History Main / Cumulonemesis

** ''VideoGame/WarioLandSuperMarioLand3'' has a thundercloud named Pikkarikun that follows Wario throughout certain levels and tries to blast him with lightning bolts. Throwing enemies under his lightning rewards you with 10 coins, making the little jerk a rather profitable source of income.

* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa:'' "[[Recap/KirbyRightBackAtYaS1E4ADarkAndStormKnight A Dark and Stormy Knight]]" has King [=DeDeDe=] order Kracko from Nightmare Enterprises, arguably the biggest singular monster in the series.

* ''Series/Loki2021'' has [[spoiler:Alioth, a gigantic cloud monster at the "end of Time" that devours all matter sent there by the [[TimePolice TVA]]]].

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros series'' has ''plenty'' of these:

* ''VideoGame/WarioLandSuperMarioLand3'' has a thundercloud named Pikkarikun that follows Wario throughout certain levels and tries to blast him with lightning bolts. Throwing enemies under his lightning rewards you with 10 coins, making the little jerk a rather profitable source of income.

* ''Webcomic/Aurora2019'': Tynan, a storm god, began life as a living, roving storm, and technically that's precisely what he is now -- his humanoid body is simply a form he creates to interact with the world -- and is profoundly malicious in nature, using his rain, winds and lightning to spread death and destruction in order to create fear and despair to feed on.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': In "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E5NothingToFear Nothing to Fear]]", Magica [=DeSpell=] summons an evil cloud over the [=McDuck=] manor that brings the heroes' worst fears to life. After Scrooge and his nephews overcome their fear, the cloud turns against Magica instead (her worst fear) and chases her away, repeatedly zapping her with lightning.

* ''Anime/KirbyRighrBackAtYa:'' "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/KirbyRightBackAtYaS1E4ADarkAndStormKnight A Dark and Stormy Knight]]" has King Dedede order Kracko from Nightmare Enterprises, arguably the biggest singular monster in the series.

->''"I am Tynan, the Storm of Terror! I am the wind that tears down your homes! I am the rain that drowns your fields and starves your children! The thunder that shatters your sky! You think you can FIGHT me?! You cannot even SURVIVE me!"''
-->-- '''Tynan''', ''Webcomic/Aurora2019''

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* The first teaser poster and a recurring image in the marketing for ''Film/{{Nope}}'' is a single dark cloud, with a string of flags somehow dangling from it. [[spoiler:It's where Jean Jacket hides between meals.]]

* [[Literature/{{Xanth}} In the world of Xanth]], King Cumulo Fracto Nimbus is a sentient storm who first appeared in book 4, ''Centaur Aisle'', and has appeared a number of times since then, usually as an obstacle for the main characters to overcome. He was eventually revealed to be a demon who stayed dematerialized a little too long and lost the ability to retake solid form. Now he's stuck in the shape of a thunderstorm cloud and drifts here and there with the wind, looking for people and events to rain on and ruin.

* In ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'', the [[TheFairFolk True Fae]] Nergal is the ElementalEmbodiment of the storms, and claims to be every storm in the LandOfFaerie at once -- which could even be true. As for his disposition, he's more commonly known as ''The Raging One''.

* The Revolution stage of the NES ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'' has some clouds that blow deadly poison gas. Larger ones, which dwell at the edge of the screen and can't be attacked, will blow you right off the tower if you haven't grabbed onto a pole.

** An inversion in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'': Madame Flurrie, implied to be a female Ruff Puff, is a wind spirit whose body seems to be made of clouds. She is one of Mario's partners in his fight against the X-Nauts.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': In the episode "Cloud, Cloud, Go Away," Tigger insults and throws a rock at a cloud that got in his way, but the cloud turns out to be sapient and starts following him everywhere to [[PersonalRaincloud rain only on him]] until Tigger apologizes. It also is able to shoot lightning and make snow and rainbows.

* Cloudy Jay (CJ) of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' is a talking cloud with a humanoid shape. She's nice enough, but she's got a temper. When pushed too far, she'll form into a proper storm cloud and start doling out horrible weather.
* A human variant featured detectives ''WesternAnimation/SnooperAndBlabber'' facing Nimble Nimbus, a villain who uses self-created clouds in his schemes and getaways.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'': The episode "One of Our Planets Is Missing" has the ''Enterprise'' encounter a giant space cloud that can devour planets whole. The cloud is able to snag the ''Enterprise'' with tendrils and pull the vessel inside itself. There, the crew discover the cloud has chunks of antimatter that act as teeth to break apart planets and other matter, and receptors that function as villi, absorbing the energy produced by the matter + antimatter annihilations. The cloud also has the equivalent of a cerebral cortex, and Mister Spock is able to communicate with the cloud telepathically. It's discovered that the intelligent cloud isn't malicious, just hungry after a long journey, and planets happen to be its normal diet.

->''"Great clouds roll over the hills, bringing darkness from above."''
-->-- '''Music/{{Bastille}}''', "Pompeii"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': In the episode "Cloud, Cloud, Go Away," Tiger insults and throws a rock at a cloud that got in his way, but the cloud turns out to be sapient and starts following him everywhere to [[PersonalRaincloud rain only on him]] until Tiger apologizes. It also is able to shoot lightning and make snow and rainbows.

Such enemies typically attack with [[BlowYouAway strong gusts of wind]], [[AnIcePerson ice, snow]], and [[ShockAndAwe lightning]], and may be able to [[AsteroidsMonster split into smaller clouds]] and merge into larger ones. They frequently appear in a LevelInTheClouds, often with [[SolidClouds solid cloud platforms]]. Sometimes [[AirborneArtillery their range downright prevents you from retaliating without taking a beating]]. Also, being {{Animate Inanimate Object}}s, expect them to have a face quite often. See also ElementalEmbodiment. If a PersonalRaincloud has its own violition, and wants to ''keep'' its owner in a bad mood, it probably overlaps with this. Many of them have to be {{solid|clouds}} in order for the heroes to attack them.

* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': The anime-only Cloud Clow Card. She is depicted as a small child with puffy hair that resembles clouds, and is able to create and manipulate clouds. While not necessarily a 'nemesis', Sakura and Syaoran have to capture her and transform her back into a card as part of their mission (and the anime's premise).

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Big Mom has a minion in the form of a cloud named Zeus, which has been empowered by a piece of her own soul. It turns into a thunder cloud when it attacks, dispensing bolts of lightning. [[spoiler:Nami ends up nabbing him, and her control of him eventually becomes permanent after Big Mom is finally defeated]].

* ''Comicbook/TheBeano'': Calamity James's PersonalRaincloud is sometimes presented as sentient and working to keep him unlucky. On very rare occasions it will help him; for instance one strip ends with him having to WorkOfTheDebt at a restaurant: the cloud washes the dishes and he dries them.

* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'': Cumulus is small recurring antagonist who, due to losing a job opportunity after [[ThePigPen Smudge]] accidentally gets him dirty with mud when playing soccer, uses a potion he made to turn himself into a sentient humanoid cloud in order get his revenge by wetting the boy with rain. Unfortunately for him, something as simple as Smudge turning on a ventilator managed to defeat him in his first appearance. He makes returns and gets [[CerebusSyndrome more serious]] in the teenage spin-off, however.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheUglyDuckling'': The Winds of Winter are a trio of malicious snow-laden clouds with trollish humanoid faces, who come with winter and scour the land with freezing winds, snow and icy gales.

* The first teaser poster and a recurring image in the marketing for ''Film/{{Nope}}'' is a single dark cloud, with string of flags somehow dangling from it. [[spoiler:It's where Jean Jacket hides between meals.]]

* [[Literature/{{Xanth}} In the world of Xanth]], King Cumulo Fracto Nimbus is a sentient storm who first appeared in book 4, ''Centaur Aisle'', and has appeared a number of times since then, usually as an obstacle for the main characters to overcome. He was eventually revealed to be a demon who stayed dematerialized a little too long, and lost the ability to retake solid form. Now he's stuck in the shape of a thunderstorm-cloud and drifts here and there with the wind, looking for people and events to rain on and ruin.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': The Yozi known as Hegra, the Typhoon of Nightmares, takes the form on an immense living storm that stalks through Malfeas on legs of lightning. She brings with her rain made from the condensed dreams of Creation's sleepers and is one of the few things that can block out the green sun that burns eternally in the Demon City's sky. Her thunder is the loudest sound in Malfeas, and one of the very few things that reliably keeps Adorjan the Silent Wind away. As Adorjan kills everything she touches, demons are very fond of Hegra and rejoice at her passage.

* ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen -- Secret of the Oracle'' features one of these[[note]]They are not given an official name in the game itself, but are referred to as "thundercloud" on the Keen wiki[[/note]]. Initially, they look just like the other clouds in the game, but when Keen walks past them they open their eyes and begin to chase him, trying to strike him with lightning. They are immune to Keen's neural stunner, but Keen can easily outrun them and even if they catch up, it takes a few seconds for them to unleash their lightning.

* ''Franchise/DragonQuest'' has recurring cloud enemies, such as the Cumaulus, the Freezing Fog and the Hell Nino, that can do a lot of damage to unsuspecting players thanks to their multi-hit or paralyzing attacks.

* ''VideoGame/IgglePop'': One of the basic [[AdorableEvilMinion Zoogs]] is little more that a purple cloud with two oversized, angry eyes.

** Kracko is a recurring cloud boss with a single eye and yellow spikes that made its debut in [[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand the very first Kirby game]] and appeared in nearly every subsequent Kirby platformer. According to ''VideoGame/KirbyFightersDeluxe'', the "nemesis" part of the trope is true in more than one sense. The reason why Kracko appears so often is because ItCanThink, and it has a serious grudge against Kirby that only grows with each subsequent game. [[spoiler:Kracko's grudge seemingly culminates in ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'' when Kirby fights against [[AlternateSelf Parallel bosses]] that were [[TheHeartless born from the originals' hatred]]. Parallel Kracko is among them, and he's [[ThatOneBoss one of the most dangerous]].]]
** ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand'' also features a regular cloud enemy with glasses named Puffy. It is a dangerous foe that swoops down on Kirby, fires bullets and moves at high speeds.

* ''VideoGame/MeanSanta'': One of the enemies that can attack [[PlayerCharacter Santa]] in-between houses is angry-eyed clouds who shots bolts of lightening to the ground.

* ''VideoGame/Portal2'': has the mentioned but never seen Sentient Cloud, which has conquered Earth in one of the parallel universes in the perpetual testing initiative. It hates getting its picture taken, and is able to leech off peoples' skin.

** ''VideoGame/MarioKartWii'' introduces the Thundercloud item, a smiling grey cloud that ominously looms above the player for a short time before zapping them, shriking them just like the regular Lightning item. The player therefore has to bump into other racers to transfer the vaporous threat to them. However, it has the redeeming effect of significantly increasing the player's speed before striking them.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand'': Biokinton, the second-to-last boss, resemble a large cloud with dot eyes and fights by tossing birds at Mario. The game manual, notably, claims that he isn't actually a cloud -- rather, he's a very shy being who hides ''behind'' a cloud and has never actually been seen.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'': The Subspace Army includes the Spaaks, bizarre cloud enemies with clenched teeth and [[RedEyesTakeWarning beady red eyes]] that have dynamos on their back. The more they are hit, the more black, electrified and damaging they get.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Masami is a living cloud. Usually she's just a SpoiledBrat, and looks like a little, white cumulus. In the climax of "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E27TheStorm The Storm]]", she goes on a violent, [[WeatherManipulation weather-based rampage]] during which [[GameFace she changes to a darker storm cloud]] with sparks and GlowingEyesOfDoom.

* ''WesternAnimation/HappyHarmonies'': Old Man Winter from "To Spring", who is personified as a giant snow cloud with a face, beard and arms, who uses his strong wintery gale to keep the protagonists, a colony of underground dwarfs, from bringing back spring by using their underground weather factory to melt winter away.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'' has Weather Spirits, which are essentially sentient clouds with control over rain, wind and snow. Normally, when left on their own, they are harmless, but if they run into one another you can expect a fierce argument, resulting in storms.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': In the episode ""Cloud, Cloud, Go Away," Tiger insults and throws a rock at a cloud that got in his way, but the cloud turns out to be sapient and starts following him everywhere to [[PersonalRaincloud rain only on him]] until Tiger apologizes. It also it able to shoot lightning and make snow and rainbows.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'': The episode "One of Our Planets Is Missing" has the ''Enterprise'' encounter a giant space cloud that can devour planets whole. The cloud is able to snag the ''Enterprise'' with tendrils, and pull the vessel inside itself. There, the crew discover the cloud has chunks of antimatter that act as teeth to break apart planets and other matter, and receptors that function as villi, absorbing the energy produced by the matter + antimatter annihiliations. The cloud also has an equivalent of a cerebral cortex, and Mister Spock is able to communicate with the cloud telepathically. It's discovered that the intelligent cloud isn't malicious, just hungry after a long journey, and planets happen to be its normal diet.

* ''WesternAnimation/FraidyCat'': Whenever the titular cat says a number from 1 to 8, a ghost of one of his previous lives would appear, and saying the number 9 (his current life) summons a small cloud that chases him and tries to kill him with lighting. While the ghosts can be helpful from time to time, the cloud is always evil towards Fraidy.

* The first teaser poster and a recurring image in the marketing for ''Film/{{Nope}}'' is a single dark cloud, with string of flags somehow dangling from it. [[spoiler: Its where Jean Jacket hides between meals.]]

* ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'': Subverted with the Bomb Flier enemies. They look like clouds with eyes and a propeller on their backs, but shooting them dissipates the cloud to reveal a giant bullet.

->''"Grey clouds roll over the hills, bringing darkness from above."''

Such enemies typically attack with [[BlowYouAway strong gusts of wind]], [[AnIcePerson ice, snow]], and [[ShockAndAwe lightning]], and may be able to [[AsteroidsMonster split into smaller clouds]] and merge into larger ones. They frequently appear in a LevelInTheClouds, often with [[SolidClouds solid cloud platforms]]. Sometimes [[AirborneArtillery their range downright prevents you from retaliating without taking a beating]]. Also, being [[AnimateInanimateObject Animate Inanimate Objects]], expect them to have a face quite often. See also ElementalEmbodiment. If a PersonalRaincloud has its own violition, and wants to ''keep'' its owner in a bad mood, it probably overlaps with this. Many of them have to be {{solid|clouds}} in order for the heroes to attack them.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' has the optional boss Mokura, a green poisonous cloud that occasionally spawns in Land's End. Initially, Mokura appears as the invisible "Formless," which can only be damaged by special attacks, but after having its HP whittled down enough, it becomes visible and changes its stats so that it's weak against physical attacks and resistant (though not immune) to special ones.

Such enemies typically attack with [[BlowYouAway strong gusts of wind]], [[AnIcePerson ice, snow]], and [[ShockAndAwe lightning]], and may be able to [[AsteroidsMonster split into smaller clouds]] and merge into larger ones. They frequently appear in a LevelInTheClouds, often with [[SolidClouds solid cloud platforms]]. Sometimes [[AirborneArtillery their range downright prevents you from retaliating without taking a beating]]. Also, being [[AnimateInanimateObject Animate Inanimate Objects]], expect them to have a face quite often. See also ElementalEmbodiment. Many of them have to be {{solid|clouds}} in order for the heroes to attack them.

* The first teaser poster and a recurring image in the marketing for ''Film/Nope'' is a single dark cloud, with string of flags somehow dangling from it. [[spoiler: Its where Jean Jacket hides between meals.]]

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Big Mom has a minion in the form of a cloud named Zeus, which has been empowered by a piece of her own soul. It turns into a thunder cloud when it attacks, dispensing bolts of lightning. [[spoiler:Nami eventually ends up nabbing him, and her control of him eventually becomes permanent after Big Mom is finally defeated]].

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Big Mom has a minion in the form of a cloud named Zeus. It turns into a thunder cloud when it attacks. [[spoiler:For a period of time Nami was able to steal him and made him her slave with clouds from her Thunder Tempo before Big Mom took him back]].