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7->''"Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up."''
8-->-- '''Creator/LeonardoDaVinci'''
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10A list of tropes concerning clouds and the sky, and the things found in the sky and clouds.
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12Compare UnderwaterIndex and SubterraneanIndex.
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14[[index]]
15!!Tropes:
16[floatboxright:
17Related:
18+ AngelicTropes
19+ AvianTropes
20+ FlyingTropes
21+ SkydivingTropes
22+ ThisIndexBlows
23+ TropesOfTheDivine
24+ WeatherAndEnvironment
25+ WingedTropes
26]
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28* AirborneAircraftCarrier: This aircraft carrier can take flight itself.
29* AirborneArtillery: A flying unit's attack outranges all AntiAir in the setting.
30* AlienSky: An unusual-looking sky used to denote a planet as not Earth.
31* ArduousDescentToTerraFirma: When descending to Gaia's safe, vigorous carapace is an ordeal in and of itself.
32* BatSignal: Projecting a symbol into the sky to summon a {{Superhero}}.
33* CameFromTheSky: An object/person/alien falls from the sky and creates a huge crater in the ground
34* CrackInTheSky: The sky is breaking.
35* {{Cumulonemesis}}: Clouds that attack!
36* DeathFromAbove: Falling objects which are fatal.
37* EverythingMakesAMushroom: ''Any'' explosion or sufficiently forceful impact will create a mushroom cloud.
38* FloatingContinent: Midair landmass.
39* FloatingInABubble: Character in an actual bubble, for any number of reasons (but usually for travel).
40* FluffyCloudHeaven: TheThemeParkVersion of Heaven.
41* FlyingOnACloud: Flying around by sitting or standing on a cloud.
42* TheHandIsGod: God or some similar all-powerful being is a giant hand coming out of the sky.
43* HeavenAbove: When the sky is associated with things pertaining to the divine.
44* JourneyToTheSky: When a character undertakes a trip to the sky, often to accomplish an objective.
45* LevelInTheClouds: Generic video game level set on the clouds.
46* LevelsTakeFlight: A video game area that takes place in a flying vehicle or animal of some sort in the air.
47* MidAirBobbing: Things that hover in place slightly move up and down.
48* MidairMotionShot: Anyone depicted on a vehicle is depicted in mid-air.
49* OminousFloatingCastle: A villain base that floats in and/or around nothingness.
50* PanFromTheSkyBeginning: A story begins with the view panning down from the sky.
51* PanUpToTheSkyEnding: The view pans up to the sky upon conclusion of a story arc.
52* PartlyCloudyWithAChanceOfDeath: The weather gets gloomy when someone dies.
53* PersonalRaincloud: Sad characters have rain clouds above their heads.
54* RedSkyTakeWarning: A red sky as a sign of impending disaster or doom.
55* SciFiFlyby: If the craft in question is in the upper atmosphere, this trope is used to show just how much of a CoolShip it is.
56* TheSkyIsAnOcean: Sky travel is treated like sailing an ocean.
57* SkyFace: A character's face is shown in the sky.
58* SkyPirate: Pirates pillaging and plundering the skies instead of the seas.
59* SkySurfing: A character standing ''on top of'' an object with relative propulsion and control surfaces as a way to fly.
60* SolidClouds: Clouds treated as solid platforms to stand or walk on.
61* ThatCloudLooksLike: Looking at clouds and what shapes they resemble.
62* ATwinkleInTheSky: Something tiny in the sky with an AudibleGleam.
63* WaterfallIntoTheAbyss: Islands that float and have waterfalls continually coming off them.
64* WintryAuroralSky: Auroras as SceneryPorn.
65* WorldInTheSky: A series of world pieces floating suspended in the atmosphere.
66[[/index]]

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