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For more on eclipses, see [[Total Eclipse of the Plot]].
When the moon is weird or behaves oddly ''in-universe'', usually to signify something evil going on, it's a case of [[Bad Moon Rising]] (or possibly [[That's No Moon]]). If the moon has actually been physically altered to change its appearance, it's [[Deface of the Moon]]. See also [[Weird Sun]]. This is related to [[The Man in the Moon]].
There used to be a subtrope of Weird Moon, titled Artsy Moon. That trope was quite similar to this one, except it specifies that the moon must be depicted in an artistic way. However, Weird Moon is also quite "artsy". Our community agreed there isn't much of a difference between the tropes, so the Artsy Moon examples were moved here.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The Moon from ''[[Soul Eater]]'' is huge, bright yellow, a perpetual crescent, wears a [[Slasher Smile]] and ''[[Blood From the Mouth|drools blood]]''. Not to mention some clouds are ''behind'' it. {{spoiler|It turns out the moon isn't just drawn that way, ''that's literally how it's shaped.'' It's not even an object orbiting the planet outside the atmosphere, it's just floating above the Earth in the clouds}}. It also has an weird''Sun''.
** And one can apparently walk about on it without being affected by gravity changes or the need for any protective/breathing gear whatsoever.
* In ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]'', the moon has a visible splatter of blood on it (perhaps a [[Shout-Out]] to the fate of the moon during ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|End of Evangelion]]''), as well as giant coffins in which the Angels sleep until they descend to earth in order to make their attack. {{spoiler|SEELE also has a base on it.}}
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* The moon in ''[[Ef a Tale of Memories|ef: A Tale Of Memories]]'' is huge. It also has the points of the crescent meet at one end, which is impossible—and then there are the scenes where it seems to be a two-dimensional object glued to the night sky.
** You could get a similar view (points of the crescent meeting) by viewing the earth from the moon during a solar eclipse, though...
* In ''[[Gankutsuou]]'', the surface of the moon resembles a huge and ominous skull. Strangely enough, no-one ever wonders about it (though seeing the wealth and weird tastes of the upper classes, it's entirely possible that the moon was deliberately modified to look like this from the Earth). Somewhat justified by the fact that it is colonized, thus having its surface altered.
** More curiously, it looks the same no matter what angle it's being viewed from; the same skull appears in scenes that feature Earth and the moon together, even though what we see ought to be the dark side.
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'' is really bad with this. Essentially, the moon is always full, except when the plot calls for a new moon (which causes the title character to lose his demonic powers).
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* A recent chapter of ''[[Naruto]]'', in what's probably an art error rather than deliberate liberty, had a moon that appeared to have part of a cloud ''behind'' it.
** It was also said in legend that the Rikudo Sage created the Moon by catching the Juubi's corpse inside an [[Incredibly Lame Pun|astronomically]] large Chibaku Tensei before ''tossing the earthen ball to the sky''.
* In ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' a third of the Moon has blown up into a giant [[Asteroid Thicket]] ring around the Earth, essentially leaving it as physically crescent.
* In ''[[Shuna's Journey]]'', the moon is flat, looking more like an alien spaceship than a moon. It sets to the west, where instead of going beneath the horizon, it lands and deposits resources in an ominous [[Eldritch Abomination]].
* In ''[[The Tale of the Princess Kaguya]]'', The "artsy" part of "Artsy Moon" comes from size. In some shots of the film, notably the last one before the credits, the Moon takes up over half of the screen. The shot is made more weird by the lack of saturation when compared to the rest of the film, and the moon feels more "artsy" due to the film's rough and simplistic art style.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* In ''[[Titan A.E.]]'', the protagonists visit a planet whose moon is split in half. ''Almost completely'' in half. And it has neither crumbled nor been pulled back together by gravity. Oh, and it's a plot point. It is [[Rule of Cool|cool]], though.
* ''[[The Little White Horse|The Secret of Moonacre]]'' has a continuously-full moon that gets larger and larger as the movie goes on. It's an actual plot point, as the moon will destroy the earth unless Maria gives back the moon jewels.
* In ''[[Coraline (animation)|Coraline]]'', the Other World moon
* In ''[[Daredevil (film)|Daredevil]]'' the moon appears full every single night throughout the movie.
* The moon appearing in the "A Whole New World" number from ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' for some reason actually changes from a full moon to a crescent moon ''all in the same night!''
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* The moon in ''The Lost Crown: A Ghosthunting Adventure'' is perpetually full, and unnaturally large. It can even be seen to ''grow'' at one point, looming larger behind bare tree branches.
* The moon in ''[[No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle]]'' is big enough to block out a huge percentage of the sky, as seen in the battle against the appropriately named Margaret Moonlight.
* Lycanthropic horror game ''[[Bloodborne]]'' has a moon that sits ''in front of'' the clouds in the night sky.
* In ''[[Earth Eternal]]'', Earth's moon has had chunks blown out if it, with a [[Sickly Green Glow]] coming from between the pieces.
== [[Web Comic]] ==
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* ''[[Soul Symphony]]'': The moon in Olivia's Soul World, where it is always night time, is the source of all energy and life. Supplies strange powers and mutations for Olivia's sidekick. Not only that, but it appears to be permanently crescent because a majority of it actually ''exploded.''
* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' discussed suspicious parameters of [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/165.html certain Endor's moon] in ''[[Star Wars]]''.
* ''[[Our Little Adventure]]'': The moon has a face. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] by the fact that it's actually a moon ''goddess''.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* A few variations in ''[[Homestuck]]'': [[Palette Swap|Prospit and Derse]] have moons chained to their surfaces, and the trolls' homeworld Alternia has two moons, a huge green one and a smaller pink one with a tiny moon of its own. Its eventually revealed that the green one isn't natural, and is only there because of [[Satan|Doc Scratch]].
* In ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', the Moon is shaped like an octagon.
* The moon in the [[Alien Sky|sky]] of Remnant in ''[[RWBY]]'' is shattered into a dozen or more pieces. {{spoiler|In volume 6 we learn that it was broken by one of the two gods who had created Remnant while making a Dramatic Exit after nuking the entire planet in response to Salem raising a human rebellion against them.}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** The moon also used to have visible craters forming the shape of a unicorn's head: the "Mare in the Moon". This disappeared when Nightmare Moon was freed from her exile there.
* ''[[Tiny Toons]]'' did a parody with the Amblin Logo having Elliot crashing into the moon and falling off his bike.
* One ''[[Casper the Friendly Ghost]]'' cartoon has Casper decide to visit the Man in the Moon. Being a ghost, he has no trouble flying to the Moon, but as he gets closer, the smiling cartoon face on the moon slowly fades into just being a bleak pattern of craters, and he arrives bitterly disappointed. Fortunately, the place turns out to be inhabited by little [[Lilliputians|Lilliputian]] guys, so he makes some friends after all.
== Other ==
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