Basic Trope: In a Cyberpunk setting, weather is always lousy.
- Straight: Megapolis-Two is a City Noir 20 Minutes into the Future, and throughout the story, it's either raining or overcast.
- Exaggerated: Megapolis-Two is a cyberpunk City Planet... and on the entire planet, it's always raining or overcast.
- Downplayed: Megapolis-Two is a cyberpunk town, and it often, but not always, rains.
- Justified:
- Megapolis-Two is a coastal city in the tropics, and the story takes place during the wet season.
- Heavy air and light pollution make the sky seem constantly overcast even when it isn't.
- Megapolis-Two is a very power hungry city powered by nuclear power plants. The sheer amount of steam released means that even if the city was placed in in a desert by a cooler coast which pushes precipitation away, it would still rain multiple times a day just from evaporation saturation.
- Megalopolis-Two is located in England, The Other Rainforest, or some other place where rainy days are very common.
- Inverted: Megapolis-Two is one of the few oases of civilization in a post-nuclear desert, and procuring water is one of the biggest problems in the setting.
- Megapolis-Two always has cheerful weather in sharp contrast to the Crapsack World around it.
- Subverted: The protagonists arrive to Megapolis-Two from off-world, see the thick rain cover over the city, and presume it always rains there... but when they wake up next morning, it's a cloudless spring day with only a light hint of smog.
- Double Subverted: Then it turns our they were dreaming/viewing a simulation displayed by computerized windows, and it's still raining outside.
- Parodied: Megapolis-Two is infamous for getting lots of rain... and since it's populated entirely by Cat Folk, it's perpetually a matter of anger and complaints.
- The constant rain is a result of a MegaCorp using WeatherControlMachines simply to sell more umbrellas - disregarding the fact there are way more profitable uses of it.
- A drought ridden country decides to build a gritty concrete city by their reservoirs. Illogically this works better than anything else to solve their drought as they suddenly get the climate of London.
- Zig Zagged: The authorities of Megapolis-Two have built and maintain weather-control towers so that they can alter the weather to whatever is expedient at the moment, or hold auctions on preferred weather patterns.
- Averted: Megapolis-Two, despite being a cyberpunk City Noir, gets all sorts of weather, including pleasant sunny days.
- Enforced:
- The writer wants to make a point about climate change, and the hot, humid weather is meant to reflect it.
- The film's director deliberately Homages Film Noir in the story, which means that constant rain is a necessary aesthetic convention.
- The film director has it this way simply because of the Scenery Porn factor.
- Lampshaded: "Let me guess: the weather forecast is rain, rain, and more rain."
- Invoked: Megapolis-Two authorities construct a Weather-Control Machine to drench the city in perpetual rain for reasons only they know.
- Exploited: Corporate agents operating in the city use the rain to mask the evidence of their deeds.
- Defied: Megapolis-Two authorities build a dome over the city, preventing it from getting flooded by torrential rains.
- Discussed: "So here's our new mission invoice... "Infiltration job, Megapolis-Two. Bring umbrellas." Is that some sort of code phrase?" "Well, actually, when you get down to it... no."
- Conversed: "Another cyberpunk movie, another perpetually rainy city. Why do the writers think weather will suck in the future?" "I can think of at least two reasons..."
- Implied: The story itself happens in a less-rainy locale, but one of the characters has just moved there from Megapolis-Two, and can't stop complaining about how bad the weather was.
- Deconstructed: With the perpetual rainy weather, the city authorities have their hands full managing storm drains and averting No Waterproofing in the Future. The resulting wear on the equipment costs Mega Corps a fortune in maintenance costs, and some technologies (like printed solar panels) prove to be remarkably useless in such climate.
- Reconstructed: Same as above, but the abundance of water means that hydro power plants fed by storm drains and rooftop farming are thriving industries in Megapolis-Two, which allows it to be more self-sufficient than megapolises in snowy or arid climates. And part of the costs spent on waterproofing things is returned by not having to spend money on washing things.
- Played For Laughs: An agent for FletcherCorp jumps out a skyscraper window to evade pursuers after a failed break-in attempt, gets hit by freight drones and transport tubes on the way down, lands in the trash, mutters that it can't possibly get any worse... aaaaaaaand Cue the Rain.
- Played For Drama: As the protagonist desperately tries to stand up to the corporations who screwed him over, Gray Rain of Depression and Battle in the Rain get showcased for all their worth.
And today's forecast is Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain
