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* Played straight in ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'' when {{spoiler|Athrun deserts and Shinn destroys his GOUF.}} Complete with [[Dramatic Thunder]].
* When, in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', England and America go through [[The American Revolution]], their biggest encounter happens in the rain. A fight itself doesn't ensue, though, since England can't bring himself to harm the rebellious America and [[Twisted Knee Collapse|collapses]] [[Tear Jerker|in tears]].
* Spike and Vincent's final battle in ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]: The Movie'' took place in the rain. That's no
* The battle against Wilhelm and his [[Blob Monster|Slime Trio]] in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''
* Seems to happen a lot in ''[[Ayashi no Ceres]]''.
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* The Battle of Agincourt in Kenneth Branagh's version of Shakespeare's ''Henry V''.
** Which, to be fair, actually was fought in the rain.
** And, unlike most of the battles here, the rain turns the battlefield into a muddy
* ''[[Road to Perdition]]'' wrapped up with one of these, though 'silent slaughter in the rain' may be a bit more appropriate.
* The fight between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jango Fett in ''[[Star Wars]] Episode II: [[Attack of the Clones]]''.
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* In [[James Swallow]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40000]] [[Blood Angels]]'' novel ''Deus Sanguinius'', when Rafen is cornered in the factory by Sachiel's honour guard, it starts to rain. Then, during [[Combat by Champion|the single combat between Rafen and Arkio]], rain starts, shortly after Rafen drew [[First Blood]]; when Sachiel [[Heel Realization|realizes from the blood that they are tainted]], Inquisitor Stele murders him and uses it to start a general battle.
* In [[Michael Crichton]]'s ''[[Congo]]'', the killer gorillas attack the expedition's campsite during a rainstorm.
* The only memorable part of the Roge Zelazny collaboration novel ''The Mask of Loki''(?) is a do-over of the Battle of Hattin. The Army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, having trapped itself in a waterless valley, is surrounded by Saladin's much more numerous army. The Saracens close in and overheated, dehydrated Crusaders start to drop as they did in reality. Then, by manipulation of some sort (Science? Magic?), it clouds up and starts to rain. Revitalized,the Frankish army wins the day, or at least
* ''[[Jack Reacher|Echo Burning]]'' by Lee Child has Jack Reacher stalking his opponent in a desert shootout in the middle of a rainfall so intense, {{spoiler|it takes him nearly fifteen minutes to realize his opponent isn't hiding, one of Reacher's stray bullets hit them.}}
* At the end of the first book in the ''[[Shadowleague]]'' series, the battle with the [[Our Vampires Are Different|Ak'Zahar]] takes place in the rain.
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* The Battle of Agincourt, for which it's speculated that the heavy mud was a key factor in allowing the badly outnumbered English forces to win.
** And also 70 years earlier at Crecy, where the rainy weather not only bogged the French knights in mud, but the large contingent of Genoese crossbowmen the French had hired were mishandled and allowed their bowstrings to become wet. The crossbowmen were rendered largely useless while the English longbowmen, who had kept their bowstrings meticulously dry, had no such problems.
* Part of the battle of Preußisch Eylau (8 February
* Heavy rains over Germany affected the outcome of three major battles in August 1813. The rains badly affected the soldiers' ability to shoot their flintlock muskets (which made infantry more vulnerable to cavalry, especially lancers) and slowed down movements.
** At Großbeeren (23 August), where the Allied Army of the North stopped the French advance on Berlin, the men of the freshly raised Prussian Landwehr (militia) found that their inferior firing drill no longer put them at a disadvantage and used their muskets like clubs, saying "So flutscht dat bäter!" (It goes off the hand more easily that way).
** During Napoleon's defeat of the Allied Main Army at Dresden (August
** In the battle of the Katzbach (August 26), Blücher's Russo-Prussian Army of Silesia smashed the French Army of the Bober. Part of the latter was driven into the Wütende Neisse ("Raging Neisse"), normally a pleasant small river, but swollen to a dangerous torrent due to the heavy rains.
* It rained heavily the night before the battle of Waterloo (1815), which worked to the advantage of the defending Allied army.
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