History Main / EvilIsDeathlyCold

* Averted with Jack Frost and North/Santa Claus in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' who are associated with cold temperatures and winter but are good people. Invoked by Pitch when [[spoiler: tempting Jack to join him that cold and dark go well together.]]

The obvious foil to FertileFeet. Indeed, it may not be clear in a story whether the return of sunshine, life, and warmth is owning to the [[FisherKing hero's influence]] or because the BigBad's has NoOntologicalInertia. (BabiesEverAfter may coincide with this -- or function as a mundane alternative.)

* ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'': A scientific expedition makes horrifying discoveries in Antarctica.

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'''s ''Dawnguard'' DLC, Skyrim's Volkihar clan of vampires takes center stage. Even the lowest-leveled vampires are capable of using a "Chill Touch" spell, and it evolves into other kinds of Frost-magic from there. They also utilize [[BeastOfBattle Death Hounds]], monstrous undead dogs, who deal Frost damage with their bite and have a Frost aura.

[[caption-width-right:347: Who needs {{Hellfire}} when you're this cool?]]

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'', Chien-Pao is a member of the [[spoiler:"Treasures of Ruin", being known as the "Sword of Ruin".]] [[[spoiler:The Treasures of Ruin are a group of four Pokemon born from intense negative emotions corrupting four ancient treaures.]] Chien-Pao was [[spoiler:born from and is fueled by the hatred of everyone who has died by the sword,]] and has control over ice and snow. [[spoiler:It forms a body out of snow, and its true form is the two halves of the broken sword forming its fangs.]] Fittingly, it is part Ice-type.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'', Chien-Pao is a member of the "Treasures of Ruin", being known as the "Sword of Ruin". The Treasures of Ruin are a group of four Pokemon born from intense negative emotions corrupting four ancient treaures. Chien-Pao was born from the hatred of everyone who has died by the sword, and has control over ice and snow. It forms a body out of snow, and its true form is the two halves of the broken sword forming its fangs.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'', Chien-Pao is a member of the "Treasures of Ruin", being known as the "Sword of Ruin". The Treasures of Ruin are a group of four Pokemon born from intense negative emotions corrupting four ancient treaures. Chien-Pao was born from the hatred of everyone who has dies by the sword, and has control over ice and snow, forming a body out of it, its true form being the two halves of the broken sword forming its fangs.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': Vampires have incredibly cold body temperatures. In fact, Joseph was able to tell Straights was a vampire simply by the fact that his breath was not visible when temperatures were below freezing. One of the (inconsistent) explanations for the vampires' ability to flash-freeze their enemies' blood is that they are simply that cold.

Much more likely for the BigBad or EvilOverlord than pettier sorts of villains. Tends to factor into FisherKing. Whereas Good is probably located in the GhibliHills or {{Arcadia}}, Evil is invariably located in the GrimUpNorth or the "icy wasteland" version of {{Mordor}}.

-->-- [[https://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=83415 Icy Manipulator,]] ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''

* It has been suggested that the conception of Hell depends on the climate of the region where a religion was born - that Hell is the worst weather that region has, taken UpToEleven for all eternity. Thus Christianity/Judaism/Islam - born in an arid semi-desert region - have Hell as a place which is very very hot. The Nordic pantheon, from a region nearer to the Arctic, has Hell as a place of eternal cold and ice.

* The Plains of Death in ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' are desperately cold: “The chill of death.” The Twisted Temple, high up in the Misery Mountains, is also frigid, and [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom The Brothers of Doom]] are immune to cold.

* ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'':
** The Emerald Tablet generally seems to radiate a strong aura of cold where ever it goes.

** In the ''{{Literature/Eisenhorn}}'' novels, psykers' usage of Warp powers often comes with frost formation. This once saves Eisenhorn from a PsychicAssistedSuicide - his gun’s mechanisms froze solid during their mental struggle.

** In the ''{{Literature/Eisenhorn}}'' novels, psykers' usage of Warp powers often comes with frost formation.

* The Others from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' are malevolent creatures in the North who are heavily associated with cold. The same goes with the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent wights]] that they create. In the R'hllor religion, a god called the Great Other is heavily associated with cold and is considered evil, though R'hllor at times seems no less destructive a force, and can easily come across as EvilIsBurningHot to those of other religious faiths.

* In the {{Roguelike}} game ''[[VideoGame/PLATOMoria Moria]]'', equipping a cursed item causes the message, "Oops! It feels deathly cold!" to appear.

* The vampires from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' have incredibly cold body temperatures. In fact, Joseph was able to tell Straights was a vampire simply by the fact that his breath was not visible when temperatures were below freezing. One of the (inconsistent) explanations for the vampires' ability to flash-freeze their enemies' blood is that they are simply that cold.
* In ''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.]]

* ''ComicBook/Superman}}'':

** ''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 arctic aura is so intensely cold it's even making ''her'' -who routinely flies through the void of space- shiver.

* Franchise/MarvelUniverse:

* The ComicBook/SpiderMan villain Tombstone is described as being cold to touch.

* ''ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga'': When Phantom Girl phases through a Servant of Darkness, she feels his body is unbearably cold.

* In ''FanFic/DesertedDistractions'', a shadow demon's presence freezes Ryou as it drains him of positive emotions, eventually making him go numb from the cold, and later does the same to Bakura.

* Christian missionaries to Native Alaskans learned very quickly to speak of Hell as a very cold place.

* ''TheLaundryFiles'': This is the hallmark of a ''very'' bad EldritchAbomination. Abominations on a certain level tend to consume information, thus immediately reducing their surroundings to maximum entropy. Since entropy has hit maximum nothing around them is doing anything, rendering the place deathly cold.
* Creator/EEDocSmith's ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' stories feature several species of [[StarfishAliens very alien life]] evolved at near-absolute-zero temperatures. (In a prequel story, one of them colonizes Pluto.) When visiting environments capable of sustaining human life, they freeze everything in the vicinity. While not all of these species (or all members of these species) are villainous, all display a more than mildly unsettling LackOfEmpathy.