Evey Rain
They go up to the rooftop where they are welcomed by London weather. If the prospect of death cannot stop Evey, then rain has no chance. She steps forward, ready to be reborn. Throwing her hands up in the air, just like V did so many years before, she announces her new self to the world. Every is free of fear.
evey rain
A standard shot, usually done from above via a crane, that shows the character being gloriously and joyously rained on, obviously symbolic of a baptism and a new life/rebirth (or simply having a cleansing shower). The scene esentially symbolizes his sins and/or pains are being washed away.
Comic Books In Breach, as the main character uses his powers to transform a possessed and mutated boy back into his original self (sealing his own fate as he does), the boy wakes up and notices it's raining.
In The Dark Knight Returns, a fifty-five-year-old Bruce Wayne appears as Batman for the first time in ten years, just as a thunderstorm breaks the intense heatwave that had been gripping Gotham City. "The rain on my chest is a baptism--I'm born again."
In Hush, Harvey Dent, free from his Two-Face persona, saves Batman from Hush during a Curb-Stomp Battle in the middle of a rainstorm. The rain stops almost immediately after the battle ends.
Sin City: Marv gets rained on while he waxes philosophical about his killing spree and the final hit he's building up to do.
Storm graced the cover of X-Men like this in the issue where she and Forge broke up. He proposed to her in the previous issue and she said she'd think about it. In the issue with the rainy cover, he took her answer the wrong way and left both the X-Men and Storm to be with Mystique. Storm's response as he slammed the door? "I was going to say...yes..."
Live-Action TV Parodied on the Saturday Night Live Digital Short "Wish It Would Rain" where an arrogant singer tries to create a music video where his lover leaves him and wishes that rain would come to wash away his tears and redeem his spirit. When he gets pissed on by a guy on the roof of a building (played by Jason Sudeikis), he curses out The Weather Channel and regrets not getting a rain machine for the video.
Angel: In the first season, Faith falls apart in Angel's arms as it storms in ''Five By Five". The scene was quite powerful. According to the DVD commentary, though, they were simply forced to film in the rain. But even if the rain in "Five by Five" was coincidental, the producers were clearly aware of the power of this trope. The original script called for a rain machine in the battle scene, but this was dropped for cost reasons - and then the skies cooperated with the producers anyway.
Darla redeems herself by staking herself to allow Connor to be born. This happens in an alley as it is storming.
After Faith breaks out of prison to help pacify Angelus, she has a minor breakdown in the shower.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In the episode "This Year's Girl" that marks the start of this particular arc for Faith, she wakes from her coma after dreaming of being chased by Buffy, falling into an open grave, having Buffy jump in after her, and then climbing out, triumphantly, in a full "Shawshank" pose, with the rain coming down on her.
Inverted in "Innocence", where Angel's 'curse' is lifted while he is out in the rain.
"Amends" has an odd variation; redemption in the snow. Angel is prepared to let the rising sun turn him into ash despite a desperate Buffy's efforts to talk him down until a sudden snowstorm (in southern California!) blocks the sunrise. This freak storm is seen rightly as a sign from Someone Higher Up that Angel had a purpose on this earth after all.
ER used a rainstorm (and a flooded river) throughout the episode "Hell And High Water" which began the process of Doug Ross' redemption. The scene where he bursts out of the river (holding the rescued child in his arms, rain flooding down, illuminated by the light from a chopper) owes a lot aesthetically to the scene from Shawshank.
The West Wing: At the end of the second season, President Bartlet stands out in the rain as he regains his drive and purpose, before facing the press and announcing that yes, he will run for reelection despite the legal and public battles over his concealment of his MS. This all happens over Dire Straits' "Brothers In Arms." We are also told that this storm is from a large hurricane, which has hit Washington out of season in a manner unprecedented in a century of recorded storm-watching. In a slight twist on this trope, the President is very Catholic and had just cursed out God, in Latin, in the National Cathedral, for what he felt was divine Disproportionate Retribution to said concealment (his secretary and Cool Big Sis was killed by a drunk driver), so the baptism and rebirth imagery is not an accident even in-universe.
The general idea of the trope is parodied in the fourth season when Will Bailey - who has spent the episode hoping for a forecasted downpour to discourage late voters from going to the polls and thus prevent them upsetting the narrow victory his (dead) candidate is getting - basically stands in the middle of the street and orders the sky to start raining. Much to his surprise, it does so.Elsie: "What else can you do?Will: "I didn't know I could do that..."
In its ninth season premiere, Survivor achieved the impressive feat of having Redemption In The Rain on a reality show, as the rain begins pouring down just as a tribe member completes climbing a greased pole to retrieve the sacred rock. Even better, after a streak of losses, the tribe speculated they hadn't been treating the rock respectfully and placed it back on the top of a pole... and the rain began pouring down again. They won the next challenge.
Lost featured a sudden rainfall in the pilot episode, just after the crash. While everyone ran for cover, Locke sat in the rain and smiled joyously. This usage of the trope was unique in that we didn't find out till two episodes later why Locke was so happy (prior to the crash, he'd been paralyzed).
In the first season finale of How I Met Your Mother, Ted is trying to stop Robin from going on a camping trip with her obnoxious co-worker (and subsequently sleeping with him because she's starting to fall for him) by making it rain. After spending all day performing a Rain Dance on his roof with no success, he finally breaks down into shouting at the universe. Cue thunderclap. The next scene has him joyously standing underneath Robin's window in a downpour, and they finally get together.
In Dollhouse, Adelle has a "redemption in the shower" scene, although it's not clear that she's becoming a new woman until the end of the episode.
The final episode of Power Rangers Wild Force involves an intense battle in the middle of a rainstorm. The better part of the season saw the human race being criticized for neglecting nature's welfare. Soaking wet, the Rangers affirm their commitment to protecting the Earth, after losing their powers and nearly losing altogether.
Smallville: "Eternal": An unusual version - liquid kryptonite rains on Davis on his request, apparently killing him.
There aren't enough prayers in this world to give me redemption! "Rabid": The rain contained the cure for a Zombie Apocalypse.
Supernatural has a twist on this for Gabriel. When he's caught in a ring of holy fire, he reveals that Sam and Dean are Lucifer and Michael's vessel, respectively and that the reason he's always tortured them so much was that he always knew, but he didn't want it to happen. As Sam and Dean are leaving with Castiel, Dean switches on the sprinklers and tells him not to say that Dean never did anything for him. The scene ends with Gabriel looking from the sprinkler to the Winchesters, looking unsettled. The next time Gabriel shows up, he helps them, getting killed in the process.
Spartacus: Blood and Sand In episode 5: Spartacus redeems himself in the arena in after he kills Theokoles. Immediately afterward, it begins raining. The rain breaks the heatwave and drought that had been gripping the city. He is thereafter repeatedly referred to as "The Bringer of Rain."
Castle: In "Always", part of an epiphany that Kate Beckett undergoes after a series of life-crises over the course of the episode involves her brooding alone at a swingset in the middle of a torrential downpour at night. This eventually leads to her going to Castle, and upgrading their relationship from Will They or Won't They? to They Do.
In the miniseries Wives and Daughters, Molly Gibson and her love get together when it's pouring rain. They assure each other about their mutual love and she promises to marry him, but they cannot go together and hug or kiss each other because there is infection of scarlet fever in his estate. The Big Damn Kiss is not happening, no Headbutt of Love, so the tension is palpable, but it's a very satisfying almost-finale and a great romantic scene. Nice resolution, because Elizabeth Gaskell's novel was left unfinished (though her publisher knew they were meant to become a couple).
In episode "For a Few Paintballs More" of Community, Troy welcomes the rain of orange paint from sprinklers with his arms open, smiling happily and looking relieved that the plan worked and they have defeated City College. (Though in reality, it was not over yet at that point.)
The Ranch: It hasn't rained in nearly a year, and the titular ranch is failing. Colt and his father are arguing and about to come to blows when it starts raining. Colt claims he brought the rain.
Music The music video for "Small Dark Lines" by British progressive metal band Threshold features people painting a black line on their skin for each one of their regrets. It quickly escalates to people painting multiple lines on their bodies, including one man pouring a bucket of black paint over his head. Towards the end of the video, a sprinkler turns on from above to wash away the black lines, symbolizing a fresh start.
The Depeche Mode song "But Not Tonight" sees the narrator feeling renewed by a rainstorm that they've just gotten caught in, noting how "it's filling me up with new life" to such an extent that it makes this particular night feel all the more special.
Tom Waits' songs occasionally make use of this, as in "Make It Rain" from Real Gone (the former page quote) and "Little Drop of Poison".I need the whip of thunder And the wind's dark moan I'm not Able, I'm just Cain Open up the heavens, make it rain!
The Who's Rock Opera "Quadrophenia" concludes with the stirring "Love, Reign o'er Me", wherein the schizophrenic main character finds redemption in the rain after having his illusions about the Mod lifestyle of the '60s broken down.
Falling of the Rain by Billy Joel subverts it. The rain represents life's struggle (and eventually mortality) in the song, and those who do not mind standing in the rain are saved..
Keith Urban's "Raining on Sunday" is about the re-connecting and re-birth of a romantic relationship.
Hilary Duff's "Come Clean."Let the rain fall down and wake my dreamsLet it wash away my sanity'Cause I wanna feel the thunder, I wanna screamLet the rain fall down, I'm coming clean
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