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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 [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 (Manga)|Ai Yori Aoshi]]'' has a panic attack during a thunderstorm that knocks out the house's electricity.
* Haruhi Fujioka in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club (Manga)|Ouran High School Host Club]]'' has a particular hatred of thunderstorms despite having an abnormal lack of fear of anything else. This is addressed in what is either a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], or a [[Harsher in Hindsight]] [[Death Note (Manga)|instance of]] [[Hey
* [[Kid Samurai]] Motoko Aoyama in ''[[Love Hina (Manga)|Love Hina]]'' is said to be afraid of lightning, although it never comes up.
* [[Samurai]] Sakura Shinguuji in ''[[Sakura Taisen]]'' is in fact deathly scared of lightning. Motoko's phobia may be a reference to, or parody of, this.
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* Kyou from ''[[Binbou Shimai Monogatari]]''
* Lucia of ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' possessed this trait.
* It's played up for [[Fan Service]] and [[Brother
* 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 ''[[So Ra No wo To]]'', the only visible chink in her [[Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough|Captain Smooth]] persona.
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