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8	->''"If you don't know what to do next, slowly pan the camera and shoot the sky..."''
9	-->-- '''Kyon''', ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'', "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina: Episode 00"
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11	A [[CameraTricks camera trick]] used at the end of an episode or movie, wherein the view pans up to the sky upon conclusion of a story arc. The characters usually look up along with the viewer, too, or are implied to.
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13	The sky is a powerful symbol in itself. Here are just a few uses:
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15	* Clear blue sky (white clouds optional) promises happiness and freedom, just the things you expect from a HappyEnding.
16	* [[AStormIsComing Stormy, ominous sky]], on the other hand, indicates that [[SequelHook trouble is brewing]].
17	* A clearing storm signifies hope to come in the future, often bittersweetness.
18	* [[CueTheSun Sunrise sky]] stands for renovation and a new beginning.
19	* Sunset marks a conclusion and definite ending or death.
20	* [[TheSacredDarkness Night sky with visible stars]] has a similar meaning to clear daytime sky with an additional touch of [[HeavenAbove eternity and divinity]].
21	* Shooting stars promise the [[MakeAWish fulfillment of wishes]].
22	* Birds and [[AirplaneOfLove airplanes]] stand for unreachable things but also, freedom.
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24	SubTrope of {{Pan}} (horizontally rotating the camera to get a grasp of the panorama). Compare GraspTheSun, FlyawayShot and FlyAtTheCameraEnding. Contrast EndingByAscending, when a character does this instead of the camera, and PanFromTheSkyBeginning.
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26	Has nothing to do with [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant holding a frying pan in the air.]]
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28	!!As this is an {{Ending Trope\|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].
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30	!!Examples:
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32	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
33	* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
34	** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'': After the group defeats Arabia Fats, the camera {{pan}}s up to the night sky as they make way to their next destination.
35	** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'': In the epilogue before the final scene, a panning to the sky as the team heads to Rome's coliseum after Diavolo's defeat.
36	* This is one of many tropes mocked by ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' episode 00, with Kyon sarcastically commenting on the frequent panning up towards the sky.
37	* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' does this for its finale, "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession26TheRealFolkBluesPart2 The Real Folk Blues (Part 2)]]". Right before the pan up, protagonist Spike collapses from gunshot wounds. It's ambiguously either a BittersweetEnding or a straight up DownerEnding.
38	* Both ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' and ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' use the clear blue sky version, with the added touch of the show's title appearing in the sky [[BookEnds like it does in the intro]].
39	** Likewise, ''Audioplay/StrikersSoundStageX'' ends with Subaru looking up to the sky, reminiscing about Ixpellia. Particulary impressive, since this is a [[RadioDrama Drama CD]].
40	* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' does this to cap off the DistantFinale, showing Gurren Lagann spiralling of into the night, piercing the heavens still.
41	* ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' ends this way while Ed speaks his final monologue. It's then followed by a WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue PhotoMontage for ending credits.
42	%%* ''Anime/RingingBell''
43	* Invoked in ''Anime/YuGiOh'' right after the final duel concludes and the characters are left in the desert, with the camera rising to the sky. However, this isn't the actual final scene, but the Creator/FourKidsEntertainment dub pulls another whammy and cuts out the last moments of the last episode. [[SarcasmMode Gee, thanks.]]
44	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' uses the clear blue sky version at the end of the Arrancar arc.
45	* The anime of ''Manga/DeathNote'' ends with panning up to a night sky and crescent moon.
46	* ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime'' ends this way, though there is another quick scene on the baseball pitch after that.
47	* In the ending of ''Anime/YourName'', the scene pans up to a blue sky with bright clouds right after Taki and Mitsuha finally find each other again, break into TearsOfJoy and asking each other's name 5 years (8 for Mitsuha) after the comet flew by and both of them forgot about each other.
48	* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' does the blue sky version as Kobyashi takes Tohru and Kanna to meet her parents.
49	* The first opening for ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'', ''For Real'', ends with a pan up to the sky, with the lower half of the shot showing their destination, Gyumaou's castle in the West.
50	* Most ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' episodes end this way.
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53	[[folder:Film - Animation]]
54	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': The very last shot of the movie pans up from Miguel to a shot of the banner from the beginning framed against fireworks lighting up the sky.
55	* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch2StitchHasAGlitch'' ends this way with a starry night sky, while a star twinkles to prove Lilo's mother would be proud of her.
56	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', like ''Spirit'', begins with an inversion, staring on a shot of the Evening Star, then panning down to the streets of New Orleans; the end plays it straight, panning up from Tiana and Naveen dancing to the Evening Star and Ray the firefly, now a star himself in the night sky.
57	* ''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron'' ''begins'' by inverting this, showing a beautiful blue sky filled with horse-shaped clouds before panning down across the landscape and coming to Spirit's racing herd. At the end of the film, the trope is then played straight, as after Spirit returns home to lead the herd, [[BookEnds the camera pans back up to the same sky]].
58	* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' ends with a pan up to the blue sky, [[BookEnds calling back]] to [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory1 the first movie]]'s opening with a shot of the sky, with clouds that look like those on the wallpaper in Andy's room.
59	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', when Mei and Ming close up the temple for the day there is a pan up from them to the sky.
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62	[[folder:Film - Live Action]]
63	* After everyone goes in for a group hug near the end of ''[[Film/BadTimesAtTheBattleRoyale Bad Times at the Battle Royale]]'', the camera pans up to the clouds before the credits roll.
64	* ''Film/BalladOfASoldier'', which establishes [[DownerBeginning in the opening scene]] that the young soldier protagonist will be killed in combat at some point after the movie's time frame, pans up to the sky at the end as the voiceover muses that he could have done many things with his life if he'd lived, but in the end will be remembered as a Russian soldier.
65	* The final scene of ''Film/BattleOfBritain'' shows the sky over England, which has a few clouds in it, but after months of struggle against the Luftwaffe, finally has no German planes.
66	* ''Film/CityOfEmber'' ends with the sun rising into a bright blue sky, which is especially meaningful because the characters have spent their entire lives living in an underground city, never knowing there was anything different or that there was such a thing as the sun or sky.
67	* ''Film/EasyA'' begins and ends this way, with the Screen Gems logo.
68	* Most of the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films end this way.
69	* ''Film/TheNativityStory'' ends with the sun and clouds on a bright day.
70	* The final shot of ''Film/{{Ophelia}}'' pans up from Ophelia and her daughter walking across a hill to a flock of birds soaring across the sky, symbolizing that Ophelia has found freedom and happiness.
71	* At the end of ''Film/TheProfessional'' the camera zooms up from Mathilda onto the skyline of New York.
72	* In ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', the camera pans up from the [[DoorClosesEnding closed door]] to the sky, giving us a "Continue?" and countdown, evoking arcade games. At zero, the credits begin.
73	* ''Film/YouveGotMail'' pans up to a bright, clear sky at the end.
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76	[[folder:Literature]]
77	* In the end of Arthur C. Clarke's ''The Nine Billion Names of God'', the protagonists look up at the sky and see [[TheStarsAreGoingOut the stars going out one by one]].
78	* Creator/SergeyLukyanenko's ''Literature/SeekersOfTheSky'' duology ends with the protagonist Ilmar looking up while atop Tel Megiddo, having just refused to follow Marcus as one of his apostles, claiming that Marcus is not second coming of TheMessiah and believing that, as before, there must be one dissenter.
79	* ''Literature/TogetherlyLong'': In order to convey this effect in a written work, the story mentions various creatures at different elevations that might hear the lines of dialogue of two characters that are talking to each other as the scene ends, and it mentions how the conversation would sound fainter and fainter to successively higher creatures.
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82	[[folder:Live Action TV]]
83	* This shot was used at the end of every episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''.
84	* This is used in the final episode of ''Series/TheFades'', which functions as a SequelHook by showing that [[RedSkyTakeWarning the sky has turned blood-red]].
85	* This was used going into a commercial in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The City On The Edge Of Forever." Inexplicably, the stars in the sky change to a different pattern 2 seconds before the commercial break.
86	* A starry night sky is used at end of the first season of ''Series/TrueDetective'' to illustrate Rust's belief that although the dark may be greater, the light is winning.
87	* A lot of reality TV shows make use of this for at least some episodes. It works because the "universe" of reality television is not bound within a contained space like a studio set or a piece of paper.
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90	[[folder:Video Games]]
91	* ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': In the epilogue, Ann and Ayane head out to gaze at the ocean while discussing [[AndTheAdventureContinues what adventures might come next]], ending with a panned up view of the clear sky while Ayane is resting besides Ann.
92	* Several endings of ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' contain this (Akiha True, Hisui True, and Hisui Good, possibly others), as well as the Epilogue.
93	* The nighttime and shooting star[[labelnote:*]]actually pieces of [[ColonyDrop Ragnarok]][[/labelnote]] version of this is part of ''VideoGame/MegaManZero4's'' ending.
94	* ''VideoGame/WildArms1'' ends in this manner, complete with all three protagonists looking up to the sky.
95	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
96	** The nighttime version of this is the final shot of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'''s ending.
97	** The end of ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' has a blue sky panned to, because it's a HappyEnding.
98	* The GoldenEnding of ''VideoGame/TheReconstruction'' ends with the camera panning up into the night sky.
99	* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'': The ending scene of ''Second Chapter'' ends with Estelle and Joshua paying their respects to Hamel while venturing out their next journey with a up shot of the clear sky.
100	* The ending of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' (first time only) ends with a shot of a blue comet streaking across the night sky. Further completions of the final Bowser level results in a green comet in the ending.
101	* A few of the endings of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' end like this. Specifically, ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening Link's Awakening]]'' (with the Wind Fish flying away), ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Phantom Hourglass]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks Spirit Tracks]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]''.
102	* Both ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' and ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'' end with a long pan across the blue sky (and eventually into space). Inverted in ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'', where it ends with a view of the top of the Dreamstalk as it descends down below from Floralia to Dream Land, where Kirby and King Dedede's homes are shown as the final scene.
103	%% Needs context * The true ending of ''VisualNovel/DateWarp''.
104	* The CutScene animation created for the PS version of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' does this twice in the perfect ending--once after Chrono and Marle's wedding when she [[BouquetToss throws the bouquet]], and again after Lucca [[DoorstopBaby finds baby Kid]] (Schala's clone from ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'').
105	** ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' itself also has this in its perfect ending--after you free Schala from the Time Devourer and the two worlds are reunited and restored, but before the end credits roll, Serge ends up back on Opassa Beach with Leena right when he passed out [[BookEnds at the start of the game]], and as he's asking about things he wasn't supposed to remember from his adventures, you get the pan.
106	* ''VideoGame/ShantaeRiskysRevenge'' ends with a long pan up to the blue sky after the mayor reinstates her as the Guardian of Scuttle Town and her friends promise to help her get accustomed to her new life [[BroughtDownToNormal as a human]].
107	* The Freedom ending of ''VideoGame/TheStanleyParable'' concludes this way.
108	* ''VideoGame/TearsToTiara2'' ends [[CueTheSun with a sunrise to mark the return of the Golden Age]]
109	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'''s Normal ending involves Yuna crouching atop the airship Celsius, shouting to Brother to fly higher and faster, before panning out into the blue sky ahead of her (while her voiceover narration speaks of continuing to be a sphere hunter, living life to the fullest, and thanking Tidus for making it possible because [[ArcWords "it all began when I saw this sphere of you"]]).
110	* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'': Dark Crusade's Eldar stronghold ends with the Avatar dead and Taldeer telling her surviving troops to flee. [[MustMakeAmends Then, as it was her vision who led them to their deaths]], [[FaceDeathWithDignity she runs down the ramp into the player's army]] as the camera pans slowly upwards... Occasionally turns into {{Narm}} when a strong blow sends her cartwheeling back up the ramp when the camera hasn't gone all the way up yet.
111	* ''VideoGame/EternalSonata'' combines this with the KissingDiscretionShot by panning up to the blue sky with puffy white clouds as Allegretto and Polka embrace and then share their first kiss.
112	* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorVanguard'' combines this with {{Off into the Distance Ending}} as the last shot has the camera pan up to the sky to reveal allied forces parachuting in as Garrett and Slauson running off into the distance.
113	* ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens'': The final cutscene ends with Shantae waving goodbye to her new friends and then panning up to end the scene looking at the sun.
114	* ''VideoGame/SpiritsOfAnglerwoodForest'': The game ends with Edgar entering his house again, then the camera pans past the trees to the horizon.
115	* ''VideoGame/Yakuza3'' ends with a quick pan to the sky after Kiryu is stabbed by Hamazaki and bleeds out in the streets of Kamurocho. Fortunately, TheStinger shows he survived.
116	* ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet2'' ends with a shot of a clear blue sky after Lilac sets off to find Merga or Carol, Milla and Neera Li looking up to the sky wondering on when she'll be back. In the latter case, it gets interrupted with Milla jokingly discussing her plan to conquer the world due to her being revealed as an alien.
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119	[[folder:Western Animation]]
120	* ''Franchise/{{Avatar\|TheLastAirbender}}'':
121	** The final episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' did this after a shot of TheBigDamnKiss between [[OfficialCouple Aang and Katara]].
122	** The final episode of the sequel series ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has a pan up to the sky directly over the new Spirit Portal after the final scene of Korra and Asami becoming a couple.
123	* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeTheMovie'' ends with a pan up to the night sky as the last of Cobra-La's mutation spores burn up in the atmosphere.
124	* The ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'' episode "Life Saver" ends this way.
125	* The 1972 Creator/{{CBS}}[=/=]Creator/DepatieFrelengEnterprises adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax\|1972}}'' ends with the camera panning up from the Once-ler's house to [[RayOfHopeEnding a clearing in the smoggy skies]].
126	* ''WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut'' ends this way with a clear blue sky.
127	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In the GrandFinale of ''[[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture Future]]'', the last shot as Steven leaves Beach City is a view of the night sky.
128	* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'''s intended GrandFinale "To Sirloin With Love".
129	* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' ends this way as the Best Friends Squad decide to have one last adventure together to bring the magic back to the universe after Horde Prime's defeat.
130	* How "Suspended Animation, Part 1" from the 2020 reboot of [[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020 Animaniacs]] ends after Yakko, Wakko, and Dot finish "Catch-Up" with a final shot of the Warner Bros. Studio as fireworks light up, welcoming home the Warners.
131	* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' does this at the end of the episode "The Toy That Saved Christmas", complete with Junior singing "Away in a Manger".
132	* ''WesternAnimation/TamagotchiVideoAdventures'': Inverted at the beginning of the video, with the frame panning down to the surface of Tamagotchi Planet as the Bandai logo and opening titles appear on-screen. Played straight twice later on - the first time is at the end of the main cartoon segment with the frame panning up as Cosmotchi and the Tamagotchis ride a car proposed as a museum exhibit into space; the second time is at the end of the video after the credits, with the footage of the Tamagotchis riding the car [[StockFootage being reused]].
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