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** ''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 is played so straight that the Everfree Forest, a place where weather and wildlife are self-sufficient, is considered an EldritchLocation.

* The characters in the WesternAnimation/{{Pixar Short|s}} ''La Luna'' are in charge of sweeping stars along the surface of the moon, thus creating the moon's phases.

* ''LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP'' Season 2: According to Pix and with Sausage's endorsement, "the clap of his cheeks is the thunder" [''sic''] in reference to Joel, the resident sky god. Take from that what you will.

* The film version of ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' featured something like this. During the scene wherein Slartibartfast shows Arthur around the Earth MK.II, we see several engineers hard at work "setting the Earth up" to look like Arthur remembers it. One of them is painting [[LandDownUnder Uluru]] orange, whereas some others are filling in the oceans using fire hoses.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'':

* "Literature/TheSandman" by Creator/ETAHoffmann [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] this: the sandman gouges out the eyes of children who stay up late [[spoiler:and provides their eyes to the builders of automatons, killing the ones who won't give up the creation]].

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' has a variety of servants who work to keep the dream world in order. It's implied that the beautiful scenery people dream about takes some effort to create. Of course, being The Dreaming, such effort varies. Adding a new wing to the library is as simple as pasting up wallpaper containing a picture of the new wing, like a portable hole.

* Averted with Jack Frost in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', who causes snow, ice, and frost wherever he goes. However, cold and ice didn't wait for him to exist. He sure has power over it, but only at his range, winter doesn't require his intervention.

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Can be a subset of TheFairFolk, OddJobGods, MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality or AnthropomorphicPersonification. For similar abilities without the responsiblity see PowerOfTheStorm and GreenThumb. Compare PeeveGoblins, which are responsible for annoyances or ills rather than changes in nature.

* Multiple characters in ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}''. Some include the citizens of the Flower Kingdom (each have a separate flower they're designed after, and each of them tend to that certain flower), Princess Nakayubi (a harvest princess, she helps fruits and vegetables grow in autumn) and Onsen-kun (has the ability to create hot springs).

* ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'': After the war, weather got weird, since ponies weren't managing it any more. The pegasi have retreated to above the cloud layer and keep the sky constantly covered in clouds; weather in the Wasteland below is pretty much just always generically terrible, with little variance. Furthermore, since Celestia and Luna are gone, the sun and the moon have "gone wild." Ponies on the ground don't notice because of the cloud layer, but occasionally the moon doesn't set before the sun rises, something that never happened when Celestia and Luna were in charge. Calamity also describes a solar eclipse, which is a blasphemous concept, as Celestia and Luna would have never allowed such a thing to happen. Littlepip has nightmares about it and she never even saw it.

* ''Fanfic/ThroughTheWellOfPirene'': Besides the ponies' managing of nature from the show, the goblins in the Everfree do weather work of their own, making rainbows out of crushed gemstones and manticore oil, clouds with water and huge fans and lightning with jars of static and electrically charged thunderstones.

* Averted with Jack Frost in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', who causes snow, ice and frost wherever he goes. However, cold and ice didn't wait for him to exist. He sure has power over it, but only at his range, winter doesn't require his intervention.

** Some of them, like the Wintersmith or [[TheGrimReaper Death]], aren't necessarily obligated to do every last little detail personally; as anthropomorphic personifications they just have to exist, and do the trade equivalent of checking to make sure the factory production is up to snuff. They ''can'', if they have a particular aim in mind (see again the Wintersmith), but by and large the books compare it to a monarchy; the king exists and makes the rules, but he doesn't personally show up at your home telling you what kind of tea to have on your break.

* ''Literature/UnderThePendulumSun'': In the LandOfFaerie, there are fae whose job it is to draw hoarfrost with quill pens, sew up snowstorms, and wither flowers with a paint brush, since it's an EldritchLocation where such things don't happen naturally.

* 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.]]

* ''TabletopGame/WorldTreeRPG'': The World Tree's natural systems are anything but natural, and to ensure that they'll keep working the gods created vast numbers of elementals to oversee them. Between the universe's weird shape and weirder physics, for example, habitable weather wouldn't naturally arise on it. The reason it does anyway is due to the endless armies of the air elementals, who constantly work to push clouds around, squeeze them for rain, make the winds blow, keep the air clear, arrange the seasons and the like.

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' is a meta-example: It uses ProceduralGeneration to simulate weather, erosion, placement of lakes and rivers in extremely complex detail. Software engineers who work on aerodynamics simulations of the sort that run on ''Cray supercomputers'' are impressed by this game. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Your mundane computer's processors, on the other hand]]... The game won't [[ExplosiveOverclocking melt your PC]], but the playerbase still recommends that anyone playing on a PC with a processors from before TheNewTens or on a laptop should start worldgen, then go fix themselves a snack.

* The short story "[[https://scrivnarium.wordpress.com/2017/02/28/night-falls/ Night Falls]]" by Jeffrey Wells is about the fairies of rot and decay, because Jeff felt that far too many versions of this trope portray such things as an outside enemy, rather than an essential part of the whole process.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Out with the Old... in with the Ed", Eddy fools everyone ([[OnlySaneMan sans Double D]])into thinking it's summer by heating the cul-de-sac with air conditioning, painting all the orange leaves green, and changing all the calenders. This works until [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the fall weather starts kicking in at full force]], making everyone realize that school is starting the next day.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rupert}}'': Rupert Bear is on a first-name basis with a lot of these beings around his home town.

* Multiple characters in ''Franchise/{{Anpanman}}''. Some include the citizens of the Flower Kingdom (each have a separate flower they're designed after, and each of them tend to that certain flower), Princess Nakayubi (a harvest princess, she helps fruits and vegetables grow in autumn) and Onsen-kun (has the ability to create hot springs).

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' is a meta-example: It uses ProceduralGeneration to simulate weather, erosion, placement of lakes and rivers in extremely complex detail. Software engineers who work on aerodynamics simulations of the sort that run on ''Cray supercomputers'' are impressed by this game. [[RealityEnsues Your mundane computer's processors, on the other hand]]... The game won't [[ExplosiveOverclocking melt your PC]], but the playerbase still recommends that anyone playing on a PC with a processors from before TheNewTens or on a laptop should start worldgen, then go fix themselves a snack.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Out with the Old... in with the Ed", Eddy fools everyone ([[OnlySaneMan sans Double D]])into thinking it's summer by heating the cul-de-sac with air conditioning, painting all the orange leaves green, and changing all the calenders. This works until [[RealityEnsues the fall weather starts kicking in at full force]], making everyone realize that school is starting the next day.

* ''Heaven's Design Team'' is a tongue-in-cheek edutainment manga that teaches about animals and zoology by featuring a team of divine "designers" who create beings on behalf of God.

* The stop motion movie ''WesternAnimation/TheYearWithoutASantaClaus'' features Heat Miser (who is responsible for Summer's heat) and Snow Miser (who is responsible for winter). When they get into an argument, the heroes go find their mother and ask her to step in.

* ''FanFic/ThroughTheWellOfPirene'': Besides the ponies' managing of nature from the show, the goblins in the Everfree do weather work of their own, making rainbows out of crushed gemstones and manticore oil, clouds with water and huge fans and lightning with jars of static and electrically charged thunderstones.

* One of the chief differences between Mythic and Prosaic Reality in ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' is that when you go Mythic, things like this become the default.

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->'''Phoenix:''' What's her problem, Twilight? She can't honestly think someone can control weather. It's ludicrous!\\
'''Trixie:''' You have to be the biggest imbecile Trixie has ever laid eyes on!\\

Can be a subset of TheFairFolk, OddJobGods, MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality or AnthropomorphicPersonification. For similar abilities without the responsiblity see PowerOfTheStorm and GreenThumb. See also JustSoStory.

* In Walt Disney's ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'' during "The Nutcracker Suite" segment, fairies are shown using their magic wands to spread dew among flowers and spiderwebs, change the colour of leaves, and start the first frost (by figure skating across a pond).
* A segment of ''Disney/Fantasia2000'' has a Mother Nature type spirit who causes plant life to spring forth following a devastating volcanic eruption.

** In ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'', a number of these beings show up as a result of the Hogfather's disappearance creating a lot of loss belief that "grounds" itself by creating various odd-job personifications, including the Verruca Gnome, who goes around distributing verrucas out of a bag. Jack Frost also shows up, literally painting frost on windows. Apparently, he's really fond of doing ferns until the Verruca Gnome convinces him to branch out, resulting in pictures like three puppies poking out of a boot appearing in the frost on people's windows.
** And the title character of ''Discworld/{{Wintersmith}}'', and his counterpart the Summer Lady, who bring and end the seasons.