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== Literature ==

* 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 survives—as it did not in reality.

* 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.

* The breakout from Efrafa in ''[[Watership Down]]''. The sudden downpour provides a usesful distraction at a crucial moment, though General Woundwort's more disciplined rabbits are able to cope better with the storm.

* In the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] novel ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', the battle between ThunderClan and WindClan takes place in the rain.

** Also, in the climax of ''[[Warrior Cats the Original Series|Into The Wild]]'', the final battle takes place in the midst of a massive storm.

* In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'', in one of the "dungeons"; in fact it is the only time you will see a difference in the weather. There is a chase on top of Saint Peter's Cathedral, where Ezio has to chase and eventually kill a papal cardinal, and this is all while it's raining.

* ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]] Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal'' starts out like this on [[It Was a Dark and Stormy Night|a dark and stormy night]] as Guybrush tries to finish the ingredients for the Cursed Cutlass of Kaflu in order to destroy LeChuck, {{spoiler|but due to the botched up moves and the last-minute substitutions, it ends with Guybrush [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|ending up turning LeChuck into a human and getting infected along with all the others by an outbreak of the voodoo pox]].}}

* ''[[Heavy Rain]]''? Pretty much every battle in the whole bloody game.

** [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Well...]]

** 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.

** This common image of the war stems from the Battle of Passchendaele, in the long, wet summer and autumn of 1917. A mixture of the unseasonal rain and constant shelling had reduced the terrain to a vast bog in which men drowned before ever seeing the enemy. The horror of Passchendaele so deeply imprinted itself on the public consciousness that rain and mud are assumed for any [[WW 1]] setting except for Gallipoli.

*** This trope is also fully justified for the last part of the Battle of the Somme a year earlier.

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