Snow Means Cold/Playing With

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


Basic Trope: When the weather gets cold, snow and ice immediately appear.

  • Straight: After the Evil Overlord hits the Earth with his global Freeze Ray, fierce snowstorms appear all over the planet.
  • Exaggerated: After the Evil Overlord hits the Earth with his global Freeze Ray, the planet is covered with six feet of ice.
  • Justified: Before attacking the Earth with his Freeze Ray, the Evil Overlord vaporized the planet's ice caps to increase the atmospheric humidity.
  • Inverted: The global Freeze Ray blasts away moisture, so it gets drier as it gets colder.
  • Subverted: The Evil Overlord hits the Earth with his global Freeze Ray, but snow doesn't fall in arid locations.
  • Double Subverted: ...For about thirty seconds. Then the winter weather kicks in.
  • Parodied: The Evil Overlord turns down the thermostat at his Supervillain Lair, then a snowstorm appears in his Grand Chamber.
  • Deconstructed: ???
  • Reconstructed: ???
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: After the earth is hit by the Freeze Ray, only moist places snow.
  • Enforced: The main sponsor sells designer parkas, which are prominently featured on the show.
  • Lampshaded: "Oh, no! That snow must mean the Evil Overlord has activated his Freeze Ray!"
  • Invoked: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: "The Big Bad has a global Freeze Ray? Here comes the snow-covered deserts."
  • Conversed: "I love how screenwriters have no knowledge of basic meteorology."

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