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* [[Code Geass]]: The entire colour palette is overlaid with grey after Shirley {{spoiler|meets Lelouch having missed her date with him because she had to identify her father's body. Whose death Lelouch was responsible for. And things just get worse from there.}}
* Vol 2 of ''[[Girl Friends]]'' ends with Mari walking out of [[Genki Girl|Akko's]] house and into the rain after {{spoiler|[[Schoolgirl Lesbians|she finally reveals to her best friend that she was in love with her]] and gives her a [[Forced Kiss]] on the lips}}, causing them to be estranged from each other for several days. The rain seems to continue until the two of them meet again and try to reconcile their friendship once more.
* In ''[[Voices of a Distant Star]]'', it is raining when, after a year of Mikako being incommunicado, Noboru tries to gather the resolve to let go of her. {{spoiler|At this point, a much-delayed email from her arrives, and the rain clears up shortly afterwards.}} Later in the film, it is raining on Agartha when the stress Mikako has been experiencing boils over and she breaks down.
 
* In ''[[Weathering with You]]'', this trope accompanies Hodaka's initial poor prospects in Tokyo and is contrasted in-universe with the good mood that sunshine brings. {{spoiler|Later, this is inverted; following Hina's sacrifice, the sunlight comes across as a harsh reminder of what he's lost, even as others who do not know are rejoicing over the return of the sun.}}
 
== Comic Books ==
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== Tabletop RPGs ==
* The art for the country of Eisen in ''[[Seventh Sea|7th Sea]]'' player's handbook has this. Justified, because Eisen is based on post-[[Thirty Years' War]] Germany, which was a grim and depressing place.
 
 
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* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' when Galatea is at her absolute lowest emotional point since her birth a month earlier, [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20080830.html it starts raining.] She panics because she has never seen rain before.
* [[Its Walky]] uses this trope to the point that [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nHGsa69oSs even the fanvids are starting to insert rain].
* [[Evil Diva (webcomic)|Evil Diva]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20130904202601/http://www.evildivacomics.com/?p=925 visit] to [[Satan|the Big Guy]].
* [[Strays]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110829061014/http://www.straysonline.com/comic/108.htm The target gets away]. Meanwhile, the [[Tagalong Kid]] has all his money and belongings in an inn he's just been thrown out of. Naturally it starts to rain.
* [[Impure Blood]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130609062409/http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter004/ib021.html She has to go buy clothes in the rain. She, as her bodyguard, has to follow her.]
* [[Roza]] is robbed, told she has to bring back [[The Phoenix]] to get her thing back, and given a companion that may kill her to ensure she does it. [http://www.junglestudio.com/roza/?date=2008-04-07 Naturally it rains.]
* In ''[[Our Little Adventure]]'',
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