The Star (Tarot Card) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In The House of the Dead 4, part of Sega's House of the Dead series, The Star appears as a levitating humanoid able to control projectiles of light and serves as the penultimate boss of the game. All bosses in the House of the Dead series are named after the Major Arcana.
• The main character of the third series of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Kujo Jotaro, is the wielder of Star Platinum, a powerful Stand that enables him to stop time. It was named after this tarot card.
• In Persona 3 video game Mamoru Hayase is the Star Arcana (Social Link), while its PSP remake, Persona 3 Portable features Akihiko Sanada as the Star Arcana (Social Link) if the player chooses to follow female main character's storyline. In Persona 4 Teddie (Kuma in Japanese version) the walking empty bear suit is the Star Arcana Social Link. Star Arcana features various figures relating to the stars and light, such as Lucifer/Helel and Kaiwan.
• In X/1999, a manga made by CLAMP, the Star is Kusanagi Shiyuu.
• In the Mythic Tarot deck, the Star is depicted by Pandora's Box.
• The Star card is a major theme in Tom Robbins' "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas." An altered version of the card appears in "Part One" and is discussed throughout the book.
• Founding father of surrealism André Breton's 1945 book "Arcanum 17" invokes The Star as a figure of healing and reconciliation in post-war Europe.
• In 2012, composers Christopher Williams and Charlie Morrow adapted Breton's "Arcanum 17" into a multimedia composition for contrabass and tuba, text, and field recordings and MorrowSound® True 3D sound installation.
• In the SNES video game Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen, the Star Tarot card depicts a woman in a white dress standing on clouds and pouring two jugs of water from the starry sky onto the world. On drawing the card after liberation of one of the towns, it increases characters' agility by 1 point, and also increases their agility more when used in battle than when drawn on liberation, but only until the battle ends.
• In the popular Indie Game The Binding of Isaac, all of the Major Arcana/Minor Arcana Tarot cards can be found and used during gameplay. However, the corresponding card is labeled as "XVII The Stars" in the game. When used, it will teleport the player to the item room, if there is no item room, the card will act as a random teleport.