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{{quote|''"Summer rains--you can never predict them."''|'''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Double D]]''', just before a flash storm occurs.}}
When it rains in media, it often never seems to restrict itself to a light sprinkling or a drizzle. On the contrary, if it rains at all, it rains in buckets. This trope is when [[A Storm Is Coming]], and when it gets here, it ''immediately'' opens up with a torrential downpour (sometimes prefaced with [[Dramatic Thunder]]). It never starts with a light rainfall that grows into a larger storm. When it rains, it pours.
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[[Truth in Television]], for some regions; in the desert, if it rains at all, you had best ''run'' for high ground, 'cause there is serious danger of flash flooding.
See also [[Cyberpunk
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* In ''[[Sin City]]'', it generally only rains when a major plot point comes to the surface, like Marv realizing some crucial facts about Goldie and her reason for coming to him, or Dwight and the Girls of Old Town finding out that the abusive scumbag they just killed is not only a cop, but is a decorated hero.
* ''[[Watchmen (
== Film ==
* In the silent film ''[[Sunrise (
* Perhaps half-partial aversion and half-[[Justified Trope]], [[Jurassic Park]] had a rain scene (a hurricane approaching, actually) that started out, and eventually ended. The rain was so hard, that they couldn't use their Animatronic T-Rex, and chose to re-do the very last scene, just to give the poor "little" guy some use.
* In ''[[The Matrix]]'', the two times it rains, it rains in buckets.
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* The last time it rained as hard as it does in ''[[The Crow]]'', Noah built himself a boat.
{{quote| Can't rain all the time~!}}
* Visually [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in ''[[
* ''[[Forrest Gump]]:'' In a letter to Jenny, Forrest goes on at length about the Vietnamese monsoon season. All during Tom Hanks' narration, we see the titular character coming very close to drowning in the torrential downpour.
* In ''[[Poltergeist]]'', the rain went from zero to sixty in seconds.
* The first ''[[Spider
* ''[[Seven Samurai]]'' and [[Author Appeal|quite a few other]] [[Akira Kurosawa|Kurosawa]] films.
** In ''[[Rashomon]]'', the characters being [[Caught in
* ''[[Johnny English]]'' had a sudden downpour set in.
== Literature ==
* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld
== Live Action TV ==
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'' has a lot of these--in fact, in this game and in ''Majora's Mask'', you gain the ability to make this happen ''on cue''.
* [[Okami]]--the "Downpour" brush technique, in which it always rains hard enough for someone to take a shower in the resulting deluge. Very satisfying to use on one of the game's [[Flat Earth Atheist|Flat Earth Atheists]], who claims she wouldn't believe even if a god could make it rain ''right on her''...
* ''[[
** There is even a legendary Pokemon, Kyogre, with the special ability ''Drizzle''. It does not make a drizzle. It makes freaking ''floods'' happen.
* [[Heavy Rain]]: It rains basically the entire game. It even tells you how many inches fall. Like you couldn't guess from the title.
* Generally, it always rains heavily in ''[[Mega Man (
* Averted in the opening scenes of ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'', with misty drizzle and light rain. On the other hand, it pours for the [[Battle in
* Happens in ''[[Scratches]]'', on the second day.
* ''[[Patapon]]'' series: when it rains against your will, it's always a thunderstorm. When you use a rain miracle, the heavy rain is still there, but without lightning. It isn't until ''Patapon 3'' when the light rain is present and even then the light rain is more like a few big drops falling slowly.
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* Averted in ''[[Myst|Uru]]'', mostly because luring clouds of fireflies out of the garden without them getting wet is part of the challenge. Hence, rain showers are brief and fairly light.
* The blue rain in ''[[Minecraft]]'' is always heavy.
* In ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Kim Possible]]: '' The one time it is shown to rain, it is a downpour.
* ''[[
* ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'' has an entire episode spent inside ''because it is raining''. Not even Mojo Jojo wants to cause mayhem if it means going out into the rain.
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