History Main / EndlessWinter

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': The region of Coerthas was plunged into an endless winter after the Calamity occurred. Due to the fall of Dalamud, Erozea's aether became totally screwed up. Corethas was once a lush green environment, but the Calamity turned into a winter wasteland that has only snow and ice. The people living in the region managed to adapt, but it also hinders their ability to effectively fight off the dragons.

** In ''Fanfic/KingdomOfIsolation'', Anna doesn't survive her HeroicSacrifice, and in her grief, Elsa [[SanitySlippage loses her grip on reality]] and keeps Arendelle in permanent winter. [[spoiler:[[NoOntologicalInertia It ends when she's killed though.]]]]

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': ZigZagged in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E75TheMidnightSun The Midnight Sun]]". Most of the story is focused on the Earth getting hotter and hotter because it is moving closer and closer to the sun, with the ever-increasing and unbearable heat slowly killing off Earthly life and humanity with it. But it turns out it's AllJustADream -- in reality, the Earth is getting colder and colder because it's moving away from the sun, and will eventually become an uninhabitable ball of ice. From the protagonist's POV, this is a HappyEnding.

* In ''Film/DeadlyHarvest'', a catastrophic ClimateChange has plunged the world into one of these, resulting in mass starvation as crops fail and food supplies diminish.

* ''Film/MirrorMirror'' has winter fall over the land when the evil queen starts to rule. It ends when she is defeated.
* In ''Film/{{Snowpiercer}}'' the world is made into an artic barren landscape by accident. In an attempt to reverse a warming climate, the governments of the world released chemical CW-7 into the skies to cool the atmosphere. Working all too well, the attempt sends temperatures crashing, enveloping the planet in ice and killing nearly everyone on Earth.
* In ''Film/{{Supervolcano}}'', this happens as a result of the volcanic winter caused by the eruption of the Yellowstone caldera.

* In the final book of the ''Literature/DeptfordMice'' trilogy, [[BigBad Jupiter]] returns in spectral form and smothers the entire world in winter as revenge for his death. [[spoiler:It only ends when [[TheHero Audrey]] defeats him with a magical snowdrop flower that is a symbol of spring.]]

* In ''Videogame/EndlessLegend'' this is the inevitable fate of the planet Auriga as the game progresses, with each winter being harder and longer. The endgoal of every faction is to find some way to survive the impending winter as the planet dies, such as leaving the planet altogether, hibernating until the planet recovers, or reversing the cycle.
* In ''Videogame/EvilGenius2'', this is the endgoal of DLC character Polar, who as an Ice-themed supervillain wants to create a new ice age with the use of her DoomsdayDevice Z.E.R.O.

* ''Videogame/HonkaiStarRail'': The planet of Jarilo-VI was plunged into an ice age via a perpetual snow storm known as the "Eternal Freeze" about 700 years in the past that has rendered the planet nearly-inhospitable save for the city of Belobog. The Eternal Freeze was caused by the leader of the planet attempting to make a deal with a [[SealedEvilInACan Stellaron]] to rid the planet of alien invaders. [[spoiler:By the end of the Jarilo-VI storyline the Stellaron is sealed away, meaning that the snow storm is officially over though the planet is still ecologically devastated and will take centuries at least before it can fully recover]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': In ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'', [[CuteGhostGirl Yuyuko]] steals spring to feed a giant monstrous cherry tree in the ghost world, causing perpetual winter in the land of Gensoukyo.

A SubTrope of WeatherDissonance and SisterTrope to TheNightThatNeverEnds and SpringIsLate. Not to be confused with FrozenInTime. For truly apocalyptic cases of this, see GlacialApocalypse.

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%%* ''Webcomic/{{Ice}}'': Makes for a gritty {{dystopia}} .

* In ''Fanfic/Grogar: Screams Upon a Winter's Night'', this is revealed to be the BigBad, Grogar's ultimate goal; he intends to gradually freeze the world, one town or city at a time, until the whole world is a frozen wasteland, so he can rule over it.

* ''[[https://www.wattpad.com/story/325408590-the-frozen-heart%27s-star The Frozen Heart's Star by Cheyenne89 Pictures]]'': In that fanfiction, Dream Land had suffered through this after [[spoiler:their hero Kirby had gotten a frozen heart]], and it stayed that way from Chapters [[https://www.wattpad.com/1281487782-the-frozen-heart%27s-star-chapter-5-another-frozen 5]] to [[https://www.wattpad.com/1281494412-the-frozen-heart%27s-star-chapter-16-the-ultimate 16]], and it's most noticeable in the later chapters, mostly in [[https://www.wattpad.com/1281493287-the-frozen-heart%27s-star-chapter-14-cheyenne%27s-plan Chapter 14: Cheyenne's Plan]].
** To make matters worse, as shown in [[https://www.deviantart.com/cheyenne89pictures/art/Emmet-and-Cheyenne-escaping-in-the-Warp-Star-893869556 this artwork based on the opening of]] [[https://www.wattpad.com/1281491147-the-frozen-heart%27s-star-chapter-12-the-aurora-of Chapter 12]], Planet Popstar too was completely frozen over, so badly in fact, that in [[https://www.wattpad.com/1281492751-the-frozen-heart%27s-star-chapter-13-dream-land-in the next]] [[https://www.wattpad.com/1281493287-the-frozen-heart%27s-star-chapter-14-cheyenne%27s-plan two chapters (the latter being previously mentioned)]], it was even renamed to "Planet Icestar", since it was conquered by the [[DeadlyGaze freeze-to-death-with-eye-contact]] BigBad.

* In Myth/NorseMythology, the Fimbulvetr or Fimbulwinter is an especially harsh winter that lasts twice as long as usual and signifies the beginning of [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Ragnarok]].

** To make matters worse, as shown in [[https://www.deviantart.com/cheyenne89pictures/art/Emmet-and-Cheyenne-escaping-in-the-Warp-Star-893869556 this artwork based on the opening of]] [[https://www.wattpad.com/1281491147-the-frozen-heart%27s-star-chapter-12-the-aurora-of Chapter 12]], Planet Popstar too was completely frozen over, so badly in fact, that in [[https://www.wattpad.com/1281492751-the-frozen-heart%27s-star-chapter-13-dream-land-in the next]] [[https://www.wattpad.com/1281493287-the-frozen-heart%27s-star-chapter-14-cheyenne%27s-plan two chapters (the latter being previously mentioned)]], it was even renamed to "Planet Icestar", since it was conquered by the [[DeadlyGaze
freeze-to-death-with-eye-contact]] BigBad.

* WebOriginal/{{Serina}}: This is the eventual fate of the titular moon as tectonic activity slows down and eventually halts, weakening and then completely destroying Serina’s magnetic field, freezing the moon and bombarding it with cosmic radiation until no life can survive. Currently, within the project, this is still yet to come, but there’s not much time left before it starts.
* In the world of Website/TaerelSetting, The Shattering, started by the volcanic fallout of a super volcanic eruption, was a winter that lasted for over fifty years. It affected most, if not all of Taerel. Many people died of a lack of food in this time.

* ''WesternAnimation/FireAndIce'': The heartless wizard Nekron is able to expand his ice palace world into the tropics. [[spoiler:His glacier stops advancing only when Nekron tires.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' revolves around the newly crowned Queen Elsa's hidden powers inflicting this on the kingdom. She [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds didn't know she was doing this until the others tell her]] and manages to end it when she gets control of her powers.
* Zeebad, the antagonist of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout2005'', planned on utilizing three diamonds to freeze the sun.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MonsterFamily'', Dracula creates a snowflake cold enough to flash-freeze anything it touches, even the fire in his ridiculously large fireplace. He intends to create a giant snowball of these things and shoot it into the sun, thereby sending the Earth into a permanent ice age.