of-space short film ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUUkjWsNC9k Powers Of Ten]'', starting with a couple lying on a blanket in a park and pulling away until our entire galaxy is just a speck of light - then coming back, and zooming in to the atomic level.
* ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]''. Milo [[Sand in My Eyes|tears up]] a little as he looks down on the amazing underwater city of Atlantis from the top of a huge statue.
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** Especially when you [[Fridge Brilliance|remember an earlier scene]]; Wall-E may well have spent hundreds of years looking out at the empty sky. Being brought beyond the atmosphere means he gets to actually see what's out there for the first time.
* ''[[Up]]''
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'', as Woody and Buzz fly through the sky.
* ''[[Independence Day]]'': Arrival of the City Destroyers.
** And the ending in the desert as the main characters watch the flaming ruins of the invaders raining down. "Didn't I promise you fireworks", indeed.
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** Recent movie when they are seeing the Enterprise for the first time could count.
** ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]'' climaxes with the fiery and regal birth of the planet Genesis.
** ''[[Star Trek:
{{quote|'''Captain Jean-Luc Picard:''' ''Australia. New Guinea. Solomon Islands. Montana will be up soon, but you may want to hold your breath - it's a long way down! ''}}
* ''[[Star Wars]]'': The Death Star.
** The double-sunset on Tatooine. Just... damn.
* The film ''Home'' is all about this trope.
* The 2008 movie of ''[[Journey to
* Disney's ''[[The Black Hole]]'' as seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n9aca_qcxE here].
* ''[[Titan A.E.]]''. {{spoiler|Overlooking the freshly made Planet Bob.}}
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** Also, in in #7, the Ellimist shows the Animorphs scenery and calls them beautiful
* In ''[[Young Wizards|Deep Wizardry]]'', when Nita and Kit bring Nita's parents to the Moon, and they look down at the Earth.
* In the ''[[X Wing Series]]'', Imperial City aka Coruscant under Imperial rule is seen from orbit a few times by people going to the surface. There's a little awe each time, especially since two of them had never seen it before. Loor thought he was going to be [[You Have Failed Me...|executed]] and couldn't keep himself from marveling at the immense scale of everything, and how many people must live there. Gavin was distracted by what looked like writing in some alien script.
** In ''[[Rogue Squadron]]'', Wedge and the Rogues lift of Novquizor on a mission, and Wedge takes a long look at the planet, promising himself that if he survives he'll walk around down there and soak up some of that peace.
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Have Space Suit—Will Travel]]'', Kip is awed seeing the three Galaxies from the intergalactic court station.
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* The Land from the [[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]] is nothing but this. What's even better? Everyone gets another sense to see Beauty and Health.
== [[Live
* Anything to do with ''[[Planet Earth]]'', but especially [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH2Z_1-Frb8 this] music video/commercial.
* Speaking of BBC nature documentaries:
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* ''[[X (video game)|X3 Terran Conflict]]''- The opening scene features a quote from Neil Armstrong (see Real Life examples below).
* ''[[Mother 3]]'' has two, both dealing with traveling through the air. The first time, the party runs up a mountain, then sleds down it inside a fridge to fly through the air and back to their town. The second time, similarly, consists of the party traveling via a bird-powered... err, bird cage.
** And in ''[[
** This trope is the very symbol of Mother series.
* All of the 3D ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' games luxuriate in showing off their worlds. Upon entering an area for the first time. For ''[[Twilight Princess]]'', they took things farther. They added specific areas that seem to serve no purpose other than to give the player a vantage point for looking at things. The top of the tower in the desert, at about the middle of the game, offers a great place to marvel at the sheer size and scope of the world itself.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Drowtales]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20100604102910/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=date&id=939 Ariel visits the surface for the first time].
** Also when she sees Chel'El'Sussoloth in its full glory for the first time.
* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' likes this trope.
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* [http://xkcd.com/442/ this] ''[[Xkcd]]'' comic
** And the following [[Memetic Mutation|meta video]] of that comic [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQAk_T9SBbw here]
* [[Sinfest]] offers up quite a few of these. [
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* People who ride planes for the first time often awe at how the world looks from so high up.
* Upon seeing the Earth from the surface of the moon, astronaut Alan Shepard [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|bent down on his knees and wept]].
** Since he saw the same view, it's unsurprising that [[Buzz Aldrin]] ''[[Memetic Mutation|PUNCH'd]]'' Bart Sibrel. Imagine seeing something so inspirational, then having some douchetard assert that you didn't. Bastard [[Kick the Son of a Bitch|got off easy]], if you ask me.
** Neil Armstrong, similarly, said: "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."
*** Armstrong's own words, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind", brought [[Walter Cronkite]] to tears of joy and
** Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, had this comparatively more laconic transmission upon his first time.
{{quote|"The flight continues well. The machine is functioning normally. Reception excellent. Am carrying out observations of the earth. Visibility good. I can see the clouds. I can see everything. It's beautiful!"}}
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* Some [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo0Cazxj_yc people are AWESOME] too.
* the Grand Canyon is one of those places for which photographs are simply insufficient.
* Ever see a night sky just full of stars? Away from city lights, so that even the faintest stars and nebulae show up starkly against the jet-black backdrop? How about a large meteor shower? The different aurora lights that show up in the sky in certain parts of the world? All truly
** Now [http://vimeo.com/22439234 everyone can see it for themselves] thanks to Mr.Terge Sorgjerd's masterpiece
** Not easy to do this unless you're a sailor, but sit out on the deck of a ship in the middle of the ocean with all external lights blacked out. Wow. Just... wow.
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{{quote|From 'Rant in E Minor': I lay in a field of green grass for four hours going "My god ...I love EVERYTHING!"}}
* Anyone who has ever climbed a mountain will know exactly how amazing that the world can be. To think that millions of years of pressure have been pushing small, insignificant pieces of rock together, moving so slowly it can't even be seen, until one day, you look at it, and the result is a range of mountains that can cover entire expanses of countries, and literally pierce the clouds, makes a person really appreciate just how ''powerful'' and how magnificently ''old'' our planet is.
** Likewise, going in the opposite direction, caves. In particular, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140319235402/http://www.jdonohue.com/parks/photo/mediumSize/CarlsbadCaverns.jpg Carlsbad] [https://web.archive.org/web/20150427124722/http://www.worldbestspot.com/Spotimage/cavernas%20carlsbad.jpg Caverns]. Drip by drip, over millions of years, the magnificent structures of this cave were built. In pictures, it's difficult to adequately show the scale and sheer majesty of the caves and its chambers. One of the most famous structures is the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140715120013/http://www.nps.gov/cave/photosmultimedia/upload/br_roa_jones.jpg Rock of Ages], housed in the adequately named "Big Room," which is one of the largest cave chambers in the world, with a floor size of over 350,000 square feet.
* Most everyone who's heard of Stone Henge has seen pictures of it. Those hardly do the monument justice, but you are unlikely to think more than "Hey, this is cool," when simply looking at it. That feeling comes from actually ''touching'' the stones. While it's now prohibited to touch the stones in the actual henge, there are a few of them across the road that are readily available for this purpose. While I'm unsure of how intense The World Is Just Awesome feeling is for people who merely lay their hands on the stone, I know from personal experience that giving it a hug lets you for a moment feel the power of the world around you. Words can't describe the feeling with any sort of accuracy.
* One cannot fully appreciate the size and beauty of the California Redwood until they stand under one and look up.
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* Simply stop and take a look at the nature around you sometime. Even a few trees next to the sidewalk changing color for the fall can be awe-inspiring.
* [http://www.virgingalactic.com/ Virgin Galactic] Branson's sub orbital taxi service isn't so much about going into space as it is about invoking the experience of piercing the heavens for [[Crack is Cheaper|paying customers.]] Book now!
* Machu
* Standing at the tip of a coastline and looking out to the open sea under the sun or in fog. One place you can do this is at the lighthouse point of Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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