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== Anime ==
* ''[[Tegami Bachi]]'' The Earth's natural sun has long since expired, and so a small man-made sun was created. The capital "Akatsuki" enjoys simulated daylight. The middle-class region, "Yuusari", is in a state of perpetual twilight. In the impoverished region "Yodaka", the artificial sun is no brighter than a full moon.
* ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]: Innocence'' happens almost entirely at nighttime, save for one brief outside scene before an attack to Yakuza office, and a couple of sunrise/sunset scenes near the end.
* ''[[Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hen]]'', over it's entire series, only had a fight happen in the daytime two, maybe three times.
* In its full three series, ''[[Gregory Horror Show]]'' plays this straight. In the video game, you could go outside at 3:00 PM and it would look the same as night, and in the sub-series ''The Bloody Karte'', which featured some periods of twilight.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Invincible]]'', the Batman [[Expy]] Darkwing operates in "Midnight City" which takes the dark look of Gotham to the extreme - due to a spell, it's always midnight in that particular city.
** The dialogue during it's introduction also provides a rather effective deconstruction of it.
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* ''[[The Crow]]'' is all about darkness. And rain. But mostly darkness...
** There actually are a few daytime scenes in the film: the movie takes place over the course of two nights.
*** Besides, [[As You Wish|it can't rain all the time...]]
* ''[[The Abyss]]'' looks like night because it's underwater -- the above-water scenes are daylit.
* Even the scenes of ''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]'' that are ostensibly daytime are, at least, very cloudy.
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* ''[[Pitch Black]]'' plays with this. Due to the triple sun, it is always daytime on the planet - except once every 22 years, when there is a triple eclipse, during which time it is [[Always Night]].
* In [[Grave Encounters]] this is played seriously, as the entire time it is always night, however the hospital the crew is stuck in seems to be doing this to them on purpose.
* "Film/Invincible": Every scene in Vince Papale's neighborhood. Everywhere else, like all the NFL scenes are done in daylight.
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== Literature ==
* [[William Hope Hodgson]]'s ''[[The Night Land]]''. In the far future, the Sun has gone out and the only light is from residual vulcanism. The Last Redoubt of humanity is surrounded by terrible monsters waiting for its protective power source to fail.
* In [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''Jack of Shadows'', the world does not turn on its axis and is divided into a fantasy Nightside and a high-tech Dayside; this ends when {{spoiler|Jack breaks the compact and the machine at the heart of the Nightside world, causing morning to come and releasing Lucifer}}.
* Simon R Green's ''[[Nightside]]'' series takes place in a (presumably) fictional part of London where it's always night (hence the name) and everything in it definitely goes bump.
* Almost all of the first two books in the [[Great Alta Saga]] takes place at night because many of the characters can only appear by the light of the moon or in the shadows cast by candles.
* [[Isaac Asimov]]'s short story (and later novel) ''[[Nightfall]]'' averts this. The whole premise of the story is a planet that has 7 suns, so nobody on the planet has ever seen total darkness. That is until {{spoiler|the suns are eclipsed by a large dark body, throwing the entire planet into darkness and causing mass riots, leading to civilization's destruction.}}.
* Played with in Cormac McCarthy's ''[[The Road]]''. Though not so much [[Always Night]] as Never Day; the huge amounts of ash in the air (presumably from nuclear winter) make even noonday fairly dim. McCarthy mentions multiple times that the boy has never actually seen the sun. This is exacerbated by the time of year the story takes place in, mentioning that [[No Name Given|the man]] thinks it's November toward the start of the book.
* The ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' story 'Hell Night' by Nick Kyme has a planet where the titular night lasts for weeks... And it always rains. And angry ghosts rise from the mud and drag soldiers down, if they don't kill them outright.
* [[George R. R. Martin]]'s ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' refers ominously to "The Long Night" as a synonym for Winter (which can last years in Westeros).
* Inverted in [[The Resaurant At The End Of The Universe]]. Ursa Beta Minor, by an inexplicable and somewhat suspicious freak of topography consists almost entirely of subtropical coastline. By an equally suspicious freak of temporal relastatics, it is nearly always Saturday afternoon just before the beach bars close.
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** Bad Manor/Boogie Mansion/Crescent Moon Village/Arabian Night/Uncanny Mansion in the ''[[Wario Land]]'' series. As well as the Shakedown Schooner oddly enough, which is the Shake King's pirate ship.
** Horror Manor from ''[[Wario World]]'' and Blowhole Castle from ''[[Wario Master of Disguise]]''.
** The Spooky chapter in ''[[
** Hang Castle/Mystic Mansion in ''[[Sonic Heroes]]''. Not to mention Casino Night in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]'' and similar stages throughout the series. Justified in [[Sonic Adventure]], in which an [[Exposition Fairy]] will inform you that the casino isn't open during the day.
** ''[[Mario Kart]]'' has this in spades. Luigi's Mansion...twice in said game as a track. Banshee Boardwalk. Boo Lake/Broken Pier, Ghost Valley 1-3 (which just have a void for the background, pure blackness), Twilight House, etc.
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*** Until the final boss anyway.
** The first two ''[[Fatal Frame]]'' games. Notably, ''not'' Fatal Frame 3, the hours not spent in the mansion took place in the daytime. Don't know about the fourth game since [[No Export for You|Nintendo didn't see fit to export it.]]
*** Justified in the second game, seeing as {{spoiler|the village has been cursed to relive the night of its destruction over and over}}.
** It's [[Always Night]] in [[Fatal Frame]] 4 too.
* Besides the aforementioned Spooky, the War and Heist chapters in ''[[
* The zombie-infested Ravenholm section of ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' is at night. Though this lets you see a literal light at the end of the tunnel when you escape from Ravenholm's mines the next morning.
** Then there are the user made modifications for the original ''Half-life'', called ''[[They Hunger]]'' and ''[[Afraid of Monsters]]''.
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* Due to the paraSOL, ''[[Boktai|Lunar Knights]]'' starts out like this. Daybreak starts to spread from the Hunting Mansion and Acuna once Lucian [[Deader Than Dead|purifies]] Margrave Rymer.
* ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' invokes this deliberately, though the sequel breaks it.
* ''Kingdom Hearts'' features Halloweentown and the World That Never Was.
* ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' takes place in the timespan of a single night, as does its sequel, ''[[Batman: Arkham City|Arkham City]]''.
* The ''Shutokou Battle'' series of [[Driving Game|Driving Games]] always takes place at night, since (illegal) street racing is done mostly at night to avoid heavy traffic and to reduce chances of police encounters. What makes this a little odd is that the games have in-game clocks that typically correspond to your system's internal clock and is used in requirements for two [[Guide Dang It|Wanderers]], so the in-game clock could read 2 PM, yet the streets look like it's 2 AM.
* ''[[Marvel Nemesis]]: Rise of the Imperfects''.
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** In the same game, Ganondorf places the world under a curse of perpetual night from the time you arive on Greatfish Ilse until you find Nayru's Pearl. In this instance, it works out in your favor; the pirates are also seeking the pearl, but they've stopped at Windfall Island for the night and claim they'll set off on their adventure when morning comes.
** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'', the first time you enter the Arbiter's Grounds compound, the key action will always take place at night, even if you enter during the datime, in which the day will pass much faster than usual until it is night.
* Very, very common in 1990s first person shooters, since dark backgrounds ran more smoothly on the video cards of the day.
* In ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'', the continent where the town of Arlee is located is always dark due to the effects of [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon|Dhaos' castle]] being nearby.
* [[Seiken Densetsu 3]]: The Moonreading Tower keeps the beast kingdom in perpetual night, so that all of the beastmen are [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock|locked]] into werewolf mode.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]]''. The majority of episodes took place at night for some unknown reason. Apparently the sun was destroyed between Ben10 and this show and they never got around to telling that story.
** Well, it's cooler at night, and the Highbreed prefer the cold, so they probably hang back in the AC during the day and come out when it's night. Also, now that it's no longer summer, Ben is in a [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World]] situation.
* One half of ''Eternia'', in both the '80s and the '00s versions of ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'', is shrouded in eternal night. Naturally, it's the half where the villains live.
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' was drawn and colored on black paper, meaning that even the few scenes in bright daylight had a dark look to them..
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