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Holy Backlight
- 297 statements
- 56 feature instances
- 38 referencing feature instances
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A character is lit from behind by a blinding light, usually making the figure indistinct. It makes for a dramatic appearance, and seems like something Jesus would do. Remember, Power Glows. This is what a Holy Halo is supposed to represent. Nearly all Messianic Archetypes will sport one of these at some point, but conversely, not all heroes who sport one of these are a Messianic Archetype; sometimes it's just there because it looks cool. And othertimes, the character in particular, may not even be heroic. Sister Trope to Battle Aura and Holy Halo. See also Background Halo. Contrast Infernal Background. When this lighting happens even though it's impossible, see Brightness Shadows. |
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| Holy Backlight / int_19a42c6f | type |
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| Holy Backlight / int_19a42c6f | comment |
It happens a couple of times in A Hard Day's Night. In the first "Can't Buy Me Love" when The Beatles first break out of the TV studio and into the field, they get backlit by the sun as they clamber downstairs. And Paul McCartney gets this for a second or two, via a stage light, near the end of the "And I Love Her" segment... What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic? | |
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Dechs, the Antihero for Hire, loves doing this, with the help of a portable floodlight. At one point, Crossroad complains about it, calling it his "Ghost of Christmas Past schtick". | |
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Angel: This happened to Cordelia Chase whilst she was twiddling her thumbs in the afterlife. | |
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| Holy Backlight / int_222a8847 | type |
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| Holy Backlight / int_222a8847 | comment |
Used in RoboCop (1987) when he busts the drug factory. | |
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| Holy Backlight / int_261c8d3f | type |
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| Holy Backlight / int_261c8d3f | comment |
Parodied (what else?) in The Simpsons episode "Bart's Girlfriend": Bart first sees Jessica when she steps to the church podium to do a Bible reading and she is immediately surrounded by a Holy Backlight. Bart exclaims "There IS a God!"... then we cut to outside to see that a lighthouse is shining its light directly at the church window. | |
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| Holy Backlight / int_34a70b48 | type |
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The ending of Batman Forever, the Bat-signal filling in for the light. | |
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| Holy Backlight / int_39136df1 | type |
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Parodied in School Rumble during Harima's hermit/god phase, when he also displays a Friend to All Living Things persona. | |
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| Holy Backlight / int_3e5de40b | type |
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| Holy Backlight / int_3e5de40b | comment |
Parodied in Scrubs with Kevin Casey, who simply blinks and asks the nurse in the next room to turn the incredibly bright light away from him. | |
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| Holy Backlight / int_46823c49 | type |
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| Holy Backlight / int_46823c49 | comment |
Moriarty the Patriot back-lights William this way pretty much...any time anyone compares him to Jesus. Which is quite frequent, considering he considers himself the devil. | |
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| Holy Backlight / int_47dfc6f | comment |
In the Total Drama story, Legacy, Heather comes out of the kitchen and sees Duncan standing in the doorway to the lodge, but she can't make out much detail at first because he is backlit. When he comes into the lodge and is no longer backlit, she recognizes him. | |
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| Holy Backlight / int_49a88442 | type |
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Parodied in Final Fantasy XIV, where Gentleman Detective Hildibrand Manderville is standing in front of a bald man applying hair tonic. When the light fades, the bald man has grown a full head of blond hair. | |
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| Holy Backlight / int_4c16b4e7 | type |
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| Holy Backlight / int_4c16b4e7 | comment |
In the true ending route of Tokyo Necro, Ethica's Big Damn Heroes moment during the final battle has her backlit by a rainbow light◊. Fitting given the rainbow hue is associated with Substance-Concept, a digital being seen as a modern divinity and Ethica now has her backing. This while entering a church no less. | |
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| Holy Backlight / int_4f4d1b05 | type |
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| Holy Backlight / int_4f4d1b05 | comment |
The titular hero does this after bursting through a door in the villain's lair in The Return of Captain Invincible. | |
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| Holy Backlight / int_5b3356f8 | type |
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| Holy Backlight / int_5b3356f8 | comment |
In Turning Red, when Mei's aunties first make their appearance they are backlit until they take off their Cool Shades. | |
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| Holy Backlight / int_638624c8 | type |
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Parodied in Slayers when Amelia stands serenely atop a pillar looking out to the sea while in the unexplored (by the magical part) Muggle part of the world. While the Muggles below look horrified at a small girl standing at a high location thinking she'll fall, this turns to shock when the see her fly down with the sun's rays behind her, and assume she's an angel. Being the Love Freak that she is, she uses this to convert them to the way of justice. | |
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Mako's first memory of Pentecost in Pacific Rim. The memory may be subjective, as memories often are. | |
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Parodied in Shugo Chara!, where Amu makes a dramatic entrance in her Amulet Angel form. Turns out the backlighting is provided by Ran, Miki, and Suu operating floodlights behind her. | |
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In Exodus 34, when Moses returns from speaking with God, his face is so bright with rays of light that he has to wear a veil when talking to mortals. The word for "rays" is almost the same as the word for "horns", leading to portrayals of Moses with horns and the canard that Jews have horns. | |
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In the X-Wing Series novel "Iron Fist", Big Bad Zsinj makes some preparations for a meeting with potential allies, then stands in front of a hologram of the galaxy and asks The Dragon, Melvar, what he thinks. General Melvar dryly notes that he might also want to be softly backlit to give him a holy glow. | |
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| Holy Backlight / int_77582c7b | comment |
X-Men: Days of Future Past: When Past Xavier first meets Logan, the former stands in front of very large windows with his family's crests, which are made out of stained glass. This gives the scene a church-like feel, and the sunshine is quite bright compared to Charles' dark silhouette, so it gives the impression that he's bathed in holy light. | |
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| Holy Backlight / int_7884ec15 | comment |
Used comedically in Seinfeld—a priest sees Elaine, in a modest white dress, backlit by the window with the sun behind it, and think's she's the Virgin Mary. | |
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For some inexplicable reason, Eliwood rescuing Ninian in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. It even comes with a Pietà Plagiarism bonus! | |
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Gandalf the White in The Lord of the Rings. | |
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God is so bright in Dante's writings you can't see him at all, while God in Paradise Lost is like this for the first few minutes... then becomes a grumpy, rather repellent old man. | |
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Holy Backlight | |
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In The Last Days of FOXHOUND, Solid Snake appears exclusively in this manner. | |
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A M*A*S*H episode with a "Rashomon"-Style story line had Major Burns' version of the story showing him as a cool, capable surgeon, backlit in a very holy fashion. | |
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NCIS, one of the first episodes of Season 7, pulled off by - who else? - Gibbs, after shooting the bastard who tortured his team, beating the crap out of said bastard's lackeys, AND arriving in a few minutes from a mile away. Not impossible, but nothing is with Gibbs. | |
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Kirk's entrance in Star Trek II. | |
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Played for laughs during the Dressrossa arc of One Piece when Usopp saves the day with dumb luck, freeing hundreds of warriors from the effects of Sugar's Devil Fruit. A giant among them lifts him up by the arms so everyone can see the face of their savior... at which point the ceiling above them crumbles for reasons related to an entirely separate plot line, leading light to spill down from on high and cause everyone to start praising Usopp as a god. | |
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This seems to have been a particular favourite of special effects director Koichi Kawakita, as the Heisei era films of the Godzilla series all employ this trope to great extents. Perhaps the most prominent example comes at the finale of Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, where the scene where Godzilla Junior is shown to have come back to life is fully backlit, confirming his return to the world of the living after his father's meltdown brought him back. | |
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In the Futurama episode "A Tale of Two Santas", as Bender is about to be executed for being Santa Claus, each of the main cast enters dressed as Santa declaring "I am also Santa Claus!", despite the fact that Santa is a robot. Zoidberg enters last, backlit and dressed as Jesus. "And I'm his friend Jesus!" | |
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In Bruce Almighty, the title character is gifted with all of God's powers. He them uses them to make his girlfriend have a series of incredibly powerful orgasms, followed by "Heavenly" sex. While this is happening, Bruce uses his powers to make the lights in the bedroom and bathroom grow incredibly bright and flicker, causing them to be bathed in a white light. | |
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The Overwatch theatrical teaser has Mercy swoop down to rescue a little girl stuck in rubble with the sun in her back. (30 seconds mark) Her angelic wings motif certainly helps. | |
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In Angels in America, the Angel is described as "four divine emanations - phosphor, fluor, lumen, candle." In stage versions and the TV miniseries, this usually means she is back-lit to an almost blinding degree. | |
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The cast of Touched by an Angel always get the glowing treatment whenever they reveal their true nature. | |
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Eldwin from The Bug Pond receives this when he saves Flash from drowning. | |
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Jake Blues' release from prison at the start of The Blues Brothers. | |
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The Crow has this during the "I do care" scene in the movie, with Eric silhouetted by the sun in the big window. | |
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Parodied in Black Books when Manny is briefly transformed into a human "Little Book of Calm". | |
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Holy Backlight | |
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Doctor Who: "The Parting of the Ways": When Rose becomes the Bad Wolf, she exits the TARDIS glowing and backlit by golden light. Bonus points for her hair having that weird I-look-like-I'm-underwater-but-I'm-not thing going on. The Doctor in "The Fires of Pompeii" when he goes back to rescue Caecilius and his family. |
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On Guiding Light after a character was shot and in the hospital, he complained to one of the nurses that he kept seeing strange flashes of light. When it happened again, he suddenly realized that they only happened when he saw this particular nurse and then realized that she was actually an angel come to escort him to heaven. | |
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Rosalina's first appearance in Super Mario Galaxy. Appropriate, since she might be God. | |
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Holy Backlight | |
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Unlike the rest of her family, Ryuko actually inverts this in the Kill la Kill fanfic, Natural Selection. Her backlight is a demonic blood red, which signifies her bloodlust and sadism. | |
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In Season 5 of The Amazing Race, the editors used a version of the Holy Backlight on, of all things, an airport departures board when a team that was outspokenly Christian were talking about their faith. To underline the effect, the editors also added a sound effect of a heavenly choir. On the next leg, the same sound effect was used, along with a shot of a line of white-robed nuns descending an escalator, when the same team was able to secure seats on an earlier flight that hadn't been available the day before. | |
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Played with in an episode of Battlestar Galactica. When Kara goes to see Anders, who has become a Hybrid, the hallway lighting makes her look angelic as she stands in the doorway. When she steps inside the room and the door closes, the Matrix Raining Code projected onto her makes her look demonic. | |
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Holy Backlight | |
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Seen with Tyrael in the final cinematic of Diablo III, as he once again takes his place on the Angiris Council, this time in the place of Wisdom. | |
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Holy Backlight | |
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Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia books. | |
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Holy Backlight | |
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In the True Blood episode "I'm Alive and on Fire", while Hoyt and Jessica are driving, they spot a badly wounded Jason by the side of the road. As they tend to him, the car's headlights create a beautiful glow around Jessica. This plus being fed Jessica's vampire blood to heal him triggers Jason's attraction to her. | |
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Holy Backlight | |
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In The Hunchback of Notre Dame, there is a backlit soldier in the middle of "hellfire" who interrupts Frollo's mad rantings, stating that Esmeralda escaped the cathedral. This is presented as Frollo's last attempt at salvation if he chooses to accept that she's out of his life. | |
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Holy Backlight | |
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The Frighteners has this as Michael J. Fox' character gets booted back to life by his ghostly afterlife pals. Who've got the holy light behind them. | |
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Hidamari Sketch: After mentioning how Yuno ("Juno") (Note for English speakersIn most European languages the J in "Juno" pronounced like an English "Y".) is the goddess of marriages, Miyako has Yuno stand in front of the glass door to show off her divine power. Behold the power of backlighting... | |
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Holy Backlight | |
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In Dragonlance, the Kingpriest of Istar, Beldinas Pilofiro, a very talented healer and spellcasting cleric, is constantly surrounded by an aura of holy light... which hides the fact that he's frightened of everything. | |
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Parodied in The Muppets (2011), in which obsessive Muppet fan Walter's first meeting with Kermit the Frog has Kermit bathed in light while an Ethereal Choir sings. Then the choir bus with its headlights on full drives past and things go back to normal. | |
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Holy Backlight | |
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It happens in Ghost (1990), just before Sam goes to Heaven. Notably this is the only time in the entire film his girlfriend sees him as a ghost. | |
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Holy Backlight | |
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Kyon is seen that way by Kanae in Kyon: Big Damn Hero after fighting a giant robot at the beach. | |
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Holy Backlight | |
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An episode of Cold Case reverses this by having a Holy Backlight incident be the trigger for a serial killer's mania, leading to his first murder: the poor backlighted sap. | |
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