History Main / ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals

* ''Fanfic/MarianosBrother'': It rains at [[spoiler:Camilo]]'s funeral courtesy of Pepa's gift.

* While it doesn't rain at ''every'' funeral Tim attends in ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' it did [[SnowMeansDeath snow]] a bit at the funeral of Karl Ranck, a schoolmate Tim didn't exactly care for but whose death Tim felt responsible for when he was shot at school.

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}} Sun and Moon'', rain was part of the symbolism used to imply the death of the Stoutland that Litten was taking care of. Ash and Professor Kukui showed up with umbrellas as well, along with Meowth separately nearby, adding to the atmosphere of a funeral.

* Scully's father's funeral on ''Series/TheXFiles'', episode "Beyond the Sea".

* The music video of "Helena" by Music/MyChemicalRomance. This was actually a [[ThrowItIn happy accident]] during filming: when the time came to shoot the scene where the band carries the coffin down the church steps to the hearse, it just started raining.

* ''Film/Daredevil2003''. Matt Murdock falls for Elektra after 'seeing' her under a RomanticRain as his SuperSenses reveal the raindrops striking her face. After her father is murdered he tries to comfort Elektra, but it starts raining and from his point-of-view [[RuleOfSymbolism her face goes dark]] as she puts up her umbrella after declaring her need for revenge. It also serves as a ShowerOfAngst for Matt, as Bullseye used one of his own batons to murder her father [[FrameUp so she mistakenly blames Daredevil for it.]]
* It was snowing at the funeral at the end of ''Film/WhatLiesBeneath''.
* [[InvertedTrope Utterly inverted]] in''Film/TheCrow'', where it's not only raining but it's raining ''at night'' when Eric Draven pulls himself out of his own grave.
* ''Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral'' has the funeral on a typical English weather day.

* It rains at Rudolf Smuntz's funeral in ''Film/MouseHunt''.
* In the film ''Film/DejaVu2006'' with Denzel Washington, it rains lightly during Claire's funeral. Justified as it is set in New Orleans, and there were concerns that the shoot in which the crew simulated rain would be interrupted by a real rain. The seasonal monsoon serendipitously delayed until immediately after shooting.
* In the first ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'' movie, it rains heavily during Professor Bruttenholm's funeral.
* ''Film/TheBodyguard''. At the funeral of Rachel Marron's sister, it rains buckets.

* Subverted in ''Firehouse Dog'' - at the celebrity funeral, it first appears to be raining, but when the ceremony is over, the camera pulls back to reveal that the rain is being faked by an FX crew.
* ''Film/ReturnOfTheFly'' starts off with a rainy funeral of the protagonist's mother.

* In ''Film/{{Amadeus}}'', Mozart's corpse is dropped unceremoniously into a mass grave while it's raining cats and dogs. According to one Mozart scholar, the notion that it rained at Mozart's funeral is a myth. He checked out the local almanacs and found out it was actually [[ItsAlwaysSunnyAtFunerals a bright and sunny day]] in Vienna.

* In ''Navy Seals'', it rains during William Graham's funeral.

* It pours heavily when the protagonist in ''Film/TheHunt2012'' buries his dog in the yard.
* Pouring at the funeral of Jacob's mother Joba in ''Film/{{Character}}''. Jacob imagines that his distant, illegitimate father Dreverhaven might reach out to him at the funeral, but he doesn't.
* A steady rain in ''Film/TheBarefootContessa'' as it [[StartsWithTheirFuneral starts with the funeral]] of Maria, after her tragic death. The story then plays out in a series of flashbacks as the various men in her life remember her.
* It is raining during Victor's LonelyFuneral in ''Film/NightSchool1981''.

* The episode after [[spoiler:Gin]] dies in ''LightNovel/WashioSumiIsAHero'' begins on a rainy day. It's also rainy during her funeral.

* It rains when they bury the letter "I" in ''Website/CollegeHumor'''s "[[https://youtu.be/FFK_XuVqsCQ?t=21 Pixar Intro Parody]]".

* A variation in ''Film/TopGunMaverick'': Iceman's funeral takes place on a cloudy, overcast evening, and in the scene immediately following, implied to be later that night, it is pouring outside.

* ''Film/Daredevil2003''. Matt Murdock falls for Elektra after 'seeing' her under a RomanticRain as his SuperSenses reveal the raindrops striking her face. After her father is murdered he tries to comfort Elektra, but it starts raining and from his point-of-view [[RuleOfSymbolism her face goes dark]] as she puts up her umbrella after declaring her need for revenge. It also serves as a ShowerOfAngst for Matt, as Bullseye used one of his own batons to murder her father and [[FrameUp now she mistakenly blames him for it.]]

* In ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' it begins to rain just as the funeral for Electra's father breaks up. The resulting rain becomes a ShowerOfAngst for Matt.

* A variation in ''Film/TopGunMaverick'': [[spoiler:Iceman's]] funeral takes place on a cloudy, overcast evening, and in the scene immediately following, implied to be later that night, it is pouring outside.

* On the 100th anniversary of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, it was raining all over the USA. Most of the presidential party came to honor the deceased US soldiers except for UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, who cancelled his plans because of the rain. Many of Trump's detractors criticised him for his apparent SkewedPriorities.

** However, when Lex is thought to be dead in season 3, the sun shines at his funeral.

* In ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', when Rosette takes a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind in [[TokenMiniMoe Azmaria's]] head, she's shown at a graveyard in the rain under a battered umbrella--but it's possible this is just a symbolic ShowerOfAngst, and isn't meant to depict an actual funeral. In the manga, a flashback to the funeral of Rosette and Joshua's parents is shown--it's snowing.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' anime ''Zanpakuto: The Alternate Tale" arc. In episode 255, after Muramasa's death it starts to rain.

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* [[InvertedTrope Utterly inverted]] in''Film/TheCrow'', where it's not only raining, but its raining ''at night'' when Eric Draven pulls himself out of his own grave.

* ''Film/TheBodyguard''. At the funeral of Rachel Marron's sister it rains buckets.

* ''Film/ReturnOfTheFly'' starts of with a rainy funeral of the protagonist's mother.

* In ''Film/{{Amadeus}}'', Mozart's corpse is dropped unceremoniously into a mass grave while it's raining cats and dogs. According to one Mozart scholar, the notion that it rained at Mozart's funeral is a myth. He checked out the local almanacs, and found out it was actually [[ItsAlwaysSunnyAtFunerals a bright and sunny day]] in Vienna.

* In Creator/SeananMcGuire's ''Literature/VelveteenVs The Junior Super Patriots'', the BackStory notes that it always rains at funerals because there are super heroes who ensure that it does, for effect.

* In ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', a drizzily depressing funeral for Captain Lee.

* ''Series/NewGirl'': Somewhat parodied in [[Recap/NewGirlS7E4 "Where The Road Goes"]], as the episode begins with everyone driving through the rain on the way to a funeral. It seems that a main character has died offscreen, but it was actually a BaitAndSwitch; the funeral is a headstone reveal for Ferguson (Winston's cat), who passed away between the events of season 6 and 7.
* Scully's father funeral on ''Series/TheXFiles'', episode "Beyond the Sea".

* Keeping with the theme of former Argentine presidents, it also rained during Raúl Alfonsín's funeral. Not only that, but on the last day of the funeral, at dawn, there was a great rainbow in Buenos Aires. Lightened the mood quite a bit.

* In the 100th anniversary of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, it was raining all over the USA. Most of the presidential party came to honor the deceased US soldiers except for UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, who cancelled his plans because of the rain. Many of Trump's detractors criticised him for his apparent SkewedPriorities.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', it rains while Hiro's family attends Tadashi's funeral.

Subtrope of GrayRainOfDepression. This trope is the {{sister|Trope}} and [[AvertedTrope direct opposite]] of ItsAlwaysSunnyAtFunerals, and is usually part of a MeaningfulFuneral scene.

* In the film ''Film/DejaVu'' with Denzel Washington, it rains lightly during Claire's funeral. Justified as it is set in New Orleans, and there were concerns that the shoot in which the crew simulated rain would be interrupted by a real rain. The seasonal monsoon serendipitously delayed until immediately after shooting.