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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Rain is rain, brother. It comes from the sky. It's a wetness known as water - aqua pura. Mammals drink it. Fish swim in it. Little boys wade in it. And the birds flap their wings and sing like sunrise. Water! I recommend it."''|'''Starbuck''', ''[[Theater/The Rainmaker|The Rainmaker]]''}}
|'''Starbuck''', ''[[The Rainmaker (theatre)|The Rainmaker]]''}}
 
{{quote|''"We love rain! We love rain! Splash, splash, splash! Fun, fun, fun! Rain, rain, rain!"''|''[[Invader Zim]]''}}
|''[[Invader Zim]]''}}
 
Those occasions when people are happy to be rained upon. Perhaps there was a drought, perhaps it was too hot, or perhaps the protagonist just enjoys [[Singin' in Thethe Rain (Film)|Singin in The Rain]]. In [[Fisher King]] situations, may indicate the defeat of the [[Big Bad]].
 
Compare [[Redemption in Thethe Rain]].
 
{{examples}}
 
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[WolfsWolf's Rain]]'' might be a subversion - everybody ''would'' be happy that it's raining for the first time in decades if it weren't for the fact that... {{spoiler|they all die before it starts}}. But it ''does'' mark the start of the world's rebirth, so it's happy in that sense.
* [[Yotsubato|Yotsuba and]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130311082440/http://koiwai.biz/eng/v1/ch07/07_15120x174_jpg.htm The] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130403073208/http://koiwai.biz/eng/v1/ch07/07_16120x174_jpg.htm Heavy] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130311082057/http://koiwai.biz/eng/v1/ch07/07_18120x174_jpg.htm Rain]. (Though I like how my paper copy puts it better: "She can find happiness in anything. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Nothing in this world can get her down. Nothing.]]")
** That's not a heavy rain -- thatrain—that's just a shower. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110727132029/http://koiwai.biz/eng/v8/ch52/52_13_jpg.htm This]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20110727133236/http://koiwai.biz/eng/v8/ch52/52_14_jpg.htm is a] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110727131844/http://koiwai.biz/eng/v8/ch52/52_15_jpg.htm heavy rain]. "Enjoy everything" -- even—even typhoons.
* At the end of the Alabasta arc of ''[[One Piece]]'', after the conspiracy is foiled, it starts raining after their artificial drought is brought to an end.
* During the Johto arc of the [[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]] anime, after Ash and co. help fix a drought.
* Done in the ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]'' manga with [[Cloudcuckoolander|Osaka]], who seems to be HAPPY about going to school the day there is a typhoon.
{{quote| "Whoooo!! Ain't it tough!"}}
* The ending of an episode of ''[[Kimba the White Lion (Manga)|Kimba the White Lion]]'' has the animals cheering during a rainstorm that ended a drought.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* In the ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' comic book, the rain storm that saves him from burning into a small pile of ash and the rain that Evey stands out in the middle of.
** Made it into the movie, too.
{{quote| "God is in the rain."}}
* A fairly recent but iconic [[X-Men|Storm]] cover shows her laughing in the rain.
 
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In ''[[With Strings Attached (Fanfic)|With Strings Attached]]'', when the four and the Hunter broke the curse hanging over the Plains of Death, it rained there for the first time in three years. John ''loved'' it.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Singin' in Thethe Rain (Film)|Singin in The Rain]]'', obviously. You don't have to take our word for it, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZYhVpdXbQ just look!]
* The film version of ''[[Dune]]'': When Muad'Dib makes the rain fall at last, the Fremen rejoice.
** This is... a bit awkward if you've read the book. {{spoiler|Rain on Arrakis would drown the sandworms, filling the soil with a deadly poison and destroying the only source of Spice in the universe, thereby also preventing space travel.}} Probably not the effect the filmmakers were going for...
*** The scene compresses a bit from the books about Leto II terraforming the north pole of Dune, where the capital city was located, presumably involving magically created thunderstorms, and this issue was discussed when the sandworms started dying... so Yeah.
* ''[[Ikiru (Film)|Ikiru]]'' Heavy rain and snow are of no concern to the dying protagonist, who has achieved his goal, is playing and singing in a swing and can't be happier.
* ''[[Shara]]'': In the middle of a summertime street festival, a sudden downpour drenches everyone, but it's actually welcome as a symbol of the release of pent-up energies.
* ''[[Betelnut Beauty]]'': The heroine walks into a summer downpour and lets out a long, liberating scream.
* ''[[Lagaan]]'' subverts this. The villagers see dark clouds on the horizon and already are singing and dancing bollywood style to celebrate. Then a short, excited pause. Then the clouds pass without raining. Aww, crap.
** Of course, in the climax of ''[[Lagaan]]'' it ''does'' rain, and everyone gets excited again.
* Happens in ''[[Pleasantville]]'', the where Tobey Maguire is joyous at the rain that comes in to their tv town
* The big celebration during of the the (false) endings of Baz Luhrmann's ''[[Australia (2008 film)|Australia]]''. The kiss in the rain between The Drover and Lady Sarah. It's on some promotional material.
* The final scenes of ''[[Breakfast Atat Tiffany's]]'' take place in a torrential downpour.
* In the movie [[Blindness]], when it rains for the first time all of the characters rejoice and party.
* When Andy Dufresne finally gets out of the prison in ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'', it's raining. It's even shown on the promotional poster. Of course, he had more reason than most to be happy with a heavy rainstorm, since he'd just literally "waded through a river of shit".
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== [[Literature]] ==
* The climax of the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'', when Rincewind the Wizzard more or less accidentally brings rain to the country of Fourecks for the first time. The aboriginal people were particularly happy, as they finally got to use their word for "the smell of rain."
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story ''[[The Hour of the Dragon (Literature)|The Hour of the Dragon]]'', the death of the king and his sons from [[The Plague]] is immediately succeeded by a terrible storm -- butstorm—but the next morning dawns clear and bright, with the end of the plague. This is interpreted as a sign from the gods of wonderful wonderfulness. (They're wrong.)
* The second ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' novel finds Lister back on {{spoiler|Earth}} that has been [[Trash of the Titans|turned over entirely to garbage]]. The planet attempts to kill him, first with acid rain and then with oily rain with lightning. Lister suffers a [[Heroic BSOD]] before striking a deal with the planet. When this occurs, it starts to rain normally and Lister starts to atone for humanity's mistakes.
* At the end of the ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'' novel, ''The Fourth Apprentice'', everyone is happy that the rain has finally came and the drought has ended.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Lost]]'' has John Locke sitting in the rain and grinning (though it's mostly only happy for him).
* In the ''[[Supernatural]]'' episode "Changing Channels," the end of the episode has {{spoiler|the Trickster, who has been revealed as the archangel Gabriel, trapped in a circle of holy fire in an abandoned warehouse. Dean sets off the sprinkler system in the warehouse, and Gabriel looks up to see a torrent of artificial rain pouring down to extinguish the holy fire.}} The moment is played up for [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|rather more drama than it really warrants]], which to this troper suggests it's foreshadowing something in the fast-approaching series finale...
* An episode of ''[[Quantum Leap]]'', where Sam leaped in the body of a rainmaker in a place suffering a terrible drought, had this : especially notable as it rained against all possible odds. {{spoiler|Considering that in the Finale, it was revealed that Sam's leaps are the doing of [[God]]...}}
* James May has one of these moments during the ''[[Top Gear]]'' Vietnam special, even cheerfully singing a [[Beach Boys]] song...until his motorcycle runs out of gas. It doesn't hurt that his [[Vitriolic Best Buds|close friend]] Jeremy Clarkson is ''hating'' motorcycling and everything about it.
{{quote| '''Clarkson''': Name an upside to this, May! Name ''one'' upside.<br />
'''May''': Well, you're not hot any more, are you? }}
 
== [[Real LifeMusic]] ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF2krUMSVa8 Rain] by DDT.
* Woodstock.
* The protagonist of Rupert Holmes's hit "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" (and his would-be mistress{{spoiler|/wife}}) enjoy the aforementioned beverage and getting caught in the rain.
* [[Truth in Television]]. If you just went through the gas mask training chamber in any military training organization, you'll be overjoyed if there's rain to wash the stuff off when you come out. You'll also have very clear sinuses, rain or not.
* "Let it Rain", by [[Eric Clapton]].
* More cheerfully, hot and humid summer days when the thunderstorm finally gets here and it cools off.
* Sort of a mixture of an inversion and playing the trope straight in "Rain" by [[The Beatles]]. The narrator sings that all the people run and panic in the rain, while he nonchalantly claims that he doesn't mind rain, and says the weather's fine and relaxing.
** If you live in a desert, you may find yourself doing this whenever it rains.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VKy69sE4VY&ob=av3e Rain is a Good Thing] by Luke Bryan.
* And some people just like rain.
* [[Taylor Swift (Music)|Taylor Swift]]'s "Fearless" and "The Way I Loved You" have her dancing in the rain.
* Eddie Rabbit's "I Love a Rainy Night"
* [[Garbage]]'s "Only Happy When It Rains".
 
== [[TheaterTheatre]] ==
* The film and play ''[[Theater/The Rainmaker|The Rainmaker]]'' is about a con man who charges $200 for his services during a drought. Of course at the end of the film it does rain, the guy gets $200 for doing nothing, and everyone lives happily ever after.
* ''[[One Ten110 in The Shade|110 In Thethe Shade]]'', the musical adaptation of ''The Rainmaker'', builds an awesome [[Crowd Song]] ("Rain Song") out of this.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Zimmy always waits anxiously for it to rain {{spoiler|because it temporarily clears up her eyes, and apparently blocks her incontinent reality-warping powers as well}}. When it ''does'' rain, she dances around in it. When it seems like it'll rain and it ''doesn't''... let's just say you wouldn't want to be standing near her.
* In ''[[Endstone]]'', Kyri remembers [http://endstone.net/2010/07/12/4-05/ dancing in the rain with her people that her father brought by rocking the Rainstone].
* In ''[[Sinfest (Webcomic)|Sinfest]]'', [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209164432/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4249 Seymour, having come prepared, takes rain as an occasion to sing.]
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In one episode of ''[[My Little Pony]]'', a wish accidentally makes it stop raining and thus causes a drought, even putting the Sea Ponies in danger because they need to be in water to live and the lakes and rivers are drying up. Thus, the ponies and their human friends are happy when it finally rains again, and there's even a song about wanting to have some rain again.
* At the end of the heatwave episode of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', it rains, returning everyone to sanity. In a subversion, the rain just keeps coming, and everyone has grown tired of it long before the storm has passed.
* The [[Heckle and Jeckle]] cartoon ''The Rainmakers'' (1951) has the magpies impulsively wishing it would stop raining forever after a ruined picnic. When the consequences (horrible heat and drought) kick in, they set out to undo the wish-- andwish—and when they succeed they're given a big honorary parade in the pouring rain.
 
== Music[[Real Life]] ==
* Woodstock.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF2krUMSVa8 Rain] by DDT.
* [[Truth in Television]]. If you just went through the gas mask training chamber in any military training organization, you'll be overjoyed if there's rain to wash the stuff off when you come out. You'll also have very clear sinuses, rain or not.
* The protagonist of Rupert Holmes's hit "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" (and his would-be mistress{{spoiler|/wife}}) enjoy the aforementioned beverage and getting caught in the rain.
* More cheerfully, hot and humid summer days when the thunderstorm finally gets here and it cools off.
* "Let it Rain", by [[Eric Clapton]].
** If you live in a desert, you may find yourself doing this whenever it rains.
* Sort of a mixture of an inversion and playing the trope straight in "Rain" by [[The Beatles]]. The narrator sings that all the people run and panic in the rain, while he nonchalantly claims that he doesn't mind rain, and says the weather's fine and relaxing.
* And some people just like rain.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VKy69sE4VY&ob=av3e Rain is a Good Thing] by Luke Bryan.
* [[Taylor Swift (Music)|Taylor Swift]]'s "Fearless" and "The Way I Loved You" have her dancing in the rain.
* Eddie Rabbit's "I Love a Rainy Night"
* [[Garbage]]'s "Only Happy When It Rains".
 
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[[Category:Happiness Tropes]]
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