History Main / HumanSnowman

* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': At the end of "Snow", Fat Doc and Slim Doc are each on the top of a snowy hill, with their hills right next to each other. The two decide to roll to the bottom of the hills as snowballs to catch up with Lamput, but when they collide they end up forming a snowman instead. Lamput comes back and places a carrot nose on the snowman's head.

While snowman-making is one of the most fun activities of winter, it can also happen if an unfortunate person gets caught up in the process of making the snowman, whether it be getting covered in snow via a snowball fight, a freak snowstorm, or outright just being the base for the snowman. This will often be PlayedForLaughs if the first character intentionally gets the other character stuck in the snowman as a cruel joke.

While most cases involve the classic snowball-based snowman, it’s also possible for one to be stuck inside a specially-shaped snow sculpture. And in some cases, multiple characters could make up the snowman too.

* In the Creator/TexAvery short "The Shooting of Dan [=McGoo=]", Wolfie enters a saloon as a living snowman. He then ''unzips'' the snow covering like it was a coat.

* In the ''VideoGame/MarioPartyDS'' minigame “Gusty Blizzard”, three characters have to resist a blizzard caused by one character, being covered in more snow the colder they get until they’re frozen into a snowman.

* The ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' games feature a status condition known as 'Snowman' caused by strong icy attacks that encases the player in a large snowball. They can still move around and dodge but cannot use their weapons or items until it wears off or is treated with a special cleansing item. If it hits their non-human companions (or the player when playing as a Prowler) it will turn them into a tiny snow animal instead.

* In the ''[[VideoGame/MarioParty Mario Party DS]]'' minigame “Gusty Blizzard”, three characters have to resist a blizzard caused by one character, being covered in more snow the colder they get until they’re frozen into a snowman.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', two kids were making a sandman (because there's no snow underwater) and sing to it to see if it would come to life like Frosty. Just then [=SpongeBob=] snowboards through and crashes into the sandman. As the kids watch the sandman slide downhill, they wonder if they sang the song wrong.

While snowman-making is one of the most fun activities of winter, it can also happen if an unfortunate person gets caught up in the snowball used for making the snowman. This will often be PlayedForLaughs if the first character intentionally gets the other character stuck in the snowman as a cruel joke.

Expect this to show up in {{Comedy}}.

Can overlap with: HumanSnowball.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalSlug 3 and 4'', getting hit by a Yeti's ice breath will turn the character into a snowman, making them unable to move for some time and become a sitting duck for the Yeti's bone club.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pingu}}'': In Sledging, Pingu crashes into a snowman, and instead of destroying it or becoming a [[HumanSnowball penguin snowball]] he gets trapped inside the snowman. ''To put it lightly, he does not enjoy it''. (as evidenced by his squirming.)

* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts:
** Happens to WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck and his nephews in "Donald's Snow Fight". The nephews get covered in snow until they look like bowling pins, which Donald knocks down with a snow bowling ball. Donald gets not only snow but icicles dropped on him, making him look like a rhinoceros in a cage.
** In "Pluto's Christmas Tree", Pluto runs through a snowbank, and the snow he displaces is in the exact shape of himself, but with a longer body.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** One WesternAnimation/PepeLePew cartoon has Pepe fall in the show and emerge as a snowskunk, saying that he was the [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Abominable Snowman]].
** "Odor of the Day" stars a skunk similar to Pepe, who makes his entrance covered in snow.
** Played with in "Snow Time for Comedy", when a dog falls down a hill and becomes a HumanSnowball, which then takes the form of a giant dog.
** At the beginning of the cartoon "Weasel While You Work", Foghorn Leghorn rolls the sleeping Barnyard Dawg up into a snowman.
* In the Creator/TexAvery short "The Shooting of Dan [=McGoo=]", Wolfie enters a saloon as a living snowman. He then ''unzips'' the snow covering like it was a coat.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', two kids were making a sandman (because there's no snow underwater) and sing to it to see if it would come to life like Frosty. Just then [=SpongeBob=] snowboards through and crashes into the sandman. As the kids watch the sandman slide downhill, they wonder if they sang the song wrong.

* Alvin, Simon and Theodore end up doing one of these on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks''.
* In one of the ''WesternAnimation/ChucklewoodCritters'' holiday specials, Buttons and Rusty do one of these with Buttons on top of Rusty.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode, "Winter Wrap-Up", after Twilight Sparkle fails at ice-skating, she crashes into Spike and Pinkie Pie, and the three of them wind up forming one of these.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode, "The Little Guy", Wander, Sylvia and Wesley do this to hide from Lord Hater, with Wesley on top, Wander in the middle, and Sylvia on the bottom.
* A darker variant occurs in ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. Some children are playing outside in the snow and building a snowman. When they're called inside to eat, and deny knowledge of where a third kid went, one of the snowman's gloves falls off, revealing what is presumably said kids dead hand.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS21E18ConfusedCoaches Confused Coaches]]", when Spencer and Gordon rush past the Stationmaster, who is shoveling snow at Maron Station, they turn him into this.

[-[[caption-width-right:199:[[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible Not necessarily]] a ''[[FunnyAnimals human]]'' snowman.]]-]

[-[[caption-width-right:199:[[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible Not necessarily]] a ''human'' snowman.]]-]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS21E18ConfusedCoaches Confused Coaches]]", when Spencer and Gordon rush past the Stationmaster, who is shoveling snow at Maron Station, they turn him into this.

* A darker variant occurs in ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. There were some children playing outside in the snow and building a snowman. When they're called inside to eat, one of the snowman's gloves falls off, revealing a presumably dead human hand.

While snowman-making is one of the funnest activities of winter, it can also happen if an unfortunate person gets caught up in the snowball used for making the snowman. This will often be PlayedForLaughs if the first character intentionally gets the other character stuck in the snowman as a cruel joke.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible Not necessarily]] a ''human'' snowman.]]

* Happens to [=LeFou=] in ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' while waiting for Maurice to come back. When he and Belle arrive, he even has coal eyes, carrot nose and branches for arms.
* DonaldDuck ends up in one of these at the end of the "Stuck On Christmas" segment of ''WesternAnimation/MickeysOnceUponAChristmas''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'':
** In ''Kirby's Dream Land 3'', the intro cutscene for level 5, Iceberg, has Gooey accidentally trapped in one of the snowballs that Kirby and friends are using to build a snowman. Gooey's eyes and tongue poke through the snow and startle the rest of the group.
** Also in ''Kirby 64'', when you combine the bomb and ice powers, Kirby takes a bomb on his head and covers himself and the bomb up with a snowman.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pingu}}'':
** In Sledging, Pingu crashes into a snowman, and instead of destroying it or becoming a [[HumanSnowball penguin snowball]] he gets trapped inside the snowman. ''To put it lightly, he does not enjoy it''. (as evidenced by his squirming.)

** In "Rapido, Tico!" Dora, Boots, and Tico must successfully stop Swiper from swiping Boots's fire truck hat's on snowy mountain. After they succeed, Swiper rolls down in a ''Main/HumanSnowball'' and turns into this.

* Done by Death in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' to catch the Auditors by surprise, though he isn't strictly [[DemBones human]] to begin with.