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* Played with in ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' FightingGame ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'', where characters begin manifesting localized weather that represents a poetic interpretation of their personality.

* The infamous sex scene of ''Jason's Lyric''. When the titular characters start having sex in the bayou, they roll over on a grassy ground. When they're getting intense, the ground magically turns into a flower field; reflecting their blooming love and unbridled passion (before it turns back to grassy again, despite they keep going until the sun sets).

* The infamous sex scene of ''Jason's Lyric''. When the titular characters start having sex in the bayou, they roll around on a grassy ground. When they're getting intense, the ground magically turns into a flower field; reflecting their blooming love and unbridled passion (before it turns back to grassy again, despite they keep going until the sun sets).

* The infamous sex scene in ''Jason's Lyric''. When the titular characters start having sex in the bayou, they roll around on a grassy ground. When they're getting intense, the ground magically turns into a flower field; reflecting their blooming love and unbridled passion (before it turns back to grassy again, despite they keep going until the sun sets).

* In ''Jason's Lyric'', when the titular characters start having sex in the bayou, they roll around in a grassy ground. When they're getting intense, the ground magically turns into a flower field; reflecting their blooming love and unbridled passion (before it turns back to grassy again, despite they keep going until the sun sets).

* In ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'': When Madeleine just got dumped by her secret lover, Dakota, rain immediately starts pouring down.

* In ''Jason's Lyric'', when the titular characters start having sex in the bayou, they roll around in a grassy ground. When they're getting intense and more passionate, the ground magically turns into a flower field; reflecting their blooming love and unbridled passion (before it turns back to grassy again, despite they keep going until the sun sets).

* In ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' (with Ed Norton), right as Betty gets knocked out by a helicopter crash, it starts raining.

* In ''Jason's Lyric'', when the titular characters start having sex in the bayou, they roll around in a grassy ground. When they're getting more intense and passionate, the ground magically turns into a flower field; reflecting their blooming love and unbridled passion (before it turns back to grassy again, despite they keep going until the sun sets).

* In ''Jason's Lyric'', when the titular characters start having sex in the bayou, they roll around in a grassland. When they're getting more intense and passionate, suddenly it magically turns into a flower field, before it turns back to grassland again.

* In ''Jason's Lyric'', when the titular characters start having sex in the bayou, they roll around in a grassland. When they're getting more intense passionate, suddenly it magically turns into a flower field, before it turns back to grassland again.

* Roy Batty's famous death scene in ''Film/BladeRunner''. For most of the movie, it's always night time in Los Angeles of 2019, the city is appropriately dark, grimy and rainy for a {{Cyberpunk}} setting. However, after Roy Batty's moving death speech, the clouds break open overhead and the rain stops, and the dove flies up into sunlight.

* Roy Batty's famous death scene in ''Film/BladeRunner''. For most of the movie (a.k.a. the Director's Cut; let's [[FanonDisContinuity ignore]] the kitschy tacked-on happy ending of the cinematic version), it's always night time in Los Angeles of 2019, the city is appropriately dark, grimy and rainy for a CyberPunk setting. However, after Roy Batty's moving death speech, the clouds break open overhead and the rain stops, and the dove flies up into sunlight.

* ''Film/SomeCameRunning'': When Dave takes Gwen into a passionate embrace in a cabin, the lighting goes dark for no reason at all.
* In ''[[Film/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher1928France The Fall of the House of Usher]]'', an epic thunderstorm arrives at the Usher mansion on the night that BuriedAlive Madeline rises from her tomb.
* In silent film ''Film/AFoolThereWas'', right after Schuyler leaves the house for his fateful trip that eventually lead to a very foolish affair that will utterly destroy him, the sky darkens and a thunderstorm breaks out.
--> "[[{{Anvilicious}} Storm and darkness! Is it an omen?]]

* When Kotpun's mother dies in ''Film/TheFlowerGirl'', the heavens let loose with a thunderstorm.

* Occurs in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'', as a thunderstorm and maelstrom form during the battle between ''The Black Pearl'' and ''The Flying Dutchman''. Justified, because the sea-goddess Calypso had been freed from her human shell immediately beforehand, and everyone was expecting her to be angry over her imprisonment.
** Lampshaded when a character observes "have you noticed on top of everything else, it's raining?"
* Popular in the {{Western}} genre, particularly ''Film/TheProposition''.

* Roy Batty's famous death scene in ''Film/BladeRunner''. For most of the movie (a.k.a. the Director's Cut; let's [[FanonDisContinuity ignore]] the kitschy tacked-on happy ending of the cinematic version), it's always night time in Los Angeles of 2019, the city is appropriately dark, grimy and rainy for a CyberPunk setting. However, after Roy Batty's moving death speech, the clouds break open overhead and the rain stops, and the dove flies up into sunlight.
* In ''Film/{{Shane}}'', during the confrontation between Shane and Star is a perfect example of this trope -- and all done without any special effects.
* In the film ''Film/MasterAndCommander'', as soon as Captain Aubrey finishes the ceremony to bury DrivenToSuicide Midshipman Hollom at sea, which concludes with asking both God and Hollom for forgiveness, the wind picks up and the ship can finally get going again.
* Justified in ''Film/TheMatrix'', where the final fight takes place in [[{{Cyberspace}} the Matrix]] taken over by [[TheVirus Agent Smith]], under a torrential, [[MoodLighting green-filtered]] thunderstorm. Once Agent Smith is destroyed, cue the Mega City awakening in a shiny, colorful dawn, painted by one of the resident "free programs".
* In ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' (with Ed Norton), right as Betty gets knocked out by a helicopter crash, it starts raining.

* When Rob is dumped by Charlie in the film version of ''Film/HighFidelity,'' he falls apart, and the weather matches his breakdown with heavy rain and thunder.
* The lights in the Facebook office in ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'' began to go out when Mark [[spoiler: found out about Sean's arrest.]]

* ''Film/MrAndMrsSmith2005''. We're shown in a flashback how the protagonists first fell in love. [[DramaticThunder Thunder sounds]] when things start heating up between the protagonists during their MatingDance.
* The films in the ''Film/{{Pusher}}'' trilogy start in light settings, usually in the morning, when the protagonist still has a relatively bright life to live. They then end in the dead of night, with the climax of the film usually in a place with little lighting and deep shadows, when everything has gone to hell.
* In ''Film/PacificRim'', the weather is grey and nasty through the entire film and gets worse as things look worse for mankind, but once the good guys score a decisive victory, the next time we get a look up, the sky is blue.
* In ''Film/HeartAndSouls'', it immediately starts to rain on Julia and Thomas [[spoiler: when she discovers her long-lost fiancé John died years before her arrival.]]
* Inverted with ''Film/DoctorZhivago''. All the scenes of war and despair are shot in beautiful light and scenery (for example, [[spoiler: the scene where they shoot soldiers who turn out to be teenage students at a military school]]) while the love scenes are shot in really depressing settings.

* When the bandits start going ''too'' far in ''Film/{{Purgatory}}'', there are rainstorms and tremors.
* ''Film/AprilShowers'': When [[spoiler:Sean finds out April died in the school shooting]], the next scene shows that it has started raining.
* ''Film/BodyHeat'': The film takes place during an especially hot Florida summer, setting the perfect scenery for a plot centered around sexual desire for a woman leading a man to his doom.
* Throughout ''Film/TheOthers2001'', the weather is gray, cloudy and incredibly foggy. At the conclusion, it's bright and sunny. [[spoiler: While this is mostly because we're now seeing things from the living person's point of view (the foggy weather represented the land of the dead), it's also possible that it represents the ghostly characters' acceptance of their situation.]]
* ''Film/LongWeekend'': As Peter and Marcia's efforts to salvage their marriage implode (leading them to take out their frustrations on nearby flora and fauna), their environmental surroundings become more hostile and inhospitable as well.

* In the Creator/NicholasSparks film ''Film/TheChoice'', the heroine awakens from a coma the morning after a hurricane strikes, her recovery coinciding with the storm abating and the sun coming out.

* Played with in ''Fanfic/APosseAdEsse'; rather than the whole environment, Dolly's superpower involves only the air or ground in a select radius around her changing to fit her mood. Played conventionally straight in Chapter 8 when Kroko is alone, when the sky is beset by rainclouds just minutes after he had an aquaphobic scare.

* Throughout ''Film/TheOthers'', the weather is gray, cloudy and incredibly foggy. At the conclusion, it's bright and sunny. [[spoiler: While this is mostly because we're now seeing things from the living persons point of view (the foggy weather represented the land of the dead), it's also possible that it represents the ghostly characters acceptance of their situation]]

* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob:'' Galatea experiences her [[VillainousBreakdown lowest emotional point]] and [[PowerOfLove eventual redemption]] while caught outside [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20080902.html in the rain at night.]]

** Lampshaded by Marv the Pumpkinhead when he says "And here comes the rain, right on cue."

* In the Creator/NicholasSparks film ''Film/TheChoice'', the heroine awakens froFim a coma the morning after a hurricane strikes, her recovery coinciding with the storm abating and the sun coming out.