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[[File:031.jpg|link=Teen Titans (animation)|frame|Turn off the weather machine, Cyborg.]]
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 with a Chance of Rain|including Cyberpunk]]. After all, slogging about in the rain and mud, or being forced to stay indoors, will depress you pretty quickly.
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* 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 [[Gray Rain of Depression]] over the Hidden Rain Village; one of the characters even compares it to the country constantly crying.
* 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.
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* This happens in the 25th episode of ''[[Death Note]]'', which has an unusually poetic kick to it overall. At a moment of high drama, it instantly becomes [[Dramatic Thunder]].
* 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 (manga)|Monster]]'', Tenma sinks to his knees to curse and bemoan the cruel fate that made him the savior of a [[Complete Monster|murderer]] in the middle of a rainstorm. It's very sad, but the water getting on his pants is like the clothing equivalent of [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich]].
* 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 ''[[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.
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== Film ==
* ''[[Blade Runner]]''. Only at the end is there clear skies, and even then, it's still drizzling.
* The [[City with No Name]] in ''[[Se7en]]'' "enjoys" constant rain. [[Word of God]] says it's an [[Exaggerated Trope|exaggeration]] of this trope.
* While this is also a fact of life for [[The Other Rainforest]], ''[[The Goonies]]'' notably has this early on when Mr. Perkins arrives with paperwork regarding the imminent demolition of the kids' neighborhood.
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[The Fox and the Hound (film)]] 2''. "Why does it always rain when things go wrong?"
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* 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 (film)|Men in Black]] 2'', as the Light of Zartha leaves Earth.
* 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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** 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 else--and as he's driving around being depressed, all the radio will play are "songs about rain."
** 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 McEntire's "Rain Fallin'"
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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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* [[Impure Blood]] [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.]
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