History Main / RainOfSomethingUnusual

* The conclusion of volume 6 of [[{{Manga/Gunnm}} Battle Angel Alita]] has Alita and Figure Four saved from dehydration, starvation and overheating in the desert by a rain of fish.

** In (Exodus 16) the Hebrews subsisted on a bread-like substance that rained from the heavens while they wandered the desert. They called it manna (literally "what is it?") so it must have been pretty nondescript as a foodstuff.

Subtrope of WeirdWeather. Supertrope to ItsRainingMen, RainOfBlood, RainOfArrows and StormOfBlades. Compare AlienSky (when something unusual shows up in the sky regularly).

* The aptly named Weather Report of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has a power allows him to control the weather. At one point he makes it rain poison arrow frogs, as it has rained frogs in the past.

** On certain parts of the planet rains of fish are spotted occasionally, as a result of the Disc's BackgroundMagicField. When the field is exacerbated, one might encounter more exotic and dangerous things, like doorknobs.

*** He [[SerialEscalation comes with further examples]], until he mentions the "[[ShapedLikeItself miraculous rain of rain]]". Constable Reg Shoe tries to offer [[AgentScully rational explanation]] for all of them.

*** It [[SerialEscalation goes further]], until he mentions the "[[ShapedLikeItself miraculous rain of rain]]". Constable Reg Shoe tries to offer rational [[AgentScully explanation for all of them]].

** Another example occurred in [[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS1E12TheChaperoneEmployeeoftheMonth "Employee of the Month"]], when Spongebob and Squidward accidentally blow up the Krusty Krab as they're fighting over the award, specifically when they're making loads of Krabby Patties that it fills the restaurant full until it explodes, making Krabby Patties rain from the sky, much to the dismay of Mr. Krabs.

* Magazine/ForteanTimes loves this sort of story. In fact, one of the UrExample Fortean phenomena was a mysterious shower of fish and shellfish over Cromer, Norfolk, in 1887. Explained away as a mysterious, unwitnessed and never-found Mad Fishmonger who went around town in the early hours of the morning flinging buckets of produce everywhere, the mystery may have been solved. UsefulNotes/EastAnglia gets [[DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud tornadoes]] (yes, we have them in Britain too, but not to Mid-Western standards of severity or destruction). A waterspout originating at sea might have travelled inland, depositing marine life it picked up as it ebbed and died. Similar rains of fish have been reported world-wide and have happened often enough and to too many people to be dismissed as hoaxes or delusions. People have reported seeing fish seemingly flying through the air in high winds and storms...

But not here - instead, it's something that you would never expect to rain from the sky. It could be raining money, or raining food, or literally raining cats and dogs, etc. This can have any number of justifications - maybe it's not a normal world in that work's verse, maybe it's an act of a divine being (or other magical being), maybe somebody modifies the weather in... an unique way, etc - but for most of the time it's the RuleOfFunny.

* Rains of fish are known to happen, though they're hard to verify and almost always exaggerated. When people describe a "rain of fish" what actually happened tends to be more like a handful of minnows falling from the sky. It's believed to occur when rare wind conditions pick fish and other small objects up from the surface of the water with enough strength to carry them a few miles inland.

* In an early issue of ''UruseiYatsura'', an alien accepts "all of the oil on Earth" as payment for driving Ataru from school to his home. When Lum's family agree to pay for the trip instead, the alien returns the oil by making it rain oil all over the entire Earth for several weeks. (Being a comedy, the ecological damage this would cause is simply ignored.)

* ''Literature/TheBible''

* ''TabletopGame/{{Ironclaw}}'': the Druid spells Rain of Fire, Rain of Ice, and RainOfBlood.

* In the ''SpongebobSquarepants'' episode, "Suds", Spongebob has a dream that it's raining Krabby Patties. Another example occurred in "Employee of the Month", when Spongebob and Squidward accidentally blow up the Krusty Krab as they're fighting over the award, specifically when they're making loads of Krabby Patties that it fills the restaurant full until it explodes, making Krabby Patties rain from the sky, much to the dismay of Mr. Krabs.

Supertrope to ItsRainingMen, RainOfBlood, RainOfArrows and StormOfBlades. Compare AlienSky (when something unusual shows up in the sky regularly).

!!Examples

* In ''Literature/BartholomewAndTheOobleck'' by Creator/DrSeuss, the kind tires of only rain, sun, fog, and snow coming from the sky, so he orders his wizards to come up with something new. Unfortunately what they create is basically a rain of glue, which nearly destroys the kingdom.

* In the ''SpongebobSquarepants'' episode, ''Suds'', Spongebob has a dream that it's raining Krabby Patties. Another example occurred in ''Employee of the Month'', when Spongebob and Squidward accidentally blow up the Krusty Krab as they're fighting over the award, specifically when they're making loads of Krabby Patties that it fills the restaurant full until it explodes, making Krabby Patties rain from the sky, much to the dismay of Mr. Krabs.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', Louise ties frozen shrimp to balloons so that it could rain shrimp in the grocery store.
* The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Excaliferb" has the two boys' (in the story) Middle-Age adventures by noticing that the rain is fishy by it raining fish.

* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' episode "The Curse of Clyde Langer part 1" has a scene of raining fish.
* In ''Series/RedDwarf'' Lister hallucinates a ''real'' indoor rain of fish, all of which are quickly eaten by the Cat.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In one ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' episode Homer [[TheButterflyEffect sneezes on a dinosaur]] and changes the course of history - which makes rain into donuts. This would have been perfect for him except he leaves just before it rains because they don't know what a donut is.

* In ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Die Hand Die Verletzt" Scully expresses scepticism about any satanic, demonic or otherwise weird components to the crime, upon which it begins raining frogs. Lucky she had an umbrella, really.