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[[File:fvwrath-of-lich-king_3320king 3320.jpg|link=World of Warcraft (Video Game)|rightframe| [[Hellfire]] is overrated.]]
 
{{quote|''In fire there is the spark of chaos and destruction, the seed of life. In ice there is perfect tranquility, perfect order, and [[Kill It Withwith Ice|the silence of death]].''|[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=129601 Icy Manipulator], ''[[Magic the Gathering]]''}}▼
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▲{{quote|''In fire there is the spark of chaos and destruction, the seed of life. In ice there is perfect tranquility, perfect order, and [[Kill It With Ice|the silence of death]].''|[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=129601 Icy Manipulator], ''[[Magic the Gathering]]''}}
 
[[Dark Is Evil|Evil is not only dark]], it is also cold and deadly, while good embodies warmth and life as well as light.
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Very common for the [[Undead]]. Even ghosts leave [[Ghostly Chill|conspicuous cold spots where they wander]].
 
Can feature with a [[Winter Royal Lady]] or [[An Ice Person]], but does not have to; ice can also be an elemental power unrelated to good vs. evil. The key is whether the cold is used as an indicator of evil and [[I'm Cold... So Cold...|death]]. It will be more destructive than other elemental powers in this trope. Evil items like the [[Artifact of Doom]] may exhibit this as [[Thermal Dissonance]], they're always cold no matter where you put them.
 
The obvious foil to [[Fertile Feet]]. Indeed, it may not be clear in a story whether the return of sunshine, life, and warmth is owning to the [[Fisher King|hero's influence]] or because the [[Big Bad]]'s has [[No Ontological Inertia]]. ([[Babies Ever After]] may coincide with this -- orthis—or function as a mundane alternative.)
 
The elemental opposite is [[Evil Is Burning Hot]].
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Not to be confused with [[Evil Is Cool]].
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== [[Anime]] &and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Code Breaker]]'': Sakura, who is sensitive to people's scents and body heat, is shocked when she discovers {{spoiler|her friend Ogami's [[Evil Twin]] [[Light Is Not Good]] possible brother}}'s body is "as cold as ceramic".
* The vampires from ''[[Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo JosJoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' have incredibly cold body temperatures. In fact, Joseph was able to tell Straights was a vampire simply by the fact that his breath was not visible when temperatures were below freezing.
** And one of the (inconsistent) explanations for the vampires' ability to flash-freeze their enemies' blood is that they are simply that cold.
* In ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]'', this is a running theme with the names in Frieza's family: Lord Frieza/Freeza, King Cold, Cooler...
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
 
== Comicbooks ==
* In [[Marvel Comics]], N'Kantu, the Living Mummy, describes undeath as "like life, only colder."
* Also, in [[The DCU]], Kid Eternity was surprised to find, after being dragged into Hell by Beelzebub, that Hell is incredibly cold. Beelzebub explains that "It's cold in Hell. So cold you'll pray for eternal fire. And eventually, we answer your prayer."
* In ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'', the Saint of Killers' hate is so strong that when he's killed and sent to Hell, it freezes over.
* [[Batman|Mr. Freeze]] is a twist, in that he's a villain, and [[Captain Obvious|he's deathly cold]], but [[Anti -Villain|he's not completely evil]].
* The ''[[Spider -Man]]'' villain, Tombstone is described as being cold to the touch.
* The ''[[Hellraiser]]'' comics have a cenobite describe hell as cold, but they tend to go in for more of an [[Ironic Hell]] so it might be personal.
 
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* The Plains of Death in ''[[With Strings Attached (Fanfic)|With Strings Attached]]'' are desperately cold: “The chill of death.” The Twisted Temple, high up in the Misery Mountains, is also frigid, and [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|The Brothers of Doom]] are immune to cold.▼
 
== Fan Works[[Film]] ==
* Officer Matt Cordell of the ''[[Maniac Cop (Film)|Maniac Cop]]'' trilogy is described as feeling like ice, even through his clothing. At one point in ''[[Maniac Cop 2]]'' a blind war veteran describes coming into contact with Cordell as being similar to an incident in the war where he was trapped under a pile of mangled corpses.▼
▲* The Plains of Death in ''[[With Strings Attached (Fanfic)|With Strings Attached]]'' are desperately cold: “The chill of death.” The Twisted Temple, high up in the Misery Mountains, is also frigid, and [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|The Brothers of Doom]] are immune to cold.
* In ''[[The Secret Life Of Ian Fleming]]''-- yes—yes, ''[[James Bond|that]]'' Ian Fleming-- FlemingFleming—Fleming is able to identify female enemy agents by the fact that their lips are cold. Later, he hooks up with his UST, and notes her lips are burning hot.▼
 
 
== Film ==▼
▲* Officer Matt Cordell of the ''[[Maniac Cop (Film)|Maniac Cop]]'' trilogy is described as feeling like ice, even through his clothing. At one point in ''[[Maniac Cop 2]]'' a blind war veteran describes coming into contact with Cordell as being similar to an incident in the war where he was trapped under a pile of mangled corpses.
▲* In ''[[The Secret Life Of Ian Fleming]]''-- yes, ''[[James Bond|that]]'' Ian Fleming-- Fleming is able to identify female enemy agents by the fact that their lips are cold. Later, he hooks up with his UST, and notes her lips are burning hot.
* Subverted somewhat in ''[[The Amityville Horror]]'' remake, where George feels cold everywhere in the house except the basement, where the evil originates.
* Subverted and lampshaded in ''The Bag Witch Project'', a short [[The Blair Witch Project|Blair Witch]] parody film about four roleplayers who get lost during GenCon and can't find their way back to the occupied part of the Milwaukee convention center. ''Would'' be this trope, if it weren't a satire:
{{quote| "I'm tired, I'm hungry, I'm even cold. How can it be cold? We're ''indoors''. And ''it's August!''"}}
* ''[[Poltergeist (Filmfilm series)|Poltergeist]]'' - Evil is shown as cold, especially in part three during Lara Flynn Boyle's shower sequence.
* In [[Van Helsing]], Dracula lives in a frozen castle {{spoiler|on the other side of an ice mirror.}}
* In the Asian movie ''Beyond Hypothermia'', the main character is a female assassin who has an abnormally low body temperature.
* The Frost Giants as depicted in '[[Thor (Filmfilm)|Thor]]'' all have ice-based powers, and are all terribly sinister.
* In ''[[The Exorcist (Film)|The Exorcist]]'', Regan's bedroom is shown at times to be so cold that other characters pause to put on heavy coats before entering the room.
 
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Older Than Print]]: While Christian Hell is usually hot, Dante's ''[[Divine Comedy]]'' portrays the deepest circles in Hell, for the worst evil, as frozen, because Satan, the giant in the middle of it all, [[Red Right Hand|whose beauty has been twisted into hideous ugliness,]] is constantly beating all six of his wings, trying to get up to Heaven, and the resulting wind freezes all the water in Hell. [[Self -Inflicted Hell|Of course, if he ever stopped trying to ascend, the ice would melt and he could be free.]]<ref> This leads to a fascinating Biblical [[Historical in In-Joke]]. As described by Revelations, Satan will eventually be freed as part of [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]], implying that after a few thousand years, he finally figured it out; a joke that only gets funnier with age. Not to mention, [[After the End]], he'll be rid of the lake of ice... by being cast into a lake of fire.</ref> The sinners down there are frozen solid, [[And I Must Scream|conscious, with the amount of their bodies frozen increasing as the crimes become worse.]] The fire and brimstone levels are higher up, and for sinners whose crimes are comparatively less severe ([[Values Dissonance|or are at least considered so for the time]]).
* ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Queen:The Snow Queen|The Snow Queen]]'' (1845) by [[Hans Christian Andersen]].
* In [[JRRJ. TolkienR. (Creator)|JRRR. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Silmarillion (Literature)|The Silmarillion]]'': [[Satan|Morgoth]] actually invented ice during Creation, and the hell-fortresses he built (Utumno and Angband) are located in the far north (of Eurasia?), in extremes of freezing cold.
* [[CSC. Lewis (Creator)|CSS. Lewis]]'s White Witch plunged [[The Chronicles of Narnia|Narnia]] into unending winter and turned her opponents [[Taken for Granite|into stone]]; the arrival of Aslan brought spring, and he transformed the statues back to life. This even carries over into the characters' colour schemes: the White Witch wears white fur and is very pale, while Aslan is a big golden lion.
* In [[James Thurber]]'s ''[[The 13 Clocks (Literature)|The 13 Clocks]]'', the Duke is explicitly described as cold while his niece is warm. The title clocks are frozen, and the Duke has concluded that he has killed time. {{spoiler|In the end, his niece gets them to move again.}}
{{quote| ''He was six feet four, and forty-six, and even colder than he thought he was.''}}
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[GauntsGaunt's Ghosts]]'' novel ''His Last Command'', when Maggs is thrown through [[Cool Gate|a Chaos warp gate]], and [[No One Gets Left Behind|Mkoll jumps after him]], they find it frigid, as well as [[Alien Geometries|impossible]], with [[Alien Sky|the stars all wrong and blocks of stone floating in the sky]]. They escape through another gate, and are found covered with frost (but alive).
** In ''Only In Death'', frost forms about {{spoiler|Soric's}} cage because of the psychic forces unleashed from Chaos.
* Lowered temperature is a by-product of psychic power in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. It doesn't necessarily mean evil, as good psychic characters can cause it too. But when evil does come along, it really is deathly cold.
* Joe Chip from [[Philip K. Dick]]'s ''[[Ubik]]'' plays the trope straight as he reflects on death: "''They must be wrong about hell, he said to himself. Hell is cold; everything there is cold. The body means weight and heat; now weight is a force which I am succumbing to, and heat, my heat, is slipping away''".
* ''[[The Dark Is Rising]]'' by [[Susan Cooper]]: The Dark uses powerful cold-based magic to prevent the retrieval of one of the six Signs.
** Also averted, as the ice candles are actually neutral, and end up being reclaimed by the Light.
* Dementors from ''[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|DementorsHarry Potter]]'', who causes the temperature of whatever room they're in to drop about 30-50 degrees.
** Also, the wizarding school Durmstrang - where Dark Arts are actually ''taught'' to students and Karkaroff is headmaster - is [[Grim Up North|'somewhere north']], based on their heavy cloaks and school clothes.
* While she isn't evil as much as just lonely and pure horror itself, the Groke from [[The Moomins]] is also very, very cold and probably as close to a cosmic horror you can have in that kind of series.
* The Others from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are malevolent creatures in the North who are heavily associated with cold. The same goes with the [[Our Zombies Are Different|wights]] that they create. In the R'hllor religion, a god called the Great Other is heavily associated with cold and is considered evil, though R'hllor at times seems no less destructive.
* The Norns in [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Memory, SorrowandSorrow, and Thorn]]'' are very fond of cold, and their [[Big Bad|master]], the [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]] Storm King, both uses and draws his strength from the power of cold.
** The Other in ''[[Otherland]]'', also by [[Tad Williams]], causes a sensation of killing cold in most people who encounter it within the virtual world. The reason for this is a key plot point.
* In ''[[The Pendragon Adventure]]'', Bobby describes Saint Dane as being deathly cold when he grabs him.
* [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]'s ''[[Darkover]]'', being rather cold itself, says that Zandru has seven hells, each one colder than the one before.
* [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]] was afraid of the cold, hence stories like ''Cool Air'' and ''At The Mountains of Madness''
* ''[[The Wheel of Time (Literature)|The Wheel of Time]]'' series starts off this way, with a "year without a summer" as the result of the Dark One's influence. Inverted several books later with a "year without a winter" from the same cause--orcause—or perhaps a subversion, since the first may have really been the work of [[The Dragon|Ishamael]].
** In general, the Dark One is presented as being a fan of extreme and unnatural weather, whether it's too hot or too cold- fitting, for a god of chaos, decay, and evil.
* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]] [[Ultramarines (Literaturenovel)|Ultramarines]]'' novel ''The Killing Ground'', an atrocity's [[Revenge|vengeful]] ghosts are "glacial cold."
* In Lee Lightner's ''Warhammer 40000 [[Space Wolf]]'' novel ''Wolf's Honour'', Madox's sword strikes with numbing cold. Which drives Ragnar's decision to take [[Refuge in Audacity]].
* In ''[[Neverwhere]]'', by [[Neil Gaiman]], the vampire-like {{spoiler|Lamia}} preys on humans by drinking heat from them.
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* In [[Andre Norton]] and A.C. Crispin's ''Gryphon's Eyrie'', the shadow creatures are bitterly cold and prey on the main character's warmth. At the climax, they deliberately go for the pregnant Joisan's [[Children Are Innocent|baby]].
* In [[Garth Nix]]'s ''[[Old Kingdom]]'' trilogy, the Book of the Dead has a clasp which frosts over with condensation and a leather cover which sweats even on the warmest day. People in its presence have been known to start shivering spontaneously.
* Subtly invoked in ''[[One Flew Over the CuckoosCuckoo's Nest]]'', with the white-clad, emotionless Big Nurse, in contrast with the friendly, redheaded McMurphy. Both are usually described in terms suggesting winter and summer, respectively.
* ''[[House of Leaves]]'': the hallways that begin to appear in the {{color|blue|house}} on Ash Tree Lane are described as being very cold, so that when Navidson and the others go on the explorations they are wearing winter coats. Navidson himself almost dies of cold after being inside for too long.
* In the novel ''[[Grunts (Literature)|Grunts!]]'', the Nameless Necromancer gets a freezing aura in addition to his [[Animate Dead]] skills. It's sufficient to coat nearby grass with frost as he walks.
* In the ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]] [[Eisenhorn]]'' novels, psykers' usage of Warp powers often comes with frost formation.
* Used in Melissa Mar's ''[[Wicked Lovely]],'' where the main villain is the queen of the Winter Court, who made a deal that allowed her to seal the summer king's power and expand winter's influence, which would eventually plunge the world into endless winter and kill everything. {{spoiler|Averted in later books, as the Winter Court comes under new leadership and the Dark and High Courts are explored. It's implied that none of the courts are truly good or truly evil, but are merely being what they represent.}}
* In ''[[Kingdom Keepers]]'', Maleficent causes the air to drop in tempaturetemperature to drop to freezing whenever she's around, to the point of leaving the ground where she walks frozen.
* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[ProsperosProspero's Daughter|Prospero Regained]]'', Hell has large chunks of frozen wasteland.
* [[Evil Sorcerer|Fistandantilus]] as presented in the [[Dragonlance]] main series and the [[Kingpriest Trilogy]] combines this with [[Walking Wasteland]], as he's surrounded by a continuos aura of cold that withers plants and kills small animals near him. The spellbooks he writes are also painfully cold to the touch. Inverted with his apprentice/reincarnation Raistlin, whose skin is inhumanly hot and whose spellbooks give off an unnatural warmth.
* In Teresa Frohock's ''[[Miserere An Autumn Tale]]'', Catarina's amulet is burning cold to Lindsey's touch
* The final story of [[Margaret Mahy]]'s ''The Chewing-Gum Rescue and Other Stories'', "The Devil and the Corner Grocer", has the eponymous shopkeep feel a chill whenever the villain walks into the shop. {{spoiler|At the climax, the demon manifests without his disguise, and it's ''freezing'' - until the grocer calls on the angel who's also been appearing throughout the book, who turns up with a much more convivial temperature.}}
* In ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'', the power of the Dark Forest freezes over {{spoiler|1=StarClan territory}} in ''The Last Hope''.
* At least two of [[Terry Pratchett]]'s books describe things being "as chilly as the slopes of Hell".
** Averted in ''[[Mort]]'', whose "''shame and stubbornness flared up inside him, hotter than the slopes of Hell''". Pterry did have a lot of Hells to choose from.
 
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
* Subverted in ''[[Stargate SG -1]]'' with the Ori who appear to their followers as fire (and use fire to punish unbelievers.) Daniel even points out that traditionally fire was associated with good since it represents warmth and light.▼
* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', [[Archangel Lucifer|Lucifer]] shows this trope freezing a window with his breath, and states "Sorry if it's a bit chilly. Most people think I burn ''hot''. It's actually quite the opposite."▼
* ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'''s season four premiere shows the Dorocha, spirits of the dead resembling skeletons, who leaves their victims frozen and dead with one touch.▼
* In the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "Wolf in the Fold," Scotty describes a moment when he was close to an attack by what turns out to be [[Jack the Ripper]]: "Cold it was, like a stinking draft out of a slaughterhouse...."
* In ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' episode "White Light Fever", the eerie glow that chases Harlan Hawkes is blue and cold. At the end {{spoiler|he is told by another character in the [[Afterlife Antechamber]] that the place she is heading is much warmer than his destination, which is implied to be Hell}}.
 
== [[Oral Tradition|Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends]] ==
▲== Live-Action TV ==
▲* Subverted in [[Stargate SG 1]] with the Ori who appear to their followers as fire (and use fire to punish unbelievers.) Daniel even points out that traditionally fire was associated with good since it represents warmth and light.
▲* In ''[[Supernatural (TV)|Supernatural]]'', [[Archangel Lucifer|Lucifer]] shows this trope freezing a window with his breath, and states "Sorry if it's a bit chilly. Most people think I burn ''hot''. It's actually quite the opposite."
▲* ''[[Merlin (TV)|Merlin]]'''s season four premiere shows the Dorocha, spirits of the dead resembling skeletons, who leaves their victims frozen and dead with one touch.
 
 
== Religion & Mythology ==
* A common belief in Northern Russia and [[Norse Mythology]] is that hell is very cold. Understandably, a religion that was born in the desert would think a lake of fire would be the worst fate a man can get, while up north, that sounds just delightful. Thus in Norse Mythology, while the warriors who died gloriously in battle get to live it up in Valhalla, those who died of sickness, old age, or in just plain boring ways get stuck in a cold, misty snorefest of Hel. Straighter examples still are the frost giants, who are more or less the ultimate evil in Norse Mythology.
** That said, [[Norse Mythology]] also managed to mix this with [[Evil Is Burning Hot]]; not only is Loki, who tends to get identified with [[Satan]] (even if, at least before the whole thing was [[Hijacked Byby Jesus]], it was a bit more complicated than that) a god of fire, but during [[Apocalypse How|Ragnarök]], the forces of evil are led by Surtr, one of the oldest and most powerful of the ''fire'' giants. In conclusion, as in general in Norse Mythology, the safest way to characterise things is less either of these tropes and more '[[Crapsack World|everything is trying to kill you]]'.
* An early Christian sermon from England (and one of the few bits of literature we have left written in Anglo-Saxon English) speaks of Hell as a dark, cold place far to the north.
* Christian missionaries to Native Alaskans learned, very quickly, to speak of Hell as a very cold place.
* Some Jews who believe in Hell believe that some souls suffer in ice and others in fire.
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
 
* Unusual variant: the Necrons of ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' are often associated with cold, but not ice-and-snow sort of cold-rather, the cold nature of the mechanical and [[Space Is Cold|the chill of the void]].▼
▲== Tabletop Games ==
▲* Unusual variant: the Necrons of ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' are often associated with cold, but not ice-and-snow sort of cold-rather, the cold nature of the mechanical and [[Space Is Cold|the chill of the void]].
** Played straighter in the ''[[Imperial Guard]]'' novel ''Ice Guard'' by Steve Lyons. The planet of Cressida is plunged into an ice age-like state by the Chaos powers that are taking it over.
** Chaos itself is usually subject to this, as warp energy tends to cause a noticeable drop in temperature in the surrounding area of a daemon summoning.
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''
** The Nine Hells in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' feature both "boiling hot" and "absolutely frickin' frigid" variants. One of the archdevils, Levistus, the Lord of Stygia is actually [[And I Must Scream|trapped forever in unyielding ice, using telepathy to boss everyone around]].
** For extra irony, keep in mind: he was a dashing swashbuckler whose pride was his incredible grace of movement.
** Cania is worse that Stygia, so cold that even mortals who use cold-weather gear will freeze to death quickly. Magic usually has to be used to survive in most areas of Cania. Ironically, the palace of Mephistopheles, the ruler, is not one of those places, as he and his servants are avid users of [[Hellfire]], which he claims to have discovered.
** A line in the Book of Erotic Fantasy has a wizard commenting that having sex with a vampire was like having sex with 'ice covered in thick velvet'.
* Played straight with the [[Eldritch Abomination|Neverborn]] in ''[[Exalted]]'', who have a lot of imagery revolving around darkness, death, and the chill of the Void. The Ebon Dragon sometimes gets in on this act, but is more associated with shadows, treachery, opposition, and the [[Shadow Archetype]] than anything else. Averted with [[Light Is Not Good|Ligier]] and anyone associated with him; as the Green Sun that illuminates Malfeas, he burns very hot indeed.
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* In ''[[The Dark Eye]]'', the Netherhells, home of the forces of chaos that want to destroy the world, are proverbially cold.
 
▲== Film[[Toys]] ==
* While there are ice-themed villains in the ''[[Bionicle]]'' toyline, the comic book begins with a focus on Kopaka, Toa of Ice. He averts this trope in his internal monologue: ''There is evil on this island, and it is about to learn that justice...can be...'''[[Bold Inflation|cold]]'''.''
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Lich King from ''[[Warcraft (Video Game)|Warcraft]]'' games.:
** The Lich King. No depiction of him will neglect to have ice and snow added.
** In ''[[World of Warcraft (Video Game)|World of Warcraft]]'', the (now obsolete) Frozen Shadoweave armour set gives bonus to shadow and frost spells, and was a favorite of Warlocks, Shadow Priests, and Frost Mages. Although none of those classes could use shadow ''and'' frost spells, as might be expected.
** Many parts of Northrend (the domain of the aforementioned Lich King) are snowy. And Death Knights (who are undead creations of the Scourge, albeit prone to [[Heel Face Turn|Heel Face Turns]]s) use shadow and ice-based attacks.
** The Scourge in ''[[Warcraft III]]'' also featured the Lich hero (who could hurl ice blasts etc) and the Frost Wyrm. It's probably not coincidental that Arthas' cursed blade is named '''Frost'''mourne. Liches who were normal mages/warlocks/shamans/bloodmages etc. in life suddenly become highly attuned to the power of cold when they enter the service of the Lich King. This was originally explained by their attunement to the frozen Northrend wastes, although there's also an unconnected lich found in a desert in Outland with the same mastery over cold.
*** It's explained in [[All There in the Manual|supplemental material]] that high elves and undead greatly prefer ice magic because it is very stable, precise, and easy to control, thus far more suitable to very long-lived beings than the far more unstable and difficult to control fire magic, which in turn is popular among humans, gnomes, blood elves, and the like.
* In ''[[Battle for Wesnoth]]'', Dark Adepts and Ghosts are two of the exactly three unit lines that get cold damage in default.
* In the [[Roguelike]] game ''[[Moria]]'', equipping a cursed item causes the message, "Oops! It feels deathly cold!" to appear.
* Jin Kisaragi in ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]''. While his ice power is ''definitely'' not evil, [[Jerkass|his]] [[Ax Crazy|personality]] certainly gives off this vibe.
** Yukianesa's power is pretty creepy though... It amplifies people's emotions, and for Jin that means his [[Ax Crazy|Ax Craziness]] when presented with Ragna the Bloodedge or Noel Vermillion.
* [[Silent Hill: Shattered Memories]] replaces the rust and fire the town's evil alternate dimension has become known for with cold, covering everything with thick layers of ice.
** justified considering the raw shocks suck the heat from things they touch, which is how they kill you
** Also worth noting is the scene in the car, in which you are trapped in a car at the bottom of the lake. Suddenly, a [[Cat Scare|Rawshock]] comes up against your back window and the water all freezes (but somehow you can still move) and the phrases, "Stop fighting" "It will all be okay" and "So cold" appear scraped onto your window.
* "Oops! It feels deathly cold!" whenever you put on a cursed item in ''[[Angband]]''.
* Subtle example in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'': [[Dark Messiah|Seymour]] passes as a perfectly decent, saintly public servant in subtropical Luca and the green forests surrounding the Moonflow river and his capital city of Guadosalam. We find out he is evil in the trip to Macalania--hisMacalania—his temple, and frozen through and through.
* Bonechill in ''[[Super Paper Mario (Video Game)|Super Paper Mario]]'' uses various ice-related powers. Oddly enough, his backstory seems to be largely based off of that of Satan in the aforementioned Dante's ''Inferno'', as that of a [[Our Angels Are Different|Nimbi]] who [[Fallen Angel|fell from grace]] and was imprisoned in one of the lowest levels of the Underwhere (the Mario-verse's version of the Underworld) in ice.
* You get to visit one layer of hell (see ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' under "[[Tabletop Games]]") in ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]: Hordes of the Underdark''. This one is so cold you take continuous cold damage from just being there without the appropriate protection. This leads to an obligatory, predictable, yet irresistible pun after you get out.
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Mephistopheles'''}}: Last I knew, I thought I had trapped you for all eternity in an icy little place called Cania.<br />
'''[[Player Character]]''': Sorry, Hell froze over.<br />
{{spoiler|'''Mephistopheles'''}}: How very witty. }}
* A more comical example can be found in ''[[The Addams Family (TV)|The Addams Family]]: Pugley's Scavenger Hunt''. In which the last level takes place inside a fridge. The difficulty spikes up to eleven with ice spikes, evil snowmen and slippery surfaces at every turn.
* Vexen, Organization XIII's resident [[Mad Scientist]] from the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series. [[Badass Grandpa|Master Xehanort]] has other powers, but uses ice magic for one of his biggest [[Kick the Dog]] moments in the ''Birth by Sleep'' trailer: {{spoiler|freezing Ven solid and then dropping him off a cliff}}.
* Inverted in ''[[In FamousInfamous (Videovideo game Gameseries)|InFamous 2]]'': The Good end of the [[Karma Meter]] gets you ice powers, the Evil end [[Playing Withwith Fire|fire powers]].
* [[Our Liches Are Different|Liches]] in ''[[Lusternia]]'' gain the ability to cloak themselves in an aura of cold, passively freezing their foes. They can do the same thing even faster with a touch.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
 
▲== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'s'' [[Spider Sense|ghost breath]] is explained by the fact that ghosts make the air around them very cold. If he can see his breath in an ordinarily warm place, there's ''definitely'' a ghost about. Eventually his "ghost breath" turns into ice-based powers.
* In ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'', Karl Rove freezes Klaus in his bowl as he floats past.
* The Ice King in ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]'', as well as [[Big Bad|The Lich]].
{{quote| '''The Lich:''' "Aren't you... cold?"}}
* Professor Coldheart of the ''[[Care Bears]]'' franchise.
* The [[Wendigo|Windigo]] blizzard spirits in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''.
* Nekron, the villain of ''[[Fire and Ice (Filmanimation)|Fire and Ice]]'', has ice-based superpowers.
* Icy, one of [[Big Bad Duumvirate| the Trix]] in ''[[Winx Club]]''. She didn't [[Meaningful Name| get that name for nothing, y'know.]]
 
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