History Main / PartlyCloudyWithAChanceOfDeath

-> ''All morning, before the tornado, it had rained. The day was dark and gloomy. The air was heavy. There was no wind. Then the drizzle increased. The heavens seemed to open, pouring down a flood. The day grew black…''
-->-- '''Article from the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' describing the morning of March 18, 1925'''

* Variation in ''Anime/{{Planetes}}'' - when [[spoiler:Gungulgash]] tells Tanabe he has cancer, the last shot of the episode is Earth passing in front of the sun.

* Played with at the end of ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', with Marty seemingly stranded forever in 1955 during a thunderstorm.

* Parodied in ''VideoGame/PeasantsQuest''. When the player kills the Kerrek, the sun is obscured by clouds and it begins to rain, and the narrator comments "You're feeling pretty good, though, so the artless symbolism doesn't bug you."
* In ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'', [[spoiler:Farah dies]] in a level called "The Setting Sun."

* Zack's death in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' fits this perfectly.

* A variation happens in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker''; it's mostly sunny when the battle starts, but it soon darkens and starts raining heavily [[spoiler:(literally as heavy as the entire ocean, to be precise)]]. The battle ends with the death of [[spoiler:Ganondorf (who doesn't get better this time around), the King of Hyrule, and Hyrule itself]].
* ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' has this in the last mission as Reach is being glassed and looking like {{Mordor}}, complete with rain while you're [[HoldTheLine Holding the Line]] for Captain Keyes to land to retrieve the Package.
* Happens all the time in ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''. As you strike down Dracula, either the sun rises, or a window conveniently breaks to let in a beam of sunlight, thus vaporizing his remains.
** In fact, the convenient dramatic timing of sunrise happens all the time in vampire media (primarily movies); it could be a trope all its own.

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* In ''LightNovel/ModernMagicMadeSimple,'' [[spoiler:Misa gets stabbed with ''three'' swords.]] Cue rain.

!!As a DeathTrope, spoilers may be unmarked ahead. Beware.

* A variation of this occurs in ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}''. The beautifully rendered sky with its bright sun and fluffy clouds already plays a big part in the series as a whole, but it really reaches its prime during [[spoiler:Misuzu]]'s final moments.

Symbolic subtrope of EmpathicEnvironment and HesDeadJim. If it rains into the DiesWideOpen eyes, not so symbolic HesDeadJim.

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' both averts this. Of the three major character deaths in the series, [[spoiler:Julia dies during a downpour, and Spike and Vicious die under a cloudless blue sky.]] The weather conditions of the latter death is even emphasized by the final ending theme, "Blue."

* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'': [[spoiler:Voldemort dies as the sun rises.]]

* On October 2, 1968, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre a massacre happened in Mexico]]. In the middle of the shooting, it started to rain.

* ''Manga/AngelSanctuary''
* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi''

* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne''
* ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'', more than once.

* ''Anime/MaiOtome'', when [[spoiler:Erstin]] dies.