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-->-- '''Karthus the Lich''', ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''

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* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': The Mandarin confirms that the PlayerCharacter is a vampire because they register as room-temperature on infrared scanners.

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* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': The Mandarin confirms that the PlayerCharacter is a vampire because they register as room-temperature on infrared scanners. A VampireHunter crew {{exploit|edTrope}}s this with explosive traps that target undead heat signatures but ignore living creatures -- which you can hack to reverse the settings.
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* In ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', this is how your character is identified as a vampire: you don't show up on the heat scanners.

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* In ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', this is how your character is identified as a vampire: you don't show up on ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': The Mandarin confirms that the heat PlayerCharacter is a vampire because they register as room-temperature on infrared scanners.
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* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': Deconstructed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N56xp4tAxuY&ab_channel=LarianStudios this]] promotional short. When the party trudges through the snow on a rescue mission, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Astarion]] passes out from the cold.
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* ''Literature/OldKingdom'': [[AfterlifeAntechamber Death]] appears to be an infinite river of frigid water; when {{Necromancer}}s are [[AstralProjection projecting their spirits]] into Death, their bodies rapidly frost over. Not so much the Dead themselves, some of which are even [[IncendiaryExponent on fire]].

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** Liches, undead spell casters, have a touch that can inflict cold-based damage.
** One particularly nasty EliteZombie is the Bleakborns, also known as Moil Zombies. They look like normal zombies, with one important detail: frostbites and other ice-induced wounds on the corpse that won't disappear even in hot environments. These monstrosities have a heat-draining aura, dealing cold damage to everyone in it while ''healing'' them. If you try to [[KillItWithFire burn]] them, they ''[[FeedItWithFire eat the flames]]''.

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** Liches, [[OurLichesAreDifferent Liches]], undead spell casters, spellcasters, have a touch that can inflict cold-based damage.
** One particularly nasty EliteZombie is type are the Bleakborns, bleakborns, also known as Moil Zombies. zombies. They look like normal zombies, with one important detail: frostbites and other ice-induced wounds on the corpse flash-frozen, frostbitten walking corpses that won't disappear never thaw even in hot environments. These monstrosities That's because bleakborns have a heat-draining aura, dealing aura that deals cold damage to everyone in it everything around them, while ''healing'' them. healing the zombie. If you try to [[KillItWithFire burn]] them, they ''[[FeedItWithFire eat the flames]]''.flames]]''.
** The ''Libris Mortis'' sourcebook explains that as animated corpses, the undead lack metabolisms, and thus are as hot or cold as their environment. The "deathly chill" surrounding them is instead speculated to be caused by the negative energy that animates undead, so that their very existence siphons energy from the Material Plane to be consumed by the void of the Negative Energy Plane.

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Subtrope of ElementalZombie.

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Subtrope SubTrope of ElementalZombie.



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* In Franchise/TheDCU, supervillain Kobra killed his brother Jason's girlfriend, then resurrected her as a zombie and sent her to kill him. Jason's last words were as he embraced her, remarking that her skin was as cold as ice. This sentence trailed off as realization dawned on him just before the zombie stabbed him in the back and threw him from the cable car.

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* In Franchise/TheDCU, supervillain Kobra killed kills his brother Jason's girlfriend, then resurrected resurrects her as a zombie and sent sends her to kill him. Jason's last words were are as he embraced her, remarking that her skin was is as cold as ice. This sentence trailed trails off as realization dawned dawns on him just before the zombie stabbed stabs him in the back and threw throws him from the cable car.









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* In ''Film/TheseAreTheDamned'', the children being held in the secret facility beneath a military base have skin that's cold to the touch, and one character freaks out and starts shouting that they're dead when he discovers this. [[spoiler:Turns out they're an experiment to create children who are immune to radiation and therefore will survive a nuclear war. The children are radioactive themselves, and therefore will kill anyone who comes into contact with them who isn't wearing a hazmat suit.]]



* In the 1963 Film/HammerHorror film ''Film/TheseAreTheDamned'', the children being held in the secret facility beneath a military base have skin that's cold to the touch, and one character freaks out and starts shouting that they're dead when he discovers this. [[spoiler:Turns out they're an experiment to create children who are immune to radiation and therefore will survive a nuclear war. The children are radioactive themselves, and therefore will kill anyone who comes into contact with them who isn't wearing a hazmat suit.]]



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* Invoked in ''Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries'' (and by extension, ''Series/TrueBlood''). At one point in the books, Sookie becomes intimate with a non-vampire for the first time and notes how strange it is to have sex with a warm body.
* ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' vampires are physically cold and "marble-like". The werewolves, by contrast, have a higher-than-average body temperature.
* In ''Literature/NewAmsterdam'' by Elizabeth Bear (the book, not the TV show), Sebastian, resident Spanish wampyr detective, is cold and doesn't have free-flowing blood in his body.
* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with the "[[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]]" of ''Literature/IAmLegend'', who are humans with a disease that ([[ZombieApocalypse among other things]]) sends the body into overdrive. They run a fever of about 103 Fahrenheit as a baseline.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
** The Others, undead and cold, to the point where the ambient temperature drops when they're around.
** The wights, the reanimated corpses of the Others' victims are also ice-cold to the touch, though they don't drop the ambient temperature.

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* Invoked in ''Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries'' (and by extension, ''Series/TrueBlood''). At one point in the books, Sookie becomes intimate with a non-vampire for the first time and notes how strange it is to have sex with a warm body.
* ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' vampires are physically cold and "marble-like". The werewolves, by contrast, have a higher-than-average body temperature.
* In ''Literature/NewAmsterdam'' by Elizabeth Bear (the book, not the TV show), Sebastian, resident Spanish wampyr detective, is cold and doesn't have free-flowing blood in his body.
* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with the "[[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]]" of ''Literature/IAmLegend'', who are humans with a disease that ([[ZombieApocalypse among other things]]) sends the body into overdrive. They run a fever of about 103 Fahrenheit as a baseline.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
** The Others, undead and cold, to the point where the ambient temperature drops when they're around.
** The wights, the reanimated corpses of the Others' victims are also ice-cold to the touch, though they don't drop the ambient temperature.
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* In ''Literature/BloodsuckingFiends'', vampires' lack of body heat is a plot point: they can identify each other by sight with their heat-based AuraVision, and one human singles Jody out as a supernatural entity by spying on her with infrared goggles.
* In "Literature/CoolAir", [[spoiler:Dr Muñoz technically died 18 years before the story began, but has preserved a semblance of life in his body using various advanced medical techniques, and relies on an air-conditioning system to keep his apartment at a low temperature in order to prevent decay. When the air conditioner breaks, death catches up with him and he decomposes within several hours]].



* In ''Literature/BloodsuckingFiends'', vampires' lack of body heat is a plot point: they can identify each other by sight with their heat-based AuraVision, and one human singles Jody out as a supernatural entity by spying on her with infrared goggles.
* Inverted in ''Literature/TheStrain'', where vampires have an unusually high body temperature. This makes infrared vision a useful way to track their movements.
* In the Creator/HPLovecraft short story ''Literature/CoolAir'', [[spoiler:Dr Muñoz technically died 18 years before the story began, but has preserved a semblance of life in his body using various advanced medical techniques, and relies on an air-conditioning system to keep his apartment at a low temperature in order to prevent decay. When the air-conditioner breaks, death catches up with him and he decomposes within several hours.]]

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* In ''Literature/BloodsuckingFiends'', vampires' lack {{Inverted|Trope}} with the "[[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]]" of body heat is ''Literature/IAmLegend'', who are humans with a plot point: they can identify each disease that (among other things) sends the body into overdrive. They run a fever of about 103 Fahrenheit as a baseline.
* In the ''Literature/NewAmsterdamBooks'', resident Spanish wampyr detective Sebastian is cold and doesn't have free-flowing blood in his body.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
** The Others, undead and cold, to the point where the ambient temperature drops when they're around.
** The wights, the reanimated corpses of the Others' victims are also ice-cold to the touch, though they don't drop the ambient temperature.
* Invoked in ''Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries'' (and
by sight extension, ''Series/TrueBlood''). At one point in the books, Sookie becomes intimate with their heat-based AuraVision, a non-vampire for the first time and one human singles Jody out as a supernatural entity by spying on her notes how strange it is to have sex with infrared goggles.
a warm body.
* Inverted in ''Literature/TheStrain'', where as vampires have an unusually high body temperature. This makes infrared vision a useful way to track their movements.
* In the Creator/HPLovecraft short story ''Literature/CoolAir'', [[spoiler:Dr Muñoz technically died 18 years before the story began, but has preserved ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'''s vampires are physically cold and "marble-like". The werewolves, by contrast, have [[MyBloodRunsHot a semblance of life in his higher-than-average body using various advanced medical techniques, and relies on an air-conditioning system to keep his apartment at a low temperature in order to prevent decay. When the air-conditioner breaks, death catches up with him and he decomposes within several hours.]]temperature]].



* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', The Initiative discovered that a vampire (specifically Spike) was in Willow's dorm room because their InfraredXrayCamera read him as only slightly above room temperature.

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* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The Initiative discovered discovers that a vampire (specifically Spike) was is in Willow's dorm room because their InfraredXrayCamera read InfraredXRayCamera reads him as only slightly above room temperature.temperature.
* As in [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the books]], the temperature around the White Walkers drops notably in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', to the point that fires next to them are extinguished.



* As in [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the books]], the temperature around the White Walkers drops notably in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', to the point that fires next to them are extinguished.



* Liches, undead spell casters in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', have a touch that can inflict cold-based damage.
** One particularly nasty EliteZombie is the Bleakborns, also known as Moil Zombies. They look like normal zombies, with one important detail: frostbites and other ice-induced wounds on the corpse that won't disappear even in hot environments. These monstrosities have a heat-draining aura, dealing cold damage to everyone in it while ''healing'' them. And if you try to [[KillItWithFire burn]] them? They ''[[FeedItWithFire eat the flames.]]''
* Vampires in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' don't have any body heat by default, although they can expend some of their blood reserve to fake a metabolism for a short time. It's mentioned that, even though vampire blood is a potent FantasticDrug, the sheer awfulness of drinking sludgy room-temperature blood is a serious obstacle to consumption at first.

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
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Liches, undead spell casters in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', casters, have a touch that can inflict cold-based damage.
** One particularly nasty EliteZombie is the Bleakborns, also known as Moil Zombies. They look like normal zombies, with one important detail: frostbites and other ice-induced wounds on the corpse that won't disappear even in hot environments. These monstrosities have a heat-draining aura, dealing cold damage to everyone in it while ''healing'' them. And if If you try to [[KillItWithFire burn]] them? They them, they ''[[FeedItWithFire eat the flames.]]''
flames]]''.
* ''Franchise/TheWorldOfDarkness'':
** ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' actually warns players that they should keep this in mind while human hunters are around, especially in cold weather, as it will give them away. Additionally, the game has the Naga, weresnakes that can alter their physiology to go cold blooded, and grow their snake fangs, allowing them to pass for Vampires in some circumstances.
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Vampires in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' don't have any body heat by default, although they can expend some of their blood reserve to fake a metabolism for a short time. It's mentioned that, that even though vampire blood is a potent FantasticDrug, the sheer awfulness of drinking sludgy room-temperature blood is a serious obstacle to consumption at first.



* Most undead in ''VideoGame/{{Dominions}}'' are associated with cold and resistant to it, and some are even surrounded by chilling auras.
* Ethreain the Lich from ''VideoGame/Dota2'' is based on Kel'Thuzad from ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' (in the original ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncientsAllStars'', he ''was'' him). He comes with ice spells... and plenty of ice puns.
* Zombies in ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' can use their [[BreathWeapon arctic-cold breath]] to inflict the Cold status.
* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse''. Nanashi is undead, and looking at the flavor text for the thermometer ShopFodder reveals that he has a body temperature of 35.3 C (95.5 F). That's above room temperature, but barely above hypothermia.



** Also a feature of Vampires in the tabletop game, ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' actually warns players that they should keep this in mind while human hunters are around, especially in cold weather, as it will give them away. Additionally the game has the Naga, weresnakes that can alter their physiology to go cold blooded, and grow their snake fangs, allowing them to pass for Vampires in some circumstances.
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** Also a feature of Vampires in the tabletop game, ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' actually warns players that they should keep this in mind while human hunters are around, especially in cold weather, as it will give them away. Additionally the game has the Naga, weresnakes that can alter their physiology to go cold blooded, and grow their snake fangs, allowing them to pass for Vampires in some circumstances.
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* Most undead in ''VideoGame/{{Dominions}}'' are associated with cold and resistant to it, and some are even surrounded by chilling auras.
* Ethreain the Lich from ''VideoGame/{{Dota 2}}'' is based on Kel'Thuzad from ''Warcraft'' (in the original ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncientsAllStars'', he ''was'' him). He comes with ice spells... and plenty of ice puns.
* Zombies in ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' can use their [[BreathWeapon arctic-cold breath]] to inflict the Cold status.
* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse''. Nanashi is undead, and looking at the flavor text for the thermometer ShopFodder reveals that he has a body temperature of 35.3 C (95.5 F). That's above room temperature, but barely above hypothermia.



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* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', when [[spoiler:Malack]] is outed as a vampire, he says he rather thought that it was obvious, given his lack of body heat. Durkon responds that he just figured that [[spoiler:Malack]], as a lizard-folk,[[note]]technically a snake-folk of some kind[[/note]] was cold-blooded. "Actually, when active, exothermic organisms like lizards have comparable body temperatures to--" "I dinnae want a science lesson right now!"

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* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', when [[spoiler:Malack]] is outed as a vampire, he says he rather thought that it was obvious, given his lack of body heat. Durkon responds that he just figured that [[spoiler:Malack]], as a lizard-folk,[[note]]technically [[LizardFolk lizard-folk]],[[note]]technically a snake-folk [[SnakePeople snake-folk]] of some kind[[/note]] was cold-blooded. "Actually, when active, exothermic organisms like lizards have comparable body temperatures to--" "I dinnae want a science lesson right now!"
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* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', when [[spoiler:Malack]] is outed as a vampire, he says he rather thought that it was obvious, given his lack of body heat. Durkon responds that he just figured that [[spoiler:Malack]], as a lizard-folk[[note]]technically a snake-folk of some kind[[/note]], was cold-blooded. "Actually, when active, exothermic organisms like lizards have comparable body temperatures to--" "I dinnae want a science lesson right now!"

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* In the Creator/HPLovecraft short story ''Literature/CoolAir'', [[spoiler:Dr Muñoz technically died 18 years before the story began, but has preserved a semblance of life in his body using various advanced medical techniques, and relies on an advanced air-conditioning system to keep his apartment at a low temperature in order to prevent decay. When the air-conditioner breaks, death catches up with him and he decomposes within several hours.]]

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* In the Creator/HPLovecraft short story ''Literature/CoolAir'', [[spoiler:Dr Muñoz technically died 18 years before the story began, but has preserved a semblance of life in his body using various advanced medical techniques, and relies on an advanced air-conditioning system to keep his apartment at a low temperature in order to prevent decay. When the air-conditioner breaks, death catches up with him and he decomposes within several hours.]]
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* In the Creator/HPLovecraft short story ''Literature/CoolAir'', [[spoiler:Dr Muñoz technically died 18 years before the story began, but has preserved a semblance of life in his body using various advanced medical techniques, and relies on an advanced air-conditioning system to keep his apartment at a low temperature in order to prevent decay. When the air-conditioner breaks, death catches up with him and he decomposes within several hours.]]

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