History Main / ThunderEqualsDownpour

* ''VideoGame/AgarestSenki2'' does this trope in full effect at the start of the game.

** Averted in the [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 first movie]], when the storm just completely ''stops'' right after the lightning hits the clocktower. However, it's played straight in the sequels--with the exact same storm.
** Not exactly averted, but weird nonetheless. At the end of the [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII second movie]], the lightning and wind is going nuts, but once the [=DeLorean=] is struck and disappears, the lightning and wind stops, and then it starts to pour. That's one crazy storm.

** Averted in the [[Film/BackToTheFuture first movie]], when the storm just completely ''stops'' right after the lightning hits the clocktower. However, it's played straight in the sequels--with the exact same storm.

** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]": Thunder suddenly rumbles at the end of Paul's funeral which is then followed by torrential rain as Louis de Pointe du Lac walks towards the Fairplay Saloon.

** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]": Thunder suddenly rumbles at the end of Paul's funeral which is then followed by torrential rain as Louis walks towards the Fairplay Saloon.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder the pilot]], there's suddenly thunder and torrential rain when Louis de Pointe du Lac is walking towards the Fairplay Saloon after his brother Paul's funeral.

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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the pilot, there's suddenly thunder and torrential rain when Louis de Pointe du Lac is walking towards the Fairplay Saloon after his brother Paul's funeral.

Some TruthInTelevision is used here; sometimes in real life when a storm arrives, there is wind and soft thunder but no rain, until there's a bright flash of lightning and loud thunderclap, and the rain starts as a downpour. An incoming storm may also bring a rapid increase in the density of the rainfall, starting as mere drizzle before the storm to a full-scale deluge afterwards. This isn't common in real life as it is in the media, though; most of the time, the rain comes first, ''then'' the thunder.

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* In ''Film/TheFriscoKid'', after Rabbi Avram tells a skeptical Native American chief that the Abrahamic God can do anything, "but he does not. Make. Rain.", there's a thunderclap and a downpour.
* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'', at Helm's Deep, just before the battle is engaged, the two armies face each other... and you hear thunder, there are a couple of raindrops on armor, then the downpour begins. Théoden is very not happy about it; some of the movie's extra material implies that the storm was raised by Saruman for the specific purpose of demoralizing the Rohirrim.
* Used for dramatic effect in ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'', when Giselle comes to the Real World for the first time. After being completely lost and having her tiara stolen by a homeless guy, she stands helplessly in the middle of the street, hears thunder, and gets poured on from above.
* ''Film/TheTrumanShow'': When Truman is sitting on the beach reminiscing, there is a clap of thunder and it begins to rain, but ''only'' where he is sitting. He walks three feet before turning around in shock to see the small column of rain as it follows him.

* ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''
** Averted in the [[Film/BackToTheFuture first movie]], when the storm just completely ''stops'' right after the lightning hits the clocktower. However, it's played straight in the sequels--with the exact same storm.
** Not exactly averted, but weird nonetheless. At the end of the [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII second movie]], the lightning and wind is going nuts, but once the [=DeLorean=] is struck and disappears, the lightning and wind stops, and then it starts to pour. That's one crazy storm.

** Averted earlier in the movie when thunder strikes whenever a certain characters name is mentioned, but there is never any rain.
* In ''Film/{{Sunrise}}'', a hurricane comes out of nowhere.
* In ''Film/ThreeTenToYuma1957'', just as Wade and Evans are about to go on the climactic walk to the train with Evans's gang lying in wait, cracks of lightning and rolling thunder are heard. Eventually, the downpour comes—the rain that Evans the cattle rancher has been desperately waiting for, that he needs to save his herd, coming after three years of drought.
* ''Film/JurassicPark'': Starts with a flash of lightning and the obligatory rumble of thunder during the sick Triceratops scene then cuts to a torrential downpour and waves battering the shoreline. Justified, since this is an approaching tropical storm.

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* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' graphic novel ''Beyond the Code'', there's a couple of clouds in the sky as the full moon shines down on the Gathering. The cats comment how the drought might end since the the weather's cooler. An argument starts, and one cat runs away in anger. There's a flash of lightning and a KABOOM, and it's a downpour. Enough of a downpour to actually create a flood that fills [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110820222507/warriors/images/thumb/a/ad/SkyClan_Map.jpg/755px-SkyClan_Map.jpg this gorge]] to just a few feet below the clifftops.
* In Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''Literature/TheMonsterMen'', after the attack, this happens.

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* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' - Happens a lot.

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* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': An arc where Calvin and his family go camping begins this way. Calvin's parents paddle to the island where they set up camp, only for the trip across to be interrupted by a thunderclap. It then rains for the duration of their excursion.

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* During the summer camping trip arc of ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo''. Sandra, Cloud, Larisa, and the camp counselor were canoeing when this happened. The counselor immediately asked who wanted to abort their boating trip and go back to the cabin to watch ''Creator/{{Pixar}}'' movies on his laptop. The kids unanimously agreed.

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' - Happens a lot.

--> '''Jane:''' [[TemptingFate It can't get any worse]], can it? \\

--> '''Jane:''' [TemptingFate It can't get any worse]], can it? \\

--> '''Jane:''' I'm in a tree with a man who talks to monkeys!\\
''(after she gets stuck between two branches)'' \\
'''Jane:''' [[TemptingFate It can't get any worse]], can it? \\

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* Happens in ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'', though with at least ominous clouds beforehand for a second or two.

-->''Of a sudden there was a sad, low moaning through the surrounding trees; dense, black clouds obscured the radiant moon; and then with hideous thunder and vivid flashes of lightning the tempest broke in all its fury of lashing wind and hurtling deluge. It was the first great storm of the breaking up of the monsoon, ''

* {{Lost}} - Happens a lot.

Some TruthInTelevision is used here; sometimes in real life when a storm arrives, there is wind and soft thunder but no rain, until there's a bright flash of lightning and loud thunderclap, and the rain starts as a downpour. An incoming storm may also bring a rapid increase in the density of the rainfall, starting as mere drizzle before the storm to a full-scale deluge afterwards. This isn't common in real life as it is in the media, though.

Some TruthInTelevision is used here; sometimes in real life when a storm arrives, there is wind and soft thunder but no rain, until there's a bright flash of lightning and loud thunderclap, and the rain starts as a downpour. This isn't common in real life as it is in the media, though.

* ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'': When Jane is stuck in the treetops with Tarzan:

* When Emperor Kuzco is left alone in the forest in ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', this happens.

-->-- Music/BobSeger, ''Night Moves''

* In ''Film/TheTwoTowers'', at Helm's Deep, just before the battle is engaged, the two armies face each other... and you hear thunder, there are a couple of raindrops on armor, then the downpour begins. Théoden is very not happy about it; some of the movie's extra material implies that the storm was raised by Saruman for the specific purpose of demoralizing the Rohirrim.