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* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': ''Imperishable Night'' sees the fugitive Lunarians in Gensokyo using powerful magic to seal the land from their home world, with a false moon placed in the artifical sky created as part of the spell. This causes lots of problems for humans and youkai alike, which in turn requires the heroines to help solve the problem.

** ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'': The BigBad Remilia Scarlet's scheme is to block out the sun with a thick red mist, just so she, a vampire, can go outside whenever she wants. Following her defeat she instead [[MundaneSolution gets around the problem]] by bringing a ParasolOfPrettiness.

* ''Fanfic/{{Antipodes}}: Celestia and Luna have vanished, which means the sun and moon are locked in place, meaning the half of the planet facing the moon has this trope, and is a cold, frozen wasteland, while the half facing the sun has EndlessDaytime and is a hot desert. Only a narrow strip of land is temperate enough to be livable in, and most of ponykind lives underground.

* In ''Literature/{{The Sword of Shannara|Trilogy}}'' the [[BigBad Warlock Lord]] turns the Northland into this.

** One of the realms of [[TheLostWoods the forest of Athel Loren]], Modryn the Night Glens, is shrouded in eternal night, and the forest spirits and elves that live there are known to practice dark magic prohibited in the rest of the forest. It used to have a regular day-night cycle in the distant past, but became shrouded in darkness after the dark elf queen Morathi poisoned the soul of Ariel, the queen of Athel Loren, which among other things cast most of Athel Loren into darkness. Ariel eventually recovered, but night never lifted again from Modryn.

* ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic VIII'' features the Nightshade Brazier, which can produce this effect in a region, and was developed by the Necromancer's Guild of Jadame but stolen by their enemies in the Church of the Sun. At one point in the main quest you have to choose between allying with the Guild or the Church, and the Guild's quest is to retrieve the Brazier so they can plunge their home region of Shadowspire into perpetual night, thus allowing their vampiric troops to defend Shadowspire from attack in the day, freeing up other forces to go on the offensive (it also giver their vampiric ''citizens'' more freedom to move about without having to acquire a highly expensive sun-protecting amulet).

* ''Film/TheThing1982'': The majority of the movie takes place at night. The exact timeline isn't entirely clear but most fans approximate the film to be set roughly over the course of a week. This is actually a justified example, since the story takes place in at the beginning of winter in Antarctica.

* Places in the far north or far south such as Longyearbyen, Svalbard or Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station have a polar night that lasts for up to four months, bracketed on either side by one month of polar twilight.

--->The City is of Night; perchance of Death
--->But certainly of Night; for never there
--->Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath
--->After the dewy dawning's cold grey air:

** ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'': The BigBad Remilia Scarlet's scheme is to block out the sun with a thick red mist, just so she, a vampire, can go outside whenever she wants.

* After the Crime Syndicate defeated the Justice League and assembled every supervillain they could enlist in ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'', Ultraman pushes the moon out of position to block the sun, casting the Earth into perpetual eclipse so it won't interfere with his powers (being the reverse-Superman, sunlight weakens him and kryptonite empowers him).

* In ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', the combined power of Tarakudo's nine generals could summon enough Shadowkhan to shroud the earth in darkness. [[FridgeLogic Why they didn't do this before they were trapped in masks isn't explained]].

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': It's mentioned that [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnon Ghidorah]] inflicts this on every world that it conquers, turning the skies into neverending tempests in Ghidorah's own image which no sunlight can penetrate through.

** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': King Ghidorah's WeatherManipulation once it begins spreading, begins darkening skies all over the world with massive storms. The novelization notes that if it keeps up for days or even months, the decreased daylight ''alone'' (never mind all the other devastation) will have the practical effect of a nuclear winter, causing plant life to die and then the animals to follow in a domino effect.

* In ''Film/RolloAndTheSpiritOfTheWoods'', the protagonists must make peace between their feuding peoples and bring their forest back to balance (literally [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil balancing giant scales that measure good and evil]]). They're warned that if evil conquers the world, the forest will be veiled by an eternal darkness, and all life in the forest (and elsewhere) will die without sunlight. [[spoiler:This ends up happening when the hostilities lead to one of the protagonists dying, with the sun being covered by the moon. This is fortunately reversed when good and evil become balanced once again.]]

** Since the [[GroundhogDayLoop baseline loop]] starts just a few days before Nightmare Moon returns, this comes up a ''lot''. The loopers generally defeat her in a variety of amusing ways very quickly, but occasionally they just talk her down by pointing out (or letting her do it and figure out for herself) that [[RealityEnsues eternal night has a lot of consequences she's not prepared for]]. Among other things, since the world is ([[MultipleChoicePast usually]]) a globe, if half the world is Eternal Night then the other half is Eternal Day, which ruins the symbolism and causes severe weather problems. At one point, Gilda suggests that since the Griffon Lands are in the twilight region of the Eternal Night, Nightmare Moon could "wobble" things to give the griffins a relatively normal day/night cycle while the ponies still have their Eternal Night.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker,'' Ganondorf casts a curse onto the Great Sea that [[http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Endless_Night prevents dawn from ever coming]]. Fortunately, this does Link more good than bad, as it ensures that Link will [[TakeYourTime always get Nayru's Pearl first]] due to the pirates taking time off at Windfall Island until morning; the curse is lifted once the Pearl is obtained. This same curse is also used in a more-localized fashion in the Forsaken Fortress, Ganondorf's base of operations. [[spoiler:When Ganondorf abandons the joint to go after Zelda, however, the curse is lifted there, as well.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'': It's right there in the title of ''The Legend of Spyre: The Eternal Night'' -- the Night of Eternal Darkness does not actually last forever, but it will happily bring along with it evil forces that are all too glad to make it so.

** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': King Ghidorah attempts to enact this via spreading {{Perpetual Storm}}s across the planet as part of his OmnicidalManiac actions. The novelization notes that if it keeps up for days or even months, the decreased daylight ''alone'' (never mind all the other devastation) will have the practical effect of a nuclear winter, causing plant life to die and then the animals to follow in a domino effect.
** In the ''Kingdom Kong'' graphic novel, [[Characters/MonsterVesreKaiju Camazotz]] who is WeakenedByTheLight inflicts the HostileTerraforming type upon Skull Island; drawing Ghidorah's leftover PerpetualStorm into the island's own Perpetual Storm barrier so that the island is enveloped in a neverending storm which blocks out the sun, before Camazotz emerges to claim his new kingdom. Although Camazotz is defeated and thrown back into the Hollow Earth by Kong, the change to Skull Island's climate is permanent, and as a rersult the island is no longer habitable to Kong and its entire ecosystem is dying by the time of ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''.

* Franchis/MonsterVerse:

* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': King Ghidorah attempts to enact this via spreading {{Perpetual Storm}}s across the planet as part of his OmnicidalManiac actions. The novelization notes that if it keeps up for days or even months, the decreased daylight ''alone'' (never mind all the other devastation) will have the practical effect of a nuclear winter, causing plant life to die and then the animals to follow in a domino effect.

* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' fanfic ''Thy Kingdom Come'' has an alternate universe villain Calcite. In the vanilla setting, Calcite and his friends and family are [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch genetically predisposed towards good in a species of demons]]. But in the universe, he goes above and beyond to [[SealedEvilInACan capture the dark goddess Metallica within himself]] to attain [[AGodAmI god-like powers]]. He is much smarter than other series villains and quickly dispatches the Sailor Senshi before launching an invasion of Earth from the Dark Kingdom. Actually, "invasion" is a bit of a misnomer. He make a grand announcement to all the world leaders, they defiantly vow to resist him to the last breath, and then he sets a magic dome of darkness over every landmass on the planet. Within a matter of months, there are massive ecological disruptions as plants cannot grow, animals can't eat plants that aren't there, and so forth. Calcite then imports nocturnal-growing plants from the Dark Kingdom and feeds them to the nations that surrender. Dark Kingdom flora and fauna quickly adapt and thrive and fill in the missing ecological niches. Too keep the planet from ''total'' extinction, the sun still shines on the oceans after about a hundred miles away from land to promote plankton growth and so on. After he is defeated and the sun is restored, there is ''another'' wave of extinctions as the Dark Kingdom-based life dies off, along with another big percentage of humanity who have adapted to it to survive.

** In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'', the Scorching Sandpaper Desert is stuck in perpetual, undead-haunted nighttime because the sun is missing, thanks to Hole Punch, who punched it out and stole it. And what for? To use as ''[[MundaneUtility a disco ball]] '' for an [[DiscoDan eternal disco party]]. Once Mario defeats him, the sun returns to its proper place and the desert goes back to its normal daylit, scorching state.