History Main / ImColdSoCold

* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'', after the title curse is broken, rendering Barbossa and his men mortals again, Jack Sparrow shoots Barbossa, who says, "I feel... cold." and promptly falls over dead. Bonus points on this one, because this is the very first thing Barbossa felt since he turned immortal and he actually sounds happy to be able to feel something.
* ''Film/RoboCop2''. The child criminal Hob has been badly shot up by the Cain cyborg. When Robocop finds him, Hob says that he feels cold. Robocop (who's sympathetic toward Hob, given that [[OriginStory he knows what dying feels like]]) tells him that he's going into shock.

* In the movie ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' the last words said by Valeria as she died in Conan's arms were: "I'm cold, so cold, keep me warm." This may have been an effect of the venom from the [[AbnormalAmmo snake with which Thulsa Doom shot her]].

* In ''Shannara'', [[spoiler:Shella, as she lies dying,]] says to Jak 'I'm cold...so cold'

* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', this doesn't actually ''happen'', but is the topic of a ghost story Katara tells to the Gaang. Of course, said story ''is'' set at ''the South Pole'', and the death did occur during a week-long blizzard.

* Mayu will sometimes remark on this in ''VideoGame/FatalFrameII'', as you're in a ghostly haunted house. Lampshaded by Markiplier:
-->Mark: Maybe it's cause there's... GHOSTS!. Maybe it's cause there's GHOSTS EVERYWHERE! HUH?!

-->'''Wesley''': Is anyone else cold?
* In the ''Series/Charmed1998'' episode "All Hell Breaks Loose", when Piper is shot by a sniper and is close to death, she says, "Prue, I'm cold. [[ICantFeelMyLegs I can't - I can't - I can't feel my legs.]] [[PleaseDontLeaveMe Don't go.]] I love you."
* When a ''Series/ColdCase'' villain flashes back to his first kill (inadvertent, as he merely let the woman die rather than outright harming her), he remember a woman trapped in a well, frantically treading water and babbling, "Cold. . .so cold".
* ''Series/DoctorWho''
** Subverted in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel The Age of Steel]]", when a downed Cyberman whose emotional inhibitor has been removed asks "why... am... I... cold?" It's revealed she has no idea what has happened, and still thinks she's on the way to her wedding. (The trope name drop is especially apt, as this is what finally convinces the Doctor that the Cybermen are no longer really alive, and therefore can be destroyed.)

* Subverted in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' where Kaylee says something like this after being shot, but she recovers without complication. She says it not because of impending death, but because she's going in to shock from the traumatic injury.
* ''Series/ForeverKnight''. When criminals try to rob vampire hangout The Raven, Nick Knight tries to hypnotise them into dropping their weapons, but it doesn't work and a human bystander gets shot. [[ObliviousGuiltSlinging She gives this trope to Nick]] while the other vampires are shown looking on coldly.
* Subverted on ''Series/{{Haven}}''. When [[FeelNoPain Nathan]] is killed in one round of a GroundhogDayLoop, he reassures Audrey, who holds him while he passes, that the only thing he feels is [[AntiMagic her.]]

* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in "White Light Fever", an episode of the revived ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' series. An old, rich, selfish man who nearly died says that death feels cold. When he dies, he meets an innocent girl who died earlier as a result of his selfishness, and asks to go with her. She says he can't because they're not going to the same place; where she's going, it's ''warm''. Then she says that she always thought it was [[FireAndBrimstoneHell the other way around]].
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. Played with in "Terra Incognita". An apparent flashback has John Reese on a stakeout, during which he keeps complaining of the cold and turning up the heater. Later it's revealed this is a FeverDreamEpisode, and Reese is actually dying of shock and hypothermia after being shot by the VillainOfTheWeek.
* Subverted on ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. Eric says something like this when he is drained of Clark's powers, but he survived.

** In "Before And After", whenever Kes said this, it was an indication that she was about to shift back in time.
** In "Course: Oblivion", on board the biomimetic ''Voyager'', B'Elanna Torres experiences getting cold when she starts to lose molecular cohesion due to [[ToxicPhlebotinum exposure to warp drive radiation]].

* In ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'', this is the sign of the artifact of season 3's "Insatiable" affecting someone. Other side effects include an insatiable hunger and eventual death from hypothermia.

* ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': ZigZaggingTrope. One of the trademark effects of being inflicted with the curse on the treasure from the Golden Isle is feeling "the warmth of the Sun and Moon slowly fade (and eventually vanish) from one's skin", [[spoiler:which can lead to frostbite and one's surroundings freezing over if left unchecked.]] However, the curse can also cause one to feel unbearably hot or to experience both temperature extremes, but these symptoms are far less common than the cold variant.

** Om the episode "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily", when Bart is discovered to have head lice on class picture day (as a result of playing with a monkey Milhouse found), he comments "Nothing ever happens to Milhouse." We then see Milhouse standing there pale, wrapped in a blanket, muttering "Cold, so very, very cold."

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4 "Wuthering Heights"]] by Music/KateBush, the refrain includes the words "I'm so cold." The narrator is a ghost.

* In one of the ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}'' videogames, the gang barely manages to rescue [[spoiler:Amelia]], but when they do, she says "I feel...so cold..."

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' has this in a rather [[IncrediblyLamePun chilling]] portion with this exchange:

-->'I heard distinctly the gusty wind, and the driving of the snow; I heard, also, the fir bough repeat its teasing sound, and ascribed it to the right cause: but it annoyed me so much, that I resolved to silence it, if possible; and, I thought, I rose and endeavoured to unhasp the casement....'I must stop it, nevertheless!' I muttered, knocking my knuckles through the glass, and stretching an arm out to seize the importunate branch; instead of which, my fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand! The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in - let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly....'I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!'

* Inverted in ''Literature/TheLostFleet'': Captain Geary feels incredibly cold after being revived from 100 years of being a HumanPopsicle. Apparently this is a normal side-effect of the cryosleep process, but it's also implied that it might be partly psychosomatic; he's occasionally mentioned as feeling an echo of that chill whenever his stress levels begin to elevate for days afterwards.

* Played with in ''Literature/BlackMan''. Ertekin makes a DeathbedConfession that she'd planned to murder a police colleague who'd betrayed her genetically-engineered husband to the authorities, but she lacked the ruthlessness to carry it through. "You have to be cold, so cold..."

* [[spoiler:Fly]] in ''WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish!'' says a variation of this [[spoiler:after sustaining a bad injury due to a crab]].
-->[[spoiler:'''Fly]]:''' I-is it getting cold?
-->'''Chuck:''' Uh......Maybe.

* ''Literature/FireAndBlood'' reveals that feeling cold was the first symptoms of the Shivers, a deadly disease that ravaged the Seven Kingdoms in 59-60 AC. The Targaryens at that point were believed to be immune to human diseases, until one night:

* Inverted in ''Anime/SailorMoon Sailor Stars'' where people are explicitly warm to the touch when they die. Lines that reference it are TearJerker material for fans. For example...
--> [[spoiler:'''Sailor Uranus:''' You're warm, Michiru]]

* Justified in the second ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'' series, when Frankie Raye, a fire elemental, is fatally injured. Her flame then starts to dwindle before dying out.
* ''ComicBook/HulkTheEnd'' ends on this kind of line. Hulk has finally gotten his wish, to be alone. Completely alone. Bruce Banner has just died, and now Hulk is not just the strongest one there is, he's the ''only'' one there is. As he sits there, the Hulk realizes he's cold.
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' issue 23, Season of Mists, after receiving the key to Hell from Lucifer Morningstar, the King of Dreams watches him vanishing into the vast, empty Hell. He holds the key in his hand for a moment, finishing the chapter with the words "I feel cold". Being the owner of an empty Hell may look nice on paper, it might destroy you (or it might not).

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. Played with in "Terra Incognita". An apparent flashback has Reese on a stakeout, during which he keeps complaining of the cold and turning up the heater. Later it's revealed this is a FeverDreamEpisode, and Reese is actually dying of shock and hypothermia after being shot by the VillainOfTheWeek.

** Watch for a varation on this: it's the first real cue (aside from two large bleeding bulletholes) that [[spoiler:Flanca]] [[AnyoneCanDie really might not make it]]. [[spoiler:[[BetterToDieThanBeKilled Instead of bleeding out quietly]] like a sane human being, though, her blood loss leads her to decide to reenact ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise''.]]

** Upon realizing that her 15 minutes of fame are over and with that her popularity, Heather complains that she feels cold in "[[Recap/TotalDramaCelebrityManhuntsTDAReunionShow Celebrity Manhunt's TDA Reunion Show]]".