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Commonly used in animation to indicate that one is sad, disappointed, or just plain depressed. The rain is often used to exaggerate their mood depending on how sad they are, or if their character is always like that, then this means that they're expressing true sadness for the first time. May be exaggerated to the point that the bad weather is restricted to a single [[Personal Raincloud]] following the character around.
The juxtaposition of rain and depression is also made frequently in [[Film Noir]] and similar settings, [[Cyberpunk
Contrast [[Dramatic Thunder]] and [[A Storm Is Coming]], which indicate
[[Super-Trope]] of [[Personal Raincloud]], [[It Always Rains At Funerals]], and [[Cue the Rain]]. Related to [[Grave Clouds]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* This begins right after [[Naruto]] and Sasuke's confrontation in episode 134, as Sasuke stares down at his unconscious rival, and continues as he [[Face Heel Turn|stumbles off to Orochimaru]] while Kakashi starts hauling Naruto home.
** Most of the time it rains when something bad happens to the Uchiha. It rained for Itachi back when {{spoiler|we thought he was the [[Big Bad]]}} and during his and Sasuke's fight.
** It also rained when the Third Hokage died and when {{spoiler|Asuma died}}. There'a also a perpetual
* In ''[[Prétear]]'', Sasame is shown wandering around depressed in a rainstorm after {{spoiler|his [[Anguished Declaration of Love]] to Takako}}.
* The final dramatic climax of the ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' anime occurs in the rain, after the rest of it is sunny.
* Occurs in ''[[Gankutsuou]]''. Most often in the later half of the series. Albert even walks home in the rain in a depressed manner at one point.
* This happens in the 25th episode of ''[[
* In episode 194 of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', rain begins to fall when Usagi {{spoiler|collapses in tears because she can no longer bear the strain of wondering why her [[Love Interest]] in America hasn't written back to her at all.}}
* In ''[[Monster (
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Evangelion]]'', Tokyo-3 is rainy and dark during the battle with Arael, when Asuka traumatically has her mind invaded. She herself is bathed in bright light, however.
* In ''Robotech'', one of the episodes is called ''A Rainy Night'', and is just that, a rather restrained, remarkably mature (in the proper sense of the word) conversation takes place between two of the major female characters about their love lives past and present, while a soaking rain comes down outside. One of the women is involved in a very dysfunctional relationship with a mecha officer, and the other tells her the story of how she met and got together with a by-then-deceased pilot. No explosions, no gunfire, not much comic relief, the ''entire episode'' is conversation and memories of a deceased character.
* Played straight in ''[[Berserk]]'' after Guts awakens four days after the Eclipse and has a huge [[Freak-Out]] after [[Despair Event Horizon|fully realizing]] what had occurred.
* [[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 ''[[
* 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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== Film ==
* ''[[
* The [[City
* While this is also a fact of life for [[The Other Rainforest]], ''[[
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[The Fox and
* So many [[John Cusack]] movies. So many.
* This happens at the end of the 2010 film ''[[The Illusionist (
* A frequent motif of [[Akira Kurosawa]]. When his protagonists are at their lowest point, you can be sure rain will follow. Totally reversed in ''[[
* Parodied in ''[[Hot Shots]] Part Deux'' with the flashback to when Ramata leaves Topper. She sends him a card to break up with him. When it sinks in, it starts to rain but entirely localised to where Topper is standing.
* In ''[[The King's Speech]]'', after an argument, Lionel tried to see Albert to apologize. At the time, Albert's brother was planning to abdicate his sovereignty to Albert, so he was told that the Duke was "too busy" and shown to the door, where it was pouring rain outside.
* Used literally in ''[[Men in Black (
* It was either parodied or used very cheesily in ''[[Alpha and Omega]]''. When it looks like {{spoiler|Kate has been trampled to death by cariboo,}} everyone is very sad and the sky turns gray and there's thunder, {{spoiler|then Kate wakes up}}, and instantly the sky turns blue again without a cloud in the sky.
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* This is a common trope in country music to show that the singer is depressed or there is turmoil:
** David Nail's "Let it Rain" involves the singer cheating on his wife and being thrown out into the rain (apparently inspired by the last scene of the movie "The Last Kiss").
** Gary Allan's "Songs About Rain" is told from the point of view of an ex-boyfriend on his love's wedding day to someone
** The Eli Young Band's "When it Rains", about a bad break-up.
** Garth Brooks "The Thunder Rolls", about a wife discovering her husband's affair (or, according to the video, [[Domestic Abuse]])
** Blackhawk's "I Can Sure Smell the Rain", about an impending break-up.
** Steve Holy's "Come on Rain", in which a distraught boyfriend begs the rain to delay flights at the airport so he can stop his girlfriend from leaving.
** [[SHE Daisy]]'s "I Wish I Were the Rain"
** Jason Michael Carroll's "Let it Rain"
** Reba
** Rascall Flatt's "What Hurts the Most"; the singer mentions that the rain on the roof "don't bother me" but it fits with the mood of the song.
== Tabletop RPGs ==
* The art for the country of Eisen in ''[[
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== Web Animation ==
* [[Urban Fantasy]] web series ''[[Broken Saints]]'' uses this in Chapter 14, Act 2, as one of our heroes, Kamimura, walks alone through a very depressing and disturbing section of downtown Coast
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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 (
* [[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]]'',
** [http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0072.html it rains only when Pauline is standing watch and thinking miserable thoughts.]
** [http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0248.html When Julie's brother left home.]
* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (
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** Bluth's earlier film ''[[Banjo the Woodpile Cat]]'' has a strikingly similar scene.
* Disney is fond of using this trope when characters die or seem dead. Such examples include:
** {{spoiler|Kerckak's death}} in ''[[Tarzan (Disney film)|Tarzan]]''.
** Beast's [[Disney Death]] in ''[[Beauty and
** {{spoiler|Ray's death}} in ''[[The Princess and
** When Trusty is hit by the dog-catcher's wagon in ''[[Lady and
** Baloo's supposed death in ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]''.
** The scene where the dwarves surround [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White's bed]] and cry. She didn't die, per se, but still...
** "Of course, everyone [[Winnie the Pooh|forgot]] [[The Woobie|about]] [[The Eeyore|Me]]. Nobody remembers the rain cloud over me when everybody forgot my birthday. Figures."
* It rains as Littlefoot of ''[[The Land Before Time]]'' finds his mother after her fight with the Sharptooth. It starts to rain harder as she dies.
* In ''[[Winx Club]]'' S4 episode 24 it starts raining after {{spoiler|The Wizards of the Black Circle escape after having used the gift of life on a dead flower, taking away the Winx's only chance to save Nabu who had sacrificed himself to save the Earth fairies.}}
* In an episode of ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
* In ''[[X
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