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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 -- or function as a mundane alternative.)
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== 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-Joke]]. As described by Revelations, Satan will eventually be freed as part of [[The End of the World As 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 [[JRR Tolkien (Creator)|JRR 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.
* [[CS Lewis (Creator)|CS 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.
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