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{{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 [[
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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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Pretty much every part of the Mars scene in ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]''. Though it's more of "Mars Is Just Awesome But Earth Is Shit."
* The comic ''[[
* A lot of the surrealism in ''[[
* 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:
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* ''[[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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* During and after the song "A Whole New World" in Disney's "Aladdin".
* Some scenes in ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', where the theme music swells as the characters marvel at the dinosaurs.
* The Sundance Festival film, ''Life In A Day.'' On July
* The Pterodactyl flight sequence from ''[[Dinosaur]]''.
* ''[[Baraka]]''
* A weird variation in ''[[Soylent Green]]'', which is set in [[Crapsack World]] future where the environment has been totally wrecked. Those members of society who have had enough and go in for voluntary euthanasia are treated to a video montage of what the world used to be like. So it's like The World ''Was'' Just Awesome before it got all fucked up.
* In ''[[Apollo 13]]'', the crew is forced to abort their moon landing after an accident, but to get home, they must orbit around the moon. During their orbit, they see their intended landing site, and flight commander Jim Lovell ([[Tom Hanks]]) [[Imagine Spot|imagines what it would've been like if they landed]], walking, running his hands through the moon dust, and staring in awe at the distant Earth.
* In ''[[Forrest Gump]]'', near the end, when he is describing to Jenny what it was like to see the stars from a clear night in [[
* ''[[The Tree of Life]]''.
* Subverted in ''[[A Serious Man]]''. The youngest rabbi tries to get the main character to feel this way about life, opening the window and repeatedly telling him to "just ''look'' at that parking lot!"
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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
* Most early ''[[Discworld]]'' books parody this, with the description of the approach of Great A'Tuin at the very beginning of the book.
** Also played completely straight in descriptions of the spectacular Rimfall.
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* Explored in ''[http://www.gregegan.net/PLANCK/Complete/Planck.html The Planck Dive]'', by [[Greg Egan]]. They did send a poet, and the mathematicians were thoroughly unimpressed by his complete inability to even comprehend what was going on, and adamant refusal to even make the attempt.
* The ''[[Chalion]]'' books by [[Lois McMaster Bujold]] have this happen to people who've met the gods. They spend the rest of their lives trying to find a way to describe it, unsuccessfully.
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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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** Most of the Doctor's companions are changed by their trips with the Doctor, making repeated references to not being the same. Most notably this applies to Sarah Jane Smith, Rose Tyler, Donna Noble and Amy Pond, but the rest of them as well.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by The Doctor a few times. In a DVD only scene with Amy Pond, he asks her if she knows "what he keeps in here", walking to the TARDIS doors. He opens them to say, "Absolutely everything.", whereupon he showed her that they were in deep space. He does this again in the Christmas Special, when, [[It Makes Sense in Context|transporting a shark to the planet's clouds]] he responds to Abigail and young Kazran calling the TARDIS amazing.
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* Sarah Jane Smith continued the tradition in ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''. In "The Warriors of Kudlak", she found herself looking at the Earth from a spaceship in orbit:
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* [[wikipedia:Brian Cox (physicist)|Professor]] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12619455 Brian Cox], so much so [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhn8j7S4uKU his style of delivery has been spoofed.] (NSFW!) He could be talking about the end of the galaxy or our sun going supernova but by the time he's done talking, you'll be completely convinced that whatever he's talking about is the most heartbreakingly beautiful occurrence in existence.
* The whole point of ''[[The Amazing Race]]''. Racers tend to react like this when the race brings them in the presence of great natural beauty. Of course, there's also the subversion, usually brought on by bad interactions with locals, where racers declare that foreign cultures ''suck''.
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== [[Toys]] ==
* Subversion in ''[[Bionicle]]'':
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** Another subversion occurs in ''Bionicle Legends 4: Legacy of Evil'', when the Piraka have just stumbled upon the island paradise of Mata Nui:
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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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* The ''[[Civilization]] IV'' intro begins with [[Leonard Nimoy]] narrating "In the beginning, the earth was without form..." with some EPIC music playing.
** This happens as far back as the original ''[[Civilization]]'', albeit without the Nimoy voiceover.
** The opening menu alone is built on this trope. It shows the Mediterrianian sea and surrounding land from orbit, with the sun slowly circling around it. [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|Awesome Music]] (Christopher Tin's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiHDmyhE1A Baba Yetu], a setting of [[
* Approaching Citadel for the first time in ''[[Mass Effect]]''.
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' loves this trope:
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* While the world ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' takes place in is, from a mood perspective, a complete [[Crapsack World]], the land itself is gorgeous, and the player can spend ages exploring the amazing looking canyons, mountains, forests, and rivers in the game.
* ''[[Dark Souls]]'''s Lordran may be a ruined [[Crapsack World]], but my can that [[Scenery Gorn|Gorn]] be beautiful. There's a reason "Gorgeous view" is a possible statement to write down for other players.
* [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]] throws in aurorae for extra effect.
* ''[[Unreal]]''. The game starts inside a confined shipwreck, and then you step outside to a beautiful landscape. Awe-inspiring in spite of the age of the technology (Unreal Engine 1 ca. 1998).
* Happens in ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]],'' when you {{spoiler|first leave the planet.}} Jade, who has been in an [[Heroic BSOD|understandable funk]] for a significant portion of the past gameplay time, suddenly brightens up when she sees all the stars.
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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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* Fry in ''[[Futurama]]''. One time they went to the moon (Faster than Fry could do a countdown for liftoff). Of course Fry loved it and Leela was thinking, 'it's just the moon, we travel to other planets all the time in the year 3000'. But by the end of the episode, Leela begins to understand how amazing the universe she lives in is to someone from the past.
* In the Rankin Bass version of ''[[The Hobbit]]'', Bilbo climbs the tree in gloomy Mirkwood to "have a look about." He emerges above the trees and all about him sees a profoundly beautiful wilderness with deep purple butterflies floating above. "There are moments that can change a person for all time. And I suddenly wondered if I would ever see my snug Hobbit-hole again. I wondered if I actually ''wanted'' to."
* Played with in the ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' cartoon "Marooned." The main characters camp out on an alien planet and Stimpy notices an etheral light streaming into their tent. The soundtrack swells as Stimpy oohs and aahs over the sight, begging Ren to come out and see the beautiful moon (although the viewer doesn't see it yet.) Ren finally relents and exits the
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Aang's meditation on unlocking the [[Super Mode|Avatar State]] concludes with a vision of the Avatar Spirit–a giant, [[Power Glows|glowy]] version of himself–floating in an orbit overlooking the entire world. Cue a [[Most Wonderful Sound|musical buildup]] and an awed smile on his face. [[Justified Trope|Makes sense]] given that the Avatar Spirit is literally the spirit of the world itself.
** [[Scenery Porn|Numerous other examples]] on a lesser scale, most notably on the first sighting of the Western Air Temple.
* The scene in ''[[Superman: The Animated Series|Superman the Animated Series]]'' where Clark Kent discovers the ability to fly. This is done again in a much later episode when Kara/Supergirl is introduced and she flies.
* In the episode [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
== [[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 wonder
** Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, had this comparatively more laconic transmission upon his first time.
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** Tom Stafford's take on the experience:
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* This is pretty much the point of the Disneyland attraction "Soarin' Over California" and its cousin in EPCOT, "Soarin'."
** Epcot also has "Impressions de France", "Wonders of China", and "Oh Canada!" The first is a tour of France projected on ''five'' connected movie screens for a wrap-around effect, and the other two are full-on Circlevision 360, which is exactly what it sounds like.
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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.
* Bill Hicks describes his experience of taking psilocybin mushrooms as being like this:
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* 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
* One cannot fully appreciate the size and beauty of the California Redwood until they stand under one and look up.
* [[Mount Rushmore]]. Seriously. The cartoons and comics, the photographs, even the Hitchcock movies do nothing to prepare you for ''a mountain carved into four human faces''.
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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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