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* [[The Night Land]]: Millions of years in the future, the sun has burned out and all of the other stars in the universe are dead as well. The last few million humans still alive stay warm by means of the the "Earth Current," or geothermal heat.
* Garth Nix's [[The Seventh Tower]] series: unusually, done by the good guys in backstory to wipe out a [[Living Shadow|race of evil shadows]]; without light, there are no shadows. The villains want to ''restore'' the sun, and the heroes have to stop them.
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Have Space
* In ''[[Stationery Voyagers]]'', Varikton plans to do this...''[[Large Ham|muellexically]]''!
** And in ''Ciem Tomorrow'', follow-up to the [[Ciem Webcomic Series]], the Meethlites actually succeed at creating an eternal night in Gerosha.
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* 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 Doctor, Martha, and Jack travel to the end of the universe in "[[Doctor Who
** The night caused by the Daleks' theft of Earth in "[[Doctor Who
* Every planetary surface visited in the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'' was cloaked in night for at least the first 14 episodes.
* The TOS ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode "I Am the Night--Color Me Black" has darkness eveloping regions of the world where hatred reigns.
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