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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Lily and Carrie have [[LesYay a lot of tension between them]], [[WordOfGay deliberately]], to reflect the same tension that often arises in {{Buddy Cop Show}}s. Thoroughly resolved without Lily in ''Melt''.

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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Lily and Carrie have [[LesYay a lot of tension between them]], them, [[WordOfGay deliberately]], to reflect the same tension that often arises in {{Buddy Cop Show}}s. Thoroughly resolved without Lily in ''Melt''.
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* AnAxeToGrind: The killer uses an ice axe as his preferred weapon.
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* TheyFightCrime: Despite its locale and the nuclear issues, both stories (and the film) are about a U.S. Marshal investigating a murder and the surrounding conspiracy.
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A sequel, ''Whiteout: Melt'' (September 1999 to February 2000), deals with the theft of hidden nuclear weapons from an ex-Soviet base. A film adaptation of the first book was released in 2009, directed by Dominic Sena and starring Creator/KateBeckinsale, Creator/TomSkerritt, Creator/GabrielMacht, and Columbus Short.

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A sequel, ''Whiteout: Melt'' (September 1999 to February 2000), deals with the theft of hidden nuclear weapons from an ex-Soviet base. A [[LiveActionAdaptation film adaptation adaptation]] of the first book was released in 2009, directed by Dominic Sena and starring Creator/KateBeckinsale, Creator/TomSkerritt, Creator/GabrielMacht, and Columbus Short.

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''Whiteout'' is the first comic book written by (at the time) crime novelist Creator/GregRucka, published by Creator/OniPress as a 4-issue miniseries from July to November 1998, and follows USMarshal Carrie Stetko's investigation of a murder at [=McMurdo=] Station in Antarctica. A sequel, "Whiteout: Melt" (September 1999 to February 2000), deals with the theft of hidden nuclear weapons from an ex-Soviet base, and a film adaptation was released in the United States on September 11, 2009.

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''Whiteout'' is the first comic book written by (at the time) crime novelist Creator/GregRucka, published by Creator/OniPress as a 4-issue miniseries from July to November 1998, and follows USMarshal Carrie Stetko's investigation of a murder at [=McMurdo=] Station in Antarctica. Antarctica.

A sequel, "Whiteout: Melt" ''Whiteout: Melt'' (September 1999 to February 2000), deals with the theft of hidden nuclear weapons from an ex-Soviet base, and a base. A film adaptation of the first book was released in the United States on September 11, 2009.

!! ''Whiteout'' contains examples of:
2009, directed by Dominic Sena and starring Creator/KateBeckinsale, Creator/TomSkerritt, Creator/GabrielMacht, and Columbus Short.


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!!''Whiteout'' contains examples of:
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* DefrostingIceQueen[=/=]DeadpanSnarker: Carrie

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* DefrostingIceQueen[=/=]DeadpanSnarker: Carrie%%* DeadpanSnarker: Carrie.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Carrie killed a crook whose testimony would have been integral to a major trial, but she wasn't fired because she killed him in the course of saving her superior, whom the perp had incapacitated. And her husband died of cancer just before their first anniversery.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Carrie killed a crook whose testimony would have been integral to a major trial, but she wasn't fired because she killed him in the course of saving her superior, whom the perp had incapacitated. And her husband died of cancer just before their first anniversery.anniversary.



* TreasureChestCavity: The canisters are concealed inside the body of one one the murder victims, so they will be flown out when the base is evacuated.

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* TreasureChestCavity: The canisters are concealed inside the body of one one of the murder victims, so they will be flown out when the base is evacuated.
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* SpottingTheThread: Non-incriminating example. After meeting Pryce at Vostok, Carrie is originally suspicious of his story of being a UN investigator flown in to Antarctica. She also quite reasonably believes he could be the man who killed Mooney and attacked her, because the assailant was wearing full-face cold weather gear. But on the plane ride back, Pryce develops a nosebleed, and Carrie realizes that Pryce has not had time to acclimate to Antarctica's low humidity, and couldn't have been at Vostok long enough to kill Mooney and ambush her.

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* SpottingTheThread: Non-incriminating example. After meeting Pryce at Vostok, Carrie is originally suspicious of his story of being a UN investigator flown in to Antarctica. She also quite reasonably believes he could be the man who killed [[spoiler:killed Mooney and attacked her, because the assailant was wearing full-face cold weather gear. But on the plane ride back, Pryce develops a nosebleed, and Carrie realizes that Pryce has not had time to acclimate to Antarctica's low humidity, and couldn't have been at Vostok long enough to kill Mooney and ambush her.]]

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