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* Magic The Gathering has THIS: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193454
** Although some might argue that falls under the category of Eldritch Abominations.
** Also sort of a pun and a subversion considering the "weather" featured on this card isn't hostile in itself; it makes YOU hostile.

* Gears of War 2 has this during the escape from the research facility. Razor Hail. This stuff is so hostile it will literally kill you if stay out in it for more than a few seconds.
* As per the DungeonsAndDragons example above, the third chapter of NeverwinterNights Hordes of the Underdark is set on the eighth level of the Nine Hells, a frozen plane with a constant blizzard that deals cold damage. Of course, by that level your party is probably BadAss enough to have a few elemental-resistance items sitting around to ensure you can walk untouched through the storm.

->''"It could be worse. It [[TemptingFate could be raining]]."''

* PlayedForlaughs in ''[[RanmaOnehalf Ranma 1/2]]'', with the rain activating the character's various water based curses precisely when it is most inconvenient and stopping almost immediately afterward.

-> ''"It could be worse. [[TemptingFate It could be raining]]."''

Also known as: CueTheRain.

This is a trope for when the characters are explicitly beset by hostile, driving rain, tornados, dust storms, or other oppressively inconvenient weather, which only lets up at sudden, inconvenient increments, often to indicate they are in a HungryJungle or other hostile environment. The characters will spend their time asking "when will this ever let up?" When it ''does'' let up, it will start back up again the minute they comment on it. Related to WhenItRainsItPours.

Even ''mentioning'' [[TalkAboutTheWeather it]] is TemptingFate. Whatever you do, don't even ''think'' about [[{{Djinn}} dust devils]]. They mostly come in the daytime. Mostly. If the mission depends on {{Phlebotinum}}, transportation, or an easily-damaged {{Macguffin}}, weather of this sort will ruin whatever conditions are needed for the original objective.

Basically, you know this trope from any time a character says "No... '''not this''' again!"

When the ensuing weather is more empathic than hostile, see GrayRainOfDepression.\\
For a more lighthearted version, see RainRainGoAway. You can contrast this with:

-> CaughtInTheRain -- two characters are romantically ensnared by HappyRain.
-> AStormIsComing -- and related {{foreshadowing}} tropes, such as GraveClouds, which do nothing at the moment.

This trope is also useful for [[ClosedCircle preventing rescues]]; compare SnowedIn.

Not to be confused with ItWasADarkAndStormyNight.

Compare DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud. Contrast CueTheSun. See also WeatherOfWar.

Compare DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud. Contrast CueTheSun.

This trope is also useful for preventing rescues; compare SnowedIn.

-> "It could be worse. [[TemptingFate It could be raining]]."

* The blizzard in ''Alive'' manages to come along just in time to kill as many passengers as starvation and cold, although this could again be chalked up to inexperienced soccer players deciding to [[IdiotBall wait out the winter]]. Then an ''avalanche!'' makes a beeline for the open end of the plane, wiping out most of the passengers.

* ''DieHard'' 2 depends on this trope for its [[WallBanger off-the-wall]] plot to function.

Contrast CueTheSun.

Even ''mentioning'' [[TalkAboutTheWeather it]] is TemptingFate. Whatever you do, don't even ''think'' about [[{{Djinn}} dust devils]]. They mostly come in the daytime. Mostly.

-> AStormIsComing -- and related {{foreshadowing}} tropes, such as GraveClouds.

->[+CueTheRain.+]

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