Basic Trope: Right after everything else goes wrong, it starts raining, too.
- Straight: Alice is running late. Then she gets a flat tire. Then, while she's trying to jack up the car to change it, it begins to rain.
- Exaggerated:
- ...and then hail. And then thunder.
- It was sunny, but now there's a downpour.
- Downplayed:
- It begins to rain, but her car is stopped under a bridge, so it's not raining on her.
- It's only very light rain.
- Justified:
- She was hurrying to get home before it started raining when she had the flat.
- Alice is an avatar of the goddess of weather, which changes according to her mood.
- Inverted:
- Cue the Sun.
- Alice likes the rain, and it starts raining right when everything's going right for Alice.
- It stops raining right when things are going badly.
- After a string of bad luck, Alice bemoans nothing ever goes right for her... only for the sun to come out and stop raining, much to her surprise abd relief.
- Subverted:
- The clouds roll in while Alice is changing the tire, but the rain doesn't start until after she's finished.
- It does rain, but Alice doesn't mind.
- Double Subverted:
- ...however, when Alice gets back in the car, it won't start. And when she gets out to open the hood, the floodgates open.
- But it gets heavier and she starts to mind it.
- Parodied: When she was driving along the road, the sky was completely clear. Right after the flat, when she says, "How could this get worse?", the clouds swoop in with an audible whoosh.
- Zig Zagged:Alice: And right then, it suddenly started raining cats and dogs.
Bob: But you're not wet.
Alice: No, I mean literal cats and dogs. I had to spend ten minutes chivvying them away with the tire iron before I could drive off. - Averted:
- It stays sunny.
- It rains, but not during From Bad to Worse moments.
- Enforced: It started raining during the filming of the scene and the cast and crew just rolled with it.
- Lampshaded:
- "Of course it would start raining now — this is just too perfect!"
- "Really, now?! Rain?!"
- Invoked: Carol's plot required that Alice be annoyed, so she arranged her series of mishaps on a day when rain was forecast.
- Exploited: Daniel's plot required that it remain sunny, so Carol set up Alice to take one for the team.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "What if it rains?"
- Conversed: "So, do you think it's going to start raining now, or do they want to pile a few more disasters on Alice first?"
- Implied: The scene opens as Alice returns to the apartment, wet, muddy and battered.Bob: Hey, you're home late.
Alice: Don't. Even. Start.
Back to Cue the Rain — and don't forget your umbrella!
