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A flower native to North America that's been transported all over the world where it readily grows in abundance, the sunflower holds a powerful cultural image. Being a beautiful and colorful flower that needs lots of sunlight to be at its brightest, it symbolizes energy and happiness. An endless field of sunflowers is quite a breathtaking view to hold. Sunflower seeds are also highly nutritious, and thus are attractive to small finch-type birds, as well as humans. Even sunflower oil is bright gold, and has its own nutritious uses.

* 'Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': In ''The Adventures of Tintin'', the original French name of Professor Calculus is "Professeur Tournesol", ''tournesol'' being the French name for sunflower. The pun was not lost, as a Fruit D'Or, a famous French producer of sunflower-based products, most notably sunflower oil, [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xw5g3_1979-fruit-dor-professeur-tournesol made ads]] showing Calculus promoting the beneficial effects of said oil for a balanced diet, [[MundaneMadeAwesome so much that it makes him]] ''[[MundaneMadeAwesome fly]]''.

* In ''[[Franchise/{{Tintin}} The Adventures of Tintin]]'', the original French name of Professor Calculus is "Professeur Tournesol", ''tournesol'' being the French name for sunflower. The pun was not lost, as a Fruit D'Or, a famous French producer of sunflower-based products, most notably sunflower oil, [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xw5g3_1979-fruit-dor-professeur-tournesol made ads]] showing Calculus promoting the beneficial effects of said oil for a balanced diet, [[MundaneMadeAwesome so much that it makes him]] ''[[MundaneMadeAwesome fly]]''.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': ComicBook/MilesMorales is a bright, passionate kid full of potential, and throughout the movie, he hums "Sunflower" by Music/PostMalone.

* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'': Hiyoribō has a sunflower motif. She is also a ''yōkai'' with ThePowerOfTheSun who only goes outside in sunny weather, is a [[TheMedic healer-type]] and has a pleasant personality.

* In ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', a short story is dedicated to [[CuteClumsyGirl Tessa]] spending some holidays at a peaceful farm in a remote location of Japan. She lives there some of the most wonderful moments in her life, and in the manga, one of the last shots of the story is herself in the middle of a large sunflower field, smiling happily.

* In the picture book ''The Garden of Happiness'', Marisol finds a seed and plants it in her local community garden. After dutifully watering and caring for it, it grows into a huge sunflower that makes everyone who sees it smile. Sadly, its time comes, and it wilts and dies, leaving Marisol sad. But one day, she looks down the block to see that the teenagers have painted sunflowers all over the brick wall across the street from the garden, filling her with joy once again.

* Pictured above is [[GenkiGirl Yotsuba]] on the first volume's cover of ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'' holding a bunch of sunflowers plucked out of the ground. She later buys sunflowers (and a whole lot more) from Jumbo's flower shop and, as the ''tsukitsukiboushi'' fairy, pulls up another [[ItMakesSenseInContext to use as a magic wand]].

* In the picture book ''The Garden of Happiness'', Marisol finds a seed and plants it in her local community garden, the Garden of Happiness. After dutifully watering and caring for it, it grows into a huge sunflower that makes everyone who sees it smile. Sadly, its time comes, and it wilts and dies, leaving Marisol sad. But one day, she looks down the block to see that the teenagers have painted sunflowers all over the brick wall across the street from the garden, filling her with joy once again.

* In the picture book ''The Garden of Happiness'', Marisol finds a seed and plants it in her local community garden, the Garden of Happiness. After dutifully watering and caring for it, it grows into a huge sunflower that makes everyone who sees it smile. Sadly, its time comes, and it wilts and dies, leaving Marisol sad. But one day, she looks down the block to see that the teenagers have painted sunflowers all over the brick wall across the street from the garden.

* In the picture book ''The Garden of Happiness'', Marisol finds a seed and plants it in her local community garden, the Garden of Happiness. After dutifully watering and caring for it, it grows into a beautiful sunflower that makes everyone who sees it smile. Sadly, its time comes, and it wilts and dies, leaving Marisol sad. But one day, she looks down the block to see that the teenagers have painted beautiful sunflowers all over the brick wall across the street from the garden.

* Subverted in one short story printed in the ''Halloween'' manga magazine. There, the sunflowers turn out to be [[ImAHumanitarian anthropophagous]] and mobile, at the end of the story marching down Main Street and eating people as they go. (And this was not the most preposterous event in the story, either.)

* [[IllGirl Kamio]] [[ReincarnationRomance Misuzu]] from ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'' is associated with sunflowers, especially in the official art. [[spoiler: She gave her very best before she GoOutWithASmile.]]

A flower native to Central America that's been transported all over the world where it readily grows in abundance, the sunflower holds a powerful cultural image. Being a beautiful and colorful flower that needs lots of sunlight to be at its brightest, it symbolizes energy and happiness. An endless field of sunflowers is quite a breathtaking view to hold. Sunflower seeds are also highly nutritious, and thus are attractive to small finch-type birds, as well as humans. Even sunflower oil is bright gold, and has its own nutritious uses.

* ''Anime/DigimonSavers'' sort of plays with this trope - Sunflowmon is the Adult form of Yoshino's partner Lalamon, but Yoshino has a crippling inferiority complex which prevents her from fulfilling this trope. She gets over it, but by then, Lalamon has gained access to a stronger evolved form which isn't sunflower-themed.

* Sunflower is the motif of two ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' heroines, Cure Bloom in ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'' and Cure Sunshine in ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure''.

* Music/TearsForFears: Sunflowers are the FlowerMotif of ''Music/TheSeedsOfLove'', and they're used as the late 1980s equivalent of the 1960s flower power movement.

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* Averted in Myth/ClassicalMythology. Clytie was a maiden who fell in love with Helios, the sun god. He would have nothing to do with her, so she spent all her days sitting outside watching him cross the sky. Eventually, she wasted away and became a sunflower, always turning to watch the sun, and shedding tears (ie dropping seeds) over his rejection. (Different versions of the myth name different heliotropic or sun-following flowers.)

* An aversion: in ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', episodes 9 and 10, "Summer Vacation and Vampire" and "Sunflower and Vampire", the Newspaper club discover a gorgeous beach in the human world overlooked by a huge field of sunflowers. It turns out to be the home of DarkMagicalGirl Ruby, who sees the looming loss to developers as an EndOfAnAge.

A flower native to Central America, the sunflower holds a powerful cultural image. Being a beautiful and colorful flower that needs lots of sunlight to be at its brightest, it symbolizes energy and happiness. An endless field of sunflowers is quite a breathtaking view to hold. Sunflower seeds are also highly nutritious, and thus are attractive to small finch-type birds.

* In one of his more deredere moments, Russia from ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' mentions that he dreams about living in a warm place surrounded by sunflowers. Naturally, {{Fanart}} hardly shows him without them.

* Averted with [[PetalPower Yuuka Kazami]] from ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'', a {{youkai}} of flowers who live in a field of sunflowers and uses them in her attacks. The canon version is a {{Troll}} who loves [[TheGadfly rubbing people the wrong way]]. In fanon there are several popular depictions: [[{{Moe}} youkai moe]], AxCrazy genocider, or the [[{{Sadist}} "Ultimate Sadistic Creature"]] .[[note]]Of course, her colour scheme (green hair, red eyes and dress) implies that while she lives in a field of sunflowers, she's not one herself.[[/note]]

* In ''Film/HaroldAndMaude'', Maude is associated with sunflowers.