It Always Rains At Funerals: Difference between revisions

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* It rained during the Third Hokage's funeral in ''[[Naruto]]''.

* The nice instrumental work for the funeral in ''[[Seirei no Moribito]]'' is titled ''Drizzle''

* Episode 25 of ''[[Death Note]]'' has L and Light talking for a bit on the rooftop of the investigation headquarters. It's raining particularly hard outside, leading to the infamous [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|foot-washing scene]] when they go back inside. Sometime later, ''[[Ominous Latin Chanting]]'' rears its head AGAIN as Rem kills both L and Watari. Cue an uncomfortable silence shortly filled by church bells.

* It the anime ''[[One Piece]]'', during Zoro's flashback, it rains at Kuina's funeral.

* In the manga ''[[Dengeki Daisy]]'', it is stated in Chapter 11 by Kurosaki that it rained the day Teru's brother died and that it continued to rain until his funeral was over.

* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', when {{spoiler|Sayaka}}'s body is recovered and she is given a proper funeral in episode 11, it immediately starts raining.

* In ''[[Gundam AGE]]'', it starts raining just before Grodek Ainoa gets stabbed to death by Arabel Zoi.

* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' Maes Hughes' funeral is accompanied by sunny weather...but not for Roy Mustang.

'''Roy:''' [[Manly Tears|[covering his face with his cap as he begins to cry]]] ''[[Tear Jerker|It's raining.]]'' }}

** The significance can be mentioned further, as it's been made clear before that Mustang's fire-based alchemy is useless in the rain.

* ''[[Bleach]]'' anime ''Zanpakuto: The Alternate Tale" arc. In episode 255, after Muramasa's death it starts to rain.

 

== Comic Books ==

* Played with in ''[[Incredible Hulk|The Incredible Hulk]]'': it rained at Betty Banner's funeral, but Thor showed up, swung his hammer around a bit... and stopped it raining over just the coffin.

* It continuously rains throughout ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Kraven's Last Hunt]]", including the time Spider-Man is buried alive, when he claws his way out of his grave, and the time Kraven is buried. Only at the very end does the sun come out.

 

== Film ==

* In ''[[Amadeus]]'', Mozart's corpse is dropped unceremoniously into a mass grave while it's raining cats and dogs.

** According to one Mozart scholar, the notion that it rained at Mozart's funeral is a myth. He checked out the local almanacs, and found out it was actually a bright and sunny day in Vienna.

 

== Literature ==

** Justified in that it's really difficult to make light sprinklings show up on film.

* When [[Dave Barry]] went to temples and cathedrals in Europe, he was surprised at all of the people buried in the floor. He postulates that it must've been raining at all of the funerals, so the mourners decided to bury the deceased inside to stay dry.

* ''[[Number the Stars]]'' has a variant, when it's raining the morning after the protagonist's sister dies. Her friend recalls thinking that it was like the sky was crying along with everyone else.

* ''[[The Great Gatsby]]''. It rains heavily at Jay Gatsby's already bleak and depressing funeral.

 

* ''[[Firefly]]'': [[Snow Means Death|It snows]] during Tracy's funeral at the end of "The Message". Of course, he was being buried on an [[Single Biome Planet|ice world]].

* It was snowing heavily at the funeral for Jonathan Kent in ''[[Smallville]]''.

* Averted in a first-season episode of ''[[Friends]]'', where the funeral of Ross and Monica's grandmother is a glorious autumn day.

'''Phoebe:''' What? Weather-wise! }}

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Also averted with Joyce's funeral in "Forever". As with the [[Tear Jerker]] events of the previous episode "The Body", it takes place on a bright sunny day.

* In ''[[Fringe]]'', a drizzily depressing funeral for Captain Lee.

 

== Music ==

* Kenny Rogers' ''Reuben James'': "And to your lonely graveside came / Just a preacher, me, and the rain."

 

* Moritz's funeral in ''[[Spring Awakening]]'' (though it isn't always shown on stage, both the original play and the musical's libretto state this).

 

== Video Games ==

* It rains during Beatrice's funeral in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'', though it's more of a coincidence since the funeral occurs on October 4, the same date when the typhoon traps everyone on the island.

* ''[[Syberia]]'' begins with the funeral of Anna Voralberg (sic), conducted by clockwork robots carrying umbrellas, during a thunderstorm.

 

== Web Comics ==

* In [[Homestuck]], it rained on the [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002838 funeral of Jaspers the cat].

* After Riff is declared dead in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', it actually [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20090810 stops raining] ''just'' as the funeral's wrapping up.

 

== Western Animation ==

* The Graysons' funeral in ''[[The Batman]]''.

* Jerrica's father's funeral in the first episode of ''[[Jem]]''

 

== Real Life ==

* During the state funeral of Néstor Kirchner, former president of Argentina and husband to current president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, thousands of people patiently waited under the rain in the Plaza de Mayo to pay their last respects.

* Keeping with the theme of former Argentine presidents, it also rained during Raúl Alfonsín's funeral. Not only that, but on the last day of the funeral, at dawn, there was a great rainbow in Buenos Aires. Lightened the mood quite a bit.

* It rained during the funeral of Archbishop Makarios, the first president of Cyprus - a highly unusual event for the island in August. Characteristically, the two ethnic groups on Cyprus had opposite views of this - the Greeks called the rain the tears of heaven, while the Turks claimed that rain attends the burial of a sinner to wash away his sins.

* Former Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston caught a cold while the very rainy funeral of his late opponent, General William T. Sherman, possibly beause he refused to put on his hat: "If I were in his place and he were standing here in mine, he would not put on his hat." The cold developed into pneumonia, causing Johnston's own death a month later.

 

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