History Main / NiceDayDeadlyNight

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Once the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt arrives in New Orleans, nighttime becomes a lot more dangerous for the city's residents because he usually hunts two humans each night, which the health officials of 1910 [[MistakenForDisease mistaking the rising death toll for a new type of bloodthirsty rat that causes a fever and drains its victims dry]]. The number of people who go "missing" climbs up even higher after Lestat turns Louis de Pointe du Lac and later Claudia into vampires, and they [[FurnaceBodyDisposal dispose of their prey's corpses with an incinerator]].

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Once the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt arrives in New Orleans, nighttime becomes a lot more dangerous for the city's residents because he usually hunts two humans each night, which the health officials of 1910 [[MistakenForDisease mistaking the higher death toll for a new type of bloodthirsty rat that causes a fever and drains its victims dry]]. The number of people who go "missing" climbs up even further after Lestat turns Louis de Pointe du Lac and later Claudia into vampires, and they [[FurnaceBodyDisposal dispose of their prey's corpses with an incinerator]].

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': After being branded, Guts finds himself assailed by demons hungry for his flesh every night. While daytime has its own tribulations, it is usually the only time he can sleep, since the only demons he has to contend with while the sun is up is his own personal demons.
* ''Anime/BloodC'': Daytime in Saya's hometown is relatively peaceful and Saya is usually doing her daily routine as an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent. At nighttime, she goes out to hunt and kill Elder Bairns. This pattern is broken around Episode 5 where the Elder Bairns come out during the day too and attack several civilians. This also led Saya to bring her katana to school.

[[folder:Arts]]
* ''Art/MediciChapels'': "Day" and "Night" are metaphorical representations of this trope. The former is bursting with energy and is an ideal of health, what with his bulging muscles and determination --it represents the peak of human life. By contrast, the latter suffers from a terminal illness, cancer possibly, and unpleasant dreams if her frown is anything to go by --she is the ugly end that awaits everyone.

[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Gotham City is shown as a deadly city mostly by night, which is the moment when the Caped Crusader defends the city from threats ranging from thugs to super-villains. Then again, Gotham is rarely shown during the day at ''all''.

[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/NoStarsInSight'': Despite most of [[Literature/InheritanceCycle Vroengard]] resembling a post-apocalyptic landscape, Formora and Enduriel have found that life on the island isn't so bad during the day as long as they stick to the shores and avoid the areas filled with "poisonous air" (read: high levels of radiation). During the night, however, a metallic DraconicHumanoid comes out to hunt the duo, killing anything that gets in its way and only ceasing its relentless pursuit when dawn approaches.

[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'': Feudal Japan is friendly and normal enough in the daytime, but come night, Kubo's grandfather the Moon King and his daughters (Kubo's aunts) are out to get him, in ways that are often deadly.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'': The FunnyAnimal characters can go about their business every day because the rooster Chanticleer's crowing summons the sun every morning until the Grand Duke of Owls' scheming creates a constant night during which the small farm animals become easy prey for the Duke and his {{mooks}}.
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/{{Aliens}}'': After the drop ship is destroyed and the protagonists are trapped on the surface of the planet LV-426, Newt warns Ripley about the deadly threat the xenomorphs will pose to the Colonial Marine force once night falls.
-->'''Newt''': We'd better get back cos it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night. Mostly.
* ''Film/IAmLegend'': The last human resident of New York, Robert Neville, is free to roam about during the day with his dog and do whatever he wants in the abandoned city. But at night, he has to board in his house, cover up his scent, and securely seal every window and door, lest [[OurVampiresAreDifferent the Darkseekers]], who can only survive in the dark, come to kill him.
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* ''Film/PitchBlack'': Survivors of a starship's crash landing discover that the deserted planet they're on has three suns, resulting in almost constant sunlight. When a prolonged total eclipse occurs, they are swarmed by deadly alien monsters in the dark.
* ''Franchise/RoboCop'': While Old Detroit is pretty horrible at any time of day, night is when the roving street gangs are at their most active.
* ''Film/{{Sweetheart}}'': By day, the island is a tropical paradise. By evening, a shark-like humanoid emerges from the waters to hunt and kill those it can get its claws into.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'': The titular hero's first enemy is Grendel, a monster that attacks each night before slinking away come morning.
* ''Literature/IAmLegend'': The days are safe, but at night the vampires will emerge and try to drink your blood.
* Part of Prince Arthur's sleep-deprived rant is railing against the night for allowing thieves and murderers to hide their crimes and another part is praising the day for exposing such sins and striking fear to those who commit them.
-->''"Our life is day, but death with darknesse doth begin."'
* ''Literature/TheLesserSun'': {{Inverted}}. In this story, the heroes run across an island that is plagued by super-strong gargoyle-like flying monsters created by a MadScientist villain. However, these monsters are incredibly dependent on sunlight for energy, to the point where going for even an hour without sunlight will kill them. As such, they can roam the island freely during the day, but every night must retreat to the abandoned castle where they were created, and where their creator left what is essentially a giant magical full-spectrum lamp that provides a close enough approximation of sunlight to sustain them through the night.
* ''Literature/ShadowsForSilenceInTheForestsOfHell'': When the sun is up, the shades can still be enraged by kindling flame or shedding blood but will ignore fast movement. As such, it's much safer to move around by day.
* ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' has the Time Traveler journey several thousand years into the future, where he meets the Eloi, small dwarfish people that amble about the remains of civilization by day. At night, however, the Morlocks ascend from the depths of the Earth to harvest some of the Eloi. Though the Traveler is significantly larger than any Morlock, he's aware that he'd fare poorly against a ZergRush.
* ''Literature/TheWardedMan'': Peter V. Brett's Demon Cycle books feature a setting where demons emerge from the Earth every night and prey on humans, only kept at bay by fragile poorly-understood magical wards. Fortunately the demons are literally allergic to sunlight and disappear back into the earth at dawn.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Crusade}}'': In "The Memory of War", the ship visits a planet that seems pleasant by day, but terrifying things begin happening when night falls. In keeping with the series' use of MagicFromTechnology, it turns out to be due to a swarm of nanobots that shut down during the day because sunlight interferes with their control signals.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** "Silence in the Library" & "Forest of the Dead": The Library, a planet which is one giant library, looks nice during the day, except for the fact it's been sealed for decades and there's no sign of the several billion people who were there when it closed. Then it turns out hyper-aggressive carrion eaters have taken over the place, but can be avoided so long as you stay out of the shadows... problem is the sun's going to set eventually.
** "The Ghost Monument": The abandoned planet where everything is designed to kill you is slightly less deadly during the day. At night, the various cloth-rags lying around activate and try to kill anyone they find, but only after probing their minds and taunting them about what they found.
* ''Series/{{From}}'': This is the very plot of the show. The characters are trapped into a pocket dimension or parallel world, where during the day is very nice and peaceful, but during the night, all kind of horrible monsters that can shapeshift start to hunt everyone whom they get outside of their houses.
* ''Series/LovecraftCountry'': In the first episode, the African-American protagonists find themselves in a 'sundown town' where 'coloreds' are murdered if they are still there after dark. With a racist sheriff dogging their vehicle, they are barely able to make it across the county line in time, only to find police from the neighbouring county have set up a roadblock. After they are taken out into the woods to be interrogated and likely executed, both parties find themselves attacked by [[EldritchAbomination another kind of menace]] that only comes out at night...
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' is based on GothicHorror, so as you'd expect the night is always more dangerous than daytime.
** At night, the citizens of Barovia bar their doors and tremble in terror. Strahd attacks the {{PC}}s at night with wolves and bats. Not only could the attacks easily kill them, but party spellcasters can forget relearning their spells. Random encounters at night are much more dangerous: not just wolves, but a deadly variety of undead monsters.
** In the domain of Kartakas, wolves strong enough to break down barred gates roam the streets of the cities at night.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Summerland}}'': Daytime isn't especially safe in itself, but the forest's psychic Call, which compels humans to lose themselves in the woods and revert to a bestial state, becomes relatively muted during daylight hours and it's possible for people to leave their settlements to hunt, forage and explore. During the night, however, the Call becomes much stronger and impossible for non-Drifters to ignore, forcing survivors to retreat into their settlements to endure it; consequently, the maximum distance people can travel from their homes is a half day's worth of travel -- just far enough to be able to make it home before sundown. Nighttime is also when the denizens of the Sea of Leaves, such as the Wild and altered animals, become especially active and more likely to attack Drifters and settlements.
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'': A recurring theme:
** In general, most of the action happens at night, for different reasons: in ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'' because the antagonists are dangerous spirits or magicians seeking to uphold the {{Masquerade}}, in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' because it's vampires, and in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' along with its adaptations because of the nature of the Holy Grail War, which waged in secret from the populace or public.
* In ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'', Kaoru explicitly states that spirits only appear at night-time, as proven throughout the game by the few morning scenes being mundane and free of danger.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Since all Rash creatures are WeakenedByTheLight to an extent, the right combination of weather and lack of proximity to potential hideouts can be safe enough that even Tuuri and Reynir, the two non-immune non-combatants, can walk around outside. Come night, only those able to fight said creatures should be outside.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': Since the title characters turn to stone in daylight, most of the series actions take place at night. The four-part episode "City of Stone" played this up even more by having Demona curse the human population of New York to turn to stone during the night in the same manner as the gargoyles do during the day. At one point, she even takes the time out to smash two of the statues.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Parodied in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E2LostVerizon Lost Verizon]]". Bart is left home alone and becomes afraid of nature at night, resulting in an OverlyLongGag of Bart being afraid in the dark and happy in the day. ("Night is scary." "Day is awesome!")
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': Any challenge at any time can be deadly, but if the contestants are woken up at night it's a guarantee they're going to be hunted.
** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaHookLineAndScreamer Hook, Line, and Screamer]]", Chris lets the players watch horror movies until nighttime in preparation for a prank challenge designed to make the campers think they're stuck on an island with a hook-handed murderer (played by Chef) on the loose. Everyone but Heather falls for it and then the stakes get raised when an actual hook-handed murderer makes it to the island.
** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaFindersCreepers Finders Creepers]]", the campers are sent out on a riddle hunt at night with the warning that dangerous creatures are lurking about. Genuine ones are encountered, but the one that causes most trouble is Izzy in a spider disguise.
** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaMoonMadness Moon Madness]]", the rare Blue Harvest Moon makes every animal in the forest act opposite of their normal selves. So while the lone alligator is no longer a problem, a gang of bunnies is. The Heroic Hamsters, who lost the previous challenge, are put at greater risk as they're made to wear sausage belts and bacon hats.
** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaHurlAndGoSeek Hurl and Go Seek]]", the contestants first have to consume food that's been expired since 1976 and the one who first gets through the gross concoction becomes the hunter. They're tasked with finding other contestants in the forest at night and anyone found before sunrise could potentially be eliminated next. While not inherently dangerous, the food predictably makes everyone nauseous and disoriented while out alone in the dark. The thunderstorm that rolls in does nothing to improve the challenge's safety.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Many large predators such as [[PantheraAwesome big cats]] tend to be at their most active at night, which is also when our human day-adapted vision renders us at our most blind, helpless, and disoriented. By comparison, for a leopard, even the darkest nights are often no darker than a slightly overcast day for them. It was only in recent centuries that humans gained access to lights that extended past the short radius of a campfire or torch.
* Many a military offensive has used the cover of darkness to mask its approach thanks to the reduced visibility and awareness of their target:
** The Night Attack of Târgoviște had the forces of Vlad the Impaler attack the Ottomans with the night as cover, leading to around a 1:3 death ratio in favor of the Wallachians.
** During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, since the Japanese were at a disadvantage in terms of numbers when facing China on land and the Allies at sea, they would do their attacks at night to mask their approach.
* Fewer people are around on the streets at night than during daylight hours, so it's less risky for criminals, ranging from robbers to murderers, to prey on unsuspecting folk going back home after a long day of work or school, or going out for a leisurely night walk; even if there are a few witnesses, the cover of darkness makes perps way harder to identify accurately. These guys are far less likely to go for "hard targets": suspicious and well-aware people such as those using a flashlight to walk in dark areas are harder to sneak up on. Criminals typically look for victims, not challenges.
* Before the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town sundown towns]] were a common practice in the United States in which [[FascistsBedTime an unofficial curfew]] was placed on racial minorities using discriminatory local laws, intimidation, or violence against minority travelers found after dark. The term came from signs posted in all-white municipalities that "colored people" had to leave town by sundown.
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