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->''"So cold... can't move... can't feel... can't make complete sentences..."''
-->-- '''James Humphrey''', ''Film/CannibalTheMusical''

They're right to be bothered: saying "I'm cold" means that a character is seriously unwell. [[HesDeadJim It can be a sign]] that a character will be KilledOffForReal and these are their LastWords. When a new, unknown character says this it can even mean that they are a ghost. This is also something dead people are traditionally expected to tell anyone they talk to on the telephone.

This is because ''death''... is ''cold''.

There's sense in the trope: cold skin is a sign of shock. Coldness can also indicate blood loss or impaired blood circulation and, of course, corpses lack body-warmth. Additionally, a person suffering from a rising fever will feel cold and shiver. A mythological reason might be that [[PurgatoryAndLimbo Purgatory]] (which can sometimes include [[WalkingTheEarth wandering the earth]] [[BarredFromTheAfterlife as a ghost]]) was depicted as being a cold and miserably damp place. Sleepiness or BloodFromTheMouth tend to go hand in hand with this. Perversely, one emergency that often does not feature this is ''hypothermia'': cold becomes an emergency if the victim stops being able to feel it, or is too tired to shiver. In fact, exposure victims are often found partly undressed because the lowering of their internal temperature makes them feel ''too warm''.

A sister trope, also due to the above, is DangerousDrowsiness, which may be rendered as "I'm tired...so tired."

Is dangerously on the verge of becoming {{Narm}}.

See EvilIsDeathlyCold for a motif. Compare GhostlyChill; and see IncurableCoughOfDeath for another example of a symptom which is moderate in RealLife but presented as a sure sign of death in the world of tropes.

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* A Pillsbury Pizza Pop ad has a young man cradling the head of a ''robot'', whimpering his name, as the robot says that he can't feel his legs and is "so...cold". As it happens, an exploding pizza pop the robot was too slow to catch blew his body off.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', Sakura remarks how cold [[spoiler:Sasuke's]] body feels. [[spoiler:Apparently, that's one of the effects of the [[NotQuiteDead deathlike]] state he was put into.]]
* This happens in the manga version of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade''. A character [[spoiler:that is, Rosette Christopher]] collapses to the ground, near death, while a friend [[spoiler:or her love interest and partner, Chrono]] runs to her side. We see the scene through her eyes, unable to hear the words of the panicking friend, while she has a dying InnerMonologue that finishes with "It's getting cold, isn't it? You can use my scarf, if you want."
* {{Inverted|Trope}} 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.]]
* In ''Manga/CeresCelestialLegend'', Chidori [[TakingTheBullet took the bullet]] for Yuuri and sustained injures to her back. While he's carrying her, she mentions how warm his back is. Yuuri tells her to cling to him, then, all while trying to talk about how he'll cook her favorite foods when they make it out of here, only for her to die [[DyingDeclarationOfLove as she begins to confess her feelings]].
* Hiroki tends to use this phrase in a slightly more life-affirming way in ''Manga/JunjouRomantica''.
* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'':
** Watch for a variation 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''.]]
** Played straight with Hilshire and Roberta Guellfi, a prosecutor he's guarding from Padania assassins. She thinks she's dying and starts talking of how her death will inspire others. [[YouRemindMeOfX Because she reminds Hilshire of a previous]] LoveInterest he failed to save, Hilshire rallies her with a RousingSpeech and she survives.
* In ''Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks'', Illya said this when she's dying.
* In ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', in the anime, Misumi says this after suffering several gunshot wounds to the chest, which soon result in her death. For a moment, Tamotsu thinks she's talking about the weather, since winter is coming.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* A scene in ''Comicbook/TheCrow'' which was never adapted into the film: This trope invoked because of shock, bloodloss, and death when Eric removes one of his first targets at the shins. Quite possibly the most unpleasant scene of the lot.
* {{Justified|Trope}} 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. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Hulk has finally gotten his wish]], to be alone. [[TheAloner 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, [[SelfInflictedHell the Hulk realizes that he's cold]].
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': In 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).
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* [[http://www.tbillingsemergencyfanfic.com/christmasinlamedeerpart1.htm This]] ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' fic has one of the somewhat incorrect hypothermic person variety after Gage is dragged through the snow tied to a horse. He survives, though.
* A couple of subversion occurs in the ''Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX'' series Eirin, who notes, in her diary before her suicide, that she feels colder than the winter and we also have this with the case of Reimu, who isn't dying, notes that she feels so cold, remarking that she doesn't like that feeling.
* In ''Fanfic/MaFille'', a bad bout of the flu makes Joe feel dreadfully cold, even when wrapped in a thick blanket. However, he lives in the end.
* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Izuku dives into the ocean in the middle of winter to save someone he just knocked unconscious. When he's finally fished out by his friends, he doesn't feel all that cold even though he's shivering from head to toe. Then he realizes that he's suffering from hypothermia as his Aura drains itself to keep him warm and returns the sensation of cold to him.
* In ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'', Izuku feels deathly cold while reeling from the effects of the spider bite. The feeling persists up to the point that he collapses. He doesn't die, but he does end up in a coma and the doctors at the hospital are amazed that he survived.
* In Part 11 of ''[[https://my.w.tt/28k9Qm6qVT Astral Journey: It's Complicated]]'' has [[Music/SpiceGirls Melanie]] mentioning that's she's cold and appear to be suffering from sign of hypothermia thanks to her "treatment" in order to comply to her mandated treatment for an eating disorder. Both Victoria and Emma questions this. Despite not actually dying, Melanie still found herself in [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral "mock" funeral]].
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* [[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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart'': One of the star projectiles apparently invokes this to get Emmet to free it from the fortified gate and let Sweet Mayhem in.
* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' when Louis moans "The darkness... it's closing in! I'm so cold!" just because he has [[MinorInjuryOverreaction a burr stuck in his claw.]]
* From ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'' we have this exchange:
-->'''Frankie:''' ''[dying]'' Lenny, is that you?\\
'''Lenny:''' I'm here, Frankie.\\
'''Frankie:''' Come closer.\\
'''Lenny:''' What is it, Frankie?\\
'''Frankie:''' I'm so cold.\\
'''Lenny:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint That's because we're cold-blooded.]]\\
'''Frankie:''' ''[Frankie slaps Lenny]'' Moron. ''[dies]''
* Said by [[spoiler:The Mole]] before he dies in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut''.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* 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 was cursed, 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 [[SuperheroOrigin he knows what dying feels like]]) tells him that he's going into shock.
* Lampshaded when, in ''Film/LethalWeapon3'', annoying sidekick Leo struggles with the BigBad for a gun, and is shot in the shoulder for his efforts. He thinks he's dying because he feels numb and cold all over... which is only natural, since he was lying on the ice of a hockey rink.
* An especially creepy example occurs in ''Film/EventHorizon'', when Dr. Weir first encounters an apparition of his dead wife. Makes sense when we realize she [[spoiler:killed herself by cutting her wrists]].
* Spoofed in ''Film/LoadedWeapon1'' where Destiny utters this line at the end of the movie, Colt then removes a bag of ice that was on her for [[RuleOfFunny no good reason]].
* Also spoofed in ''Film/SpyHard'', where the love interest says this after Agent Steele absentmindedly parked her gurney under an automated ice cube machine.
* In the live-action ''Film/{{Casper}}'' movie, Kat tells the title character that he feels cold. Also, it's later revealed that [[spoiler:Casper's death was caused from being out in the cold too long]].
* In the movie ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' the last words said by Valeria as she dies in Conan's arms are: "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 beforehand]].
* Parodied in ''Film/TropicThunder'' - Tugg Speedman, in an IronicEcho, says that he can't feel his legs; Lazarus has to point out that he's fine, it's just that his legs are knee deep in a pool of cold, muddy water.
* An interesting version happens in ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead''. After two of the main characters are exposed to Trioxin, they start feeling crappy and complain about the cold. Near the climax they feel better as zombies.
* Subverted in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' where Rose says "I'm so cold," and later "I can't feel my body." It's already a foregone conclusion that she survives, as she is the narrator for the whole movie, plus she's drenched and floating on a bit of wreckage in the icy North Atlantic, she's not just mystically drifting closer to mortality.
* In ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', [[spoiler:some of Kayla's parting words was this.]]
* ''[[Film/RedDawn1984 Red Dawn]]''. When ActionGirl Toni is fatally wounded by [[DeathFromAbove Hind gunships]] she asks Jed to leave her a hand grenade to kill herself with, saying "I don't want to be cold". She doesn't use it though; just [[BoobyTrap leaves the grenade under her body]] to kill the first DirtyCommunist that tries to move her.
** Likely also a CallBack to the movie's [[DiscussedTrope discussion]] on HeWhoFightsMonsters: One of the kids is warned that his hatred of the Russians will burn him up inside. The kid replies nonchalantly that it keeps him warm.
* Tobias in ''Film/DarkFloors'' spent most of the movie being "cold", [[spoiler:as well as coming back as a zombie to save Sarah.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Tobias:''' I'm not cold anymore, Sarah]]
* ''Film/PoltergeistIII'' had a sequence where Lara Flynn Boyle comes back from the other side and exclaims how cold she is, so her family tries to warm her up in the shower. [[spoiler:Except, of course, that it wasn't really her. It was her mirror-double and she was faking for attention.]]
* ''Film/PointBreak1991'': Played straight and [[DiscussedTrope discussed]]: [[spoiler:Roach]] complains of being cold after being shot.
* ''Film/{{Frantic}}''. The last words of Michelle, the Paris street waif who has been helping the protagonist search for his kidnapped wife, fatally wounded in the film's climax.
* In ''Film/VerticalLimit'', [[spoiler:Tom [=MacLaren=]]] basically says this. Justified in that he's severely wounded and dying of hypothermia halfway up K2. He's really in trouble when he ''stops'' feeling cold.
* Parodied in ''Film/TheMask''. The Mask, dressed like a cowboy, is shot in the chest and falls into the shooter's arms, overly dramatically telling him he's "so cold" while coughing, and saying his last wishes before dying dramatically. [[spoiler:He then receives an Oscar for his performance, while the shooter starts weeping.]]
* Said verbatim by Emu O'Hara in the film adaptation of ''Film/CryingFreeman''. Completely justified, as she has taken a few bullets and suffers from a large blood loss.
* Played straight as an arrow in ''Film/MulhollandFalls'' with the death of Elleroy.
* Parodied in ''Film/GhosthuntersOnIcyTrails'': Hugo says that he is cold with much pathos, shortly before he's frozen solid by the ice ghost. He is also close to dying permanently, but that's not related to the cold.
* Sonne in ''Film/{{Victoria 2015}}'' utters these lines during his last moments.
* Inverted in ''Film/WelcomeToDongmakgol'' when a gutshot Yeo-il says "It's hot" right before she dies.
* ''Film/PatGarrettAndBillyTheKid'': In Spanish! Billy rescues a Mexican husband and wife from Chisum's goons, but it's too late for the husband, who says "Siento mucho frio", then says "Como te sientes tu, Billy?" ("How do you feel?") right before he dies.
* ''Film/{{Chariot}}''. Michael says after being shot, "I'm cold, so cold. [[GenreSavvy I know what that means.]]"
* ''Film/MoulinRouge'': [[spoiler: Satine says this as she dies in Christian's arms.]]
* ''Film/{{Holes}}'' puts a tragically ironic twist on it with [[{{Outlaw}} Kissin' Kate Barlow]], who wasn't in physically bad health even in the ThirstyDesert, but was still dead ''inside'' [[BrokenBird after losing basically everything innocent she cared about]], including [[TheMourningAfter her lover]].
-->'''Kate''': It's so hot, [[TheLostLenore Sam]]... but I feel so cold...
* Parodied in ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2'': when Rachel's fiancé Randall jumps in front of her to protect her from a taser shot, he lies on the ground as if he's on death's door, claiming that he feels cold. An unamused Rachel points out that he landed on top of their ice sculpture..
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Subverted in ''Literature/DragonBones'': Ward says that he will never be warm again, after killing someone ''else''.
* In ''Literature/CatchTwentyTwo'', the rear gunner, [[PunnyName Snowden]], who Yossarian tries and fails to save mutters this repeatedly as Yossarian tries to patch up his leg. Yossarian thinks this is because they're high in the sky in the tail of a plane with holes shot it in it. It's also because the gunner has been nearly shot in half - though is still alive - and Yossarian doesn't realize he's had his gut torn open by shrapnel which got underneath his flak jacket.
-->Snowden: "I'm cold . . . I'm so cold . . ."
-->Yossarian: "Don't worry. Don't worry, you're gonna be fine."
-->Snowden: "I'M ''COLD!''"
-->Yossarian: [panicky] "IT'S VERY WARM ON THIS PLANE!"
* While he never says the trope, the Marquis de Carabas from ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'' describes death as "very dark, and very cold".
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' has this in a rather [[{{Pun}} chilling]] portion with this exchange:
--> So cold. Just... Can you just get me a blanket or... I'm scared. Does that... Does that make you happy, Andalite?\\
'''Jake:''' No. No, it doesn't make me happy.
* Although he never [[DirectLineToTheAuthor records himself]] saying these exact words, [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Frodo]] spends a lot of the time after he has been stabbed with the Morgul knife shivering and describing how cold he feels.
* ''Literature/WutheringHeights''.
-->'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!'
* From ''Literature/FoolMoon'':
--> '''Harry''' ([[spoiler:after Murphy nonfatally shoots him]]): I'm so cold.\\
'''Murphy''' (angry): We're ''all'' cold, moron....it must be below forty, already, and we're wet besides.
* Last words of a Drachelander (German-descended) knight in the first book of the ''Literature/WorldOfTiers'' series, after he was swarmed by enemies and the protagonist arrived just too late to save him: "'''siz kalt''."
* Creator/BillBryson discusses the dangers of hypothermia to Appalachian Trail hikers in ''A Walk In The Woods'', and the 'Paradoxical Undressing' phenomena (see below). He also recounts a day when he went off hiking and forget to pack his waterproofs. He gets soaked by the incessant drizzle and starts to lose track of time... [[spoiler:it turns out that his watch had stopped.]]
* In the ''{{Literature/Redwall}}'' series book ''Lord Brocktree'', [[spoiler:Fleetscut]] dies with a smile on his face; "Funny. [[BigEater Don't feel hungry anymore]]. Jolly cold, wot!"
* Justified by Demnor in ''[[Literature/TalesOfTheBranionRealm The Stone Prince]]'' even ''before'' he nearly dies of battle wounds; he's a RebelPrince, and his very angry mother is the [[GodEmperor avatar]] of a fire god, able to withdraw Its warmth from her son.
* 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.
* ''The Bronze Horseman'' by Paullina Simons. Tatiana says this after Alexander rescues her from a bombed out building, but it's because she's in shock from several broken bones, not because she's near death. Shock ''can'' be life-threatening if not treated, but fortunately Alexander is there to [[IntimateHealing share his bodily warmth]].
* In Roger Elwood's ''Literature/TheWandering'', Ferene describes his death as this.
* Said word for word by a ghost that Lucy and Lockwood encounter in ''Literature/LockwoodAndCo''
--> '''Annabel''': ''I'm cold, lost and cold. Lost and cold...and DEAD!''
* 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..."
* ''Broken Gate'' plays with this in Nezumi's case. While she isn't dying until much later, a sign that she's not long for the world is when she has a twinge of feeling anything (being [[EmotionlessGirl emotionless]]). The closest thing she feels to the pain of lament (besides numbness) is cold and it says something if she hadn't felt ''cold'' up until that point either.
* ''Literature/FireAndBlood'' reveals that feeling cold was the first symptom 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:
-->'''Princess [[DeathOfAChild Daenerys]] (daughter of Alysanne)''': [[OhCrap Mommy, I'm cold]].
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': Wesley in "[[Recap/AngelS02E14TheThinDeadLine The Thin Dead Line]]", after the zombie cop shoots him. He doesn't die, though.
-->'''Wesley:''' Is anyone else cold?
* In the ''Series/Charmed1998'' episode "[[Recap/CharmedS3E22AllHellBreaksLoose 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 remembers 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.)
** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]". A British army captain is in a MexicanStandoff with a German soldier in a muddy crater in World War One. He says, "Cold, isn't it? It's about to get colder, I suppose, for one of us."
* Subverted in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' when 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 in ''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.]]
* The pilot of ''Series/LookAroundYou'' uses this trope in the conversation with intelligent calcium, where the aforementioned substance answers the scientist's question of "how do you feel?" with "cold". The scientist then forces the obvious conclusion by capping the test tube, suffocating the intelligent calcium inside.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S1E6WhiteLightFever White Light Fever]]". 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 "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E20 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 [[MonsterOfTheWeek villain of the week]].
* Subverted in ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. Eric says something like this when he is drained of Clark's powers, but he survived.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E20BeforeAndAfter Before and After]]", whenever Kes said this, it was an indication that she was about to shift back in time.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E17CourseOblivion 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]].
* ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'': In "Soup to Nuts", Raven does this while faking an illness to avoid going to school. This is brought back up later, when Raven finds out that she missed a Senior Surprise Day trip to a water park due to her "illness".
-->'''Raven:''' Senior Surprise Day? And I missed it?!\\
'''Cory:''' Yeah, because you were "so cold, so cold".\\
'''Raven:''' You keep going, you're gonna be ''out cold'' in a second.
* In ''Series/Warehouse13'', 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.
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[[folder:Music]]
* [[http://www.obsidianshell.com/div_en.php?p=lyrics#19 "Second Birth"]] by Obsidian Shell starts with "So cold... am I dying?"
* In the Music/BlueOctober [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZES3nJQYJok song]] ''Into the Ocean'' the narrator--a boy struggling with suicide after a loss--dreams of committing suicide by drowning. While drowning he laments "I'm cold as cold as cold can be..."
* In [[Music/TheKickInside "Wuthering Heights"]] by Music/KateBush, the refrain includes the words "I'm so cold." The narrator is a ghost.
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[[folder:Radio]]
* An infamous ''Radio/TheStephanieMillerShow'' sketch ends with WesternAnimation/YogiBear's {{sidekick}} Boo Boo being killed off by UsefulNotes/SarahPalin; this phrase is part of his death scene.
* Somewhat subverted in the radio play version of the second (or fifth) ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie, ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', when Luke (still played by Creator/MarkHamill) nearly freezes to death in the ice planet Hoth. As Han Solo finds him delirious in the snow, Luke moans about being cold, followed by "Warmer now," which causes a deeply concerned Han to yell "No, Luke, that means you're freezing!"
** [[ShownTheirWork This is medically accurate, incidentally]]: See the RealLife section for details.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* In the musical ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'' Mimi complains of being cold in the finale, where she appears to be on the edge of death but subverted in that she doesn't actually die.
* Invoked, then poignantly subverted in Puccini's Opera ''Theatre/LaBoheme'' (the 'original' ''Rent''). As she lies dying, Mimi is 'cold, so cold' and longs at least to warm her hands. Her friends rush out to buy her a fur muff. She is happy, and murmurs as she drifts off to sleep that she feels warm at last. These are her last words - she dies quietly, while the dramatic focus is on the other characters.
* In ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', as Fantine lies dying, she hallucinates that she's watching her daughter Cosette playing, and beckons her to come inside to go to bed. She repeatedly speaks of how the night is growing colder.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* This is a common death line in ''Franchise/FireEmblem''.
* ''Franchise/BaldursGate'':
** In ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'', this is Imoen's last words before her hit points drop to zero.
** In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'', "I feel so cold" are Aerie's last words before ''her'' hit points drop to zero.
** There's also a ghost in the expansion to the second game who complains of this. He won't say anything else until you light a fire in the hearth for him.
* Shai-Gen Corporation cronies in ''VideoGame/{{Crackdown}}'' tend to spout this as they die. Even if they died from immolation.
* Mayu will sometimes remark on this in ''VideoGame/FatalFrameII'', [[GhostlyChill as you're in a ghostly haunted house]]. Lampshaded by WebVideo/{{Markiplier}} in his LetsPlay:
-->'''Mark:''' Maybe it's cause there's... GHOSTS! Maybe it's cause there's GHOSTS EVERYWHERE! HUH?!
* Justified in the ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' series-- the [[PlayingWithFire Fire Clan]] members who say it are freezing to death, having been deprived of the strength to warm themselves or escape.
* One of the enemy officer death lines in the ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors / VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'' crossover ''Warriors Orochi'' is 'Such a cold embrace...'
* In ''VideoGame/PathwaysIntoDarkness'', one of the dead Nazis you encounter has completely forgotten about everything ''except'' that death is cold.
* In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', this is one of the things [[spoiler:Hifumi Yamada]] says in their final moments.
* In one of the ''{{Literature/Slayers}}'' videogames, the gang barely manages to rescue [[spoiler:Amelia]], but when they do, she says "I feel...so cold..."
* In ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'', Lisa Garland tells Harry Mason that she's "scared and cold" in a futile attempt to convince Harry to stay with her. When he meets up with her again, she reveals her discovery that she's [[spoiler:been DeadAllAlong, and begins bleeding from every pore as Harry watches in horror.]]
* ''VideoGame/MadWorld'' works this trope into the form of a song, aptly titled ''So Cold'', which takes over the previously boastful boss theme halfway through the final fight. That said, it's a SubvertedTrope; what you're really looking at, in the lyrics and the battle alike, is [[TranquilFury cold]] ''[[TurnsRed fury]]''.
* In ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', Apollo actually watches someone die... and the victim says 'I'm cold... so cold' as he tells Apollo who the witness is.
* In ''Shannara'', [[spoiler:Shella, as she lies dying,]] says to Jak 'I'm cold...so cold".
* At a certain spot in ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' you'll hear this phrase as a disembodied whisper.
* The skeletons from later parts of ''VideoGame/TheyHunger'' sometimes mutter, "...Cold..."
* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' has a music track for being close to dying while incapacitated explicitly called '''I Am So Cold'''
** In some unused dialogue in the first game [[WhatCouldHaveBeen would have been used]] in a cutscene immediately after completing the "No Mercy" campaign implies that the helicopter pilot had been infected before he picked them up, and was about to make the transformation mid-flight. The pilot then uses the "I'm cold" line.
* Some of the midget deaths from ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'': "SO COLD! Sooo cooold..."
* Gaffgarion's final words in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics''.
* When you take Stanley to the Everdoor in ''VideoGame/{{Spiritfarer}}'', he'll mention feeling cold as he's about to pass on.
* The Servants in ''VideoGame/ThiefIITheMetalAge'' will occasionally utter the phrase "So cold...So very cold..." Considering [[spoiler:[[FateWorseThanDeath the nature of their servitude]], ]] one can imagine why they feel like that.
* Some of the ghosts in the ''VideoGame/DarkFall'' series plead, "Cold. So cold here." if you answer [[EvilPhone telephones]] or other communication devices. [[spoiler: Hidden messages elsewhere imply that it's actually [[BigBad the Dark Fall]] trying to distract you.]]
* ''VideoGame/TelepathTactics'' has two examples. Phoebe's death message is "I've often wondered what it would feel like to die. The cold...it trickles in like water..." Sarn Kamina's is in [[ConLang Lissit]], but can be translated as "I am cold..." (There's some ambiguity, as the word for "cold" can also mean "afraid".) Harynx's death message also features DangerousDrowsiness.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', you eventually encounter a monster whose check and flavor text is "It's so cold." She's one of the most pitiful fights of the game; her attacks are listless and a few don't even enter the battle box. [[spoiler:Unlike the other amalgamates, Snowdrake's mother seems to barely even be alive.]]
* ''VisualNovel/SlayThePrincess'': [[spoiler: Almost every iteration of the Princess comments on how cold they suddenly feel before the Shifting Mound claims them as a vessel]].
* Oddly enough, it's said by a ''puppet'' in ''VideoGame/LiesOfP''. The [[spoiler:Scrapped Watchman's]] dying line is "Freezing cold... like my friends..."
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* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' a man has this reaction after having to [[http://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=55#2008-04-05 put gym shorts on a Duh-Mentor]].
** Subverted elsewhere, when it turns out Jane's been playing with the thermostat to make Gwynn think she's died and risen as a zombie.
* Subverted in ''Webcomic/{{Terinu}}''. When the title character is badly wounded, he starts feeling ''warmer'' as he slips into shock, since his body is losing the ability regulate temperature correctly. The comic's author is a nurse, so this counts as a case of ShownTheirWork.
* [[http://dfc.furr.org/archive/425.html This]] ''Dysfunctional Family Circus'' from the 1990s shows Jeffy holding up a teddy bear for a security guard, with his mom, Thel, in the background. One of the captions has Jeffy telling the security guard, "But don't let him bite you. He got Thel, and now all she can say is, 'sooo coold.'"
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* ''ARG/EditorWilbur'': Wilbur's ArcWords.
* ''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'' potential symptoms are far less common than the cold variant.
* ''LetsPlay/AScotsmanInEgypt'': Used dramatically but somewhat realistically in one of the battle scenes, when a young prince suffers [[JustAFleshWound a seemingly minor injury]] but keeps on fighting. And yet he keeps absently muttering to nobody in particular, "Why is it so cold?" [[spoiler:Turns out his wound was far worse than it initially appeared, but shock and adrenaline were keeping him from feeling the full extent of it. Nobody catches on until he finally faints from blood loss and falls from his mount, by which time it's too late to save his life.]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', this doesn't actually ''happen'', but is the topic of a ghost story Katara tells to the Gang. Of course, said story ''is'' set at ''the South Pole'', and the death did occur during a week-long blizzard.
* Happens in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' when Ben offers another character a piece of chocolate, which ended up poisoning him due to it coincidentally being his KryptoniteFactor.
* A disturbing example from an obscure BBC children's cartoon called ''The Brollys'', about a boy making friends with a man and a woman who control the weather. While most of the weather is rather pleasant, the ice and snow brings with it the terrifying Jack Frost, who not only freezes Mr. and Mrs. Brolly but also tries to kill the little boy by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLnmWVhrWKk making him succumb to sleeping in the cold.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': In "Urban Jungle", Danny complains about being really, '''really''' cold, despite the warm weather. Later, this turns out to be a sign of his [[ElementalPowers ice powers]] awakening.
** Also, Danny's [[SpiderSense ghost-sense]], which is mentioned to be related to his ice powers, apparently feels like the sudden chill caused by a ghost's presence.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheDickTracyShow'' episode "The Venetian Bind," the Mole and Sketch Paree are stealing all the statues in Venice, and they have their eyes on the only one left--it's in the home of the city's mayor. Disguised as physicians, they enter past Joe Jitsu and Detective Lardini and disguise the statue as the mayor's wife. Putting it on a stretcher, Joe puts his hand on the statue's forehead. (It's this that tips them off that Sketch and the Mole have made off with the statue.)
-->'''Det. Lardini:''' How-a she feel?\\
'''Joe:''' (''solemnly'') Cold. Very cold.\\
'''Det. Lardini:''' (''in tears'') Ohhh....\\
'''Joe:''' Cold like stone!
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'': During the Dogbert Day parade in "Holiday", Dilberts obnoxious co-worker, the aptly named Dick, who has spent the entire episode making Dilbert even more miserable than usual, is crushed along with his equally obnoxious SUV by Dogberts giant parade float. As he lies in the wreckage, he utters this trope. Dilbert, who is watching the parade on TV with his mother, [[CrossesTheLineTwice remarks that the holidays are a magical season]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Anthology of Interest II", General Pac-Man's last words after being hit by a Space Invader's beam is "So cold...".
* In ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'', the Jetsons arrive in Birdman's office, but have to ''walk'' to his desk, as there is no conveyor belt. Eventually, Astro collapses during the trek, saying "Ro rold, ro rold..."
* Ren says this in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesOfDarkWater''. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that Tula was purposefully [[HeroicSacrifice lowering his body temperature]] [[MakesSenseInContext in order to kill him]] [[OurGhostsAreDifferent so they could save Ioz]].
* PlayedForLaughs in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Oddballs}}''. When Max is hit by a piece of toast from Toasty, it looks like he's dying, complete with [[BlackBlood green blood]]. He says he feels cold, which prompts James to point out that as an alligator, he's cold-blooded. Max makes a sudden and full recovery immediately.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'': Parodied in "The Long Skate Home". Bubbles is hit in the face with a ball and collapses, then starts moaning that she's cold. Blossom tells her to zip up her jacket. She does so and recovers.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
** 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" (the implication being that Milhouse has malaria).
** In one episode, the GPS from Homer's car says "So cold, so cold..." after Homer rips it out and throws it in a nearby fountain.
* Ezra in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' says “I feel cold” when he and the Ghost crew fight against Darth Vader’s TIE fighter, which also ties into Vader’s EvilIsDeathlyCold
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
** Upon realizing that her 15 minutes of fame are over and with that her popularity, Heather despairs that she feels cold in "[[Recap/TotalDramaCelebrityManhuntsTDAReunionShow Celebrity Manhunt's TDA Reunion Show]]".
** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaWalkLikeAnEgyptianPartTwo Walk Like an Egyptian - Part 2]]", Alejandro experiences being called "Al" by Owen as an intense chill. The nickname has traumatic associations to him.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', a group that seems [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo oddly]] [[ShoutOut familiar]] infiltrates Dr. Venture's mansion and snoops around. At the end, they run afoul of a berserking Brock Sampson, who promptly kills the Fred, Shaggy and Scooby equivalents. As Shaggy dies, gutshot and bleeding out on the floor, he whimpers, "So cold, man...."
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* Victims of shock frequently complain of feeling cold, and cold clammy (diaphoretic) skin is a major sign of shock, along with rapid heart rate and low blood pressure. Sudden complaint of cold in a trauma patient or one with known risk of shock (from infection, heart failure, internal bleeding, etc) is a very ominous sign indeed.
* Cold itself is also a leading contributor to morbidity and mortality in shock patients, as it forms one of the three bases of the "trauma triad" or "triad of death": cold induces massive shivering as the patient attempts to maintain body heat, which generates lactic acid buildup in the bloodstream through anaerobic metabolism, which in turn impairs tissue oxygenation and promotes coagulopathy (inability to clot blood properly). Survival rates in this situation are dismal. Modern care of the shock victim frequently involves aggressive rewarming measures in addition to the usual protocols (fluid and/or blood product replacement, pressors where indicated, etc) in recognition of the risks of this outcome.
* In cases of drowning and hypothermia, severe cold serves as a protective mechanism in a euvolemic victim (i.e. one not in shock to begin with). Below a certain point (usually around 32 C), low core temperatures drastically slow metabolism, preserving organs from hypoxic damage, and occasionally allowing successful resuscitation in a victim who would otherwise be long past saving. To that end, an old aphorism of emergency medicine states that hypothermia victims "aren't dead till they're warm and dead." The same effect is also exploited in active cooling therapies for heart attack and stroke patients, in which the patient is deliberately rendered hypothermic in the ICU to protect the heart or brain from further ischemic insult. This has also been used as an effective treatment for those suffering from spinal injuries.
* In severe hypothermia cases, the victim may engage in 'paradoxical undressing' wherein they remove all their clothes. No one has experienced this and survived, but it has been suggested that at such a late stage the blood vessels close to the skin 'give up' and widen as they do when experiencing heat, causing the victim to feel too hot and strip. In this case, "I'm hot... so hot" might be more appropriate!
* A slight variation in cases of severe blood loss: in addition to the usual drowsiness and disorientation, the lowered bodily fluid levels can cause the victim to feel extremely thirsty. There have been many accounts of the aftermath of battles and disasters where the dying were heard begging for water as they bled out.
* The last transmission from the Mars rover ''Opportunity'' that was received on June 10, 2018 detailed fading power in its batteries and increasing opacity in the Martian atmosphere due to a persistent dust storm preventing the rover's solar panels from collecting enough power to keep itself running. After several months and over a thousand contact attempts without response, NASA announced on February 12, 2019 that the program would be concluded, and one journalist elected to relay ''Opportunity'''s last transmission as "My battery is low and it's getting dark." This, along with the rover operating ''way'' longer than expected (it was only planned to function for three months and ended up going for fifteen ''years''), sparked a wave of tributes and memorials among the public as if it were a funeral.
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