History Main / PersonalRainCloud

* There's one of these in the original ''WarioLand'' game. Okay, it's avoidable, and seems to be more the cloud trying to strike Wario with lightning for some malicious reason, but otherwise fits the trope.

* In ''TeenTitans'', Raven's personal rain cloud floods the kitchen!

* Frequently used on ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', as clouds of various sizes are routinely created, destroyed, and activated by pegasi. Inverted in "The Ticket Master" when the pegasus Rainbow Dash tries to get on Twilight Sparkle's good side by making a hole in a looming rain cloud so that it rains on everyone ''except'' her.

* In ''TheMiniavengers'', [[FragileFlower Marion]] has this as her super power.

* ''SuperMarioRPG'' has a variant with Mallow, who's power over the weather [[EmpathicEnvironment causes it to rain when he cries.]]

* Subverted in ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', where a character has rain always follow him, but in this case, it's explained that it's because he's a rain god and doesn't know it, so the rain wants to follow him.

* ''{{Rugrats}}'' used this once. When the kids were all drawing "home movies" about themselves, Chuckie depicted himself and his father like this.

* Inevitable ''{{Discworld}}'' example: Played with in ''Interesting Times''. Rincewind (thanks to a quantum weather butterfly) gets a personal raincloud. Later on, this is upgraded to a personal snowstorm (right in the middle of an actual rain storm). Both cases sort of turn out to his advantage, though; the snow helps Cohen and the Horde find him, and the rain leads to him discovering the real Red Army.

* [[ConversedTrope Conversed]] in ''JustShootMe'', "Nina's Birthday":

* Possible ur-example: Joe Btfsplk from the newspaper strip ''[=~Li'l Abner~=]''.

---> "The concept of a "personal raincloud" that follows someone around probably dates from the "world's worst jinx" character Joe Btfspl in the Al Capp comic strip ''[=~Li'l Abner~=]''. Personal dust clouds or rainclouds have appeared with numerous other characters since then, including Pig-Pen in the ''{{Peanuts}}'' comic strip and the animated Schleprock in ''[[TheFlintstones The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show]]'' (also a terrible jinx). Rain and rainclouds follow the character Rob [=McKenna=] in ''So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish'' by Douglas Adams wherever he goes. A localized rain-and-thundercloud also floats above the rolling home of ''TheAddamsFamily'' in their original Hanna-Barbera animated series."

* Magically generating one of these is actually key to defeating the FinalBoss of ''[[KingsQuest King's Quest V]]''.
* [[SuperMarioBrothers MarioRPG]] has a variant with Mallow, who's power over the weather [[EmpathicEnvironment causes it to rain when he cries.]]

* In ''[[{{Disney/ptitle3if599v0}} The Emperor's New Groove]]'', villainess Yzma and her lackey Kronk get struck by lightning from one of these clouds and fall into a chasm. Their recovery is as quick as it is [[HandWave inexplicable]].

* One strip of ''PearlsBeforeSwine'' featured Rat standing under his PersonalRaincloud; Pig enters, and Rat explains, "Ever have one of those days?" Next day's strip, and Rat is still under the raincloud.[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Pig looks at him, then stands under the cloud with him]], saying, "What are friends for?"

* In the Spirou et Fantasio coming entitled "Spirou à New-York", the leader of the Cosa Nostra (Don Vito "Lucky" Cortizone)is constantly followed around by a stormcloud, because of his unnatural bad luck. Said cloud is shaped like a skull no less.

* Italian comedy/satire film ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071486/ Fantozzi]]'' features the titular character, an office clerk so unlucky that almost always has a raincloud following him when going on vacation! This has become known as "nuvoletta dell'impiegato" ("clerk's cloud" in Italian). Notably, the one time he is lost at sea and lacking water, the raincloud appears and rains... two meters away from the boat.

* Inevitable ''{{Discworld}}'' example: Played with in Interesting Times. Rincewind (thanks to a quantum weather butterfly) gets a personal raincloud. Later on, this is upgraded to a personal snowstorm (right in the middle of an actual rain storm). Both cases sort of turn out to his advantage, though; the snow helps Cohen and the Horde find him, and the rain leads to him discovering the real Red Army.

--> '''Agent K''': It rains ''because'' you're sad baby.

* Inevitable ''DiscWorld'' example: Played with in Interesting Times. Rincewind (thanks to a quantum weather butterfly) gets a personal raincloud. Later on, this is upgraded to a personal snowstorm (right in the middle of an actual rain storm). Both cases sort of turn out to his advantage, though; the snow helps Cohen and the Horde find him, and the rain leads to him discovering the real Red Army.

* In ''TheEmperorsNewGroove'', villainess Yzma and her lackey Kronk get struck by lightning from one of these clouds and fall into a chasm. Their recovery is as quick as it is [[HandWave inexplicable]].

* This often happened to Wellington in the British newspaper strip ''[[http://www.theauthenticperishers.co.uk/ The Perishers]]'', at least in the 1960s. On one occasion he pretended to be depressed and then stood in his rhubarb patch so the cloud would water it (as well as him).