History Main / CueTheRain

* Variation in ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie, It's Christmas''; when Teddy is driving [[TheAllegedCar an old Yugo]] that Daryll sold to her and Amy for $50, things go FromBadToWorse when she has to drive it down a hill. Amy points out that it could be worse, and that it isn't snowing. It starts to snow, and Teddy tells her, "Oh, why'd you have to say that?". As if things [[UpToEleven weren't already bad enough]], when Teddy tries to use the windshield wipers, one of them breaks off.

** Jon takes it UpToEleven in [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2014/07/27 the July 27, 2014 strip.]] First he says "At least it isn't raining" and it starts to rain. He then does the same thing to cause snow, hail and lightning. At the end he says "I'm glad I didn't mention a volcano", and guess what appears behind him...

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'', when Miguel and Tulio are marooned at sea in a rowboat with no food or water, Miguel and Tulio have this exchange:

(They continue to argue as the camera pulls out to show [[ThreateningShark at least a half dozen sharks]] following their boat.)
* Played straight in Disney's ''{{WesternAnimation/Tarzan}}'':

''Thunder clashes, rain begins.''\\

* In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', as Fievel, all alone, curls up in Orphan Alley to cry, it starts to rain.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', llama!Kuzco gets hit by a sudden downpour when he's alone and abandoned in the jungle.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', Eric says this gem:
-->'''Eric''': Believe me Grim, when I find [the right girl], I'll know. Without a doubt, it'll just - bam! - hit me...like lightning.\\

The standard way for things to go FromBadToWorse is rain. When things are looking real bad for a character, the story will add insult to injury with a perfectly-timed downpour.

* From the LP ''[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Monty Python's Previous Record]]'', live coverage of the 1972 eclipse of the sun is siddenly disrupted by a sudden rainstorm.

* From the LP ''[[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Monty Python's Previous Record]]'', live coverage of the 1972 eclipse of the sun is siddenly disrupted by a sudden rainstorm.

-->'''Eric''': Believe me Grim, when I find the right girl I'll know. Without a doubt It'll just It'll just - bam! - hit me...like lightning.\\

** Jon takes it UpToEleven in [[http://garfield.com/comic/2014-07-27 this strip.]] First he says "At least it isn't raining" and it starts to rain. He then does the same thing to cause snow, hail and lightning. At the end he says "I'm glad I didn't mention a volcano", and guess what appears behind him...

* Rarity pulls off a ''deliberate'' invocation of this trope in [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/176074/pony-up-a-tree Pony Up A Tree]] for the [[FanFic/TriptychContinuum Triptych Continuum]]. "And if I were to make the classic error of voicing my false belief that at the very least, things could not possibly become any worse?" Which brings the expected results. [[spoiler: It also confirms that Rainbow, who can't resist a good feed line, is secretly observing the hijinks from an overhead cloud.]]

* A''Film/SupermanReturns''. The rain is actually [[spoiler:water from a water tower crushed by the falling Daily Planet globe.]]

** In the series' mythology, rain is associated with Kynareth, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Aedric Divine]] Goddess of the Heavens and Air. Rain is a phenomenon that is said not to have occurred before [[GodIsDead the removal of Lorkhan's divine spark]]. During the Alessian Revolt, she sent rain to cleanse the blood from [[OurElvesAreBetter Ayleid]] forts and villages after [[GodInHumanForm Pelinal]] [[TheBerserker Whitestrake]] [[PaintTheTownRed came through]], so that they could be used by Alessia's forces.

* ''Theatre/{{Company}}'', "Getting Married Today," after the second verse of Amy's nervous breakdown:

* The Eurythmics song "Here Comes the Rain Again.[[/folder]]

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* Played straight in Disney's ''{{Disney/Tarzan}}'':

* In ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', llama!Kuzco gets hit by a sudden downpour when he's alone and abandoned in the jungle.
* In ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', Eric says this gem:

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' plays this trope in ''The Two Towers'', when they're about to be besieged by an army of about ten thousand orcs, with an army of about five hundred, many of whom are elderly men or extremely young boys:

* When Music/{{Prince}} was asked if he was okay with performing in the rain during his halftime show at UsefulNotes/SuperBowl XLI in 2007, he asked "Can you make it rain harder?". Sure enough, the rain poured hard as Prince played "Purple Rain" through the purple-lit rain.

-->--''Literature/IHadTroubleInGettingToSollaSollew''

[[caption-width-right:341:[[http://tjandamal.com/comic/?id=267 Nature does, in fact, hate them both.]]]]

* A Wing Dings blackout on ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'' has Dastardly simmering in the hot sun. Zilly offers to fly up and seed the clouds so it will rain. In studying his inventory afterwards, Zilly says he'll have to go up again as he used the wrong seeds. He sure did: it was raining flowers,