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[[File:zuk_and_mai_sunset_viewing.jpg|link=Avatar: The Last Airbender|frame|They don't hate watching this.]]
[[File:zuk and mai sunset viewing.jpg|link=Avatar: The Last Airbender|frame|They don't hate watching this.]]




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== [[Film]] ==
== [[Film]] ==
* Luke Skywalker [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEUGF3NGbPg watches the twin setting suns] of Tatooine in ''[[A New Hope]]'' while [[Crowning Music of Awesome|the Skywalker]] [[Leitmotif]] plays in the score, establishing Luke's longing to leave and do great things but being tied down by a sense of duty to his uncle.
* Luke Skywalker [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEUGF3NGbPg watches the twin setting suns] of Tatooine in ''[[A New Hope]]'' while [[Crowning Music of Awesome|the Skywalker]] [[Leitmotif]] plays in the score, establishing Luke's longing to leave and do great things but being tied down by a sense of duty to his uncle.
** Also appears in ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'', as Yoda, Palpatine and the rest watch the Clone Army's ships lift off against an ominous sunset -- basically a visual shorthand for "It's all [[Downer Ending|downhill]] from here".
** Also appears in ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'', as Yoda, Palpatine and the rest watch the Clone Army's ships lift off against an ominous sunset—basically a visual shorthand for "It's all [[Downer Ending|downhill]] from here".
* ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''
* ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''
* In ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', when Ariel sees the sun is near setting, and her contract to be human will have failed, she decides to take some action.
* In ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', when Ariel sees the sun is near setting, and her contract to be human will have failed, she decides to take some action.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[Angel]]'', the eponymous hero had [[Ring of Power|a ring that made the wearer invincible]]. He destroyed it, but not before wearing it for a full day, finally crushing it after the sun set.
* In ''[[Angel]]'', the eponymous hero had [[Ring of Power|a ring that made the wearer invincible]]. He destroyed it, but not before wearing it for a full day, finally crushing it after the sun set.
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', the episode ''Sleeping in Light'' shows Sheridan making a point of [[Watching the Sunset]] {{spoiler|after he's confirmed his time to die has come}}. Delenn continues the tradition started by Sheridan {{spoiler|after he disappears when his time comes}}.
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', the episode ''Sleeping in Light'' shows Sheridan making a point of Watching the Sunset {{spoiler|after he's confirmed his time to die has come}}. Delenn continues the tradition started by Sheridan {{spoiler|after he disappears when his time comes}}.


== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==