History Main / TheNightThatNeverEnds

-->'''Night Mare Moon''': Remember this day, little ponies, for it was your last. From this moment forth, the night will last forever!

* ''DoctorWho'' has used this trope a couple of times:

** This is the plot of the BigBad of ''FriendshipIsMagic'':

* In RobertAHeinlein's ''Have Space Suit—Will Travel'', the intergalactic security council decides to punish a race by sending the race's planet to a separate universe...without their sun. Earth [[spoiler:avoids this fate only by the hero's PatrickStewartSpeech and actions]].

** Global Warming Good?

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* The dark future in [[WebOriginal/SpesPhthisica Spes Phthisica]]: "a carmine ember that could once have been a sun burns coldly in the sky, giving scarcely any light or warmth."

* Garth Nix's {{The Seventh Tower}} series: unusually, done by the GoodGuys in backstory to wipe out a [[LivingShadow race of evil shadows]]; without light, there are no shadows. The villains want to ''restore'' the sun, and the heroes have to stop them.

* RobinJarvis' ''DeptfordMice'': [[spoiler: Jupiter intends to put out the sun and cause eternal winter]].

* Thanks to ''[[TMNT2003 TMNT: Fast Forward]]'' BigBad Sh'Okanabo and his progeny's [[WeaksauceWeakness 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.

* This is the whole premise of DC's ''Final Night'' [[CrisisCrossover crossover event]], when the Earth's superheroes are ''completely'' and ''totally'' unable to keep the Sun from being eaten, even with help from the villains. Only the HeroicSacrifice of [[GreenLantern Hal Jordan]] saves the day.

** This is the plot of the BigBad of ''Friendship is Magic'':

-->''We need its light''

-->''There'd be no you and me''

** During The Week Of Nightmares, Kuei-Jin elders created a supernatural storm to shield them from the sun to battle Ravnos patriarch. Then, the Technocracy bombed them all, killing everyone who joined the battle werewolves, Kuei-Jin, and their own Agents. after storm dissipated, they scorched Patriarch with orbital mirrors.

* {{Vampire The Masquerade}}'s "Crucible of God" Gehenna scenario features [[spoiler:[Lasombra] blanketing the Earth in darkness for three weeks while it consumes its childer. No explanation is given as to how or why the darkness abates]].

* Garth Nix's {{The Seventh Tower}} series: in the backstory, the humans ''deliberately'' cut off all sunlight to the entire planet--to wipe out a [[LivingShadow race of evil shadows]]. Can't have shadows without light, after all.

* In ''Series/{{Tin Man}}'' the WickedWitch planned on locking the sun behind the moon during a solar eclipse.

** In fact, during the True Final Battle, once you defeat the BigBad, she uses her power over "eternity" to tear apart your spell causing the imperishable night. Every time you die to a section of her final spell card, the time advances 30 minutes. If it reaches 5:00 during that time, the sun rises and the game ends. That doesn't cause a bad end, but losing all your lives during her stage will speed time all the way to 5:00 in one go and triggers the bad end, presumably due to her power. CueTheSun is subverted bigtime here.