History Main / PaintingTheFrostOnWindows

* All the fairies from ''ALittleSnowFairySugar'' create the weather by playing their instruments.

* The big reveal in ''TheThirteenthFloor'' is when the characters [[spoiler:head out to a place they would never go and see it hasn't been built, proving they live in a virtual reality. BroadStrokes TruthInTelevision because that is what CGI environments look like when viewed from an unintended angle.]]

* Helen Keller wrote -- or thought she wrote -- a perfect fairy tale about melted jewels staining autumn leaves with brilliant colors. It turned out to be a paraphrase from a book that had been read to her. The book's author went on record that Helen's version was better.

--> Mike: I'm from Northern Wisconsin. I've seen plenty of this.

* The Swedish summer song ''Idas Sommarvisa'' (lyrics by Webcomic/AstridLindgren) is all about this trope.

* A 1936 [[HappyHarmonies MGM cartoon]] "To Spring" is built around the trope of little elves/gnomes who put the springtime colors into the plants, by operating various gnome-powered machinery and a color pipe-organ. They battle an Old Man Winter character who is determined to hang around a while longer.
** There is also "Jack Frost", an Ub Iwerks "Comicolor" short from a year or two previous.

** The pegasus city of Cloudsdale is home to the "weather factory", where rainbows are brewed ([[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce don't try to taste the liquid rainbows]]) and snowflakes are crafted. And speaking of rainbows, turns out ponies can remove the color of one. Using a vacuum cleaner.

* DaveBarry literally did this once, when his son was fairly young. And wrote a column about it.

* In ''Little House in the Big Woods'' Laura's father tells her that Jack Frost comes to put frost on the windows. This results in Laura attempting to 'catch' Jack Frost in the act.
* In ''The Magician's Nephew'', Aslan sings Narnia into being.

* The Swedish summer song ''Idas Sommarvisa'' (lyrics by AstridLindgren) is all about this trope.

* This is apparently the sort of thing ''GunnerkriggCourt'''s Regional Fairies do. [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=150 This bonus page]] demonstrates one of them making metal rusty.

** The pegasus city of Cloudsdale is home to the "weather factory", where rainbows are brewed ([[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce don't try to taste the liquid rainbows]]) and snowflakes are crafted. And speaking of rainbows, turns out ponies can remove the color of one.

** The pegasus city of Cloudsdale is home to the "weather factory", where rainbows are brewed ([[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce don't try to taste the liquid rainbows]]) and snowflakes are crafted. And speaking of rainbows, turns out they can remove the color of one.
** Pegasi also have to create huge tornadoes to get water from ground reservoirs to Cloudsdale since water doesn't evaporate normally.
* The original ''MyLittlePony and Friends'' had the Dell Dwellers from "Mish Mash Melee", who make the rocks, trees, and other features of the forests around Dream Valley in an underground factory.

* There's a common joke/urban legend in Russia that in the Soviet army soldiers had to use [[http://www.google.com/search?q=lawn+paint lawn paint]] to make the grass look nicer before the top-brass inspections.

** The pegasus city of Cloudsdale is home to the "weather factory", where rainbows are brewed ([[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce don't try to taste the liquid rainbows]]) and snowflakes are crafted.
*** Speaking of rainbows turns out they can remove the color of one.

** And in ''RockADoodle'' (also by DonBluth), Chanticleer the rooster's crowing is the real reason why the Sun rises every morning (the image caption above shows the Sun rising from Earth orbit in outer space as seen in the opening credits). But then the Sun started to rise without him...

* A lot of these show up in TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' including Jack Frost and the Verruca Gnome. Note that in Discworld, human belief can create supernatural beings, so this begs a chicken-or-egg question.

* In ''{{Nocturna}}'', there's a whole range of dfferent jobs in order to make the night - meowing cats make children sleep, there's an ''orchestra'' for the various nocturnal sounds, dreams are written down and read to sleeping kids, and there are even people who have to [[MessyHair mess up hair]] and another who makes [[spoiler:kids [[PottyFailure wet the bed]]]].

->'''Judge:''' Mr. Wright... That's a Pegasus's job here in Equestria... It's sort of what they do.

->'''Phoenix:''' Mmmph... uh... [[FlatWhat what...?]]

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* ''DerSandmann'' [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] this: the sandman gouges out the eyes of children who stay up late [[spoiler:and provides their eyes to the builders of automatons, killing the ones who won't give up the creation]].

* In {{Little House in the Big Woods}} Laura's father tells her that Jack Frost comes to put frost on the windows. This results in Laura attempting to 'catch' Jack Frost in the act.

-->'''Applejack:''' It ain't natural!

** The pegasus city of Cloudsdale is home to the "weather factory", where rainbows are brewed and snowflakes are crafted.

* In ''TinkerBell'', fairies are responsible for bringing in the seasons, and each season is a huge team project. Each fairy has a specialty, or "talent", from painting ladybugs to making flowers grow. [[spoiler:The whole plot of the movie, in fact, revolves around Tinker Bell trying to fix everything after she inadvertently messes up the spring preparations]].

* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' introduces princesses Celestia and Luna, who are responsible for raising the sun and the moon, respectively. Pegasi control the weather and Earth ponies apparently make plants grow and care for "wild" animals. The ponies are responsible for changing the seasons -- for example, by cleaning up winter snow to make way for spring, and by shaking the autumn leaves out of trees.

* There's a common joke/urban legend in Russia that in the Soviet army soldiers had to manually paint the lawn grass green to make it look nicer before the top-brass inspections.
** Actually TruthInTelevision as there are products for this: [[http://www.google.com/search?q=lawn+paint Google lawn paint]].

Can be a subset of TheFairFolk, OddJobGods, MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality or AnthropomorphicPersonification. Not related to [[FallOutBoy being also evil and also into cats]]. See also JustSoStory. Related to IDyeGrass.

Well, it's not due to any sort of scientific process. Usually appearing in mythology or children's entertainment, this is a character who is responsible for the beautiful colors and patterns we see in nature. The leaves? There's some guy going around and painting them one by one. The frost? Someone such as Jack Frost draws it on people's windows. A character of this trope is usually depicted as an artist; his or her medium just happens to be nature.

Can be a subset of TheFairFolk, OddJobGods, MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality or AnthropomorphicPersonification. Not related to [[FallOutBoy being also evil and also into cats]]. See also JustSoStory.