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In [[Real Life]], military situations fighting in the rain can have mixed results. On the one hand, it reduces visibility and makes for a better defensive fight. On the other hand, the rain is yet one more source of stress (few like getting rained on, after all), reducing morale and causing yet more mistakes. Along with that, the ground generally gets turned to mud, making it harder for mechanized units and sometimes infantry to move. And just to make things even more [[Sarcasm Mode|interesting]] weather can even affect the projection of bullets...a sniper would have considerably more trouble hitting a target in heavy wind and rain, for example. See [[Weather of War]] for when the weather really does have an impact.
A subtrope of [[Empathic Environment]]. Sometimes combined with [[Dramatic Thunder]]. Often, obviously, [[Foreshadowing|foreshadowed]] by [[A Storm Is Coming]]. At the end, [[Sand in My Eyes]] may be expressed by blaming the wetness on their faces as rainfall. Characters often [[Dies Wide Open]], so the rain can fall into their open eyes and confirm [[He's Dead, Jim]]. (Though, this is more common in animation, because trying it in live-action would become [[Narm]] rather quickly due to the "dead" characters [[Corpsing|reflexively closing their eyes]].)
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== Anime & Manga ==
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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
* In the ''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|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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* 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 a all around clusterfuck.
* The climactic battle between Riggs and the [[Psycho for Hire]] [[The Dragon|dragon]], in the first ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'' movie.
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* ''[[Streets of Rage]] 2'' had the first boss fight take place in a back alley during a rainstorm.
* The majority of the Virmire mission in ''[[Mass Effect (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|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]] 2'', the boss of the fifth world ([[Lost Woods|Gloomy Gulch]]) is a rematch with [[Not Quite Dead|a ghostly Krow]] in a rainstorm.
* 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.
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** [[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 (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts II]]'', and was playable in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358 Days Over 2 (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts 358 Days Over 2]]''.
* This happens in the opening in ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Football]]''.
* Happens in ''[[Dragon Age (Video Game)|Dragon Age]]: Origins'' at the Battle of Ostagar, which is no real surprise seeing how much it was inspired by the aforementioned [[Lord of the Rings|Battle of Helm's Deep]].
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* The [[Final Battle]] between Starkiller and Darth Vader in ''[[The Force Unleashed]] II''.
* In ''[[Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|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]].}}
* The final case of ''[[LA Noire (Video Game)|LA Noire]]''.
* Fighting a [[Wake Up Call Boss|Kushala Daora]] in the jungle in "[[Monster Hunter (Video Game)|Monster Hunter]]" will always yield a battle in the rain.
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