History Main / Lunacy

** {{Persona 3}} has important storyline events occur during a full moon.
** There's a period of time in the game ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' where the main character would take damage during a full moon. This is because [[spoiler:of his psychic link to the Heroine, whose reincarnated self is currently undergoing torture from a demon that has invaded her mind. The full moon makes him feel her pain]]. This is solved [[spoiler:by rescuing her]].
** In ''Digital Devil Saga'', there's a 50% chance during every new moon- [[CallARabbitASmeerp excuse us,]] MIN Solar Noise that your characters will be cured of any ailments that they are suffering from. Also, the selling price of Cells is at its highest during MAX Solar Noise. In the sequel, ''Digital Devil Saga 2'', there is a chance during 7/8 or MAX Solar Noise- sorry, ''Solar Data'' that you will enter battle in Berserk Form.
** You can guarantee that you get the best items from ''ShinMegamiTenseiNocturne's'' Mystical Chests by opening them during a full moon. The drop rate of Gems is also highest at this point.
** One Sub App in ''StrangeJourney'' lets you speak to demons during the Full Moon (something otherwise impossible). Because they're drunk on the moonlight, they don't really know what they're saying, and will ask bizarre questions. You have a 50/50 chance of impressing them or pissing them off; impressing them can earn you rewards up to and including instantly recruiting them - this is one of the only two ways to recruit Dark demons without having to fuse them (The other being them joining on their own accord with yet another Sub App).
** Hecate is a moon goddess, so in her appearance as a boss in ''ShinMegamiTenseiII'' she is invulnerable as long as any part of the moon is visible - you have to wait until new moon to fight her.

The '''[[color:silver:moon]]''' does things to people. [[MenstrualMenace Makes women crazy]], drives the lunatics, or maybe enhances your supernatural powers. The full moon might bring out the monster in someone, or a new moon may [[BroughtDownToNormal bring the human]] out of a monster. In general, the moon is often a catalyst in magical things.

* ''Series/KamenRiderDouble''[='=]s '''[[color:gold:Luna]]''' Memory grants him the power of the Moon; officially it grants "[[MasterOfIllusion the power of illusions]]", which manifests as RubberMan powers for his GoodOldFisticuffs ('''Joker''') and SimpleStaff ('''[[color:silver:Metal]]'''), and {{Roboteching}} BeamSpam for his {{Handgun}} ('''[[color:blue:Trigger]]''')

* Series/''KamenRiderDouble''[='=]s '''[[color:gold:Luna]]''' Memory grants him the power of the Moon; officially it grants "[[MasterOfIllusion the power of illusions]]", which manifests as RubberMan powers for his GoodOldFisticuffs ('''Joker''') and SimpleStaff ('''[[color:silver:Metal]]'''), and {{Roboteching}} BeamSpam for his {{Handgun}} ('''[[color:blue:Trigger]]''')

* KamenRiderDouble's '''[[color:gold:Luna]]''' Memory grants him the power of the Moon; officially it grants "[[MasterOfIllusion the power of illusions]]", which manifests as RubberMan powers for his GoodOldFisticuffs ('''Joker''') and SimpleStaff ('''[[color:silver:Metal]]'''), and {{Roboteching}} BeamSpam for his {{Handgun}} ('''[[color:blue:Trigger]]''')

*** Technically, that's not a moon. In Nocturne, the moon, along with the rest of the world, [[AfterTheEnd has been destroyed.]] What the game tracks, instead, is the brightening and darkening of Kagutsuchi. Hence, Nocturne is one of the few games with a good reason for why the "moon"'s phase changes every few steps you take, as opposed to taking days to change phase.

** Cue a CrowningMomentOfFunny when it hits him why rotating the moon half way around has no effect on the lunar phases. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint And then reasons that he should have rotated the Sun instead]].

** On a subconscious, biological level, humans, being descended from potential prey animals, would [[ProperlyParanoid logically tend to be more anxious]] under conditions in which predators would find it easier to see us, such as during the full moon. Which would explain any peripheral freakiness - [[TruthInTelevision such as anecdotal increases in agitation among sufferers of panic-anxiety and bipolar disorders]] - a ''lot'' better than, say, positive ions or tidal gravity.

** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Remilia Scarlet's]] powers are at their strongest during the Scarlet Moon, setting the stage for the final showdown of ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil''.

** [[{{Tanuki}} Mamizou Futatsuiwa's]] [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transformation powers]] are strongest on the night of a full moon.

* TheDragon Saïx in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. He uses the ominous [[TitleDrop Kingdom Hearts]] floating over [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon The World That Never Was]] as the focus of his powers, turning him from TheStoic into TheBerserker. The aforementioned MacGuffin is, for all intents and purposes, the moon of The World That Never Was; the theme of the world is entitled Sacred Moon, the city is draped in eternal night with the only light source being Kingdom Hearts...plus, Saix has fairly obvious connections to being a werewolf, what with his title being the ''Luna Diviner''.

* In ''SuikodenII'', one of the 27 True Runes is the Moon Rune, which [[ImmortalityInducer grants its wielder]] {{Immortality}}, at the cost of [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampirism, of course.]] The original possessor of the Rune, [[MysteriousWaif Sierra Mikain,]] is said to be the oldest Vampire in existence. Scracth that, she IS the original vampire.

* In ''MagicTheGathering'', magic associated with the Moon is usualy either red (chaos) and blue (intellect). Depending on the setting, the local Moon might be of other colours, like white (order) and black (ambition), such as in Kamigawa (where it is blue and black) and the new Innistrad setting (where the Moon empowers both the local white flavoured church and the green and red werewolves, as well as a blue Planeswalker, though she is from Kamigawa).

* A rather famous song by the Spanish group [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecano Mecano]], "Hijo de la Luna" (Son of the Moon in spanish) tells the story about a gypsy girl who in exchange of her first born son, the moon will grant her with husband. [[spoiler: afterwards the son is born, he is an albino kid, the husband notice this, and confronts his wife about it, killing her in the process and abandoning the child in the mountains at the end]] is told that that the moon is full when the child is in good mood, and becames half to make him a cradle if he cries

* Many lunar deities, of course; unlike solar deities, they are consistently powerful, perhaps because of the associations with insanity. [[ClassicalMythology Selene]] fought against the Typhon, an [[EldritchAbomination evil monster]], to the point of scarring his freacking throat - not to mention Artemis, her late Antiquity replacement, which is infamous for her violence. [[NorseMythology Máni]] battles nightly against wolves. [[EgyptianMythology Khonsu]] is so violent that many invocations are about him killing the enemies of the pharoah. [[BabylonianMythology Sin]] is basically one of the greatest authorithies among the gods, above Shamash the Sun.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Silverhawks}}'', the light of the Moonstar of Limbo transforms Mon*Star (already a pretty imposing guy) into an even more powerful armored monster. The series begins when a burst of light from the Moonstar gives Mon*Star the strength to escape his prison.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', Saix of Organization XIII uses the ominous [[TitleDrop Kingdom Hearts]] floating over [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon The World That Never Was]] as the focus of his [[TheBerserker berserkering tendencies]] (in contrast to his [[TheStoic stoic]]ness in all other occasions). The aforementioned MacGuffin is, for all intents and purposes, the moon of The World That Never Was; the theme of the world is entitled Sacred Moon, the city is draped in eternal night with the only light source being Kingdom Hearts... plus, Saix has fairly obvious connections to being a werewolf, what with his title being the ''Luna Diviner''.

* {{Wizard 101}} has the moon school in Celestia. It's powers involve [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shape-shifting]].
* ''LeagueOfLegends'' has Diana, the Scorn of the Moon. She's a melee assassin whose abilities revolve around using moonlight to attack her foes, making her the opposite of the sun-powered Leona.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', Saix of Organisation XIII uses the ominous [[TitleDrop Kingdom Hearts]] floating over [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon The World That Never Was]] as the focus of his [[TheBerserker berserkering tendencies]] (in contrast to his [[TheStoic stoic]]ness in all other occasions). The aforementioned MacGuffin is, for all intents and purposes, the moon of The World That Never Was; the theme of the world is entitled Sacred Moon, the city is draped in eternal night with the only light source being Kingdom Hearts... plus, Saix has fairly obvious connections to being a werewolf, what with his title being the ''Luna Diviner''.

* In ''{{Naruto}}'' the demon {{Tanuki}} sealed inside of Gaara is at its most powerful, and it's easier for Gaara to transform into Shukaku. (Thus, at least pre-time-skip, Gaara arguably counts as a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent were-tanuki.]]

* In ''{{Tsukihime}}'', power of vampires is dependent on the phase of the moon. On full moon, even [[spoiler: regenerating from one's ankles up]] is possible.

** Hecate is a moon goddess, so in her appearance as a boss in ''ShinMegamiTensei2'' she is invulnerable as long as any part of the moon is visible - you have to wait until new moon to fight her.

* An episode of ''{{Castle}}'' focuses on two murders committed on the evening of the full moon; the beginning features a scene of utter chaos in the station house, with a whole load of lunatics and maniacs causing havoc in the squad room, and all the phones ringing off the hook... with Detective Beckett calmly sitting at her desk doing paperwork and Richard Castle happily sitting beside her with a bowl of popcorn watching the chaos.

* In ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce,'' Zen-Aku is like Inuyasha - on the night of the new moon, he loses his powers [[spoiler: and becomes his human self again]]. However, he gets full moon power Inuyasha doesn't get. Basically, his power waxes and wanes with the moon's phases as a rule. (This also accounts for the traditional AsStrongAsTheyNeedToBe factor the show has. Invincible in his first and last battles; whenever one Ranger is a match for him, it must not be near full moon time!)

* In ''SuikodenII'', one of the 27 True Runes is the Moon Rune, which [[ImmortalityInducer grants its wielder]] {{Immortality}}, at the cost of [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampirism, of course.]] The original possessor of the Rune, [[MysteriousWaif Sierra Mikain,]] is said to be the oldest Vampire in existence.

** One Sub App in ''StrangeJourney'' lets you speak to demons during the Full Moon (something otherwise impossible). Because they're drunk on the moonlight, they don't really know what they're saying, and will ask bizarre questions. You have a 50/50 chance of impressing them or pissing them off; impressing them can earn you rewards up to and including instantly recruiting them - this is the ''only'' way to recruit Dark demons.