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Line 2: {{quote\|[[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner\|"Do you feel, a chill?"]]\|<small>Karthus the Lich, ''[[League of Legends]]''.</small>}} Vampires in fiction are almost always colder than they were before they turned. This most likely originates from the fact that vampires are essentially living corpses, or it may be due to [[Evil Is Deathly Cold\|evil being cold]]. [[Fridge Logic\|Of course]], having [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire~~\|Friendly Neighborhood Vampires~~]]s in the setting would probably mess with that analogy. Another problem with this trope is that there's no reason a dead (or undead in this case) thing would be abnormally cold. When someone says a dead body is "cold," they really mean "colder than I know a human body should be." Without some extra bit of [[A Wizard Did It\|magic]], dead (or undead) things should be room temperature at best. Sometimes they even heat up to higher than room temperature because of the energy released in the breakdown of the body during decomposition. Line 13: == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == * In ''[[~~Jo Jo~~JoJo's ~~Bizarre Adventure (Manga)\|Jo Jos~~ Bizarre Adventure]]'', the vampire Dio Brando can freeze a person's blood with a touch. == [[Comics]] == Line 23: == [[Literature]] == * Invoked in ''[[The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries]]'' (and by extension, ''[[True Blood]]''). At one point in the books, Sookie becomes intimate with a non-vampire for the first time and notes how strange it is to have sex with a warm body. * ''[[Twilight (~~Literature~~novel)\|Twilight]]'' vampires are physically cold and "marble-like". The werewolves, by contrast, have a higher-than-average body temperature. * In ''New Amsterdam'' by Elizabeth Bear (the book, not the TV show), Sebastian, resident Spanish wampyr detective, is cold and doesn't have free-flowing blood in his body. * [[Inverted Trope\|Inverted]] with the "[[Our Vampires Are Different\|vampires]]" of ''[[I Am Legend]]'', who are humans with a disease that ([[Zombie Apocalypse\|among other things]]) sends the body into overdrive. They run a fever of about 103 Fahrenheit as a baseline. * The ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' books have The Others, undead and cold, to the point where the ambient temperature drops when they're around. ** Also, the wights, the reanimated corpses of the Others' victims are also ice-cold to the touch, though they don't drop the ambient temperature. * ''[[~~American Gods (Literature)\|~~American Gods]]'' teaches us that while the undead may not be colder than room temperature, they feel so cold that experiencing any other sensation at all becomes a problem. == [[Live Action TV]] == * In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', The Initiative discovered that a vampire (specifically Spike) was in Willow's dorm room because their [[Infrared X -Ray Camera]] read him as only slightly above room temperature. * Ghosts in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)\|Supernatural]]'' cause [[Ghostly Chill\|the temperature to drop]]. == [[Tabletop Games]] == * Liches, undead spell casters in [[Dungeons ~~and~~& Dragons]] , have a touch that can inflict cold-based damage. == [[Video Games]] == * In ''[[Vampire Bloodlines]]'', this is how your character is identified as a vampire: you don't show up on the heat scanners. ** Also a feature of Vampires in the tabletop game, [[~~Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game)\|~~Vampire: The Masquerade]] actually warns players that they should keep this in mind while human hunters are around, especially in cold weather, as it will give them away. Additionally the game has the Naga, weresnakes that can alter their physiology to go cold blooded, and grow their snake fangs, allowing them to pass for Vampires in some circumstances. {{reflist}} [[Category:Undead Index]] [[Category:~~Chill~~Heat ~~Of Undeath~~Index]] [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]