History Main / WintryAuroralSky

*** The Snowball Summit minigame in ''Mario Party 3'', which returns in both ''The Top 100'' and ''Superstars'', takes place on a snowy mountaintop, underneath an aurora-laden night sky. The auroras change color during the course of the game.

* There are the green and purple hues of the Northern Lights in several of the night-time scenes in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''. The first scene shows men harvesting ice while singing about its power and ends with a shot of the lights, which is used as a transition to a scene where little Anna wakes Elsa up, not being able to sleep due to them. That in turn sets up a scene where the two decide to play together with Elsa's ice magic. Later, the lights appear in a scene while Anna's starting to freeze to death.

* The Aurora Borealis is rather promenient in Myth/InuitMythology. Here, it is invisioned as the spirits of the ancestors dancing in the sky.
* By contrast, the Aurora Australis is an extremely negative symbol in Southeast Australian [[Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths Aboriginal]] traditions, where it is invisioned as a wildfire taking place in the sky.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': The frigid Hebra region in the northwest of the map is usually shrouded in a blizzard that reduces visibility, but occasionally the storm will clear. When this happens at night an aurora is visible. There are equally northern regions (Death Mountain and Akkala) that aren't as cold, and so don't have an aurora.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': The frigid Hebra region in the northwest of the map is usually shrouded in a blizzard that reduces visibility, but occasionally the storm will clear. When this happens at night an aurora is visible. There are equally northern regions (Death Mountain and Akkala) that aren't as cold, and so don't have an aurora.

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In episode 1 of ''Pleasant Goat Fun Class: Travel Around the World'', a ChristmasEpisode, the gang rides in Santa's sleigh when they meet him in Finland, and Santa explains the Northern Lights to them as they see them during the ride.

** The Snowball Summit minigame in ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'' takes place on a snowy mountaintop, underneath an aurora-laden night sky. The auroras change color during the course of the game.

* The northern lights form the backdrop for many scenes in WesternAnimation/BrotherBear, and later become a plot point.

* There are the green and purple hues of the Northern Lights in several of the nighttime scenes in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''. The first scene shows men harvesting ice while singing about its power and ends with a shot of the lights, which is used as a transition to a scene where little Anna wakes Elsa up, not being able to sleep due to them. That in turn sets up a scene where the two decide to play together with Elsa's ice magic. Later, the lights appear in a scene while Anna's starting to freeze to death.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** The Northern Lights also appear in ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII''
-->'''Little Anna:''' The sky's awake. So I'm awake. So we have to ''play''.

* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': In both ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingCityFolk City Folk]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewLeaf New Leaf]]'', auroras can appears several times during the cold winters, even though if the summer is to be believed, the town's climate is ''nowhere'' near polar.

* In ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'', the Lake Zone has an aurora in the shape of a bar code as part of its AlienSky. The wintry part comes in when the local Bagra Army goons start hurling ice everywhere, ultimately freezing about half of the normally temperate landscape solid.

** The ''Double Dash!!'' racetrack Sherbet Land has been given, among many other visual improvements, a nightime aurora-laced sky in its ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'' appearance. Ironically, Ice Ice Outpost, which does take place in a polar environment, has no auroras in its sky since the race takes place during daytime.
** Most levels in the [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Frosted Glacier]] in ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU'' feature exquisite, multicolored northern lights in their nighty skies. Granted, the Frosted Glacier is one of the northernmost locations on the map, but it is on the same longitude than [[ShiftingSandLand Layer-Cake Desert]] and Peach's Castle, and therefore most certainly not polar. Videogame geography at its best.

* The Summit stage, which is the Ice Climbers' home stage in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros: Brawl]]'', is (at the start of the fight at least) located on top of a frozen moutain bathed in the shimmering lights of auroras borealis.

''Aurora borealis''? [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons At this time of year, at this time of the day, in this part of the TV Tropes Wiki, localized entirely on this page?!]]

** Gomamon's evolution to Ikkakumon features an aurora, fitting for a walrus Digimon associated with ice.

* In ''Literature/HokuouKizokuToMoukinzumaNoYukiguniKarigurashi'', Ritzhardt lives the arctic territory of Revontulet, which is named after the [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/revontulet aurora borealis]]. As a result, the aurora borealis itself makes an appearance at least twice; the first is a part of his internal musing on what his people and his land are like, in reference to the "boundless sky". The second is when Ritzhardt brings Sieglinde with him to Revontulet itself, since the aurora reveals itself just before they arrive at Ritzhardt's home. Each time, the manga [[Scenery Porn dedicates a whole page to the skies above]].

* ''Film/LocalHero'': While in Northern Scotland, the visiting American characters at one point get to see the aurora, which they are amazed by.

* In ''Literature/HokuouKizokuToMoukinzumaNoYukiguniKarigurashi'', the main character lives in a territory named for the aurora borealis that's near or within the arctic circle. As a result, the aurora borealis itself makes an appearance at least twice.

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': The first episode has the kids spot an aurora in the sky. They note this as being bizarre since not only is it Summer, they are nowhere near the high latitude needed for an aurora to occur. It's a product of the Digital World interfering with the real world. Then, the Digivices come out of the aurora.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' often features these in clear night skies. You can even [[WeatherManipulation induce them]] if you know the right [[MakeMeWannaShout Thu'um]] for it.