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As the start of the MTV Movie & TV Awards was counting down Sunday, a special episode of Lip Sync Battleaired on the network, pitting Spider Man: Homecomingstars Tom Holland and Zendaya against one another.

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The competition was neck-and-neck until Holland threw down this version of Rihanna's "Umbrella," complete with a special effect that you had to see for yourself to believe:

Tom Holland's full performance of Rihanna's “Umbrella" on Lip Sync Battle.
He did that. TOM HOLLAND DID THAT EVERYONE 👏🏽 pic.twitter.com/ZpKC6s8moY

— peter parker (@fcukspiderman) May 8, 2017

Alas, it's not in the video, whose dancing and acrobatics themselves are Spidey-level amazing (not a huge surprise, if you know that Holland was trained at the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology, studied hip-hop dance and starred in Billy Elliot the Musical. Kid's legit got moves).

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No, what was truly next-level about this particular performance is that at the very moment it aired on MTV (with a brief Singin' in the Rainintro), the skies opened up in real life in Los Angeles, with a concentrated downpour near the Shrine Auditorium where the awards were taking place.

And it couldn't have been timed better. Sunday's spring SoCal sprinkles turned to full-on raindrops as the intro started, and by the time Holland went into full Rihanna mode -- complete with fake rain falling on the Battlestage, which you can see below -- it started pouring in central LA in real life, complete with lightning and thunder crashing as the performance peaked on TV.

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When it was over, so was the deluge going on outside. (Which makes us think that Zendaya, who plays "Michelle" in Homecoming, might secretly be Storm from X-Men. Fan-theory on that.)

OK, OK, that's ridiculous. And the battle was taped, of course, so the powerful fourth-dimension effect was probably nothing but a coincidence. Or was it?

This much is clear: With great power comes great special effects.

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