History Main / RainOfSomethingUnusual

* 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.

** When in Creation, the passage of the demon Zsofika is heralded by storms and rain. In the Demon City of Malfeas, she's followed by rains of blood, hails of basalt, snow of brass and stranger things.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W5QBGxuhbo A commericial for GE had it raining octopuses.]]

* The plot of ''Manga/{{Jagaaaaaan}}'' kick-starts when all of a sudden UncannyValley amphibians starts raining down over the city from a clear sky.
* In an early issue of ''Manga/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.)
* The aptly named Weather Report of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has a power that allows him to control the weather. At one point he makes it rain poison arrow frogs, as it has rained frogs in the past.
* 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.
* Area 8 of the Gourmet World from ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' is known as the "Rain Area" because of this trope. The something unusual ranges from candies, souls, eyeballs, [[DeathFromAbove meteors, lasers, deadly poison]] and, in a comparatively mundane case, waterdrops the size of a small lake each.
* In the last pages of ''Manga/TheVoynichHotel'', as Helena admits to Taizou that she's a witch, it begins to rain frogs.

* The climax of ''Film/{{Magnolia}}'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpdGILXX56k frogs raining from the sky]].

* The children that Skeeter is telling a story to in ''Film/BedtimeStories'' interrupt his tale with gumball rain. Because the stories supposedly comes to life, Skeeter is caught in the middle of a gumball rainfall when he's driving home. The camera reveals that it's the result of a gumball lorry crashing into a pillar on the road above him.
* This is the subject of the infamous ''Film/{{Sharknado}}''. A freak storm causes it to rain live sharks (and, oddly enough, no other kind of fish).

* The ''Literature/DresdenFiles'' book ''Literature/SummerKnight'' opens with a rain of toads in Chicago. The first toads somehow survive the fall, but the following downpour necessitates the use of windscreen wipers.

* In the Q Continuum trilogy of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' books, Q and three other SufficientlyAdvancedAliens are testing the [=T'Kon=] empire. Q is allowed to test them first, and decides to "Start with something silly and see where it goes from there", and makes it rain fruit on the [=T'Kon=] capital to see how the people react to it.

* In ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS02E14DieHandDieVerletzt 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.

* In the [[Myth/AztecMythology Aztec myth]] of the Five Suns, the era of the First Sun ended when Tezcatlipoca, whom Quetzalcoatl knocked off the sky in a quarrel, made it so it rained jaguars, who ate most of Earth's population. Later, the Third Sun ended when Tlaloc, whose first wife was snatched by Tezcatlipoca and was sick of people demanding him to give rain, caused a rain of fire, killing most of the population and turning the survivors into birds.

* When Tuatha sets off the Wild Magic table in episode twelve of ''Podcast/TheFallenGods'', it causes a rain of twelve cats and one dog to occur in a dungeon. Solvin ends up keeping one of the cats.

* In the first edition of ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', there's a Sidereal Charm that turns the arrows they shoot into...well, anything. Examples given include grain, fire, and snow. Of course, since mortal minds are incapable of noticing or remembering Sidereals, they can't understand what caused this 'rain'.

* In the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' Splat book ''Elder Evils'', both Leviathan and Zargon have the Eerie Weather sign, which causes cataclysmic storms, droughts, and other extreme weather. At worst, it creates a Strange Storm, which in Leviathan's case is blood, frogs, acidic rain, or flaming hail, and in Zargon's case is corrosive slime.

* Evil biomes in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' have "evil weather" including rain of blood, other bodily fluids, or toxic sludge. Getting caught in any of these will not only make your dwarves miserable, but can also make them sick.
* In the modern-day prologue of ''VideoGame/NieR'' salt, not snow is falling from the sky.
* In the ending of episode two of ''VideoGame/AliceIsDead'', it rains fish, as a result of [[spoiler:the Rabbit activating Oystercloud]].

* In one quest in ''VideoGame/{{Oblivion}}'', you help Sheogorath the Madgod with an elaborate prank by fulfilling stages of a prophecy, in order to convince some villagers that the world is about to end. At the end of the quest, Sheogorath summons a rain of burning dogs, the final sign that the prophecy is coming true.
* In ''{{VideoGame/Terraria}}'', one of the game's various random events is for [[BlobMonster slimes]] to fall from the sky.

* The premise of ''VideoGame/{{Germination}}'' is that it's raining seeds.

* In the ''LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}}'' song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9ZSZFwVqqc "Carrot for a Cock"]], the bridge before the final chorus implies that the "snow" falling down is really the snowman "coming on you from above". [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext It's that kind of song]].

** In the episode [[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS1E15SleepyTimeSuds "Suds"]], [=SpongeBob=] has a dream that it's raining Krabby Patties.
** [[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS1E12TheChaperoneEmployeeoftheMonth "Employee of the Month"]] ends with [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward fighting over the award by making loads of Krabby Patties. They fill the Krusty Krab until it explodes, making Krabby Patties rain from the sky, much to the dismay of Mr. Krabs.
* In the "Lindapendant Woman" episode of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', Louise ties frozen shrimp to balloons so that it could rain shrimp in the grocery store.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'', Timmy's guilty conscience manifests itself in the form of "[[TalkingInYourSleep sleep-wishing]]". One such sleep-wish is for it to be raining ducks.

* An Al Brodax ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon had Popeye loading a tankload of liquid spinach in a water tower then blowing into the spigot. It bursts from the top and it is suddenly raining spinach. (This was all part of a plan to get back at Brutus, who got him fired as Olive's weatherman at a TV station.)
* One ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode featured a WeatherControlMachine being used by a reporter to make it snow prematurely, but the snowmen created by it developed sentience and because hostile because it was fueled by toxic water. One attempt to shut the machine off made it rain frogs.
* 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.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018'' episode, "When You Wish Upon a Rizzo", Fozzie wishes to have cookies at snack time, and Rizzo, who takes on the form of a genie, grants that wish by making it rain cookies from the sky.

** ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'' has a magical storm which includes a rain of sardines, in tins.

** In ''Discworld/TheTruth'', William poo-poos other characters' comments about a recent "rain of dogs" in Ankh-Morpork, pointing out that it was ''one'' puppy that fell out of a window.

* ''WebOriginal/HowToHero'' talks about mad scientists making it rain 32 different kinds of condiments. In another entry the power to make it rain bullets is mentioned.

Usually, when it rains, you'd expect water. Rarely, you'd expect ice (in case of blizzards and hailstorms).

* In ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', the bottom of the Seventh Circle of Hell is plagued by rains of fire that burn it down into a desert.

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* 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.

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* In the ''LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}}'' song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9ZSZFwVqqc "Carrot for a Cock"]], the bridge before the final chorus implies that the "snow" falling down is really the snowman "coming on you from above". [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext It's that kind of song]].

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* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' has a sentient glowing cloud that rains down animal carcasses. No one in Night Vale really seems to mind, however, since they've all been ConditionedToAcceptHorror.

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* Other planets due to their exotic -next to Earth- atmospheric conditions have unusual rain from our perspective:

** Planets orbiting extremely close to their stars, thus extremely hot, and tidally locked as [=CoRoT-7b=] are expected to have on their night hemispheres rains of ''molten rock'', as winds move rock vapour from the dayside that condensates there as pebbles.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E6TreehouseOfHorrorV Treehouse Of Horror V]]" episode, Homer [[ButterflyOfDoom sneezes on a dinosaur]] and changes the course of history -- which makes rain into donuts. This would have been perfect for him, but [[GaveUpTooSoon he leaves just before it rains]] because no one knew what a donut is.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'':
** In the episode [[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS1E15SleepyTimeSuds "Suds"]], Spongebob has a dream that it's raining Krabby Patties.
** [[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS1E12TheChaperoneEmployeeoftheMonth "Employee of the Month"]] ends with Spongebob and Squidward fighting over the award by making loads of Krabby Patties. They fill the Krusty Krab until it explodes, making Krabby Patties rain from the sky, much to the dismay of Mr. Krabs.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'', Timmy's GuiltyConscience manifests itself in the form of "[[TalkingInYourSleep sleep-wishing]]". One such sleep-wish is for it to be raining ducks.

* An Al Brodax ''{{Popeye}}'' cartoon had Popeye loading a tankload of liquid spinach in a water tower then blowing into the spigot. It bursts from the top and it is suddenly raining spinach. (This was all part of a plan to get back at Brutus, who got him fired as Olive's weatherman at a TV station.)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E6TreehouseOfHorrorV Treehouse Of Horror V]]" 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.

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

** Planets orbiting extremely close to their stars, thus extremely hot, and tidally locked as CoRoT-7b are expected to have on their night hemisphere rains of molten rock as winds move rock vapour from the dayside and it condensates there as peebles.

* After the Chernobyl disaster, rain was purposely seeded over the Belorussian USSR, in order to get rid of some of the contamination. People in the city of Gomel and surrounding areas reported heavy rain that was colored ''black'' (and presumably toxic).

* An Al Brodax ''{{Popeye}} cartoon had Popeye loading a tankload of liquid spinach in a water tower then blowing into the spigot. It bursts from the top and it is suddenly raining spinach. (This was all part of a plan to get back at Brutus, who got him fired as Olive's weatherman at a TV station.)