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{{quote|''"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."''
|'''[[Alfred Hitchcock]]'''}}
There are many ideas associated with snow: Tranquility, purity, cleanliness, beauty...
So naturally, many people are shown dramatically dying in the snow. It may have something to do with how red blood contrasts so sharply with white snow, especially when gentle snowflakes are falling around a scene of carnage. It may have something to do with the way the snow seems to try and wash away the unclean corpses and ruins. It may have something to do with how it looks like a beautiful and peaceful way to die, just letting the cold embrace you as you fall to sleep. It may have something to do with how snow melts on living bodies, but coats those that have passed on.
And then there's the symbolism.
As beautiful as snow is, it also signifies winter, associated with the death of the year (in the northern hemisphere at least), the death of crops, and the death of the sun. [[Snowed In|Snow also covers the world with a blanket of white]], and in Eastern cultures, white is the color of death (as it was
Whatever the reason, using snow is a great way to portray a character on the verge of dying or a place torn by war in a very artful manner.
A sub-trope of [[Empathic Environment]]. For a different interpretation of snow, see [[Snow Means Love]]. See [[White Shirt of Death]] and [[Blood
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{{examples|Examples}}▼
== Anime
* In ''[[
* In the 2006 version of ''[[Kanon]]'', this trope is so prevalent that it's hard to pick out which examples fit it the best. The lyrics of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mym-FZ6DCQI#t=32s opening theme] ("Last Regrets") practically announce it. Yuuichi's repressed memories are first hinted at in how much he hates snow. When {{spoiler|Makoto}} dies, the illusion of a green field fades to show that the surroundings were covered in snow. Snow is practically a central theme for Yuuichi's meetings and conversations with Shiori, {{spoiler|who is terminally ill.}} Snow is arguably the ''cause'' of the [[Your Mileage May Vary|subverted]] [[Look Both Ways]] incident {{spoiler|when Akiko's hit by a car that appears to be skidding out of control}}, and the imagery of the red strawberries thrown into the snow where it happened is painfully evocative. The same symbolism is made brutally real shortly after, when Yuuichi finally remembers {{spoiler|what happened to Ayu years ago: she fell off a tree and was left comatose}}: unable to take any more, Yuuichi runs out into a snowstorm {{spoiler|calling for Ayu; he runs past the place where they used to play without recognizing it because it's covered in snow. With the snow now falling furiously all around him (just as the deaths seem to be), he lays down and waits to die}}. The upbeat [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3olm7_kanon-ed-2_shortfilms ending theme] about someone trying to find their way home seems to contradict the trope, showing Ayu happily running through the snow - until {{spoiler|you find out where she's been all along}}.
* ''[[Clannad (
* Pulled a [[Rule of Three|third time]] by Key with ''[[Angel Beats
* In ''[[Ghost in
* Pulled a 4th time by Key, though much earlier on with ''[[Planetarian]]''. In the finale, {{spoiler|The closing scenes of the game reveal that the rain has stopped and the snow is finally falling which represents hope not only for the Junker, but for humanity. }}
* The incident in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
** And then there's
* The first ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' intro. A city in ruins and an [[Empathy Doll Shot]], all covered in a sheet of falling snow. [[The Movie]] ''Endless Waltz'' actually shows how it happened ({{spoiler|Heero accidentally blew up an apartment building}}); as the realization sinks in, snow starts to fall.
* The ''[[
** Also doubles as a massive amount of luck on Light's part, as {{spoiler|the snow makes Kira Investigation member Aizawa get out his umbrella, obscuring his vision. The guy literally walks right past Light and Naomi without noticing either of them. 'cause, you know, if he did see the two of them, Light's little reign would've ended then and there}}.
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', the deaths of Zabuza and Haku are marked with the falling of snow. Though this is also partially because Haku's name means white, and he comes from a snowy village...
* The first Suzaku Seishi to die in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''
** Also invoked when {{spoiler|Suzuno and Tatara get [[Together in Death]]. It's snowing in both worlds as this happens, and their souls are reunited in a snowy forest.}}
* Snow falling in summer is taken as an omen of Happosai's impending death in ''[[Ranma
* The [[Happy Flashback]] to Sara meeting her brother Ralph in the snow in ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' appears just before they prepare to fight to the death in the present.
* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', {{spoiler|Tomoe}} dies in the snow.
* In ''[[Full Moon
* Episode 13 of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', as Gren's ship crashes in a snowy field. He doesn't die there, but he starts coughing up blood and is clearly a goner.
* At the end of the Galaxian Wars arc of ''[[Saint Seiya]]'', it starts to snow in the mountains where Phoenix Ikki has just been defeated by the other Bronze Saints. While Seiya and the others hold off Docrates' forces, preventing them from stealing the Sagittarius Gold Cloth, a dying Ikki regards the snow as a symbol of his purification... and then gets up and [[Redemption Equals Death|brings down the mountain on himself and Docrates]] to save the Saints' lives, burying everything and everyone in rock and snow. Then again, he IS the ''[[Back
* The winter scenes in ''[[Millennium Actress]]'' portend doom: when she first meets and falls in love with the artist he's bleeding; later during WWII she's imprisoned for helping him {{spoiler|and he gets captured and executed}}; during the 50s she tries to find him in the snow fields of Hokkaido and nearly dies. {{spoiler|During her ''actual'' death it's raining - close enough.}}
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', [[Doomed Hometown|the destruction of Negi's hometown]] occurred over the course of one snowy night.
* The last episode of ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'' combines this with [[Snow Means Love]]; for various reasons, Sato and Misaki both attempt to commit suicide at a snow-covered jetty and realise they love each other.
* At the end of ''[[Winter Cicada]]'', the doomed lovers commit ''seppuku'' in the snow.
* In ''[[
* {{spoiler|The death of Tsukiyono's brother}} in ''[[Gamble Fish]]''.
* The [[Tear Jerker|tear-jerking]] scene (which scarred many Latin American children in [[The Nineties]]) of ''Nobody's Boy Remi'' (''[[Ie Naki Ko]]'', based on French novel "''Sans famille''," by Hector Malot), when the performing monkey Jolie-Coeur dies of pneumonia after forcing itself to perform one last time on the snowy streets.
** It soon gets worse, {{spoiler|since the already terminally ill [[Papa Wolf|Vitalis]] also dies in the snow, in an [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save Remi and Cappi (the only survivor out of the animals) from perishing with him.}}.
* {{spoiler|Stella's burial}} in ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]''.
* The [[Downer Ending]] to ''[[The Dog
* ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:]]'': {{spoiler|the deaths of Souren Araya and Lio Shirazumi, both villains.}} Narrowly averted with {{spoiler|Shiki Ryougi, who gives up on living right after revenge-killing the latter, thinking her boyfriend was dead.}}
* It snows in ''[[Bokurano]]'' during the deaths of {{spoiler|Youko Machi}} and {{spoiler|Kanji Yoshikawa}}
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', the final confrontation with the Dark Kingdom takes place at "D Point" near the North Pole, and the penultimate episode in which {{spoiler|the Senshi all die facing the Doom and Gloom Girls}} is appropriately snow-covered. To fit with the theme,
* ''[[So Ra No
* In ''[[Sakura Gari]]'', {{spoiler|Sakurako dies this way, slitting her wrists open with a katana and then drowning self in a pond as the snow falls...}}
* ''[[
* Shows up in episode 10 of [[Figure 17]] {{spoiler|which deals with Sho's sudden death.}} Shot of falling snowflakes against night sky is used repeatedly.
* {{spoiler|The Going Merry}} in ''[[One Piece]]''.
* {{spoiler|Mitsuru}} in ''[[
* The entire Northern Campaign in ''[[Claymore]]'' [[
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' scenes at the {{spoiler|Tucker}} house are often shown with the three kids playing in snow. {{spoiler|Nina gets turned into a human/dog chimera with her pet Alexander by her father and subsequently killed by Scar. Depending on which continuity you are viewing, Shou was either killed by Scar too or also became a chimera.}}
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Gundam AGE]]'', {{spoiler|as Yurin L'Ciel is dying, she shares a psychic vision of her time on Minsry with Flit. As the vision of Minsry's forest ends, the scenery changes and it starts to snow...}}
* As ''[[Detective Conan]]'' is a series where people fall dead in almost every episode, there are ''many'' murder cases that happen in the snow, and where footprints and other signals happen to be totally ''vital'' as clues to reveal who killed the victim of the week. One of the most emblematic cases is The Ski Lodge Mystery, where {{spoiler|a [[Hot Teacher]] organizes a ski trip with her workmates... to murder two of them, in punishment for [[Would Hurt a Child|having killed one of their students]] [[He Knows Too Much|for knowing too much about their dirty deals]]. Both murders happen during a snowy night... And then Conan finds out and unmasks her through Ran. ([[Break the Cutie|Poor]], [[Broken Pedestal|poor]] [[Detective Conan
** Also ''weaponized'' in a filler case, where {{spoiler|the [[Body Double]] of a famous actress kills her boss via drugging her and burying her in the snow, thus causing her to die of hypothermia.}}
* [[Makoto Shinkai]] has used this in several of his films:
** ''[[5 Centimeters per Second]]'': Technically the death of a relationship rather than a person, but Takaki and Akari's relationship [[Snow Means Love|peaks when they kiss in the snow]] under a sakura tree, and things go downhill for them from there. Later on, Takaki gets a breakup email from Risa while walking home in the falling snow.
** ''[[Children Who Chase Lost Voices]]'': Asuna's father died during the winter. Morisaki is also shown standing above his wife's grave in falling snow.
** ''[[Weathering with You]]'': As bad as the constant heavy rain is, it is once snow starts falling in summer that things race rapidly to their nadir.
* ''[[Your Lie in April]]'': The last time Kousei sees {{spoiler|Kaori}} alive is on a snowy rooftop. Later, he visits her grave in the snow and gets a letter with her last words from her parents.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The most famous example of this trope in Argentina is [[Hector German Osterheld]]'s magnum opus, ''El Eternauta''. There, the first sign of the alien invasion of the Manos and the Ellos is glowing snow that kills within contact with the skin, forcing the protagonist, his friends and family to don radiation suits in order to survive.
*
* The final chapters of ''[[Watchmen]]'', for the big reveal on Laurie's past, and the final fate of one of the mains.
* [[Sin City]]. That Yellow Bastard.
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== Film ==
* In the movie ''[[Three Days of the Condor]]'', the protagonist, Joseph Turner (a.k.a. Condor), notices that Kathy Hale photographs and displays only scenes of winter (bare trees, lifeless snow). He comments to her that she is focusing on death, which she confirms.
* Not a straight example, but the snow globe in ''[[
* The Chinese movie ''[[Raise the Red Lantern]]'' has the servant Yan'er kneel outdoors in winter until she dies from the cold, while snow flakes fall around her.
* O-Ren in ''[[Kill Bill]]'' also enjoys picturesque death on the snow.
** Although few consider {{spoiler|getting the top of one's head lopped off}} anywhere near picturesque...
*** [[Quentin Tarantino]] would.
* The end of ''[[House of Flying Daggers]]'' went from brightly sunlit to a blizzard, just in time for the dramatic death scene.
* ''[[Moulin Rouge]]!'' ends with the defeated Duke walking through a snowfall, leaving the theater in which the heroine Satine has just died
* ''[[Fargo]]'', where several people die before a snowy background.
* Subverted in ''[[The Shining]]''. Jack does freeze to death, but his expression is anything but peaceful!
* Played straight and subverted in ''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]''. The first time, some survivors have fallen asleep and froze to death while sleeping. They look peaceful. The second time is the naysaying policeman, whose frozen expression is rather pained. But that's what you get for [[Ignored Expert|ignoring the expert]].
* One segment of Akira Kurosawa's ''[[Dreams]]'' features the story of a mountain climber who, trapped in a blizzard and suffering from frostbite, either hallucinates or experiences a visit from a yuki-onna - a snow demon who takes the form of a beautiful woman.
** A yuki-onna figures in one of the stories in ''[[Kwaidan]]'', an anthology film adapting several Japanese folk tales.
* In the 1989 film of ''[[
* ''[[The Ice Storm]]'' is the cinematic tribute to this trope.
* ''[[The Sweet Hereafter]]'' depicts children in a horrific bus accident, caused and contrasted by the peacefulness of the snow around them. Snow and cold are used throughout the movie to symbolize the original serenity in the town.
* ''[[Sin City]]'': John shoots himself in a snowy field.
* In ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'', the boys are seen in a snowy
** A less obvious but more literal
* Used somewhat more literally in ''[[Mulan]]''. {{spoiler|She uses a cannon to start an avalanche and wipe out the Hun army. Mostly.}}
* ''[[White Fang]]'', in the film, after getting wounded in a skirmish between her pack and a group of humans, White Fang's mother limps to her den before collapsing in the entrance, her pup goes out and she gives a farewell lick to him, then it starts snowing.
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* Played with in the 2001 movie ''Cats And Dogs''. {{spoiler|Lou, the heroic beagle, is basically at ground zero right as the main storage tank in a ''Christmas flocking'' factory goes bang, generating an artificial snowstorm, and is dragged out of the factory by another dog, Butch...lying motionless on a Christmas Wreath. This movie being intended as a comedy, he got better.}}
* Used subtly in [[Sympathy for Lady Vengeance]]. The movie ends in the snow {{spoiler|after the brutal murder of Mr. Baek.}} White is also used actively to symbolize purity, which is what Geum-ja is trying to move toward.
** [[
* ''[[
* In Kunio Watanabe's 1958 version of ''[[The 47 Ronin]]'', the whole film builds to the epic battle in a snow-covered courtyard.
* ''[[Let the Right One In]]'' is full of this. Considering it takes place in [[
* An interesting subversion in [[
* ''[[
* Averted in a Soviet movie ''[[The Needle]]'': the protagonist is stabbed with a knife, falls to his knees in the blood-stained snow... but he sruggles to his feet and walks away, disappearing in the snowstorm, and we never see him dead. [[Word of God]] later stated that the protagonist survived.
* In ''[[The Patriot]]'', a few battles set in winter, with [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|corpses covered by snow]].
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== Literature ==
* As already mentioned, Malot's ''[[Sans Famille]]'' has {{spoiler|Jolie-Coeur and Mr. Vitalis}}
* [
** The main character gradually falls asleep in the snow after his fire is put out and dies of hypothermia.
* ''The Little Match Girl'', which makes [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth|dying from cold and starvation lovely, glorious]], and filled with so much [[Glurge]].
** Deconstructed in Terry Pratchett's ''[[Discworld|Hogfather]]'', where Death (who's filling in for the local equivalent of Santa Claus) saves the archetypal Little Match Girl, dismissing her death as needlessly cruel, in the midst of his [[Deconstruction|deconstructing]] a number of Christmastime tropes.
* In ''[[Discworld]]'', the dark pagan origins of the Hogfather (the local expy of [[Santa Claus]]) explain the choice of colours in his clothing: red and white from blood on the snow, ultimately coming from druidic human sacrifices in midwinter to make the sun come back.
* James Joyce's ''[[Dubliners|The Dead]]'' may end with the definitive example of this trope. As the protagonist slowly drifts to sleep, thinking of the dead man his wife once loved, snow covers his window and his thoughts. The closing line: "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
* [[Raptor Red]] and her pack encounter a whip-tailed sauropod on a snowy mountain near the end of the book. It doesn't end well.
* The death of Snowden obviously had quite the impact on the narrator of ''Catch-22'', so much so that the first page of the book asks the random question: "Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?" Snowden's last words are, "It's cold." Considering everyone ''else's'' name is symbolic, it's fair to see this as an example of this trope.
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' visits his parents' graves for the first time in ''Deathly Hallows'', accompanied by Hermione. It so happens that they do this in December, and the graveyard is covered in snow. Harry, of course, [[Tear Jerker|cannot help but cry]] (and neither can many readers).
* In Christina Rossetti's ''[[Goblin Market]]'', Lizzie reminds her sister of Jeanie, who ate the goblin fruit, but sickened and "fell with the first snow" of winter. (Since Laura has already eaten the fruit, this lets readers know just how much time she has left.)
* In [[Warrior Cats|Bluestar's Prophecy]], One of {{spoiler|Bluefur's}} kits, {{spoiler|Mosskit}}, freezes to death in the snow when {{spoiler|Bluefur}} is taking them to {{spoiler|Riverclan to stay with their father, Oakheart}}.
* In ''[[Miss
* Nello and Patrasche in [[A Dog of Flanders]] freeze to death on Christmas Eve.
* In ''My Ántonia'', Mr. Shimerda commits suicide during his first Nebraskan winter.
* In pretty much every adaptation of [[A Christmas Carol]], there is snow in the churchyard when Scrooge discovers his (future) grave.
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'': "Winter is coming", along with the living dead.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Spoofed in [[Father Ted]]. In snows the night before Father Jack's funeral. Ted gives a monologue about how it's snowing all over the island. On all the living, and the dead...Then [[Not Quite Dead|Father Jack]] tells him to Shut the feck up.
* Jonathan Kent's funeral in ''[[Smallville]]''.
* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] by ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', in which Angel's First Evil-inspired attempt to kill himself is foiled by an inexplicable snowstorm in southern California.
* Joss later played it straight in ''[[
** The above is a meta-example, since it was also the very last scene shot [[Screwed
* {{spoiler|Brian's Dad}}'s funeral in ''[[Queer
* The Cybermen gatecrash a funeral in the snow in ''[[
** After he has seen Rose in a beautiful white snow scene punctuated with multicolored string lights, the Tenth Doctor {{spoiler|struggles over to the TARDIS for his regeneration}} while the ood begin to sing to him
* In [[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]], after Miyuki Ozu's {{spoiler|supposed}} death, snow fell.
* David's funeral in the first episode of ''Rubicon.''
* Two episodes of ''[[
** Averted in any episodes that take place in [[Reality Warper|Einstein's]] [[Eldritch Location|dimension]], which is essentially a large iceberg floating in a sea of wormholes. In the first visit Einstein does warn Crichton that he might be forced to kill him, but most of the carnage of that episode takes place in the thoroughly non-snowy [[Alternate Universe|Unrealised Realities]] Einstein displays.
* The brutal, bloody final battle of ''[[Kamen Rider Kuuga]]'' happens on the snowy slopes of Mount Kuro.
* The [[Sudden Downer Ending|final episode]] of ''[[Dinosaurs]]''.
* [[Xena: Warrior Princess]] and Gabrielle on a snow capped mountain in season 4.
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* "South Side of the Sky" by [[Yes]], about a party of mountain climbers that freeze to death.
* From the [[Fleet Foxes]] song White Winter Hymnal:
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* The Greeks gave us Persephone, daughter of Demeter (goddess of the harvest), both kidnapped and [[Values Dissonance|raped]] by [[Parental Incest|her uncle]] Hades to be his bride in the Underworld. The rules stated that anyone who ate in the kingdom of death would be trapped there, so even though her mother successfully sued for her return, she had to spend some time there, having eaten some pomegranate seeds (four, five, seven, or eight; it varies). So each year she returns, and each time she does, Nature dies. Thus winter. When she comes back, Nature thrives. Thus spring.
** In most parts of ancient Greece, they considered Persephone to be gone during the hot, droughty summer, returning during the rainy winter.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Several levels throughout the [[Hitman]] series take place in snow-covered terrain.
* [[One
* In ''[[
* Elise Deauxnim, {{spoiler|best known as Misty Fey, Mia and Maya's mother,}} in the fifth case of ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]: Trials and Tribulations''.
** The series has a few cases set in the snowbound winter, and since Phoenix's cases are [[Always Murder]]...
* {{spoiler|Sniper Wolf}} in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''.
** And {{spoiler|Crying Wolf}} in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4''. Interestingly, this occurs {{spoiler|on the [[Continuity Nod|exact same snow field that Sniper Wolf died on nine years earlier]].}}
** However, the entire first game takes place on an island in Alaska, so there's snow in every outdoor area. The first fights against Vulcan Raven and Liquid Snake also take place in the same snow storm, and nobody dies.
* The snow and fog used in the ''[[Silent Hill]]'' games (and the ice in ''[[Silent Hill: Shattered Memories]]'') might be a use of this trope.
* [[The Undead]] Scourge of ''[[
* In ''[[
* White Len, the "evil" counterpart to Len in ''[[Melty Blood]]'' specifically makes her zone snow with her dream powers.
* The prologue of ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' initially appears to be [[Snow Means Love]]. The main character, Hisao, meets his [[High School Sweethearts|High School Sweetheart]] on a snowy day for a confession of love. Unknown to anyone, [[Heart Trauma|he has cardiac arrythmia and the excitement brings on a heart attack]]. He barely survives, but his old life is over.
* "[[No More Heroes|For the first time in 120 years, snow had fallen on Santa Destroy.]]"
* In ''[[Kessen II]]'', if you beat the final stage of Liu Bei's scenario, Cao Cao is seen dying in the snow, with Diao Chan kneeling beside him. Though, there was never any snow on the battlefield before or after this sequence.
* Yuyuko of the ''[[Touhou]]'' is the Ghost Princess of the Netherworld and has the ability to induce death. Naturally, one of the things associated with her is snow, with her game taking place during a long winter. Even the weather effect assigned to her in ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' is snow.
* In ''[[Mass Effect]]'' 2 {{spoiler|1=the Normandy SR1 crashes onto the surface of an ice planet; in one of the DLC missions you can revisit the wreckage and walk through a chillingly beautiful snowscape littered with debris from the original Normandy while collecting the dogtags of soldiers lost in the crash and placing a memorial statue to commemorate the ship.}}
* ''[[Sunset Over Imdahl]]'' takes place over the course of four seasons. Spring and summer are relatively cheerful, fall is when [[The Plague]] hits, and winter is when [[
* In the short adventure game ''Ulitsa Dimitrova'', the [[Idle Animation]] is first a yawn, followed by a shiver, and falling asleep on the ground, before a localized snowfall starts. [[Downer Ending|That's the only ending.]]
* In ''[[Professor Layton and
* Snow rather literally means death for ''everyone'' in ''[[Mystery Case Files]]: Dire Grove'', where an ancient curse is going to freeze the entire world if it can't be stopped.
* Similarly, the broken heart of [[
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* ''[[Slightly Damned]]'': {{spoiler|Sakido}}'s death occurs during wintertime on the surface.
** On the other hand Rhea, killed during the fall, {{spoiler|is resurrected}} in winter.
* During Aggie's [[Near
* In ''[[Megatokyo]]'', snow begins to fall just as {{spoiler|Miho prepares to meet her death}}.
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': {{spoiler|1=When the deceased Vriska and [[Bad Future|alt!John]] [http://mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005785 meet for the first time] in a dream bubble memory, they are outside John's house in winter with a light snowfall ongoing. In this case, ''both'' of them are dead.}}
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the Rankin-Bass [[Stop Motion]] special ''Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey'', the title character's mother dies after covering him with her body and keeping him warm for all night during a blizzard.
* [[
* One of the more famous examples is from ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The Battle of the Bulge in [[World War Two]].
* Captain Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition.
** Similarly, the various brave <s>idiots</s> explorers looking for the Northwest Passage, most famously Sir John Franklin.
** Also Ernest Shackleton.
* The day following the Halifax Explosion brought a huge blizzard that only helped to add to the the death toll.
* Every time someone invades Russia.
** Or Russia invades Finland
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** The Battle of Stalingrad started in August, but in movies and on pictures, you will almost always see the last weeks in January and
* In Finland, mentioning a drunken person and snow in the same sentence is almost always interpreted as "froze to death", and it is regularly used as an example when explaining to teens why drinking outside during an arctic winter is a [[Too Dumb to Live|really bad idea]].
* There is a proverb in Finland ''Tulis talvi ja tappais köyhät'' (Wish winter would come and kill the poor) which is effectively [[Kick the Dog|hoping misfortune for someone disadvantaged]].
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