History Main / TheWorldIsJustAwesome

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' when Hiccup takes to the air with Toothless for the first time in a sustained flight, and then Astrid as she learns just how awesome the world is and what Hiccup and Toothless can do.

*** Climb to the top of the Throat of the World. Look to the east. ''You can see all the way to Morrowind.'' To the west, Hammerfell and High Rock, and Cyrodiil to the south. Throw in the ''Clear Skies'' [[MakeMeWannaShout Shout]] and gape in awe.

* ''RickStevesEurope'': Rick host a show with tourism as a primary focus. During each episode, he'll point out different things he thinks you can enjoy or be amazed by, including: architecture, artwork, restaurants, locals as people that can become new friends....

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E70AGameOfPool "A Game of Pool"]], the ghost of Fats Brown laments that his opponent is [[SeriousBusiness completely devoted to pool]] and doesn't have a life outside of it. As he points out: he might have trained to be the best but he took the time to live!!!

* Said about Duke Devlin by Yugi himself in ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''.
* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' version of World's Strongest has [[BrainInAJar Doctor Wheelo]] ([[AdaptationalHeroism who isn't evil in this version]]) flying into low orbit after spending fifty years trapped in his icy prison and is brought to tears by fact that [[TearJerker he'll never be able to see the planet's beauty with his own eyes ever again]].

* While about to pull a DeathFromAbove in the second book of ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', Harry takes a moment to just marvel at the view from the upper atmosphere.

* The ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' fanfic "Heaven's Conscripts" opens with Rico sitting halfway up a cliff, looking out over the Italian Dolomites. She assumes that she's looking at the Heaven that she's always been told about.
* In ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'', experienced briefly by John as he looks out of his 10th-floor hotel window at the city of Tevri'ed spread out below. The city is so much different than anything he's seen before on C'hou, and so interesting, that he feels thrilled and excited to be back on the planet. Sadly, [[spoiler: it isn't long before he discovers what a CrapsaccharineWorld C'hou has become.]]

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': In "The Spaceship," the aliens show their appreciation to Rhino by placing him on the dashboard of their craft and circling the earth and the moon twice in their flying saucer, giving the hamster an impressive bird's-eye view of both heavenly bodies.
-->''After a brief stop in a neighboring field to beam aboard an especially promising-looking scarecrow (as well as leaving a perfectly symmetric crop circle calling card behind), Cloyd picked up the little rodent and placed him at the front edge of the spaceship’s dashboard. Rhino stood transfixed as the flying saucer circled the moon and the earth twice each, providing a stunning view of the two heavenly bodies from an ideal vantage point. Snow-capped mountains, heaving oceans, glittering deserts, waving grasslands, yawning craters, stony lunar plains -- the wonders of the world and its satellite were Rhino’s to savor and enjoy.''
* In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'', Cross has this reaction from time to time, such as when entering the Grand Line.

The TropeNamer is the Creator/DiscoveryChannel, which occasionally uses the titular phrase as a tagline.

* As stated above, the Creator/DiscoveryChannel's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0 "I Love the World"]] campaign is the TropeNamer. It starts with two astronauts talking about how awesome the world is before they start singing and it transitioning into everyone else singing about what they love.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers'', the characters have this moment many times - in the lake with the Volbeat and Illumise, seeing the sunrise after coming back from the dark, at the top of Sky Peak, etc.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{X}} X3 Terran Conflict]]''- The opening scene features a quote from Neil Armstrong (see Real Life examples below).
* ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 3}}'' has two, both dealing with traveling through the air. The first time, the party runs up a mountain, then sleds down it inside a fridge to fly through the air and back to their town. The second time, similarly, consists of the party traveling via a bird-powered... err, bird cage.
** And in ''VideoGame/Earthbound1994'', Jeff (or the whole party) will travel the world via the Flying Machine, swooping down over nearby places.
** This trope is the very symbol of Mother series.

* This occurs when Max first sees the outside world in ''VideoGame/DarkCloud 2''.
* The teleportation scene in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', which gave hint of just where the adventure was going to take as well.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''

* Approaching Citadel for the first time in ''Franchise/MassEffect''.
** Also, in ''Mass Effect 3''. [[spoiler:Should one use the final Renegade options The Illusive Man's last sight and words regarding the view of Earth are enough to make even players who hated Cerberus from the beginning shed tears.]]
** ''Franchise/MassEffect'' is an entire series full of this, many of the visitable planets and space stations have not only beautiful views within them, but also spectacular intro and outro cutscenes to each as we see the Normandy flying to and away from the location.
** In the ''Overlord'' DLC of ''Mass Effect 2'' driving out of Vulcan Station in the Hammerhead reveals a cliff beyond which is a broad valley, absolutely stunning mountains in the distance with gorgeous waterfalls, and large flying creatures lazily flapping by. The Hammerheads's VI will even helpfully point out the aesthetically pleasing scenery.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'', being all about exploring and settling a new galaxy, takes it to the franchise's stunning extreme. No matter where the ''Tempest'' makes planetfall, be it desert, glacier or jungle - once you've brought the respective world's Remnant Vault back online, everything that follows is pure unadulterated SceneryPorn. Your squad mates, even the most indifferent ones, are well aware of it and will often comment on how awesomely beautiful their new home is (as long as no ScaryDogmaticAliens are shooting at them). How your PlayerCharacter reacts depends on how you play them; primarily choosing the emotional dialogue options will net you a Ryder who lives and breathes this trope all day long. The game's next-gen graphics really shine here, and nobody would blame you for taking a break from pathfinding, climbing to the map's highest point and just marvelling at the sight.

--->"''Love, liberty, and time: once so disposable, are the fuels that drive me forward. And love, most especially, mio caro. For you, our children, our brothers and sisters. And for the vast and wonderful world that gave us life, and keeps us guessing.''"

---> '''Misthios''': [[BlasphemousBoast The gods can keep Olympos]]. This is the best view in all of Greece.

** ''VideoGame/HaloReach:'' Try flying around Forge World in a Hawk. You'll get this effect.
** The series's greatest example was probably the second mission of the [[VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved first game]], simply titled "Halo." To walk out of your ship, witness the natural landscape, and see the horizon curve up into the sky...

* ''VideoGame/AceCombat'': "Hey Cipher, you hear me? Just look at the view. There's not much difference between those countries from up here."
** The fact is that a great majority of the series displays incredibly breathtaking views of the Earth from the sky.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''; the PC emerges from Vault 101 and is at first blinded by the sunlight after spending their entire life underground, but then their eyes gradually adjust and the Capital Wasteland comes into full view. Lampshaded by the sign placed right before the player, reading "SCENIC VIEW."
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''. When you walk out of Doc Mitchell's house, you're briefly blinded before the Mojave and the town of Goodsprings fades into view. As the game is a lot more colorful than the RealIsBrown previous game, it's really very beautiful.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout4''. Find a nice high spot on a clear night around the center of the map (the towers of the Corvega factory work well). The lights from the various settlements, including the glow of Diamond City, the starlit sky, and the waves on the ocean ocean are gorgeous. And to the south you can see a small patch of light glowing in the sky like a miniature aurora that's also beautiful. Of course that last one is the radioactive glow of the [[DeathWorld Glowing Sea]] where ''everything'' will try and kill you, including just standing there, but it does look pretty from a distance.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''. The first time you cross the Skyarrow Bridge into Castelia City. It's absolutely beautiful.
** It even comes with an awesome, catchy background song and frequent camera pullbacks so you can get a full view of the bridge. If you're crossing it at night, the lit up skyline of Castelia City is pretty awesome-looking, too.

* The ''Xenoblade Chronicles'' series usually gives this moment the first time the player enters the game's first truly large area ([[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1 Gaur Plains]], [[VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX Primordia]], and [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2 Gormott]]).

* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, a Pidgey dreams of flying into space. He does, and tells Meowth how beautiful the Earth is, before he can't fly any higher and descends.
** ''Sun and Moon'' has a lot of stunning views of Alola. The way the saga is framed helps Ash to form a real emotional connection to the region.

See also SceneryPorn and SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome (may indeed be considered the cinematographer/animator/special effects crew's SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome). Can make someone realize they have something WorthLivingFor. It has absolutely [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant nothing to do with]] how cool [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Dio Brando's Stand]] is.

* Being about stellar exploration, ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}'' is bound to invoke these--especially when hovering in orbit above a planet, especially one that's part of a ''huge'' planetary system with many moons in the background. There's also the song [[https://youtu.be/a9qVyJPCQpI "Vast, Immortal Suns"]] on the soundtrack, which is more or less the musical personification of this trope.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=date&id=939 Ariel visits the surface for the first time.]]
** Also when she sees Chel'El'Sussoloth in its full glory for the first time.

** [[SceneryPorn Numerous other examples]] on a lesser scale, most notably on the first sighting of the Western Air Temple.

* Fry in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. One time they went to the moon (Faster than Fry could do a countdown for liftoff). Of course Fry loved it and Leela was thinking, 'it's just the moon, we travel to other planets all the time in the year 3000'. But by the end of the episode, [[DefrostingIceQueen Leela begins to understand how amazing the universe she lives in is to someone from the past]].

* In the various ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' cartoons, many Cybertronians (like [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Seaspray]], [[Anime/TransformersEnergon Inferno]], [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Prowl]], and even some versions of [[Anime/TransformersArmada Starscream]]) express this feeling when they take in the Earth's natural beauty.
** In ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots Rescue Bots]]'', Boulder is the most fascinated with Earth's natural beauty, with Blades coming a close second.

** Neil Armstrong, similarly, said: "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."
*** Armstrong's own words, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind", brought Creator/WalterCronkite to tears of joy and wonder.

* Monarch butterflies. If you ever see them migrating through the changing trees of an autumn forest, consider yourself lucky.
** To elaborate, every year Monarch butterflies hatch and mature in Canada during the late summer. When autumn comes, they all migrate from there all the way to a single forest in Mexico. For an insect that can fit in the palm of your hand, this is a massive distance, how they manage to know where they're going is still a mystery, but the way there is also fraught with peril: predators, pollution and weather are all major threats. Once they get to that special forest, the trees are practically covered in butterflies that all somehow made this journey. Even more remarkable, it takes three generations of Monarchs to migrate all the way back to Canada for the summer, but a single generation to make the trip to Mexico.

* Anyone who has ever climbed a mountain will know exactly how amazing that the world can be. To think that millions of years of pressure have been pushing small, insignificant pieces of rock together, moving so slowly it can't even be seen, until one day, you look at it, and the result is a range of mountains that can cover entire expanses of countries, and literally pierce the clouds, makes a person really appreciate just how ''powerful'' and how magnificently ''old'' our planet is.
** The view from Pike's Peak inspired Katharine Lee Bates to write a poem, which was later set to music as "America the Beautiful".
** Likewise, going in the opposite direction, caves. In particular, [[http://www.jdonohue.com/parks/photo/mediumSize/CarlsbadCaverns.jpg Carlsbad]] [[http://www.worldbestspot.com/Spotimage/cavernas%20carlsbad.jpg Caverns.]] Drip by drip, over millions of years, the magnificent structures of this cave were built. In pictures, it's difficult to adequately show the scale and sheer majesty of the caves and its chambers. One of the most famous structures is the [[http://www.nps.gov/cave/photosmultimedia/upload/br_roa_jones.jpg Rock of Ages,]] housed in the adequately named "Big Room," which is one of the largest cave chambers in the world, with a floor size of over 350,000 square feet.

** Just the sheer fact of their existence--these are rocks that have stood that way (notwithstanding one or two fallen ones), for ''thousands and thousands of years.''

** Just wait until ''[[http://crazyhorsememorial.org/ Crazy Horse]]'' is completed.

* The closing ceremony of the UsefulNotes/OlympicGames. Seeing all the people of the world come out together as one, united by the spirit of the Olympics, is always pretty awesome.
** Possibly the only event to top it was the major television networks' [[http://web.kitsapsun.com/archive/1999/12-30/0098_stay_home_and_see_the_world__and_.html global coverage]] (especially [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_2000_Today ABC's 24-hour spectacular]]) of the [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-11/25/099r-112599-idx.html New Year's Eve celebrations]] on the night of December 31st, 1999. Every time zone, every major city, and every outpost of humanity from isolated Pacific islands to ''Antarctica'' got in on the festivities that rung in the year 2000, burning through more fireworks in one day than have probably been manufactured on Earth in all the years since.

** Likewise, "living fossils", species of animals that have existed for millions of years largly unchanged from their ancestors' fossil remains. (the coelacanth being a popular example)

** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In the episode "Q Who", Picard berates Q for putting his ship and crew in danger by flinging them unprepared into the Delta Quadrant where they had a first encounter with the Borg which cost the lives of 18 crewmembers, Q's response is a darker take on the trope:
-->'''Q''': If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. [[DareToBeBadass But it's not for the timid.]]

-->'''Pike''': Do Vulcans... ever feel awe, Spock?\\
'''Spock''': They do, Captain... but they tend to keep it to themselves.

By looking at the characters’ expressions, you can tell that even ''they'' are impressed, so think how you should feel sitting there, watching/reading/playing this on your boring old earth. Expect comments like, "Amazing!" "Awesome!" "I can't believe it!" Also expect some lesser-awesome things to happen in the distance, like a sea serpent jumping out of the ocean, or a pack of dragon-wolves flying in the distance, or maybe a volcano erupting. In fact, all of the above will usually happen at the exact same time to make the world even more awesome. That, however, is mostly an introductory bonus, as the rest of the world will become "dull and boring" as the cast is WalkingTheEarth. All of these slightly-awesome happenings will happen only on and off at most and at specific moments.

* ''LightNovel/FateZero'': Irisviel and Saber fly in a plane from Germany to Japan. Irisviel, who had lived in her isolated castle for all of her life, is naturally amazed by the experience. She is disappointed to find that Saber, even though she is from the Middle Ages, is not really affected.

* ''LightNovel/JigokuNoGoukaDeYakaReTsuzuketaShounen'': Having never left the confines of his village until now, Flare is eager to learn about the world he lives in. Arriving in a bustling city for the first time has him in awe like a kid in a candy store, and he can't wait to learn what an ocean is. Flare is also happy to eat bread from a local bakery and likes it so much that he has no problems eating it off the floor.

* In episode 3 of ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'' when Shiroe's party finally emerge from Palm's Deep, they are greeted with the sight of a beautiful sunrise and Shiroe remarked on how wonderful the view is.