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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The full moon renders waterbenders much more powerful than normal, and capable of the secret forbidden art of [[spoiler:Bloodbending]]. Finally, the moon is [[spoiler:destroyed at the end of the first season, and replaced by one character, whose spirit shows up from time to time since]]. As a consequence, a full moon is a powerful tool both in-universe and in storytelling, and is nearly always shown in this state when it appears -- and especially towards the end of the series, it is full far more often than it should be.

Related to NiceDayDeadlyNight; AlwaysNight, and DarknessEqualsDeath. Definitely involves ArtisticLicenseSpace. Subtrope of WeirdMoon. Often found with FullMoonSilhouette. See also TotalEclipseOfThePlot -- in real life, a lunar eclipse can only happen on a full moon (while a solar eclipse can only happen on a new moon).

* ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'': the ManInTheMoon appears in every episode starting in Series 2, always in the full phase. He comments on this in one of his surreal monologues where he says that the full moon is the best phase, and people don't like the other phases as much.

* ''Series/{{American Gothic|1995}}'': It's always a full moon in Trinity.
* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': Full moons last for three days.

* In ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'', the moon is full every time the exterior of the house is shown.

* In ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows, the moon is full every time the exterior of the house is shown.

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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Remnant has a [[DetonationMoon broken moon]] that does not appear to go through phases like our moon; it is always seen in a [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/rwby/images/a/ac/RubyYang.png/revision/latest?cb=20130615135555 full glow]], which only adds to how [[AlienSky weird]] Remnant is compared to Earth.
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* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', there's a three-week period when the moon is about to crash into the Earth. For the entire time, the moon was always visible and full in the sky. Justified in that [[spoiler:it turns out that the moon is a huge battleship/mecha called "Cathedral Terra". The real moon was apparently hidden away in another dimension, and was pulled out of said dimension by the protagonists after the ColonyDrop had been averted]].
* In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', the moon appears to have no other phases other than full moon. The series begin with full moon and ends that way (not to mention the night of the battle happened during a full moon night, in 1999 and 1944).
* The Moon was full throughout the entire season of ''Anime/MyHime''. Granted that there was probably sometime between, but this may have been just so that it could be used as a comparison for the approaching [=HiME=] Star.

* In the anime adaptation of ''VisualNovel/{{Ookamikakushi}}'', there is a permanently full blood moon.
* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', it seems any time Light goes out walking at night the moon is always full.
* Averted in ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', where the ''crescent'' moon is primarily associated with the series.

* ''ComicBook/MoonKnight'': Played straight and averted. In cover art and promotional art, Moon Knight is often shown with a full moon in the background. However, in the actual stories, full moons don't really show up that often. A reason for this is his mystically-derived strength peaks during the full moon, so the writers can often have stories where he has to deal with threats when he's not at his full strength due to the moon being in a different phase. He's also at his ''weakest'' (albeit still stronger than a ordinary man) during a new moon.

* The moon in ''ComicBook/TarotWitchOfTheBlackRose'' seems to be full ALL the time. Possibly justified in that the comic progresses more or less in real time and is published every 2 months, with most adventures taking place over a single night. In the "Mists of Darkness", which took place over two nights, it was only a full moon for the first night, so Boo-Cat was in her human form for the second. But almost every other time she is in the comic, she spends at least some time as a were-cat due to the full moon.

* In one ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' scene, Mr. Potato head uses a tricycle's mirror to reflect the moonlight in order to signal an escape. Luckily for them, it happens to be on the night of a full moon.

* ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'' film, ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', depicts the moon as being full for four days.

* The moon appears full every single night throughout ''Film/Daredevil2003''.
* The moon in ''Film/{{Gutterballs}}'' is always full.

* The 1986 movie ''Film/TheWraith'' has a full moon for the entire duration of the movie, which spans more than three days. The closing scene of the movie is the titular car/character riding off down the highway toward an impossibly huge full moon.

* The ''Literature/{{Gor}}'' series takes place on a CounterEarth which has three moons instead of only one like we have; but whenever they're mentioned, all three are always full. [[spoiler:The latest book reveals that at least one of the moons is artificial and is used as a PrisonPlanet by the Priest-Kings.]]

* In ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'', the ManInTheMoon appears in every episode starting in Series 2, always in the full phase. He comments on this in one of his surreal monologues where he says that the full moon is the best phase, and people don't like the other phases as much.

* Averted in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse''. While the full moon ''is'' prominent in the game's artwork, every phase of the moon is associated with a different auspice, the phase a person was born under, which determines their role in werewolf society and the abilities available to them (basically character classes). Full moons are warriors, gibbous moons are bards, quarter moons are judges, crescent moons are shamans, and new moons are tricksters/rogues. By logic, the majority of werewolves ''should'' be shamans and bards since the moon is in those phases more often than the others, but [[ThePowersThatBe the spirit world]] ensures that werewolf births are evenly distributed among the five auspices.

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' has an absolutely massive full and backwards moon hovering over Arkham Island. And no matter how many hours you play the game, ''it never moves'', and daybreak never comes. It just hangs there for atmosphere. This holds true for the sequel, ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', the local moon is always shown full and huge, since it'll be important later in the story.
* In the ''Supernatural'' expansion of ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', there are two choices where you can adjust the moon phases. One of which is having a constant phase such as the full moon running every night, allowing the player to make this an EnforcedTrope. The downside of having a full moon every night, zombies will pop up at your lawn, so be aware of that.
* Artix Entertainment's ''VideoGame/DragonFable'' plays it straight with [=DoomWood=], where the moon is always full. The character Thursday from Doomwood's town of Amityvale even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] this when you talk to her.
* In ''VideoGame/ForzaHorizon'' series, everytime the night goes on during the game you play, the full moon can be appreciated. Also in the races when it's during the night, mostly the Street Races.
* In the ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' game ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'', the moon is always full, regardless of how long your quest takes you. (And since it only takes a few minutes to go from day to night and back, quite a few days will pass InUniverse.)

* In ''VideoGame/FableII'', the moon is always full. No wonder Westcliff has a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Balverine]] problem.
* If the moon appears in a ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' game, chances are it'll be full, to justify being able to see at night.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', the Moon as seen from Hang Castle is perpetually full.

* In ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara 3'', if the Moon appears at all it is always full.
* ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'' doesn't have the moon visible very often, but when it does it's ''always'' full and at a realistic distance.
* In ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', the moon is always full and rises in the south.
* ''VideoGame/TheJackboxPartyPack'' game "Monster Seeking Monster" has three full moons in the last five of the six nights the game goes for. The full moons are there to activate certain monsters' secret powers.

* Remnant in ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' has a [[DetonationMoon broken moon]] that does not appear to go through phases like our moon; it is always seen in a [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/rwby/images/a/ac/RubyYang.png/revision/latest?cb=20130615135555 full glow]], which only adds to how [[AlienSky weird]] Remnant is compared to Earth.

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', the moon is nearly always visible and full in nighttime scenes.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', the full moon renders waterbenders much more powerful than normal, and capable of the secret forbidden art of [[spoiler:Bloodbending]]. Finally, the moon is [[spoiler:destroyed at the end of the first season, and replaced by one character, whose spirit shows up from time to time since]]. As a consequence, a full moon is a powerful tool both in-universe and in storytelling, and is nearly always shown in this state when it appears -- and especially towards the end of the series, it is full far more often than it should be.

* There was rarely a ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' episode where the moon was anything but full. Exceptions are a brief shot of a crescent moon in "Eye of the Storm" and several in "Hunter's Moon".
* In ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' the moon is always half-full in the Unknown, a sign the place [[PlaceBeyondTime doesn't follow natural rules of time]]. [[spoiler:It's also subtle foreshadowing that [[YearInsideHourOutside it's still the same night in the town where Greg and Wirt came from]], and the Unknown may or may not be a dream.]]

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/RoadRovers'' episode "Hair of the Dog that Bit You," when after a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] attack, [[TheAhnold Blitz]] looks at a calendar and notes that there is ''another'' full moon the following night.

* Averted in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse''. While the full moon ''is'' prominent in the game's artwork, every phase of the moon is associated with a different auspice, the phase a person was born under, which determines their role in werewolf society and the abilities available to them (basically character classes). Full moons are warriors, gibbous moons are bards, quarter moons are judges, crescent moons are shamans, and new moons are tricksters/rogues. By logic, the majority of werewolves ''should'' be shamans and bards since the moon is in those phases more than the others, but [[ThePowersThatBe the spirit world]] ensures that werewolf births are evenly distributed.

It's night, the moon is out, and more often than not it's a full moon. A full moon is a two-night or sometimes a three-night event where at least 98% of the moon is visible...out of a roughly four-week period. This means that for the remainder of the month, the moon will be in its gibbous, quarter, crescent, and new phases. But in fiction land, the moon is all full, all the time.

It's night, the moon is out, and more often than not it's a full moon. A full moon is a two-night or sometimes a three-night event. The moon is considered "full" when 98% or more of its surface is illuminated, as seen from earth. When the full moon lasts two nights, there is a ''waxing gibbous'' moon that is 98% or more illuminated, then the following night a ''waning gibbous'' moon that is also 98% or more illuminated. Occasionally, there can be a waxing gibbous that is 98% illuminated one night, the next night will have a full moon that is 100% illuminated, and a third night with a waning gibbous that is 98% illuminated, so there is a full moon for three consecutive nights.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', full moon renders waterbenders much more powerful than normal, and capable of the secret forbidden art of [[spoiler:Bloodbending]]. Finally, the moon is [[spoiler:destroyed at the end of the first season, and replaced by one character, whose spirit shows up from time to time since]]. As a consequence, full moon is a powerful tool both in-universe and in storytelling, and is nearly always shown in this state when it appears -- and especially towards the end of the series, it is full far more often than it should be.

In comedic works involving the police or hospitals, expect jokes about how the level of crazy seems goes up when it's a full moon. This also frequently pops up in stories about werewolves, since traditionally werewolves only turned into wolves during the full moon, so if the moon wasn't full, there wouldn't be much of a plot.

* ''ComicBook/{{Spiderman}}'': When that lean, silent figure slowly faded into the gathering darkness, aware at last that in this world, with great power there must also come great responsibility, a full moon is in the sky.

* ''Series/AmericanGothic1995'': It's always a full moon in Trinity.
* ''Series/Charmed1998'': Full moons last for three days.

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' the moon is nearly always visible and full in nighttime scenes.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', full moon renders waterbenders much more powerful than normal, and capable of the secret forbidden art of [[spoiler:Bloodbending]]. Finally, the moon is [[spoiler:destroyed at the end of the first season, and replaced by one character, whose spirit shows up from time to time since]]. As a consequence, full moon is a powerful tool both in-universe and in storytelling, and is nearly always shown in this state when it appears - and especially towards the end of the series, it is full far more often than it should be.

* There was rarely a ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' episode where the moon was anything but full.
** Exceptions are a brief shot of a crescent moon in "Eye of the Storm" and several in "Hunter's Moon".

* Parodied in the WesternAnimation/RoadRovers episode "Hair of the Dog that Bit You," when after a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] attack, [[TheAhnold Blitz]] looks at a calendar and notes that there is ''another'' full moon the following night.

* Parodied in the WesternAnimation/RoadRovers episode "Hair of the Dog that Bit You," when after a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] attack, Blitz [[TheAhnuld Blitz]] looks at a calendar and notes that there is ''another'' full moon the following night.

It's night, the moon is out, and more often than not it's a full moon. A full moon is a two-night or sometimes a three-night event. The moon is considered "full" when 98% or more of its' surface is illuminated, as seen from earth. When the full moon lasts two nights there is a ''waxing gibbous'' moon that is 98% or more illuminated, then the following night a ''waning gibbous'' moon that is also 98% or more illuminated. Occasionally, there can be a waxing gibbous that is 98% illuminated one night, the next night will have a full moon that is 100% illuminated, and a third night with a waning gibbous that is 98% illuminated, so there is a full moon for three consecutive nights.

In film, television, and comic books, this is done because a full moon hanging in the night sky is a powerful sight, and also lets the audience know that it's a good night for ''something'' to happen. It's an excellent way to convey a sense of foreboding. A full moon also provides a fair amount of illumination, and in film and television it allows for a good amount of light to see things if the characters don't have flashlights[[note]]this [[TruthInTelevision also works in real life]] if you're in a location without any tree cover[[/note]].

In comedic works involving the police or hospitals, expect jokes about how the level of crazy seems goes up when it's a full moon. This also frequently pops up in stories about werewolves, since traditionally werewolves only turned into wolves during the full moon, so if the moon wasn't full there wouldn't be much of a plot.

Related to NiceDayDeadlyNight; AlwaysNight, and DarknessEqualsDeath. Definitely involves ArtisticLicenseSpace. Subtrope of WeirdMoon. Often found with FullMoonSilhouette. See also TotalEclipseOfThePlot - in real life, a lunar eclipse can only happen on a full moon (while a solar eclipse can only happen on a new moon).

* ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'': When Batman is flying the Bat-Plane, there's a brief shot of it against the full moon, mimicking the Bat-Signal.
* In ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' the moon appears full every single night throughout the movie.

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