History Main / GuardianAngel

** ''ComicBook/SupergirlWings'' is an Creator/{{Elseworld}} reinterpretating Supergirl as an actual angel watching over a troubled teenager.

* In ''ComicBook/PS238'' having one of these is Guardian Angel's power. It does things such as prevent security systems from picking her up, stopping a sentient cloud of nanites from possessing her, [[MundaneUtility protecting her from the rain]], [[spoiler: [[BlessedWithSuck preventing anyone from delivering life saving treatment to her after it was temporarily shut off]] and preventing her moving on to the afterlife until she was resurrected by a classmate with healing powers]].
* ''ComicBook/JLA1997'': Zauriel was a Guardian Angel who got ''too'' close to the woman he was watching over.

** ''ComicBook/SupergirlWings'' is an {{Elseworld}} reinterpretating Supergirl as an actual angel watching over a troubled teenager.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Rhino's role in the series is revealed to be that of a guardian angel. Lampshaded by him in "The Gift", even referring to the movie ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' in the process. He was a fully-evolved soul in Nirvana who decided it would be fun to return to earth as a volunteer, assuring that Bolt and Mittens successfully achieve soulmate status.
-->'''Rhino:''' Sometimes, though, we fully-evolved sorts decide it’d be fun to head back down to earth and serve as facilitators for those with especially challenging issues. I remember when you and Bolt made your weird pact, and I couldn’t resist volunteering. Keeping you two from straying too far away from the prize -- well, let me tell you, I drew real pleasure from that. You remember the movie "It’s a Wonderful Life", don’t you? I was kinda like Clarence, the guardian angel for you two. Only I didn’t get wings or anything if I succeeded -- just the satisfaction of knowing I helped two beings reach completion.

* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'':

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E33MrBevis Mr. Bevis]]", J. Hardy Hempstead has been the guardian angel of multiple Bevis family members since one of them, hundreds of years before, performed an unspecified heroic act that earned such an angel as a reward.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E101CavenderIsComing Cavender is Coming]]", Harmon Cavender is assigned as Agnes Grep's guardian angel to see whether he can improve her life in 24 hours and finally earn his wings.

* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': Cherubim are innate protectors and can attune themselves to individual things or people, which they will single-mindedly protect from all harm, and are supernaturally aware of any danger menacing their charges.

** The WesternAnimation/PorkyPig and [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester]] short "WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat", where the starring characters move into a new house overrun with murderous mice, who've recently [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] the previous homeowners' cat, and possibly the owners themselves. After Sylvester flees the house when he sees the mice taking Porky away to give him the same treatment, his guardian angel appears to chew him out for his cowardice and convince him to go back into the house to fight back against the mice and save his master.

* In ''Manga/HitoHitoriFutari'', human souls watch after living humans so that they do not accumulate too much evil.

* In Leslie Fish's song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w34fSnJNP-4 Dawson's Christian]]", the patrol corvette ''Christian'', commanded by Captain Jayme Christian, was destroyed in an engagement during the "War of '82" by three light cruisers. Jayme [[TakingYouWithMe took the cruisers with him]], leaving no sign of his ship behind. The ghosts of the ship and her crew have come back with a vengeance and remain on patrol, viciously attacking pirates and defending spacers.

** More generally the "white-lighters" fill a very similar role, although they are deceased humans, not angels. The sisters' white-lighter watches over and helps them as a force of good and connection to the BigGood in the sky (i.e. {{God}}).

* In ''ComicBook/{{PS238}}'' having one of these is Guardian Angel's power. It does things such as prevent security systems from picking her up, stopping a sentient cloud of nanites from possessing her, [[MundaneUtility protecting her from the rain]], [[spoiler: [[BlessedWithSuck preventing anyone from delivering life saving treatment to her after it was temporarily shut off]] and preventing her moving on to the afterlife until she was resurrected by a classmate with healing powers]].
* Zauriel in ''Comicbook/JLA1997'' was a Guardian Angel who got ''too'' close to the woman he was watching over.
* ''Supergirl: Wings'' is an {{Elseworld}} retelling of the [[Comicbook/Supergirl1996 "Earth Angel" Supergirl]] in which Matrix is an actual angel with Linda Danvers as her charge.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Rhino’s role in the series is revealed to be that of a guardian angel. Lampshaded by him in “The Gift,” even referring to the movie Film/ItsAWonderfulLife in the process. He was a fully-evolved soul in Nirvana who decided it would be fun to return to earth as a volunteer, assuring that Bolt and Mittens successfully achieve soulmate status.

* ''Tales From The Whoop: Hot Rod Brown, Class Clown'' (1990 TV movie): [[MeaningfulName Angela Gabriel]], played by Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, has been Guardian Angel to numerous historical figures, including UsefulNotes/{{Tutankhamun}}, Creator/{{Michelangelo|Buonarroti}} and UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria, although her career was somewhat stymied after her last assignment -- UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt -- sent her to negotiate with Emperor Hirohito, and [[MyGreatestFailure she failed to prevent the Pearl Harbor bombing]]. As a result, her latest job is... to help the titular ClassClown (a young Creator/TobeyMaguire) pass history, despite his lack of belief in himself and the fact that his snooty teacher hates him. (To be fair, he is destined to make a major contribution to the world in the future -- but only if he graduates.)

* In Creator/PhilipKDick's ''Literature/EyeInTheSky'', at one point the protagonists end up in a world [[spoiler:(actually a fundamentalist's personal mental world)]] where religious concepts are physically manifest and obvious. One of these are guardian angels, who can manifest as small mouths that whisper advice into a person's ears.

* In ''Literature/DerMuenchnerImHimmel'', angel Aloisius is sent back to his former hometown of UsefulNotes/{{Munich}} to be a divine counselor to the [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Bavarian]] Secretary of Church and Education (in the original ShortStory) or to the entire Bavarian government (in the animated short). The main reason for this is because God has realized that Aloisius, as to be actually expected from someone from Munich, isn't made for chanting cheerfully while never getting to drink beer anymore. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that it's the latter what Aloisius does instead after his arrival in Munich.

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* The Gumbo's small child Pasquale in ComicStrip/RoseIsRose has a Guardian Angel, who usually looks just like little Pasquale with wings. When danger threatens, however, he morphs into a much larger, much more biblical version, with armor and a huge sword. It's implied that this is his true form, and just uses the other one to keep from frightening... well, everyone.
* In ''ComicStrip/SafeHavens'' Samantha's grandmother is eventually promoted to guardian angel in order to look after the Mars mission. She got the job because Samantha's the commander of it. (Fun fact, her wings are actually made with dinosaur feathers.)
-->"Even if the afterlife, promotions are all about 'who you know'."

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* In the opera ''Hansel and Gretel'', the children's evening prayer sings of fourteen angels watching over them as they sleep. These fourteen appear in the ensuing DreamBallet.
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* ''Tales From The Whoop: Hot Rod Brown, Class Clown'' (1990 TV movie): [[MeaningfulName Angela Gabriel]], played by Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, has been Guardian Angel to numerous historical figues, including UsefulNotes/{{Tutankhamun}}, Creator/{{Michelangelo|Buonarroti}} and UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria, although her career was somewhat stymied after her last assignment -- UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt -- sent her to negotiate with Emperor Hirohito, and [[MyGreatestFailure she failed to prevent the Pearl Harbor bombing]]. As a result, her latest job is... to help the titular ClassClown (a young Creator/TobeyMaguire) pass history, despite his lack of belief in himself and the fact that his snooty teacher hates him. (To be fair, he is destined to make a major contribution to the world in the future -- but only if he graduates.)

** The WesternAnimation/PorkyPig and [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester]] short "WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat", where the starring characters move into a new house overrun with murderous mice, who've recently [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] the previous homeowners' cat, and possibly the owners themselves. After Sylvester flees the house when he sees the mice taking Porky away to give him the same treatment, his guardian angel appears to chew him out for his cowardice and then convinces him to go back into the house and fight back against the mice and save his master.

** The WesternAnimation/PorkyPig and [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester]] short "WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat", where the starring characters move into a new house overrun with murderous mice, who've recently [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] the previous homeowners' cat, and possibly the owners themselves. After Sylvester flees the house when he sees the mice taking Porky away to give him the same treatment [[YouHaveToBelieveMe after failing time and again to convince him what's going on]], his guardian angel appears to chew him out for his cowardice and then convinces him to go back into the house and fight back against the mice and save his master.

** The WesternAnimation/PorkyPig and [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester]] short "WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat", where the starring characters move into a new house overrun with murderous mice, who've recently [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] the previous homeowners' cat, and possibly the owners themselves. After Sylvester flees the house when he sees the mice taking Porky away to give him the same treatment, his guardian angel appears to chew him out for his cowardice and then convinces him to go back into the house and fight back against the mice and save his master.

** The WesternAnimation/PorkyPig and [[WesternAnimation/TweetyAndSylvester Sylvester]] short "WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat", where the starring characters move into a new house overrun with murderous mice, who've recently [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] the previous homeowners' cat, and possibly the owners themselves. After Sylvester flees the house when he sees the mice taking Porky away to give him the same treatment, his guardian angel appears to chew him out for his cowardice and then convinces him to go back into the house and fight back against the mice and save his master.

* ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'': Johnny Appleseed has a guardian angel resembling a bearded old man wearing deerskin clothing and a raccoon hat.

** The WesternAnimation/PorkyPig and [[WesternAnimation/TweetyAndSylvester Sylvester]] short "WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat", where the starring characters move into a new house overrun with murderous mice, who've recently [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] the previous homeowners' cat, and possibly did the same to the owners themselves. After Sylvester flees the house when he sees the mice taking Porky away to give him the same treatment, his guardian angel appears to chew him out for his cowardice and then convinces him to go back into the house and fight back against the mice and save his master.

* WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo had one in [[ItsAWonderfulPlot "Johnny's Guardian Angel"]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': In "Chuckie's Wonderful Life", Chuckie had one showing him what life would be like if he wasn't born.
* ''WesternAnimation/AngelsFriends'' revolves round this trope. Most of the main characters are guardian angels, and most of the rest are devils sent to entice their charges to evil.

** The [[WesternAnimation/TweetyAndSylvester Sylvester]] and WesternAnimation/PorkyPig short "WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat", where the starring characters move into a new house overrun with murderous mice, who've recently [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] the previous homeowners' cat. After Sylvester flees the house when he sees the mice taking Porky away to give him the same treatment, his guardian angel appears to chew him out for his cowardice and then convinces him to go back into the house and fight back against the mice and save his master.

** The [[WesternAnimation/TweetyAndSylvester Sylvester]] and WesternAnimation/PorkyPig short "WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat", where the starring characters move into a new house overrun with murderous mice, who've recently [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] the previous homeowners' cat. After Sylvester flees the house when he sees the mice taking Porky away to give him the same treatment, he is chewed out by his guardian angel for his cowardice, who then convinces him to go back into the house and fight back against the mice and save his master.

** The [[WesternAnimation/TweetyAndSylvester Sylvester]] and WesternAnimation/PorkyPig short "WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat", where the starring characters move into a new house overrun with murderous mice, who've recently [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] the cat belonging to the previous homeowners. After Sylvester flees the house when he sees the mice taking Porky away to give him the same treatment, he is chewed out by his guardian angel for his cowardice, who then convinces him to go back into the house and fight back against the mice and save his master.

** The [[WesternAnimation/TweetyAndSylvester Sylvester]] and WesternAnimation/PorkyPig short "WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat", where the starring characters move into a new house overrun with murderous mice, who've recently decapitated the cat belonging to the previous homeowners. After Sylvester flees the house when he sees the mice taking Porky away to give him the same treatment, he is chewed out by his guardian angel for his cowardice, who then convinces him to go back into the house and fight back against the mice and save his master.

** The [[WesternAnimation/TweetyAndSylvester Sylvester]] and WesternAnimation/PorkyPig short "WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat", where the starring characters move into a new house overrun with murderous mice. After Sylvester flees the house when he sees Porky on his way to be decapitated by a cult of murderous mice, he is chewed out by his guardian angel for his cowardice, who then convinces him to go back into the house and fight back against the mice and save his master.

** The [[WesternAnimation/TweetyAndSylvester Sylvester]] and WesternAnimation/PorkyPig short "WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat": Sylvester flees the house when he sees Porky on his way to be decapitated by a cult of murderous mice. Shortly after fleeing, his guardian angel appears and calls him out for his cowardice, then convinces him to go back into the house and fight back against the mice and save his master.