History Main / Snowlems

** Regice is a Legendary [[Mon {{ Mons}}]] made entirely of Antarctic ice. Bonus points also for actually being a golem.

* The second big boss of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest'' is a hulking ice golem. The fastest non-magical, non-[[KillItWithFire flammable]] way to defeat it is to chip away at it with [[AnAxeToGrind an axe]].

* There was a short cartoon called ''WesternAnimation/EarthVersusEverything'', which featured giant mutant killer snowmen brought to life by [[ILoveNuclearPower radiation from nuclear tests]]. It was a very silly cartoon.

%% * [[http://www.irn-bru.co.uk/advert/snowman.html Irn-Bru]] parody of the flight sequence from ''ComicBook/TheSnowman''.

* Snowmen are the most common and weakest enemy fought in ''VideoGame/ChristmasCarnage'', a 1994 shooter in which the EasterBunny seeks to end Christmas. They bleed a lot for just regular snowmen, which goes unexplained.
* ''{{VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet}}'': the PSP version has one in the level [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Peak Performance]], it guards a balloon by shooting snowmen enemies from his top hat and throwing snowballs.
* The Chinese MMORPG ''VideoGame/RocoKingdom'' releases holiday-exclusive [[{{Mons}} pets]] that can be obtained in special events. One of these pets, Yuandan, which was obtainable from December 2019 to January 2020 for a New Year's event, is a snowman that looks to be controlled by marionette strings.
* ''Daze Before Christmas'' features an evil snowman as part of the BigBadEnsemble. He is one of the bosses.
* ''VideoGame/Wizard101'' features Type 3 examples: [[https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Evil_Snowman Evil Snowmen]] that infest Colossus Boulevard, which carry daggers. By Level 10, the player can also summon Evil Snowmen in combat (assuming they're either an Ice wizard or have training points to spare).
* ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooAndTheSpookySwamp'' features an evil version of a traditional snowman, the Snowmean, and other enemies made from snow, Lurkers.

* [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Blue Laser Commander]] announces his intention of making super-soldiers out of snow ("They're called 'Super-Snowldiers,' thank you very much!") as soon as he can find some carrots.

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* Christi from ''Webcomic/ThePrincessPlanet'' creates a living snowman because using dead human body parts instead is too hard and gross.
%% * ''Webcomic/VGCats'' hilariously subverts the tale of [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=275 Frosty]].
* ''Webcomic/TheKAMics'' had [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_KAMics/5092717/ Frankie The Snowman]]
* A side story in ''Webcomic/{{Jack|DavidHopkins}}'' features the characters attending the premiere of [[StylisticSuck the film]] ''[[http://www.pholph.com/whole_arc_viewer.php?id=5&sid=1508 Frigid McThunderbones]]''. A ShoutOut to the 1997 ''Jack Frost'' is quick to be made once the characters realize the plot of the movie.
* The heroes of ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'' encounter one [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0256.html in this filler strip]].

%% * Mr Nutty of ''Webcomic/PokeyThePenguin''.
* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob:'' Molly built a [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/538 steam-powered snowman.]] He melted, for obvious reasons.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edavGZ4UoIU Freaky the Scary Snowman]], a prank done by some folks in Rhode Island, draws some inspiration from this.
* Hybrid webcomic/browser game ''Webcomic/DemonThesis'' features groups of these as recurring enemies for a significant chunk of the story.

* The original ''WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman'' animated television ChristmasSpecial was aired on December 7, 1969. What followed were several sequels: ''Frosty's Winter Wonderland'' in 1976 (which introduced Frosty's wife Crystal), ''WesternAnimation/RudolphAndFrostysChristmasInJuly'' in 1979 (which introduced their children), and ''Frosty Returns'' in 1992. All were about the same friendly, lovable, and heroic snowman — and his family.
* They were all follow-ups to ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'', which was narrated by Sam the Snowman, a friendly, wise snowlem [[InkSuitActor patterned after]] Burl Ives. (Ironically, Sam's comment to the viewers, "What's the matter? Haven't you ever seen a talking snowman before?" was some rather unintentional {{Foreshadowing}} of the later special.)

* A classic 1968 ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967'' short, "Trouble With Snow", also featured a giant snowman made from tainted snow and brought to life by downed power lines.
%% * ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'', "The Deep Freeze." It helps to have the mystical Heart of Jong that can animate inanimate objects.
* The first ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' short was called "Jesus vs. Frosty" and involved four kids animating a snowman - who turns out to be an insane killer who sprouts [[CombatTentacles tentacles]].
* There was a short cartoon called ''Earth Versus Everything'', which featured giant mutant killer snowmen brought to life by [[ILoveNuclearPower radiation from nuclear tests]]. It was a very silly cartoon.
* The famous British short film ''WesternAnimation/TheSnowman'' ("we're walking in the air") features a living snowman who can even fly to Lapland for a snowman party. Shown every Christmas on Creator/Channel4.
* There's a 1930-era cartoon ''The Snowman'' that starts off pleasantly enough as an Eskimo boy and his animal pals build a snowman, but it turns into a version III that goes on a psycho rampage (even eating one of the critters!) - the kid runs to a control room and starts up machinery that cranks up the sun, and the Snowlem melts in ghastly death-throes.
%% * Used by Dao Lon Wong in the ChristmasEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''.

* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'': The Brain Freezer makes killer snowlems in the episode, "Johnny X and the Attack of the Snowmen".
* A MonsterOfTheWeek in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog''.
** As the last of the snowmen, his nefarious scheme is to extract the [[LegoGenetics anti-melting gene]] from humans and implant it into himself, allowing him to outlive the inevitable warming of the earth. Also he speaks with a Scottish accent. Take from that what you will.
--->'''Snow Man:''' "The name's [[BondJamesBond Man. Snow Man.]]"
** He shows up in a later episode and freezes Courage's house and owners to make a cozy home for himself. Courage saves the day by going to the North Pole, sewing up the hole in the ozone layer and making it cold enough to revive the last snowman's snowfriends, who previously melted.
* The ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' ChristmasEpisode "'Twas the Night Before Bumpy" featured an army of snowman soldiers at the North Pole.

* ''WesternAnimation/DerSchneemann'' or ''The Snowman'' was a short animated film made in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany by Hans Fischerkoesen. (Excerpt [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T39J6RL1kXA here]].) It may be the TropeMaker.
* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', when Heloise hears about snow in "A Cold Day in Miseryville", her first thought is of her leading an army of these in battle (Version III given that [[EnfanteTerrible its Heloise]]). She's later seen trying to build some, but Jimmy accidentally destroys them.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet'' featured a Version III as the VillainOfTheWeek. She's also got a bit of Version II though, as she was originally an ice villain whose spirit somehow took over a snowman after she was melted by Atomic Puppet at the start of the episode.
* The Abominable Snowman from ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' actually looks like a snowman, and nothing like [[BigfootSasquatchandYeti an actual Yeti]] at all.
* The Abominable Snowkoopa from ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' was created by Big Mouth to terrorize the penguins of Antarctica in the episode "7 Continents for 7 Koopas".
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MonaTheVampire'' had Chilly, a snowman with [[AnIcePerson freeze powers]] and the inexplicable ability to drive one of those big snow blower trucks.
* A group of these that showed up in the ''WesternAnimation/MartinMystery'' ChristmasEpisode could [[BreathWeapon vomit]] quick freezing slush.
%% * One of these is unleashed by [[BadSanta Santa's]] [[ChristmasElves elves]] in the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls". It is blown up with a barrel of moonshine.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** Features in the episode "Thank You"; it's not exactly any of the above-mentioned types, being somewhere between types one and three, but not malevolent. The episode is about a chance meeting it has with a fire wolf pup that hasn't learned to hate it yet (fire wolves and snow golems being natural enemies) and the golem's quest to return it to its family in spite of the danger this poses the golem. The episode ends with the snow golem and the fire wolf herd being on good terms, and according to the game, the fire wolf pup still lives with the snow golem, making occasional trips to visit its family.
** [[AnIcePerson The Ice King]] can also create living snow-creatures with his magic. He doesn't do it often, though, and they're not particularly useful when he does. (They're prone to attack ''him'' instead of his enemies, [[ButtMonkey for some reason]].)
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Ikki suggests that Katara use [[MakingASplash waterbending]] to make snowmen chase the children for fun.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'' episode "[[ChristmasEpisode Christmas Con Carne]]", the episode was narrated by a sentient snowman who also helped save the day by enlisting a green-nosed reindeer named Rupert to stop Hector Con Carne's plan.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' Christmas special, Daolon Wong turns several ordinary snowmen into these to fight the J-team.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mad}}'' has a marginal where a Snowman's wife cuts snowman's nose.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SantaVsTheSnowman'' the titular Snowman's origin is unexplained; he's implied to be a naturally occuring Snowman. When he decides to invade Santa's village he creates an entire army of mindless minion snowmen by throwing ice cubes into a snow bank.

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen 2012 christmas episode]] has 'em, and they wear ''shark-toothed smiles.'' [[spoiler: They're also agents for the Great Intelligence, and the episode in general provides an origin story for it.]]
* In an ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' Christmas special, the main cast gets turned into stop-motion characters and ultimately has to fight a murderous snowlem (in various animation styles) before they can fix things.

* ''Noah's Ark'', a Konami game, features a killer snowman at the end of the Antarctica stages.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'':
** The game has ''ninja'' snowman enemies.
** The multiplayer clan dungeon Hobopolis has a snowman hobo named Frosty as a mini-boss.
* ''VideoGame/OracleOfTao'' has a number of in-universe fables. One of them involves a man building snow golems, which initially are very sweet, but the humans in town wind up going to war with them, and they build snow weapons to attack.
* {{Franchise/Pokemon}}:
** Regice is a Legendary [[Mon {{ Mons}}]] made entirely of Antarctic ice. Bonus points also for actually being a golem.
** In Galar, the regional version of Darmanitan is an Ice-type that also has a Zen Mode as its hidden ability. In its case, however, it transforms into a dual Ice/Fire-type that resembles an angry snowman.
* ''VideoGame/SnowBros.'', a 1990 arcade game, had two snowball-throwing snowmen as the heroes.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** Flurries in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' are snowy enemies that slide on icy floors, always heading towards the player.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' has some enemy snowmen in [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Cool Cool Mountain]] and go under the name 'Mr. Blizzard'. They [[DummiedOut were meant to be included]] in ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii''.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' features a snowman miniboss named Sorbetti, who for some reason always disguises himself as an icy planet, which his head can freely roll around.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'': The game introduces Snow Pokeys, snowman variants of the desert-dwelling Pokey cacti. When defeated, their body segments turn into non-spiky snowballs that the player characters can pick up and chuck. Snow Pokeys return later in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker2''.
** Blizzard Midbus can summon snowlems with Fawful's face called Snawfuls to aid him during his battle in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory''.
** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar'' features as a world boss a titanic ice sculpture of Bowser called the Bowser Snow Statue. [[spoiler: It turns out to be controlled by a Mr. Blizzard boss named Mizzter Blizzard, who is ultimately revealed to be desperate and friendly.]]
* Games created with [[http://www.sawbladesoftware.com/ Power Game Factory]] can include living snowmen as enemies.
* The Adventure game ''VideoGame/SimonTheSorcerer'' had one of these as an obstacle. You get past him by [[FireBreathingDiner eating some mints]].
* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' features a rather annoying snowman enemy called Sir Slush that can't move around, but they throw snowballs at you with pinpoint accuracy, [[EvilLaugh and they ''laugh'' at you the whole time]]. The only way to defeat them is to knock off their stovepipe hats with a difficult aerial maneuver.

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'':
** Various 'Winter Events' have involved menacing Type III Snowlems of varrying sizes - including towering 'Giant Monster' versions that requires several entire TEAMS of Superheroes to defeat.
** The summonable pet for the Ice Controller class was a snowman, aptly named Jack Frost.
* ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' had a fire-breathing snowman as the MiniBoss of the Heck level.

* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'' and ''Donkey Kong Land III'' have Bleak as the boss of the K3 zone. He's a classic snowman with a carrot nose and a top hat, although it should be noted that the top hat contains a snowball cannon. He is defeated by [[AttackItsWeakPoint chucking snowballs at the glowing spot on his scarf]] in the style of the Swanky's Sideshow minigames.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' [[ElementalEmbodiment ice elementals]] arguably qualify. Technically they're a hybrid elemental of air and water. Their leader is Ahune the Frost Lord, who shows up as part of the Midsummer Fire Festival event. You can also turn ''yourself'' into one of these using a Winter Veil item.
* In ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' you can make snowmen who will give you furniture and other goodies, but only if you get their proportions right. ''New Leaf'' has a whole family of snow-people (Snowman, his wife Snowmam, older son Snowboy, and younger son Snowtyke), each with a different set of items they can give you.
* Eyeless snowmen with a stolen Mii mouth appear among the huge cast of monsters in ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}''
* ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'' has the recurring HarmlessVillain "Frosty the Snow Golem." It's that kind of game.
* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'':
** Some of the most recurring enemies in the series are cute little snowmen known as Chilly. They are known as the most common source of the Ice ability.
** In ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'' you can turn Kirby into a walking snowman by inhaling the ice and bomb powers together. A walking, ''exploding'' snowman.
* The second big boss of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest'' is a hulking ice golem. The fastest non-magical, non-[[KillItWithFire flammable]] way to defeat it is to chip away at it with [[AnAxeToGrind an axe]].

* In ''VideoGame/LightningLegendDaigoNoDaibouken'', Yuki Shirogane, [[OurFairiesAreDifferent a Snow Girl]] with great magic powers, is able to create those. She gave life to one named Yukidaruman (a Japanese pun between "Yukidaruma", Japanese for "snowman", and "Man") at the age of 3. She tried to create another, giant one at age 7, but her attempt failed horribly, the snowlem crumbling and burying her in snow; she narrowly escaped death thanks to her father rescuing her.
* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' includes the ability to create snow golems (basically a snowman with a carved pumpkin head), who serve as a friendly mob, throwing snowballs at aggressive mobs to divert their attention and leaving trails of snow as they walk around.
* ''VideoGame/Ghostbusters1990'' had the frozen "Apartment" level, which was home to small snowlems, a mini-boss called [[AnIcePerson CrystaRobo]] and a large snowlem, which could [[MookMaker spawn smaller, bird-like minions]].
* In the level Frozen Altars in ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'', there are a couple Type III Snowlems as enemies, who can only be killed by lasers.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' has Eenos, lumps of snow that hurl snowballs at you.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'' has Sir Frosties on the overworld map where they pop up and attack your CoolTrain.
* You play a heroic snowlem in ''VideoGame/TheCavernsOfHammerfest''.

* ''VideoGame/KickleCubicle'' had snowman enemies who had a freezing breath attack like Kickle's, which they were immune to.
* ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'' had evil snowmen engaging the 'Toads in snowball fights in the SlippySlideyIceWorld.
* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII Final Mix'', WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck is turned into a snowduck whenever he is in [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Christmas Town]], which fits with the Christmas theme that the party take on, with Sora being a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] with a black Santa attire, and Goofy becoming half-dog, half reindeer.
* ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' had a seasonal event in January 2014 in which the player character could make a Friendly Snowlem duplicate of themself out of Neath-snow, known as a [[IncrediblyLamePun noman]]. The noman had a form of HitPoints to track how much it had melted, which took a steep hit at the end of each week but could be bolstered with a few rare and valuable items. There was also a mechanic encouraging the player to spend time teaching their quirk qualities to the noman, with a reward for getting them up high enough if the noman didn't die before that. Most of the nomen had melted after about three weeks (we're not kidding about the unforgiving melt rate). A few lasted longer; the March seasonal event had a couple of branches that tied in with this storyline, but those were the extreme outliers.
* In ''Blue's Journey'' for the UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, the boss of the SlippySlideyIceWorld is a skiing snowman.
* Frigid Guardians from ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'' are golems made from ice and the fossilized dragon bones. Kelvin who is [[TheWormThatWalks an entire, sentient microorganism civilization]] that takes the shape of an ice golem uses the Frigid Guardians' basic material makeup for his physical form.

* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' has an annual Winter Event where Q creates a Winter Wonderland zone inhabited by animated gingerbread men under attack by living snowmen. Players fight them in various events using snow- or ice-based weapons empowered by Q.
* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'' has Wistful Snowtots, a species of living snowmen who are [[TheEeyore gloomy]], but not actually always sad.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomRush Vengeance'' has the Snow Golem enemies as Type III. They resemble turtle-like constructs made of rock and snow that initially appear dormant on parts of the map (including near the exit), and will only wake up on certain waves. You can either bomb them to remove them before they wake up for a hefty amount of gold, or wait till they awaken as a high-HP, high-damage enemy that drops chump change on death.
* ''VideoGame/FrostyNights'' is about a kid spending his nights defending himself from evil Snowmen who enter his room with the intent of [[ImAHumanitarian eating him]] with a flashlight and hair dryer.
* ''VideoGame/Popeye2'' for the UsefulNotes/GameBoy features a snowman as its first boss fight. It hops around and goes down easily.

* There was an oft-repeated [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoeKvqIRyIs ad for Campbell's soup]] which began with a small snowman walking inside a house to get a bowl of soup, and melting away as the soup warms it up... revealing it was really a boy underneath.
* Ice Mountain bottled water often featured a constantly-melting snowman who needed replenishing with the titular bottled water.
%% * [[http://www.irn-bru.co.uk/advert/snowman.html Irn-Bru]] parody of the flight sequence from ''ComicBook/TheSnowman''.

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* Chilly from the [[Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa Kirby anime]] is a snowman monster created by Dedede's Ice Dragon. He tries to kill Kirby repeatedly, but after several botched attempts and a YouHaveFailedMe from Dedede, Chilly pulls a HeelFaceTurn since Kirby had saved him from all of his failed assassination attempts which put Chilly in danger. Chilly and Kirby manage to put Ice Dragon down for good together. [[spoiler:He ends up melting after Ice Dragon is defeated, which the dub treated as being KilledOffForReal while the Japanese version had Tiff mention he'd reform the next time it snowed, making a rare [=4Kids=] example of AmericanKirbyIsHardcore.]]
* These are created in ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' when evil spirits attack the WeirdnessMagnet hero and his [[MagneticPlotDevice equally magnetic]] LoveInterest during a snowstorm.

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' has had several different Snowlems, the most prominent being Frigimon.
* In ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', Urd creates a Snowlem to assist her in a SnowballFight with Skuld in the OAV.
* ''[[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'':
** A filler episode has both an uncontrollable snowlem and a friendly, but confused yuki-onna show up to cover the entire town in a blizzard. As it is made entirely of snow, it can regenerate any damage insantly. Its [[AchillesHeel only weakness]] is [[RedEyesTakeWarning the red gem it uses as an]] "[[GoForTheEye eye]]" --which, conveniently enough, is very vulnerable to Ryouga's Breaking Point technique. It still doesn't stop until the yuki-onna uses her flute to calm the monster down, at which point the eye becomes blue.
** In his introduction to the story, [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Principal]] [[CloudCuckooLander Kuno]] disguised himself [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment as a living, Engrish-speaking snowman for some unfathomable reason]] and went around trying to trim his students' hair.
* One chapter of ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid Life]]'' has the girls making ImprovisedGolems out of the snow during winter vacation. When Rio's ends up going out of control, they try to pacify it by throwing snowballs at it. [[FeedItWithFire This backfires horribly]].

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* The image at the top of the page comes from an issue of ''StrangeAdventures'' called "[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/invadersfromtheiceworldful.jpg Invaders from the Ice World]]", which is a brain-breaking example of WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Also, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supermansnowman.jpg this issue]] of ''Action Comics'' has Snow Comicbook/{{Superman}} fighting what appears to be a Gentleman Snowman.
* Supes also battles a literal snow golem (Hebrew words on the forehead and everything) in a DC comics holiday special.

* Adult comic ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'' used to run a seasonal parody of ''The Snowman'', with a violent, foul-mouthed snowman taking the human boy on a drinking and gambling spree.
* In an issue of ''[[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage Tales of the TMNT]]'', the turtles, Splinter, Casey, April, and Shadow have their Christmas ruined by a snowlem sent by a Foot operative.

* ComicBook/TheMightyThor's enemy Ymir, the colossal king of the Frost Giants, is basically a homicidal walking glacier.
* Creator/AvatarPress's 90's horror comic ''Snowman'' centered around a particularly horrifying Type 3 animated by a vengeance-obsessed Native American spirit with a thirst for white man blood and brought to life whenever a pair of crystal arrowheads come into contact with fallen snow.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': During ComicBook/{{Artemis}}'s first outing as a hero in the last issue of "ComicBook/TheContest" she stops a fight between the Widow Sazia's cyborg enforcers and Paulie Logo's man shaped snow constructs capable of shooting off freezing attacks courtesy of the White Magician.
* ''ComicBook/SimoneTheBestMonsterEver'': In one strip, Morris explains that monsters don't really do building snowmen. This is because they tend to come to life and get very attached to their builders, as evidenced by the snowman chasing after Simone.

* In [[http://www.grimmy.com/images/MGG_Archive/MGG_2013/MGG-2013-02-13.gif this panel]] of ''ComicStrip/MotherGooseAndGrimm'', Grimmy learns to fear the retribution of Frosty, the [[YellowSnow Yellow Snowman]].

[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
%% * There was a 2005 made-for-video movie called ''The Legend of Frosty the Snowman'', a very, very loose sequel to the original Creator/RankinBassProductions ''[[WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman Frosty]]''.

%% * Snowden from ''WesternAnimation/MagicGiftOfTheSnowman'' is a type 1.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

* A ''[[WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer Rudolph]]''-[[{{Expy}} style]] snowman has a bit part in ''Film/{{Elf}}'' once Buddy (Will Ferrell) leaves the ChristmasElves behind. He's voiced by Music/LeonRedbone.
* One of the creatures listed on the monster board in ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' is "Snowman".
* ''Film/ItsAVeryMerryMuppetChristmasMovie'' featured Joe Snow (voiced by Mel Brooks), who was a parody of Sam the Snowman from ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer''. He claimed to be the narrator, but the camera crew said otherwise.
* In ''Film/CabinBoy'', a Type III leaps off of a glacier to menace the crew of the ''Filthy Whore''. They eventually defeat it with scalding hot coffee.

* Mr. Snow in the ''Literature/MrMen'' books was created by SantaClaus as an assistant.
* In Literature/{{Discworld}}, the Ice Giants often mentioned to be at war with the gods have eyes of coal and snowmen are stated to be idols built by human racial memory. According to ''The Discworld Companion'', they're probably closely related to [[AllTrollsAreDifferent trolls.]] And then there's the Literature/{{Wintersmith}}, the Winter elemental. He wants to be a man so he can be closer to our heroine, Tiffany. This involves him creating more and more realistic Snowlems over the course of the story.
* The ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' novel ''Literature/BewareTheSnowman'' centered around an evil snowman [[spoiler: who is really [[SealedEvilInACan a monster trapped in that form by a witch.]] A group of regular snowmen are later animated to help combat the monster when it is freed]].

* The obscure German novel ''Der Eiskristall' has unicorns made of snow. Vicious, killer unicorns.
* ''Literature/SamuraiSanta'': A red-faced {{Samurai}} leads an army of snowmen into a SnowballFight against Yukio and his ninja friends.
* Played with in ''Literature/TheSecretsOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool'', in which an intimidating snowman built by the all-girl students keeps reappearing mysteriously, no matter how many times it's destroyed by a snowman-phobic pupil. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that the snowman is being rebuilt by a fellow-student who's AnIcePerson, who later calls it up as a Type III Snowlem to fight against the villains in the novel's concluding battle.]]
* A type I appears in Hans Christian Andersen's[[http://hca.gilead.org.il/snow_man.html The Snowman]]. He's an innocent soul who talks nicely to the dog and falls in love with a stove.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' has Eenos, lumps of snow that hurl snowballs at you. ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'' has them on the overworld map where they pop up and attack your CoolTrain.

* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' has an entire army of these, called the Frost Legion, which will attack you if you use a snow globe to summon them. They come in KnifeNut, gangster and snowball-throwing versions.

* Regice is a Legendary {{Franchise/Pokemon}} made entirely of Antarctic ice. Bonus points also for actually being a golem.

Snowlems (a {{portmanteau}} of Snow {{Golem}}s) are living snowmen, often complete with stovepipe hats, lumps of coal for eyes, and carrots for noses. Genre writers with a sense of humor may [[AnIcePerson cast them]] as [[ElementalEmbodiment Ice Elementals]]. There are three varieties of Snowlems:

Snowlems sometimes get into {{Snowball Fight}}s.

* A ''[[WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer Rudolph]]''-[[{{Expy}} style]] snowman has a bit part in ''Film/{{Elf}}'' once Buddy (Will Ferrell) leaves the ChristmasElves behind.

* ''{{VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet}}'': the PSP version has one in the level [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Peak Preformance]], it guards a balloon by shooting snowmen enemies from his top hat and throwing snowballs.

[[folder: Live Action TV]]

* ''WebVideo/WinterOf83'' details a town that was terrorized by a bunch of type 3, causing the town of Fawn Circle tobecome a ghost town.

* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' features a rather annoying snowman enemy called Sir Slush that can't move around, but they throw snowballs at you with pinpoint accuracy, and they ''laugh'' at you the whole time. The only way to defeat them is to knock off their stovepipe hats with a difficult aerial maneuver.

* The ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' novel "Beware, the Snowman" centered around an evil snowman who is really [[SealedEvilInACan a monster trapped in that form by a witch.]] A group of regular snowmen are later animated to help combat the monster when it is freed.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' introduces Snow Pokeys, snowman variants of the desert-dwelling Pokey cacti. When defeated, their renmants can be thrown like snowballs. They also appear in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker2'' by way of a post-release update.

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': ''Pleasant Goat Fun Class: Sports are Fun'' episode 5 features a living snowman who gets mad when the characters throw snowballs at him.

* ''ComicBook/SimoneTheBestMonsterEver'': In one strip, Morris explains that monsters don't really do building snowmen. This is because they tend to come to life and get very attached to their builders, as evidenced by the snowman chasing after Simone.

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', Elsa conjures up both Olaf, a friendly snowman created [[CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen subconsciously]] by her, and Marshmallow, a massive snow-monster she consciously created.
** The snowgies in "WesternAnimation/FrozenFever" are generally mini-Olafs whom Elsa accidentally creates every time she sneezes.

-->-- '''Calvin''', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''

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