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{{quote|''"Do you feel it, the moon's power?"''
The '''{{color|silver|moon}}''' does things to people. Makes women crazy, drives the lunatics, or maybe enhances your supernatural powers. The full moon might bring out the monster in someone, or a new moon may bring the human out of a monster. In general, the moon is often a catalyst in magical things.
More mundane things are stealth on the night of a new moon, or illumination on the night of a full moon. A full moon is associated with [[Our Werewolves Are Different|lycanthropy]] as the most common way to trigger the transformation (a trope that is somewhat [[Newer Than They Think]]). The duality of the sun and moon is also seen as mirroring the duality of men and women. From that, the moon is usually a feminine symbol (this may be because both have [[No Periods, Period|monthly cycles]]).
The words "lunacy", "lunatic", and "loony" are derived from "Luna" because of the folk belief in the moon as a cause of periodic insanity.
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See [[Bad Moon Rising]] for situations where the moon itself is changed. See also [[Melancholy Moon]] for when used as a sad backdrop.
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== Anime and Manga ==▼
▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Inverted In ''[[Inuyasha]]'', the main character loses his demonic powers during the new moon.
* Saiyans with tails on turn into giant monkeys by seeing the moon on ''[[
* In ''[[Tsukihime]]'', power of vampires is dependent on the phase of the moon. On full moon, even {{spoiler|regenerating from one's ankles up}} is possible.
* Similar to the Tsukihime example, vampires (or at least Evangeline, the only vampire we've actually met) in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' grow stronger as the moon gets closer to full.
** Promptly subverted in that she gets more mileage out of people knowing this and thus being less prepared for what she can do when the moon's ''not'' full. We haven't actually seen her and a full moon together since learning about the connection. From her.
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', whose powers are fueled by [[The Power of Love|love]], [[The Power of Friendship|friendship]], and the [[Exactly What It Says
* In what might be a [[Shout
* [[Older Than They Look|Asumi Mamiya]] from ''[[Magikano]]'' can [[Energy Absorption|use the energy]] of the full moon to [[Dual Age Modes|transform]] back into a sexy adult woman.
* From ''[[One Piece]]'', [https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Carrot?file=Carrot+Anime+Infobox.png#Sulong_Form Carrot] can awaken a primal ability unique to the Mink Tribe called "Sulong" ("Moon Lion") by looking at the full moon. Doing so causes her to change into an embodiment of the [[Moon Rabbit]], a [https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Sulong?file=Carrot_Sulong_Form.png feral, mystical, scarier version of herself], vastly increasing her strength, speed, leaping ability, and fighting ability, all of which are already greater than a human's, while giving her [[Shock and Awe|electric-themed powers]]. Changing back simply requires shielding her eyes from the moonlight.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Name a series with [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolves]] in it, any series.
** [[Discworld]] subverts the "full moon = magic" cliché: the effect of the full moon on werewolves is mentioned but rarely has much impact (though there is the humourous consequence of werewolves suffering from their 'time of the month' - PLT, Pre-Lunar Tension). Instead, on Discworld the most magical phase is a half moon, because it's [[Balance Between Good and Evil|on the edge between light and darkness]].
** The [[Night Watch]] averts it completely. Werevolves do suffer from periods of uncontrollable transformation and feral rage but the timing is depends on their biology and has nothing to do with the state of the moon.
** [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] has a short story that involves a transformation on ''moonless'' nights. It's made obvious early on that something even weirder than usual is going on. {{spoiler|[[Tomato Surprise|The narrator's a wolf]], and the "monster" transforms into a human.}}
* In the [[James Bond]] novel ''[[From Russia
* In the C.J. Henderson novel ''All Things Under the Moon'', the villain explains that the moon doesn't trigger his transformations: "The moon does not make me into a monster. I did that to myself - a long time ago. The moon only makes the monster kill."
* [[Harry Turtledove]]'s Werenight revolves around that world's [[Weird Moon|Three moons going full at once]], which triggers lycanthropic transformations in every single person who may remotely have the bloodline for it.
* This is a major theme in most of Simon R Green's works. Most notably his "[[Blue Moon Rising]]" series in which the world is plunged into chaos and darkness when the titular moon rises and a demon horde is unleashed, and his standalone novel ''[[Drinking Midnight Wine]]'' which features an [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of the moon itself who is stark staring bonkers!
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "[[Iron Shadows in
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* In ''[[The Name of the Wind]]'', when Elodin and Kvothe visit [[Bedlam House|the Rookery]], it's commented that the moon makes the patients worse. [[Justified Trope|This may actually be true]], since the moon seems to be linked to both their world and the Fae realm, and the insane may be seeing through a weak spot between worlds.
== [[Live-Action
▲* The Character [[Moon Knight]] in Marvel comics is a former special forces operative that met and became the Avatar of the Egyptian god of the Moon and Revenge. Or he is just bat shit crazy as he suffers from extreme multiple personality disorder at times. [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|His ability to be a hero]] just makes up for how full blown bonkers he can become, as he actually [[What the Hell Hero|cut the face off his arch enemy]] at one point.
* An episode of ''[[Castle]]'' focuses on two murders committed on the evening of the full moon; the beginning features a scene of utter chaos in the station house, with a whole load of lunatics and maniacs causing havoc in the squad room, and all the phones ringing off the hook... with Detective Beckett calmly sitting at her desk doing paperwork and Richard Castle happily sitting beside her with a bowl of popcorn watching the chaos.
* [[Kamen Rider Double]]'s '''{{color|gold|Luna}}''' Memory grants him the power of the Moon; officially it grants "[[Master of Illusion|the power of illusions]]", which manifests as [[Rubber Man]] powers for his [[Good Old Fisticuffs]] ('''Joker''') and [[Simple Staff]] ('''{{color|silver|Metal}}'''), and [[Roboteching]] [[Beam Spam]] for his [[Handgun]] ('''{{color|blue|Trigger}}''')
* In ''[[Power Rangers Wild Force]],'' Zen-Aku is like Inuyasha - on the night of the new moon, he loses his powers {{spoiler|and becomes his human self again}}. However, he gets full moon power Inuyasha doesn't get. Basically, his power waxes and wanes with the moon's phases as a rule. (This also accounts for the traditional [[As Strong As They Need To Be]] factor the show has. Invincible in his first and last battles; whenever one Ranger is a match for him, it must not be near full moon time!)
== [[Music]] ==
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▲* Not about werewolves or magic, but "Dancing In The Moonlight" counts.
== Tabletop Games ==▼
* Actively used in ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' with the goddess Selûne, according to some mythologies, the oldest deity in existence (barring her [[Evil Twin]]), and certainly is venerated all over the place under different names. Her portfolio is - moon, stars, navigation, navigators, wanderers, seekers and non-evil lycanthropes. However, the actual moon of Toril is ''not'' her domain - it's inhabited, but veiled in a great illusion of a barren stone done by the goddess of lies and illusion who used to have a great influence there. Because the locals are traditionally paranoid about inhabitants of Toril, who they sure want to get them. Which may or may not have something to do with an ancient unfortunate accident, when a magical superweapon built to shoot a passing comet turned out to be misaligned and blasted off a chunk of the moon instead - some of the resulting fragments formed a Trojan asteroid cluster known as Tears of Selûne, the others gave Toril a few new craters, including a whole inner sea (and enough of a disturbance that the device itself was forgotten), and obviously some had to fall back.
* In ''[[Magic:
* In the ''[[Dragonlance]]'' setting, arcane magic is governed by the three moons Solinari, Lunitari, and Nuitari (and the deities of the same names).
** Solinari is silver, Lunitari is red and Nuitari is [[Weird Moon|black]]. The last governs evil magic, and is, for obvious reasons, really hard to see.
* Luna, the mother of all werewolves, gets similar treatment in ''[[Werewolf: The Forsaken]]''. "Ever-Shifting Luna" is a more polite way of saying "Bitch ''crazy''." For instance, she has spirits, known as the Lunes, who oversee each of the [[Splat|auspices]] and dispense wisdom to the Forsaken. The reason no werewolves ever try to make one a pack totem is because continued exposure to them can drive a werewolf insane.
** And then there's what the moon phase does for werewolves. Like in [[Werewolf: The Apocalypse
* ''[[
* ''[[Exalted]]'' gives similar treatment to Luna, specifically how her chosen, the Lunar Exalted, regard her. Like all Exalted, Lunars accrue [[Limit Break|Limit]] if they go against their guiding Virtues; however, they ''also'' gain Limit whenever the full moon's in the sky. Instead of realizing there may be some external reason for their [[Heroic BSOD|occasional crazy rampages]], they just ascribe it to Luna being chaotic like that.
** And as in ''Werewolf'', a Lunar's role is linked to a phase of the moon; here, however, it's chosen by the Lunar, as they lost the inherent assignation of Caste when the Lunars as a whole fled into [[Reality Is Out to Lunch|the Wyld]] after the Usurpation. Those that aren't marked are the Casteless, whose Caste abilities shift with the moon and bear the risk of becoming [[Body Horror|Chimerae]]. The other three positions are Full Moon (warriors), Changing Moon (tricksters and diplomats), and No Moon (sorcerers and scholars); there used to be five Castes, but again, the Wyld screwed with that.
* ''[[
* ''[[Dungeons
== [[Video
* ''[[
▲* ''[[Okami (Video Game)|Okami]]'' has Yumigami, a [[Moon Rabbit|rabbit god]] who gives you the power of Crescent, allowing you to change day to night. [[Not Completely Useless|It's rarely useful]].
** Then there are Mr. and Mrs. Cutter, two [[Youkai|crow tengus]] who disguise themselves as human. Mrs. Cutter specifically says that during the full moon their kind gets too excited for them to move outside without exposing themselves.
* In ''[[Touhou]] Imperishable Night'', if you reach the "true" moon, the [[Big Bad]] reveals that {{spoiler|"pure" moonbeams can drive humans insane. In one of Remilia and Sakuya's [[Multiple Endings|endings]], it drives all the ''non''-human characters insane.}}
** [[Moon Rabbit|Reisen Udongein Inaba]], one of the said [[Big Bad]]'s servants, has the literal power to drive people crazy with nothing more than a [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|glance]].
** In the Extra Mode of that game, a convenient full moon turns [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Keine Kamishirasawa]] into her hakutaku form, making her enough of a challenge to serve as an [[Bonus Boss|extra stage]] [[Mid Boss]].
** [[Our Vampires Are Different|Remilia Scarlet]]'s powers are at their strongest during the Scarlet Moon, setting the stage for the final showdown of ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil''.
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** You can guarantee that you get the best items from ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne]]'s'' Mystical Chests by opening them during a full moon. The drop rate of Gems is also highest at this point.
*** Technically, that's not a moon. In Nocturne, the moon, along with the rest of the world, [[After the End|has been destroyed.]] What the game tracks, instead, is the brightening and darkening of Kagutsuchi. Hence, Nocturne is one of the few games with a good reason for why the "moon"'s phase changes every few steps you take, as opposed to taking days to change phase.
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* In ''[[Final Fantasy IV:
* ''[[Secret of Mana]]'' has [[Exactly What It Says
** Luna returns in ''[[Seiken Densetsu 3]]''. Very few classes have access to any of Luna's spells, but Hawk's Wanderer class can cast all but one of them.
* In ''[[Suikoden II]]'', one of the 27 True Runes is the Moon Rune, which grants its wielder [[Immortality]], at the cost of [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampirism, of course.]] The original possessor of the Rune, [[Mysterious Waif|Sierra Mikain,]] is said to be the oldest Vampire in existence.
* ''[[Pokémon]]'' has a move called "Moonlight" that restores HP based on the weather, and in the games they debuted in, the time of day. In later games, it works identically to its counterpart, "Morning Sun," which results of a [[Dub
** According to the Pokédex, Eevee evolves into its Dark-type evolution Umbreon by exposure to the light of the moon, Lunatone becomes active during the full moon, and Cresselia extends its aurora during the quarter moon.
** There's also the Moon Stone, which allows a miscellaneous grouping of Pokémon to evolve. Only one of them, Clefairy, has any connections to the moon, being said to have originated on it.
* Subverted with the summon [http://images.wikia.com/aselia/images/4/42/Luna.jpg Luna]{{Dead link}}, in ''[[
** One could argue that, since the Moon mirror the light of the Sun, Luna (Moon) is simply the flip-side of Aska (Sun).
* In ''[[
* [[Ax Crazy]] Mitsunari of ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' has a moon theme going on in order to [[Solar and Lunar|contrast with his nemesis]] Ieyasu. As an [[Iaijutsu Practitioner]], his slashes make crescent shapes and a moon appears in both his [[Limit Break]] and his stage. The game often uses sun and moon imagery in order to symbolize the both and the final battle between them is represented as a solar eclipse.
* ''[[Wizard 101]]'' has the moon school in Celestia. It's powers involve [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|shape-shifting]].
== [[Web
* One of the many running gags in ''[[Sinfest]]'' is "Aah! Full moon! I'm turning into [whatever the character is most afraid of becoming]." As with most of ''Sinfest'''s running gags, the precise results can vary
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲* One of the many running gags in ''[[Sinfest]]'' is "Aah! Full moon! I'm turning into [whatever the character is most afraid of becoming]." As with most of ''Sinfest'''s running gags, the precise results can vary wildly--for instance, a [[Horny Devil|demoness]] turns into a housewife.
* #5 of ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_20332_5-unrealistic-movie-cliches-that-are-scientifically-accurate.html 5 Unrealistic Movie Cliches That Are Scientifically Accurate] explains moon fear as the result of a rise in lion attacks on the first few days after the full moon once the lions have become hungrier.
== Western Animation ==▼
▲== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Futurama]]'' with the were-car. Even though the transformation had nothing to do with the moon, the were-cars howled/honked at it anyway.
* Waterbenders of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' are powered by the moon's cycles (the Moon being the first water-bender
** However, by ''[[
* ''[[
* An episode of ''[[
* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "The Doof Side of the Moon", [[Card
** Cue a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when it hits him why rotating the moon half way around has no effect on the lunar phases. [[Completely Missing the Point|And then reasons that he should have rotated the Sun instead]].
* Shikata, the [[Samurai]] [[Blood Knight]] mercenary [[Ki Attacks|ki-adept]] hired to kill Spider-Man in
* Princess Luna from ''[[My Little Pony
== Real Life ==▼
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
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** On a subconscious, biological level, humans, being descended from potential prey animals, would [[Properly Paranoid|logically tend to be more anxious]] under conditions in which predators would find it easier to see us, such as during the full moon. Which would explain any peripheral freakiness - [[Truth in Television|such as anecdotal increases in agitation among sufferers of panic-anxiety and bipolar disorders]] - a ''lot'' better than, say, positive ions or tidal gravity.
* On June 15, 2011, there was a [
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