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The big brother of [[Total Eclipse of the Plot]], who crashes on the couch for [[The Thing That Would Not Leave|a 'few' days]].
This trope usually involves a [[Big Bad]]'s attempt to bring about either an eternal or extremely long night, [[For the Evulz|for whatever reason]]. He could be trying to put out the sun
In [[Real Life]], the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the Earth has been dimmed by [[Chekhov's Volcano|dust thrown up by major volcanic eruptions]] (volcanic winter), [[Colony Drop|the asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous]] (helping to kill off the dinosaurs) (impact winter), and in theory, [[Atomic Hate|the fallout of a nuclear war]] (nuclear winter).
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' OVA has Demitri inflicting this upon the Earth, driving humanity to
** 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.}}
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* Where [[The Bible]] mentions [[Total Eclipse of the Plot|an anomalous eclipse]] following the crucifixion, ''[[The Book of Mormon (literature)|The Book of Mormon]]'' goes it one better and drops the American continents into three days of darkness ([[Foreshadowing|as was previously prophecied]] by [[Heel Face Turn|Samuel the Lamanite]]).
* In '[[The Sword of Shannara]]' the [[Big Bad|Warlock Lord]] turns the Northland into this.
* ''Nightfall'' by [[Isaac Asimov]] depicts a world with several suns, where normal night never falls and people are completely unaccustomed to darkness. Which is why, when every two thousand years total solar eclipse occurs, the ensuing darkness drives everybody insane and makes them burn down their cities in a desperate craving for light. How long the eclipse actually lasts is unknown, but apparently everybody decides, that
* 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.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[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
* 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.
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* 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.
* In ''[[Quest for Glory IV]]'', the vampire [[Big Bad
* The Crows in ''[[Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg]]'' have already succeeded in bringing eternal night to Morning Land. Billy's job is to bring the day back.
* A neverending winter night is the setting of ''[[Arx Fatalis]]''. Luckily, sun was slowly dimming for five years, giving the population enough time to move underground. In the end, it's revealed that {{spoiler|sun is obscured by a giant space dust cloud and is barely visible even out of the atmosphere}}.
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