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| 5 | [[caption-width-right:313:[[Film/JackieBrown When you absolutely, positively got to dispose of something for good, accept no substitutes.]]]] |
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| 7 | ->''"SCP-1543-01 is a catapult with an absurdly far length of range, designed in 16██ to meet a common need of that time: launching dangerous and potentially reality-altering objects into the sun. Despite the fact that this was often an unnecessary waste of resources and time, it was often decided as the best course of action."'' |
| 8 | -->-- ''Website/SCPFoundation'', [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1543-j "SCP-1543-J"]] |
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| 10 | Have something that you need to get rid of permanently? And it can't be destroyed by ordinary means? Throw it into the Sun (or any convenient nearby star; a black hole works, too). If you have SuperStrength, just give it a good toss or [[MegatonPunch punch]]. Otherwise, you'll probably have to reprogram a space shuttle's coordinates, or possibly even set it to manual and make a HeroicSacrifice yourself. |
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| 12 | Realistically, the Shuttle -- and any manned spacecraft built to date -- has ''nowhere'' near the thrust needed. You'd have to cancel out about 90% of the orbital velocity of the Earth, which takes roughly twice as much Δ''v'' as would be required to throw whatever it is ''out of the solar system'' (while we're on the subject, Hurl It into the Interstellar Void would ''also'' be a pretty good way to dispose of something). In fact, if you had the necessary rocket engine, it would probably be easier, simpler, and cheaper to [[WeaponizedExhaust use it as a blowtorch]]. (Between those two extremes, you could drop it to Earth from orbit without a heat shield). |
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| 14 | Counterintuitively, it would be more efficient in term of fuel consumption to accelerate ''away'' from the Sun (bonus point if you use a SpaceshipSlingshotStunt around UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}}) to a higher orbit, which is a slower one, meaning you need less Δ''v'' to slow down your spacecraft and have it plummet into the sun. Of course this would take a ''lot'' of time since whatever you're trying to hurl into the sun has to travel its merry way into the vastness of the solar system before arriving at destination. |
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| 16 | But those who advocate throwing things into the sun [[ArtisticLicensePhysics rarely know that]], because they think GravitySucks. Furthermore, even if the object ''is'' tough enough to withstand the sun's power, it's likely that few enemies are tough enough to go after it. Also, RuleOfCool tends to apply. |
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| 18 | A surefire way to ensure someone is DeaderThanDead. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | Compare KillItWithFire. |
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| 23 | !!Examples: |
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| 25 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 26 | |
| 27 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 28 | * ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': |
| 29 | ** In ''Anime/DragonBallZCoolersRevenge'', Goku repels Cooler's Supernova by firing a Kamehameha at it. The combined attacks rebound back at Cooler and sends him hurtling into the sun. [[spoiler:[[NotQuiteDead He survives]] [[Anime/DragonBallZTheReturnOfCooler and comes back as a Cyborg]]]]. |
| 30 | ** In ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolySecondComing'', the climactic final BeamOWar with Broly ends this way, with Gohan, Goten, and Goku, combining their Kamehamehas to force Broly's Omega Blaster back at him, sending him hurtling into the sun as well. |
| 31 | ** The ''Baby Saga'' of ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' ends this way, with Super Saiyan 4 Goku killing the titular Baby by firing his Kamehameha at his ship while he's still inside, sending it into the sun. |
| 32 | * This was the eventual fate of the Gundams in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing''. Then in ''Endless Waltz'', it turned out they needed them again. Oops. Now Quatre has to go get them ''back''. [[spoiler:And then once they were finished, they were [[SelfDestructMechanism self-destructed]] and everybody got along and lived HappilyEverAfter.]] |
| 33 | * ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has this happen in the epilogue, some time after [[spoiler:the [[ZeroApprovalGambit Zero]] [[ThanatosGambit Requiem]] and the final conflicts of the story end]], as the [[spoiler:Sky Fortress [[WeaponOfMassDestruction Damocles]]]] is sent flying into space and into the sun, where it is destroyed. |
| 34 | * May have happened to the destroyed [[spoiler:Deucalion]] and by extension [[spoiler:[[VirtualGhost Alv]]]] in ''Anime/KiddyGrade''. An earlier statement from [[spoiler:Dvergr]] that "I want to be with my girl until the end" was followed by her flying into the ship's ruined bridge to [[spoiler:comfort Alv who was [[NotSoStoic crying and]] calling out for her]] - then we saw the ship's pieces being framed by a very big Sun. Still, it's a much more preferable way to go out than [[spoiler:[[FateWorseThanDeath being trapped in the ship's still operational mainframe for eternity]]]]. |
| 35 | * ''Anime/AstroBoy'': In the final episode of the original anime, Astro Boy manually aimed a rocket headed for Earth into the Sun, but [[spoiler:sacrificed himself]] as a result. |
| 36 | * ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'': |
| 37 | ** Subverted in an episode where Kirby defeats the giant green caterpillar-like enemy Poppon this way with the Chef ability. He places the enemy in a huge frying pan and tosses it right at the sun. Only it doesn't fly ''into'' the sun--instead, it orbits around the sun, then comes right back to Dream Land as an exceedingly delicious fried dish. |
| 38 | ** The later episode "Power Ploy" plays it straight. After Kirby regains his strength, he grabs the snake monster, Red Viper, gets on his Warp Star, and instantly flies to the sun where he proceeds to throw the evil monster into it. |
| 39 | * Attempted by the [=McDougall=] Brothers in ''Manga/OutlawStar'' when ordered to destroy the titular spaceship. |
| 40 | * In ''Anime/BraveExkaiser'', this is how [[spoiler:[[BigBad Dino Geist]] dies]]. Ironically enough, [[spoiler:he does this to ''himself'' to commit suicide rather than be captured and arrested by Exkaiser as one last act of spite.]] |
| 41 | * ''Franchise/LupinIII'': In ''Anime/TheMysteryOfMamo'', upon revealing his true form as a BrainInAJar, Mamo launches himself into space on a rocket to seek out the secret to immortality. However, just before blast off, Lupin attaches an explosive to the glass casing, shattering it once it reaches space and leaving him to drift listlessly on a collision course with the sun]]. |
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| 44 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 45 | * ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': At the end of ''Joys of Seasons'' episode 73, the goats decide to take care of Wolffy this way, in a weird way - they use the magnets he tried to use to capture them and set them up so he gets sent flying into the sun. |
| 46 | -->'''[[TheFaceOfTheSun The sun]]:''' Let's be honest now, guys, am I really that bad? |
| 47 | [[/folder]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 50 | * ComicBook/TheSentry did this to his EnemyWithout, the Void, and it's {{lampshaded}} to a point where he will never hear the end of it: "I don't throw ''everyone'' into the sun!" His protest does make sense: the Void wasn't the only thing he threw into the Sun, or at least, that wasn't the first time he threatened or offered to throw something into the Sun. This ultimately happens to [[spoiler:The Sentry himself while in his mortal, Bob Reynolds form]] to kill him ([[ComicBookDeath temporarily]]) after the events of Siege. |
| 51 | * ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': The team tends to use the sun as its own personal incinerator. Great for disposing of kryptonite. |
| 52 | ** In ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'', Superman puts ''himself'' there. Of course by then he's so powerful, he's perfectly fine with that (better than fine, in fact, since he's powered by sunlight). |
| 53 | ** In ''ComicBook/{{Justice|DC Comics}},'' Superman has [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] throw him into the sun to kill the mind control probes that have infected his body. |
| 54 | ** In ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Superboy-Prime got a nice closeup of the solar core of Rao- Krypton's own sun- courtesy of Kal-El and Golden Age Superman (although they mainly did this with the goal of using the red sunlight to drain Superboy-Prime's own powers rather than expecting the sun itself to kill him). |
| 55 | ** Subverted in ''ComicBook/TheBraveAndTheBold'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheBookOfDestiny''. ComicBook/WonderWoman attempted to dispose of the PhilosophersStone in the sun to keep it from the evil alchemist Megistus. But Megistus ''lived inside the sun''. |
| 56 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}'' all the world's nuclear weapons get teleported into the sun. |
| 57 | * ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'': This was how Bizarro dealt with Black Lantern Solomon Grundy (who was effectively unkillable). |
| 58 | * ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': |
| 59 | ** In the ''ComicBook/{{Republic}}'' series, this is how Anakin and Obi-Wan ''finally'' kill [[BountyHunter Durge]]. |
| 60 | ** Much later, in ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy'', Cade Skywalker sends Darth Krayt's body into Coruscant's sun to ensure that he doesn't come BackFromTheDead ''again''. He almost does it to himself, fearing that Krayt would try the old Sith trick of [[GrandTheftMe taking Cade's body as his own]] (indeed, he heard Krayt's voice taunting him and threatening this). He was saved by the Force Ghost of Luke Skywalker confirming that the voice in his head truly was just a voice in his head. |
| 61 | * ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': The speedster hero ran to the sun to toss a statue that was rendering a foe (being fought by Batman) invulnerable into it, reckoning the solar core would provide enough energy to destroy said statue. He used some kind of enormous luge system to launch himself out of the atmosphere and then started bouncing off asteroids. If that sounds weird, we're talking about a guy who can sometimes travel in time by running really fast - that was one of the ways he'd already tried to destroy the statue. |
| 62 | * The ComicBook/MartianManhunter does this to his brother. In ''ComicBook/BrightestDay'' #21, [[spoiler:he does the same thing to D'kay D'razz]]. |
| 63 | * In ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' v2 #108, ComicBook/SilverSurfer was unable to overcome Carnage's possession. When he regains control for one minute, he suicides this way. |
| 64 | * In the French comic ''Jules ou l'imparfait du futur'', the good guys decide to launch a nuclear missile into the Sun, because they could only delay the launching one hour, not stopping it. In the end they can't launch it at all, and they must sacrifice the starship. |
| 65 | * Subverted in ''ComicBook/UniversalWarOne'': the BigBad sends a space station into the sun, not to destroy the station but to destroy the sun! |
| 66 | * ComicBook/TheTick decides to dispose of a huge monolith by throwing it into the sun, because hey, that's what superheroes do. When it lands about forty feet away, he and [[{{Sidekick}} Arthur]] decide that's good enough. |
| 67 | * ''ComicBook/AdventureTime'': In the first story arc, the Lich plans to destroy the planet (and all life thereon) by sucking it into a BagOfHolding and hurling the bag into the sun. [[spoiler: He [[HoistByHisOwnPetard ends up getting tossed into the sun himself]].]] |
| 68 | * In ''ComicBook/PS238'', the S.I.I.T.S.-9000 is designed to throw things into the sun. |
| 69 | * In a short story of ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}'', the titular hero gets rid of the energy-eating MonsterOfTheWeek this way. [[spoiler: It backfires epically when said monster ''eats'' the Sun.]] |
| 70 | * In ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'' one-off story "Hillbilly Abductshun", [[HalfWittedHillbilly Cletus Spuckler]] steals Kang and Kodos' flying saucer, loudly exclaiming "I'm a-joyridin' this hubcap into the sun!" |
| 71 | * ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': |
| 72 | ** In ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} essentially did this [[spoiler:to ''herself'' to try to get rid of a Red Lantern ring without it killing her.]] It worked. |
| 73 | ** In ''ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth'', the Department of Extra-normal Operations launches Kara into the Sun as a last resort to help her get her powers back. |
| 74 | ** Variant in ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004''. Superman grabs Darkseid and flies into the Sun, but he doesn't intend to hurl Darkseid into it -the Lord of Apokolips would survive- but getting a power boost which allows him to fight Darkseid. |
| 75 | ** In ''ComicBook/StrangersAtTheHeartsCore'', Supergirl gets rid of a car bomb by throwing it into space before it blows up. |
| 76 | ** ''ComicBook/BrainiacsBlitz'': After forcing Brainiac to flee, Supergirl tosses his ship into the sun in order to disintegrate all his lethal weapons. |
| 77 | --->'''Narrator:''' ''"Moments later, the Girl of Steel hurls the Saucer and its weapons straight into the Sun!"''\ |
| 78 | '''Supergirl:''' (thinking) ''Old Sol's tremendous heat will vaporize those death-devices! No one will ever uses them on Superman!'' |
| 79 | ** ''ComicBook/SupergirlWednesdayComics'': An alien race decides to dump their weapons into the sun as a symbol of peace, after ending a civil war. |
| 80 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': |
| 81 | ** Superman's rescue of a doomed sun-mapping voyage kicks off the plot of ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'' [[spoiler:and ends with Superman going into the sun to try and fix it, the implications being that this is how he ended up there in ''DC One Million'']]. |
| 82 | ** ''ComicBook/WhoTookTheSuperOutOfSuperman'': After defeating Solarman, Superman disposes of his energy-absorbing power suit by throwing it into the sun. |
| 83 | ** Superman threw the Eradicator (a Kryptonian computer/weapon) into the sun. This annoyed it, and led to it creating its humanoid "Krypton Man" form. |
| 84 | ** As seen in ''ComicBook/ThePhantomZone'' mini-series, Krypton Science Council's method to get rid of anything dangerous (lawbreakers, Kru-El's forbidden weapons, the Phantom Zone Projector...) was to rocket it into space. |
| 85 | ** In ''ComicBook/ThePlagueOfTheAntibioticMan'', Superman gets rid of Jevik by picking up his unconscious body and throwing him back to his homeworld with a super-strong toss. |
| 86 | ** In "ComicBook/LuthorUnleashed", since he cannot easily destroy one of Luthor's satellite-weapons without endangering Metropolis, Superman get rids of it by kicking it into deep space where he can take it apart safely. |
| 87 | ** In ''ComicBook/TheLeperFromKrypton'', Superman has been infected with an incurable and highly contagious alien infectious disease. Since he will die within hours and he does not want to risk infecting others, Superman opts for building a rocketship which will take him to Flammbron, the hottest sun in the universe, where his body wil burn away together with his germs. |
| 88 | ** "ComicBook/BrainiacRebirth": Variant. Superman is being chased through the space by Brainiac's red-sun torpedo. He does not dare to destroy it, cannot outrun it and can barely dodge it, so Superman plunges into the nearest Sun, expecting (correctly) the torpedo to chase after him and melt into oblivion. |
| 89 | ** "ComicBook/SupermanAndSpiderMan": When Doctor Doom tries to use one piece of Kryptonite to weaken Superman, the Man of Steel wraps himself in lead to grab it safely, and tosses the lethal rock into the Sun. |
| 90 | ** "ComicBook/ThePhantomSuperboy": It is revealed that, when the Kryptonian Council deemed several weapons were too dangerous to keep around, they sealed them in a box which was placed in a rocket and launched into outer space. |
| 91 | ** In Year Two of the ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' tie in series, [[spoiler: Superman accepts [[ManipulativeBastard Sinestro's]] yellow ring of fear and uses its power to grab Ganthet and Mogo and push them into the sun.]] In Year Five, [[spoiler: Superman throws Parasite into the sun as well.]] |
| 92 | * In ''ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader'', [[spoiler: Vader kills Cylo for good by {{Jedi Mind Trick}}ing Cylo's SpaceWhale and sending it flying into the nearest star.]] |
| 93 | * In one ''ComicBook/JessicaJones'' storyline, she thinks that the Purple Man is dead and asks [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Carol Danvers]] to toss his body into the sun. Sometime later, it seems that he was actually alive, making Carol fear she threw an innocent into the sun thanks to his mind control powers. [[spoiler:It was later revealed that Carol threw no one into the sun, just that she was made to believe she did. She's very relieved to hear that.]] |
| 94 | * ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': At the end of the [[ZombieApocalypse Metal Virus Saga]], Super Sonic and Super Silver combine their abilities and the Warp Topaz to suck up every last trace of the Metal Virus and send it through a warp portal into the sun to permanently dispose of it. |
| 95 | * In ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd'', after Hershey becomes the first Chief Judge to die of natural causes, it is ruled that her corpse can't be recycled lest it infect others. Instead, she is given a [[VikingFuneral Viking-style funeral]] by launching her coffin into the sun. |
| 96 | * A ''Twilight Zone'' anthology comic had the story "Shivering Stars" in which an astronaut by the name of Allan Kent [[SpaceMadness goes crazy after a meteor swarm damages the ship]], which results he and fellow astronaut Charlie losing so much oxygen that there isn't enough for both of them to return to Earth alive. Allan fears freezing to death in space and refuses to listen when Charlie suggests that they can solve this problem rationally, murdering him so that he can have the rest of the air for himself. During the fight, though, the ship's controls were damaged and now it's flying uncontrollably into the Sun. [[FalseReassurance At least]] [[KarmicDeath he won't]] [[DeathByIrony freeze to death]]. |
| 97 | * ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'': After Galvatron's plot involving the Dead Universe was stopped, WordOfGod is that the Autobots decided the superpowered but brainless Thunderwing was too dangerous to keep around (since Galvatron had used him as a remote-controlled weapon) and so the Autobots just unceremoniously chucked him into the nearest black hole. |
| 98 | * ''The Brave and The Bold'' (Volume 3) #7: The plot sees Franchise/WonderWoman, ComicBook/PowerGirl and Superman fighting the villain Dr Alchemy. Alchemy is defeated when his spirit is trapped in the PhilosophersStone which Wonder Woman throws into the sun. |
| 99 | [[/folder]] |
| 100 | |
| 101 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 102 | * ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'''s adaptation of ''Cooler's Revenge'' spotlights this with this line: |
| 103 | -->'''Goku:''' ''"Sun, you grow my food... you kill my enemies. You're totally worth the skin cancer."'' |
| 104 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', Kara Zor-El can't kill off [[EvilTwin Satan Girl]] through normal means. Her duplicate isn't affected by Kryptonite or depowered by a red sun, and Kara isn't a magic-user. After a furious battle which tests every ounce of her power and skill to its absolute limit, Supergirl throws her enemy into an anti-matter sun (after Satan Girl attempts to throw her). |
| 105 | -->Supergirl grabbed Satan Girl by the legs, added her own momentum to the force of Satan Girl's super-throw, whirled them around several times like two partners on a trapeze bar, and flung her enemy down towards the thrusting fingers of the solar prominence.\ |
| 106 | The worst part of it was seeing the grin of determination on Kara's bloodied face as she threw her.\ |
| 107 | Satan Girl heard one last sending before she hit the plasma.\ |
| 108 | <Hellsister,> said Supergirl, <go to Hell.>\ |
| 109 | Kara pulled up, flying away at an angle, keeping herself beyond the event horizon of what was to come with the last shred of power she had. But she knew that she had to avoid the blast area. She trained her super-vision on the hurtling woman in black, even as she flew away.\ |
| 110 | The villainess hit the anti-plasma.\ |
| 111 | There was a look of confusion on Satan Girl's face as she exploded.\ |
| 112 | Her positive-matter structure was instantly annihilated by an equivalent mass of anti-matter in the solar prominence. It flattened part of the plasma-storm a bit, made for a more spectacular sight, and disintegrated a small bit of antisolar matter.\ |
| 113 | But that was all right. There was enough antimatter in the star to spare.\ |
| 114 | It didn't take that much of it to kill a Satan Girl. |
| 115 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' and Doctor Who fanfic ''Fanfic/MinesOfDragonMountain'', Zeitgeist mentions a (possibly true) tale of a "Dark City of Tambelon" that once tried to enslave ponykind (apparently ForTheEvulz) to the Doctor, saying that they live on the sun now. When the Doctor asks if Celestia killed them all, Zeitgeist says no, they ''live'' [[AndIMustScream on the]] [[FateWorseThanDeath sun now]]. |
| 116 | * A running joke for FanFic/NobodyDies (it's even mentioned on its page) is that given the ludicrous amounts of damage Angels take before they die, final Angel Tabris will be killed by having the sun dropped on him. It's also a recurring joke for Terrifying Rei Meme Generator images. |
| 117 | * [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/55667/Erico Erico the Superbard's]] ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' fanfics have his original characters making use of small, handheld teleport units to dispose of nukes and other hazardous material, by teleporting them close to the sun, where they'd be drawn in. |
| 118 | * Mentioned in ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'', after Quirrell emphasizes that the highly powerful [[EmotionEater Dementors]] cannot be killed by any means, magical or otherwise. |
| 119 | --> "Hm," Harry said. "Suppose you threw it into the Sun? Would it be destroyed?"\ |
| 120 | "It seems unlikely, Mr. Potter," Professor Quirrell said dryly. "[[AmbiguousSyntax The Sun is very large, after all; I doubt the Dementor would have much effect on it]]. [[EvenEvilHasStandards But it is not a test I would like to try, Mr. Potter, just in case."]]. |
| 121 | * In ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'', being banished to the Sun is shown as one of the possible punishments for murder in [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equestria]], the other one being banishment to the Moon. This comes out as a bit of a DisproportionateRetribution for [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix]], giving him a good reason to bring his A-game on the trial. |
| 122 | * In PH Wise's ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7286512/1/A_New_World_in_my_View A new World In My View]]'' (a Series/{{Buffy|the Vampire Slayer}}[=-=]Franchise/{{DCU}}[=-=]Creator/{{Marvel}}verse crossover) the Sentry decides the best way to defeat a super villain is to plunge her into the heart of the sun. Unfortunately for the Sentry, said super villain is a Kryptonian, the absolute ''last'' kind of being you want to try this on, leading to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. |
| 123 | * ''[[FanFic/FriendshipIsMagicTheAdventuresOfSpike Friendship Is Magic: The Adventures of Spike]]'': What Luna does with [[spoiler: Celestia's casket]]. She says it feels appropriate. |
| 124 | * In ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30529/Ravanne+Not+In+Kansas.htm Not In Kansas,]]'' [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] suggests doing this with a piece of [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer The Judge]]. Once it's complete she changes her mind (on the off chance he'd somehow corrupt the sun) and instead throws him into the black hole at the center of the galaxy. |
| 125 | * In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', Celestia is capable of rendering someone immortal and imprisoning them in the sun where they [[FateWorseThanDeath burn in the solar flames]], but serves it as punishment for the absolute most evil criminals. Namely mass murderers, who are imprisoned there for an amount of time equal to the years of life they've robbed from others. She [[spoiler:would have banished Fluttershy here had her plan as Nightmare Whisper killed every unborn child in Equestria, but thankfully that didn't happen.]] This is also [[spoiler:Kabuto, the Changelings' MadScientist and a mass murderer, after the wedding, who will be there for a ''long'' time]]. Interestingly, the sun has its own biosphere of fire based life that prisoners are tasked with caring for while trapped there. |
| 126 | * ''FanFic/EscapeFromTheMoon'': In the sequel ''The Mare From the Moon'', Celestia initially promises that she’ll do this to Spliced Genome if she proves herself a threat. Later though, she changes her mind when it’s pointed out that Spliced’s ResurrectiveImmortality, and her [[CameBackStrong adapting to what killed her every time she dies]], will eventually leave her immune to both the sun and to Celestia’s magic, something she decides is too big of a risk. |
| 127 | * ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMysticForce'' sees the threat of [[spoiler:Ivan Ooze]] being ended when the Order of the Phoenix and Harry perform a massive joint charm to hurl [[spoiler:Ivan]] towards the sun. |
| 128 | * In ''Fanfic/TheLastSon'', this is Superman's solution whenever he encounters Kryptonite. |
| 129 | * In ''Fanfic/AvengerOfSteel'', Stick, Clint, and [[spoiler: Raven]] each independently suggest that Superman do this to deal with [[spoiler:the seemingly immortal Solomon Grundy]], but Clark states that he doesn't even know if he could do something like that and isn't sure if that would stop [[spoiler:Grundy given his regenerative abilities]]. He does, however, eventually do this with [[spoiler: the body of the dragon Ao Shun after killing him, to keep him from resurrecting]]. |
| 130 | * The ''Franchise/ArrowVerse'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11904468/1/An-Interdimensional-Meet An Interdimensional Meet]]" features the Flash and Supergirl assisting in Damien Darhk's attempted breakout at Iron Heights; after [[spoiler:Kara destroys Darhk's idol with her heat vision, she takes the pieces and throws them into the sun to dispose of them for good]]. |
| 131 | * In ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager'' it's not practical to do this for a BurialInSpace when the sun could be billions of miles away, so corpses are fastened outside the hull where they can be cremated by the exhaust plume of the torchship. |
| 132 | * In the Franchise/UltraSeries inspired ''Ultra Theresa'', in one chapter a fight with a kaiju ends with them flying into space, and the monster being fascinated by the sight of the sun. The heroine kicks it into the sun, thinking she's gotten rid of it for good. Since the kaiju was fire-based, though, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it comes back in a later chapter in a much more powerful form]]. |
| 133 | * ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': Vandal Savage creates an alternate timeline in hopes that his alternate self will be in a better position, eg emperor of Earth. Instead, however, said self was thrown into the Sun by the Green Lantern at the time. Paul, recognizing that the Lantern would have had no AI support and thus would have had to fly there at sub-light speeds without losing focus, is impressed. Paul's own plans for dealing with Savage (after restoring the timeline) involve throwing him into a star in a different solar system, just to make it even more certain that he's not coming back. |
| 134 | * VideoGame/MegaMan8BitDeathmatch V6's final boss, [[spoiler:Eclipse, a fusion of the Evil Robot, Sunstar and the ''entire Wily Star turned into a kaiju monstrosity'', is challenged by the player character, Maestro, in the newest version of Gamma. After a HeroicSecondWind and delivering a CurbStompBattle onto Eclipse, Maestro delivers a rocket thruster-fueled MegatonPunch that sends both Eclipse and Gamma all the way from Earth directly into the sun, though Maestro ejects before that happens. This finally kills the Evil Robot and destroys the Evil Energy for good. True to his name and powers, however, Sunstar ''survives'' being hurled into the sun, enabling him to take the now deactivated and stranded Maestro back to Earth, though he only holds out just long enough to do so before his body turns to ash and disintegrates from the strain, leaving only his forehead crystal behind. Though it should be noted that even before being hurled into the sun he had already been defeated by Maestro and his fusion reactor was on the verge of going critical before he was suddenly taken over by the Evil Robot, so who knows if Sunstar may have actually survived being hurled into the sun if he was at full strength.]] |
| 135 | [[/folder]] |
| 136 | |
| 137 | [[folder:Film — Live-Action]] |
| 138 | * In ''Film/{{Eternals}}'', [[spoiler:Ikaris [[DrivenToSuicide does it to himself]] out of regret, fitting how [[IcarusAllusion the name makes clear he inspired the myth of Icarus]].]] |
| 139 | * In ''Film/GreenLantern2011'', Hal Jordan [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punches]] [[spoiler:Parallax]] into the Sun to destroy it. This is set up since [[spoiler:they were fighting right in front of the Sun, and it was part of Kilowog's [[ChekhovsGun lecture]]]]. |
| 140 | * Comicbook/{{Superman}} rounds up all the nuclear weapons on Earth and throws them into the Sun in ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace''. Unfortunately, ComicBook/LexLuthor attaches a genetic matrix created from Superman's hair to the final nuclear missile, and when Superman throws it into the sun, the result is the creation of Nuclear Man, who Superman then has to fight. |
| 141 | [[/folder]] |
| 142 | |
| 143 | [[folder:Jokes]] |
| 144 | * As reported on RussianHumour: |
| 145 | -->As a population control measure, the Chinese government has sent 100 million Chinese cosmonauts on a one-way expedition to the Sun. The expedition exceeded expectations, as a further 200 million Chinese ground-control staff forgot to let go of the slingshot at the right time and were hurled up along with the spacecraft. |
| 146 | [[/folder]] |
| 147 | |
| 148 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 149 | !!!'''By Author:''' |
| 150 | * The eponymous character in the Creator/RayBradbury short story "Rocket Man" meets an unfortunate ending when his rocket ship malfunctions and flies into the Sun. Another Bradbury story, "The Golden Apples Of the Sun" involves a space mission to retrieve stellar matter from the Sun. |
| 151 | * [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks]] |
| 152 | ** This is a common, but by no means universal, post-death ritual for members of Literature/TheCulture, although apparently they have their mortal remains Displaced (i.e. teleported) directly into the very heart of a nearby star. |
| 153 | ** In the short story "Cleaning Up", aliens are teleporting their junk into the sun, but a fault in their teleporter causes the junk to get teleported onto [=mid-20th=] Century Earth instead. Things don't end well. |
| 154 | |
| 155 | !!!'''By Work:''' |
| 156 | * ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' prequel ''The Andalite Chronicles'' has Elfangor do this to a [[PuppeteerParasite Yeerk]] he struck a bargain with. Faced with the option of either starving to death or entering deep hibernation to await rescue, the Yeerk agrees to be frozen. Elfangor [[ExactWords takes the frozen Yeerk and throws it out the airlock, directly adjacent to a star.]] |
| 157 | * Done in a roundabout way in the Creator/JohnBellairs novel ''Literature/TheBeastUnderTheWizardsBridge'': the heroes magically propel the beast's SoulJar and a rivet from the bridge (with AntiMagic properties) into space, and the beast itself follows them, with all three coming down on the [[CometOfDoom Red Star]], knocking it off course and into the sun. |
| 158 | * ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'': In ''Legends of Dune'', when it becomes clear that he'll be killed by Iblis Ginjo's SecretPolice for knowing the truth about the [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke Tleilaxu]] organ farms, Xavier Harkonnen chooses to pilot the shuttle with Ginjo onboard into the nearest star. Sadly, this HeroicSacrifice is twisted by Ginjo's wife and [[TheDragon Dragon]] into high treason. Xavier's best friend Vorian Atreides chooses to keep the truth hidden "for the good of the Jihad" and allow the Harkonnen name to be despised and Ginjo to be elevated to martyrdom. |
| 159 | * The hominem community uses this method to dispose of [[spoiler:an orbiting nuclear bomb]] in David Palmer's ''Literature/{{Emergence}}''. |
| 160 | * Creator/RoaldDahl's ''Literature/TheEnormousCrocodile'' ends with Trunky the Elephant doing this to the eponymous villain. |
| 161 | * In the fourth book of the ''Literature/TheExpanse'' series, Holden disposes of [[spoiler: Detective Miller's protomolecule node]] by strapping it to a reconnaissance probe with a trajectory aimed towards the nearest star. |
| 162 | * In "Giant Killer" by Creator/ABertramChandler, [[spoiler:it turns out that "The People" are rats which have gained near-human intelligence through mutation, "The Giants" are humans (though the latter at least is probably obvious to the alert reader), and the "caves" in which they live are the hull of a spaceship. When "The People" become a serious menace to "The Giants", and voiding the air of the ship doesn't kill ''all'' of them, the last surviving "Giant" sends the ship into a star.]] |
| 163 | * ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'': |
| 164 | ** Disaster Area's spaceship in ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse'' was set to autopilot directly into the sun. |
| 165 | ** Used as the basis of the short story "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe". Zaphod is ferrying two government officials down to a crashed spaceship that was sent to throw various incredibly dangerous things into a black hole, including fuel rods that mined energy from history, extremely potent bioweapons and explosives, and [[TakeThat a synthetic human whose escape pod was headed for Earth,]] [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan last heard talking about a shining city on a hill]]. |
| 166 | * In the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'', they use this as a means of disposing of spent fission cores. As they have CasualInterstellarTravel, this is both easy and practical. |
| 167 | * Defied in ''Imperial Earth'' by Creator/ArthurCClarke. The space drive of the day relies on dropping matter into 'Nodes' (microscopic black holes), which thus become heavier over time and eventually have to be replaced. The protagonist asks what happens to the resulting black holes -- are they thrown into the Sun? The ship's engineer replies that that wouldn't work; they'd go straight through the Sun and out at the other side. |
| 168 | * In ''Literature/LilacSphere'' by Creator/KirBulychev, the titular sphere containing TheVirus is destroyed this way. AWizardDidIt, literally. Bonus points to the wizard for actually doing all the math and tossing the sphere not directly into the Sun, but in the right direction to negate orbital velocity, so it will invariably fall in. |
| 169 | * ''Literature/TheLostFleet'': Anyone [[BurialInSpace buried in space]] has their casket launched on a trajectory that will enable its cremation in the nearest star, partly for practical reasons as they'd be a hazard to navigation if allowed to drift in space, but also because "the living stars" are a major part of the setting's dominant religion: Cremation by star is a symbolic way of becoming one with the universe. |
| 170 | * ''[[Creator/CyrilMKornbluth The Marching Morons]]'' ends with most of the earth's (by then rather dim) population migrating to Venus, lured by tales of idyllic countryside and delicious ham bushes. Needless to say, the rockets actually headed into the sun. |
| 171 | * In Creator/VernorVinge's ''Literature/MaroonedInRealtime'', people use stasis bubble generators that freeze anything inside a sphere for specified time. So it's usual way to get rid of your enemy that hides inside one by throwing him into the Sun (it won't damage the sphere or its contents, but when the time's up and sphere disappears he's going to be in real trouble). It's very hard to retrieve such a sphere, but it was done at least once. |
| 172 | * In a ''Franchise/MassEffect'' ExpandedUniverse novel ''[[Literature/MassEffectAscension Ascension]]'', an assassin programs a ship to fly into a sun, and thus destroy the evidence of the victim's murder. |
| 173 | * ''Literature/SecretHistories'': The Drood AncientOrderOfProtectors disposes of its dead by teleporting their bodies into the sun. It serves the dual purpose of putting them beyond the reach of nefarious {{Necromancer}}s and ensuring that their more strong-willed members don't clutter up Drood Manor with ghosts. |
| 174 | * [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''Literature/{{Shadowmarch}}''. In one version of the myth describing the gods fighting the Kronos {{expy}}, the gods have trouble harming him until the solar god grabs the Sun and hurls it in his father's face. That works. |
| 175 | * In ''Franchise/StarTrek: New Frontier'', the crew of the Excalibur tricks an enemy ship into flying into a star. |
| 176 | ** In the ''Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers'' series, this is initially seen as a solution to the problem of the ''Dancing Star'', a runaway spaceship. However, the ''Dancing Star'' is a very advanced ship designed to survive inside a sun. In fact, it dives into stars to refuel. |
| 177 | * ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' does this a few times: |
| 178 | ** Coruscant's garbage system, shown in ''Rogue Planet'', involved a complicated system designed to pitch garbage containers into orbit for delivery into the sun. |
| 179 | ** The Sun Crusher, an indestructible supernova-causing superweapon which would qualify as a Spaceship Sue if such a trope existed, was captured, shiny and barely used, by the New Republic in Kevin J. Anderson's ''[[Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy Jedi Academy]]'' trilogy. After debating whether to drop it into a sun or a gas giant (the unstated but clear implication of the "a gas giant is good enough" argument being that some of the politicians in charge wanted there to be a possibility that ''they'' could recover it if they later deemed it necessary), they picked the gas giant. Later, when new uber-powerful Force Sensitive Kyp Durron got haunted and went evil, he fished it out using the Force and remarked that he wouldn't have had much more trouble if it had been in the sun. Later it's thrown into a black hole, this time for good. |
| 180 | ** In the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' books, the Yuuzhan Vong fleet (emptied of crewmembers) is sent into Coruscant's sun after the Yuuzhan Vong surrender. |
| 181 | ** ''Literature/TalesOfTheBountyHunters'': Tinian disposes of a nasty chemical warhead, set to heat-seeking, by firing it at the sun. (Chances are it wouldn't have the thrust to actually get there, but so long as it travels away from innocents, mission accomplished.) |
| 182 | ---> Several hundred degrees of heat wouldn't harm anything there. |
| 183 | * The Creator/{{Disney}} era ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' has Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin's first claim to infamy to be this, as revealed in ''Literature/StarWarsTarkin''. After capturing the notorious pirate queen Q'anah and her Marauder crew, Tarkin imprisons them on one of the shipping containers they had been trying to hijack and set it on a slow course for a star, with broadcast equipment aboard the ship transmitting their agony and dying screams to anybody within range, including other pirates--and killing anyone who tried to rescue Q'anah, and broadcasting ''that''. All of this was done [[MakeAnExampleOfThem as an example to the pirates of the Greater Seswenna]] on what awaits any who dares to continue their raids. Tarkin's tactic worked brilliantly, as piracy in the area decreased significantly after that ruthless show. |
| 184 | * Creator/AnneMcCaffrey does this in her ''Literature/TowerAndTheHive'' series: all the telekinetic Talents in the galaxy temporarily combine into a HiveMind and throw a giant alien war machine into Deneb. Needless to say, the next alien race that approached humanity did so ''very'' cautiously. |
| 185 | * ''Literature/UrnBurial'' by Creator/RobertWestall: this is the method by which the Fethethil dispose of their own bodies upon death and also how Theloc disposes of the body of [[spoiler: Postie]] because the ''harka'' he was infected with by the Wawaka is incurable. |
| 186 | * Used to dispose of the eponymous device at the end of the early Creator/IsaacAsimov short story ''The Weapon Too Dreadful To Use''. |
| 187 | * In the ''Literature/YoungWizards'' series, Dairine actually chucks a ''black hole'' into the nearest sun. |
| 188 | * At the end of ''Creator/JeanJohnson'''s ''Literature/TheirsNotToReasonWhy'' series, whole planets and moon colonies are infected with a 100% fatal plague. Even though everything on those planets and moon colonies are dead, Ia has the Feyori shift their orbit enough to have them fall into their respective suns, to prevent future bad guys from gathering samples of the plague and threatening other planets with it. |
| 189 | [[/folder]] |
| 190 | |
| 191 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 192 | * When the aliens of ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' experienced their first Earth holiday (Thanksgiving), Dick said it was like their own Big Giant Head Day except that "[[NoodleIncident no one gets thrown into the sun]]". |
| 193 | * ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' shows this is apparently SHIELD's standard operating procedure for scary tech items. The launch facility for this is nicknamed "The Slingshot". [[spoiler:Turns out all they sent into the sun was a lot of empty rockets; the items themselves were secretly deemed too valuable to destroy.]] |
| 194 | * ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'': This is the final fate of [[spoiler:the ''Galactica'' and the rest of the fleet]]. |
| 195 | * ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury'' had a second season episode where the ''Searcher'''s crew met some midgets looking for a particular star and Cryton, Buck's unctuous RobotBuddy, tells them that star is regularly used for waste disposal. |
| 196 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 197 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E5TheSeedsOfDeath "The Seeds of Death"]], the humans on board the moonbase send a signal to draw the invading Ice Warriors off course into the Sun. |
| 198 | ** The Doctor dumps an evil skull that wants to take over the world into a supernova to destroy it in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E3ImageOfTheFendahl "Image of the Fendahl"]]. |
| 199 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]]: Wife of Mine (a member of the Family of Blood) gets tricked by the Doctor into falling into the event horizon of a collapsing galaxy, making it quite like this on a much larger scale. Of course, she didn't die. [[AndIMustScream And he didn't intend for her to.]] |
| 200 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]]: |
| 201 | --->'''Amy:''' Shall I run and get the manual?\ |
| 202 | '''The Doctor:''' You can't. I threw it into a supernova.\ |
| 203 | '''Amy:''' You threw the manual into a supernova? Why?\ |
| 204 | '''The Doctor:''' Because I disagreed with it. Stop talking to me when I'm cross! |
| 205 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWho2019NYSResolution "Resolution"]]: The villain, [[spoiler:a Dalek recon scout]], is finally disposed of by being hurled out of the TARDIS into a supernova after its armour is destroyed. Aaron, who was being controlled by it, is nearly sucked in too before Ryan rescues him. |
| 206 | * This backfires in ''Earth II'', a 1971 PilotEpisode for an unmade sci-fi series. A Chinese orbital nuke is disarmed and brought on board the titular SpaceStation. One character is alarmed at Earth II becoming a 'nuclear power', so she waits till the station's holding bay is pointing at the Sun and [[ThrownOutTheAirlock blows the hatch]]. Unfortunately [[DidNotThinkThisThrough given that the Earth is a lot closer]], the nuke is caught by its gravity instead. After a BombDisposal drama InSpace, the trope is then played straight (with a bit more thought given to trajectory). |
| 207 | * Similarly, in ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', the first real glimpse we get of the destructive power of wormholes is when [[spoiler:John opens one with one end in the middle of a star and the other in front of a Scarran ship, incinerating them instantly]]. |
| 208 | * After his first afterlife is beset with several disasters at once in ''Series/TheGoodPlace'', Michael becomes terrified that he'll be punished for failing to keep it in order. When he sees a small dog and can't find its owner, he assumes it's another glitch and immediately kicks it into the sun. [[spoiler:The fact that this is a literal KickTheDog moment foreshadows that he's EvilAllAlong.]] |
| 209 | * In ''Series/KamenRiderWizard,'' the Phoenix Phantom has the power to resurrect himself, immune to whatever killed him last, and even a Rider with eight forms is gonna run out of {{Finishing Move}}s eventually. Worse, he comes back faster each time, and nears total invincibility by the time of their final encounter. What's Wizard to do? [[spoiler: Upon gaining a ''ninth'' form with the powers of the others put together, he Rider Kicks Phoenix right into the sun, where even if he does become immune to the intense heat and pressure, he'll never be able to break its gravity and return to Earth.]] [[AndIMustScream Pretty harsh]], but you can't say it wasn't necessary. |
| 210 | -->'''Wizard:''' [[SubvertedCatchPhrase For you, there will be no finale.]] |
| 211 | * ''Series/LoisAndClark'': When Superman's clone asks the real Superman to destroy both him and the lock of hair from which he was cloned, Superman picks him and the Petri dish up and we see them flying toward the sun. We don't actually see anything being tossed into it, but it's implied. |
| 212 | ** In a variant in one episode, Superman's skin is contaminated with a mass of microscopic radioactive particles that forces him to be in radiation proof containment on Earth. Here, the solution is to fly towards the sun, not to enter it, but just to enter its gravitational field to allow it to pull all the particles at once. |
| 213 | *** Which is a really egregious example of GravitySucks, though of course Superman could have simply flown opposite the direction he was orbiting the sun, in order to cancel his angular momentum until only the sun's gravity was affecting him. |
| 214 | * ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': |
| 215 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'': Done by the villains to the Megazord early on. Fortunately, the genius Billy has just invented the Zeo Megazord's Battle Helmets, using the Zeo IV Battle Helmet to nullify gravity around it, and then the Zeo II Battle Helmet to rocket them away from the sun. |
| 216 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'': [[spoiler: How three of the core villains are ultimately beaten - after the team goes back in time sixty-five million years, to the day Sledge first came to Earth, the auxiliary Rangers and Heckyll infiltrated Sledge's ship, locked Wrench and Poisandra in cells, then used an electro-net to capture a giant Sledge himself and set the ship on an autopilot course right into the sun, taking the trio and all their captive monsters with it. Of the monsters who'd accompanied Sledge, only Fury is spared this fate, having been destroyed by a bomb while on Earth.]] |
| 217 | * On ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' the Sliders taught an alternate Earth how to build nuclear weapons to defend against a world-ending asteroid. The Conrad of that world is excited about the possibilities of their new atomic age, and when Arturo points out that having a nuclear reactor in every car would generate tons of nuclear waste, Conrad suggests launching the waste into the sun. |
| 218 | ** Arturo doesn't point out the logistical issues such a task would require (i.e. not nearly enough thrust to cancel out the orbital velocity) but instead brings up the possibility of the launch failing and contaminating the surrounding area with radioactive waste. |
| 219 | * In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E29OperationAnnihilate Operation: Annihilate!]]", a native tries launching himself into the sun to escape a PuppeteerParasite plague. Although it works, it only allows him to live just long enough to celebrate being free. However, this provides a vital clue for the successful resolution of the crisis. It's interesting to note that the episode and the original script that was written in the "Star Trek Logs" books had two different reasons the sun worked: the episode had the parasites vulnerable to ultraviolet light; the script/book had the sun's intense magnetic fields pull the parasite out of the person (which was unfeasible to do to the infested planet, so they just [[EarthShatteringKaboom annihilated the parasites' home planet]]). |
| 220 | * Discussed in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' in regards to the Malon, whose [[PlanetOfHats hat]] is that they are always looking for a LandfillBeyondTheStars to dump radioactive antimatter waste. When asked why not dump it into a sun, the response is that doing so too often will cause the star to ''explode''. In "Juggernaut", they have to repair a Malon freighter before it can explode and destroy everything in 3 light years, and have hurl it into the nearest star as [[TimeForPlanB Plan B]]. |
| 221 | * In ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', Captain Jack dumped an alien invader into the sun as well, while making the timeless ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' joke about how they'd be fine, shouldn't be too hot there as it was night time. At least he used a teleportation device, not a spaceship. |
| 222 | * ''Series/UltramanX'': The title hero did this to the BigBad Greeza at fifteen years prior to the series. Unfortunately, it resulted in a strange solar flare referred to as the Ultra Flare that resurrected kaiju all over Earth and also resulted in Daichi's parents disappearing in thin air. [[spoiler:However, it later turns out Greeza ''survived''.]] |
| 223 | [[/folder]] |
| 224 | |
| 225 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 226 | * At a wild guess, Music/PinkFloyd's "Set the controls for the heart of the sun" qualifies. |
| 227 | * The MusicVideo for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1NgFYJCN4 "Bullets", by Tuung,]] depicts a ball of junk, containing the singers, traveling into the Sun. [[spoiler:At the end, unbelievably enough, this is made into an InvertedTrope.]] |
| 228 | [[/folder]] |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[folder:Pinball]] |
| 231 | * In ''Pinball/DoctorWho'', The Master plans to invert this - he'll get the Sun to come close enough to Earth so as to kill [[TheNthDoctor all the Doctors]]. |
| 232 | [[/folder]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 235 | * The ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'' episode ''Sun Probe'' inverted this: a ship sent to gather data about the Sun nearly crashes into it. This scenario has been repeated in at least one old text-only story and twice in the recent CGI relaunch, ''WesternAnimation/ThunderbirdsAreGo''. |
| 236 | [[/folder]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 239 | * ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder'' has this used often. The godmodder is fond of throwing players that annoy him into the sun, player's are fond of throwing entities into the sun. |
| 240 | ** Played with when Aegis took the sun, and then threw it into the altar of power[[note]]To discover that the godmodder had shrunk the sun to a size small enough to not do any damage.[[/note]] |
| 241 | [[/folder]] |
| 242 | |
| 243 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 244 | * This is mentioned in ''TabletopGame/MummyTheResurrection'' as one of the few ways to permanently destroy a [[TheUndead Mummy]]. |
| 245 | * In epic level games of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' this is a possible, though not exactly easy (or [[AwesomeButImpractical effective]]) way of dispatching enemies. The epic spell [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/spells/nailedToTheSky.htm Nailed to the Sky]] puts the target into orbit, while a combination of the CharmPerson spell (or variants, to turn a target into an ally), the [[FastballSpecial Fling Ally]] feat (to turn an ally into a projectile weapon), and the [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/feats.htm#distantShot Distant Shot]] feat (to fire a ranged weapon at anything you can see, such as... say... the sun) lets you jump-start the space program. |
| 246 | * The ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' charm ''Sky Breaker Throw'' explicitly has the ability to do this. |
| 247 | [[/folder]] |
| 248 | |
| 249 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 250 | * Iris, the strongest summon in the ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' games, attacks enemies by lifting them up and hurling them into the sun. |
| 251 | * The most powerful unarmed attack in [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness the first]] ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' involves tearing up a section of the ground and shoving it (and the enemies on it, of course) into the sun. The [[VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories second]] and further games upgraded it to punching the target so hard that it turns into a black hole. Which then explodes. |
| 252 | ** [[VideoGame/Disgaea5AllianceOfVengeance The fifth game]] has the 'Flame God's Dawn' skill which has the user drag its victims right next to a sun and then proceeds to ''punch them into it''. What about the user of the skill? Well, said user is a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragon King]], which are said to have "impervious skin". |
| 253 | * ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVIII'' ups the ante with the Eden summon by launching your enemies into a cannon and shooting them into the center of a galaxy - and then collapsing it (as in, the galaxy) around them. |
| 254 | * In ''VideoGame/UnrealIITheAwakening'', the protagonist eventually sends the central MacGuffin into a nearby star to ensure no-one can ever retrieve it again -- it's proved to be basically indestructible thus far. |
| 255 | * ''VideoGame/Prey2006'': when Tommy takes control of the Sphere he destroys it by piloting it into the Sun. |
| 256 | * ''VideoGame/{{Super Robot Wars Original Generation}}s'' and ''OG Gaiden''. Leave it to our favorite robot nerd, Ryusei Date, to come up with the most awesome way possible to invoke this troupe, shoot the enemy into the sun with the HTB cannon. He named it "The Heaven and Earth One Shot Sure Kill Cannon" for a reason. The resulting Tronium/solar fusion explosion is so big, it sends a massive shock wave through the whole SOLAR SYSTEM. Then, if you actually killed the enemy, the SRX sits back and watches the fireworks at the end. Plus points if you do this to one of the end bosses 9 times in a row. |
| 257 | * This is how VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}} disposes of the FinalBoss. She [[spoiler:''punches'' Jubileus's '''soul''' into the Sun. From '''the outer reaches of the solar system'''.]] |
| 258 | * This is the fate of an ancient EldritchAbomination in ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}''. Better hope nobody goes and [[ApocalypseHow blows up the star]] in the following eons. |
| 259 | * In ''VideoGame/TheCrystalKey'', the Arkonians had programmed one of the pieces of their titular key to connect to their system's sun, [[MundaneUtility as a means to incinerate the trash collected from their colony planets]] by dumping it through portals linked to the sun. [[spoiler: Later, when you find this piece, you have to use your portable portal to get rid of the psychic warlord Ozgar, done by sounding the ship's alarms and putting a {{hologram}} in front of the portal to trick him into entering.]] |
| 260 | * At the end of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', {{B|igBad}}owser is literally flung into the Sun after being defeated by Mario (and before it explodes and causes the universe to collapse). He does survive later on, however... |
| 261 | * A variation in ''VideoGame/SpaceRangers'': one of possible ways to get rid of [[PlanetEater Terron]] is telling him to go and absorb a star. He doesn't return... |
| 262 | * Creator/ChuckNorris in ''VideoGame/{{MUGEN}}'' doesn't throw you into the sun. He drops the sun on you for a OneHitKill! |
| 263 | * The above mentioned ''Anime/AstroBoy'' example is, of course, re-enacted as the final level of the beloved UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance adaptation, ''VideoGame/AstroBoyOmegaFactor''. In this version you actually have to fly into the sun, dodging chunks of the FinalBoss, AsteroidThicket-style to get a piece of scrap metal containing the AI of Astro's love interest into the sun so she can stop the pieces that have already fallen in from causing a chain reaction that'll destroy the solar system. |
| 264 | * ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'' has [[spoiler:[[TheDragon Jul 'Mdama]] doing this to ''Requiem''.]] |
| 265 | * {{Creator/Bungie}}'s [[ArcNumber seventh]] step on their plan for world domination is "Take over world. Shoot enemies into the sun with giant slingshot." |
| 266 | * ''VideoGame/{{Celestus}}'': One mission ask you to throw garbage into the nearest star, because it is "cheaper than recycling it". |
| 267 | * You technically ''can'' pull this off in ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'', though it's just as difficult (relatively speaking) as it would be in real life, and attempting to do so in-game will give you a good understanding of how difficult it actually is. [[note]] Specifically, if you attempt to do it from Kerbin, you need to burn almost all of its 8 km/s orbital speed to achieve a collison course with Kerbol. If you do not use nuclear or ionic engines, it will take a really big rocket to achieve so. A Kerbol dive can be made cheaper if, counter-intuitively, you boost prograde once in kerbolar orbit, and optionally get a [[SpaceshipSlingshotStunt slingshot maneuver]] out of Jool. This will put you into an orbit with a much lower speed at apoapsis, allowing you to sundive for a lower cost. [[/note]] |
| 268 | * Used as a MundaneUtility in the backstory of ''{{Videogame/Vectorman}}'' to dispose of toxic sludge. |
| 269 | * ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' provides an amusing ''inversion'' of this trope with the champion Aurelion Sol, the Star Forger. He's a TimeAbyss [[StarPower dragon who makes stars]] and ''throws them'' as his main ability for attacking. |
| 270 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'', Grineer cyborg boss [[LargeHam Vay Hek]] threatens to do this to [[BigGood Lotus]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOygJJ7Zudk one of his scenery-devouring rants]]. |
| 271 | -->''--I will personally...'''THROW!''' Your beloved Lotus! ...'''INTO THE SUN!'''" |
| 272 | * ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'': PROXY destroys the spaceship ''Empirical'' by sending it on a collision course with a star. |
| 273 | [[/folder]] |
| 274 | |
| 275 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 276 | * In ''Webcomic/KillroyAndTina'', this is Oberon's eventual fate; unfortunately, his super-powers enable him to come back with the full might of whatever kills him. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job breaking it, Brendon.]] |
| 277 | * ''Webcomic/DragonTails'' had a storyline about super heroes, in which one of the characters has an [[http://www.dragon-tails.com/comics/archive.php?date=020103 unfortunate tendency]] [[http://www.dragon-tails.com/comics/archive.php?date=020126 to hurl things]] [[http://www.dragon-tails.com/comics/archive.php?date=020317 into the sun.]] |
| 278 | * Bud from ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'' disposes of the remains of [[spoiler:the calendar machine]] this way in a deliberate, in universe homage to classic superheroes, [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/sonic-boom/ It is rather noisy.]] |
| 279 | * In ''Webcomic/ClanOfTheCats'', the only way to kill {{Dracula}} off for good by having a Christian impale him with a piece of the True Cross. Or you could stake him with a regular cross and portal his ashes into the sun. |
| 280 | * ''ComicBook/{{Buck Godot|Zap Gun for Hire}}'' is searching for the stolen Winslow, and suggests that the thief hid it in the garbage barges. When told that this would result in it being hurled into the sun, he responds: "Can you think of a '''better''' place to hide a truly indestructible object?" |
| 281 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': |
| 282 | ** In Act 6 Intermission 1, Aradia wants to hold a funeral for the dead trolls, and she suggests that the ceremony should involve throwing their corpses into the nearby Green Sun. However, complications arise and the funeral doesn't happen. |
| 283 | ** In the alpha universe, Dave Strider made a massive fortune by manufacturing objects with 3-D jpeg artifacts. He made so much money that he could afford to dispose of his unsold wares[[note]]i.e. all of them. No one actually bought Dave's jpeg artifacts--Dave made his fortune because these objects somehow had a ''negative'' manufacturing cost.[[/note]] by rocketing them into the sun. |
| 284 | * ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'': In [[http://nonadventures.com/2012/05/05/hair-of-the-dog-star/ "Hair of the DOG STAR,"]] Wonderella fends off an alien invasion by offering the aliens vodka. They get so drunk that they decide, "We shall... ''defeat the sun!''" Then they fly their entire fleet straight into it. |
| 285 | * In ''WebComic/PennyArcade'', this is [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/09/05/krypto-fascism Superman's solution to everything]]. |
| 286 | * ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'': In [[http://ennuigo.thecomicseries.com/comics/1287/#content-start Superman]], Miss Mantis tries to use [[KryptoniteFactor Alphasite]] against Omegaman. This trope is his response. |
| 287 | * ''Webcomic/CucumberQuest'': Glitchmaster attempts to dispose of the heroes by throwing their ship at the sun. They escape with [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower creative use of a useless power]]. |
| 288 | [[/folder]] |
| 289 | |
| 290 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 291 | * ''Website/SCPFoundation'': The entry where this attempt is mentioned, [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1543-j SCP-1543-J]] is, for the most part, an extended parody of this trope that rarely seems to do much good. Apparently the higher-ups just liked to get rid of things by throwing it at the sun with a catapult because it was cool, no matter how counter-intuitive it would be (i.e., trying to get rid of a ''black hole'' by shooting it at the sun). After one incident (trying to get rid of a tree in this manner that was ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin literally named]]'' "A tree that fed off energy and became stronger because of it, growing more and more branches that attack people"), [[DidntThinkThisThrough the entire leading council of the Foundation was executed for gross stupidity and incompetence]]. |
| 292 | ** The Foundation also attempted to dispose of the unstoppable monster known as [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682 SCP-682]] using this method. Twice. The first time it came back with wings, the second time ''it just made it angrier'' ...and [[InfernalRetaliation on fire]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nodqxkjzvQ8 Now dramatised in this animation.]] |
| 293 | ** A straight example would be Dr. Clef's method to dispose of [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/termination-log-scp-316 SCP-316-D]] after [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill lobotomizing]] him. |
| 294 | ** This is also how [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2578 SCP-2578]] (an apparent spaceship that kills tyrants from orbit) ended up disposing of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1427 SCP-1427]] (a highly dangerous bronze stele that extinguishes rebellious thought in anyone nearby unless they're already susceptible to oppression) once it learned of the latter's existence and discovered [[KillSat sniping it in the usual manner]] wouldn't work. The incident was fairly disastrous and high in casualties, but it worked. |
| 295 | ** Any unauthorized life forms that enter [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-100000-j SCP-100000-J]]'s containment area are to be terminated through an absolutely [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill overkill]] procedure that ends with the subject being launched into the sun and all members of the O5 Council [[FlippingTheBird angrily flipping off the sun]]. |
| 296 | ** In the ''Resurrection'' series of tales, Dr. Dan [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/such-a-shame-it-didn-t-work proposes]] doing this to [[https://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-096 SCP-096]] (a humanoid that chases down and brutally kills anyone who [[DontLookAtMe its face or a picture or video thereof]] and ''[[TheJuggernaut cannot be deterred from doing so by any means]]''), noting that this would actually have a fairly-good chance of terminating the otherwise-unstoppable monster. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-bowe-decommission-part-three As it turns out]], the Foundation never actually went through with this plan... at least not before [[https://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1233 Moon Champion]] did it ''for'' them. |
| 297 | * The ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' review of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'' had, as a last line, "Give it a chance, but I can't blame you if you end up trying to fire it into the sun." |
| 298 | * ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' ends his review of ''VideoGame/{{Superman 64}}'' by flying into space ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' style and hurling the cartridge into the sun. |
| 299 | * According to [[Website/ChuckNorrisFacts internet meme]], once per year Creator/ChuckNorris selects one lucky kid to be thrown into the sun. |
| 300 | ** In ''{{VideoGame/MUGEN}}'', he does the reverse. He drops the sun on you!!! |
| 301 | * ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': |
| 302 | ** In ''[[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] vs [[Franchise/MortalKombat Raiden]]'', the loser's corpse ends up getting flung into the sun. [[spoiler: It's Raiden's]]. |
| 303 | ** As their battle reached its end, [[Franchise/DragonBall Goku]] attempted to blast ComicBook/{{Superman}} into the sun with a Kamehameha. While he was able to do it, he realized too late that not only did Superman survive, he gains power from absorbing solar radiation and being within the sun further amplified his powers. |
| 304 | ** ''Franchise/{{Kirby}} vs Majin Buu'' ended with [[spoiler:Kirby spitting Kid Buu's blast back at him and blasting him into the sun, which was enough to eradicate every trace of him and prevent him from regenerating.]] |
| 305 | ** Advertising/SegataSanshiro knocks Creator/ChuckNorris into the sun. Being Chuck Norris, he comes out the other side completely unharmed. However, this causes the sun to collapse into a black hole. |
| 306 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]] flings a moon at [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]] that ultimately sends him into the sun. Not one to leave things to chance, Thanos then uses the Infinity Gauntlet to turn the sun into a ''black hole'' for the finishing blow. Darkseid simply grows star-sized and climbs ''out'' of the event horizon before crushing the black hole to nothingness in his grip. |
| 307 | ** [[Franchise/SailorMoon Sailor Galaxia]] flings Beerus into the sun. Being a god, he comes out the other side completely unharmed. [[spoiler:He later returns the favor by blasting her towards the sun that had become a black hole before blasting her to pieces and having said pieces be sucked into it]]. |
| 308 | ** ''Goku Black vs [[Franchise/TheFlash Reverse-Flash]]'' ends with [[spoiler:Reverse-Flash hurling Black's remains into the sun]], which then ''explodes'' for good measure as the victor uses his time-warping abilities to escape. Boomstick lampshades the repeated usage of the trope after that. |
| 309 | --->'''Boomstick:''' You know, we've sent enough people to that Sun, we really should have a timeshare. |
| 310 | ** ''[[Webcomic/OnePunchMan Saitama]] vs Franchise/{{Popeye}}'' had Popeye knocked into the sun from the force of giving Saitama a HumanHammerThrow. Since Popeye uses ToonPhysics, he simply jumps off the surface of the sun unharmed to launch himself back to Earth. |
| 311 | ** ''ComicBook/MartianManhunter vs ComicBook/SilverSurfer'' had the Surfer hurl the Martian into a star. Though fire is normally a Martian's weakness, he manages to survive through sheer willpower, so they continue their battle inside the star. |
| 312 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHvR1fRTW8g This]] ''WebVideo/MinutePhysics'' video explains why doing this is actually harder than it's supposed to be. The video also explains some alternate solutions: either go to the outskirts of the Solar System (where the speed to shed is lower) or use gravitational assists to slow down and/or direct the thing into the Sun. |
| 313 | * A recurring joke by ''WebAnimation/TomServo3'' in her series [[Literature/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark "Tom's Terrifying Tales From The Toaster"]]. Usually suggested by [[ThoseTwoGuys Thomas and Alfred]]. |
| 314 | --> "Let's throw him in the fire" |
| 315 | --> "Nooo! Let's throw him in The Sun" |
| 316 | [[/folder]] |
| 317 | |
| 318 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 319 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 320 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E21ThreeMenAndAComicBook Three Men and a Comic Book]]", Bart shows Lisa a Radioactive Man comic in which he punches Dr. Crab into the sun, followed by RM saying "Hot enough for ya?" |
| 321 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E4TreehouseOfHorrorX Treehouse of Horror X]]", Homer and Bart stow away on a rocket that they think is taking humanity's best and brightest to another planet. It turns out they're actually on a rocket full of the dregs of humanity (including notorious celebrities such as Dr. Laura, Dan Quayle, Ross Perot, Courtney Love, Tom Arnold, Paulie Shore and Rosie O' Donnell), and have been launched towards the Sun. Once Bart and Homer realize their mistake, they open the airlock just to make the end come faster. |
| 322 | ** One episode also featured a comic book where a CaptainErsatz of the Hulk kicked a tidal wave into the Sun. |
| 323 | ** One episode of ''JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' has the titular duo pointing guns at each other that get larger and larger until they are half the size of the earth. The end result: Scratchy winds up being shot out of Itchy's gun, and into the sun. |
| 324 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 325 | ** When Fry arrives in the future in "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E1SpacePilot3000 Space Pilot 3000]]", Leela tells him that if he doesn't do his assigned job of delivery boy, he will be fired... out of a cannon, into the sun. |
| 326 | ** And, of course, this is the fate of the original big ball of garbage in "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E8ABigPieceOfGarbage A Big Piece of Garbage]]". |
| 327 | ** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E15TheFarnsworthParabox The Farnsworth Parabox]]", Hermes is going to throw a box that is a portal to (and contains) an alternate universe into the sun. |
| 328 | --->'''Farnsworth:''' Only the nuclear inferno of the sun has enough energy to ensure its total destruction!\ |
| 329 | '''Bender:''' I could hit it with a shovel.\ |
| 330 | '''Farnsworth:''' That's not good enough! |
| 331 | ** And another: |
| 332 | --->'''Fry:''' Aww, can't we just hurl it into the sun and say we delivered it?\ |
| 333 | '''Bender:''' That still sounds like too much work. Let's toss it out the airlock, and ''say'' we tossed it into the sun. |
| 334 | ** ''Series/TheRealWorld: The Sun'' |
| 335 | --->'''Man on TV:''' ''[screams]'' I'm burning to death!\ |
| 336 | '''Leela:''' ''[scoffs]'' [[FriendsRentControl You know how much an apartment that big would cost on the Sun]]? |
| 337 | ** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E24ColdWarriors Cold Warriors]]" this almost happens to ''all of New New York'' after an outbreak of a once extinct disease (the common cold), but only because [[NoodleImplements they ran out of piranhas]]. |
| 338 | * In ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', Captain Hero did this to his home planet. Subverted in another episode where he ''considers'' throwing guns into the sun but opts to flush them down a toilet instead. |
| 339 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', Really Really Big Man tells a boy he's carrying that he'll throw a nuclear missile into the sun, then throws the boy by mistake. |
| 340 | * ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': |
| 341 | ** {{Inverted|Trope}} in "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E13And14Eclipsed Eclipsed]]" when the ([[DemonicPossession possessed]]) Justice League tries to get rid of ''the sun'' by throwing a MacGuffin into it. After getting better, they throw another one to reverse the effects. |
| 342 | ** In "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E11WakeTheDead Wake the Dead]]", Hawkgirl makes a crack about AMAZO teleporting Solomon Grundy into the sun. |
| 343 | ** In "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS3E4ToAnotherShore To Another Shore]]", Wonder Woman gives the frozen corpse of an ancient warrior the ultimate VikingFuneral by launching his longship into the Sun. |
| 344 | ** In "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS3E13Destroyer Destroyer]]", the Flash suggests this to Green Lantern when dealing with a giant, towering machine... then feels embarrassed for mentioning it, only to be told that it could work. Even though it "doesn't quite make escape velocity", it's still an awesome moment for both of them. This may have been an in-joke referencing a 2004 [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120509143440/http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.comics.dc.universe/msg/c0d29c39c2cd9f84?hl=en Usenet thread,]] where producer Creator/DwayneMcDuffie responded to a suggestion that the previous week's episode could have been resolved by tossing the menace into the sun: "Our version of Green Lantern can't, Power Rings are nowhere near as mighty as they are in the DCU. The Darkheart was simply too big and heavy. Although it does suggest a really interesting spin-off, where every week GL throws whoever is attacking into the sun." |
| 345 | * ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'': Jean Grey, as the Phoenix, flies into the sun with the M'Kraan Crystal. |
| 346 | * ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': |
| 347 | ** In the episode "Planet Jackers," Zim has to stop a pair of aliens who want to use Earth to fuel their planet's dying sun. |
| 348 | ** In another episode, the Tallest sent Zim's ship flying toward the sun. [[SnapBack He gets better.]] |
| 349 | ** In still another episode, Zim was seen experimenting with shooting chickens into orbit with a planned trajectory that intercepted the sun. |
| 350 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002'', an artifact-powered spell is cast from a large tower to turn the world's population into snakemen. He-Man solves the crisis by lifting the entire tower and throwing it into the sun. [[StrongAsTheyNeedToBe At no other point in the series is he shown as REMOTELY that strong.]] |
| 351 | * In ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'', that's where the [[spoiler:''human undesirables'']] are sent into by the Neosapiens. |
| 352 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E11TomsRhinoplasty Tom's Rhinoplasty]]", Wendy thinks the substitute teacher has been hitting on her boyfriend, Stan. In response, she somehow gets a bunch of Iraqis to arrest her under charges of being a fugitive then shoot her into the sun. What makes it even funnier was that the teacher was a lesbian with no interest in Stan. |
| 353 | * ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': Captain Planet once disposes of a huge amount of nuclear waste by throwing it into the sun. He does this semi-frequently, especially with any episode involving Duke Nukem. |
| 354 | * In an episode of ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'', they disposed of an asteroid about to hit their school this way. Even though it had plainly taken days for it to reach Earth, the asteroid went from Earth orbit to the Sun [[TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot in seconds]] (this was {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in the phone segment). |
| 355 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ShaggyAndScoobyDooGetAClue'' has Dr. Phibes plot to throw a group of octuplets who are more beautiful than him into the sun using a rocket. |
| 356 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'', Superman throws a lead can ([[spoiler:he thought was]]) containing Kryptonite into the sun. |
| 357 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': |
| 358 | ** Stimpy flies into the sun in "I Was a Teenage Stimpy". |
| 359 | ** In "The Scotsman in Space", Commander Hoek and Cadet Stimpy are burned alive by the sun. |
| 360 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'': |
| 361 | ** In the première of ''The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians'', the Superfriends gather all of Darkseid's Seeds of Doom on Earth and toss them into the sun. |
| 362 | ** Later in that same season, after Superman dies due to extreme kryptonite poisoning (there was a mountain of the stuff), the Justice League honor him by laying him to rest in the Sun. Problem was, Supes wasn't dead, [[GaveUpTooSoon he had merely forced himself into a Kryptonian trance to survive the radiation]], so now they have to get him ''back'' before Darkseid conquers the Earth in his absence. |
| 363 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS3E3NewKidsInTown New Kids in Town]]", Brainiac is seen falling into the sun after his attempted escape is thwarted by young Clark Kent, aided by ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' members Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, and Chameleon Boy. |
| 364 | * In ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'', Jim, Peter Puppy, and their next-door neighbor flew straight through the sun, surviving only by using SPF 1 Million. |
| 365 | * The original ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' series has two examples: |
| 366 | ** After humanity is duped into thinking they're really the bad guys, the Autobots are forced to leave Earth and go back to Cybertron. But Megatron reprograms the ship to carry them into the sun instead. He must have forgotten Cosmos turned into a flying saucer, who saved them with a giant energy net. |
| 367 | ** The Quintessons revive Optimus Prime as a zombie to destroy the Transformers, but his original personality starts to resurface, and he launches himself to the sun in a spaceship to stop their plot (he didn't get there, though his eventual return was CutShort). |
| 368 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/EekTheCat'' had the [[ShowWithinAShow Squishy Bearz]] take a ride to Jupiter in a rocket built by Professor Wiggly. Before lift-off, the Professor points to a comically large switch and warns them the switch must remain in the position marked "Jupiter" and not the other position, marked "Sun". One of the Squishy Bearz [[LampshadeHanging asks why]] he [[InventionalWisdom built the switch in the first place]], and the Professor exclaims [[HandWave they're not sophisticated enough to understand]]. HilarityEnsues. |
| 369 | * This is how WesternAnimation/WordGirl destroys Mr. Big's Lexonite machine at the end of the episode "[=WordGirl=] Makes a Mistake." |
| 370 | * The "Best Spaceship Ever" skit from ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' has a kid dream up of a happy spaceship to put his abusive father in and use it to drive said father into the sun. |
| 371 | * One ''WesternAnimation/DCNation'' short has Bizarro taking over Superman's duties. When Brainiac attacks, Bizarro thinks that Superman would hurl the villain into the sun. Since he's supposed to do the opposite, he decides that he'll hurl ''the sun'' into ''the villain.'' It, uh, doesn't quite work... Turns out it's kind of hard to grab the sun. |
| 372 | * In ''WesternAnimation/OscarsOrchestra'', one episode beings InMediasRes ends with the heroes captured and shoved in a sun-bound rocket. |
| 373 | * ''WesternAnimation/GolanTheInsatiable'' once [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength accidentally]] threw an old man into the sun when he only meant for the man to tackle a nearby pigeon. |
| 374 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens2013'' episode "Educational Television", Sqweep's portable alien TV becomes so infuriated by B.O.B.'s neverending torrent of stupidity that it attempts to do this to the planet. |
| 375 | * A RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet''. It's AP's favourite way of disposing of the threat of an episode. |
| 376 | * In the finale of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', [[spoiler:Pops sacrifices himself by hurling himself and Anti-Pops into a star, ending their cycle of fighting and saving the entire universe]]. |
| 377 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' episode "Men at Work", Jimmy tricks the automated [=McSpanky's=] restaurant into flying to the sun. However, the lifeless corpse of [=McSpanky's=] survives, allowing it to become an alien spaceship. |
| 378 | * Happens to [[spoiler:Lord Boxman]] in ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' [[spoiler:courtesy of [[TheStarscream Darrell]].]] [[spoiler: The sun farted him back to Earth a couple months later, with no lasting damage.]] |
| 379 | * ''WesternAnimation/FutureWorm'': |
| 380 | ** In one short, Danny and Future-Worm go back in time to stop Danny from slipping on a {{banana peel}} and tie it to a rocket to launch it into the sun, but are stopped when they're told that [[RuleOfFunny this will cause the sun to explode]]. |
| 381 | ** Parodied by Robo-Carp Infinity claiming he has to fly himself and Mega Zombie Carp into the sun, then correcting himself by saying "er, I mean, the moon", in order to stop Mega Zombie Carp. |
| 382 | * On ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', Cree's initial ultimate goal in the second season is to release the clamps keeping the Kids Next Door's headquarters tethered to the moon, which will cause it to slowly drift into the sun. However, [[spoiler:Numbuh 274, in an attempt to evade being decommissioned after it's discovered that he'll soon be turning 13 (the maximum age for the majority of Kids Next Door operatives), attempts it before her and is thwarted, so when Cree finally arrives and he tells her that he already failed, she decides that it's time for plan B.]] |
| 383 | * On ''WesternAnimation/FriskyDingo'', Killface's DoomsdayDevice is stated to be able to do this to the Earth. When it's activated at the end of the first season, it instead propels the Earth ''away'' from the sun, thereby reversing GlobalWarming. |
| 384 | * Craig [=McCracken=]'s ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 Whoopass Girls]]'' student film "A Sticky Situation" had the girls attacking the Amoeba Boys, only to get trapped in their cell structures. The girls fly up to the sun, which melts the Amoebas but curiously does nothing to the girls. |
| 385 | * ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'': Weasel turns down a mission of being the first astronaut on the sun. So, naturally, I.R. Baboon volunteers. |
| 386 | * ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': In "Googs", the founder of the titular company tries to forcefully send Panda to the moon, and it turns out that Grizz and Ice Bear ended up on the ship as well. They try to steer it back to Earth but accidentally send it towards the sun instead, and [[spoiler:Panda ends up staying behind on the ship when the escape pod only has room for two]]. It turns out [[spoiler:the whole thing was [[TheGameNeverStopped just a VR simulation]], but the bears are left traumatized by it]]. |
| 387 | [[/folder]] |
| 388 | |
| 389 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 390 | * From Earth's orbit, it would take a delta-''v'' (change in velocity, usually written as ∆''v'') of 26.3 km/sec to de-orbit into the Sun. To compare, that's 58% more ∆''v'' than the 16.6 km/sec required to achieve a velocity that would exit the Solar System from Earth. It would also be a journey of a couple of months before it finally sees its fiery demise. The energy required to send something faster--and more directly--into our home star would be ''insane''. |
| 391 | * We are just about starting to get to the point where we actually can have a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe space probe]] reach the sun. As [[http://www.smartplanet.com/people/blog/pure-genius/solar-probe-first-mission-to-sun-scheduled-for-2018/5748/ the leading scientist behind the project explains,]] this is an extremely difficult process mainly due to the need to slow down the orbital momentum this probe has from being launched from Earth and involves using both one of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_IV_Heavy most powerful launch vehicles available]] and the gravity of Venus to slow the probe down in a process of seven approaches to Venus over a period of six years. |
| 392 | ** The Parker Solar Probe was launched on Aug 12, 2018, and is planned to reach the sun in mid 2025. Once it's mission is finished, it is planned to dispose of the remains into the sun[[note]]Actually, it's expected the Sun's heat will vaporize all the probe minus its Sun shield once it runs out of fuel to keep said shield between her and the Sun. Note also that some instruments are built of heat-resistant aleations, as they pop up from behind the shield.[[/note]] |
| 393 | ** The Parker Solar Probe is helped by UsefulNotes/{{ESA}}'s [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Orbiter Solar Orbiter]], launched in February 2020, that while will not approach as close to the Sun as the former -- "just" a bit closer than Mercury -- will study the Daystar with different instruments. Similarly to the Parker Solar Probe, it will need several fly-bys of Venus plus one of Earth to reach its destination. Its later fly-bys of Venus, however, are not designed to bring the Solar Orbiter any closer to the Sun, but rather increase the inclination of its orbit so it can see the Sun's polar regions more clearly. |
| 394 | * One application of the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_tack_hypothesis Grand Tack Hypothesis]] posits that the reason why the solar system has no Super-Earths, a very common type of rocky planet in the Milky Way, is that Jupiter’s rampage through the inner solar system may have launched them and a number of other primordial planets into each other or into the Sun. |
| 395 | * Some scientists are considering this as a viable means of getting rid of nuclear waste. The actual amount of radioactive waste is relatively small, and by using a mass driver can be easily accelerated up to 30 km/s. Point this in the opposite direction of Earth's orbital velocity, and the waste will just fall into the Sun (which is already incredibly radioactive). Alternatively, point it the other way, and it'll escape the Solar System. The problems include this being very expensive - sending stuff out of Earth's gravity well costs a lot of money even when it's just a few people and their life-support supplies, never mind thousands of tons of solid waste per year - and extremely risky. One small error, and it's raining plutonium in the opposite hemisphere. |
| 396 | ** It's been noted that once [[SpaceElevator orbital elevator technology]] (which would make delivering cargo into space safe and relatively cheap) is perfected, using the sun (or for that matter, anywhere that's not Earth) as disposal area for nuclear waste really would be viable. Though we're also getting better at ''recycling'' nuclear waste so maybe it'll be unnecessary by the time we're actually capable of doing it. |
| 397 | * May have been subverted by Kepler-70b and Kepler-70c, two (maybe three, assuming they existed at all which as of now [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.03321 seems unlikely]][[note]]Kepler-70 appears as "KIC 5807616" in the linked paper[[/note]])) Earth-sized extrasolar planets [[DeathWorld hot as Hell and back]] thought to orbit the hot B subdwarf star Kepler-70. Controversially, it's been hypothesized that these planets were engulfed by their star during its prior red giant phase, but actually ''survived'' this solar bath, to re-emerge when Kepler-70 shed its outer surface and became a subdwarf. |
| 398 | * Scientists have theorized that this might happen to the Earth one day: when the sun becomes a red giant it'll lose enough mass for the Earth to move away and not simply [[PlanetEater be consumed]], however the new orbit could decay and as a result plummet into our dying star[[note]]Since during those epoch Earth's surface temperatures will be at least [[DeathWorld around 1500 °C]], whether it survives or not may simply be academic[[/note]]. |
| 399 | * The orbit of the exoplanet Kepler-1658b is currently decaying, and it is expected to fall into its star in about two and a half million years. |
| 400 | * In 2020, astronomers observed a star suddenly flare with a brightness consistent with a planet the size of Jupiter falling into it. They inferred that something like this happens somewhere in the Milky Way about once a year. |
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