History Main / GraspTheSun

* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': PlayedForLaughs in "Whatever Happened to Della Duck?!" when Della, stranded on the moon, tries to use the lower gravity to [[LeeroyJenkins jump towards the Earth]], showing how badly she wants to get home. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome This works about as well as you'd expect]], since she can't break the moon's gravitational pull.

* Invoked but avoided, by nature of the "fight", in the final showdown of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlightOfDragons'': when [[BigBad Ommadon]] threatens to rip the sun from the sky above and use it to scorch the land, [[UnfazedEveryman Peter]] [[LogicBomb defeats the spell]] [[ShutUpHannibal by stating as fact]] [[MagicVersusScience that the "sun" he's reaching for is actually an afterimage]].

* In the ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]]'' film , Asuka clutches at the sun while trying to get up [[spoiler:after she gets fragged by mass-produced [=EVAs=], [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome refusing to give up]]...[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill then that arm gets split in half as she is impaled repeatedly]]]]. She is associated with the Sun several other times throughout the series.

* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' (TheMovie), Asuka clutches at the sun while trying to get up [[spoiler:after she gets fragged by mass-produced Evas, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome refusing to give up]]...[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill then that arm gets split in half as she is impaled repeatedly]]]]. She is associated with the Sun several other times throughout the series.

* In ''ComicBook/SupremePower'', Hyperion flies into orbit for the first time as a boy and looks down at Earth. Light from the sun gets in his eyes, and he puts his hand in front of him, over Earth. He pulls his hand back... and then puts it back in front of the world as if to clutch it.
* ComicBook/{{Lucifer}} has an interesting use of this trope. After creating his own cosmos (''not'' simply a dimension within the existing one, but a completely new one totally separate from [[{{God}} his Father's]] Creation,) Lucifer appears to the people he's allowed to move in as a horizon-spanning titan, lays down his one rule (worship nothing, not even him,) and informs them that they'll know if they displease him because the sky will turn black. As he says this he moves his hand behind the sun and grasps it in his palm. It's not totally clear whether this was a vision he induced in the watchers, or if he physically altered himself and his universe to make it literally possible; given his power within his new universe, either might be true. However, even if he literally did it, the symbolism usually applied to the gesture still apples; he is openly challenging God with his own Creation, and despite knowing that his opponent is omnipotent and omniscient, and having been directly told by the ArchangelMichael that God does not consider Lucifer to have moved outside His jurisdiction, Lucifer still continues to defy a power and reach for things that should be well beyond even him.

* In TheStingwr for ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', [[spoiler:The Master of Masters]] looks up to the full moon and holds his hands up to it in the shape of a heart. This visualizes his ambitions for Kingdom Hearts, which takes the physical form of a heart-shaped moon.

** ''Brotherhood'' also has it as a recurring motif in the opening songs. The gesture has particular relevance due to [[spoiler: how Father consumes God - he opens the gate of heavens in the circle created by the moon and the sun's corona during a solar eclipse, climbs into the sky, and absorbs it into himself. In other words, he grabs the sun and moon.]]

* Mayuri Shiina of ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' does this with some frequency. Okabe calls it [[GratuitousEnglish Stardust Shake Hand.]] [[spoiler: He does it himself at the climax of [[HesBack Episode 23.]]]]

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* Part of [[Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger Magishine]] and the [[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Solaris Knight]]'s [[TransformationNameAnnouncement rollcall posing]].

* In the last ''Best Wishes'' series episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Ash does this as he recalls all of his previous traveling companions and thinks ahead to Kalos region.

* Subtle use of this trope in ''Film/Apollo13'': Tom Hanks' character Jim Lovell makes a habit of obliterating the moon by holding his thumb in front of it and closing one eye so it seems to disappear. Later used in an IronicEcho when he does the same trick with the Earth. And in fact, in real life, Lovell was the first astronaut to mention being able to cover the Earth with his thumb.

* See the finale of the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist 2003 anime adaptation]] of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''.

** ''Brotherhood'' also has it as a recurring motif in the opening songs.

* Invoked but avoided, by nature of the "fight", in the final showdown of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlightOfDragons'': when [[BigBad Ommadon]] threatens to [[GraspTheSun rip the sun from the sky above]] and use it to scorch the land, [[UnfazedEveryman Peter]] [[LogicBomb defeats the spell]] [[ShutUpHannibal by stating as fact]] [[MagicVersusScience that the "sun" he's reaching for is actually an afterimage]].

* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', Lockon tries "grabbing" the Earth [[spoiler:while he delivers his FamousLastWords]].