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Weather Saves the Day
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The heroes are in deep peril and all seems lost. Then something happens - the wind stirs. Or thunder rumbles in the sky. Or the snow begins to fall. And then a sudden change in the weather brings redemption. Generally comes in two varieties: Unexpected - The change is unexpected by the characters and the audience (unless the audience is genre-savvy). Up to this point the plot has not specifically emphasized the weather or the possibility of it changing. The dramatic payoff comes from surprising the audience by changing a previously fixed element of the situation, i.e. from violating the audience's expectations in a satisfying way. (This type often works well with a bit of Five-Second Foreshadowing.) Hoped For - The characters have been hoping for/praying for/trying to cause the weather to change, with increasing desperation as the stakes get higher, the deadline approaches, or the situation gets worse and worse. Here the dramatic payoff comes from the audience's investment in hoping for what does eventually happen, i.e. from fulfilling the audience's expectations in a satisfying way. Connected to Weather of War, obviously. The opposite of Hostile Weather. Similar to, but not the same as, Empathic Environment, in which the weather augments the mood of the story; in this trope the weather facilitates the plot of the story. Can be an understated, even ambiguous form of Divine Intervention or Magic Realism. Sub-Trope of Deus ex Machina, unless caused by other characters through Weather Manipulation, in which case it tends to be a subtrope of The Cavalry. Compare Weather of War and Convenient Eclipse. |
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In the first issue of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), a heavy downpour of rain ends up short-circuiting Robotnik's latest robot which was threatening to spread throughout the Great Forest. | |
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A major element that resulted in the victory of the western kingdoms at Vo Mimbre in The Belgariad prequels was an unprecedented snowstorm in Cthol Murgos that stranded Torak's second army, but we only get the reports, we don't see it. | |
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The Simpsons In "Bart gets an F", Bart prays for a miracle to help him pass a test. The next morning, snow has fallen and school is canceled for the day, giving Bart extra time to study. Subverted in "Marge vs. The Monorail". Homer and much of Springfield are on a runaway solar-powered monorail when a solar eclipse causes the monorail to slow to a stop, but only lasts a few seconds and the monorail starts up again, not giving the people any time to escape. |
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In 300: Rise of an Empire, in the climactic fight between Themistocles and Artemisia, the two are tied with swords at each others' throats. Then Themistocles feels the wind on his skin and turns to see the Greek fleet arriving, spelling the doom of the Persians. This gives Themistocles the morale advantage that allows him to win the duel. | |
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Master and Commander. A fog conceals the French privateer before the first attack, but also saves HMS Surprise when Captain Aubrey orders his men to put out boats and tow them into it, knowing the French won't risk their advantage by following them. | |
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Red Cliff. A major plot point is waiting for the wind to blow the right way, allowing the fleet of fire ships to do their work. | |
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In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the deciding battle between Sun Chuan and Cao Cao's forces is decided by the weather at the Battle of Red Cliffs. Cao Cao's navy attacks Sun Chuan's in a line formation with the wind in his sails. This is so that if Cao Cao's flagship catches on fire, the wind will blow the fire away from his other ships (also, Sun Chuan's navy is downwind). Liu Bei, however, has a friend who can change the weather, and his choice whether to intervene between the two warlords now or to wait means everything. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls: "Him Diddle Riddle" has the girls solving riddles posed by Him, one of them to "bring tears to the eyes of Townsville. When Blossom gets a face full of puddle water, it gives the illusion that she's been crying. It gives her the idea to have the three create a thunderstorm, as the riddle posed was to bring tears to the eyes of Townsville, not from, as they were attempting to do. Subversion: "Snow Month" (from the 2016 reboot) has Blossom creating a snowstorm so school will be closed and she won't have to answer a note from Jared Shapiro about whether or not she likes him. The lengthy winter has a side effect—it causes a family of yetis to invade the city for their vacation. |
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In Hussar Ballad, Shura insists she was only able to defeat and capture Salgari because he was shivering from the cold and couldn’t shoot properly. | |
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In the movie Das Boot, the U-boat is out of oxygen and needs to surface, where it will almost certainly be destroyed by Allied forces. But it surfaces to find a heavy rain storm that provides cover. | |
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In Mad Max: Fury Road, a Deadly Dust Storm comes to the aid of the heroes who can temporarily escape their pursuers in it. | |
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Quantum Leap. In "A Single Drop of Rain" Sam leaps into a traveling conman who claims to be a Rainmaker. He needs to save the town he's at (which is also the leapee's hometown) from a drought. After trying what he can do, he goes out into a field and yells at God. It works. | |
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Lucky Luke has an aversion: A bunch of cattle barons have leagued together against the homesteaders, as the former can no longer drive their cattle through what is now the latter's property. A drought hits, but it only hurts the ranchers as they didn't dig wells as part of their livelihoods. They come to an agreement... and rain starts falling just after it's signed. The ranchers maintain their agreement anyway. | |
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The Lord of the Rings At the beginning of the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. After days of the land being covered in darkness because of clouds put out from Mount Doom by Sauron, a wind arrives from the West, as per the page quote. Could be Divine Intervention; this is hinted at but not stated. Foreshadowed a few pages earlier when Ghân-buri-Ghân says "Wind is changing!" and disappears into the bush. The wind not only aided the charge of the Rohirrim by breaking up the Morgul-darkness, it literally brought redemption by bringing Aragorn's fleet to the battlefield in time to save the city. |
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Invoked in The Wizard of Oz. The Wicked Witch of the West uses a field of poppies to put Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion to sleep. When all seems lost Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, sends a snowfall to wake them up. | |
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On one episode of Dinosaurs, the Sinclairs are about to be burned at the stake for refusing to follow a new religion based on worshiping a potato. Just as they are about to be set on fire, it starts raining and the flames are put out. Not only does this save the Sinclairs, it also proves that the potato religion is false. | |
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In Patton, weather continues to delay and threaten the advancement of the Allied forces commanded under General Patton. Patton, a religious man, asks his Chaplain to write a prayer to God for His assistance lifting the terrible weather. The next morning, the skies are pure clear blue, and Patton asks that the Chaplain be summoned to him to be decorated with a medal. | |
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Nosferatu, despite being a stealth-adaptation of Dracula, doesn't include a character analogous to Dr. Abraham van Helsing (although a scientist studying vampirism in plants who briefly appears may have been loosely based on him but given a greatly diminished role). Due to his van Helsing's absence, Count Orlok is anticlimactically killed by an unexpected sunrise rather than being slain by the cunning doctor like his counterpart in the original novel. | |
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Dragon Ball GT: Rage Shenron drains the remaining amount of electricity in the city, making his electric slime grow to a massive size, making him very difficult for Pan and Goku to escape from. Unfortunately for Rage Shenron, it begins to rain, inducing an explosive short circuit throughout his entire slime body. The Shadow Dragon tries in vain to scatter his electric slime again; this, however, proves impossible due to the slime's enormous surface area, which prevents Rage from taking shelter. Following the explosion of his slime body, Rage returns to his original size. | |
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West of Eden. In one battle the humans are able to escape their pursuers because it starts snowing, as the reptilian Yilanè have a lower tolerance for cold. The Yilanè withdraw and both sides declare victory. | |
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In Watership Down, when the protagonists are escaping from Efrafra, a storm breaks at just the right time to confuse the pursuing forces and give Bigwig's crew the time they need. "Your storm, Thlayli-rah. Use it." However the more disciplined Efrafran rabbits are more able to rally and block their escape, so its effect is only a temporary diversion. | |
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Rocky and Bullwinkle. In the "Bumbling Bros. Circus," arc, Rocky and Bullwinkle are captured by a tribe of Indians who have them tied to burning stakes; Bullwinkle whips out his hum-a-comb, prompting the Indians to break out into dancing, which conjures up a rain storm, putting out the flames and sparing their lives. | |
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Ninjago: In season 5, Nya and Ronin are surrounded by ghosts, whose only weakness is water. Just as all hope seems lost, it starts raining, causing the ghosts to flee. Nya considers it good luck, but Ronin points out that it's the middle of the dry season, so rain appearing at the exact moment they need it proves that Nya does have the water powers she's been struggling to unlock. | |
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Signs: The aliens were defeated when it started raining and it turned out that water is like acid to them. Why they invaded a planet that is over 75 percent water without wearing any sort of protective clothing was never explained. | |
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In L.A. Story, The Power of Love and/or Empathic Environment causes a huge rainstorm which makes Sara's plane unable to take off and leave Harris. | |
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Heckle and Jeckle are consigned to making it rain when their wish upon a wishbone causes a lengthy drought ("The Rainmakers"). They succeed when a gang of clouds attack them. They receive a ticker tape parade (in the rain, of course) for their success. | |
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In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 3 episode "Amends", Angel is about to commit Suicide by Sunlight when it suddenly starts to snow and the sun doesn't come out. | |
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