History Main / ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals

* Giles' funeral in Season 8 of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.

* Wesley Dodds's funeral in both ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' and The DCU proper.

* The nice instrumental work for the funeral in ''Anime/MoribitoGuardianOfTheSpirit'' is titled ''Drizzle''

* At Michael Yee's funeral in ''Comicbook/{{Witchblade}}'' #6, it is neither raining nor snowing nor exactly sunset. Sara Pezzini [[LampshadeHanging complains]] about the uncooperative weather. She doesn't notice the symbolic fall colors all around her, it seems.

* Played with in ''Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk'': it rained at Betty Banner's funeral, but Thor showed up, swung his hammer around a bit... and stopped it raining over just the coffin.

* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's memorial service at Arlington (following his shooting at the end of the ''Comicbook/CivilWar'' arc) takes place in the rain.

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* Played with in Loophole: at Vriska's funeral, it snows.

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* The ending of ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'' has a funeral for [[spoiler: Bain]] while it's raining.

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* Jerrica's father's funeral in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''

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* Inverted for non-instrument-rated pilots: they're warned constantly during training that if they try to tackle weather that's beyond their skill, the funeral will be held on a sunny day.

* On the day that Creator/SatoruIwata's funeral was held, it just so happened that a typhoon had hit Japan, causing his burial to be backdropped by downpouring rain. Strangely enough, a rainbow was famously seen over Nintendo headquarters a few days earlier, on the day of his death.

* Not really a funeral, but ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' has it raining outside the dwarfs' cottage when they're mourning Snow White, who has been put into a "sleeping death."
* In ''Disney/BigHero6'', it rains while Hiro's family attends Tadashi's funeral.

* In ''Discworld/MenAtArms'', it rains at Cuddy's funeral near the end of the book.

* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble Avengers: Panther's Quest]]'' episode "The Vibranium Curtain, Part 2", it rains at [[spoiler: Captain America]]'s funeral. Thor moves to [[WeatherManipulation stop it]], but Black Widow tells him it's appropriate.

* Lampshaded in Kim Newman's story "The Problem of the Final Adventure", when Moran refers to this trope. [[spoiler: Played with in that the funeral itself is phony.]]

* In the first ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'' movie, it rains heavily during Professor Bruttenholm's funeral.

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* It pours heavily when the protagonist in ''Film/TheHunt'' buries his dog in the yard.

* Parodied in the ''Radioactive Man'' comic book (and yes, that's the same Radioactive Man from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''). When RM heroically dies (for something like the fifteenth time) his friends gather to pay their last respects during what appears to be a gloomy, rain-drenched funeral. In the next panel, we pull back to see that it's actually a beautiful sunny day and everyone is standing under a large tarp to block the sun out, while the "rain" is really just the work of a guy holding a hose. Turns out RM's girlfriend Gloria hired a company to make the event as somber as possible (their slogan: "We take the 'fun' out of funerals.")

* Not really a funeral, but ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' has it raining outside the cdwarfs' ottage when they're mourning Snow White, who has been put into a "sleeping death".

** Asa Phelps' funeral in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E2122ShortFilmsAboutSpringfield 22 Short Films About Springfield]]" was held when it was rainy.

** "Bleeding Gums" Murphy's funeral. Poor Lisa is let down that it's such a lonely funeral as well as only she showed up, and her parents who were just accompanying her and did not really know Murphy.
** Asa Phelps' funeral in "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in the Curse of the Flying Hellfish" was held when it was rainy.
** Bea Simmons' funeral in "Old Money".

* At Michael Yee's funeral in ''Comicbook/{{Witchblade}}'' #6, it is neither raining nor snowing nor exactly sunset. Sara Pezzini [[LampshadeHanging complains]] about the uncooperative weather. She is insufficiently GenreSavvy to notice the symbolic fall colors all around her, it seems.