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11	->''Nothing's wrong with the sun, he just got older\
12	The Teletubbies' sun is all grown up, now\
13	Look into his dead-dog eyes...''
14	-->-- '''Creator/AidyBryant''' and '''Creator/PeteDavidson''' as [[ItMakesSenseInContext giant gummy bears]], ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''
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16	The sun is a [[Music/TheyMightBeGiants mass of incandescent gas]][[note]]actually a miasma of incandescent plasma[[/note]]. [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Or possibly a chariot wheel,]] a very large flashlight, or a two-dimensional painting on the cosmic backdrop that is the sky. Forget everything you know about Mr. Sun[[note]]And in several languages -- and in Creator/JRRTolkien's Middle-earth -- it's Ms. Sun, thank you very much.[[/note]] because, in Fiction Land, it's all wrong.
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18	Unlike WeirdMoon, the occurrence of these is rarer, except in animations where they're more common.
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20	Common oddities:
21	* The Sun appears much larger in the sky than it does in real life.
22	* Sun in fiction sometimes has visible rays. In real life, sunray-like effect can exist with a phenomenon called Tyndall effect. However, in fiction, rays can be present in various ways:
23	** They're sector-like and cover the whole sky.
24	** They're triangular and only extend within a short distance from the sun, making it have a bit of spiky appearance.
25	** They have solid lines as rays, often black-colored. Also known as [[BriffitsAndSqueans Solrads]].
26	** They leave only a few yellow or yellow-white rays even in places where the air is clear.
27	* The Sun is plain yellow or orange-yellow even when it's high in the sky and showing it doesn't cause eye irritation.
28	* It's getting darker already when the Sun is starting to go down to the horizon instead of getting dark some time after setting, even when it's not very cloudy.
29	* Solar eclipses in fiction are never partial.
30	* The Sun (and other celestial bodies) are shown to move from right to left in shows set in the Northern Hemisphere. This happens most often when stock footage of a sunset is played backwards to show a sunrise.
31	* [[TheFaceOfTheSun It has a face and may talk.]]
32	* [[FridgeLogic It wears]] [[GogglesDoNothing sunglasses]]
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34	Related to WeirdMoon. A subtrope of ArtisticLicenseSpace, and a supertrope of TheFaceOfTheSun.
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37	!!Examples:
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40	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
41	* In ''Manga/TegamiBachiLetterBee'', the Sun is a man-made object composed of [[spoiler: people parts, among other things. It is ''STILL'' alive and occasionally feeds on the citizens.]] Yeah, it's ''[[WorldHalfEmpty THAT]]'' kind of world.
42	* In ''Manga/MarchComesInLikeALion'', the sun in Chapter 5 is drawn with visible heatwaves, emphasizing how hot the summer day was in Rei's flashback with Nikaido.
43	* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' (specifically ''Stardust Crusaders''), the Sun is a ''Stand'' of all things. Well, actually the Stand is [[{{Pun}} standing in]] for the real Sun, in order to try and take out the heroes, by giving off ludicrous levels of heat and attacking with solar lasers. It is only dispelled when they manage to knock out the Stand's user.
44	* In ''Manga/SoulEater'', the Sun has a giant face, complete with a conical nose, [[SlasherSmile a giant toothy grin]], it occasionally breathes fire, and it ''[[EvilLaugh can laugh.]]'' It's also located ''inside'' the Earth's atmosphere. In the hotter regions of the world, it becomes even more intense-looking, and when it starts to set, it falls asleep. It has occasional dialogue, too, which is generally fairly pleasant.
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47	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
48	* During the ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' StoryArc ''Great War in the Bizarre World'', dark egg Darton acts as the sun to the bees' world, lighting up the sky every day and then going to sleep once he has stopped glowing for the night.
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51	[[folder:Comic Books]]
52	* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyGenerations'': One of the stops Trench makes to collect the EyeOfNewt for making the smooze is Double Sun Desert, which has two suns hanging in its sky.
53	* ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'': Battleworld's sun revolves around it, rather than the other way around. Not only that, but it is later revealed to be powered by [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/FantasticFour Johnny Storm]].]]
54	* ''ComicBook/StardustTheSuperwizard'' lives ''on a star''. On the surface of it. Which is on fire. And the star is literally star-shaped.
55	* In one ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'' story, the duo uses the Sun as the secret entrance.
56	* In one Golden Age ''ComicBook/SensationComics'' Franchise/WonderWoman feature the villain was Queen Flamina, who ruled an entire kingdom of humanoids that lived on the sun in advanced towering cities built using "sun metal" and rode giant winged horses that could fly in space.
57	* In one issue of ''Comicbook/WebWarriors'', when Comicbook/SpiderGwen is on Comicbook/SpiderHam's world, one thing that weirds her out is that she can look straight at the sun, which is a cartoony yellow disk with rays coming off it, even though it's apparently producing the same amount of light as on a normal world.
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60	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
61	* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin's dad goes to town with this, telling him that [[LittleKnownFacts it's about the size of a quarter, moves by "solar wind" and lands in Arizona at night which is why the rocks there are all red]].
62	* In a ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' strip captioned "Inside the Sun", a guy sits at a desk reading a newspaper, with eight desk fans all blowing at once and two large switches on the wall labeled "rise" and "set", while huge flames roar outside the window.
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65	[[folder:Fan Works]]
66	* The ''Fanfic/TriptychContinuum'': Chapter 12 of ''A Mark of Appeal'' gives an alternate explanation for how Princesses Celestia and Luna control Sun and Moon (which are always referred to without "the"s in-universe): [[spoiler:Both are artificial constructs animated by what appears to be a very advanced {{Magitek}} [[AIIsACrapshoot A.I.]]. The princesses' actual cutie mark magic is the ability to interface with those A.I.s.]]
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69	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
70	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' has a slightly modified version of the one in [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]]: instead of being a wheel of Apollo's chariot it's a roughly house-sized sphere.
71	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'': The giant, dramatic sunrise; at least it has to be exaggerated somewhat.
72	* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': The sun has the face of a jack-o-lantern.
73	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Uglydolls}}'': The sun in Uglyville is a ball of yarn, fitting the craft aesthetic of the town.
74	* ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'': In lapine folklore, the sun is Frith, the supreme creator-deity, who'd crafted the world from his droppings. The opening sequence uses a highly-stylized ArtShift to represent Frith and his surroundings.
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77	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
78	* ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'': Charlie Frost's animation shows a sun emitting extreme amounts of radiation, represented by the sun wearing a red headband and firing bullets from a machine gun, the bullets representing neutrinos, then smoking a joint.
79	* The miniature sun in ''Film/SpiderMan2'' shows no effects of radiant heat, radiation, or gravity on those nearby, having no effect on physical matter when handled by a set of metal arms (though they were specially designed to be impervious to heat and magnetism) or when idly floating in an unshielded "containment field". There's no way to estimate mass or density. Is the sun's own gravity holding it together, and is that gravity coming from its mass despite its size, as its miniatured molecules simulate macro-scale gravity while still allowing thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium at its core to take place, in a safe and cozy environment, without killing everyone nearby?
80	* At the start of the Toontown segment of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', a cartoon sun with a goofy face pops up above the horizon to lead the landscape in a chorus of "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!".
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83	[[folder:Literature]]
84	* One story in ''Literature/TheCyberiad'' had Klapaucius travelling to a planet orbiting a sun that was shaped like a ''square''. The planet itself was cube-shaped.
85	%%* Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac wrote a story called "journey to the Sun" and "journey to the moon".
86	* Creator/VernorVinge's ''Literature/ADeepnessInTheSky'' features a planet orbiting a "On-Off Star", which follows a cycle of going completely dark for decades at a time, forcing the native species to live deep underground and hibernate for this period until a technological civilization could sustain life during the sunless period. Technically, it's not a star at all, and it's implied that the On-Off Star is the work of {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s.
87	* ''Literature/DreamPark'': In the Fimbulwinter Game from ''The Barsoom Project'', the Sun begins shrinking until a Gamer from the asteroid belt thinks it looks normal-sized. When the Gamers travel to the Inuit spirit-world to correct this, they realize that the missing Creator-spirit, Raven, has been bound to the spirit-Sun's surface.
88	%%* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', Harry and the other O.W.L. students have their Astronomy practical at midnight on a June evening -- despite the fact that Hogwarts is in the Highlands of Scotland (it's usually reckoned to be near Dufftown in Moray), and at that latitude in June, it never gets dark enough to see any but the very brightest stars. One website claims that ''sunset'' would be at 11pm -- only an hour before the start of the exam.
89	* Creator/TomHolt's ''Literature/HereComesTheSun'' has the Sun being a large mechanical device that must be driven like a car, and is parked in a garage between sunset and sunrise. The plot is largely driven by the Sun, as well as various other things like the Moon and weather, starting to break down due to lack of maintenance.
90	* ''Literature/ImpossibleCreatures2023'': The Glimourie Tree grows underneath a miniature sun called the Somnulum. According to Mal, it was the same sun that Icarus flew into.
91	* Creator/RichardBrautigan's fantasy novel ''Literature/InWatermelonSugar'' is set possibly on a post-apocalyptic Earth where the sun shines a different color every day, but always the same color on the same day; Monday is always red, Tuesday is always golden, and so on. Even the community elders and leaders don't know why this is, but they've coordinated the watermelon crops to grow in similar colors. Seeds gathered from, say, a gray watermelon, on Wednesday (when the sun is gray), then planted on another Wednesday, will grow more gray watermelons.
92	* In the ''Literature/{{Ultramarines}}'' novel ''Dead Sky, Black Sun'', the sun is as described, in a white sky. It also never moves.
93	* Due to the alternative laws of physics governing the universe of the ''Literature/{{Orthogonal}}'' series, the Sun is actually a big lump of burning rock.
94	* Some of the Territories in ''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure'' have ''very'' weird suns. One has three suns which rise and set at the same time and overlap each other at midday, another has a rising and setting band of light stretching across the whole sky. No explanation is ever given for how these systems work.
95	* The SF short story "Placet is a Crazy Place" by Creator/FredricBrown has the titular planet in a lemniscate (figure-8) orbit around two suns -- one matter, one antimatter. This causes a shedload of weird effects.
96	* Creator/TerryPratchett:
97	** ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
98	*** The sun is tiny (about a mile across) and orbits the Disc faster than its light can travel through the Disc's strong magical field. And one of the elephants has to periodically cock a leg to let it go by.
99	*** In ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'' all of the many, many Djelibeybian gods become real for a short time. Since there have been at least a dozen sun gods over Djelibeybi’s long history, something of a free-for-all brawl erupts where they fight it out over just ''who'' gets the make the sun move across the sky
100	** The same in Terry Pratchett's earlier book ''Literature/{{Strata}}''. One of the starship's computers, in an ExpospeakGag, analyses it and calls it an "external fusion reactor".
101	* ''Literature/TheQuran'':
102	** The great ruler Dhul Qarnayn travels to the land where the sun sets, and witnesses it going down into a muddy spring.
103	** A Hadith mentions the sun gliding to the throne of Allah after setting and prostrating until it is asked to rise again next morning.
104	* ''Literature/RWBYFairyTalesOfRemnant'': In the [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Remnant]] fairy tale ''The Gift of the Moon'', humanity accidentally broke the original sun. They managed to get it back into the sky, but it was a broken shadow of itself, unable to do more than shine dimly. Its rays also scattered, creating stars. Humanity collected up the spilled sunlight and built a huge glass sun to contain it. They then hoisted it into the sky and tied it to the old sun with rope. The original sun was renamed the moon, and now the Remnant is lit with a fake sun by day, and the darkness is lit with the [[DetonationMoon real, broken sun]] by night as it drags the fake sun through the sky behind it.
105	* ''Creator/JRRTolkien'''s ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' goes through a variety of weird suns. Light in Middle Earth was originally provided by a pair of giant lamps. When [[BigBad Melkor]] destroyed them, the Valar created a pair of giant trees that provided light instead. When Melkor destroyed ''them'', the Valar finally created the Sun and Moon. In common with the ancient mythology that inspired Tolkein's writing, it's left somewhat unclear if the Sun was an inanimate object, something driven by one of the gods, or the actual physical form of that god.
106	* ''Literature/UnderThePendulumSun'': The eponymous pendulum sun of the Faelands. They also have a WeirdMoon.
107	-->'''EncyclopediaExposita''': If you would imagine a bright lantern hanging at the end of a long cord. Then imagine that it swings as a pendulum over a surface, bringing each part in turn into its light.\
108	That surface is Arcadia and that lantern is their sun. Thus at the edges of the Faelands, the sun reaches the pinnacle of its upswing before falling back the way it came. The equilibrium position of the pendulum sun is near the centre of the Faelands, directly above the city of Pivot. There, it is almost never night, as the sun is always close enough to impart at least a hazy twilight of illumination.
109	* In ''Literature/UnLunDun'', the [=UnSun=] is shaped like a donut. It's rumored that our sun used to be the center of the [=UnSun=].
110	* Creator/KarlSchroeder's ''Virga'' series takes place in a "world" where there's no gravity, but there is air, and land exists as asteroids. Small "suns" that light regions of fifteen miles or so float freely throughout; one gigantic "Sun of Suns" anchors the whole thing from the center. [[spoiler: The whole world is artificial; the air is kept in by a giant (~3000 mile) balloon-type structure. The suns are fusion reactors.]] It's a Daemonworld in the [[NegativeSpaceWedgie Eye of Terror]], tho, so not following laws of nature is expected. Some Daemonworlds have even weirder suns (such as ones that orbit the planet and scream).
111	* ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader:'' In this book, Caspian is leading an expedition into the east, hoping to find the edge of the (flat) world. As they go farther, the rising sun starts to look bigger and bigger each morning; it becomes blindingly bright, but not hotter. (Though drinking the magic water of this region makes the light more tolerable.) Also, the sun is apparently habitable to some creatures--every morning birds fly from it to bring Ramandu[[note]]a [[SentientStars Sentient Star]] taking human form[[/note]] a berry that grows in its valleys, which slowly restore his lost youth.
112	* ''Literature/TheZodiacSeries'' has Helios. On the surface, it's a perfectly normal sun. [[spoiler:However, in ''Thirteen Rising'', it's revealed that it's actually a portal to a long-dead Earth. If someone were to enter this portal, it would cause the collapse of the Zodiac System...and, unfortunately, [[MadScientist Aquarius]] desires to find out exactly where it leads.]]
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115	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
116	* The final season of ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'' took place in a binary star system, where the stars were artificial constructs built by {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s. One of the stars also had a disquieting tendency to [[SoundInSpace audibly]] blink on and off at random times.
117	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
118	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E742 "42"]] has a ''sentient'' star which can possess beings that stare into it long enough, [[spoiler:even the Doctor.]]
119	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]]. The Sun abruptly goes wibbly, which naturally gets everyone's attention. So what's wrong with it?
120	--->'''The Doctor''': Nothing: you're looking at it through a force field. They've sealed off your upper atmosphere and now they're getting ready to boil the planet.
121	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]] has a ''cold'' sun. Granted, it was part of a dream.
122	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]]: All the stars in the universe died when the TARDIS blew up, so ''what'' is the sun that the Earth and Moon have been orbiting for the past 2,000 years? [[spoiler:It's the time-looped exploding TARDIS!]]
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125	[[folder:Music]]
126	* In ''Music/TheMechanisms''' RockOpera "High Noon Over Camelot'', the setting is an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder O'Neill cylinder]] space station. The real sun isn't visible from the inside, and what the characters call the sun is a fluorescent light in the centre (there were apparently [[https://thedreadvampy.tumblr.com/post/624565923003645952/the-mechanisms-are-a-band-the-fucking-tube-sun-the considerable behind-the-scenes debates]] about whether or not it's a tube). The real sun is also weird from the characters' perspective, since they've never seen it and don't really think about there being a world outside the station. [[TheFundamentalist Galahad]] is given a vision of it, and assumes the enormous fiery orb floating in an endless void is hell.
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129	[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
130	* In [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]], the sun is the wheel of a golden chariot driven by Apollo (or Helios, depending on what version of the myth you're going by). Same with several other Indo-European solar deities, like the Canaanite Shapash and the Hindu Surya.
131	* In both Egyptian and early Indian mythologies the sun god (Ra and Varuna respectively) the sun is a boat that travels across the ocean that is the sky.
132	* List of explanations of what the sun is in [[Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths Aboriginal Australian]] cultures:
133	** A cannibal woman looped in a boomerang (Adnyamathanha, Ngadjuri)
134	** A multi-armed woman made by the moon whose pubes are alight (Queensland)
135	** A mother looking for her son with a torch (Wotjobaluk)
136	** An emu egg thrown at the sky (various South East).
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139	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
140	* In the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' setting ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'' (''D&D'' [-[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]]-]), suns have the same gravity as any Earth-like planet, and all you need to survive on the (solid) surface is a fire-resistance spell. Some even have civilizations of fire elementals living on them. (Incidentally, suns are not stars. Suns are huge balls of fire; stars are little lights stuck to the inside of the crystal shells surrounding each system.)
141	** The crossover nature of Spelljammer means that Spelljammer's description of suns applies (or applie''d'', at least, given the two editions since then) to most campaign settings, even ones where it would not otherwise come up.
142	** In the Hollow World, the sun is a pinpoint gateway to the Plane of Fire, and it shut down and left the planet's interior in darkness for a week during the Wrath of the Immortals StoryArc.
143	** The sun in ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' ''looks'' normal enough, and works fine against vampires and the like, but travelers who actually try to reach it via spelljamming pass into the Mists rather than wildspace, suggesting it's a projection or illusion.
144	** There's an arid, inhospitible setting called TabletopGame/DarkSun. Though this is mostly just a name; the sun there isn't markedly different from the sun in any other setting.
145	* The Daystar from ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' is an enormous dirigible made of magical metals (surrounded by burning Essence) that is filled with chambers, requires a pilot, and is brimming with weapons of mass destruction. Unless something ''really'' bad happens, in which case it may transform into a four-armed mecha. It also knows Kung Fu.
146	** Ligier (Creation's sun prior to the Daystar, and current sun of Hell) is not only green, but also emits a light which does not cast shadows. He's also fully sentient and can create a humanoid form into which he can place a portion of his consciousness to be in multiple places at once. Also, despite the many, ''many'' layers of the city of Malfeas (different from the realm of Malfeas, but also the same as the realm of Malfeas - [[AlienGeometries it's Yozi geometry, don't even try]]), Ligier shines above all of them at the same time.
147	*** Infernals can learn the charm [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Sun-Heart Furnace Soul]]
148	** Solars are cursed to become insane over the long run. When the Sidereal realized this, they tried to peer into three different kind of futures: one where the Solars are overthrown, one where the Solars are reformed, and one where nothing was to be done about the Solars. When they tried to peer at that last one, they saw Creation have become a blasted wasteland with a pale sun hanging in a shattered sky. They freaked out, and near-unanimously took the first course of action.
149	** In ''Return of the Scarlet Empress'', should the Unconquered Sun die, the Daystar becomes large and red, and the Holy keyword stops working. The flavor indicates that this happens because the Daystar's sentience is...''annoyed'' that something has happened to its beloved master.
150	* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' the artificial plane of New Phyrexia (formerly Mirrodin) has five suns, one for each color of mana (white, blue, red, green and black.) Each sun allows very powerful spells of that color to be cast at their zenith. (These are represented by the cards [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=221555 White Sun's Zenith]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=376268 Blue Sun's Zenith]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=221558 Red Sun's Zenith]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=373333 Green Sun's Zenith]] and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=214061 Black Sun's Zenith]].) They are also the plane's only natural sources of mana, since the plane is metallic in nature and metal lacks mana alignment. Any other source of mana on the plane is imported.
151	** Amonkhet has two suns, one apparently normal and the Second Sun, a "magical orb" that moves slowly across the sky. It is the source of Oketra's and Hazoret's (two gods) magic, and it is timed [[spoiler:by Bolas to align in a monument, as it is essentially a countdown timer to TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt when the plane becomes unnecessary for his plans.]]
152	** Existing mostly as a rules riff on the iconic Blood Moon, the plane of Ixalan has at least once experienced a "Blood Sun."
153	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
154	** The Daemon World of Medrengard, home of the Iron Warriors, orbits a pitch-black sun that scours its white skies with black lightning.
155	** The [[http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Tyrant_Star Tyrant Star]], which may or may not be an EldritchAbomination.
156	* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': The Land of the Chained Sun was a portion of Aqshy whose "sun" was in fact the fiery, coiled body of the god-serpent Ignax, who was bound in its skies by Griminr with god-forged chains to serve as an eternal source of light. She remained in this role for the rest of the Age of Myth and much of the Age of Chaos, until her bonds were broken in Archaon's wars.
157	* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'': Several weird suns can be found.
158	** In the Umbra's Aetherial Realm, travelers can visit the sun, which is ruled by the celestine Hyperion and populated by solar spirits. The umbral sun is solid and habitable, and travelers can ride the solar winds it emits to other parts of the Aetherial Realm.
159	** In Malfeas, the Umbral nerve center of the Wyrm, the desert ruled by the Nameless Angel of Despair has a huge black sun hanging overhead.
160	** One portent of the Apocalypse is the appearance of Anthelios, a huge red "anti-sun" that can be seen in the skies of both the Umbra and the physical world. This also shows up in several other gamelines in the World of Darkness, being called everything from [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade "the Red Star"]] to [[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming "the Eye of Balor"]], and it is always viewed as a sign of the end times.
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163	[[folder:Video Games]]
164	* In ''VideoGame/Asteroid5251'', [[spoiler:Gladsbury used to have an artificial sun]].
165	* ''VideoGame/{{Blaseball}}'''s sun imploded into a black hole at the end of Season 10. It was replaced by Sun 2, a type of weather that games can be played under. Later it was joined by Sun(Sun), Sun 30, Sun .1, Sum Sun, Equal Sun, and Maximum Sun.
166	* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' has a sun that gets progressively more weird as the game continues. By the end of the game, it appears to be in a total eclipse, just being a ring of fire surrounding a black circle... except that it also appears to be "bleeding" fire in a stream down to the ground. [[spoiler:The overall effect makes it look very similar to the Darksign, the brand that marks the cursed Undead.]]
167	* The Sun in ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'' isn't just weird, it's also the capital-G {{God}} and an afterlife of some sort. And it's deeply angered by the humans, he [[TakenForGranite turns everything touched by his ray into stone]]. In fact, you have to fight him to earn his forgiveness.
168	* ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 2\|Cursed Memories}}'' has an extra series of hidden HarderThanHard challenges where the "Dark Sun" screws things up for you and your party. You can have your characters attempt to destroy it with a suicide attack if it gets too annoying.
169	* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, The sun is, according to most creation myths, a hole punctured in reality by Magnus, the God of Magic, when he escaped from the mortal plane into Aetherius in order to avoid sacrificing a large portion of his power (and thus, his immortality) like the Aedra in order to create the mortal world. The stars were similarly punctured by his followers, the Magna-Ge. Through the sun and stars flows in magic from Aetherius, visible as nebulae in the night sky.
170	* ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' takes place in a wacky underworld Neath where the sun doesn't exist, but the horrifying secrets you learn about the sun there reveal that's technically a good thing; [[spoiler:Every sun in the Fallen London universe is an EldritchAbomination RealityWarper god, and their sunlight determines what is real. They've also imposed a FantasticCasteSystem on most of the universe, and beings of the Neath have the caste ranking of 'should be dead' and thus will die if they touch natural sunlight.]] Upon learning these things, half of LaResistance has decided to ''murder the sun''.
171	** There's more than one sun in ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'' but the only one you can get close to is the ''artificial'' "Clockwork Sun" that lights up Albion (the zone in space where London has migrated to). Like the sun in ''Digital Devil Saga,'' it is malevolent and turns unprotected people to glass. It's extremely evil, causes terror for miles around, and the only reason anyone built the damn thing is light is needed to keep the laws of reality in check in the High Wilderness (the weird limbo that the game takes place in). There was some apparent misunderstanding about the builders ability to actually control it.
172	** And then there's the Halved, a sun that has had a ''lot'' of drama happen to it and now shines ''darkness''. Everyone knows this isn't normal, but the Halved intentionally suppresses any information about its past.
173	* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'':
174	** In Lostbelt 2, Gotterdammerung, the sun is a absolutely enormous and instead of its regular yellow-ish light, it appears to be red. Absolutely none of the locals think that's odd, even though the strangeness of the sun is the first thing Chaldea notices once they arrive. [[spoiler:It turns out that the "sun" is actually Surtr's body.]]
175	** In Lostbelt 7, Nahui Mictlan, the sun is green, and the Deinos worship it as the goddess Kulkukan. [[spoiler:Turns out, that's not a celestial body at all. That thing is the heart of the resident EldritchAbomination ORT, which was ripped out of its body to replace the previous sun which died out. Even stranger, because of the Deinos worship, the heart developed its own consciousness which took the form of th goddess Kulkukan. Kulkukan is perfectly aware of what she is and considers her namesake - the actual mythological figure - to be a role model.]]
176	** Also from Lostbelt 7, we are treated to Tezcatlipoca and ''his'' sun, which is entirely black and not really illuminating anything. He summons it in his extra attacks and his Noble Phantasm, and it also serves as the background for his boss fight.
177	* ''Videogame/{{Frogsong}}'': Partway through Chapter 5, the sky turns red and the sun appears to be eclipsed with a red glow around it. It's unclear if this is a normal eclipse or not due to the aforementioned redness, but it does seem to tie in with [[spoiler:Lithos wanting to summon the Snnikt, and the sun and sky go back to normal shortly after it's defeated]].
178	* In the ''VideoGame/{{Futurama}}'' LicensedGame, the sun is merely unpleasantly warm and covered with lava, and has an Aztec {{Expy}} society living on it.
179	* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'':
180	** Planet Popstar's sun is relatively normal in appearance, using the traditional cartoony "circle with triangles sticking out of it" design. The weirdness comes from the fact that it's exactly as big as Popstar's moon. This sun is also apparently sentient, as the plot of the Milky Way Wishes subgame in ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' is kicked off by it getting into a fight with the moon.
181	** There's also the semi-recurring boss Mr. Bright, a living sun with hands, feet, and an angry face, who is only moderately bigger than Kirby. WordOfGod states that he isn't the ''actual'' sun, though he and his partner [[WeirdMoon Mr. Shine]] still seem to have some degree of control over the time of day in Dream Land.
182	* ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'': Appears in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie The LEGO Movie]]'' World, and turns over to reveal a WeirdMoon when a jet switch is powered.
183	** The Simpsons level pack, an abridged retelling of "El Misterioso Viaje de Nuestro Jomer", includes the same weird sun from the original episode (mentioned below), only this time it contains the necessary Lego bricks to build a bridge across a chasm.
184	* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' has a rather large square-shaped sun. (Texture packs can change it to whatever the player wants.)
185	* The world of ''VideoGame/{{Nier}}'' doesn't have a sun. It used to, but not anymore. There's still sunlight, somehow, but no sun. It's one more sign of how [[AfterTheEnd seriously fucked up]] the world has become.
186	* The sun that the plot of ''VideoGame/{{OneShot}}'' revolves around is a giant lightbulb (though unlike most suns it's still small enough to be carried around)..
187	* The Lylat system from ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' has a weird sun. There are firebirds and lava-snakes living inside it. All promotional information stated that Solar was not the star of the system, but a planet. Although this could go back to the whole "all objects are planets in Japanese" problem.
188	** ''Star Fox Command'' posits that Lylat is a binary system, with Solar being a red dwarf (although it still refers to Solar as the "Red Hot Planet"). The official player's guide for ''Star Fox 64'' claims that Solar is quite cold for a star.
189	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
190	** One of the most notable weird suns is the Angry Sun, an enemy introduced in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' that hangs in the sky and periodically swoops down to try and attack Mario.
191	*** After a [[TheBusCameBack 31-year absence]] in the main series, it would return as a placeable enemy in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker2'', gaining two {{Retraux}} designs for the ''Super Mario Bros'' and ''Super Mario World'' themes and a strange, [[NonIndicativeName not really angry]] Mesoamerican-style design for the ''New Super Mario Bros. U'' theme.
192	*** The Angry Sun also appears as a background character in the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3''-inspired Desert Hills course in ''VideoGame/MarioKartDS'' and ''VideoGame/MarioKartWii'', shooting Fire Snakes onto the course to slow down the racers.
193	** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', [[BigBad Bowser]] uses the power of the Grand Stars to create a large, hollow artificial sun with multiple holes in it that would serve as the center of his new galaxy. The final fight against Bowser has he and Mario travel to two small planetoids orbiting the sun before finishing the fight ''inside'' the sun itself.
194	** ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'' has a stranger one, the (or possibly "a") sun is at the top of a relatively short tower with a diameter of less than 12' and has an owl like face. It's bummed because the clouds that the Koopa Troop have spread over Flower Fields keep him from bringing light to the place.
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198	* During a transitional shot in one ''WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad'' cartoon, the Sun inexplicably turns into a circular saw and cuts up some birds in the background. As this is a cartoon written and drawn by [[ComedicSociopath Strong Bad]], this is not commented on by any of the characters.
199	* In the ''[[WebAnimation/MadnessCombat Madness Series]]'', the sun turns into a mook. Hank kills it; the sky goes black for 2/3 of the series. SLIGHTLY justified in that somebody pressed the [[RealityIsOutToLunch improbability drive]].
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203	* The Green Sun in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. It's an enormous [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin green star]], giant enough that it's about twice the mass of the kids' universe. It supplies magical energy to all [[PhysicalGod First Guardians]], and one of the main objectives of Act 5 Act 2 is to [[spoiler:destroy it so [[OmnicidalManiac Jack Noir]] can't use its powers anymore.]]
204	* ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'':
205	** The sun in Throne (the city at the centre of the multiverse) is "broken", meaning it no longer moves; as a result, part of the city is cast in eternal day, and part is in eternal night. Notably, both sides are equally dangerous.
206	** When the demiurge Yemmod conquered the world of Rayuba, its sun was among the resources he plundered from the place. When Solomon David, a native of Rayuba, slew Yemmod and [[VictorGainsLosersPowers replaced him as a demiurge]], he put two new suns in its sky. When asked about the precise physics of both events, the author essentially stated [[MST3KMantra not to think about it so hard.]]
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210	* ''Blog/CodexInversus'': The Second Sun is a glowing celestial body that hovers, stock still, over a giant salt desert in the south. It is believed to be a fount of pure positive energy, and its light causes endless creations and mutations of the objects and creatures on which it falls.
211	* ''Website/RPCAuthority'': [[https://rpcauthority.wikidot.com/rpc-548 RPC-548]], the so-called "Hateful Star". Basically, it's a sentient star that exists at the heart of the Crab Nebula, thousands of light years away. It is slowly but surely moving towards Earth, and vocally expresses its intent to destroy us all through Morse code. It poses no immediate threat and probably won't do so for several thousand more years, but unfortunately, there's no way to stop it so when it gets to us, it will likely cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
212	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'':
213	** One of the SCP-001 Proposals, "[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/shaggydredlocks-proposal When Day Breaks]]", plays this for horror, as Earth's own sun becomes an anomaly, causing any organic lifeform to come into contact with sunlight to [[BodyHorror melt alive and turn into amorphous horrors that try to convert any unaffected humans they find.]]. This [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt XK Scenario]] is one of the more infamous SCP-001 Proposals because of how bleak the concept of our sun betraying us is.
214	** SCP-1548-EX is a subversion. The SCP Foundation picked up on radio broadcasts of threats from the star and assumed it was a sentient being bent on our destruction. However, it later turned out that it was actually just random noise that was misinterpreted as threats. The quite-ordinary star then burned out before getting anywhere near earth.
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218	* Smosh has a video where they theorize what would happen if the stuff that occurred on children's television could be found in real life. They react with exuberant panic at the teletubbies; more specifically, the giggling sun.
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222	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In "[[Recap/AmericanDadS4E8TheMostAdequateChristmasEver The Most Adequate Christmas Ever]]", Stan Smith trips over a cable in God's office and the screen goes black. God tells Stan he's just [[CutTheJuice unplugged the sun]].
223	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'': In one episode, the beavers have been sent on a mission to the sun as disposable lab animals (not explorers, like they originally thought.) After watching a video (conveniently titled, "So You're Spiraling Into the Sun"), they stop the pull of the sun's gravity by creating a dam of space debris, just as they would dam a river.
224	* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': The Sun has nothing to do with atomic energy. It is powered by a lightbulb below its surface. It is hot enough to melt metal, [[ConvectionShmonvection but leaves human beings and dogs unharmed]].
225	* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': It's a scientific fact that if you [[RealityWarper destroy reality]], the Sun shrinks down to the size of a dinner plate, and is edible.
226	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': The Sun is just a planet. A very, very hot planet with Sun aliens living on it and rivers of fire and stuff, but just a planet. In the video game, Fry declares that he can't do this level because he burns easily. There's even a ShowWithinAShow based on the Sun: ''Series/TheRealWorld: The Sun''.
227	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': The ending of one episode has some old guy who is immortal crash-land into the sun. Humorously, when he tries to sell his books on how to live longer, the sun-people (essentially sentient fireballs) accidentally keep burning said books to a crisp.
228	* ''Literature/HarryAndHisBucketFullOfDinosaurs'': The sun is a paper with a scribble of the sun glued to the sky with adhesive tape. In one episode, [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever a giant]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext Harry]] manages to take off the sun from its place by accident, but quickly puts it back in its place.
229	* ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'': Lampshaded in an episode where Weasel tries (and ultimately succeeds) in preventing I.R. Baboon from taking a night-time mission flight to the sun. At the end of the episode, it's shown that the sun is inhabited by baboons that had crash-landed there.
230	* ''WesternAnimation/JumanjiTheAnimatedSeries'': In the cartoon, the world of Jumanji has a fake sun. It's a small metal sphere hanging in the sky covered in mirrors and fire-shooting holes.
231	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PvJ1zBJ-us Daffy Duck: The Wizard]]", a HeavyMithril short where Daffy [[MundaneMadeAwesome imagines mundane activities as the adventures of an epic wizard]], one of the various fantastical details he populates his imaginary world with is a black sun looming in the sky.
232	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'': The sun is a giant light bulb in the sky. It's also affected by power surges from the ground and can shatter like a normal light bulb would.
233	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': The sun is the good old ball o' plasma we know and love... but it doesn't seem to work like ours do. Instead of gravity keeping it orbiting around the planet its magically controlled by a PhysicalGod pony princess while her sister controls the moon. Before them, unicorns kept the sun and moon on the right path. In the Season 4 starter "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E1PrincessTwilightSparklePart1 Princess Twilight Sparkle]]", when both Celestia and Luna are out of action, the sun only illuminates ''half'' the sky over Equestria -- the other half is night, complete with moon. Later, in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E13BetweenDarkAndDawn Between Dark and Dawn]]", the sun and moon are show as being in front of, rather than behind, the clouds.
234	* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': In the [[AllThereInTheManual backstory]], Cool Sun was the star in a popular intergalactic {{Telenovela}}. Lord Boxman managed to survive being shot into him.
235	* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': One planet seen revolves around a sun with a face which emits a never-ending scream. The sun's screaming can be heard from the planet's surface for the entirety of its daytime period, which is much longer than Earth's. Since the family is on the run from the Galactic Federation, they decide to skip hiding at the screaming sun's planet.
236	** [[Recap/RickAndMortyS6E9ARickInKingMortursMort "A Rick in King Morturs Mort"]] shows that Earth's sun functions normally, except for the society of medieval immortal Space Knights that live inside of it.
237	* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': Rocko, Filbert, and Heffer have to find a way to light a light bulb for a science project, and end up building a machine (consisting of Heffer's mouth and a bunch of potato chips) so powerful that it "sucks up" light energy from everywhere--including the sun, showing that the sun is indeed a flaming ''solid'' ball, not a gaseous one.
238	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretShow'': The sun is powered by a furnace in its core, and can be turned on and off with a remote control.
239	* ''WesternAnimation/SheriffCalliesWildWest'': In "Here Comes the Sun", when Toby and Peck can't sleep during their and Callie's desert campout because of the night noises, they decide to borrow Callie's noodle lasso to rope the sun in order to make it so that it's not nighttime anymore. It ''works''. Daytime comes, but the sun is too close, so Nice and Friendly Corners undergoes a massive heat-wave. Toby and Peck then decide to try to fix the problem by roping the moon to bring back the night, what the Prairie Dog Trio refers to as "trying to fix a mistake with another mistake." They rope the moon alright, but it doesn't bring back the night. Oh, and the [[CheesyMoon moon is blue cheese]], which starts raining down on Nice and Friendly Corners.
240	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E9ElViajeMisteriosoDeNuestroJomer El Misterioso Viaje de Nuestro Jomer]]": As Homer walks towards the horizon in his hallucination, he notices the sun rises when he walks towards it and sets when he walks away from it. He goes back and forth saying "Sunrise, sunset" to amuse himself, until the sun crashes into the horizon and shatters.
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244	* A crowd of thousands on October 13, 1917 in a field outside Fátima, Portugal was reported in the newspapers to have seen the sun behaving strangely. They had gathered because they believed a child prophet who claimed they would see something miraculous. After looking into the sky for some time, observers saw the sun moving all over the place. Witnesses had different experiences, with no two seeing the sun move in the exact same way, and the sun's movement was not observed anywhere else in the world. [[NoodleIncident What exactly happened has never been determined]], with explanations ranging from a real miracle (albeit, not one where the sun really moved, for obvious reasons), to some [[DoingInTheWizard natural phenomenon]] such as a dust cloud or parhelion, to even just power of suggestion. Note: seeing the sun move in the sky after staring at it is a well-known effect of sungazing. Do not stare into the sun without eye protection, and preferably not even then, even during an eclipse.
245	** A similar phenomenon is reported to take place at Medjugorje, which, like Fátima, is another location associated with an apparition of the Virgin Mary.
246	* In 2010 in China, an atmospheric mirage caused the appearance of ''two suns'' in the sky, Tatooine-style. Also ''sundogs'', where a pair of bright reflections appear beside the sun, giving the impression of up to three suns in the sky.
247	* When it was born, our Sun was around 75% as luminous as is today[[note]]It's very probable, however, our eyes if we could see the young Sun would not notice that[[/note]], but far more active with among other things far more flare activity as well as a stronger solar wind. Conversely, in a few billion years when it enters red giant-mode it will become a bloated, distorted star that will strip [[DeathWorld Earth of its atmosphere and oceans as well as melt Earth's surface before absorbing it]].
248	* Under ''just'' the right atmospheric conditions, a wonderous phenomenon occurs wherein the Sun appears to gain multiple nested and/or interlinking [[HolyHalo holy halos]], called a parahelio (the above mentioned phenomenon of sun dogs are a weaker form of this). Words cannot describe the magnificent beauty of it, and [[https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=parahelio&form=HDRSC2&first=1&scenario=ImageHoverTitle it must be seen to be believed]].
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