History Main / TheStormbringer

* As you'd expect from the title, the villain of the 8-bit game ''Stormbringer'' has the power to attack using the weather; a cloud follows the player and will strike her with lightning if she stands still for too long.

* ''Franchise/MonsterVerse''. In ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', once [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah Ghidorah]] is awoken, he generates a perpetual hurricane filled with yellow lightning around himself which follows him wherever he goes and gets more powerful the longer he's active. And when Ghidorah takes over as the ruling alpha from Godzilla and leads the Titans toward creating an extinction event, his WeatherManipulation begins spreading offshoot storms around the globe, and it's overall suggested that if Ghidorah hadn't been stopped he would've enveloped the entire planet in endless storms. Only [[spoiler:his death at the hands (and [[WaveMotionGun mouth]]) of Godzilla brings the storm to an end]].

* Rob [=McKenna=], a minor character in ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' franchise, claims that it always rains wherever he goes, and he has a weather journal to prove it. The narration reveals that he's actually a rain god who is completely oblivious to his own divinity, and as such he compels the clouds to "be near him, to love him, to cherish him and to water him."

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* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'': One episode centers around the child ruler of the kingdom of [[PunnyName Quirkistan]], whose mood influences the weather around him. When he's in a good mood, the trope is subverted and the land he rules becomes fertile and sunny. On the contrary, the trope is played straight when someone makes him furious or sad, with downpours and lightning laying waste to the landscape around him.
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* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': a handful of Elder Dragons with mastery over the Wind element have enough power to summon storms, but Amatsugamatsuchi (whose name can be translated as "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Heavenly God of Calamity]]") takes the cake. It lives ''inside'' hurricanes and only its death brings back the sunshine in the wrecked landscape where it's fought. Other notable examples include:
** Kushala Daora, another marginally less-destructive wind manipulator.
** Zorah Magdaros, a monster that completely disrupts the tides in a wide area thanks to a combination of being a living volcanic vent and [[{{Kaiju}} sheer size]].
** Dire Miralis, basically a smaller, hotter Zorah Magdaros that boils the local ocean even when it isn't sinking entire islands.
** Alatreon, which is so elementally unstable it directly screws up the weather for miles around, with far-reaching knock-on effects.

** Garuda, Lady of the Vortex, brings twisters and tornadoes wherever she goes. In fact, the heroes' struggle to reach her lair at all because of the enormous wind storm that would tear apart any airship short of Cid Garlond's ''[[CoolShip Enterprise]]''. The cutscene preceding her fight also has her descending from the sky as the winds pick up around her before the battle opens in the eye of the storm.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': a handful of Elder Dragons with mastery over the Wind element have enough power to summon storms, but Amatsugamatsuchi (whose name can be translated as "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Heavenly God of Calamity]]") takes the take. It lives ''inside'' hurricanes and only its death brings back the sunshine in the wrecked landscape where it's fought. Other notable examples include:

* ''VideoGame/TokyoAfterschoolSummoners'': Chernobog is known as the "Dark Lord of Bald Mountain" for the countless heroes he's slain; once an intruder steps foot on his mountain, they're frozen solid and entombed in ice. Should he leave his mountain's slopes, anyplace goes becomes part of it and engulfed in a terrible blizzard that kills the inhabitants of these places... which is a bit of a problem as he's actually suffering from PowerIncontinence and is a genuinely nice person who's metaphorically trapped by his power as well.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The Storm Sorcery subclass of Sorcerer is this, summoning weather events wherever they go. They can harness these innate abilities for flight, resilience against storms, and even grant these abilities to their allies. They're an invaluable resource to any ship's crew.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': some legendary Pokémon have this ability.

** [[ShockAndAwe Thundurus]] and [[BlowYouAway Tornadus]]. According to their Pokédex entries, the former constantly fires off lightning bolts and leaves nothing but charred remains on his wake, while the latter zooms through the sky so fast it blows away everything in his path. The tails of their Incarnate Forms generate thunderstorms that can be tracked in-game (by land in ''Videogame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' and in Soaring Mode in ''Videogame/PokemonOmegaRubyAndAlphaSapphire''). Their power is further referenced in the [[Videogame/PokemonBlackAndWhite folktale of "the Great Landorus]]", according to which the two Forces of Nature wreaked enough destruction across Unova that their leader, Landorus, had no choice but to stop them.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'': one episode centers around the child ruler of the kingdom of [[PunnyName Quirkistan]], whose mood influences the weather around him. When he's in a good mood, the trope is subverted and the land he rules becomes fertile and sunny. On the contrary, the trope is played straight when someone makes him furios or sad, with downpours and lightning laying waste to the landscape around him.
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* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Juvia always brings rain with her whenever she goes, without any control over it. She has not seen the sun in years. It turns out the perpetual rain was the result of [[spoiler:her feeling lonely and depressed this whole time, and once she becomes friends with the guild it ceases. It starts again after the TimeSkip after Grey -- who she is on love with -- becomes withdrawn himself]].

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':This is [[spoiler:the reason why the land beyond the Wall is perpetually covered in snow]]. The very existence of [[spoiler:the Night King]] keeps the land frozen and devoid of life (except for the [[NightOfTheLivingMooks living dead]]). In the episode "The Long Night", the [[spoiler:Night King uses this ability to disiorent the forces of the living and freeze the trench which was supposed to keep the undead at bay]]. Three season earlier, in the episode "Hardhome", [[spoiler:he starts a surprise attack on the the Wildling settlement by enveloping the outer territory with a thick fog to cover the arrival of his forces]]. Upon [[spoiler:his death]], it is heavily implied his influence starts fading away for good.

* ''VideoGame/ThePathless'': every giant animal that you'll later go on to chase, is surrounded by a firey thunderstorm that can engulf the player. These storms go wherever the animal goes and move along with them.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': a handful of Elder Dragons with mastery over the Wind element have enough power to summon storms, but Amatsugamatsuchi (whose name can be translated as "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Heavenly God of Calamity]]") takes the take. It lives ''inside'' hurricanes and only its death brings back the sunshine in the wrecked landscape where it's fought.

* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Juvia always brings rain with her whenever she goes, without any control over it. She has not seen the sun in years. It turns out the perpetual rain was the result of [[spoiler:her feeling lonely and depressed this whole time, and once she becomes friends with the guild it ceases. It starts again after the TimeSkip after Grey - who she is on love with - becomes withdrawn himself]].

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':This is [[spoiler: the reason why the land beyond the Wall is perpetually covered in snow]]. The very existence of [[spoiler: the Night King]] keeps the land frozen and devoid of life (except for the [[NightOfTheLivingMooks living dead]]). In the episode "The Long Night", the [[spoiler: Night King uses this ability to disiorent the forces of the living and freeze the trench which was supposed to keep the undead at bay]]. Three season earlier, in the episode "Hardhome", [[spoiler: he starts a surprise attack on the the Wildling settlement by enveloping the outer territory with a thick fog to cover the arrival of his forces]]. Upon [[spoiler: his death]], it is heavily implied his influence starts fading away for good.

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* ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated'': The [[TheFlameOfLife Divine Fire]] that animates [[ArtificialHuman Prometheans]] begins to [[WalkingWasteland corrupt the environment]] if they stay too long in one area. Frankensteins cause lightning storms, Galateids cause unnatural calm, and Nepri cause drought, to say nothing of their [[HatePlague effect on humans]].
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Njal Stormcaller passively makes the weather around him get worse every turn, at first slowing movement or reducing visibility until every enemy in range is getting pounded by lightning bolts every turn.

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* Rob [=McKenna=], a minor character in ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' franchise, claims that it always rains wherever he goes, and he has a weather journal to prove it. The narration reveals that he's actually a rain god who is completely oblivious to his own divinity, and as such he compels the clouds to "be near him, to love him, to cherish him and to water him."
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