History Main / BattleInTheRain

** Passchendaele was the last time British Commonwealth forces ''ever'' tried to fight through the ''Rasputista'' (Europe's muddy periods just before the ground freezes in autumn-winter and right after it thaws in winter-spring) or anything even remotely likely it (like the Burman Monsoon season). That they tried in the first place was a testament to their desperation, optimism, and faith in the power of motor transport to substitute for rail supply (tellingly, British motor transport was strictly forbidden from operating in similarly ghastly conditions ever again). Popular culture focuses on what a ghastly thing it was for the Australian, British, and Canadian infantryman, but even one account from the other side describes the German experience in terms of "martyrdom" and the toll on the horses of both sides was simply frightful.

* The 3/25/24 episode of ''Wrestling/WWERAW'' ended with a backstage segment that saw Wrestling/CodyRhodes getting into one of these against [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]], [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown though to call it a "battle" would be a bit generous]]. Throughout the episode, Cody had been getting into exhausting scuffles against Jimmy Uso and Solo Sikoa, culminating in The Rock -- the newly-christened patriarch of the Bloodline, and ultimate "FinalBoss" -- [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown coming in to finish the job]], dragging Cody out of the arena and into the Chicago rain to deliver one hell of a bloody beatdown.

* Pictured above, the final showdown between Neo and Agent Smith at the climax of ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions''. (Of course, that was because Smith made it rain. Smith loves the rain.) By the way, very few people know that this is an homage to the [[KoreanMovies South Korean Movie]] ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowhere_to_Hide_(1999_film) Nowhere to Hide (1999)]]'''s finale, where the cop and the murderer fight in the rain.
** It took several months to perfect the right type of raindrop for the scene. In the "making of" bonus features on the DVD's, the special effects people explain that to have the rain actually show up the way it does on film (normally, even very heavy rain is nearly invisible on film), they had to have truly absurd amounts of water coming down, on the level of thousands of gallons per minute, accomplished with a very large tank and constantly recycling the water in much the same manner as water parks.
** Rain or falling water shown inside the Matrix has always been a representation of the MatrixRainingCode. In this case, it's also showing that the Matrix's programming is going to hell in a handbasket faster than usual because of Smith's meddling.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' manages to pull this off indoors in the episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E14Innocence Innocence]]" after an explosion triggers automatic sprinkler systems right before Angelus and Buffy start fighting. In a subversion this fight defies the usual conceit of combatants never losing their footing in the rain, as there's plenty of slipping around and stumbling on the wet floor.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', of all series, also managed an inside version of this similar to the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' one above. In "Snow Day," the sprinklers are hit during the battle between Mac and Stella and the drug lords inside the crime lab, and part of the fight takes place with [[SexySoakedShirt everyone soaking wet]] and provides some rather decent {{Fanservice}} in the process.

* ''Series/GeneralAndI'': In episode sixty-one the battle between Chu Bei Jie's and He Xia's soldiers takes place during a storm.

** Ethan and Jack's fight in the episode "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues".
** Not to mention the final battle between Jack and [[spoiler:the Man in Black/Smoke Monster/Fake Locke]] in the series finale.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Tony spends the entire episode "Swan Song" predicting an imminent monsoon. It finally arrives as [[spoiler:Mike Franks]] faces off against [[spoiler:the Port-to-Port killer. [[PartlyCloudyWithAChanceOfDeath And loses]]]].

* The ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' pulls this off every now and then. It makes the penultimate Ultra-vs-kaiju titanic battle even more ''epic.

** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'': Johnny and Gyro battle against Blackmore, whose Catch The Rainbow is effective in the midst of raining.

** The fight between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jango Fett in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', as the planet of Kamino is covered by storms constantly.

* ''Film/TheCrow'': Despite being set in a city of perpetual rain, most of the fights take place indoors. The only fight that qualifies is, fittingly, the final battle between Eric and [[BigBad Top Dollar]].