History Main / SolarAndLunar

* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': The ''moons'', plural (six of them, each a different color) empower magic.
* In ''PlantsVsZombies'', your plants are solar powered.

* ''SetoNoHanayome'': Sun and Lunar tend to be associated [[ShapedLkeItself with the sun and the moon]] for [[MeaningfulNames obvious reasons.]] Sun is an honorable woman and kind to everyone she meets while Lunar has a bit of a rotten side and is Sun's SitcomArchNemesis.

* The {{Boktai}} series is big on this, though with a dash of {{Dark Is Not Evil}} applying to the lunar half of the trope.
* One DualBoss in ''{{Kirby}}'s Adventure'' is the sun and moon, who alternate their attacks.
* The sun/moon balance is the reasoning behind Tauren getting paladins in the next WorldOfWarcraft expansion. Their druids are trained by the Night Elves who worship the moon goddess Elune as their primary deity. In the Tauren's own cosmology the sun and moon are the eyes of the Earth Mother and they have adopted paladins with solar imagery (known as Sunwalkers) so that both aspects are represented.

* In PlantsVsZombies, your plants are solar powered.
* A theme in ''SengokuBasara 3'', where [[TheMessiah Ieyasu]] represents The Sun while [[AxCrazy Mitsunari]] represents [[{{Lunacy}} the moon]]. The final battle in Sekigahara is represented by a solar eclipse.

* ''SetoNoHanayome'': Sun and Lunar tend to be associated with the sun and the moon for [[ShapedLikeItself obvious reasons.]] Sun is an honorable woman and kind to everyone she meets while Lunar has a bit of a rotten side and is Sun's SitcomArchNemesis.

* ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' soundtrack album: Yzma, in ''Snuff Out the Light'' praises the moon and calls on all things evil to extinguish the sun.
* Bright light will hurt Mogwai, and sunlight will kill them in ''{{Gremlins}}''.

On the other end of the spectrum, {{the moon|Lunacy}} also has connotations of light, but it's been associated with {{The Undead}} and other supernatural creatures. Can also go in line with {{Light Is Not Good}}, although it can go with {{Dark Is Not Evil}} when dealing with characters like {{Friendly Neighborhood Vampires}}. Lycanthropes are depicted as having their transformations trigger when the moon is full.

On the other end of the spectrum, [[Lunacy the moon]] also has connotations of light, but it's been associated with {{The Undead}} and other supernatural creatures. Can also go in line with {{Light Is Not Good}}, although it can go with {{Dark Is Not Evil}} when dealing with characters like {{Friendly Neighborhood Vampires}}. Lycanthropes are depicted as having their transformations trigger when the moon is full.

On the other end of the spectrum, the moon also has connotations of light, but it's been associated with {{The Undead}} and other supernatural creatures. Can also go in line with {{Light Is Not Good}}, although it can go with {{Dark Is Not Evil}} when dealing with characters like {{Friendly Neighborhood Vampires}}. Lycanthropes are depicted as having their transformations trigger when the moon is full.

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* ''[[{{Disney/ptitle3if599v0}} The Emperor's New Groove]]'' soundtrack album: Yzma, in ''Snuff Out the Light'' praises the moon and calls on all things evil to extinguish the sun.

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* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Waterbenders and Firebenders draw strength from the moon and sun, respectively; a Waterbender's strength is greater when the moon is up, and at its absolute greatest when the moon is full, while a Firebender's strength is greater while the sun is up. Additionally, Waterbenders and Firebenders lose their bending during their respective eclipses.
* ''ThePowerpuffGirls'': The Boogie Man and all his monsters want to put out the sun so that it will be dark forever and they never have to hide from the light.
* {{Birdman}}: Gains his powers from sunlight, and is weakened when he doesn't get enough.
* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Princess Celestia makes the sun rise and set, while her sister Princess Luna does the same for the moon. With Luna's FaceHeelTurn and subsequent thousand-year imprisonment, Celestia took over the moon duties as well, but after Luna's redemption, she's ready to take the moon back. So Dark ''goes'' evil, but comes back.

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* ''SkiesOfArcadia'': The ''moons'', plural (six of them, each a different color) empower magic.

Due to its nature as an object that provides warmth and light, [[ThePowerOfTheSun the sun]] has played symbolic and important roles throughout the history of fiction. Undead or demonic creatures have been depicted as being vulnerable to it, likely to its associations with [[LightTheWay light]] and [[KillItWithFire fire]]. If associated with malevolence, can go in line with {{Light Is Not Good}}.

* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Rei is [[http://wiki.evageeks.org/Theory_and_Analysis:Rei_and_the_Moon frequently associated with the moon]], initially as a visual motif but it turns out to be foreshadowing. Asuka is occasionally visually paired with the sun, but this doesn't have much plot significance except to [[{{Tsundere}} contrast her]] with [[EmotionlessGirl Rei]].

Due to its nature as an object that provides warmth and light, the sun has played symbolic and important roles throughout the history of fiction. Undead or demonic creatures have been depicted as being vulnerable to it, likely to its associations with light and [[KillItWithFire fire]]. If associated with malevolence, can go in line with {{Light Is Not Good}}.

* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': A Waterbender's strength is greater when the moon is full. While a Firebender's strength is greater while the sun is up. Talk about an unfair advantage.
** Not exactly. Waterbenders are stronger at night, firebenders are stronger in day, but waterbenders are at their absolute strongest during the night of the full moon.
** Not to mention that both Firebending and Waterbending are completely negated during their respective eclipses.

* ''SetoNoHanayome'': Sun and Lunar tend to be associated with the sun and the moon for [[ShapedLikeItself obvious reasons.]]

Due to its nature as a object that provides warmth and light, the sun has played symbolic and important roles throughout the history of fiction. Undead or demonic creatures have been depicted as being vulnerable to it, likely to its associations with light and [[KillItWithFire fire]]. If associated with malevolence, can go in line with {{Light Is Not Good}}.

** Superman [[TheExpy expy]] Apollo from ''TheAuthority'' is literally a solar battery, using up the energy that powers his abilities when not exposed to the sun, but recharging in direct sunlight.

* The Solrock and Lunatone from {{Pokemon}}.

* {{Moon Knight}} gets more powerful as the moon waxes and less powerful as it wanes. Under a full moon he's got the strength of 10 men but under a new moon he's only got his own strength.

* In the Silmarillion (the extended backstory for TheLordOfTheRings) the sun and moon were fruits of the Trees of Valinor, Teleperion and Laurelin, that were put in hallowed lamps and carried across the skies by two maiar spirits (equivalent to lesser angels) as a warning to Melkor and a beacon of hope to the Children of Iluvatar. The stars were actually put in the sky before that (they are dew from Teleperion) and their placement marked the awakening of the Elves by the waters of Cuivienen. The first rising of the sun saw the arrival of Men in Beleriand. Traditionally, the sun is seen as female and the moon male since that's the gender of the forms the Maiar spirits that carry them clad themselves in. Evil things, like orcs and Nazgul, have no love for either sun nor moon but they will operate at night whereas only the strongest of dark things can walk freely during the day.

* Occasionally, Apollo of {{Greek Mythology}} is associated with the sun, while his twin sister Artemis gets the moon.

* ''{{Avatar The Last Airbender}}'': A Waterbenders' strength is greater when the moon is full. While a Firebenders' strength is greater while the sun is up. Talk about an unfair advantage.

* ''{{The Powerpuff Girls}}'': The Boogie Man and all his monsters want to put out the sun so that it will be dark forever and they never have to hide from the light.

* ''{{Skies Of Arcadia}}'': The ''moons'', plural (six of them, each a different color) empower magic.
* In {{Plants Vs Zombies}}, your plants are solar powered.

* ''[[{{Main/Ptitle3if599v0}} The Emperor's New Groove]]'' soundtrack album: Yzma, in ''Snuff Out the Light'' praises the moon and calls on all things evil to extinguish the sun.

* The sun/moon balance is also the reasoning behind Tauren getting paladins in the next WorldOfWarcraft expansion. They have druids who get their powers from a moon goddess, but it's recently occurred to a few of them that they don't have an equivalent group for the sun god.
** More specifically Tauren druids are trained by the Night Elves who worship the moon goddess Elune as their primary deity. In the Tauren's own cosmology the sun and moon are the eyes of the Earth Mother and the priests and paladins using solar imagery are to correct that balance.

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