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{{trope}}
[[File:invadersfromtheiceworld.jpg|frame|The Magic Snowman. [[This Is Your Premise
{{quote|''"By the power invested in me by the mighty and awful snow demons, I command you to come to life! LIVE! LIVE! LIVVVE!"''|'''Calvin''', ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''. ([[Be Careful What You Wish For|It doesn't end well]].)}}
{{quote|''"He's chillin'...and killin'."''|Tagline for ''[[Jack Frost (1997
Snowlems (a [[Portmanteau]] of Snow [[Golem
'''Version I. The Friendly Snowlem:''' Also known as the "[[Frosty the Snowman]]" variety, they often are simply snowmen constructed by cute kids and animated by [[Christmas Special|Christmas magic]]. Very often the subject of [[Narm]].
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'''Version III: The Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snowlem:''' The snowman is something to be [[Nightmare Fuel|feared]]. Perhaps it's some supernatural monstrosity shaped into a snowman or perhaps a serial killer back to life or maybe it was simply evil snow, it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is... oh my god, he just killed that guy with a carrot!
Snowlems sometimes get into [[Snowball Fight
See also [[Improvised Golems]].
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▲== Advertising ==
* ''Lipton's'' corporation ran a series of ads for its iced tea products, in which an animate snowman skeleton wanders into a convenience store in the dead of summer, downs a bottle of iced tea, and recrystalizes into a decidely sinister-looking snowman. Who then steals a carrot and stalks-off.
* Conversely, there was an oft-repeated ad for Campbell's soup which began with a small snowman walking inside a house to get a bowl of soup, and melting away as the soup warms it up... revealing it was really a boy underneath.
* Ice Mountain bottled water often featured a constantly-melting snowman who needed replenishing with the titular bottled water.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131217083340/http://www.irn-bru.co.uk/advert/snowman.html Irn Bru] parody of the flight sequence from [[The Snowman]] (see Western Animation).
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* One episode of ''[[
* Chilly from the ''[[Kirby]]'' [[Kirby:
▲* One episode of ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' from the third season had crazy snowmen.
▲* Chilly from the ''[[Kirby]]'' [[Kirby of the Stars|anime]] falls under this trope. Gamewise, it's debatable.
* These are created in ''[[Berserk]]'' when evil spirits attack the [[Weirdness Magnet]] hero during a snowstorm.
** This happens during the Millennium Falcon arc of the manga (which has nothing to do with ''[[Star Wars]]''), and as a result, the Playstation 2 ''Berserk'' game has Guts taking his [[BFS]] to them during the first part of the game, eventually having to face a boss Snowlem.
* Created by Giriko in ''[[Soul Eater]]'', they were used as the attack forces from [[Nebulous Evil Organisation|Aracnophobia]] during the battle for [[Ancient Artifact|"BREW"]].
* [[Digimon]] has had several different Snowlems, the most prominent being Frigimon.
* [[Ah! My Goddess
* A surprisingly good anime-only episode of ''[[Ranma ½
** In his introduction to the story, [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Principal]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|Kuno]] disguised himself [[
== Comic Books ==▼
* ''The Snowman'' (see Western Animation) was originally a wordless graphic novel by [[Raymond Briggs]].
* The image at the top of the page comes from an issue of ''Strange Adventures'' called "[[media:invadersfromtheiceworldful.jpg|Invaders from the Ice World]]", which is a brain-breaking example of [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
** Also, [[media:supermansnowman.jpg|this issue]] of ''Action Comics'' has Snow [[
* Supes also battles a literal snow golem (Hebrew words on the forehead and everything) in a recent DC comics holiday special.
* The Blue Snowman (an old [[Wonder Woman]] foe) looks like this, but is actually a human woman in a bulky costume.
* Adult comic ''[[Viz]]'' used to run a seasonal parody of ''[[The Snowman]]'', with a violent, foul-mouthed snowman taking the human boy on a drinking and gambling spree.
* An arguable example in [[Sonic the Comic]], which had a story where Amy Rose tangled with "the Snownik", one of Robotnik's odder (and dumber) creations. It was sort of a Snowlem with robot bits - whether the snow was just covering for an all-robotic interior or not wasn't revealed.
* In an issue of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage
==
* ''[[Jack Frost (1997
▲* ''[[Jack Frost 1997 (Film)|Jack Frost 1997]]'' had a serial killer become transformed into a snowman due to [[You Fail Biology Forever|ribonucleic acid]]. In the film, he ''rapes'' a woman in the shower ''with a carrot''.
** This was followed by ''Jack Frost 2: [[Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie|Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman]]'', a more humorous film, where Jack Frost is eventually defeated by ''a banana''.
* A bit lighter is ''[[Jack Frost (1998
* There was a 2005 made-for-video movie called ''The Legend of Frosty the Snowman'', a very, very loose sequel to the original [[Rankin/Bass Productions]] ''[[Frosty the Snowman|Frosty]]''.
* A ''[[Rudolph the Red
* One of the creatures listed on the monster board in ''[[The Cabin in
== Literature ==▼
* Mr. Snow in the ''[[Mr. Men]]'' books was created by [[Santa Claus]] as an assistant.
* In [[Discworld]], the Ice Giants often mentioned to be at war with the gods have eyes of coal and snowmen are stated to be idols built by human racial memory.
** And then there's the [[
* One ''[[Goosebumps]]'' novel centered around an evil snowman who was really a [[Sealed Evil in
== Live Action TV ==▼
* Fozzie builds a snowman who comes to life in ''[[A Muppet Family Christmas]]''. They're briefly a double act, but the snowman retreats outside due to heat and heckling.
** ''[[It's a
* The ''[[Pee-Wee's Playhouse]] Christmas Special'' featured an interesting case: Pee-wee builds a regular snowman, and Cowboy Curtis suggests that it'll come to life if they stare at it long enough. And it does, exclaiming, "Why don't you take a picture? It'll last longer!"
==
* "Frosty the Snowman" actually started out as a song written by Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson, and recorded by Gene Autry in 1950.
==
* This page can't be complete without mentioning the ''[[Calvin and Hobbes|Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons!]]'' Calvin builds a snowman and decides to try to bring it to life. It works, and promptly starts trying to kill him. It then proceeds to start packing more snow onto itself, give itself extra arms and heads, and start making more. By the end of the story, there are about 17 of the things on his lawn and his parents are once again considering sending him to a therapist. {{spoiler|He finally defeats them by [[Kill It
* Decades before Calvin, Charlie Brown - in the old ''[[Peanuts]]'' strip [https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts-begins/2019/12/31?ct=v&cti=2129226 seen here] - fools Patty into thinking a snowman is chasing him.
▲* This page can't be complete without mentioning the ''[[Calvin and Hobbes|Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons!]]'' Calvin builds a snowman and decides to try to bring it to life. It works, and promptly starts trying to kill him. It then proceeds to start packing more snow onto itself, give itself extra arms and heads, and start making more. By the end of the story, there are about 17 of the things on his lawn and his parents are once again considering sending him to a therapist. {{spoiler|He finally defeats them by [[Kill It With Water|spraying them with the hose]], causing them to freeze solid.}}
* ''[[Little Nemo]] in Slumberland'' had a great crowd of snowmen flinging countless snowballs at each other. Nemo takes a snowball on the nose while watching them.
* ''The Strange Adventures of Frappe, the Snowman, and His Papa'' features a mischievous yet friendly living snowman.
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* The high-level ''Simulacrum'' spell in [[Dungeons
▲* The high-level ''Simulacrum'' spell in [[Dungeons and Dragons]] creates a low-power duplicate of a living being out of snow or ice. That's right, they're deranged mutant killer monster snowlems... and they ''walk among you!''
** Eve worse is the ''Ice Assassin'' spell, a Version III upgrade to the above. While a simulacrum could theoretically be put to benign use, an ice assassin's entire purpose is to kill whoever it's based on.
** The ''[[Ravenloft]]'' setting perpetuates the proud [[Dungeons
* The Ice Giants of Narandu in ''[[Talislanta]]'' are at very least strongly ''implied'' to be Snowlems (of the third variety).
==
* [[Cirque Du Soleil]]'s ''Wintuk'' show has a bunch of ten-foot ice golem-esque things come to life and attack the heroes. The golems are puppets, of course.
== Toys ==
* In 2007, [[Spawn]] creator Todd McFarlane released [http://www.oafe.net/yo/mcmon5snow.php a Version III Snowlem] in Series 5 of his company's "Monsters" toyline.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* ''[[Bible Buffet]]'' featured killer snowmen as one of the villains. Because that was totally predicted in the Bible.
** Killer snowmen [[The Angry Video Game Nerd
* ''Noah's Ark'', a Konami game, features a killer snowman at the end of the Antarctica stages.
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' has ''ninja'' snowman enemies.
** The multiplayer "clan dungeon" ''[[Hobopolis]]'' has a snowman hobo named Frosty as a mini-boss.
* Regice is a [[Pokémon]] made entirely of Antarctic ice, and it's one of the Legendary Golems.
* ''[[
* ''[[Clay Fighter]]'' had Bad Mr. Frosty, a badass [[Anti-Hero]] snowman.
* ''[[
** They're also in other games, and [[Dummied Out|were meant to be included]] in ''[[New Super Mario Bros
** ''[[
* Games created with [http://www.sawbladesoftware.com/ Power Game Factory] can include living snowmen as enemies.
* The Adventure game ''[[Simon the Sorcerer]]'' had one of these as an obstacle. You get past him by [[Fire-Breathing Diner|eating some mints]].
* ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' featured a rather annoying variant in which the only way to defeat them was to knock off their stove-top hats with a difficult aerial maneuver.
** And they ''laughed'' at you the whole time. Jerks.
* A [[You Mean "Xmas"|Wintersday]] quest in ''[[Guild Wars]]'' features characters chasing down familiar-sounding ingredients (button, two pieces of coal, corncob pipe, magic hat) to make Freezie, the Greatest Snowman Ever Made. Freezie and other snowmen (which look like [http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ice_Elemental Ice Elementals] wigh a snowman head stuck on the front]]) also show up in other Wintersday quests, and populate the Secret Lair of the Snowmen dungeon in ''Eye of the North''. For the children!
* One of the unlockable skins in some of the ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' games is that of a snowman. A Snowlem with a [[BFG]]. You may quake in fear now.
* Various 'Winter Events' in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' have involved menacing Type III Snowlems of varrying sizes - including towering 'Giant Monster' versions that requires several entire TEAMS of Superheroes to defeat.
* ''[[Earthworm Jim (
* Jack Frost is [[Atlus]]' [[Mascot]] for a reason; he appears in just about every ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' game, and he's going to beat the living hee-ho out of you.
** Except in in the ''[[Persona]]'' series where he's on your side.
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* In ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' you can make incredibly angsty snowmen who lament their creation and resent you for creating them.
** Only if you get the proportions wrong. Otherwise, they're quite happy with how they turn out.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Kirby]] 64'' you can turn Kirby into a walking snowman by inhaling the ice and bomb powers together. A walking, ''exploding'' snowman.
* The second big boss of ''[[Final Fantasy Mystic Quest]]'' is a hulking ice golem. The fastest non-magical, non-[[Kill It
* One snow area in ''[[
* In ''[[Lightning Legend Daigo no Daibouken]]'', Yuki Shirogane, [[Our Fairies Are Different|a Snow Girl]] with great magic powers, is able to create those. She gave life to one named Yukidaruman (a Japanese pun between "Yukidaruma", Japanese for "snowman", and "Man") at the age of 3. She tried to create another, giant one at age 7, but her attempt failed horribly, the snowlem crumbling and burying her in snow; she narrowly escaped death thanks to her father rescuing her.
* ''[[Minecraft]]'' includes the ability to create snow golems (basically a snowman with a carved pumpkin head), who serve as a friendly mob, throwing snowballs at aggressive mobs to divert their attention and leaving trails of snow as they walk around.
* ''[[Ghostbusters the Video Game]]'' ''didn't'' do Snow Golems, but the earlier 1990 version for the Sega Genesis did. In fact, the Apartment level had two: the middle-boss [[Crysta Robo]] (an ice golem that could shoot lightning) and a Snowman that could spawn mini-Snow Golems.
* In the level Frozen Altars in ''[[Spyro the Dragon|Spyro: Year of the Dragon]]'', there are a couple Type III Snowlems as enemies, who can only be killed by lasers.
* [[Terraria]] has an entire army of these, called the Frost Legion, which will attack you if you use a snow globe to summon them. They come in [[Knife Nut]], gangster and snowball-throwing versions.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* You play a heroic snowlem in [[The Caverns of Hammerfest]]
* The [[Time Splitters]] series featured a character named the [[Exactly What It Says
== Web Animation ==
* [[Homestar Runner|Blue Laser Commander]] announces his intention of making super-soldiers out of snow ("They're called 'Super-Snowldiers,' thank you very much!") as soon as he can find some carrots.
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
▲== Web Comics ==
* Either subverted or justified in ''[[Antihero for Hire]]'': Shadehawk is attacked by one of these while on patrol after heavy snow, but it turns out to be a giant robot who was caught in the blizzard.
* Christi from ''[[The Princess Planet]]'' creates a living Snowman because using dead body parts instead is [https://web.archive.org/web/20080517132129/http://www.theprincessplanet.com/p1.html too hard and gross.]
* ''[[VG Cats]]'' [[Nightmare Fuel|hilariously]] subverts the tale of [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=275 Frosty].
* ''[[The
* A side story in ''[[Jack (
* The heroes of ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'' encounter one [http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0256.html in this filler strip].
* ''[[
* Mr Nutty of ''[[Pokey the Penguin]]''.
* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]:'' Molly built a [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20110301.html steam-powered snowman.] He melted, for obvious reasons.
* In ''[[Erfworld]]'', Hat Magicians can use their magic hats to animate snowmen into Snow Golems. They return to inanimate snowmen if the hat is removed.
* ''[[Devil Bear]]'' had [http://www.thedevilbear.com/comics.php?p=588 some of those] in "Frozen Dinner".
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Web Original ==
* The [[Whateley Universe]] story "There's an Angel in Father John's Basement" plays with this: The third-rate mystic villain trio after the power of the titular 'Angel' find a magical tome which will let them unleash an evil so powerful that all the major superheroes in New York will have to fight it. To do this, they build themselves an army of evil Santas and mobile, energy-absorbing snowmen. The prophecy comes true when the individual snowmen eventually combine into ''[[Norse Mythology|Ymir]]'' in the middle of New York...
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edavGZ4UoIU Freaky the Scary Snowman], a prank done by some folks in Rhode Island, draws some inspiration from this.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The original ''[[Frosty the Snowman]]'' animated television [[Christmas Special]] was aired on December 7, 1969. What followed were several [[Sequelitis|increasingly bad sequels]]: ''Frosty's Winter Wonderland'' in 1976, ''Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July'' in 1979, and ''Frosty Returns'' in 1992.
* They were all follow-ups to ''[[Rudolph the Red
* ''[[Bouli]]'' was a French animated television series that aired from 1989 to 1991, where the moon magically animated the snowman Bouli and his friends and they set up a snowman village in the woods.
* The ''[[Kim Possible]]'' half-episode "Day of the Snowmen" involved a weather machine and toxic water from Lake Wannaweep creating mutant zombie snowmen.
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* A classic 1968 Spider-Man short, "Trouble With Snow", also featured a giant snowman made from tainted snow and brought to life by downed power lines.
* ''[[
* The first ''[[South Park]]'' short was called "Jesus vs. Frosty" and involved four kids animating a snowman - who turns out to be an insane killer who sprouts [[Naughty Tentacles|tentacles]].
* There was a short cartoon called ''[[Earth Versus Everything]]'', which featured giant mutant killer snowmen brought to life by [[I Love Nuclear Power|radiation from nuclear tests]]. It was a very silly cartoon.
* The famous British short film ''[[The Snowman]]'' ("we're walking in the air") features a living snowman who can even fly to Lapland for a snowman party. Shown every Christmas on [[Channel
** There's a 1930-era cartoon ''[[The Snowman]]'' that starts off pleasantly enough as an Eskimo boy and his animal pals build a snowman, but it turns into a version III that goes on a psycho rampage (even eating one of the critters!) - the kid runs to a control room and starts up machinery that cranks up the sun, and the Snowlem melts in ghastly death-throes. Literal [[Nightmare Fuel]] for this troper as a kid.
* Used by Dao Lon Wong in the [[Christmas Episode]] of ''[[
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' had a small bit where two police snowmen were at a puddle:
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'''Officer B:''' *Turns on radio* Suspect died of... natura-natural causes. *sniff* }}
** They also have an scene with "Composite Santa" who is half evil-Santa and half evil-Frosty. Temperatures over 32 degrees causes half of him to melt and kills him.
** "Haaaappy Birthd--'''OHGOD!!!'''"
* ''[[The Simpsons (
** Earlier, a delirious Burns suggested that the snowmen they had made ([[Too Dumb to Live|and given their clothes to]]) to stave off cabin fever might be alive and try to kill them.
** In another episode, Bart has a dream that he visits the North Pole to get revenge on Santa. Two living snowmen try to stop him but he defeats them by simply turning up the heat.
* A freezing villain makes version III snowlems in an episode of ''[[Johnny Test]]''.
* The [[Monster of the Week]] in an episode of ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]''. As the last of the snowmen, his nefarious scheme is to extract the anti-melting gene from humans and implant it into himself, allowing him to outlive the inevitable warming of the earth. Also he speaks with a Scottish accent. Take from that what you will.
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** He shows up in a later episode and freezes Courage's house and owners to make a cozy home for himself. Courage retaliates by {{spoiler|going to the North Pole, sewing up the hole in the ozone layer, and making it cold enough to revive the last snowman's snowfriends.}}
* The snow soldiers from the three part [[Christmas Special]] of ''[[Bump in
* Arktos, the main villain of ''[[Tabaluga]]'', is an [[Evil Overlord]] snowman who wishes to cover the world in ice and snow.
* ''Der Schneemann'' or ''The Snowman'' was a short animated film made in [[Nazi Germany]] by Hans Fischerkoesen. (Excerpt [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T39J6RL1kXA here].)
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', when Heloise hears about snow, her first thought is of her leading an army of these in battle.
* The Abominable Snowman from ''[[House of Mouse]]'' actually looks like this and nothing like [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti|an actual Yeti]] at all.
* The Abominable Snowkoopa from ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3]]'' was created by Big Mouth to terrorize the penguins of Antarctica in the episode "7 Continents for 7 Koopas".
* An episode of ''[[Mona the Vampire]]'' had Chilly, a snowman with [[An Ice Person|freeze powers]] and the inexplicable ability to drive one of those big snow blower trucks.
* A group of these that showed up in the ''[[Martin Mystery]]'' [[Christmas Episode]] could [[Breath Weapon|vomit]] quick freezing slush.
* One of these is unleashed by [[Bad Santa|Santa's]] [[Christmas Elves|elves]] in the ''[[
* Features in the ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
* ''Trigger Happy TV'' reminds us that [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwb6st5BLL0 no one is safe.]
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[[Category:These Tropes Were Frozen Today]]
[[Category:Index of Fictional Creatures]]
[[Category:Christmas Tropes]]
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