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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?

 

 

* In ''[[The Courtship of Princess Leia]]'', an ex-Imperial warlord punishes a rebellious planet by employing an "Orbital Nightcloak", a system of satellites that not only keeps all sunlight from reaching the surface, but also blocks all signals they send to other planets asking for help. He's a jerk like that.

* Sauron does a minor version of this in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', for morale reasons, and because a lot of his armies consist of creatures such as orcs and trolls which can't go out in daylight or are at least seriously impaired by it.

*** Later, after the Awakening of the Elves, he kills the the Two Trees, the new light sources, and [[Eldritch Abomination|Ungoliant]] spreads clouds of "Unlight" which hide the stars. The effects probably wouldn't have been quite so bad if Morgorth hadn't previously been sowing dissent among the Noldor, and/or hadn't {{spoiler|stolen the Silmarils.}} During the period of darkness following that, we have, in short order: the Oath of Fëanor, the (first) Kinslaying, the Declaration of the Doom of the Noldor, the Burning of the Ships at Losgar, and the Crossing of the Grinding Ice (after which [[Weird Moon|the moon rises for the first time]]).

* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', a character tells about the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Long Night]] back in the [[Age Of Myths]], which lasted a generation when [[Eldritch Abomination|The Others]] almost overran all of Westeros. And now, they're rising again...

* An old folk story, adapted as ''The Moon in Swampland'' by M.P. Robertson, reverses the trope to have the Moon vanish, but with a similar effect. The Moon visits a swamp out of curiosity about the world below, where she's quickly captured, chained up and thrown into a sealed well by the bogies. Once her light's gone, they completely rule the night; every sunset ushers in hours of horror for the miserable humans, until a hero returns the world to normal by finding and freeing her.

* [[Robin Jarvis]]' ''The Deptford Mice'': {{spoiler|Jupiter intends to put out the sun and cause eternal winter}}.

* In Fritz Leiber's story "A Pail Of Air", Earth has frozen over after being pulled out of its orbit and cast into deep space.

** The Doctor, Martha, and Jack travel to the end of the universe in "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S3 E11 Utopia|Utopia]]". All the stars have burned out by then.

** The night caused by the Daleks' theft of Earth in "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S4 E12 The Stolen Earth|The Stolen Earth]]". The theme is even called "The Dark And Endless Dalek Night". Everyone not freezing is explained as the Daleks using an "atmospheric shell".

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

 

* In ''[[Ouendan]] 2'', the sun is growing cold and it's up to the Ouendan team and the entire population of the earth to cheer up a [[Combined Energy Attack]] big enough to restart it.

* In ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]: Explorers of Time and Darkness'', the [[Bad Future]] was stuck in an eternal night because time had stopped.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy III]]'', Xande sinks most of the world into perpetual darkness and suspended animation because he does not wish to die after being [[Blessed with Suck|blessed with mortality]].

* Partly used in ''[[Okami]]'' {{spoiler|during the 'Day of Darkness', when the monsters get stronger}}. [[Big Badass Wolf|Amaterasu]] being the [[Physical God|sun]], may also have something to do with it.

== Web Original ==

* 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."

 

 

*** Because of the [[Painting the Frost on Windows|hands-on nature]] of... well, nature in this series, some fans have grossly underestimated the threat level of this. [[Word of God]] has made clear, however, that this ''would'' cause the death of every living thing in Equestria, by starvation if nothing else.

*** The Fandom has taken this to new, terrifying extremes of terror and [[Fridge Logic]]. The Pony Psychology series has an entire chapter of [[What the Hell, Hero?]] dedicated to Luna confronting Celestia over this, and Celestia painting the horror for her. In addition, several webcomics portray in gruesome detail just what a slow death eternal night would be.

* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', "Boogie Frights": the Boogie Man blocks the sun with a giant mirror ball so that monsters can stay outside forever.

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' two-part season cliffhanger ''Who Shot Mr Burns?'' had Mr Burns funding the construction of a sun-blocking device in order to force increased energy consumption by the town... just one of the many reasons people had to shoot him.

And the sun has gone for good and so here we are }}

* [[The Kovenant]]'s (formerly Covenant) debut album ''In Times Before the Light'' had this as a recurring theme in many of its songs, with lyrics referring to the "forevernight". They're from Norway, which might explain a few things.

{{quote|As long as I am living

I never forget

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