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* ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'''s "Crucible of God" Gehenna scenario features {{spoiler|the Antediluvian/ancestor of the Clan Lasombra blanketing the Earth in darkness for three weeks while it consumes its childer/descendants. No explanation is given as to how or why the darkness abates}}.
** During The Week Of Nightmares, Kuei-Jin elders created a supernatural storm to shield them from the sun to battle Ravana, the Antediluvian ancestor of the Clan Ravnos—who was practically a vampire-god at this point. Then the Technocracy bombed them all, killing everyone who joined the battle; werewolves, Kuei-Jin and their ''own'' Agents. After storm dissipated, they scorched Ravana with orbital mirrors, a [[Fantastic Nuke|spirit nuke]] and then some more end-world scenario weapons. The battle damaged the reality so much that it started the events that nearly ended the world. Perhaps letting the night from never ending was the better idea in the long run?
* ''[[Dragonstrike]]'' has a VHS tape that contains a story about an undead sorcerer that brings forth eternal night with a sunstone. Working together, the heroes destroy the sunstone by crashing it onto a fire elemental. You can view the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF1_IHliRhI video here if you like.]
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: [[The Wind Waker]]'', Ganondorf casts a curse onto the Great Sea that [https://web.archive.org/web/20130710071709/http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Endless_Night prevents dawn from ever coming.] Fortunately, this does Link more good than bad, as it ensures that Link will always get Nayru's Pearl first due to the pirates taking time off at Windfall Island until morning. This same curse is also used in a more-localized fashion in the Forsaken Fortress, Ganondorf's base of operations. {{spoiler|When Ganondorf abandons the joint to go after Zelda, however, the curse is lifted there, as well.}}
* ''[[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.
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** 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.
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