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{{trope}}
[[File:ByeByeMoon.jpg|frame| Sure, it's romantic ''now''... but how about in 50 years?]]
{{quote|''"We need its light''
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{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* 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.
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** The Doctor, Martha, and Jack travel to the end of the universe in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E11 Utopia|Utopia]]". All the stars have burned out by then.
** The night caused by the Daleks' theft of Earth in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S30/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".
* Every planetary surface visited in the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* The TOS ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode "I Am the Night--Color Me Black" has darkness
== Music ==▼
* [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7YMZB6ds10 Always The Moon]".▼
{{quote|<poem>''Remember when there was a you and me?▼
''When there was such a thing as gravity?▼
''And the tides came in and the tides went out again▼
''But the water got too high▼
''And the sun began to die▼
''And I tried to make you stay▼
''But the world pulled you away▼
''And now there are darker longer colder nights▼
* [[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.▼
* [[The Cat Empire]] has a song titled "The Night That Never Ends."▼
{{quote|<poem>''As long as I am living▼
''I never forget▼
''That the sun is never rising▼
''And it never set.''</poem> }}▼
* This is the goal of the Lord of Vampires in the 1994 song [https://tomsmith.bandcamp.com/track/ho-for-the-death-of-time "Ho! For The Death of Time"], written and sung by [[Filk Song|filker]] [[Tom Smith]]:
{{quote|<poem>''Our flesh is cold and theirs is hot,
''But youth we hold while they do not,
''We don't grow old but the humans rot
''Before each other's eyes,
''For they see each sunrise.
''Douse that light and we'll stop the clock,
''Hey! for the life eternal-o!
''Endless night and deathless stock,
''Ho! for the death of Time!
''And when the darkness fills the sky,
''Hey! for the life eternal-o!
''We'll seize the world and bleed it dry,
''Ho! for the death of Time!''</poem>}}
== Tabletop Games ==
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[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.}}
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[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:
{{quote|'''Nightmare Moon''': Remember this day, little ponies, for it was your last. From this moment forth, THE NIGHT. WILL LAST. '''FOREVER'''!!!}}
*** 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.
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* Thanks to ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|TMNT: Fast Forward]]'' [[Big Bad]] Sh'Okanabo and his progeny's [[Weaksauce Weakness|weaksauce]] aversion to Earth's sun, part of his ultimate plan for world domination involved preventing the sun from reaching Earth via a series of satellites. It worked, too...for a few minutes.
* Samhain attempts to bring this about (along with eternal Halloween) in an episode of ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]''.
▲== Music ==
▲* [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7YMZB6ds10 Always The Moon]".
▲{{quote|Remember when there was a you and me?
▲When there was such a thing as gravity?
▲And the tides came in and the tides went out again
▲But the water got too high
▲And the sun began to die
▲And I tried to make you stay
▲But the world pulled you away
▲And now there are darker longer colder nights
▲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.
▲* [[The Cat Empire]] has a song titled "The Night That Never Ends."
▲{{quote|As long as I am living
▲I never forget
▲That the sun is never rising
▲And it never set. }}
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