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* ''VideoGame/{{Blasphemous}}'': The Graveyard of the Peaks is a large, snowy mountain and the first part of the long and arduous pilgrimage of the women who wish to join the Convent of Our Lady of the Charred Visage. Most of them die a terrible death to either hypothermia, starvation or exhaustion and their frozen corpses can be found all over the mountain range.

* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'': The [[GhostTown Gravemark Village]] located in the snowy continent of [[GrimUpNorth Eternia]] is exactly WhatItSaysOnTheTin. What remains of the settlement is a cemetery and a lone hut where a trio of old foggies live. One of them explains that The Great Plague from some years ago killed almost all inhabitants and the village was quarantined by the [[PathOfInspiration Crystal Orthodoxy]] to prevent the malaise from reaching the rest of Eternia. Edea's parents, Braev and Mahzeer, hail from this place. It is theorized by the old man that Braev's support of the Anticrystallism movement is the result of the Orthodoxy sacrificing his hometown to protect the rest of the continent.

* The Graveyard of the Giants from ''VideoGame/LaMulana''. Whereas its frontside counterpart, the Mausoleum of Giants, gives a romanticized take on the Giant's doomed ply to help Mother to return to the skies, the Graveyard of the Giants shows the ugly truth of what truly happened: after they failed their mission, Mother created a new generation of children who quickly chased the coollosi into the frozen caverns where, overcome by sorrow, they all perished.

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'': This is one of the few [[OurVampiresAreDifferent twists]] that the game puts on its vampire lore, which otherwise hews as closely to the ClassicalMovieVampire as it can while still technically remaining grounded in science. Lady Dimitrescu's three "daughters" are vulnerable to the cold weather outside the castle, and you make use of this during the boss fights against them, opening the windows to weaken them and leave them vulnerable. Dimitrescu herself isn't vulnerable, though there are some differences with her biology compared to her daughters.

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'': This is one of the few [[OurVampiresAreDifferent twists]] that the game puts on its vampire lore, which otherwise hews as closely to the ClassicalMovieVampire as it can while still technically remaining grounded in science. Lady Dimitrescu's three "daughters" are vulnerable to the cold weather outside the castle, and you make use of this during the boss fights against them, opening the windows to weaken them and leave them vulnerable.

* OneManArmy ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' goes on his killing rampage while snow constantly falls down around him.

* ''Webcomic/TheLegendOfGenji'': Avatar Korra's funeral in the prologue is marked with a light snowfall occurring almost worldwide.

* ''Webcomic/TheLegendOfGenji'': During Avatar Korra's funeral in the prologue, it starts to snow throughout the world.

So naturally, many people are shown dramatically dying in the snow. It may have something to do with how [[WhiteAndRedAndEerieAllOver red blood contrasts so sharply with white snow]], especially when gentle snowflakes are falling around a scene of carnage. It may have something to do with the way the snow seems to try washing away the unclean corpses and ruins. It may have something to do with how it looks like a beautiful and peaceful way to die, just letting the cold embrace you as you fall asleep. It may have something to do with how snow melts on living bodies, but coats those that have passed on.

* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'': "For the first time in 120 years, snow had fallen on Santa Destroy."

* "[[DespairEventHorizon End of All Hope]]" by Music/{{Nightwish}} has this line:

* "White Mountain" by Music/{{Genesis}}, which takes place in a forest in the middle of a snowstorm: "Dawn saw the white mountain tinted with red."

* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'' episode "The Return of Doctor Dark". Ming initially exploits this trope by leaving Flash and Mandrake to freeze to death on the planet Frigia, which is so cold that no human can survive there for long, even with protective clothing. However, the trope is averted when the other Defenders and their Psychic Warrior friend, Mara, arrive on Frigia to rescue the two men. DisneyDeath also comes into play at this point; Flash and Mandrake are both found unconscious and Jedda initially fears the worst until Mara reassures her:

* The final fight in ''Literature/{{The Grimrose Girls}}'' takes place in a snowy landscape in the dead of winter. It ends in the middle of a frozen lake.

* In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'', just after Claire returns to 10 years in the past to die in the lab explosion, it begins snowing.

* Soviet film ''Film/TheAscent'' follows two Russian soldiers that belong to a partisan unit fighting the Germans during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. It is deep in the Russian winter and snow is everywhere, which fits the mood of a grim film about death and despair during a pitiless war.

* Music/CellarDarling:
** "Avalanche" is about freezing to death in the Alps.
** "Fire, Wind & Earth" says, "Now it's winter, I'm dying / Now it's colder, I'm freezing."
** "Freeze" is about an attempted suicide by hypothermia.
* Persephone's "Winter" is about dying on a winter night.

* The GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' ends with Darth Vader surveying the snow-covered wreckage of his former Jedi apprentice Ahsoka's Star Destroyer, plus the adjacent mass-grave she and clone trooper Rex set up for all their fallen comrades. The final shot has Vader's silhouette reflected in the visor of a half-buried clone trooper helmet as he leaves the crash site, symbolizing the death of all he once knew--including his own former self, Anakin Skywalker.

* "Avalanche" by Music/CellarDarling.
-->Cover me with snow\\
Freeze me to death\\
Forever I'll lay in the alpine bed\\
Seasons will change\\
But I shall remain\\
Stripped bare of my coat\\
I will rest in peace

->Is there anything more sublime than that bold crimson on fresh-fallen snow?

->''"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."''
-->-- '''Creator/AlfredHitchcock'''