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== Literature ==
* It is a trope essential to Gothic literature and the Romantic movement. You can find it in all sorts of works, from [
* Some [[Stephen King]] novels have a tendency to display fearsome weather patterns that parallel the steady build towards whatever climactic conflict will finish off the story. Examples include the cataclysmic thunderstorms of ''[[IT]]'' and ''[[Bag of Bones (Literature)|Bag of Bones]]'' and the blizzard in ''[[The Shining]]''.
* The [[Discworld]] country of [[Uberwald]] is noted for this. Experienced residents [[Dramatic Ellipsis|pause]] before saying portentious words to give thunder time to roll or [[Howl of Sorrow|wolves to howl mournfully.]]
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* Justified in an episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''. While the team, having recently lost Daniel (again) stood around looking pensive and sad, an odd, comforting wind blew past. They were inside. They all agreed that it must have been a malfunctioning air vent, but [[Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence|we (and O'Neill) know better...]]
* [[Soap Opera|Soap operas]] LOVE this one. The best example would be ''[[All My Children]]'' had a tornado occurring on a day when about six major storylines came to a climax.
* The [[Downer Ending]] of ''[[
* A classic episode of ''[[The X Files]]'' had Mulder and Scully investigating a swindler who claimed to be able to make it rain (and sold this skill to drought-struck communities). Soon enough, they discover the man's ex-wife believes she has a sort of antagonistic version of this trope in effect (the sky seemed to cry on her wedding day, and the clouds laughed at her when she got divorced) and that is behind her ex-husband's apparent abilities. In fact, {{spoiler|she has a nerdy secret admirer who ''actually'' has this relationship with the weather, it reflected ''his'' moods when she married another man and when she finally left that guy. He had been affecting the weather for her ex's business out of guilt}}.
== Tabletop Games ==
* In the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons Dragons]] 3.0 ''Manual of the Planes'', one of the dream realms described in the appendix is literally this way. This permanent dream realm held a child who was eternally young, and the land responded to her desires, turning bright and sunny when she was happy, stormy when she was angry, windy and wet when she was sad, etc. The only other permanent resident was a large dragon who knew the truth: {{spoiler|the girl was the last survivor of a doomed [[Out
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== Video Games ==
* The sky in ''[[In Famous (Video Game)|In Famous]]'' takes colour depending on your karmic path. Good gives you a nice sunny day, evil results in [[Red Sky, Take Warning]].
* The action of ''[[Max Payne (Video Game)|Max Payne]]'' happens during one of the worst snowstorms that New York City has ever seen, a storm that only abates after Max takes down the one behind the murder of his family.
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' opens a boss battle with [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/The_Last_Stand this] as part of the narration:
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