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'''Rikku:''' Mm-hm. When I was little, a [[Aquatic Mook|fiend]] attacked me while I was swimming at the beach. My brother tried to beat it back with a spell. ''*Squeaks at another thunderclap*'' [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood|But he missed and hit me instead!]] It was a Thunder spell -- "[[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud|Bzzzzzzt!]]"
'''Tidus:''' Ouch!
'''Rikku:''' I've been
Your otherwise capable or serious character has an inordinate fear of thunderstorms. This is a primal, almost childish fear that surprises other characters, although it's not always played for laughs. The actual name of this fear is "Brontophobia" or "Astraphobia." However, the former suggests a fear of incorrectly-named, four-legged sauropods while the latter, a horror of affordable German family cars. It also happens to animals, especially dogs.
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Augustus had a particularly strong fear of thunder because a slave was once struck by lightning right in front of him while traveling. Emperors are recorded as doing any number of things to avert the danger: wearing a bit of sealskin, wearing a laurel wreath, and even (most practically) going underground. (It certainly didn't help that Romans, ''as a whole'', had lots of beliefs and superstitions related to gods of nature. I.e.: Thunder and lighting were associated with Jupiter, the Father of the Gods, and being on the bad side of a pissed off Jupiter was something you ''really'' did ''not'' want, according to their mentality).
Note that fear of thunder is often treated as silly; after all, it's just a lot of noise. Fear of lightning, on the other hand, is [https://web.archive.org/web/20080720121349/http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040827.html absolutely justified.] (And confirmed by [http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/phone.asp Snopes.])
A subtrope of [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]], especially common in [[Anime]]. Would be logical in settings with [[Dramatic Thunder]], but the tropes seldom combine.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Tomboyish [[Bottle Fairy]] Tina Foster in ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi]]'' has a panic attack during a thunderstorm that knocks out the house's electricity.
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* It's played up for [[Fan Service]] and [[Brother-Sister Incest]] Mikan Yuki of [[To Love-Ru]] is scared of storms and Rito used to comfort her.
* In the Detectives Koshien arc from [[Detective Conan]], a storm starts when the four teenaged detectives are gathered in an old mansion {{spoiler|and one of them has actually ''been killed''}}. Once thunder breaks in, Natsuki "Detective of the South" Koshimizu [http://www.mangareader.net/139-8612-8/detective-conan/chapter-565.html screams in utter horror and collapses to the floor.] {{spoiler|She was actually ''faking'' it, to distract the others while she was searching for a piece of lost evidence that could potentially reveal her as the [[Sympathetic Murderer]] of the arc - and the one who killedher fellow sleuth. Conan and Heiji weren't fooled by her act, though, and later use it to unmask her.}}
* Filicia Heideman of ''[[
* In the first episode of ''[[Stitch!]]'', Yuuna is shown to be afraid of lightning.
* Nano is shown to be afraid of lightning in ''[[Nichijou]]'' when she walks her Professor to the bathroom during a storm.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In a Sliver Age Supergirl story, [[Supergirl]] dreams a [[What If]] in which she was raised by [[Superman]]'s parents. In one part of the dreams, she wrecks the Kents' house during a thunderstorm.
* Fanfiction authors usually invoke this trope in [[Shipping]] fanfics.▼
* If it is not invoked in a shipping fanfic, it will usually be invoked in a [[WAFF|family-fluff]] fic as an excuse for a child or younger sibling to cuddle with someone.▼
== [[Film]] ==
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** Oh, and his subordinate/boyfriend's last name is either a clever way to reinforce said subordinate's resemblance to Raiden or a really jerk-ass bit of bilingual humor. Anyone who disagrees with the previous designation is [[Ho Yay|clearly lying.]]
* Tails from the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series is afraid of lightning in some versions. Especially in [[Sonic the Movie|the anime OVA]]. Though the games seem to have removed this character trait, as his [[Elemental Powers|element power]] in ''[[Sonic Heroes]]'' is Thunder Shoot.
* Rikku in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' suffers this, due to a traumatic childhood experience of a mis-aimed attempt to protect her from a sea monster using lightning magic. Between that game and its sequel, ''[[Final Fantasy X-2]]'', she cures her phobia through the fairly simple method of camping for a week in the Thunder Plains, where there's ''always'' lightning. Rikku even reacts in both games to this
* Shion in ''[[Xenosaga]]'' is traumatized by lightning because her fiancé and parents were both killed during thunderstorms. This also appeared in the anime adaptation of the game.
* Despite the subversion in the novel, this is played straight in ''[[Dynasty Warriors]] 4'' in one of the Shu Endings. Liu Bei is eating with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei when a bolt of lightning strikes, causing Liu Bei to dive under the table in panic while Guan Yu and Zhang Fei Watch.
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* In ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', Dean contemplates living with Dr. Orpheus, fantasizing that he's comforting Triana when she's scared of a storm.
* Martha and Skits from ''[[Martha Speaks]]'' are both afraid of thunderstorms. Martha deals with it better than Skits does.
▲== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
▲* Fanfiction authors usually invoke this trope in [[Shipping]] fanfics.
▲* If it is not invoked in a shipping fanfic, it will usually be invoked in a [[WAFF|family-fluff]] fic as an excuse for a child or younger sibling to cuddle with someone.
== Real Life ==
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