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Heaven Above

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Heaven Above	comment	The sky is equated and associated with things pertaining to the divine. Whether it be the Lord, the gods, fate, or the afterlife, nearly any supernatural concept can be brought to mind by mentioning "the heavens," holding one's hands together and looking upwards, or showing clouds flying across a starry sky. There isn't one single origin of this trope, since the sky's association with the unknowable or transcendent comes from humanity's natural awe of the stars and fascination with what they truly are. So if you want to indicate something beautiful, distant, and far greater than man, the sky is nigh-universally the best symbol to use. Related to Light Is Good, since the bright sky and the light-bearing suns often go hand-in-hand when depicting God. This trope's relationship with the sun can often lend it to be used similarly to Rays from Heaven, Cue the Sun, and Watching the Sunset. This trope will often be used to show a Rage Against the Heavens by having a character rant at the clouds as if God was hiding behind them. This trope is why the name for an afterlife of eternal joy is called Heaven (hence the redundant article name) and Heaven's most popular sub-trope is Fluffy Cloud Heaven, where Heaven looks just like the heavens. Other sub-tropes include Divine Birds, Stars Are Souls, and other tropes connecting the skyward with the sacred. This association is also why Winged Soul Flies Off at Death, why people only Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence, why there's a Stairway to Heaven, why so many works invoke Ending by Ascending, and why those mad at their fate will generally give a Skyward Scream rather than a Horizon-Oriented Yelp.
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Heaven Above / int_10de015f	comment	Stations of the Cross ends with the camera (which hasn't moved the entire movie) ascending into the clouds, but in contrast to the church's dogmatic view of religion, the sky is hidden and unclear.
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Heaven Above / int_11aa61f3	comment	Seven Brothers: At one point the brothers imagine their parents watching down from atop a cloud, and in general they take heaven rather literally. In the epilogue part of the story, when rain starts pouring down on Juhani working in the field, he shouts upwards whether they're only now spreading dung in heaven's fields when he's already harvesting the crop.
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Heaven Above / int_13bb3a0c	comment	The Northman: The protagonist has dreams throughout the movie of his body being carrying by a Valkyrie up towards a wonderful blue light in the sky. The viewer obviously understands this to be Valhalla, a hall for the valiant dead within the divine realm of Asgard.
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Heaven Above / int_16fc989a	comment	Mermaids of Eriana Kwai: Mermaids believe that the northern lights are the pathway the spirits travel through as they journey to a better place. Eriana legend holds that it's the spirits dancing.
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Heaven Above / int_1ab7f66f	comment	Our Dumb Century, a book by The Onion, features a spoof headline from the week after the airplane was invented, about the government planning airplane expeditions to Heaven. The story reveals that, within ten years, it will be possible for the average American to vacation there.
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Heaven Above / int_1d0febfd	comment	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Death, as he appears in The Tale of Three Brothers, sports a pair of wings which he can use to bring his victims up into the afterlife. Since the third brother accepted Death's coming as an old friend, it's safe to say that he's being taken up to a good afterlife somewhat like Heaven.
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Heaven Above / int_1f140feb	comment	The Silmarillion: The rulers of the Valar, the gods/archangels who rule the world in Eru's name, are ManwÃ«, the lord of the winds, skies and flying creatures, and Varda, the kindler of the stars. They reside in a court on the peak of Taniquetil, the highest mountain in the world.
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Heaven Above / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League: "The Balance" has Hawkgirl, an alien from a planet that only ever worshiped Eldritch Abominations, scares away Hades' minions, beings who work for a polytheistic god, by pointing up to the sky to claim she works for capital-g God. Looks like the "sky=God" trope is universal.
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Heaven Above / int_32a01588	comment	Pinocchio: The magical fairy who blesses Pinocchio with life lives within the wishing star. The Blue Fairy descends from her home in the sky only when Gepetto prays up to the sky in his petition to be blessed with a son.
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Heaven Above / int_3558eaa2	comment	Community: In "Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples", Shirley gives two thumbs up pointing at the sky to try to tell Abed she's talking about God, but he doesn't quite get it and she has to explain her own message.
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Heaven Above / int_35bceb50	comment	Hamlet: King Claudius uses the sky twice as a metaphor to explain how horrid his soul has become: He starts off his remorseful prayer by saying his offense is so rank that "it smells to heaven." Obviously, if something can be smelled from the sky, that is way too strong. So Claudius is saying his sin is as strong as that smell and as difficult to get rid of. As the King begins to think his remorse is futile, he asks of his sin, "Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow?" He seems to think the answer is no, since he did something infinitely evil, and like rain in the earthly heavens, there can only be so much forgiveness in the celestial Heaven.
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Heaven Above / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: Kami's Lookout ("Kami" meaning god) is located in the upper levels of Earth's atmosphere. The Guardian of the Earth can look down and monitor the state of the Earth below checking for trouble. In times of peril, it can also be used as a refuge for the major characters.
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Heaven Above / int_3b2581c4	comment	City of Bones (1995) by Martha Wells: Inverted in the post-apocalyptic society's spirituality. Good people are believed to rest beneath the earth after death, whereas evil souls are condemned to wander the winds without peace.
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Heaven Above / int_3b88d68c	comment	The Divine Comedy of Dante plays with the association of the sky and the realm of God by assigning each type of saint a planet, which would also be divine places under this trope's logic. The closer they are to Earth, the farther they are from God, who is portrayed as a sphere outside the physical universe who moves everything else. In Dante's imagery, God is the sky to the ground of the universe.
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Heaven Above / int_3cd90f30	comment	Arrested Development: Michael wistfully ponders how easy life would be if there were instructions sent from "on high." He then tells his son to watch his head as they duck under a memorial to the Ten Commandments being brought down from on high by a crane.
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Heaven Above / int_41c887f7	comment	The Truman Show: The massive control room where Christoff manages the entire world Truman knows is located in the sky, covered by a fake sun during the day and a fake moon during the night. This is one of many elements that makes it clear Christoff is usurping God's role in controlling so much of Truman's reality and in case the association is too subtle, the movie ends with Truman talking to Christoff, "the creator," by looking straight into the sunny sky.
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Heaven Above / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: Heaven is a regular setting that's often referred to by pointing upwards or talking about what's "above." The first noticeable instance of Heaven actually being above comes late in season eight, when an angel sends a soul to Heaven. The bright light of the soul is shown rising high up in the sky before vanishing. At the end of the same season, the entire world experiences unexpected meteor showers when all angels are cast out of Heaven at once. Crops up again in season 11 when the Darkness attacks Heaven, which causes Earth's sky to be ravaged by thunderstorms. Also, when the angels attempt to kill the Darkness with a mass smite, an enormous bolt of white light shoots out of the sky to strike her. On the flipside, demons are always seen seeping into the ground (through portals surrounded by a fiery smoldering effect) when they are exorcised.
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Heaven Above / int_455ede40	comment	Super Paper Mario: The dreary underworld of the shades, the Underwhere, is located in a dark cavern. The Overthere, where blessed souls and angelic beings reside, is high up in a Fluffy Cloud Heaven reached by a long stair through the sky.
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Heaven Above / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Inverted for both trolls and dwarfs. They're usually subterranean, so they view down as the direction of Heaven. Relatedly, Dwarfs use "enlightened" to mean "ignorant and misguided"; someone who's profoundly knowledgeable or appropriately civilized would be "endarkened". Discussed in Jingo:
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Heaven Above / int_4da7528e	comment	The Berenstain Bears: When Goldie the fish dies, Papa Bear says that she went to the a big castle in the sky, a metaphor for the afterlife.
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Heaven Above / int_4e433e78	comment	Monty Python and the Holy Grail depicts God as a giant Sky Face who pulls open a cloud to start a conversation with King Arthur.
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Heaven Above / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: The Game Within a Game requires character to build towers starting from their houses that rise miles and miles and miles through the skies and deep into space. Only by ascending this self-created tower can they complete the game, fully master their abilities, and collect the mysterious Ultimate Reward which is in the mystical realm not-so-subtly named Skaia. It is only halfway into the nearly eight thousand page comic that Skaia's Reward is revealed: the opportunity to become the gods of a new universe.
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Heaven Above / int_5534d7da	comment	Tell me about your Ancestors: ShadowClan cats believe deceased cats become the stars. The original SkyClan believed that the clouds were their ancestors. This tradition was lost after they left the forest.
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Heaven Above / int_5846165c	comment	Kid Icarus: The angelic protagonist serves Skyworld and its good goddess, Palutena. The realm is overflowing with clouds, brave soldiers with wings, and glowing white temples dedicated to Palutena. In case you forget where the good guys work after all that, every level in Uprising ends with the protagonist being surrounded by Rays from Heaven and flying straight up towards the realm of Palutena.
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Heaven Above / int_58d80a4a	comment	Discussed in Jingo:
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Heaven Above / int_594935a7	comment	The Thebaid: The gods look on and call their wrath upon Thebes from the heavenly globe that surrounds the Earth. There, all the Sky-Dwellers chatter in unending day until Jupiter silences them to focus on matters of justice.
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Heaven Above / int_5bdaa980	comment	Empire of the Sun: Discussed. Jim asks his mother whether "God is above" means he is flying.
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Heaven Above / int_5c56ced3	comment	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Whenever God appears, He's always peeking over a cloud on the ceiling, forcing Stephen and the audience to crane their necks up to have a conversation with the guy.
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Heaven Above / int_633bef5e	comment	The Space Trilogy: Ransom finds the old myth about the gods dwelling in the heavens to be quite true literally and figuratively. His first trip through space teaches him that the planets are only disturbances in a great sea of light and life; his second trip is facilitated by the collective of invisible consciousnesses that dwell in the Deep Heavens and guide all planetary affairs according to the will of their king on Jupiter.
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Heaven Above / int_63ce3930	comment	Death Note (2017) kicks off with the titular Artifact of Doom dropping from the sky, implying that the death god that created it lives in the sky, looming above humanity.
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Heaven Above / int_695297c6	comment	The Clouds presents Socrates as an atheist who denies the existence of a god who throws thunderbolts in favor of worshipping the clouds who shit out the thunder. As a parody of Socratic philosophy, the idea of worshipping clouds, the sky, and other objects of study in place of the actual gods is Played for Laughs.
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Heaven Above / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Asgard, city of the gods, is a pocket dimension that can access other realms through a wormhole called the Bifrost. Even with this sci-fi twist, the Bifrost wormhole conveniently always opens up so that the gods enter into other realms by falling from the sky and leave said realms by being shot up into the air. Thor has on odd scene where the titular character angrily demands to be returned to Asgard by yelling into the night sky, even though he should know the people operating the Bifrost aren't actually floating above him (although one of them is omniscient, so he's not wasting breath). Thor: Ragnarok introduces another wormhole that can lead to Asgard, the Devil's Anus. This entrance to the gods' realm is located in the sky, forcing anyone who wants to visit the gods to ascend from the realm of mortals.
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Heaven Above / int_6a7e6314	comment	Thor: Ragnarok introduces another wormhole that can lead to Asgard, the Devil's Anus. This entrance to the gods' realm is located in the sky, forcing anyone who wants to visit the gods to ascend from the realm of mortals.
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Heaven Above / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: When Zuko is furious at his seemingly terrible fate in life, he expresses his anger by yelling into the sky on a stormy day, calling on whatever higher power controls the universe to hit him with a Bolt of Divine Retribution.
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Heaven Above / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Bajoran religion states that their gods, the Prophets, live in the Celestial Temple above the skies of Bajor. In the pilot episode "Emissary," the Temple turns out to be a wormhole that terminates in the Bajoran solar system and is inhabited by Sufficiently Advanced Aliens.
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Heaven Above / int_7894fb5d	comment	When Jesus returns to the spiritual realm of the Father, The Four Gospels describe it as being taken up and he ascended. Elijah also ascends to the skies, albeit in a fiery carriage lifted by a whirlwind.
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Heaven Above / int_7ac9ac71	comment	Alexis Carew: HMS Nightingale: The neo-Luddite Cult Colony Man's Fall believes darkspace (an alternate layer of space-time equivalent to hyperspace) is in fact Heaven. The belief is backed up by darkspace's ability to shut off technology, but the fact that darkspace is only accessible by flying into a Lagrange point in normal space, meaning one has to fly past the Heavens to reach it, helps reinforce the divinity idea.
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Heaven Above / int_7d1c83da	comment	Better Call Saul: In "Wiedersehen," Jimmy insults Kim for acting like she's better than him by telling her to go back to her "office in the sky," implying its more perfect and godly up in the heavens than wherever Jimmy is in life.
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Heaven Above / int_86814e56	comment	Final Fantasy VI: If you became a god, how would you let people know? If you were a magical, misanthropic Monster Clown, you might build a tower taller than any mountain, put yourself right at the top, and turns yourself into a winged creature surrounded by clouds and sunlight. This strategy tells visitors about your divinity without chit-chat, so when they fully ascend your Dante-esque ladder of writhing flesh and confront you, you can smite them without much monologuing.
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Heaven Above / int_89465e75	comment	Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Whenever Mr. D. swears, the sky either clouds up or thunders to let him know the gods are displeased, forcing Mr. D to look straight up and apologize. This is all a formality, as it would be ludicrous for the gods to live above D's camp on Long Island; they live above the Empire State Building instead.
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Heaven Above / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note: The realm of the death gods is separated from the human world by a hole, which they can jump into to "drop" into our world. From our perspective, it looks like these monsters materialize in the middle of the sky and fall down. Like angels, these death gods come with wings which both make descent easier and also hint that they come from above.
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Heaven Above / int_8c87469c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: Unsurprisingly, the sky is quite the godly place. Whenever Link needs to call upon the Goddess's magical power into his sword, he aims it right into the sky. Story-wise, the Goddess Hylia sent the last bastion of humanity into the heavens to protect from evil as the ground was consumed by darkness. The association of ascension and divinity is presented in Link's battles with the Imprisoned, where that monster will rise up from underground and climb up a spiraling pathway up to a towering temple. Link must force the monster back into the ground, or else the rising evil will be high enough to destroy the power of the divine. Essentially, Link must do whatever he can to keep evil out of the sky, which becomes much more obvious once the Imprisoned learns to levitate.
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Heaven Above / int_8f8e48de	comment	The Lion King (2019): Mufasa explains that the great kings "look down on us from those stars", and towards the end of the film manifests in spirit form in a head of clouds during an electrical storm.
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Heaven Above / int_927963ad	comment	The Great Divorce: Although the story avoids portraying Heaven as a cloud-filled candyland, it does demonstrate the radical distance between Hell and Heaven by having the bus between those two realms have to fly miles and miles and miles above Hell before it can reach the doormat of Heaven.
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Heaven Above / int_93b9b77c	comment	Nexus War: The Angelic plane of Paradise/Elysium is usually an Arcadian environment, but one season of it took it one step further with an even holier Fluffy Cloud Heaven floating in the skies above that.
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Heaven Above / int_9a6bf4b3	comment	Hail, Caesar! ends with the narrator describing how the protagonist's story is "written in light everlasting," as a choir plays and the camera shifts up to the sky. Along with the film's use of the Confessional and an In-Universe Passion Play, the ending shows the essential role the protagonist's relationship with God plays in his life.
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Heaven Above / int_9acdda28	comment	Watership Down: Frith, creator of the world and progenitor of all Earth's creatures, is the Sun itself. The Moon is Frith's liaison to the world, acting both as a Muse and as The Grim Reaper.
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Heaven Above / int_9d7ec380	comment	The Good Place: Not three minutes into the show, the recently deceased Eleanor distinguishes between Heaven and Hell by pointing upwards to indicate Heaven and downwards to indicate Hell. Turns out she's right on the money, as in the series proper, the actual Good Place is above the Bad and Medium Places and only by using a special hot air balloon few know how to access.
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Heaven Above / int_9e603778	comment	The Book of Revelation describes the evil angels who follow Satan as "fallen stars" that were "thrown down to Earth," thus originating the term Fallen Angel and implying that their original residence was in the direction of the skies.
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Heaven Above / int_9f0dae2a	comment	The Cold Moons: Badgers believe that heaven (called "Asgard") is in the sky:
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Heaven Above / int_a32877f1	comment	Old Kingdom: The Afterlife Antechamber of Death is a mist-shrouded shallow river that ends beneath the Final Gate, an infinitely starry night sky where souls rise up to an unknown final destination.
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Heaven Above / int_a5549ed0	comment	In Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Finnish, and English editions of The Bible, the word for skynote respectively, ouranos, caelum, ciel, cielo, cielo, himmel, taivas, and heaven is also used as the word for Heaven, or the Kingdom of God. In the Bible, in the Book of Genesis, Nimrod and the rest of humanity believed they could reach God just by building a really big tower. God is frequently described in the Old Testament as emerging from (or as) storms, whirlwinds, or other heavenly disasters, most famously at the end of the Book of Job. There, God's appearance as a massive storm uses the violence of the sky to demonstrate His power and expansive nature. Some scholars speculate that the modern YHWH/God was once a wind or air god, or at least that such a god might have been part of their history. Still, despite this, many other acts of God described in The Bible also involve other, less "high-up" aspects of nature, such as the sea and the ground. Several prophets, like Moses, climbed mountains - the only way to get 'close' to the sky before airplanes - to speak (more clearly) with God. When Jesus returns to the spiritual realm of the Father, The Four Gospels describe it as being taken up and he ascended. Elijah also ascends to the skies, albeit in a fiery carriage lifted by a whirlwind. The Book of Revelation describes the evil angels who follow Satan as "fallen stars" that were "thrown down to Earth," thus originating the term Fallen Angel and implying that their original residence was in the direction of the skies.
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Heaven Above / int_a6084750	comment	The Crown (2016) episode "Act of God" focuses Queen Elizabeth's lack of clarity on the relationship between the monarchy and God, a theme that is visualized by the Great Smog that blocks out the London sky for the entire episode.
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Heaven Above / int_a63b23da	comment	Bruce Almighty: Bruce starts his journey with God by cursing and yelling at the sky as if God's hiding behind a cloud. When He does meet Bruce, he does so by climbing down a ladder (implied to go directly into Paradise) and then teleporting the two to Mt. Everest, which is so high up Bruce thinks he's died and gone to Heaven. When he does die and briefly go to Heaven in the third act, the camera rapidly zooms up and away from Bruce's body. When he's revived, the camera rapidly zooms in and down onto Bruce's face. When Bruce begs God not to leave him, he appeals to a need for answers. Morgan Freeman's God laughs and says that the problem with humanity is that they keep looking "up." Up here seems to refer to the divine plan for each person that only God can know, meaning God is saying to focus on what is rather than what should be.
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Heaven Above / int_ad2fda3	comment	The Gumball Rally: After Roscoe is humiliated in front of the biggest bunch of cops he wrangled to create a roadblock, he pitifully looks up at the sky and asks "why me?"
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Heaven Above / int_b21cd2c3	comment	The Faerie Queene: Like Moses walking up to Sinai, the Redcrosse Knight must spend weeks atop the closest mountain peak to the sky he can find to prepare to commune with God. At the end of his time on the mountain, Redcrosse can even see the kingdom of Heaven above him.
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Heaven Above / int_b2913b67	comment	Friday the 13th: The Series: One of the few acts of Divine Intervention appears in the form of a series of divine lights flashing across the sky, with the heavenly changes contrasting with the grounded work of the show's Fallen Angels. This upstairs action even kills the demonic Astaroth.
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Heaven Above / int_b36e3c22	comment	Noah: The genocidal villain frequently looks to the sky and yells for God to reveal himself to him, only to find the sky shrouded in the clouds that will flood the world. The skies only clear and allow humanity to see the light once Noah realizes God's desire for humanity: for them to be merciful to each other.
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Heaven Above / int_b370ddd1	comment	Thor has on odd scene where the titular character angrily demands to be returned to Asgard by yelling into the night sky, even though he should know the people operating the Bifrost aren't actually floating above him (although one of them is omniscient, so he's not wasting breath).
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Heaven Above / int_b3710357	comment	TRON: There isn't much of a heaven inside the computer world, but still, whenever Tron and other programs think about or make a sign to the Users who created and act as their god-equivalents, they look up to the sky and maybe even hold up their identity discs as a sign of trust.
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Heaven Above / int_b410a7f8	comment	Starless: The sun and moons are gods, and the Physical Gods walking the Earth used to be the stars. On fulfilling the prophecy, a seed of ending ignited within Miasmus by a seed of beginning, Miasmus's time on Earth is ended, and the three moons pull him back into the skies. The rest of the gods follow suit, their penance ended, and the skies are filled with stars once again.
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Heaven Above / int_b6e12f99	comment	Pitch Black: The group of Muslim passengers perform their daily prayers facing straight up toward the sky (implied to be a solution to finding the location of Mecca in space).
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Heaven Above / int_b8e28f2e	comment	Good Omens (2019): Heaven is imagined as the top floor of an office building while Hell is the basement to tie in to how both the Heavenly and Hellish Hosts are part of the same Celestial Bureaucracy. The angel Aziraphale takes the elevator up to work and angels come down from the sky whenever they have business on Earth, in contrast to demons, who rise out of the dirt.
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Heaven Above / int_ba084d45	comment	Hamilton: Just before the death of the titular character, time freezes and he talks about seeing his dead friends and family "on the other side." As he says their names, his best friend, his son, his mother, and his father figure all walk across the balcony above the stage, implying this "other side" is above Hamilton. This upwards view of heaven is further emphasized when Hamilton desperately cries "Rise up" just before he is shot.
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Heaven Above / int_bac64636	comment	The Grey ends with Liam Neeson's character yelling into the sky to ask God for help. With no sign of response, Neeson's characters curses under his breath and goes into the final fray with the wolves alone.
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Heaven Above / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: The natives of Fenris believe that the Sky Warriors will come down to young warriors on the brink of death and bring them back to their heavenly domains to feast and fight for all eternity. In fact, the Space Wolves monitor the constant battles waged by the natives and use them to select candidates for Space Marine training and transformation. Similar beliefs are held by backwater planets who witnessed the Space Marines (also known as the God-Emperor's Angels of Death) descending to save the planet. Local authority rarely sees any need to disabuse them of the notion (and depending on the level of isolation, it's possible only the government is aware that there is an Imperium to belong to).
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Heaven Above / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: The notion of heaven being upward is pondered by Grace, who concludes that it's a holdover from when people thought that the Earth was flat.
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Heaven Above / int_bfe14bb1	comment	Brian McNeill's song "Muir and the Master Builder" claims that "God lives above the redwoods" that inspired song subject John Muir to become one of the world's first effective conservationists.
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Heaven Above / int_bff78dfe	comment	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice uses Superman's Flight to make his role as a Messianic Archetype obvious, leading to scenes where Superman is floating above a flood victim covered in sunlight while the two stretch their arms out to each other like they're in the Sistine Chapel. And if that wasn't explicit enough, Lex Luthor goes on a rant about how Superman reminds him of God, describing them both as "a man in the sky" while questioning why either allows evil in the world. Though one of his detractors argues the inverse.
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Heaven Above / int_c29f1036	comment	The Prince of Egypt: "Through Heaven's Eye" has a wise old man motion upwards to the clear, night sky when advising Moses to look at life as God would see it.
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Heaven Above / int_c46cf0c1	comment	The Green Mile: One of Tom Hanks' urination scenes ends with him struggling so much he has to lie on his back and look him to the sky and say, "Oh God, why?" It also foreshadows the weirder events from later in the movie.
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Heaven Above / int_c51f9990	comment	God is frequently described in the Old Testament as emerging from (or as) storms, whirlwinds, or other heavenly disasters, most famously at the end of the Book of Job. There, God's appearance as a massive storm uses the violence of the sky to demonstrate His power and expansive nature. Some scholars speculate that the modern YHWH/God was once a wind or air god, or at least that such a god might have been part of their history. Still, despite this, many other acts of God described in The Bible also involve other, less "high-up" aspects of nature, such as the sea and the ground.
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Heaven Above / int_c791c7e7	comment	Monster Factory: In the Spore playthrough, they create a horrible abomination and give it eyes facing straight up, to better angrily glare at God for creating him so horribly.
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Heaven Above / int_cc1462ed	comment	Heaven's Vault: The word for heaven in Ancient has the glyph "up" in it. In fact, it's composed of "place-star", and "star" is "noun-light-up".
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Heaven Above / int_cec8635a	comment	Survivor Dogs: Dogs and wolves have many god-like beings known as "Spirit Dogs", however the Sky-Dogs are the most powerful. They're also the one most prayed to and referenced (though Lucky is also particularly fond of the Forest-Dog).
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Heaven Above / int_d2cd3b5e	comment	In Nomine: While Heaven and Hell have no particular physical relationship with the Corporeal realm of mortals, Heaven is divided between the Lower Heavens that players can visit and the mysterious Upper Heavens, at the top of Jacob's Ladder, where blessed souls reside with God; at the opposite end, the explorable part of Hell is only its top layers, and certain tunnels and elevators lead to the equally mysterious Lower Hells where Lucifer resides. One of the prompts for divine intervention also describes the hand of God descending from the skies to crush an obstacle in the players' path.
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Heaven Above / int_d44d50	comment	The Phantom Ship (1837): After William Vanderdecken makes his oath to sail until the Day of Judgment, fiery letters appear at the center of a storm cloud that confirm his oath: "UNTIL THE DAY OF JUDGMENT". About fifty years later, as the prayer to free the Flying Dutchman finishes, for a moment lightning in the shape of a cross breaks through the clouds.
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Heaven Above / int_d6b7adcf	comment	The Little Mermaid: The original fairytale the mermaid describe Heaven as "that glorious world above the stars." This description of Heaven as sky also furthers the distance between the mermaid and the eternal realm, since land-dwelling humans are closer to the sky while the soulless mermaids are hopelessly far from those same stars. The story also describes angelic spirits as "Daughters of the Air."
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Heaven Above / int_d7c4626a	comment	The Sandman (1989): Volume Four includes a description of God's realm as a Silver City "above" the universe proper, which angels can only leave by "falling toward the world." The odd thing about this is that the Silver City isn't just "above" the Earth, but it is also above the psychic realities that makes up the Kingdom of Dreams, Asgard, Hell, and other places that can't properly be said to be "above" or "below" anything else.
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Heaven Above / int_db30cf92	comment	Warrior Cats: The cats' afterlife is StarClan, which is said to be located within the collection of stars above, locally known as Silverpelt (we'd call it the Milky Way).
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Heaven Above / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time: In the season 5 episode "Nimue," a young Merlin looks into the clouds and asks permission to drink from the Holy Grail so he may live. Unlike the man who failed to ask whatever god may be listening, Merlin does not disintegrate and is blessed with eternal life and unparalleled magical power. Whenever a character in the Underworld "finishes their business," a bright light will appear over the Underworld's fires that they can follow upward to join almighty Zeus in paradise.
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Heaven Above / int_dee37309	comment	In the Heights: Abuela Claudia has a habit of saying "Alabanza" and holding up whatever she has in her hand. In act 2, we learn she does this to "hold it up to God's face and say, 'Praise to this.'" Turns out God's face is in Heaven with the Abuela's birds, alongside Abuela herself in Act 2, which prompts all the characters to sing "Alabanza" to the skies.
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Heaven Above / int_df073316	comment	All-Star Superman: Pa Kent's description of how he prayed to God for a son is put against a page-wide panel dominated by the starry night sky.
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Heaven Above / int_e21e4293	comment	Kubo and the Two Strings portrays the gods as distant, uncaring tyrants with no concept of human life. Naturally, they live in unchanging, transcendent sky like many portrayal of gods, but significantly considering their sinister nature, they are only described as coming from the night sky.
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Heaven Above / int_e2ade9fb	comment	In the Bible, in the Book of Genesis, Nimrod and the rest of humanity believed they could reach God just by building a really big tower.
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Heaven Above / int_e3a1067	comment	Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: A humorous take on the idea comes when Panty suggests to Stocking that they can get back into Heaven by building a giant pole and using it to climb up there.
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Heaven Above / int_ecf6aca5	comment	Plumbing the Death Star: In the Let's Play of Ultimate Chicken Horse, Duscher abuses the ability to have his character looks upwards to make his cute chicken man look to the sky as if he were pleading to God while talking about how he wants to be spared from a violent death.
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Heaven Above / int_eed321b1	comment	Ars Magica: Justified by the game's premise that medieval beliefs about reality are true in Mythic Europe. Therefore, the universe is geocentric and the lunar sphere marks the beginning of the Divine Realm.
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Heaven Above / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother: The characters occasionally pray for help (though only to "the universe") in tough spots, and they always do this by looking up and begging. In the case of the first season finale, a prayer to the sky even leads to a uniquely heavenly miracle: a heavy rain inexplicably appears and keeps the protagonist's love from leaving with the wrong man.
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Heaven Above / int_f57525ab	comment	It's a Wonderful Life: Whenever Clarence the angel talks to distant superiors, the audience know she's not just talking to himself because he's looking straight up at the sky, which is where angels are supposed to live.
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Heaven Above / int_f70c0e06	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: The doorway to God/the Truth apparently lies above the Earth, right in front of either the Moon or the Sun. It's hard to say which, since the door is opened during an eclipse which allows the villain to obtain the power of God.
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Heaven Above / int_fa4588b7	comment	The Passion of the Christ: When the film ends with His death, the camera angles above the crucifixion scene to show a lone teardrop falling down towards Jesus's corpse. The effect is similar to a Single Tear, as if the Father in Heaven is crying for His Son.
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Heaven Above / int_fd5d1e80	comment	Dinosaur Comics: Ever since God's second appearance, his text has always been portrayed as coming down from the sky, since God lives directly above our two dinosaur protagonists. Also, according to this strip, he used to intervene by reaching down his giant hands from the sky, but reaching that far tired him out and he stopped.
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