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Umbrellas Are Lightning Rods
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We all know that lightning is electricity, and electricity runs easily through metal. And since the shafts of umbrellas are usually metal, it follows logically that lightning likes to strike umbrellas! Generally Played for Laughs, it's rare that any lasting injury happens to a character who has this happen to them; apart from the usual effects of such slapstick humor, usually the worst that happens to the character is that their umbrella gets ruined, and they get cold and wet, when in reality, lightning kills or seriously injures people. There's a certain amount of irony in this trope: you carry an umbrella to protect yourself from the fury of a storm, and when this happens, it's as if the storm is invoking Improvised Lightning Rod on your umbrella to punish you for the audacity to think you have the right to stay dry! As far as Truth in Television goes, storms are miles wide and miles high, and when you take that sense of scale into account, having a meter-long-at-most piece of metal in your hands isn't going to have an appreciable effect on the storm's target selection. That being said, the way you keep yourself safe from lightning is to not be outdoors during a lightning storm in the first place. This is a very specific form of Hostile Weather and often overlaps with Harmless Electrocution. See also: Bolt of Divine Retribution, Improvised Lightning Rod. Note: If an umbrella literally has a lightning rod built in, that either implies this trope by saying lightning hits umbrellas often enough for a lightning-rod feature to be needed, or else it invokes the trope if one or more characters actually want lightning to hit the umbrella. If lightning actually hits the umbrella, then it's this trope played straight. |
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Deponia: Invoked in the Chaos on Deponia sequel where Rufus must trick Goal into holding an umbrella, among other lightning-unsafe activities such as standing in a wading pool, so that she'll be struck by lightning and he can climb a communications tower without being struck himself. | |
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In the Looney Tunes short "Porky's Badtime Story" (and its color remake "Tick Tock Tuckered"), Gabby Goat (Daffy Duck in the remake) is disturbed by a leak in the roof, so he opens an umbrella. Porky Pig warns him that it's bad luck to open an umbrella indoors, which Gabby/Daffy scoffs at. Then a lightning bolt enters the house and strikes the umbrella. | |
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Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown: Snoopy carries an umbrella in a thunderstorm. He gets hit by lightning twice, once on his nose when he sticks his nose out the window, and then the second time hitting his umbrella and vaproizing the waterproof webbing. | |
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The SCP Foundation has SCP-512, an umbrella that negates gravity above it when opened. As a side effect it highly ionizes the air within this area of effect, generating massive lightning strikes along that column, remaining undamaged but fatally electrocuting anyone holding it. | |
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In one Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner short, one of Wile E.'s plans to catch the Road Runner is to disguise a lightning rod as a female road runner so he'll be struck by lightning. This being Wile E. Coyote, the ensuing lightning bolt makes a sudden 90 degree turn from the lightning rod to hit the umbrella he was holding instead. | |
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The Sims 3: The cover of the seasons expansion to this game shows a poor Sim in a thunderstorm, getting electrocuted through her umbrella by lightning. | |
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Kirby: Right Back at Ya!: Again, inverted and weaponized with Kirby's Parasol power in the anime: his umbrella can fire lightning at his enemies. However, it's worth noting that the Parasol powerup doesn't have this effect in the Kirby games. | |
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Mr. Bogus: In the Hipster Tripster episode, Bogus is given an umbrella to keep him dry in the rain, but lightning destroys it. | |
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Fraggle Rock: Doc actually builds an umbrella hat that deflects lightning. It works, albeit offscreen. | |
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Family Matters: Steve Erkel got hit by lightning three times in one episode, one incident of which implied the lightning hit his umbrella. | |
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WALL•E: Pixar's sci-fi rom-com has the chivalrous robot hold an umbrella over the cataleptic EVE to shield her from the rain. WALL-E gets zapped by lightning this way twice in a row. Apparently, he's used to this, since he brought spare umbrellas. | |
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Secret Agent Clank: Inverted and weaponized with the Thunderstorm Umbrella, a Shock and Awe weapon in the shape of an umbrella that fires lightning bolts at enemies. | |
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Winnie the Pooh (2011) has a bit where Eeyore gets zapped by lightning (on a clear day) because an umbrella was serving as his tail. | |
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Reborn! (2004): Inverted and weaponized with a character named Levi who always carries 8 umbrellas that can shoot lightning. | |
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Johnny Bravo: In the episode Johnny meets Donny Osmond, Donny ends the episode by trying to float away with an umbrella, Mary Poppins style. But the umbrella gets hit by lightning and he crashes to the ground. | |
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Broken Gears: Hostile Weather is the norm in this RPG universe, and lightning frequently hitting umbrellas is heavily implied by the fact that, by law, umbrellas are required to have lightning rods built into them! | |
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League of Legends: Forecast Janna's /joke animation is a storm cloud gathering above her, then her opening her umbrella in reaction to said cloud, then said cloud zapping her umbrella. | |
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Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!: One of the sidequests in Idol Springs is to help free several NPCs who do a rain dance and invoke this on an umbrella-carrying idol. | |
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One Strong Bad Email, "keep cool", concerned the characters hanging out at the town swimming pool. When thunderclouds gather, lifeguard Strong Bad orders most of the swimmers out, and the people he hates — Coach Z, Homestar and the King of Town — into the pool holding a golf club, a TV antenna and an umbrella, respectively. | |
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Oddbods: This is how one argument about who gets an umbrella ends, just as they found a compromise that could've kept them both dry. | |
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In one episode of Spongebob Squarepants, Squidward loses his house, and to highlight how bad his luck is, it begins to rain. (Even though they're underwater.) He has an umbrella at the time and opens it, but predictably, it gets hit by lightning. | |
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