Cosmic Motifs

A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

— Florence + the Machine, "Cosmic Love"

Space has fascinated humanity since time immemorial, and continues to feature as a theme or character motif to the present day. Characters and objects are given Cosmic Motifs to evoke the awe-inspiring mystery and nigh-infinite scope of space. Because Space Is Magic, there may also be power and mysticism involved as well.

Common Cosmic Motifs include:

• The Sun: Along with the moon, one of the most prominent and well-known of the heavenly bodies. A fiery ball of gas that has connotations of life, and is the center of The Solar System. See The Power of the Sun for sun-related powers.
• The Moon: Like the sun, similarly prominent in real life and fiction. A calm, melancholy, and mysterious body that reflects light from the sun. See Lunacy for moon-related powers, and Solar and Lunar for when its duality with the Sun is noted.
• The Stars: Fixed, bright points in the night sky. See Star Power for star-related magic. Constellations are common star motifs. Celestial Body or Star-Spangled Spandex might be other visual indicators of stellar motifs.
• Planets: Large, round-ish bodies with their own gravitational fields that orbit stars. Creators usually refer to the familiar planets within The Solar System. See Planetary Tropes.
• Comets: Icy bodies orbiting the sun that become visible when they release gas. Most traditionally used as a Portent of Doom — see Comet of Doom.
• Meteors and meteorites: When not associated with fiery Death from Above, are seen as pretty, romantic events. See Wish Upon a Shooting Star and Cue the Shooting Star for other connotations.
• Black Holes: Formed from collapsed stars, not even light can escape their gravity. See Unrealistic Black Hole for how fiction portrays them.
• Spacecraft: Machines designed to fly in outer space. They bring to mind exploration and scientific progress.

Because many things in space are named for figures in Classical Mythology, this can easily double up with Mythical Motifs and Religious and Mythological Theme Naming. This can also go hand-in-hand with Stellar Name and Zodiac Motifs if the characters are named appropriately. See also Artistic License – Space for when liberties are taken with their attributes.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Asteroid in Love has an astronomy theme, but the star is nearly solely used by Mira, with all her accessories — down to her linens — decorated with stars. This, of course, refers to her hobby, but also indicates her energetic personality.
• Cardcaptor Sakura: The Clow Cards are associated with the sun, moon, and stars.
• Jinzō Konchū Kabuto Borg VxV: The Amanogawa family follows cosmic motifs, with the surname itself meaning "Milky Way". While Ryūsei means "shooting star", Ginga's full name is pronounced the same as "Milky Way Galaxy" in Japanese. Their father, Taiki, only means "great brightness", but his villain alias as Big Bang does follow the pattern.
• Kaguya-sama: Love Is War:
  • Both Shirogane and Hayasaka have a stellar motif, though of different types. Shirogane uses real stars and constellations due to his love of astrology and astronomy, while Hayasaka has more generic star fields. This ties into their respective relationships with Kaguya (who is named after the moon princess from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) since the moon is always accompanied by stars.
  • While far more subtle than her relationship to cats, Kaguya has been compared to the moon on several occasions. Aside from the aforementioned name connection to the moon princess, Papa Shirogane gifted his son the same model of watch that was worn by the Apollo astronauts, saying that it should be worn by someone who's reaching for the moon and Shirogane's birthday present to her after they started dating was a crescent moon necklace). The credits sequence for the second season (which featured symbols representing the most important accessories of the main cast) had her represent by the full moon instead her hair ribbon. The waxing and waning of the moon also fits in well with her being a Mood-Swinger
• Thirteen of My Hero Academia, nicknamed the "Space Hero". Their costume resembles a space suit, they are named for the Apollo 13 mission, and their Quirk (named "Black Hole") gives them "black hole fingers" that can disintegrate matter at the atomic level. Uraraka, who has a gravity-based Quirk, looks up to them and partially patterns her hero identity on space as well.
• The Pactio Cards in Negima! Magister Negi Magi each have a celestial body listed on them, like one of the nine planets or a star like the Sun. While there doesn't appear to be much correlation between the celestial body and the owner of the card, Asuna having Mars on her card does turn out to be Foreshadowing.
• Sailor Moon most prominently has this among the Sailor Senshi — there's one for each planet (including Pluto) and the moon. Some of the supporting cast are also named or themed after objects in space; for example, the cats have moon motifs and lunar-related names.
• Star★Twinkle Pretty Cure has a space theme. The main Pretty Cures are Cure Star, Cure Milky (after the Milky Way), Cure Soleil, Cure Selene (after the sun and moon), and a Cure Cosmo. Their goal is to save the 12 Star Princesses (based around the Western Zodiac) from being captured by the alien Notraiders.
• Tsuki Ni Kakureta Taiyo has Lune, Soleil and Eto, whose respective names are moon, sun and stars in French.
  • Lune has a moon motif and is aptly titled the "Girl on the Moon". She has moon accessories around her, down to her own staff which has a crescent moon on its head, as well as a hair ornament with a moon on it. She is calm and unsmiling for most of the time, at least, which also causes her to unable to see a full moon.
  • Soleil has a sun motif, whose main role is to brighten the outside world, as well as wearing a necklace with a sun pendant on it. But he's a habitual Nervous Wreck who is Prone to Tears, often resulting in the outside world raining and the sky being pitch black.
  • Eto has a star motif who is prone to getting star-struck, with his main job of bringing stars at the night sky. He is also energetic but has bouts of being mean to others.

Art

• North America: Portrait of a Continent: The map's corners where the earth curves outward bare a starry sky displaying select constellations: The Big and Little Dippers grace the northwest corner overlooking Alaska, Cassiopeia sits in the northeast, Orion is in the southwest, and Taurus is in the southeast.

Comic Books

• Northstar and Aurora of Alpha Flight are twins with Stellar Names and Wonder Twin Powers that produce light.
• Legion Of Superheroes: Being futuristic superheroes from various planets, cosmic motifs feature into many of the designs and concepts of its members. Its members included Cosmic Boy (later Polestar), Saturn Girl, Star Boy, Dawnstar, and Sun Boy, all with appropriate space and science fiction powers.
• Wonder Woman:
  • Wonder Woman (1942): Artemis, Huntress and Queen of the Moon, wears a circlet with a crescent on it.
  • Wonder Woman (2006) posits that the stars and red on Diana's costume are meant to evoke the harvest moon in a starry sky partially obscured by an incoming storm, as seen on the night of her birth.
  • Wonder Woman and the Star Riders: In addition to Diana's Star-Spangled Spandex all the other star riders wear a star on their belt, Dolphine has a few stars mixed in with the waves on her costume and Star Lily and Solara's names reflect the motif.
  • Wonder Woman (Rebirth): Star Blossom wears star shaped earrings and a shirt with a large star centered on it as a nod to her being an adaptation of Star Lily.
  • Most of Donna Troy's outfits have stars on them. Her outfit during the New Teen Titans era was red with yellow stars and she later switched to a black number with with stars. She has also been known to wear star-shaped ear rings.

Fairy Tales

• This is a characteristic motif of tale type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children" (or "Three Golden Sons"). In it, the youngest of three sisters of marriageable age promises to bear children of wondrous aspect: they will have the Sun, the Moon and/or stars on their bodies. In other variants, they do not have astral birthmarks, but their names allude to them, like in Greek variants (e.g., Helios, Phengari and Augerinos), or the children are described as "beautiful" as the luminaries:
  • The Boy who had a moon on his forehead and a star on his chin (Bengal, India) - the gardener's daughter promises to have a son with a moon on the forehead and a star on the chin.
  • The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird (Sicily, Italy) - the third sister promises to have two sons with apples on their hands and a daughter with a star on her forehead.
  • Princess Belle-Etoile (France, literary) - Blondine's children (triplets: two boys and a girl) are born with a golden chain around their necks and a star on their fronts.
  • The Boys with the Golden Stars (Romania) - Laptitza, the third sister, promises to have twin sons, each with a golden star on the front.
  • Ancilotto, King of Provino (Italy) - the third sister promises three children with hair of gold, a golden chain around their necks, and each with a star on the forehead.
  • The Three Little Birds (Germany, Grimm) - the firstborn has a red star "with him".
  • The Golden-Haired Children (Turkey) - the third sister promises golden-haired twins, a boy with a half-moon on the front, and a girl with a bright star on the temples.
  • The Listening King (Azores) - the third sister marries the king and gives birth to twin boys with gold stars on their foreheads.
  • The Moon-Child (South Africa) - the second wife gives birth to a son with the mark of a full moon on his breast, just like his father.
  • The Youth and the Maiden with Stars on their Foreheads and Crescents on their Breasts (Albania) - the third sister promises to bear twins, a boy and a girl with stars on the front and crescent moons on their breasts.
  • The Boys with the Golden Stars (Germany) — the third sister wants to marry the count and bear him twin boys with golden stars on their breasts.

Fan Works

• The Night Unfurls:
  • Kyril is associated with the moon. Like the moon, he is a cold, distant, mysterious, and self-reflective person, yet Eostia becomes a less crappy place to live in due to his actions, just like how the moon reflects light under the dark night. Moreover, he wields the Holy Moonlight Sword, provides guidance (guiding moonlight, duh) to his apprentices, and smells like the moon (as in, moon-scented hunter). To mirror the moon's cycling phases, Kyril is somewhere in between the nature of man, beast, and great one.
  • Olga Discordia has an artillery spell that resembles a storm of fiery meteors conjured from the darkened sky above.
  • Star Power invokes a sense of otherness and uncanniness, much like the unfathomable distance of the stars. Only two characters are shown to have the ability to bombard others with starlight, for those who do have delved into Things Man Was Not Meant to Know.
  • In the remastered version, Olga compares her former friend Celestine to the rays of the sun. Revered as the Goddess Reborn, Celestine is known for her warmth and benevolence as The High Queen of Eostia, akin to the celestial body that is worshipped as a deity for bringing light and warmth.
• Oversaturated World has Sailor Orbital, an Affectionate Parody of Sailor Moon, starring Sailors Orbital, Plasma, Meteor, Photon, and Comet.
• Pokémon Crossing uses several space motifs throughout the series, including the subtitle of the main installment. Countless references are made to space, including character motivations and Pokémon nicknames.

Literature

• The Divine Comedy: The dialogue and descriptions of philosopher-saints are all replete with comparisons to constellations and the Sun. Not unusual, since light is associated with philosophy and, well, enlightenment.
• The Dream Rovers trilogy has these motifs in the character names. All of them are celestial bodies associated with night because of the dreaming theme. The names of the Bridgley children are all after stars or constellations: Altair, Leo, Carina, Norma, Maia, Felis, Lyra, and Archer. Altair's dauthers are Diana and Cynthia, names that tie into the moon.
• Dancing nymphs and other fairies are compared to the constellations in the sky in one beautiful passage from The Faerie Queene. Yet it is the mortal woman in the center of their dance who is said to be as much more beautiful than the rest as the Moon is so much more luminous than the stars in the night.
• Princess Bedtime Stories: The book has a clear star motif, with stars being featured on the cover and pages of the book.
• A Song of Ice and Fire:
  • House Martell's sigil is a sun with a spear through it. Their colors are red, gold, and orange, they rule the desert land of Dorne from their seat at Sunspear, and are known for their fieriness and unconventionality.
  • House Dayne, a noble house sworn to House Martell, is associated with stars. Their members (with purple eyes and pale blonde hair) have an ethereal look, their seat is at Starfall, their sigil is a falling star, and their greatsword Dawn is famously Thunderbolt Iron.
  • There's a lot of moon imagery surrounding the Vale, which contains the Mountains of the Moon. It is ruled by House Arryn, whose sigil is a falcon on a moon — appropriate for their words, "As High as Honor". House Royce, a vassal house, holds the Gates of the Moon, one of the mountain clans is named the Moon Brothers, and the Moon Door is a feature of the Arryns' castle.

Live-Action TV

• Kamen Rider:
  • Kamen Rider Meteor from Kamen Rider Fourze is themed after space, orbit and meteors.
  • Kamen Rider Ginga from Kamen Rider Zi-O has his suit being literally themed after the solar system. It also helps that he is voiced by Tomokazu Sugita as an Actor Allusion to his role as the titular Ultraman Ginga.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Numenor is associated with the sun and stars. The sun can be found on the banners, the sailcloth, and armor. Numenor is also known as the Land of the Star for its five-pointed star-shaped island.
• Uchu Sentai Kyuranger: Each team member's costume and mecha is themed around a different constellation: Leo for Red, Scorpio for Orange, Lupus for Blue, Libra for Gold, Taurus for Black, Ophiucus for Silver, Chamaeleon for Green, Aquila for Pink, Dorado for Yellow, Draco for Violet, Ursa Major for Sky Blue, and Phoenix for Soldier.
• Although the Ultra Series generally feature the Ultra Warriors as giants from space (with fewer exceptions), some even take this motif a bit further.
  • Ultraman Cosmos as his name suggest, literally means space. It also borders on the Solar and Lunar as his forms themed and named after them.
  • Ultraman Ginga has his name being a Bilingual Bonus as "Galaxy" in Japanese. His crystals changes color depending on the attacks he plans to use, referring to the multicolors of a galaxy.

Music

• The three final tracks of ETHS's album Ankaa are named "Alnitak," "Alnilam," and "Mintaka," the three stars of Orion's Belt. Ankaa itself is named after the formal name of the star Alpha Phoenicis.
• Gustav Holst's suite The Planets, divided into seven movements (Mars — The Bringer of War, Venus — The Bringer of Peace, Mercury — The Winged Messenger, Jupiter — The Bringer of Jollity, Saturn — The Bringer of Old Age, Uranus — The Magician, Neptune — The Mystic). A very popular and commonly performed piece of Classical Music.
• "The Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha uses the analogy of trying to "reach the unreachable Star" (with echoes of wishing on a star and following the Star of Bethlehem) for the chivalric ideal of striving for perfection even while being aware of your human flaws.
• Sleeping at Last's Atlas collection has a "Space" segment, comprised of several songs themed around both human relationships and the planets.
• Synth V:
  • All of Eclipsed Sounds, LLC vocal synths are themed around space. Solaria is themed around the sun and her design is inspired by sun goddess imagery, Asterian is themed around the moon and is named after Asterion (meaning little star), and Saros is themed around the stars and is named after the period of time between eclipses.
  • Quadimension's Xingchen aka Stardust Infinity has two large hair accessories that resemble stars and another smaller one on her chest.
• This is a core element of the track "Constellation Cradle" from Vylet Pony's Carousel (An Examination of the Shadow, Creekflow...), especially the repeating hook line:
  When you're playing, playing with stars!

Tabletop Games

• Exalted: The Celestial Incarnae, seven powerful gods, are personifications of the five closer planets, the sun, and the moon. The five planetary personifications have duties related to their respective Classical Mythology god.
• Warhammer Fantasy: Fitting its preoccupation with matters of the heavens, the Celestial Order of Imperial wizards uses a comet as its symbol. Its narrow tail and broadening head represent the ever-expanding knowledge of the order, and it points upwards to represent its transcendent ambitions. When a wizard dies, the comet symbols are instead angled downwards in mourning.

Theatre

• "Stars" from Les Misérables is Lawful Neutral Javert's song idealising the stars as embodiments of order, perfection, and knowing one's proper place in creation.

Video Games

• In Ensemble Stars!, a few units have space motifs:
  • Trickstar is based on, naturally, stars — their outfits often feature star shapes, and one of its members has a strong love for anything that glitters.
  • Ryuuseitai literally means 'Meteor Team' and naturally takes its inspiration from meteors. Due to the Japanese term also meaning something similar to 'shooting star', this leads to them also using a lot of star motifs. They also have a generally sci-fi aesthetic, being based on a Sentai team, meaning their outfits often have a Captain Space, Defender of Earth! feel — in the 2018 April Fool's event they were outright Space Opera protagonists.
  • Akatsuki means 'Scarlet Moon'. On a basic level, this represents the unit's Japanese, Autumnal theme, but it also has symbolic meaning: Akatsuki was created simply to reflect the power of fine, which has a heavenly theme and is sometimes associated with the sun. However, in Quarrel Fest they finally overcome this and begin to challenge fine outright, with Keito declaring that Akatsuki now represents a new dawn (as 'Akatsuki' literally can mean dawn in Japanese).
• EXTRAPOWER: Sharkungo, the alien Masked Luchador prince of the Shakun Star, and Star Lore Superstar practitioner of the Star Yui martial art, has a surprising cosmic motif in his design: it's stars. A large star across his chest, a bright yellow start on the front of his mask, and his Star Bit attack has him attack his opponents as a spinning star.
• The Astrologian healers in Final Fantasy XIV have an overall cosmic theme. Their MO is to read the movement of celestial bodies to predict the future and influence it to help their allies. Their offensive spells are based on stars and gravity, and their healing is divided into Diurnal for regenerative healing and Nocturnal for shielding. Their signature armor sets are also often decorated with stars and moons.
• League of Legends and Legends of Runeterra: The Mount Targon region, with a direct connection to the Celestial Realm through the sacred mountain, has this as one of its main hats. While Stars are the primary motif of Targon in general, there are other motifs present as well:
  • Sun: Leona, the Solari.
  • Moon: Diana, Aphelios, the Lunari.
  • Stars (above and beyond Targon’s overall star motifs): Aurelion Sol, Soraka, Pantheon (in lore).
  • Comets: Aurelion Sol, Pantheon (in-game).
  • Twilight (between day and night): Zoe.
  • Other motifs, like supernovas, meteors, and even black holes appear in the semi-randomly generated Celestial cards in Legends of Runeterra.
  • League’s skins include the Cosmic and Dark Star skins—the former being astral beings of stars, and the other being themed on black holes (and the rare Dark Cosmic skins, being what happens when a Cosmic is consumed by the Dark Star, have themes of both). The Cosmic skins reprised their role as the Celestial trait in the spinoff mode Teamfight Tactics (granting healing on all damage dealt), with Dark Stars being combined with the Dark Cosmics and featured as their own Dark Star trait (with Dark Stars getting stronger as their allies fell in combat.)
• Mario Party 3: Stars. We have the Millennium Star, the select files are chests with a starry pattern, the three game modes look like stars, the character select screen is essentially a large star elevator, and in Story Mode, the player needs to get seven star-shaped stamps.
• The Stardroids of Mega Man V, aliens named after planets.
• Path of Exile: The Reality Warper known as The Shaper is associated with this motif. His attacks resemble black holes and he summons minions that look like living clusters of stars. Maps on the Atlas of Worlds and items affected by The Shaper's influence also have a starry space background. His lair resembles a patchwork of parchment floating in the void of space.
• Pokémon:
  • Many Pokemon are have space motifs or otherwise have extraterrestrial origins. For example, The Clefairy line is starshaped, gather Moon Stones, and dance around on full moons and nights where there are meteor showers.
  • Pokémon Sun and Moon, unsurprisingly. The main legendaries, Solgaleo and Lunala, are a Night and Day Duo (with the former having a sun motif and the latter having a moon motif) that evolve from Cosmog/Cosmoem, which are based on molecular clouds (where stars are formed). The games also introduce Minior, which is a Pokemon based on meteorites. During meteor showers, they break out of their shells when they fall to the ground before rising back up into the sky.
  • Pokémon Diamond and Pearl: Team Galactic, who are messing around with the Legendary Pokemon of spacetime and want to restart the world, have a space theme. Their grunts are dressed in Latex Space Suits, their boss Cyrus is named for the sun^note from the Persian "kuros", and their lieutenants also have Stellar Names.
  • Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire introduced the Pokemon Lunatone and Solrock, two Rock/Psychic types that gain power when exposed to the light of their respective heavenly bodies. Lunatone in particular is mentioned being discovered in a meteor crater, and can cause either paralyzing fear or deep slumber via eye contact.
• Sunless Sea (and to some extent its prequel Fallen London) contains many motifs of Cosmic Horror, and among them is ascribing mythical powers to the stars, which are seen as gods (and might very well be). Our Sun has a strange relationship with those living in the Neath — drawing them back to the surface with a powerful yearning, but also capable of quickly destroying their minds from exposure to it. Furthermore, a faction of the Admiralty has split off after successfully creating a small artificial star, the Dawn Machine, on the south-western coast of the Neath, whose godlike power is apparently substantial enough to allow them to eventually rule the entire Neath.

Web Original

• "Earth-chan," a Moe Anthropomorphism of the Planet Earth, which also spawned anthropomorphisms of other cosmic bodies.
• Empires SMP Season 2: Gem's empire, Dawn, is themed around the Sun and is evidently named for it.

Western Animation

• Avatar: The Last Airbender: In addition to the obvious, Waterbenders are associated with the moon in general (due to the push and pull of the tides) but none more than Princess Yue. A nonbender, she was healed by the Moon Spirit Tui by getting some of its power when she fell ill as a child, and since then has had Mystical White Hair to match. Her name means "moon" in Mandarin as well. When Tui is killed, Yue becomes the new moon spirit.
• BoJack Horseman: A galaxy visual recurs in the later seasons, which serves a twofold motif: a reminder of Sarah Lynn's death at the planetarium due to the bender she and BoJack took, as he blames herself for her downward spiral and a general symbol for loneliness and oblivion.
• Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: Stars, particularly Kipo's astrological sign, Aries. This also ties in neatly with her love of astronomy.
• The Owl House:
  • As the series has progressed, Amity Blight has developed a rather strong association with the Moon, specifically a Crescent Moon. In "Enchanting Grom Fright", she and Luz share a romantic dance together with the Moon being extremely prominent in the background. In "Through the Looking Glass Ruins", Amity's casual clothes feature crescents on her shoes, and a necklace that resembles a crescent. This is likely due to her association with Hecate of The Good Witch Azura, as in "Thanks to Them", Amity suggests that she and Luz wear a couples costume with Amity as Hecate. While wearing the costume, Amity has more crescents on her than ever before.
  • Much like her girlfriend Amity's association with the Moon, Luz Noceda has an association with Stars due to her connection with Azura. The event that causes Luz to discover the Ice Glyph was looking up at a constellation of stars in the shape of the Light Glyph, which causes her to look to the snow for more possible signs of magic. In the majority of major moments in Luz and Amity's romance, there are stars visible in the sky due to the events taking place in the evening or at night. Additionally, when Luz is lamenting her situation in "Thanks to Them", she reaches towards a star ornament hanging from the ceiling of her room. Many of her outfits in the episode, including her Azura costume feature stars on them, and in "For the Future", when Luz's Palisman Stringbean finally awakens, the sky in the background is filled with the Collector's bizarre stars, as well as Stringbean herself featuring brilliant, star like sparkles when she first awakens resembling a starry night sky.
  • The Collector wears a cloak covered in patterns of crescent moons, stars, and heraldic suns, and their face with their hood drawn is disguised with what initially appears to be a crescent moon, but is really a sliver of sun being blocked by a moon during an eclipse. The barrier he creates to contain the Owl Beast is even covered in twinkling stars. His followers, the Titan Trappers, share this motif and have suns, moons, and stars tattooed on their bodies. Belos's vision of the Day of Unity he shows to the nine coven heads in "Hunting Palismen" shows the eclipse that matches the symbol in their hooded form over the Titan's skull. Belos later confirms in "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" that the Day of Unity which will free them will start with an eclipse. The reason for this, is that the Draining Spell that the Collector gave to Belos draws power from the Eclipse. When they are released in "King's Tide", their clothes consist of a 50/50 style set of Pajamas with alternating Suns and Moons on them, and what appear to be stars on his hood. Even their true face gives the impression of an eclipse, with one half being orange like the Sun, the other being blue, like a Moon. Also, characters and environments that fall victim to his magic tend to end up covered in various moon, star, and sun patterns.
• Ready Jet Go!:
  • Fitting with the show's astronomy theme, the main characters are all associated with Earth's moon.
    • Jet's first mission with the Super Saucer is to go to Earth's moon, where he and Sunspot build a mini-golf course.
    • Sean idolizes Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon.
    • In "Earth Mission to Moon", Sydney becomes the first girl on the moon, plus her shirt is silver like the moon.
    • In "Mindy Turns Five", the first place Mindy goes to when she goes to space for the first time is the moon.
    • Carrot and Celery have a love song called "Let's Fly Our Little Saucer to the Moon".
  • Sean tends to be associated with Mars, since he really wants to lead the first human mission to that planet. It also serves to represent his youth, masculinity, and passion for knowledge.
  • Mindy is associated with meteors and meteorites. She found a meteorite in "Mindy's Meteorite Stand" and she has witnessed meteor showers twice, in "Mindy in Space" and "Jet's Time Machine".
  • Sunspot is associated with Earth's sun, obviously. The sunspots on the sun affect his behavior.
• In Star vs. the Forces of Evil, the Butterfly Family often names their daughters after celestial bodies, such as Comet, Moon, Star, and Eclipsa. Their access to the Royal Magic Wand gives them exclusive control over magic and their names are often indicative of stages of Mewni's history, as Solaria is revered as a hero who expanded Mewni to its farthest extents while Eclipsa is reviled as the Queen of Darkness who married a monster.
• Steven Universe:
  • The Crystal Gems all have a star-motif to them. From Steven and Rose's sparkly eyes to the fact that each of their uniforms incorporates a star into the pattern. The Gems all hail from space so the stars fit right in with their designs. When Lapis and Peridot reform their bodies in season 5 both drop the diamond motifs on their clothes for star ones; Peridot even adopts pointy shades, which combined with her triangular hair gives her a star silhouette.
  • The Zircons both revolve around celestial designs. The Defense Zircon incorporates a moon (with her hair styled like a crescent moon and her blue color scheme) while the Prosecution Zircon incorporates a star (with her hair spiked and her yellow color scheme). Notably, this makes the Prosecution Zircon one of the only villainous characters with a star motif; which the show normally gives to the heroes.

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