History Main / ThermalDissonance

Compare to ThermalDissident, where the individual prefers something hotter or colder than those around him.

* in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12030689/1/The-DOOM-Chronicles The DOOM Chronicles]]'', the protagonist realizes that, despite [[FireAndBrimstoneHell the appearance of the place]] (especially the rivers and seas of lava) implying that it ''should'' be hot, [[EvilIsDeathlyCold Hell's atmosphere is icy-cold]].

* ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet''. During their tour of the Krell city, Dr. Morbius has Commander Adams try out his RayGun on a door made of 26 inches of [[MadeOfIndestructium molecular-condensed metal]]. The beam doesn't even warm it up.
* The rocketpack from ''Film/TheRocketeer'' remains cool even after flight. It's later explained by Howard Hughes that the rocketpack has a double-walled chamber into which the fuel is pumped, cooling the chamber while preheating fuel simultaneously, to HandWave the possibility of ToastedBuns. Real rockets indeed do this (it's called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_cooling_(rocket) regenerative cooling]]), but it doesn't exactly keep things cool enough to touch.
* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books, a mist is carried whenever Dementors are around. The film franchise causes the temperature to lower drastically in their presence. Windows covered in frost, flowers wilt and die, humans can see their breath and even a thick layer of ice forms over the surface of a pond within moments.
* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', not only does the One Ring remain cool enough to touch after being dropped into a household fire; when it's finally dropped into Mount Doom, it appears to actually ''cool the lava'' to a thin crust of solid black rock before the heat of the volcano becomes too much to resist, and it finally melts.
* In ''Film/TheseAreTheDamned'', the protagonists discover a group of children hidden in a facility beneath a medical base. They realise something is wrong when the childrens' skin is cold and their guards all wear anti-radiation suits. Then they start feeling ill...

* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', Gandalf throws the One Ring into the fire to bring out the letters written on it. When he pulls it out, Frodo is surprised that it's not hot. It takes much hotter fire than normal to affect the Ring at all, which is why is has to be brought to Mount Doom to be destroyed.
* All over the place with the Tribulation Force and believers in Christ during the lethal HeatWave caused by one of God's Bowl Judgments in the Literature/LeftBehind book series, as vehicles and structures owned and used by them are protected from the high temperatures.
* The ''Literature/PerryRhodan'' universe features "Luurs metal", which naturally maintains a constant temperature a bit above the freezing point of water. (It comes up as a plot point in one issue because thin threads of it are used in Terran bank notes as an anti-counterfeiting measure at that time; naturally, that issue is then all ''about'' somebody having found a way to make counterfeit notes anyway and using those to try to mount an economic attack on the Solar Empire.)

* In ''Literature/{{Twilight}},'' Edward [[YouMustBeCold gives Bella his jacket]], and she notes that it doesn't seem to have absorbed any of his body heat. Of course, in this case it's not the jacket but [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Edward]] who is unusual.
* In the novelisation of ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', David (a human) has just finished having sex with Saavik (Romulan-Vulcan hybrid). Saavik comments that "Lying next to you is like lying in the shade on a hot summer's day", and David replies, "[[StrangeMindsThinkAlike I was just thinking]] that lying next to you is like being in the sun on the first day of spring."

* Used in Classic series of ''Series/DoctorWho'' where Timelord healing can involve developing a frost on your skin (Jon Pertwee adventure "The Daemons" and "Planet of the Daleks"), the Doctor's inhumanly low body temp also gives him away in the Colin Baker adventure "Mark Of The Rani".

** the deepest level of the caverns has some giant mushrooms called nether-caps which have the property of always being cold, to add to their creepyness. Interestingly, this means that it is impossible to set nether-cap logs on fire-- they stay just as cold even when they're at the bottom of a pool of magma.
** Quite a lot of creatures have the "fixed body temperature" tag, which does exactly what it says, including Magma Men and Fire Men. Interestingly they can still affect the temperature of other things even while their own stays the same, letting them [[NoConservationOfEnergy spontaneously create or destroy a potentially infinite amount of heat.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' has the Daedric Artifact of Mephala, the Ebony Blade. It's described as cooling the hottest fires of the Skyforge.

* While investigating the Demon Tsukuyomi in ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'', Akira finds a chain in a burnt locale and is shocked to find that it's hot to the touch, despite looking normal and having no reason to be heated up. This is a form of supernatural imprint from the chain's past, when it was used [[spoiler:as part of the ritual that burnt down the department store.]]

** This is also why if a meteor falls, you can just go ahead and pick it up. While entering Earth's atmosphere does expose it to quite a bit of heat, the area it naturally comes from is ''really damn cold'', meaning the two temperature extremes even each other out.