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Author: ParadiscaCorbasi

Feb 6th 2010 at 1:31:30 PM

And SarahJaye -- aaaagggh. I don't know if there's a way to go back and dig up all those examples I had in that post before. By the way, it works because Sokka and Katara were acclimatized to extremely cold temperatures and had moved north to a warmer climate.  Their bodies hadn't acclimated yet to the warmer temps when the storm hit, so they got sick.

'''Page Quote fodder:'''  Come out of the garden, baby Youll catch your death in the fog -- Diamond Dogs, David Bowie

The cold will in GrossOutShows (or even shows less prone) result in horrible shots of runny, snotty noses; hankies and tissues dripping with same.

Common methods of treating someone who has come in from the cold is to put them in a chair under a blanket with a hot water bottle on their head and their feet in hot water to warm them up.

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* On SpongebobSquarepants the Suds are the underwater version of a cold, caught after Spongebob fell asleep in front of an open refrigerator.  
* Inversion: ''Year Without A Santa Claus'': Vixen, who's acclimated to the frigid temps of the North Pole gets sick when she goes to warm weather Southtown.

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* Subversion: in both ''The Saint'' and in ''TheDayAfterTomorrow'' the girls are both bright science types who know that ''hypothermia'' is the real deadly danger coming from exposure to freezing cold water.

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*  TheHollowsSeries by Kim Harrison. Rachel falls into a frozen river in one of the books but does not come down with a cold.
*  WeatherWardens as well.  Joanne's concerns from being in frozen temperatures are frostbite and hypothermia.

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* ''TheSpectacularSpiderMan'': Peter goes around in un-insulated Spidey suit in the dead of snowy winter, and the next time we see Peter Parker, he's sneezing.

So I guess it's two sides of the trope.

Side 1:  People get sick from getting wet and/or cold.

Side 2: People get realistic ailments from getting cold and/or wet.

Don't want to see it time out.  Anybody mind if I launch it?