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* The ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' OVA has Demitri inflicting this upon the Earth, driving humanity to desperation—and setting up [[Light Is Not Good]] symbolism when [[Big Bad]] Pyron drives the night away with his presence.

** Incidentally, if the sky's perpetually covered with clouds, [[Fridge Logic|how can]] [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Jon Tailban]] turn into a wolfman if there's no moon?

* [[Big Bad|Hades]] in ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' wants to {{spoiler|bring the Greatest Eclipse which would darken the earth forever.}}

 

* This is the whole premise of DC's ''[[Final Night]]'' [[Crisis Crossover|crossover event]], when the Earth's superheroes are ''completely'' and ''totally'' unable to keep the Sun from being eaten, even with help from the villains. Only the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] of [[Green Lantern|Hal Jordan]] saves the day.

* Obsidian attempts to spread darkness over the entire world in an arc of ''[[Justice Society of America]]''.

** He does it again with the help of Mordru and Eclipso in the "Princes of Darkness" arc...and succeeds.

 

* [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/06/story-corona-blaze.html Corona Blaze], a ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic, provides a [[Endless Daytime|rare]] [[Inverted Trope|inversion]] with a ''daytime'' that lasts forever. A great deal of fanwork involving Celestia transforming the way her sister did tends to share this theme.

** Antipodes features both, with the sun and moon freezing in place.

 

* In ''[[The Matrix]]'', the sky is darkened not by the villainous machines, but by the humans who sought to cut off their supply of solar power.

* The Strangers from ''[[Dark City]]'' die when exposed to sunlight, so they keep the titular city in a constant state of night.

* Subverted in ''[[30 Days of Night]]'', in that the vampires don't cause the absence of sun, they take advantage of the fact that it's naturally absent.

 

* In [[The Bible]], one of the ten plagues God punishes Egypt with in Exodus is darkness.

** Hell has a literal example of this trope.

* F. Paul Wilson's Adversary Cycle ends with the threat of this trope, as every day the sun inexplicably rises later and sets earlier than the last.

* In the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] novel ''Goth Opera'', vampires use a 'time freeze' to bring this about so they can go about their plan to vampirise humanity without having to worry about getting caught in the sunlight.

 

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* In ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]]'' the [[Wicked Witch]] planned on locking the suns behind the moon during a solar eclipse.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has used this trope a couple of times:

* The TOS ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode "I Am the Night--Color Me Black" has darkness enveloping regions of the world where hatred reigns.

 

* [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7YMZB6ds10 Always The Moon]".

{{quote|<poem>''Remember when there was a you and me?

''Ho! for the death of Time!''</poem>}}

== Tabletop Games ==

* In ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'':

** The dual plane of Lorwyn/Shadowmoor switches between the two settings every few decades. Lorwyn never gets darker than dusk, while Shadowmoor never quite sees dawn. It's also very unpleasant, since most of the creatures that were nice in Lorwyn are monstrous in Shadowmoor.

** The plane of Diraden (inspired in part by Shadowmoor) in ''[[Magic: The Gathering/The Purifying Fire|The Purifying Fire]]'' was put under a curse of eternal night by the evil vampire [[Evil Overlord|Prince Velrav]].

 

 

* ''[[Touhou Project|Imperishable Night]]'' sees the fugitive Lunarians in Gensokyo using powerful magic to seal the land from their home world, with a false moon placed in the artifical sky created as part of the spell. This causes lots of problems for humans and youkai alike, which in turn requires the heroines to help solve the problem.

** Subverted big time; The Night That Never Ends is ''[[What the Hell, Hero?|caused by your heroines]]'' to buy time. The false moon only appears at night, and if you fail to reach the source of the problem and fix it before the supposed time for dawn, [[Nonstandard Game Over|the game ends]]. Also, Keine Kamishirasawa (who defends the humans) and either one of Reimu Hakurei (who enforces law) or Marisa Kirisame (who is pissed off with your unnatural magic) will fight you to stop your heroines' madman scheme. [[Let's You and Him Fight]], definitely. [[All There in the Manual|Supplemental material]] even indicates that most people in the land were completely unaware of the true threat and just assume the heroines actually solved the problem of the unending night.

* In ''[[Dark Souls]]'', the First Flame that originally brought forth life is slowly dying, and sunlight is dying with it. There are already regions of the world that are covered in permanent darkness {{spoiler|such as Anor Londo, which only looks sunlit thanks to an illusion.}} While the ostensible goal of the Chosen Undead is to rekindle the First Flame, {{spoiler|the Primordial Serpent Darkstalker Kaathe}} claims that The Night That Never Ends [[Dark Is Not Evil|won't necessarily be a bad thing for everyone in the long run.]]

 

* ''[[Aurora Danse Macabre]]'' is set in The Night That Never Ends.

* In the ''Two Moons'' comic, the sun hasn't risen in 500 years, and [[Crapsack World|life sucks.]] {{spoiler|Much later it does rise, and it's hinted that it won't set for another 500 years.}}

 

* The dark future in [[Spes Phthisica]]: "a carmine ember that could once have been a sun burns coldly in the sky, giving scarcely any light or warmth."

* [[Terramirum]] Starts with the sun imploding and the moon getting blown away, and works from there.

 

* ''[[My Little Pony]]'': The [[Trope Namer]]. Causing neverending night was the plan of the bad guy in the very first ''My Little Pony'' animated adaption, a television special from 1984. Said bad guy, an demonic-looking centaur, quotes the Trope name word by word.

** This is also the plot of the [[Big Bad]] in the pilot episode of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' (a clear shout out to the 1984 special:

{{quote|'''Nightmare Moon''': Remember this day, little ponies, for it was your last. From this moment forth, THE NIGHT. WILL LAST. '''FOREVER'''!!!}}

* When ''[[The Emperor's New Groove]]'' was in its conceptual stages and called ''The Kingdom of the Sun'', Yzma's original plan involved summoning an [[Eldritch Abomination]] to snuff out the sun and plunge the kingdom into eternal darkness.

** She even got [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=374xW4zZbZA a great song] about it.

* Samhain attempts to bring this about (along with eternal Halloween) in an episode of ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]''.

 

* A scientific journal detailed a "death world" simulation where they took a standard climate simulation model, shut off all solar input and saw what happened. It took less than a week for the continents to reach 270 K (i.e., freeze over); the equatorial oceans lasted a few weeks longer because of their large heat capacity.

* Places in the far north or far south such as Longyearbyen, Svalbard or Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station have a polar night that last for up to 4 months bracketed on either side by 1 month of polar twilight.

 

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