History Main / CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain

* ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'' and ''Innocence'', though in keeping with the show's status as LighterAndSofter, the weather is nicer in ''[[Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Stand Alone Complex]]''. There are still more than a few episodes with rain, such as the fourth episode of the first season, where it's actually a minor plot point (a murder is covered up as a traffic accident caused by a rainstorm).

* The protagonist of Italian film ''Hands Of Steel'' (also known as ''Vendetta dal futuro'', ''Fists of Steel'', ''Paco the Death Machine'', in Quebec as ''L'enfonceur'') is a cyborg sent to kill a scientist, who is trying to stop acid rains. Not far from the beginning his car gets [[HollywoodAcid burned]] by such rain.

* In the miniseries ''Cold Lazarus'' it was thick smog. Like, closer to brown smoke. People wondered aloud what it must have been like when the air was clear enough to go for walks outside.

* Scandinavia and Finland. Extremely tech-savvy countries, which are located at the occlusion zone of the Northern Atlantic low pressures. The presence of the Scandian mountains and the ensuing Föhn wind certainly doesn't make the climate drier or sunnier.

** Lampshaded by Creator/NeilGaiman in ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'', by using the same phrase to describe a ''clear'' sky.

* UsefulNotes/HongKong, often described as a city straight out of a cyberpunk novel, used to (and still occasionly does) have air quality issues that result in copious amounts of smog. In addition, it does have a monsoon season.

Inherited from the similarly crappy weather of the FilmNoir genre.

* Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin's ''Literature/TheLatheOfHeaven'' is set in Portland, Oregon, whose normally cool, rainy Northwestern climate has become ''warm'' and rainy, thanks to ClimateChange. In a 1971 book, for the record; we've seen this coming for a ''long'' time.

* ''Film/SplitSecond'': ([[TheNineties Then-]]) future London, and so bad that a good chunk of it has long since flooded. You never even see the sun up until the final credits.

* Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin's ''Literature/TheLatheOfHeaven'' is set in Portland, Oregon, whose normally cool, rainy Northwestern climate has become ''warm'' and rainy, thanks to GlobalWarming. In a 1971 book, for the record; we've seen this coming for a ''long'' time.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Elephantmen}}'', it rains very frequently in 2250's Los Angeles. British-born creator Richard Starkings says this is becaus "all Englishmen in L.A. miss the rain -- or at least ''I'' do."

* Averted in ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077''. As the [[WordOfGod developers stated]], while the dark and dreary aspect of cyberpunk is interesting, they wanted to prove that cyberpunk can be dark character-wise ''and'' have a sunny and colorful look too.

* Played with in ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel'': the film, while adapting [[Manga/{{GUNNM}} a classic cyberpunk story]] and largely keeping a manga's overall dark tone, has a distinctive LighterAndSofter vibe, and most of it happens under a bright sunlight. However, whenever the story turns to the dark, [[EmpathicEnvironment a night descends and the rain starts]] in earnest.

* ''Film/BladeRunner'' is probably responsible for [[TropeMaker starting the trend]] in films. The endless rain was a reference to FilmNoir. It also helped disguise the fact that he was just shooting on the backlot -- all those scenes set at night with lots of rain and smoke are a great disguise. In this [[http://archive.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/15-10/ff_bladerunner?currentPage=all 2005 interview with Wired Magazine]], Creator/RidleyScott stated that the rain in part was present to hide the wires on the Spinners. Quote: "Because you can't make a spinner fly without a crank. That's why it was raining in the shot, because the rain would help to hide the cables."

* ''VideoGame/{{Planetarian}}'' features a continuous downpour of acid rain.

* One of the urban missions of the original ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'' game (which is set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture) is on the streets of Chicago; as the whole level is essentially an homage to''Film/BladeRunner'', it comes complete with heavy, constant rain.

* ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'': averted. The weather is sunny throughout most of the game except for two nighttime levels.

* ''VideoGame/MarioKart7'' has a cyberpunk track [[NewNeoCity "Neo Bowser City,"]] where it's always raining.

* Defied in ''VideoGame/{{Transistor}}'', where the public [[WeatherControlMachine is able to control the weather via popular vote]], but when Red checks a terminal that contains a weather ballot, rain is specifically left off of it (the Transistor laments that they can't make it rain to cover their tracks.) [[spoiler: Near the end of the game, Red gets admin privileges for the same terminal, and is able to make it snow instead.]]

* Averted in ''VideoGame/{{Cyberpunk2077}}''. As the [[WordOfGod developers stated]], while the dark and dreary aspect of cyberpunk is interesting, they wanted to prove that cyberpunk can be dark character-wise ''and'' have a sunny and colorful look too.
* ''VideoGame/TokyoDark'''s title does not refer to the darkness caused by cloud cover, but given how frequent rainy weather is in the game, it might as well. Partly justified by story necessity; rain means there are few people walking the streets, so Detective Ito's job is considerably harder.

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Planetarian}}'', the rain that has been pouring endlessly for the last thirty years [[spoiler:is a result of the nuclear fallout brought about by the great war that almost wiped out all of humanity.]]

* Played with in ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel'': the film, while adapting [[Manga/{{GUNNM}} a classic cyberpunk story]] and largely keeping a manga's overall dark tone, has a distinctive LighterAndSofter vibe, and most of it happens under a bright sunlight. However, whenever the story turns to the dark, [[EmphaticEnvironment a night descends and the rain starts]] in earnest.

* ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'' by Creator/WilliamGibson. The original line was meant to invoke the gray static seen when an analog channel goes off air. Unfortunately, [[TechnologyMarchesOn in modern digital broadcast systems]], a dead channel shows up as solid bright blue.
** Ironically, the opening phrase still works, provided one interprets it as proof that urban techno-fetishist Case is so thoroughly-alienated from nature that the ''only'' thing he can think of to compare a gorgeous blue sky to is a damn television screen. (Or it would be, if there weren't an explicit reference to a "poisoned silver sky.")

-->-- Opening line of ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}''[[note]]Keep in mind that this refers to the grey static of older analogue televisions, not the [[TechnologyMarchesOn solid blue or black of digital ones]].[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'': averted. The weather is sunny and hot throughout the entire game.
* Played straight in the beginning mission of ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdgeCatalyst'', taking place at night during a rainstorm. The City having a distinct cyberpunk appearance with neon signage all over the place really contributes to the atmosphere.