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Background Halo

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Background Halo	comment	A Holy Halo has a lot of symbolic value attached to it, chief among them being saintliness, purity, and status as The Chosen One. Sometimes, however, it just isn't appropriate to the genre for a character to sport an actual Holy Halo, even if it's very appropriate for them as a character at a given moment in a story. What's more, it's also very obvious, which is not always a good thing. Enter the Background Halo, a stylistic visual technique where a character's head will be put in front of something shiny or below a circle or oval. It benefits from being fairly subliminal and subtle. Well, provided directors don't turn on the Holy Backlight all the way. Then it's just silly, and possibly blinding. Of course, that this can be done with clever object placement and positioning or elaborate costuming means that a character may invoke this trope to give themselves an imposing and messianic aura. An opposite and similar version, involving background horns, is also fairly common. Related to Crucified Hero Shot, Symbolic Wings, "Spread Wings" Frame Shot and Pietà Plagiarism. Examples
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Background Halo / int_109f7814	comment	Sherlock: Mary gets background horns in one episode, foreshadowing that she is not the nice, normal woman she appears to be, but a former assassin.
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Background Halo / int_15d17004	comment	In Sherlock Holmes (2009), Lord Blackwood is highlighted by the ornate golden sunburst at the Temple of the Four Orders after assuming its leadership. To complete the angelic imagery, he bids the other members not to be afraid. Of course, in his case, he is very much channeling the fairest and fallen angel.
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Background Halo / int_2717dc7e	comment	In Miss Congeniality, Cathy Morningside gets a Background Crown.
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Background Halo / int_271c1469	comment	The OP for Death Parade poses the characters' heads in front of the bar's big, round, mandala-like stained glass decor for a halo-like effect.
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Background Halo / int_2ca653c9	type	Background Halo
Background Halo / int_2ca653c9	comment	Jane the Virgin does this in its advertising, setting the titular Jane's head against things like the setting sun to form such a halo in order to emphasize her virginity and Catholic upbringing and how this contrasts with the Surprise Pregnancy plot.
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Background Halo / int_33534161	comment	Halo (2022): This is used as a sort of visual Running Gag throughout with numerous characters having light sources or ring-shaped objects or designs behind their heads, as a bit of Foreshadowing of the titular Halo which will prove such a central part of the story.
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Background Halo / int_353b7af3	comment	The Star Trek: Discovery two-parter "Terra Firma" has multiple instances of this with Emperor Georgiou's elaborate halo-shaped headdress framing objects in the background. In one case, it's the Terran Empire seal, in another, the glowing power core of the ISS Charon.
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Background Halo / int_3953baf0	type	Background Halo
Background Halo / int_3953baf0	comment	When Esmeralda comforts Quasimodo after he's been ridiculed at the Feast of Fools in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, as she is walking up to the torture wheel the villagers strapped Quasimodo on to make fun of him, the Sun can be seen shining from behind her head, giving her the appearance of wearing a halo.
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Background Halo / int_3ab2943d	comment	W.: While praying after giving the order to invade Iraq, a low-angle shot makes a light in the ceiling look like a halo around Bush's head, and then the light goes off.
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Background Halo / int_3e374b30	comment	A production photo for The Dark Knight Rises shows Gordon standing in front of a neon church sign so that Jesus's Halo is directly over his head. Presumably, they filmmakers felt it would be too blatant to put in the movie, but it's worth remembering that in The Dark Knight he faked his own death and "came back" to save Batman.
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Background Halo / int_3e5afb68	comment	In the church meeting scene in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Lady Tottington has one as she advocates a non-violent approach to dealing with the Were-Rabbit. And Victor, who'd rather just shoot it, has Background Devil Horns.
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Background Halo / int_3f0d1805	comment	The horns variant is played for laughs in a scene in Spaced, as Daisy realises she and Tim are going to have to keep lying to Marsha about them being a couple in order to continue renting her flat; "We're evil," Daisy laments, just as the shot is reframed to position a pair of bananas in a fruit bowl as horns on her head.
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Background Halo / int_43576f5	comment	A promotional photograph for Supernatural depicts Dean with a full moon shining right behind his head, creating a halo-like effect. Interestingly, in that same photograph, Sam is shown as having a snake, well... Snaking up his arm.
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Background Halo / int_4b1bcf96	comment	Used in Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, where the devoutly religious assistant of now traitor Omar Anoke Holly begs Johnny Rico's no-nonsense atheist Action Girlfriend Lola Beck to pray in their hopeless situation. As Behemecoatl, a planet-sized "God of bugs", prepares to devour them and assimilate their knowledge, Lola sees seven lights of light appears in the night sky as a halo around Holly's head, which are in fact a unit of advanced Marauder mechs dropping from orbit who bomb the God Bug and hundreds of Warrior Bugs. This convinces Lola to convert to Christianity, which the Federation then use to better control the masses.
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Background Halo / int_502cbd09	comment	Luke Cage (2016): Not a halo, but Cottonmouth invokes this early in the series after discussing a portrait of The Notorious B.I.G. (the very same one used on his page in this very wiki) in his room, and then sitting in a chair in front of it in just such a manner as to make it look like the crown in the picture is on his head. Luke himself sits in front of the picture in the same manner in Season 2's finale.
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Background Halo / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): A subtle example in "A Passage for Trumpet", in which a mysterious figure pulls a suicidal trumpet player (Jack Klugman) back from the Despair Event Horizon and gives him a second chance at life. Just before he leaves, Jack says, "I didn't get your name." He turns around and answers, "Call me Gabe. Short for Gabriel." As he says this, he is standing directly under an overhead lamp, the light from which resembles a halo over his head. The shot was framed intentionally for that effect.
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Background Halo / int_59cf4039	comment	Invoked in The Green Knight, where the crowns◊ worn by King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, and later Gawain have a vertical metal ring attached to the back to make it look like a halo surrounds their heads. As a result they look holy in front of their subjects. The crowns' design is in line with medieval depictions of saints and holy figures.
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Background Halo / int_5b3356f8	comment	In Turning Red, on the astral plane, after the portal has faded away, Mei is left standing alone with a very "um, did I just make a terrible mistake?" expression on her face. There's also a faint glow behind her, and a very blurry red ribbon framing her head. Then she turns around, and the camera reveals that the glow and ribbon actually belong to Sun Yee, who is floating silently at the edge of the bamboo forest.
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Background Halo / int_5bb3aaab	comment	In Ghost in the Shell (1995), when the Puppet Master reveals himself to Sector 9, the machinery around him makes a halo-like ring of light behind his head.
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Background Halo / int_5e65e707	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion has examples of the sun looking like a halo behind Shinji, Rei and Toji's Eva.
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Background Halo / int_65be9e54	comment	KAMEN RIDER: memory of heroez: The Nasca Dopant gets knocked into a window after he loses to Double. Referencing his Anti-Villain status and tragic Heel–Face Door-Slam in his home series, not only is he in a crucified pose, the glass cracks around him in a radiating pattern evoking a Holy Backlight.
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Background Halo / int_6a919251	comment	Shutter: Issue #5 gives Kate both a halo and wings when a figure with both stands behind her.
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Background Halo / int_7038c36b	comment	Danger 5: Mad Scientist Dr. Mengele gives virginal Action Girl Claire the choice of sleeping with him or seeing her friends thrown to the mutants. A pair of lab coats hung up behind Mengele give the appearance of horns.
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Background Halo / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: The Stargate is sometimes used to this effect. Notably, in the first episode of season 2, "The Serpent's Lair", where General Hammond is shown framed by the gate during his speech, with a timely activation concluding it. In the Ori arc, the Doci (the spiritual leader of the Origins religion) has his head framed by an elaborate Ori symbol.
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Background Halo / int_77ff1111	comment	Cinderella: When Cinderella is transformed into her iconic ballroom gown by the Fairy Godmother's magic, some of the magic dust used to make that gown actually gets thrown into the air and forms a halo around Cinderella's head.
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Background Halo / int_7950b30f	comment	In The Colbert Report, when the camera is facing Colbert and his desk straight-on, there's a circle of stars around Colbert's head, definitely making a halo. Kind of.
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Background Halo / int_7d67d66e	comment	In the Richard II installment of The Hollow Crown, this is very much an Invoked Trope to go with Richard's carefully fostered messianic persona.
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Background Halo / int_7d810972	comment	Glenn Close's Iris character pulls this off with the sun shining through her hat in The Natural.
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Background Halo / int_8124a34e	comment	Barbie's "Goddess of the Arctic" doll has a fur-trimmed cape with a huge collar◊ shaped like this.
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Background Halo / int_89ec9af8	comment	In A Canterbury Tale, Peter says sarcastically "I'll believe that when I see a halo round my head." At once, the train they're on passes into a patch of sunlight, backlighting him and giving the appearance of a halo.
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Background Halo / int_8b37a218	comment	The first chapter of The Meek opens with Angora sitting on a branch in the jungle, with a frond behind her bathed in sunlight looking like a halo.
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Background Halo / int_9153ccb1	comment	This technique was inverted in The Shining, with Jack shown with a black chandelier over his head, an "anti Halo", after he went crazy.
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Background Halo / int_920bdb7c	comment	Kill Six Billion Demons is a setting where burning halos manifest physically over characters of great spiritual power. The halo of the demiurge Jadis, who used to have such power but lost it after falling into the Despair Event Horizon, is therefore represented as a dark, empty hole in the Machine that drove her to such a state.
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Background Halo / int_a5e160e0	comment	Lucifer (2016): In "God Johnson", Lucifer confronts an inmate in a mental hospital who believes that he is God. Although Lucifer's powers don't work on him for some reason, Lucifer is not impressed by this apparent nutcase and goes to leave — until Johnson addresses him by his true name. When Lucifer turns to look at Johnson in shock, the sunlight shining through the blinds behind Johnson provide a subtle version of this trope.
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Background Halo / int_a77de360	comment	Occurs in Dilbert, episode "The Shroud of Wally", with a disc in a Last Supper parody.
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Background Halo / int_b0ec45b8	comment	At least once in Metropolis, Frieder gets a Holy Backlight Halo (the light shining/diffused through his hair).
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Background Halo / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: The establishing shot of the "You win, or you die" scene shows Cersei in a Dutch Angle with her head obscuring the sun, which appears to be a deliberate invocation of this trope. Of course, Cersei is anything but a saintly person.
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Background Halo / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage uses this to introduce no less a figure than Captain America to the narrative. At what is Spidey's Darkest Hour in the arc, with all his allies defeated, Cap appears◊ in the somber night, his head backlit by the moon, going full Hope Bringer even after things seem bleak.
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Background Halo / int_b565ccc5	comment	Loki (2021): In the first poster for the show, golden clock frame Loki's head like a halo, while glowing hour and minute bars and multiple clock hands remind of rays. Loki is a Norse god, but not a benevolent one, so he also sports a Kubrick Stare and a smirk.
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Background Halo / int_b67db5a0	comment	Scanner Cop: When Sam Staziak is officially inducted into the LAPD, the police logo behind him is framed to look like a halo.
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Background Halo / int_b8e5dfd9	comment	In Disco Elysium: Kim Kitsuragi's character portrait puts his head in front of a white circle in a background otherwise dominated by black. Considering he's pretty much The Detective's Straight Man and resident Moralist, the halo helps present him as the one unambiguously good character in the game. (The halo is actually a ceiling fan; the portrait comes from an interaction most players get late in-game.) A more subtle example is Jean Vicquemare, the Detective's old partner, whose head is front of a black rectangle: halos have, historically, also been depicted as square-shaped in some cases. In this case, it is symbolize that Jean, despite his outwardly caustic attitude, is still a good man deeply worried about his old friend's health.
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Background Halo / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines utilize background halo imagery. Leaders like Chapter Masters and Captains often wear an "Iron Halo", a halo made of a metallic material and placed behind the head of the Marine, on their helmet or around the head. When active, the Halo glows with a sun-like aura and protects the wearer from almost any attack. This trope is likely adopted by the Emperor of Mankind, the creator of the Space Marine, who had an actual halo of light around his head at all times. A few of his gene-wrought sons, the Primarchs, are often depicted with one as well in paintings, and a few also had an Iron Halo as a part of their armour, most notably Sanguinius, who had a pair of wings to go with his glowing halo of light. Another faction of the Imperium of Man, the Sisters of Battle, often wear Iron Halos as well, but even their Saints get actual halos upon ascending. Hell, after skulls and wings, halos are one of the main symbols of the Imperium of Man. The Space Marines' evil cousins, the Chaos Space Marines, sometimes wear cursed halos, especially the Dark Apostles, who administer the chaotic faith for their warband.
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Background Halo / int_bcfa43ed	comment	Many of the backgrounds in The Secret of Kells, especially the drawings and diagrams on the walls of Abbot Cellach's study, form these for several different characters throughout the movie.
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Background Halo / int_bee47cbe	comment	Unsounded: When Lemuel beheads Duane the mask flying off his head is shaded in such a way that it gives him a halo as he falls.
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Background Halo / int_c058b00a	comment	In Twilight, when Edward is in the science lab, he's positioned with the outstretched wings of an owl on a shelf behind coming out of his shoulders.
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Background Halo / int_c0b99d18	comment	Five Nights at Freddy's (2023): When Vanessa confesses her sins of hiding her father's identity from Michael, she briefly appears with one in the form of a lightbulb behind her head.
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Background Halo / int_c2cc7c42	comment	American Gods (2017) has a Bait-and-Switch case in the episode that introduces Jesus: at first, it seemed like the Holy Halo he had was just a light source in the wall behind, but then other scenes have him with a proper halo. And then Season 3 had promotional◊ images where the characters were below neon halos with "God" words\phrases.
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Background Halo / int_c4282b71	comment	Shows up in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "The Ticket Master". When a rainstorm pours heavily on everyone but Twilight Sparkle thanks to Rainbow Dash screwing with the weather, Twilight accuses Dash of trying to butter her up for her extra ticket to the Grand Galloping Gala. As Dash plays innocent, the sun behind her head gives her the appearance of a halo.
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Background Halo / int_cf10c600	comment	In TRON: Legacy, when Flynn meditates on the Solar-Sailer, the light emanating from the engine forms a background halo around him. Rather appropriate considering that in the Grid, he quite literally is God.
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Background Halo / int_cfc70bf6	comment	Inverted in An Extremely Goofy Movie when the villainous Bradley gets background horns from the decorative shield on the wall behind him while talking to his team about his plan to cheat.
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Background Halo / int_deafd1c4	comment	In History of the World Part I when Jesus has The Last Supper (with Mel Brooks as a waiter), Leonardo da Vinci comes in to paint a commemorative portrait — Brooks holds his silver platter up behind Jesus to look like a halo.
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Background Halo / int_e13be157	comment	Done multiple times for Jesus in The King of Kings.
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Background Halo / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: When Buffy is resurrected from the dead at the start of Season Six, she's walking through a graveyard and due to the camera angle appears to have the wings of an angel statue growing from her back. This foreshadows The Reveal that she was brought back from Heaven, not from some terrible hell dimension as her friends supposed.
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Background Halo / int_e8c699a9	comment	In the film version of Mommie Dearest, when Joan Crawford holds baby Christina for the first time, the top French window behind her form a sort of halo over her head, turning the shot into some sort of a perversion of a Blessed Virgin Icon.
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Background Halo / int_ef076a36	comment	In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Chute", Harry Kim and Tom Paris are in an inescapable prison where the inmates are given aggression-causing brain implants so they will turn on each other. One prisoner however remains calm, claiming that he's figured out the secret of controlling the implants. As he speaks to Harry (whom he wants to become his first disciple), a force field ring surrounding the bottom end of the Chute frames the top of his head, appearing as a halo. However, when he moves his head slightly, it also appears as a pair of red horns, leading to a more ambiguous interpretation of his character.
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Background Halo / int_f0b55dd	comment	Housepets!: Custom Ink is a staunch member of Openerdom, the Fantasy Counterpart Religion to Christianity in the Babylon Gardens forest. Her Valentines Day card depicts her in a praying position, smiling coyly at the camera with a gold circle behind her head to reflect this.
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Background Halo / int_f0c816fb	comment	Jesse gets two in Breaking Bad. The first is a dark halo caused by the woofer of an enormous speaker he slouches in front of as he dwells on his complicity in a death. The second is caused by the inset of a playground carousel.
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Background Halo / int_fc6a5beb	comment	Hot in Cleveland: A man who looks like Jesus has a lighted beer advertisement behind his head that looks like a halo.
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Background Halo / int_fd8ef85e	comment	In the poster for "The Sacrifice" for Left 4 Dead, Bill's head has the rising sun behind it as a halo of sorts. This is because canonically, he sacrifices himself for his friends in the campaign
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Background Halo / int_fe724d7f	comment	In the video clip of Rammstein's "Ich Will", Flake's head is framed by a large clock as he sits on a counter with a bomb strapped to his chest.
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