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== Anime and Manga ==
* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[Ranma ½ (Manga)|Ranma One Half]]'', with the rain activating the character's various water based curses precisely when it is most inconvenient and stopping almost immediately afterward.
* ''[[Pokémon: theThe First Movie (Anime)|Pokémon the First Movie]]''.
 
 
== Card Games ==
* ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]'' has [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193454 THIS:] Although some might argue that it also falls under the category of [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]].
** Also sort of a pun and a subversion, considering the "weather" featured on this card makes YOU hostile.
 
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* The blizzard in ''Alive'' manages to come along just in time to kill as many passengers as starvation and cold, although this could again be chalked up to inexperienced rugby players deciding to [[Idiot Ball|wait out the winter]]. Then an ''avalanche!'' makes a beeline for the open end of the plane, wiping out most of the passengers.
** [[Truth in Television]]. The passengers did have these things happen to them in the real life event this movie covers.
* In ''[[Flash Gordon (Filmfilm)|Flash Gordon]]'' the movie, alien emperor Ming the Merciless has a series of buttons entitled "Hurricane", "Tornado" and "Hot Hail". There's also one that says "Earth Quake", strangely enough.
{{quote| '''Ming:''' I like to play with them awhile...before annihilation. HA HA HA HA!}}
* The weather in ''[[Aliens]]'' and ''[[Alien|Alien3]]'' is permanently extreme, although it mostly serves to set the mood.
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* The snow on Caradhras in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' is explicitly hostile to the Fellowship. In the book, it even dumps an avalanche behind them after they leave, in case they change their mind.
* Ray Bradbury's short story "[[wikipedia:The Long Rain|The Long Rain]]". The crew of a crashed rocket ship must trek [[Science Marches On|across the surface of Venus]], where the rain literally never stops.
* The city of Trowth, in [[The Corsay Books (Literature)|The Corsay Books]] has a downright malevolent climate, with winters cold enough to kill in moments and exotic thunderstorms that can drive people insane. Needless to say, the weather often wrecks havoc with everyone's plans.
* In the finale of [[Codex Alera (Literature)|Codex Alera]] the storm is alive. That picture up there pretty much actually happens. A furystorm is tearing apart the battlefield with claws of lightning and the Big Bad is nearly torn to shreds by the storm swallowing her. The rain gets so thick that flyers are almost swimming. All in all it is a bad idea to piss off the north wind.
 
 
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* ''[[Paranoia]]'' adventure ''The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues''. While outside Alpha Complex the [[PC|PCs]] could be hit by "Bad Weather" (rain and snow) or "Really Grim Weather" (anything from ice storms and flash floods up to tornadoes).
* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' has optional rules for all manner of environmental conditions, including weather. Unsurprisingly, given the setting, many of them are lethal. Lightning can fry men and equipment, hailstones heavy enough to crush skulls may be falling, or the blizzard (or sandstorm) may be so intense that it clogs intake valves on skimmers and forces them to crash.
* ''[[Gamma World (Tabletop Game)|Gamma World]]'' module GW6 ''Alpha Factor''. Gamma World weather could be nasty. Each day there was a 40% chance of bad weather, including thunderstorms with lightning, hailstorms, snow storms, ice storms, monsoons, tornadoes and acid rain (with real acid).
* ''[[Mouse Guard]]''. Members of the title organization have to worry about this all the time. The Territories have bad weather on a regular basis in every season of the year, including snow storms (late Fall through early Spring), blizzards and ice storms (Winter), heat waves (Summer), rain (all year long), thunderstorms with possible lightning strikes and flash floods (late Spring and late Summer) and autumn storms (late Fall). Nasty weather is one of the four hazards that the GM uses to create obstacles on a mission.
 
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== Web Comics ==
* [[Derelict (Webcomicwebcomic)|Derelict]] [http://derelictcomic.com/?strip_id=36 Caught in a storm]
 
 
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{{quote| '''Bubbles:''' At least it's not raining...<br />
'''Mojo Jojo:''' Hm...Good idea! ''(It starts raining)'' }}
* ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]'' takes this [[Up to Eleven]]: It rains ''knives''.
* Played with in ''[[Family Guy]]'' in "Brian Writes a Best Seller."
{{quote| Stewie: (after being left alone in a city, downtown, so that he has to walk to the hotel) Well, at least it's not raining. (A guy runs up, stabs him in the back, and runs away)}}
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