History Main / EvilIsDeathlyCold

* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':

* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'': The main villain of the GSC arc is called Mask of Ice, having mastery over ice. [[spoiler: He's revealed to be Pryce, the Ice-type Gym Leader of Mahogany Town.]]
* In ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'', snow is periodically shown flurrying in through the Dark Kingdom's colonnades, and neither evil minion Jadeite nor his ''[[MonsterOfTheWeek youma]]'' seem remotely bothered by the wind or cold, despite being generally underdressed.
** Present also in both the manga and 90's anime as well during the Infinity Arc. The manga notes that [[MadScientist Professor]] [[TheQuisling Tomoe]]'s hands are like ice [[spoiler: hinting early that he's [[GeneticAbomination no longer human]]]] and in the anime, Uranus and Neptune note when confronting the [[DarkLordOnLifeSupport Messiah of Silence]] that her throne room is deathly cold (which would explain the OminousFog).

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* A more comical example can be found in ''Series/TheAddamsFamily: Pugley's Scavenger Hunt''. In which the last level takes place inside a fridge. The difficulty spikes up to eleven with ice spikes, evil snowmen, and slippery surfaces at every turn.

* Jin Kisaragi in ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''. While his ice power is ''definitely'' not evil, [[{{Jerkass}} his]] [[AxCrazy personality]] certainly gives off this vibe.

* The Highbreed in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' are less pronounced than most examples, but they do have rather "cold" colours (white and purple, mostly), and their species get stronger and more comfortable in cold climate. Their minions frequently build weather machines to keep their bases snowy so they can go around at full potential.

** The Ninth Circle (for traitors) is a lake frozen by the bitter winds made by Lucifer's wings. Just as betrayal is a calculating and cold evil, the damned here are submerged more and more into the ice depending on how calculated and unfeeling they were in carrying out their crime, for the worst evil, as the frozen lake of Cocytus. It's frozen because Satan, the giant trapped in the middle of it all, [[RedRightHand whose beauty has been twisted into hideous ugliness,]] is constantly beating all six of his wings, trying to get up to Heaven, and the resulting wind re-freezes the water (which itself is Satan's tears, as he is weeping and wishing he could undo his betrayal). [[SelfInflictedHell Of course, if he ever stopped trying to ascend, the ice would melt and he could be free.]][[note]]This leads to a fascinating Biblical HistoricalInJoke. As described by Revelation, Satan will eventually be freed as part of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, implying that after a few thousand years, he finally figured it out; a joke that only gets funnier with age. Not to mention, AfterTheEnd, he'll be rid of the lake of ice...by being cast into a lake of fire.[[/note]] The sinners down there -- guilty of treachery -- are frozen solid, [[AndIMustScream conscious, with the amount of their bodies frozen increasing as the degree of treachery gets worse]]. There are four circles: Caina, for people who betrayed their families (in ice up to their necks), Antenora, for people who betrayed their countries (in ice up to their heads), Ptolomaea, for people who [[SacredHospitality betrayed their guests or hosts]] (only their faces out of the ice, and [[EyeScream their tears freeze over their eyes]]), and Judecca, for people who [[UngratefulBastard betrayed their benefactors]] (completely encased in ice and twisted into grotesque positions). The [[FireAndBrimstoneHell fire and brimstone levels]] are higher up, for sinners whose crimes are comparatively less severe ([[ValuesDissonance or are at least considered so for the time]]).

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' series:

* ''Series/AmericanGothic''. The heating in the hospital room where Caleb was born still doesn't work properly years after the birth.

* In ''Literature/{{Momo}}'', people feel a chill whenever one of the Grey Men shows up, which gets worse the longer he's present or the closer attention he's paying, and multiplies when there are more than one present. In their secret stronghold there is a vault that has to be constantly kept at a freezing temperature, which is apparently achieved without any artificial aids just by having a sufficiently large group of Grey Men in it at all times.

* The North Wind, the evil ice spirit from the obscure Spanish animated film ''The Legend of the North Wind'' serves as the titular main antagonist, with the pirate Athanasius serving as his [[TheDragon main human henchman]]. He plans to turn the world into a frosty wasteland after killing all the whales and the three Heroes.

* Subverted and lampshaded in ''The Bag Witch Project'', a short ''[[Film/TheBlairWitchProject Blair Witch]]'' parody film about four roleplayers who get lost during [=GenCon=] and can't find their way back to the occupied part of the Milwaukee convention center. ''Would'' be this trope, if it weren't a satire:

* In the Asian movie ''Beyond Hypothermia'', the main character is a female assassin who has an abnormally low body temperature.

* In ''The Secret Life of Ian Fleming'' (1990) -- yes, ''[[Literature/JamesBond that]]'' Creator/IanFleming -- Fleming is able to identify [[FemmeFataleSpy female enemy agents]] by the fact that their lips are cold (presumably because they're faking their passion). Later, he hooks up with his {{UST}} and notes that her lips are burning hot.

* ComicBook/MrFreeze from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' is a twist, in that he's a villain, and he's deathly cold, but in his case the cold is used to stave off death and without it Freeze would already be dead.
* In Franchise/TheDCU, Kid Eternity was surprised to find, after being dragged into Hell by Beelzebub, that Hell is incredibly cold. Beelzebub explains that "It's cold in Hell. So cold you'll pray for eternal fire. And eventually, we answer your prayer."

** N'Kantu, the Living Mummy, describes undeath as "like life, only colder."
** Mephisto once teleported Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} into Hell. The latter experienced it as a permanent blizzard.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Villain Tombstone is described as being cold to touch.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: The realm of King Pluto, being under the ice of the planetiod, is so cold that if he did not put his victims through the odd ethereal process that leaves them weak phantoms they would quickly freeze to death before he had a chance to feed on them.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** ''ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga'': When Phantom Girl phases through a Servant of Darkness, she feels his body is unbearably cold.
** ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlBatgirlPlot'': The ghostly hand created by reality-warping villains Mxyzptlk and Batmite to capture ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} and ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} feels unbearably cold. Supergirl comments its overpowering glacial aura is so intensely cold it's even making ''her'' -who routinely flies through the void of space- shiver.

* ''Series/TheStand''. Nadine tells Randall Flagg that his seed is cold (in reference to the FetusTerrible [[ChildByRape he's given her]]).

** The Third Circle (for gluttons) is constantly bombarded by freezing rain, hail, and snow while being guarded by Cerberus.

* OlderThanPrint: While Christian Hell [[EvilIsBurningHot is usually hot]], Dante's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' portrays the Ninth Circle of Hell (the lowest and innermost), for the worst evil, as the frozen lake of Cocytus. It's frozen because Satan, the giant trapped in the middle of it all, [[RedRightHand whose beauty has been twisted into hideous ugliness,]] is constantly beating all six of his wings, trying to get up to Heaven, and the resulting wind re-freezes the water (which itself is Satan's tears, as he is weeping and wishing he could undo his betrayal). [[SelfInflictedHell Of course, if he ever stopped trying to ascend, the ice would melt and he could be free.]][[note]]This leads to a fascinating Biblical HistoricalInJoke. As described by Revelation, Satan will eventually be freed as part of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, implying that after a few thousand years, he finally figured it out; a joke that only gets funnier with age. Not to mention, AfterTheEnd, he'll be rid of the lake of ice...by being cast into a lake of fire.[[/note]] The sinners down there -- guilty of treachery -- are frozen solid, [[AndIMustScream conscious, with the amount of their bodies frozen increasing as the degree of treachery gets worse]]. There are four circles: Caina, for people who betrayed their families (in ice up to their necks), Antenora, for people who betrayed their countries (in ice up to their heads), Ptolomaea, for people who [[SacredHospitality betrayed their guests or hosts]] (only their faces out of the ice, and [[EyeScream their tears freeze over their eyes]]), and Judecca, for people who [[UngratefulBastard betrayed their benefactors]] (completely encased in ice and twisted into grotesque positions). The [[FireAndBrimstoneHell fire and brimstone levels]] are higher up, for sinners whose crimes are comparatively less severe ([[ValuesDissonance or are at least considered so for the time]]).

* Nekron, the villain of ''WesternAnimation/FireAndIce'', has ice-based superpowers.

* The dark Wizard Nekron’s whole schtick is this in ''WesternAnimation/FireAndIce''. And how can it not be when he’s commanding a giant glacier and moving it ever southwards to rule the world?

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12030689/1/The-DOOM-Chronicles The DOOM Chronicles]]'': Despite its {{fire and brimstone|Hell}} appearance and the fire alignment of most demons, the atmosphere in Hell is very cold, moreso when the wind blows. It gets to be a problem when characters get teleported forcefully there and [[BagOfSpilling lose everything in their possession, even their clothes]].

** The Clans' version of Hell, called the Dark Forest or the Place of No Stars, is a forest locked in perpetual night with luminous fungi providing the only light source. It's muddy, cold and foggy, there's no food and it's so large that the souls of the damned can wander for years without running across one another.

** In ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'', each of Teyvat's seven nations is ruled by a PhysicalGod known as an Archon. The Archon of [[AnIcePerson Cryo]], the Tsaritsa, rules the frigid, unforgiving land of Snezhnaya, from which hail the Fatui, the game's most prominent antagonistic faction.