History Main / AlwaysNight

* In ''Film/{{Dark City|1998}}'', where every single scene until late in the film takes place during the dead of night. [[spoiler:It is eventually revealed that this isn't just our perspective: It actually is always night in the city, yet nobody had noticed! Except for John Murdoch. That is why he's so dangerous to the Strangers.]]

* While filming for an episode of ''Film/GraveEncounters'', Lance notes that it's dark outside at 8:30 AM when it should have been bright by 7:45. Later on, Lance checks the time again— it's 1PM, it's still pitch black. Even later again, the time is 8PM and there has been no sign of sunlight. It's also implied the hospital has its own dimension.

* ''VideoGame/CardCityNights2'': As is said in its materials, "it's always night in space".

* ''VideoGame/PsyCard'': The unnamed city:
--> When Blunda appears, and says "G'morning", when "its the middle of the night", she responds that: "it always is here, isn't it.", then someone mentions "some sunlight" breaking through a few days ago.

* In ''Film/DarkCity'', where every single scene until late in the film takes place during the dead of night. [[spoiler:It is eventually revealed that this isn't just our perspective: It actually is always night in the city, yet nobody had noticed! Except for John Murdoch. That is why he's so dangerous to the Strangers.]]

* ''Music/{{Abigail}}'' is a horror story-album, featuring a hunted mansion. In "Arrival," the hill the mansion sits atop is said to cover the entire surrounding area in heavy darkness (which has only gotten worse as the story progresses). By the ending during "Black Horsemen," [[TheStarsAreGoingOut the moon itself has actually gone out]].

* In ''Film/TheMatrix'', humanity "scorched the sky" to cut off the machines' access to solar energy. Unfortunately, the machines came up with [[HumanResources an alternative...]] Applies only to the real world; averted within the Matrix, which was designed to simulate a pre-war environment.

* Many scientists believe that if that asteroid hit and ''did'' kill the dinosaurs, this would have been why. The impact would have sent massive amounts of dust and chemicals into the air, blocking the sun, sending the world into perpetual night. No sun, no photosynthesis, no plants; even without the impact, it's [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of the world as the dinos knew it]].

* The Fourth Trumpet of Judgment causes the sun to vanish for several days in Brian Caldwell's ''Literature/WeAllFallDown2000''.

Can be pared with DramaticThunder, GraveClouds, NocturnalCrime, FrequentlyFullMoon, and WeirdMoon. CueTheSun may be used as a way of ending works with this trope. Compare CityNoir, NeonCity, and PunkPunk settings, which aren't literally always night, but are almost never shown in the daytime. The InvertedTrope is EndlessDaytime.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''

%%* VampireTheMasquerade and its spiritual successor VampireTheRequiem are more or less this inherently this due to the central premise of the games. Technically, daylight exists, but as it's either physically impossible for the player to go outside or physically impossible for them to wake up when the sun is in the sky under almost all conditions, this trope governs all "on screen" activity.

* The NES game ''VideoGame/{{Nightshade}}'' takes place in Metro City, a hard-boiled setting where it's always night.

* ''[[Music/{{Gwar}} GWAR]]'': According to the song "Metal Metal Land", the titular planet and rock-and-roll paradise is in a state of perpetual night. Except when it's day, but even then, it's still dark.

* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': The sun never rises in the Dark World.

* The ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheLongEventide'' takes place in the titular city-state of Eventide, which is under an illusion of eternal night called the Shroud, originally placed by Nightmare Moon a thousand years ago.

* The VideoGame/{{BioShock}} series, for a few games in Rapture:

* ''Videogame/DarkSouls'': Darkroot Forest is always at night, because the creators wanted to implement some kind of day/night system into the game but were unable to do with with the engine at the time (partially because the game was rushed), so they simply made it so that it's daytime in the Undead Burg/Parish and night in Darkroot to simulate the feeling of time passing. The sequels stick to a similar system, with Huntsman's Copse and Drangleic Castle in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' and Irithyll of the Boreal Valley in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' being set at night; the Drangleic Castle approach throws in some rain to add a bit of atmosphere, and Irithyll of the Boreal Valley exults in the improved graphics options ''III'' has access to by [[SceneryPorn making the sky really pretty]].

* ''VideoGame/FatalFrame 2'''s setting has been {{curse}}d to relive the night of its destruction over and over.

* ''{{VideoGame/Thief 2014}}'' is perpetually dark; [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in-universe by the spread of the Gloom. Sunrise finally comes in the final scene.

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* In ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoChronicle'', Purplune represents the purple Puyo color, and in order to fit the color, it's "shrouded in eternal night", as Ally words it.

* In ''VideoGame/ArxFatalis'' the sun has apparently collapsed and the world is plunged into freezing darkness. All the inhabitants had to move underground in order to survive, and so the entire game is set in caves. Trying to open the door to the surface actually results in [[spoiler: a gust of ultra-cold wind instantly freezing your character and anyone around them to death.]]

* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' has the creepy Mad Monster Mansion and the cheery [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Freezeezy Peak]], both set entirely at night. It's also justified, because the former is themed around Halloween (in fact, Mumbo's spell of choice is to transform Banjo into a pumpkin), and the latter is a level with a Christmas theme.
* In ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'', Witchyworld mostly takes place at night. However, the Crazy Castle Stockade area, despite being within the same level, appears to take set in broad daylight. Whether this is due to an illusion or magic is never explained.

* ''{{VideoGame/Elsword}}'': The entirety of Feita is set at night.

* The ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' games have many levels/stages set at night:

** ''[[VideoGame/PaperMario64 Paper Mario]]'' has Boo's Mansion and the neighboring Forever Forest. The sky will suddenly turn dark as you approach either of these areas, and revert back to day upon leaving.

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* In Pixar short ''WesternAnimation/DayAndNight'', it's always nighttime in the scenes shown inside the anthropomorphic personification of Night. Conversely, it's always daytime in the scenes shown inside his opposite