History Main / BadMoonRising

* Just after its formation the Moon was much closer to Earth than it is now, according to simulations between 20,000 and 30,000 kilometers. And it was covered by a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_magma_ocean magma ocean]] and you get a ''big'' bad Moon rising.[[note]]This without including that ''[[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/10165036/Earth-had-two-moons-scientists-claim.html two]]'', not just one, moons could have shone by them on Earth's sky.[[/note]] Conversely in the far future, when the Sun goes red giant and is about to engulf the Earth, interaction of the Moon with the Sun's distorted atmosphere will cause its orbit to shrink until it's destroyed by Earth's gravity forming a ring system, but not before having again a big bad Moon in the sky.

* Seen in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', where during the Dark Hour (an extra hour between 11:59 and midnight that most people don't experience) the moon has a SicklyGreenGlow as well as multiple characters explaining how ominous it feels. Moreover, every full moon is when the bosses appear (and the plot moves). [[spoiler:The BigBad, Nyx, is revealed to be the Moon during the Dark Hour, which proceeds to collapse against the earth in the game, bringing about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' has the "Blood Moon" event, which involves the sky turning red, and enemies spawning twice as often as they'd usually do. [[OhCrap Zombies can also break open doors during this night.]] There's also normal full moon that causes werewolves to spawn instead of zombies if the world is in hardmode.

* ''Film/ANewHope'': “ThatsNoMoon”

During the second episode of the ''WebAnimation/SockSeries'', ''Advent of Sock'', the moon and the stars have turned red.

** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom Tears of the Kingdom]]'' have the Blood Moon, said to be the time when Calamity Ganon's/Ganondorf's powers reach their peak. The moon will turn bigger and red, [[RedSkyTakeWarning a reddish-purple miasma will envelop the land]], any monsters you're fighting will be healed,[[note]]This, incidentally, includes bosses... including (in [=BotW=]) Calamity Ganon itself, prior to a game patch that turned off the effects of a Blood Moon while in Hyrule Castle[[/note]] and defeated monsters will come back to life. The Blood Moon randomly replaces a normal full moon, rather than as a set phase, though the chances of seeing it go up slightly with every enemy defeated.

** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'' has the Blood Moon, said to be the time when Calamity Ganon's powers reach their peak. The moon will turn bigger and red, [[RedSkyTakeWarning a reddish-purple miasma will envelop the land]], any monsters you're fighting will be healed,[[note]]This, incidentally, includes bosses... including Calamity Ganon itself, prior to a game patch that turned off the effects of a Blood Moon while in Hyrule Castle[[/note]] and defeated monsters will come back to life. The Blood Moon randomly replaces a normal full moon, rather than as a set phase, though the chances of seeing it go up slightly with every enemy defeated.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', during the end-credits of the Season 2 penultimate episode "Clouds on the Horizon", a full red moon can be prominently seen, this is a foreshadow of what [[BigBad Emperor Belos]] ''[[FinalSolution intends to do]]'' with the power of the eclipse.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}''’s moon is normally red, but [[InvertedTrope inverts]] this trope by giving us a '''blue moon''', which initiates the Blood Moon Shut-In where the frogs have to lock themselves inside all night because anyone who looks at it will turn them into a hideous beast (although it's left unclear if this is actually canon due to the nature of the episode).

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', during the end-credits of the Season 2 penultimate episode "Clouds on the Horizon", a full red moon can be prominently seen, this is a foreshadow of what [[BigBad Emperor Belos]] [[FinalSolution intends to do with the power of the eclipse]].

* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': A blood-red Moon is glimpsed at throughout the tale, and sporting a skull face in the Dark World. In fact, the only tangible transition to the Dark World (apart from the wall collapsing around Link) is the smoke billowing from Agahnim's corpse to form the skull above.

* Used symbolically in ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', when Golden Jane is [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/1991015/how-it-ended/ betrayed by her team leader]] [[spoiler:and brutally murdered]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}''’s moon is normally red, but [[InvertedTrope inverts]] this trope by giving us a '''blue moon''', which initiates the Blood Moon Shut-In where the frogs have to lock themselves inside all night because anyone who looks at it will turn them into a hideous beast (although it's left unclear if this is actually canon due to the nature of the episode). However, the GrandFinale reveals that [[spoiler:the moon is actually

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}''’s moon is normally red, but [[InvertedTrope inverts]] this trope by giving us a '''blue moon''', which initiates the Blood Moon Shut-In where the frogs have to lock themselves inside all night because anyone who looks at it will turn them into a hideous beast.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'''s moon is normally red, but [[InvertedTrope inverts]] this trope by giving us a '''blue moon''', which initiates the Blood Moon Shut-In where the frogs have to lock themselves inside all night because anyone who looks at it will turn them into a hideous beast.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' gives us a literal blue moon, which initiates the Blood Moon Shut-In where the frogs have to lock themselves inside all night because anyone who looks at it will turn them into a hideous beast.

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* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': In the episode "Shell Shock!", where the group visits an island ''made entirely out of Kabuto fossils'', a prophecy comes true near the end of the episode after Team Rocket raids the island to steal them: a red moon rises that causes said fossils to come back to life!