History Main / WeirdMoon

* In the ''Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf'' movie ''Animation/MoonCastleTheSpaceAdventure'', the moon is depicted as a world filled with candy and sweets.

** Also, apparently the waves from the destruction of the artificial satellite bombarded the moon with craters[[spoiler:, making it resemble the moon as it is now.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' BizarroEpisode "One+One=Ed" Eddy literally ''bites'' the sun into a crescent moon, complete with teeth marks.

* In ''VideoGame/OuterWilds'', all the planets are {{Baby Planet}}s. The Earthlike planet has a consequently-tiny moon. The rocky planet Brittle Hollow has a lava-spewing molten moon that rains destructive globs of lava on Brittle Hollow, slowly causing it to collapse. Finally, there's the Quantum Moon. This moon is made of a strange material that causes it to not only appear over any of the five planets in the system completely at random, it takes on the characteristics of that planet. If you stop observing it, it relocates somewhere else, and if you're on it and [[spoiler:find a way to nullify all light]], it will take you with it.

* In ''VideoGame/OuterWilds'', all the planets are {{Baby Planet}}s. The Earthlike planet has a consequently-tiny moon. The rocky planet Brittle Hollow has a lava-spewing molten moon that rains destructive globs of lava on Brittle Hollow, slowly causing it to collapse. Finally, there's the Quantum Moon. This moon is made of a strange material that causes it to not only appear over any of the five planets in the system completely at random, it takes on the characteristics of that planet. If you stop observing it, it relocates somewhere else, and if you're on it and find a way to nullify all light, it will take you with it.

* The map Doublecross on ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' inexplicably had 5 moons in the skybox until an update removed them.

* ''VideoGame/TheDig'': The planet Cocytus has 2 moons (the smaller one actually being a satellite of the larger). In one puzzle, the protagonist discovers a planetarium-orrery with models of the planet and its moons, and by moving the models he makes the ''real'' moons move to create an eclipse. This is never explained but then again, we are talking about {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s.

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* The moon in ''Artists At The Ready'' has a castle built on it that's easily visible from other worlds. It's also permanently crescent-shaped, and appears to be shackled to the ground.
* On ''Roleplay/CerberusDailyNews'' the [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121212192355/cdn/images/2/20/Logo_copy.jpg logo]] for media conglomerate DDS is a krogan face superimposed over a moon.

* ''WebVideo/Local58'' depicts the Moon (or an entity that travels through moonlight) as some sort of EldritchAbomination that can drive people mad just by observing it. In "Skywatching," it is shown to have gained a flesh-like organic appearance.
* Matt Parker from ''WebVideo/{{Numberphile}}'' points out in [[https://youtu.be/6JwEYamjXpA?t=619 a talk]] how there is a hole in the moon on a ''[[Series/TheMuppets2015 Muppets]]'' book cover where the stars shine through.

* The recapper for ''Series/HellsKitchen'' at ''Website/TelevisionWithoutPity'' has noted that the series repeatedly features shots of a full moon when it cannot possibly be a full moon the entire time throughout the series run. Sometimes, a crescent moon is thrown in, apparently just for kicks.

** ''VideoGame/Onimusha3DemonSiege''.
---> I've got my eye on you, Moon.
** Again in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1''.
--->Dammit Moon, I knew you were up to no good.

* ''Literature/{{Nos4a2}}'': In Christmas Land, the inscape of Charlie Manx, the moon actually looks like his face. It's quite disturbing.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Remnant's moon is unusual in two ways; Firstly and most obviously, it's [[DetonationMoon shattered]], with a large chunk blown out of it. Secondly, it's not tidally locked, and visibly rotates. Remnant's moon is always depicted in full glow, but the degree of shattering that's visible depends on the moon's rotation. There is a phase which displays the unbroken face; during that stage, there's no sign the moon is damaged at all, and no sign of any of the blasted chunks. As it rotates, more and more of the shattering appears. When the shattered face is fully in view, the blasted fragments seem to extend out towards Remnant slightly; the full view of the shattered side of the moon has only been seen during a period the characters described as 'the night of the full moon'. The reason for the shattered moon is given two sepparate explanations InUniverse:
** The fairytale the Gift of the Moon recounts how humanity once emplored the sun to move faster through the sky, so fast that it'd always be light. The effort eventually caused the sun to shatter, leaking its light into the world. Humanity attempted to fix their mistake by gathering up the light and putting it into a new sun, tying it to the old so that it could move at its own pace. The old sun remains shattered, and can never glow as bright as it once did, but it still moves through the sky, dragging its successor behind it.
** The actual reason is eventually revealed to be tied into [[BigBad Salem's]] origin: [[spoiler:After the Brother Gods refused to resurrect her lover,]] she rallied all mortals in rebellion against them. The gods did as the gods do and retaliated by wiping out humanity, leaving Salem alive [[spoiler:and immortal]] to think over her mistakes before departing Remnant. [[spoiler:The Dark Brother made a point of departing through the moon, leaving it shattered.]]

If the moon has actually been physically altered to change its appearance, it's DefaceOfTheMoon. When the moon alters others comedically, see {{Moonburn}}. See also WeirdSun, TheStarsAreGoingOut, AlienSky, and FrequentlyFullMoon.

->''making the moon fucked up is the first step of any good worldbuilding. the moon is normal in your story? just a normal moon? amateur mistake.''

* Justified in ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' because the moon ''is'' fake.

* Back in the 90's, in one of the comic relief soap operas played by Creator/{{Globo}}, there was a mystic event day in which there would be two giant moons in the sky.