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* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Flying Island: The Sky Adventure'', Weslie and Paddi both wind up in a factory that produces different kinds of weather by shooting [[FantasticFruitsAndVegetables weather fruits]] out of a cannon (or large weather fruits, anyway; the small and medium ones are used for different purposes).

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Equestria has ponies caring for "wild" animals, stomping clouds for rain, scheduling weather patterns down to shaking the autumn leaves off of trees with organized stampedes and manually crafting snowflakes, and completely controlling the movements of the sun and moon themselves. In fact, this trope played so straight that the Everfree Forest, a place where weather and wildlife are self-sufficient, is considered an EldritchLocation.

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* As a pre-teen in the early 1890s, Helen Keller wrote--or thought she wrote--a perfect fairy tale about melted jewels staining autumn leaves with brilliant colors. It turned out to be a paraphrase from a story that had been read to her. The story's author went on record that Helen's version was better. However, the resulting accusations of dishonesty left Helen emotionally shattered and, though she was eventually cleared of any deliberate wrong-doing, she became fearful that anything else she wrote might also turn out to be the product of someone else's mind.

* As a pre-teen in the early 1890s, Helen Keller wrote--or thought she wrote--a perfect fairy tale about melted jewels staining autumn leaves with brilliant colors. It turned out to be a paraphrase from a book that had been read to her. The book's author went on record that Helen's version was better. However, the resulting accusations of dishonesty left Helen emotionally shattered and, though she was eventually cleared of any deliberate wrong-doing, she became fearful that anything else she wrote might also turn out to be the product of someone else's mind.

* In the world of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' all natural processes are performed by magical creatures. So one day when they're all rendered powerless by [[TheMagicGoesAway the magic going away]], all the plants start to die, with full implications that the world would end if magic doesn't return.

* Between ponies caring for "wild" animals, stomping clouds for rain, scheduling weather patterns down to shaking the autumn leaves off of trees with organized stampedes and manually crafting snowflakes, and completely controlling the movements of the sun and moon themselves, Equestria, the setting of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', has this trope played so straight that the Everfree Forest, a place where weather and wildlife are self-sufficient, is considered an EldritchLocation.

* Played with in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. At the very least, Asgardian tech ''evokes'' this effect: hammers that summon thunder and lightning, a teleport bridge that produces a definite "Aurora borealis" effect, grenades that explode into "black holes", and even arrows that seem to become stars in the night sky when fired (during a "Viking funeral"-style ritual).

* As a pre-teen in the early 1890s, Helen Keller wrote--or thought she wrote--a perfect fairy tale about melted jewels staining autumn leaves with brilliant colors. It turned out to be a paraphrase from a book that had been read to her. The book's author went on record that Helen's version was better. However, the resulting accusations of dishonesty left Helen emotionally shattered and, though she was eventually cleared of any deliberate wrong- doing, she became fearful that anything else she wrote might also turn out to be the product of someone else's mind.

* As a pre-teen in the early 1890s, Helen Keller wrote--or thought she wrote--a perfect fairy tale about melted jewels staining autumn leaves with brilliant colors. It turned out to be a paraphrase from a book that had been read to her. The book's author went on record that Helen's version was better. However, the resulting accusations of dishonesty left Helen emotionally shattered; though she was eventually cleared of any deliberate wrong doing, she became fearful that anything else she wrote might also turn out to be the product of someone else's mind.

* Helen Keller wrote--or thought she wrote--a perfect fairy tale about melted jewels staining autumn leaves with brilliant colors. It turned out to be a paraphrase from a book that had been read to her. The book's author went on record that Helen's version was better.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Out with the Old... in with the Ed", Eddy fools everyone into thinking it's summer by heating the cul-de-sac with air conditioning, and painting all the orange leaves green. This works until [[RealityEnsues the fall weather starts kicking in]] and nature resumes its proper course.

* Between ponies caring for "wild" animals, stomping clouds for rain, shaking the autumn leaves off of trees with organized stampedes, manually crafting snowflakes, and completely controlling the movements of the sun and moon, Equestria, the setting of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', has this trope played so straight that the Everfree Forest, a place where weather and wildlife are self-sufficient, is considered an EldritchLocation.

** Pegasi control the weather, jumping on or bucking clouds to make rain and lightning, and breaking clouds up or stacking them together to make storms, depending on what weather’s scheduled. The pegasus city of Cloudsdale is home to the "weather factory", where rainbows are brewed ([[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce don't try to taste the liquid rainbows]]) and snowflakes are hoofcrafted. It draws the water it needs from reservoirs groundside, which is raised to the city by large numbers of pegasi flying in circles to create tornadoes to suck it up into the sky.
** Even the seasons and the day-night cycle are under management. Big seasonal events (like making the last leaves fall off of autumn trees or manually shoveling away winter snows while waking up hibernating animals and guiding back migratory birds) are treated as essentially big community projects, while Princesses Celestia and Luna raise the sun and the moon, respectively. Prior to their rule, this was done by the pre-Equestrian unicorn civilization.
** Three ponies with a vacuum cleaner can even remove the color of a rainbow and use it in a potion.

* In ''Hans Christian Andersen's WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina}}'', the fairies are responsible for changing the seasons, and so, while searching for the eponymous heroine, Prince Cornelius asks his parents to delay the winter frost for as long as they can.

* Played with in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and ''ThorTheDarkWorld''. At the very least, Asgardian tech ''evokes'' this effect: hammers that summon thunder and lightning, a teleport bridge that produces a definite "Aurora borealis" effect, grenades that explode into "black holes", and even arrows that seem to become stars in the night sky when fired (during a "Viking funeral"-style ritual).

* Daniel Curley, ''Ann's Spring''. Mother Nature has her hands full one year with tornadoes and hurricanes, so she asks her daughter Ann to start spring for her. Ann begins the complex task, assisted by her baby brother. The pair handle various snags and beginners' glitches, but things seem to be going okay--until some neighborhood pranksters lock them in an old truck. Then it starts snowing...

* ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' has the sleeping goddess Burn. Since she dreams existence into reality, ''Burn's Pain'' is supposedly the source of earthquakes, when the sleep of the goddess is disturbed or she is in pain.

Usually appearing in mythology or children's entertainment, this is a character who is responsible for the beautiful colors and patterns we see in nature. The leaves? There's some guy going around and painting them one by one. The frost? Someone such as JackFrost draws it on people's windows. A character of this trope is usually depicted as an artist; his or her medium just happens to be nature.

** In ''Literature/TheSilverChair'', the Earthmen discard the husks of gems when they've drunk the juices, and are puzzled by the notion that surface-dwellers consider the rock-hard, drained rinds to be valuable.

* There is also (again in Swedish) ''Vem tar hand om hösten?'' which reveals who takes care of the various seasons when it ''isn't" autumn, winter etc., in case you ever wondered. [[spoiler: The Hare watches over Autumn, Tomten (the Swedish Santa Claus) over Winter, the Lark over Spring, and the Shepherd herds Summer with his sheep.]]

* The Fourth Circle of [[PhysicalGod Elder Gods]] in ''{{VideoGame/Lusternia}}'' is the circle of artists, responsible for moulding flowers, painting sunrises, birdsong, and other [[OddJobGods miscellaneous facets]] of natural beauty.

* Jack Frost also appears in ''WesternAnimation/Frosty'sWinterWonderland.''

* In Moscow it's customary to disperse rain clouds prior to major festivals by spraying them with silver-based reagents from jet planes.

''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'': As James and the insects fly over the Atlantic Ocean, they encounter the Cloud-Men, a civilization of ghostly humanoids who make the weather, sculpting hailstones, crafting and painting rainbows and producing blizzards.

* Jack Frost also appears in ''WesternAnimation/FrostysWinterWonderland.''