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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The second fight between Mugen and Sara in episode 21 of ''[[Samurai Champloo]]''. Given the animation and detail, viewing is a must.
* Both the aptly-named "Memories in the Rain" arcs in ''[[Bleach]]''. The first being where Ichigo fights the Grand Fisher to try to avenge his mother, the second being a flashback of Rukia's. {{spoiler|Though it didn't technically start raining until after she killed Kaien, but hey.}}
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*** The Gotei 13 Invasion Arc has Kenpachi vs. Kenpachi in the rain.
* Fate's battle against the last six [[Mineral MacGuffin|Jewel Seeds]] in the first season of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', not surprising since she summoned a thunderstorm to activate all of them at the same time. When Nanoha joins in to help her, the rain had stopped.
* Surprisingly enough, very few fights take place in the rain in ''[[Ranma ½]]''.
** His first encounter with Kuno escalates into a fight as a thunderstorm starts.
** Similarly, his second fight with Ryouga, when Ryouga attacks him in the Tendo home, takes place in a rainstorm.
** And most of the rest are against Pantyhose Taro, which [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|quickly turn very, very bad]] for [[Waif Fu|Ranma]].
* In the ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'' TV special the History of Trunks, Future Gohan's final showdown with androids #17 and #18 takes place in the rain.
* Played straight in ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'' when {{spoiler|Athrun deserts and Shinn destroys his GOUF.}} Complete with [[Dramatic Thunder]].
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* This allows Seaman to use his powers against Kuwabara and friends in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''
== [[Comic Books]] ==
== Comics ==▼
* [[The Mighty Thor]] ''summons'' rain during [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]' first bout with the [[Justice League of America]] in ''[[JLA-Avengers]]''.
* Dwight takes on a team of former IRA mercenaries during a rainy night in ''[[Sin City]]''.
* Happens at least twice in [[J. Michael Straczynski]] 's run on ''Thor''. The battle between Iron Man and Thor (''Thor Vol 3, #3'') in the ruins of New Orleans takes place in the rain, as does the Asgardians attack on Doom's castle in the ''Latverian Prometheus'' story arc.
== [[Fan Works]] ==▼
* The final few days of the Battle/Siege of Crassus in ''[[Enemy of My Enemy (Fanfic)|
▲== Fan Works ==
▲* The final few days of the [[Enemy of My Enemy (Fanfic)|Battle/Siege of Crassus]]. Particularly poignant in that it's the first rain in a decade.
* ''[[Finishing the Fight]]'' gives us this [[One of Us]] comment: "Yeah, all we need is a torrential downpour and the trope is complete." True enough...
* ''[[Princess (fanfic)|Princess]]'': Julien, while running away from the zoo, [[Tempting Fate|makes a comment about how things couldn't be worse]] and it promptly starts raining. It's still raining when he battles the Rat King - he does, in fact, slip in a puddle at the beginning.
* The fight between the Beast and Gaston at the end of the [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney version]] of ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]''.
* Disney's ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'' has the final battle in a rainstorm, to the point where Basil and Ratigan can hardly be seen clearly.
* The fight between the Pridelanders and Outsiders in ''[[The Lion King
* Subverted in ''[[Final Fantasy VII:
** And still no rain. In fact, it doesn't rain until after he's beaten, and it's because he was holding back Great Gospel.
* The opening fight between Ryu and Sagat in ''[[Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie]]'', which [[Recursive Canon|became an actual stage]] in ''[[Street Fighter Alpha]] 2''.
* The [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]/Stegosaurus battle from ''[[Fantasia]]''.
* The battle between Shifu and Tai Lung near the end of ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]''. However, when Po finally arrives to confront the evil snow leopard, the rain stops and the ensuing battle between Po and Tai Lung instead takes place in sunlight.
* In keeping with the series' attitude of fulfilling as many tropes as possible, the (very) short film ''[[Scott Pilgrim
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
* The final battle in Akira Kurosawa's ''[[Seven Samurai]]'' is arguably the [[Trope Maker]] for film.
** And, there is a great deal of slipping and sliding about because of it, unlike many examples.
* The Battle of Shrewsbury in [[Orson Welles]]' ''[[Chimes At Midnight]]''.
* A variation of this is seen in two films by Kihachi Okamoto, ''[[Samurai Assassin]]'' and ''[[The Sword
* The fight between Zatoichi and his [[Evil Counterpart]] in Takeshi Kitano's version of ''[[Zatoichi]]''.
* 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 slaughterhouse—again, this is historically accurate.
* ''[[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]]''.
* The Battle of Helm's Deep in the [[Film of the Book|film adaptation]] of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings
** But the brief upward eyeroll of the Rider directly behind Theoden as the rain starts is priceless.
* The final showdown between Neo and Agent Smith at the climax of ''[[The Matrix
** It took several months to perfect the right type of raindrop for the scene.
* The final battle in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean
** Justified, since they just released the goddess of the sea, and asked for her blessing in the fight. She goes crazy, and its probably the result.
* The fight between Nameless and Sky in [[Zhang Yimou]]'s ''[[Hero (film)|Hero]]''.
* The famous T. Rex car attack in ''[[Jurassic Park]]''. The two sequels mimic this with similar scenes.
* Happened in the 1999 Hong Kong film, ''[[A Man Called Hero]]'', with an extra bonus of using the [[Making a Splash|rain itself as offense.]] (You can watch it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCmYRSMtX4U here.] It starts at 1:43.)
* The fight between Leonardo and Raphael in the fourth ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' movie.
* The final battle with the Wendol happens in the rain at the end of ''[[The 13th
* Several movies featuring Rutger Hauer, among them:
** ''[[Blade Runner]]'' (lots and lots of rain) which also ends with a [[Redemption in the Rain]].
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** ''[[Wedlock]]''
** ''Blood of Heroes'' a.k.a. ''Salute of the Jugger''
** ''[[Flesh and Blood]]'' (rain
** ''[[Ladyhawke]]'' (rain and frozen lake)
** ''[[Split Second]]'' (frequent rain plus global warming flooding)
** And even if there isn't actual rain, there will be a waterfall, or a lake, swimming pool or large bath tub into which the two protagonists fall while fighting. No matter what it is, Rutger Hauer's character will end up soaking wet and looking [[Badass]].
* ''[[Godzilla|Godzilla 1985]]'' has the title character fight a bunch of army tanks in the rain.
** The 2002 ''[[Godzilla
* The cheesiest battle in an already cheesy movie in ''[[DOA:
* The movie ''[[In the Name of The King]]'' had the final battle take place in the rain. Though the good guys won the last battle, the army that they fight then is far larger and though they manage to hold the Krug off for a brief time, they eventually start getting overwhelmed.
* Korean action movie ''[[Volcano High]]'' climaxes with [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|two telekinetic martial artists]] fighting in the rain, in an interesting aversion,{{spoiler|despite the main character's abilities being most effective manipulating water he doesn't try to use the rain to strike his opponent}}
* The final battle in the film ''[[Mongol]]'', where Temujin defeats his blood brother Jamukha to finally unite the tribes of Mongolia.
* ''[[Underworld Rise of the Lycans]]'' between Sonia and Viktor, as well as Lucian and a bunch of [[What Measure Is a Mook?|Vampire Soldiers]].
* Played realistically in ''[[Hamburger Hill]]'' the American Airborne soldiers try to fight there way up the hill in one of the last battles while it's pouring rain, a lot of them are slipping and falling from fatigue and the slippery mud making them perfect targets for the NVA also a quarter of the M-16's are jamming... it's
* The climactic battle between Riggs and the [[Psycho for Hire]] [[The Dragon|dragon]], in the first ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'' movie.
** A busted fire hydrant actually. Still counts if only for [[Rule of Cool]].
* Used in ''[[
* The entire premise of ''[[Hard Rain]]'', a1998 film that stars Morgan Freeman as a villain. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. It rains the entire movie in a flooded town, where one man is on the run from people trying to kill him for 3 million dollars he hid somewhere in the flooded city, after his partner is killed when Morgan Freeman's character attempts to rob his armored truck.
* The final battle between Steed and Sir August in 1998's ''[[The Avengers (1998 film)|The Avengers
* The 2003 German film ''[[wikipedia:The Miracle of Bern|Das Wunder von Bern]]'' (''The Miracle of Berne'') tells the story of the West German team that won the [[The World Cup]] in 1954. The win against the greatly favoured Hungarians (at that point it had been four years since their last defeat) would probably not have happened if not for the heavy rain on the day of the final (and the newly developed screw-in spikes on the German team's boots).
* It rains when Swamp Thing fights the leech mutant for the second time in ''
* The entire battle sequence in ''[[Passchendaele]]''.
** Again, a fair example, as Passchendaele was very muddy and very wet.
* In ''[[The Warrior's
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* In [[James Swallow]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40,000]] [[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.
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* The [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] novel ''[[X Wing Series|Wedge's Gamble]]'' had a Dogfight in the Rain. Rogue Squadron made use of Coruscant's justifiably extreme weather patterns to bring down a section of the inner layer of the planetary deflector shield with an enormous thunderstorm. Then Corran Horn flew a fighter into the thunderstorm (and was followed by [[Suicidal Overconfidence|TIE fighters]]) to [[Attack Its Weak Point|blow up the power supply]] [[Airstrike Impossible|of the shield's outer layer]].
* The fight at the end of the first episode of the
▲* The fight at the end of the first episode of the reboot of ''[[The Bionic Woman]]''.
* [[Subverted Trope|Subversion]]: In the ''[[Angel]]'' episode "Five by Five", a fight that looks like it's going to be a Battle in the Rain quickly turns into [[Redemption in the Rain]].
** Of course, according to an episode commentary, the rain just happened while the scene was being filmed. Early scripts called for rain-making equipment, but these did not fit into the budget.
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** Not to mention the final battle between Jack and {{spoiler|the Man in Black/Smoke Monster/Fake Locke}} in the series finale.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' manages to pull this off indoors in the episode "Innocence" after an explosion triggers automatic sprinkler systems right before the climactic battle.
* The final battle between Clark and Zod in ''[[Smallville]]''{{'}}s
* ''[[NCIS
* Fourze in [[Super Mode|Cosmic States]] vs Aquarius Zodiarts in ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze]]''.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* The final mission of ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]''.
* Extreme overkill example: The final battle in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The
** The battle against Argorok, in ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
** Ditto for Bicolyte and the final battle in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]''. Except in the latter case, {{spoiler|the storm gets ''[[Lightning Can Do Anything|weaponized]]''}}.
* The first Dante vs. Vergil fight in ''[[Devil May Cry
* Inversion: Snake and Olga in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' begin their gunfight almost immediately after a lull in the ongoing downpour. When the fight is done, it starts raining again.
* ''[[Streets of Rage
* The majority of the Virmire mission in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' is almost a subversion; it takes place in a lightly misting rain that's hard to see if you aren't looking closely, and once the climactic second half of the mission begins, it ''stops'' raining.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', the closing battle of Disc 1 is against [[Lady of War|Beatrix]] in Burmecia, the City of Eternal Rain. Made more ominous as, [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose|upon defeat]], Beatrix will use a special technique to [[Hope Spot|utterly demolish Zidane and his friends]], so [[God Save Us From the Queen|Queen Brahne]], [[Big Bad]] [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|Kuja]], and Beatrix leave them for dead on the flooded marble halls of the central palace.
* In ''[[Donkey Kong Country
* The final battle of ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'' has Wander facing down the final colossus atop a sea-side plateau in the midst of a torential thunder storm while the most hauntingly solem music on the soundtrack plays away in the background.
* Variation: in ''[[Touhou]]'' [[Genre Shift|fighting game]] ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'', each fighters are associated with a certain weather condition and generally gain advantage in that condition. Weather change randomly, but you can force a weather to begin or end through certain methods. Marisa [[Meaningful Name|Kirisame]] is associated with drizzly rain.
* ''[[Capcom vs. SNK 2 Mark of the Millennium|Capcom vs. SNK 2]]'' had, as one of the possible final stages, a fight on the rooftop of Osaka Castle in the midst of a heavy rainstorm, complete with [[Dramatic Thunder]].
* Part of the battlefield in ''[[Metroid
** [[Fridge Brilliance|She was with the Pirates. The Pirates made the Hazard Shield. So...]]
** In ''[[Metroid Prime]]'', the entire Tallon Overworld is always covered in rain, resulting in many mini-battles in the rain in addition to the rain during the Ridley fight at the Artifact Temple.
* The secret ending to ''[[Kingdom Hearts (video game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'' features Riku and Roxas fighting Heartless/each other in the rain. Because the scene was so epic, it was remade in full for ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'', and was playable in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days|Kingdom Hearts 358 Days Over 2]]''.
* This happens in the opening in ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Football]]''.
* Happens in ''[[Dragon Age
* ''[[Crysis (series)|Crysis]]'' has its final battle in the middle of a thunderstorm.
* ''[[Left 4 Dead 2]]'' has a campaign called Hard Rain, in which the Survivors must fight their way through what isn't so much a rainstorm as a full blown flood. Every so often, the storm intensifies so it's almost impossible to see and even communicating via mike is difficult. ''The thunder and lightning summons hordes of zombies.''
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* ''[[Turtles in Time]]''; halfway through the 6th stage - a [[Gang Plank Galleon]] level - rain starts falling, worsening to a thunderstorm by the time the heroes get to the boss.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Hilariously lampshaded in a strip of ''[[The
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'': The Zoe vs. Oasis vs. Kusari fight at the end of "Fire And Rain". Approriately enough, it's easily the most serious fight scene in the series with nary a joke to be seen.
* It rains during the first battle in ''[[Goblins]]''. As usual for this comic, it increases dramatic tension but has no effect on the plot.
* The Fava flashback in ''[[Juathuur]]''.
* In ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]''. There's no real way to accurately describe it, but think Battle of Helm's Deep.
* In the ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' episode "The Southern Raiders", the moments during Katara's confrontation against her mother's killer. Though being a waterbender, she uses the rain as a weapon. But not until after stopping the rain falling around them first.
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** "Job Unfair" has one of these between Kim and Shego too, but with snow and lightning instead of rain. But in this case, it's justified by the fact that they're fighting on top of a weather machine.
* In ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]'', it conveniently starts to rain during a faceoff between Anakin Skywalker and Asajj Ventress. Cue a dramatic pause where they both stand still while raindrops hit their lightsabers and turn into wisps of steam.
* In ''[[Star Wars: The
* The 2003 ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003]]'' series. Leonardo is pursued by Foot Ninja whilst on a training run through the city. As soon as the circumstances start getting worse, it starts raining. The trope reaches boiling point here, where at the same time he encounters Shredder's Elite Guard, he discovers [[Big Bad|The Shredder]] himself is [[Not Quite Dead]] as was previously thought (with ''lightning'' starting to crack amongst the rain). He is [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|badly beaten]] and almost killed soon after.
* The final battle in ''[[Wakfu]]'' season 1, with Adamaï and Yugo versus Nox, happens under the rain at Mt. Zinit. It is used to great visual effect when Nox stops time, the raindrops first hanging... and then, rising upward when he reverses time.
* "Haunted", an episode
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Alexander the Great|The Battle of Hydaspes]] according to most sources was fought during a torrential downpour
* The Battle of Evesham (1265) was fought during a fierce thunderstorm.
* 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
* Part of the battle of Preußisch Eylau (8 February 1807) was fought in a snowstorm. One advancing French corps lost its way and suddenly found itself smack in front of a huge Russian battery. It was blown to pieces.
* 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.
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