"Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up."
A list of tropes concerning clouds and the sky, and the things found in the sky and clouds.
Compare Underwater Index and Subterranean Index.
Tropes:
Related:
- Airborne Aircraft Carrier: This aircraft carrier can take flight itself.
- Airborne Artillery: A flying unit's attack outranges all Anti-Air in the setting.
- Alien Sky: An unusual-looking sky used to denote a planet as not Earth.
- Arduous Descent to Terra Firma: When descending to Gaia's safe, vigorous carapace is an ordeal in and of itself.
- Bat Signal: Projecting a symbol into the sky to summon a Superhero.
- Came from the Sky: An object/person/alien falls from the sky and creates a huge crater in the ground
- Crack in the Sky: The sky is breaking.
- Cumulonemesis: Clouds that attack!
- Death from Above: Falling objects which are fatal.
- Everything Makes a Mushroom: Any explosion or sufficiently forceful impact will create a mushroom cloud.
- Floating Continent: Midair landmass.
- Floating in a Bubble: Character in an actual bubble, for any number of reasons (but usually for travel).
- Fluffy Cloud Heaven: The Theme Park Version of Heaven.
- Flying on a Cloud: Flying around by sitting or standing on a cloud.
- The Hand Is God: God or some similar all-powerful being is a giant hand coming out of the sky.
- Heaven Above: When the sky is associated with things pertaining to the divine.
- Journey to the Sky: When a character undertakes a trip to the sky, often to accomplish an objective.
- Level in the Clouds: Generic video game level set on the clouds.
- Levels Take Flight: A video game area that takes place in a flying vehicle or animal of some sort in the air.
- Midair Bobbing: Things that hover in place slightly move up and down.
- Midair Motion Shot: Anyone depicted on a vehicle is depicted in mid-air.
- Ominous Floating Castle: A villain base that floats in and/or around nothingness.
- "Pan from the Sky" Beginning: A story begins with the view panning down from the sky.
- "Pan Up to the Sky" Ending: The view pans up to the sky upon conclusion of a story arc.
- Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Death: The weather gets gloomy when someone dies.
- Personal Raincloud: Sad characters have rain clouds above their heads.
- Red Sky, Take Warning: A red sky as a sign of impending disaster or doom.
- Sci-Fi Flyby: If the craft in question is in the upper atmosphere, this trope is used to show just how much of a Cool Ship it is.
- The Sky Is an Ocean: Sky travel is treated like sailing an ocean.
- Sky Face: A character's face is shown in the sky.
- Sky Pirate: Pirates pillaging and plundering the skies instead of the seas.
- Sky Surfing: A character standing on top of an object with relative propulsion and control surfaces as a way to fly.
- Solid Clouds: Clouds treated as solid platforms to stand or walk on.
- That Cloud Looks Like...: Looking at clouds and what shapes they resemble.
- A Twinkle in the Sky: Something tiny in the sky with an Audible Gleam.
- Waterfall into the Abyss: Islands that float and have waterfalls continually coming off them.
- Wintry Auroral Sky: Auroras as Scenery Porn.
- World in the Sky: A series of world pieces floating suspended in the atmosphere.
