Dramatic Wind: Difference between revisions

* In the last episode of the first season of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', a strong wind suddenly blows Fate's long hair upward, underlining the [[Squee|most emotional and romantic moment]] during her private talk with Nanoha on the bridge {{spoiler|("Call my name")}}. That's some great timing by the weather gods.

** All the dramatic motion of hair, skirts, and capes during the airbourne battle scenes seem to have wind as well.

* ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'', any dramatic scene that doesn't take place indoors or underwater (and even then, the underwater ones get it too some days... physics has no hold in this series). It seems to be more of a "Dramatic Current" or "Dramatic Wave"

* ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' absolutely thrives off of this.

* The ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' Brigade-movie "The Adventures Of Mikuru Asahina" used this with Yuki's introduction.

{{quote|'''Kyon:''' "Yuki Nagato stands here dramatically... Although we don't really know why."}}

* An egregious example can be found in ''Shattered Angels'' where Kyoshiro and Kuu stand face to face with one another but the wind blows at both characters in different (opposite) directions even though they are only standing a few paces apart.

* Space inside of a [[Shakugan no Shana|Fuzetsu]] seems to always be very windy, especially during standoffs. [[Fridge Logic|Though you'd think that a sealed space would have no wind at all, unless a spell was used...]]

* Combined with [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPexAtwnwj8 Voices Silently Sing]), Seshiro in the few episodes during the Oto Country arc in [[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]

* Fusanosuke appears to have a passionate love-affair with illustrating dramatic wind, particularly in the series ''[[Maiden Rose]]''. Clothing especially gets blown about to full visual effect, but any sort of drapery will do.

** In one instance, Kotomi [[Invoked Trope|invokes]] the wind by opening a window.

* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' has two moments like this...although it's fair to say the drama of the moment is invariably soonafter ruined, given that the show's nature is to take [[Refuge in Audacity|refuge in audacity.]]

 

=== Tabletop Games ===

** DND also has a Weapon of Legacy called the Desert Wind. When the wielder grasps the hilt, it summons a gust of warm, dry Dramatic Wind for him and him alone.

** 3e [[Sourcebook]] ''[[Forgotten Realms|Races of Faerǘn]]'' recommends a slight breeze from nowhere as one of possible traits for Air Genasi (descendants of humans and Djinn or other air elemental creatures).

** In Brawl's adventure mode, [[F-Zero|Captain Falcon's]] [[Dynamic Entry|dramatic entrance]] consists of destroying a giant robot as well as most of Olimar's [[Pikmin]] as he lands. The [[Beat|awkward silence]] that follows is punctuated by leaves blowing gently by. Probably also by [[Crowning Moment of Funny|the player laughing]].

* In ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' when Luke cuts his hair he lets a clump of it go and wind blows it away. It is extremely odd considering that they are inside a building, under the crust of the planet.

** This includes standing underwater.

* And who could forget the battle atop Riovanes Roof ([[Luck-Based Mission|starring Rafa the Idiot]]) in [[Final Fantasy Tactics]] when {{spoiler|Elmdor's}} cape flaps in the wind for no apparent reason, just because {{spoiler|he's [[Card-Carrying Villain|got one of those Zodiac Stones that are all the rave]].}}

* An example from [[Castlevania]]: In both the games he's featured in, Soma Cruz's trench-coat ''never'' stops billowing in the wind, no matter how still he's standing or where he is.

* The first ''[[Rayman]]'' game has this trope in the form of [[Big Bad|Mr. Dark]], who seems to be a [[Coat, Hat, Mask]] with hands and feet. As he [[Palantir Ploy|spies on the eponymous hero's progress]] from the top of a hill for most of the game, his cloak perpetually billows in the wind.

* Jude of ''[[Agarest Senki]]'' abuses this trope with flair. His scarf looks like it has a life on its own whenever he's in his idle animation, his [[Victory Pose]], or [[And Now for Someone Completely Different|his world avatar]].

 

* ''[[King of the Hill]]'': In one episode Joseph steals "The Bugabago" (Dale's van) to go "wherever 1/8 of a tank of gas will take him". In a parody of generic romantic scenes, Connie runs out and asks to go with, complete with the dramatic wind blowing her hair.

** Every time John Redcorn talks about "his people", a sudden breeze from out of nowhere starts blowing his hair.

* [[Tiny Toon Adventures|Plucky Duck]] parodies it in "The Return of the Toxic Revenger", where he does his [[In the Name of the Moon|dramatic intro]], notices a lack of this trope and goes offscreen to turn on a giant fan. Him being an [[Expy]] of Daffy Duck, of ''course'' it switches itself to maximum power and blows him away.

* Parodied in an episode of [[Danny Phantom]] Where Danny is split into his "superhero" side and his "normal teen" side. The superhero side constantly has his hair and bedsheet cape blowing in a nonexistant wind.