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 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]]''.

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

* ''[[It Takes a Thief (2005 TV series)|It Takes a Thief]]'' (1970) episode "To Sing A Song of Murder". The episode starts with the funeral of Marilyn Lee, which takes place in a pouring rain.

 

== 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 ==

* 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 ==

 

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