History Main / PanUpToTheSkyEnding

* Both ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' and ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'' end with a long pan across the blue sky (and eventually into space).

Compare GraspTheSun, FlyawayShot and FlyAtTheCameraEnding. Contrast EndingByAscending, when a character does this instead of the camera, and PanFromTheSkyBeginning.

** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'': After the group defeats Arabia Fats, the camera pans up to the night sky as they make way to their next destination.

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza 3}}'' ends with a quick pan to the sky after Kiryu is stabbed by Hamazaki and bleeds out in the streets of Kamurocho. Fortunately, TheStinger shows he survived.

!!As an EndingTrope, there are [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.

* Several endings of ''{{VisualNovel/Tsukihime}}'' contain this (Akiha True, Hisui True, and Hisui Good, possibly others), as well as the Epilogue.

* The nighttime version of this is the final shot of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'''s ending.

* The true ending of ''VisualNovel/DateWarp''

* The final episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' did this after a shot of TheBigDamnKiss between [[OfficialCouple Aang and Katara]].

* In the ending of ''Anime/YourName'', the scene pans up to a blue sky with bright clouds right after [[spoiler:Taki and Mitsuha finally find each other again, break into TearsOfJoy and asking each other's name 5 years (8 for Mitsuha) after the comet flew by and both of them forgot about each other.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', like ''Spirit'', begins with an inversion, staring on a shot of the Evening Star, then panning down to the streets of New Orleans; the end plays it straight, panning up from Tiana and Naveen dancing to the Evening Star [[spoiler: and Ray the firefly, now a star himself]] in the night sky.

* Creator/SergeyLukyanenko's ''Literature/SeekersOfTheSky'' duology ends with the protagonist Ilmar looking up while atop Tel Megiddo, [[spoiler:having just refused to follow Marcus as one of his apostles, claiming that Marcus is not second coming of TheMessiah and believing that, as before, there must be one dissenter]].

* The CutScene animation created for the PS version of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' does this twice in the perfect ending--once after Chrono and Marle's wedding when she [[BouquetToss throws the bouquet]], and again after Lucca [[DoorstopBaby finds baby Kid]] ([[spoiler:Schala's clone]] from ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'').
** ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' itself also has this in its perfect ending--after you [[spoiler:free Schala from the Time Devourer]] and the two worlds are reunited and restored, but before the end credits roll, Serge ends up back on Opassa Beach with Leena right when he passed out [[BookEnds at the start of the game]], and as he's asking about things he wasn't supposed to remember from his adventures, you get the pan.
* ''VideoGame/ShantaeRiskysRevenge'' ends with a long pan up to the blue sky after [[spoiler:the mayor reinstates her as the Guardian of Scuttle Town]] and her friends promise to help her get accustomed to her new life [[spoiler:[[BroughtDownToNormal as a human]]]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza 3}}'' ends with a quick pan to the sky [[spoiler: after Kiryu is stabbed by Hamazaki and bleeds out in the streets of Kamurocho. Fortunately, TheStinger shows he survived]].

** The final episode of the sequel series ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has a pan up to the sky directly over the new Spirit Portal after the final scene of [[spoiler: Korra and Asami becoming a couple.]]

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' does this for its finale. Right before the pan up, protagonist Spike collapses from gunshot wounds. It's ambiguously either a BittersweetEnding or a straight up DownerEnding.

* The anime ''Anime/DeathNote'' ends with panning up to a night sky and crescent moon.

* Most ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episodes end this way.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', like ''Spirit'', begins with an inversion, staring on a shot of the Evening Star, then panning down to the streets of New Orleans; the end plays it straight, panning up from Tiana and Naveen dancing to the Evening Star [[spoiler: and Ray the firefly, now a star himself]] in the night sky.

* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch2StitchHasAGlitch'' ends this way with a starry night sky, while a star twinkles to prove Lilo's mother would be proud of her.
* In ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', the camera pans up from the [[DoorClosesEnding closed door]] to the sky, giving us a "Continue?" and countdown, evoking arcade games. At zero, the credits begin.
* Most of the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films end this way.

* ''Film/TheNativityStory'' ends with the sun and clouds on a bright day.

* ''Film/YouveGotMail'' pans up to a bright, clear sky at the end.

* ''Film/BalladOfASoldier'', which establishes [[DownerBeginning in the opening scene]] that the young soldier protagonist will be killed in combat at some point after the movie's time frame, pans up to the sky at the end as the voiceover muses that he could have done many things with his life if he'd lived, but in the end will be remembered as a Russian soldier.
* The final scene of ''Film/BattleOfBritain'' shows the sky over England, which has a few clouds in it, but after months of struggle against the Luftwaffe, finally has no German planes.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': The very last shot of the movie pans up from Miguel to a shot of the banner from the beginning framed against fireworks lighting up the sky.

* The 1972 Creator/{{CBS}}[=/=]Creator/DepatieFrelengEnterprises adaptation of ''Literature/TheLorax'' ends with the camera panning up from the Once-ler's house to [[RayOfHopeEnding a clearing in the smoggy skies]].

-->-- '''Kyon''', ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina: Episode 00"

* This was one of many tropes mocked by ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' episode 00, with Kyon sarcastically commenting on the frequent panning up towards the sky.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' ends with a pan up to the blue sky, [[BookEnds calling back]] to [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory the first movie]]'s opening with a shot of the sky, with clouds that look like those on the wallpaper in Andy's room.

* The final scene of ''Film/TheBattleOfBritain'' shows the sky over England, which has a few clouds in it, but after months of struggle against the Luftwaffe, finally has no German planes.

* A bittersweet ending to ''Film/TheBarbarianInvasions,'' as the protagonist dies: the camera pans up to the silhouette of tall trees against a bright sky.
* How ''Film/IntoTheWoods'' ends.

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