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[[File:zuk_and_mai_sunset_viewing.jpg|link=Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|frame|They don't hate watching this.]]
 
 
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Characters just watching a sunset. It's often for their own pleasure, based on the romantic connotations, or for a symbolic purpose. They may even be waiting for something that's supposed to happen after the sun sets.
 
Whenever you have people in anime [[Sitting Onon the Roof]], this is bound to turn up from time to time.
 
A [[Super-Trope]] to [[Against the Setting Sun]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Now and Then Here Andand There]]'', Shu and Lalaru watch the sunset as on three occasion, the first time when they first met, the second time when they escaped Hamdo's fortress and the third time {{spoiler|Lalaru disappears from existence.}}
** Also, Lalaru said that she likes watching the sunset.
* In a ''[[Bleach]]'' filler episode, Toushirou likes to hang out in a place that has the best view of the sunset because it reminds him of his childhood days spent with Momo, where they eat watermelons while watching the sky.
* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'''s Tamaki has an [[Imagine Spot]] of him and Haruhi walking along the beach together and watching the sunset.
* ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' has a sunset watching scene with Sheryl in Alto's arms in flight. They watch the sun set. And also fly. Yes, that basically sums it up. Done for romantic connotations as one of the many [[Ship Tease]] moments in the series.
* ''[[Future War 198 X198X]]'': Wataru and Laura are on the balcony on New Year's Eve, watching the sunset and talking all about their future plans right before finding out that war has broken out in Europe due to [[A Nuclear Error]].
 
== [[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.
** 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]]''
* 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.
* Kind of the entire point of Rohmer's ''La rayon vert'' (the "green flash", which is semi-seriously considered to confer a heightened spiritual state to the one who manages to spot it in the sunset).
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy]]'' spoofed this (big surprise).
{{quote| ''Arthur Dent'': Night's falling. Look robot, the stars are coming out.<br />
''Marvin'': I know. Wretched isn't it?<br />
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== [[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 ''[[Babylon Five5]]'', 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]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' had such a scene. Made awkward by the fact that Yuna can't say Tidus's name.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'': [[Official Couple|Sora and Kairi]] watch the sunset together a few hours before [[The Heartless]] attack their island. [[Heterosexual Life Partners|Axel and Roxas]] do the same thing in ''[[Limited Special Collectors Ultimate Edition|Kingdom Hearts II: FM+]]'' They, along with [[Three Amigos|Xion]], also do it a ''lot'' in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358 Days Over 2 (Video Game)|358/2 Days.]]'' The fact that Twilight Town is in perpetual sunset definitely helps.
* In ''[[Super Mario Sunshine (Video Game)|Super Mario Sunshine]]'', in the end sequence, Mario and Peach watch the setting sun from Sirena Beach. (In the game, every time you go to Sirena Beach, the sun is setting.)
 
== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* Miyako in ''[[Maji Dede Watashi Nini Koi Shinasai (Visual Novel)!|Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai]]'', from her [[Sitting Onon the Roof|favorite spot on the roof]] of the secret base.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'': [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0666.html Roy and Haley watch the sunset and discuss the future].
* The final strip of ''[[Rip and Teri]]'' is the titular pair, having managed to shake off the various threats that were stalking them throughout the story and escape to an anonymous life, sitting on a beach watching a beautiful sunset together. It, along with the fact that Teri is now pregnant, symbolises the end of their adventures and the start of their new life together.
* [[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]] has one with [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-10-20 Elliot and Sarah.]
* In ''[[Question Duck]]'', [http://questionduck.smackjeeves.com/comics/998706/056/ it's time for the duck to ask a question.]
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* As in the picture, Zuko and Mai when they had their infamous [[Ship Sinking]] kiss in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''.
** Later on, Aang wanders out of a party to watch the gorgeous sunset over Ba Sing Se, before Katara shows up to '''[[Ship Sinking|NUKE THE SHIP]]''' for good.
*** For clarification: A vocal part of the fandom was almost fanatically supportive of Zuko and Katara as a couple, and at times in Season Three the show would go out of its way to sink the ship, with several [[Big Damn Kiss]] scenes between the couples mentioned above.
* On ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'', in "Dying For Pie", Squidward thought [[SpongeBob]] was going to explode at sunset, so he spent the day doing everything [[SpongeBob]] wanted to do and then watched the sunset while he waited for the explosion. {{spoiler|The first explosion turned out to be just [[SpongeBob]] blowing bomb bubbles.}}
* Baljeet and his friend Mishti, at the end of the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "That Sinking Feeling."
** Defied by Isabella in the "Summer Belongs to You" special: Phineas has wagered his entire worldview on getting the group around the world by the end of the day, but as the sun is almost set they've crashed on a deserted island with no apparent way off. Just as Isabella (who has a crush on him) is forlornly wishing that he would give up and just watch the sunset with her, Phineas [[Despair Event Horizon|loses all hope]] and falls to the ground next to her, weakly saying that they can "[[Ironic Echo|at least watch this beautiful sunset together]]." Hearing the despair in his voice makes Isabella jump up and give a [[Rousing Speech|rousing]] [[Do Not Go Gentle]] speech that winds up saving the whole enterprise.
* Whenever anyone is expecting the [[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]].
* At the start of the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "The Return of Chef", [[Heterosexual Life Partners|Stan and Kyle]] are seen sitting on a log at Stark's Pond, watching the sun set.
 
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