Basic Trope: Swimming in cold water has no ill effects.
- Straight: Alice goes swimming in Antarctica but is fine.
- Exaggerated: Swimming in Antarctica is actually good for you.
- Downplayed:
- Alice swims in some water that's cold, but not enough to get hypothermia. She doesn't even feel cold.
- Alice does shiver during her Antarctican swim, but doesn't get hypothermia.
- Justified:
- Alice has superhuman immunity to the cold.
- Alice was wearing something that properly protected her against the cold water.
- Alice has trained her body for it and knows her time limit.
- Inverted:
- Hypothermia can only happen in water, no matter how cold the land is.
- Alice swims in boiling water and doesn't burn.
- Subverted:
- Alice goes swimming in Antarctica and seems fine.... then she gets hypothermia.
- Alice takes a dive into frigid water to shake off a pursuer. It works, but a Sick Episode follows.
- Double Subverted: She was only faking the hypothermia.
- Parodied:
- Zigzagged: Alice, Bob, Charles, and Diane go swimming in Antarctica. Alice is fine, Bob gets hypothermia, Charles shivers but doesn't get hypothermia, and Diane gets frozen in ice.
- Averted:
- No one swims in cold water.
- Swimming in cold water leads to hypothermia as it should.
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded: "Shouldn't I be getting hypothermia now?"
- Invoked: Bob enchants Alice with a spell to make her immune to the cold that only activates when her skin is wet.
- Exploited: Alice is being chased by a villain in Antarctica and simply swims away.
- Defied:
- Discussed: "It's the weirdest thing. I swam in Antarctica last week and didn't even get hypothermia."
- Conversed: "How is that character not getting hypothermia?!"
- Implied: Alice is seen in Antarctica, not hypothermic, but with dripping hair and clothes.
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Laughs:
- Played for Drama:
- Played for Horror: Being immune to cold water is a sign Alice is some otherworldly being.
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