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There are many ideas associated with snow: Tranquility, purity, cleanliness, beauty... So naturally, many people are shown dramatically dying in the snow. It may have something to do with how 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; with snow's natural ability to dampen sound, making a scene deathly quiet; with how it looks like a beautiful and peaceful way to die, just letting the cold embrace you as you fall asleep; or with how snow melts on living bodies, but coats those that have passed on. And then there's the symbolism. As beautiful as snow is, it also signifies winter, associated with the death of the year (in the temperate latitudes at least), the death of crops, an ice age and the death of the sun. Snow also covers the world with a blanket of white, and in Eastern cultures, white is the color of death (as it was until a few hundred years ago in Slavic states as well). Whatever the reason, using snow is a great way to portray a character on the verge of dying or a place torn by war in a very artful manner. A sub-trope of Empathic Environment. Compare Scenery Dissonance. For a different interpretation of snow, see Snow Means Love. See White Shirt of Death and Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress for a similar trope, only applied to clothing instead. May or may not be related to Grim Up North, Tragic Ice Character, and Winter of Starvation. Not to be confused with Snowy Screen of Death. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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The trope appears in the final chapters of Watchmen, for the big reveal on Laurie's past, and the final fate of one of the main characters. | |
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In the 2006 version of Kanon, this trope is so prevalent that it's hard to pick out which examples fit it the best. The lyrics of the opening theme ("Last Regrets") practically announce it. Yuuichi's Repressed Memories are first hinted at in how much he hates snow. When Makoto dies, the illusion of a green field fades to show that the surroundings were covered in snow. Snow is practically a central theme for Yuuichi's meetings and conversations with Shiori, who is terminally ill. Snow is arguably the cause of the subverted Look Both Ways incident when Akiko's hit by a car that appears to be skidding out of control, and the imagery of the red strawberries thrown into the snow where it happened is painfully evocative. The same symbolism is made brutally real shortly after, when Yuuichi finally remembers what happened to Ayu years ago: she fell off a tree and was left comatose. Unable to take any more, Yuuichi runs out into a snowstorm calling for Ayu; he runs past the place where they used to play without recognizing it because it's covered in snow. With the snow now falling furiously all around him (just as the deaths seem to be), he lays down and waits to die. The upbeat ending theme about someone trying to find their way home seems to contradict the trope, showing Ayu happily running through the snow - until one finds out where she's been all along. |
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Over the Garden Wall: The shift from autumn to winter in the final episodes threatens the lives of the protagonists and indicates that they're running out of time. Subverted in the show's final montage, which depicts the residents of the Unknown settling into their happy endings as the snow falls peacefully around them. | |
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In the 1989 film of Dangerous Liaisons, Valmont gets stabbed to death in a midwinter duel. This is pretty much entirely so the director can have a cool shot of his blood splattered across the snow. | |
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Shows up in episode 10 of Figure 17 Tsubasa & Hikaru which deals with Sho's sudden death. Shot of falling snowflakes against night sky is used repeatedly. | |
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The ending of anti-Western McCabe & Mrs. Miller in which John McCabe, having been shot three times, manages to kill the assassins who are after him. Without the strength to drag himself indoors, he curls up in the snow and dies. | |
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Snow rather literally means death for everyone in Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove, where an ancient curse is going to freeze the entire world if it can't be stopped. | |
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In the second season of Tokyo Ghoul, the major battles that open and close the series take place during snowfall. All that lovely snow, and bodies of mooks everywhere. | |
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Snow falling in summer is taken as an omen of Happosai's impending death in Ranma ½. (He recovers, though.) | |
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Sound of the Sky's last three episodes happen in the middle of Winter. A minor secondary character commits suicide by walking out into a snowstorm, and the truce going on since the first episode is suddenly broken and war finally comes to the small town our heroines are deployed. | |
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DEATH BATTLE!: The episode "Guts VS Dimitri" takes place in a snowy field surrounded by mountains. Throughout the fight, there are many shots of each fighter's red blood splashing onto the white snow, until Guts eventually runs out of the stuff and dies. The death is also portrayed as more serene than usual for this show, with him dying while still standing up, seemingly frozen in place before the full moon, and Dimitri swears to keep Guts' soul safe from the God Hand. | |
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In The Empire Strikes Back, there are several notable deaths in the snow, all of which occur on the ice planet Hoth: Luke's tauntaun dies when attacked by a Wampa, a yeti-like predator which hunts under the cover of snow. Luke narrowly escapes this fate after escaping the Wampa when Han Solo leaves Echo Base to rescue him. Han Solo's tauntaun, however, succumbs to the cold, allowing Han to use it's dead but insulating carcass to keep the two alive during the night. The Battle of Hoth shows us rebel soldiers dying in the snow as they are shot down by blaster fire by imperial forces. |
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The Thing (1982): When Bennings, who has been assimilated by the Thing, gets immolated after trying to escape. When Palmer, assimilated by the Thing, gets immolated and runs outside, attempting to put out the fire, before MacReady blows him apart with a stick of dynamite. After MacReady blows up the base, Childs returns, claiming to have gotten lost when chasing after Blair. They share a drink together after realizing that both of them will die whether one of them is a Thing or not. |
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Both the deaths of a whole band of Shinsengumi and Hama in The Sword of Doom take place on snowy evenings. | |
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In 07-Ghost, the first scene involves two hands (we are to assume they're Teito's) holding snow. Just as the line The snow was so beautiful...and so merciless appears, the snow immediately turns into blood. We later learn that this was foreshadowing to Teito's foster father's death. | |
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Fire Emblem: This can happen in any game that includes snow-covered stages, if the player loses a character there. In Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, Erinys's sister Annand is killed during a battle in the snow. Since Canas is Doomed by Canon in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, his ending says that he and his wife died trying to protect a village from a snowstorm, so their son Hugh (who appears in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade) is raised by Canas' mother Niime (ditto). In Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, it snows as Emperor Rudolf is slain by Alm and La Résistance. |
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Nello and Patrasche in A Dog of Flanders freeze to death on Christmas Eve. | |
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This War of Mine: If the player does not build a heater when winter arrives, the survivors will die from the cold. | |
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In Brother Bear, there is snow on the ground when Sitka and Koda's mother meet their ends. More poignant, however, is the scene where Kenai confesses to Koda that it was he who killed the cub's mother, and as he does so, the snowflakes begin falling around them... | |
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The folk song "Darcy Farrow," most famously covered by John Denver, regarding the young maiden Darcy Farrow and her suitor Vandamere: | |
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In The Jacket, Jack and Jackie are visiting a snowed-in graveyard. | |
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And then there's Reinforce's last moments in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's. It was Christmas Day. | |
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In Seeker Bears, Kallik had always thought that snow meant plenty of food (especially seals). But then she learns from Toklo that for the other bears, snow means less food. | |
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Snow Angel is a What If? Sonic The Hedgehog fic of the "What if Maria and Shadow escaped from ARK?" kind. Maria died on a snowy night just before spring began. | |
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The World of Kanako: In the very end of the film, Akikazu and Kanako's teacher, who claims to have killed Kanako, find themselves on a windy snowfield where Kanako is said to be buried. Akikazu wants to find her corpse but Kanako's teacher can't remember where she lies so Akikazu keeps on searching the snow without success. Then the movie abruptly ends. | |
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Averted in a Soviet movie The Needle: the protagonist is stabbed with a knife, falls to his knees in the blood-stained snow... but he struggles to his feet and walks away, disappearing in the snowstorm, and we never see him dead. Word of God later stated that the protagonist survived. | |
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Lyrical Nanoha: The incident in the backstory of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, where Nanoha was unprepared for a sudden ambush. There was so much blood on her white Barrier Jacket and the snow-covered terrain, while Vita tried to keep her awake in the gently falling snow. Downplayed, since she didn't actually die (though she was almost crippled for life). And then there's Reinforce's last moments in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's. It was Christmas Day. |
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Grand Theft Auto V visits the snowy state of North Yankton during the Prologue and "Bury the Hatchet". In the former, Michael, Trevor, and Brad gun down a large number of state police after a heist gone wrong and Michael fakes his death, while in the latter, Brad, who was shot and allegedly arrested during the getaway, is revealed to have died from his injury and buried in Michael's place. | |
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In Naruto, the deaths of Zabuza and Haku are marked with the falling of snow. Though this is also partially because Haku's name means white, and he comes from a snowy village... | |
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Vertical Limit takes this literally. The characters are climbing one of them most dangerous mountains in the world, and quite a few of them die, either in an avalanche or on the mission sent to rescue the first team. One of the points stressed by the movie is just how dangerous a thing climbing like that is. | |
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In Fullmetal Alchemist scenes at the Tucker house are often shown with the three kids playing in snow. Nina gets turned into a human/dog chimera with her pet Alexander by her father and subsequently killed by Scar, who also kills Shou. | |
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In The Night Unfurls, Luu-Luu, who dies as herself, is laid down on the snow-covered ground by Kyril. | |
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RWBY: The Kingdom of Atlas is situated on the polar continent of Solitas, and the cold of the snow-covered tundras is explicitly noted to be lethal in a matter of hours to anyone without Aura or heating. This is bad news for the entire city of Mantle when Dr. Watts shuts down the municipal heating grid to further destabilize the kingdom. As the situation rapidly deteriorates into riots and a full-scale Grimm invasion of Mantle, snow starts gently drifting down. The fight that costs Clover Ebi his life takes place on a featureless stretch of snowy tundra, with his blood dramatically splattering across the snow after the lethal blow is struck. |
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Averted repeatedly in Star Stealing Prince. The entire game takes place on a perpetually snowy island, and the main character nearly dies in the middle of the forest near the start of the game, but ultimately makes it through. Other than that, Snowe's parents are instead killed on a floating island paradise completely void of snow, and the bad ending where a possessed Snowe kills everyone happens on a ship fleeing the island (where, if you wanted to interpret the trope differently, Snowe really did mean death.) Then again, as you start uncovering people's backstories, you start finding out that the island has had a very dark and bloody history, possibly making it an indirect use of this trope. | |
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In Pagten, the ice witch Iselin, obviously, is associated with snow, and freezes her victims to ice. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney)'s prologue takes place on a snowy night when Quasimodo's mother is murdered by Judge Frollo at the doorstep of Notre Dame Cathedral and he is forced to raise the orphaned boy as atonement for his sin. | |
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O-Ren in Kill Bill also enjoys picturesque death on the snow. Few consider getting the top of one's head lopped off anywhere near picturesque... but Quentin Tarantino would. | |
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"Avalanche" by Cellar Darling. | |
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The broken heart of The Snow Queen threatens to turn the world to ice in the third game of the Dark Parables series. | |
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Rymrgand, God of Entropy in Pillars of Eternity, who is worshiped in the Antarctica-esque White that Wends and feared everywhere else. He is associated with blizzards and winter in addition to entropy, manifests as a giant aurochs surrounded by perpetual freezing winds, and his realm is a wintry plane where souls are ground into soul-stuff and annihilated. | |
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Harry Potter visits his parents' graves for the first time in Deathly Hallows, accompanied by Hermione. It so happens that they do this in December, and the graveyard is covered in snow. Harry, of course, cannot help but cry (and neither can many readers). | |
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In Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market, Lizzie reminds her sister of Jeanie, who ate the goblin fruit, but sickened and "fell with the first snow" of winter. (Since Laura has already eaten the fruit, this lets readers know just how much time she has left.) | |
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Elise Deauxnim, best known as Misty Fey, Mia and Maya's mother, in the fifth case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations. | |
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In Sakura Gari, Sakurako dies this way, slitting her wrists open with a katana and then drowning self in a pond as the snow falls... | |
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In Penguindrum, when it looks like Himari Takakura will actually be Killed Off for Real, her brother Shouma and his Love Interest Ringo quietly lean against each other in the snow. | |
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Let the Right One In is full of this trope. Well, it takes place in Sweden... | |
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Everest (2015): Naturally, when the climbers die, we see frozen bodies covered in snow. Subverted with Beck who spends the night passed out in a blizzard but gets an Unexplained Recovery. | |
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Episode 13 of Cowboy Bebop, as Gren's ship crashes in a snowy field. He doesn't die there, but he starts coughing up blood and is clearly a goner. | |
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The Kindaichi Case Files: There's a legend in a Hokkaido village about a woman and her baby who died in the snow after failing to find shelter. She is then reborn to take revenge during harsh snowstorms. | |
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Discworld: In Hogfather, the dark pagan origins of the Hogfather, the local expy of Santa Claus, explain the choice of colours in his clothing: red and white from blood on the snow, ultimately coming from druidic human sacrifices in midwinter to make the sun come back. But The Little Match Girl version of the trope (above) is deconstructed when Death (who's filling in for the Hogfather) saves the local little match girl, dismissing her death as needlessly cruel, in the midst of his deconstructing a number of Christmas tropes. At the climax of The Last Hero, a band of geriatric barbarian heroes die by plunging into snow from a great height while clutching a powerful explosive charge. Or maybe they defy death itself, depending how you look at it. They’ve come to hate those sorts of trope. |
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In Final Fantasy VII, Aerith's human father Professor Gast was killed by his old teammate Hojo and his Shinra forces when he tried to protect his Cetra wife Ifalna and an infant Aerith. This happened in a now-abandoned house located in a permanently snowy village, on the frozen area of the Northern Continent. | |
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The King Loves: It starts to snow during the attack on San's family and their entourage, when her mother and most of their servants are killed. | |
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Kung Fu Panda 2: It's snowing when Po's mother gives her life for her infant son. | |
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Xena: Warrior Princess and Gabrielle on a snow capped mountain in season 4. | |
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Homestuck: When the deceased Vriska and alt!John meet for the first time in a dream bubble memory, they are outside John's house in winter with a light snowfall ongoing. In this case, both of them are dead. Aversion too; Jade dies well after her land thaws, despite it initially having been covered in the stuff. |
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Claudine: Claude kills himself on a snowy night. It's still snowing when Rosemarie visits his grave. | |
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The entire Northern Campaign in Claymore ends this way. Most emotional was when Jean dies after helping and reassuring Clare. | |
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Kamen Rider Kuuga: The brutal, bloody final battle happens on the snowy slopes of Mount Kuro. | |
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The Legend of Genji: Avatar Korra's funeral in the prologue is marked with a light snowfall occurring across the globe. | |
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In Kessen II, if you beat the final stage of Liu Bei's scenario, Cao Cao is seen dying in the snow, with Diao Chan kneeling beside him. Though, there was never any snow on the battlefield before or after this sequence. | |
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Grand Theft Auto: In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, when CJ returns to Liberty City later in the game, he shows some Italian mobsters how to have fun in the snow, Grove Street style. Grand Theft Auto V visits the snowy state of North Yankton during the Prologue and "Bury the Hatchet". In the former, Michael, Trevor, and Brad gun down a large number of state police after a heist gone wrong and Michael fakes his death, while in the latter, Brad, who was shot and allegedly arrested during the getaway, is revealed to have died from his injury and buried in Michael's place. |
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Madgie, what did you do?: This is justified in Nuclear Snow (in which it's mentioned that the snow causes burns and is dangerous to those not immune to its effects) and in Madgie's winter (in which the winds turn the snowflakes into "glass shards" during blizzards, the effects of which kill Madgie). In Bloodied Snow Angel, this is something of an odd case, as the winter (or rather the snow) came after someone died in during a war. Similarly, The Winter's Blood Red Sky has a war taking place in the winter. Snow Angel has the titular "snow angels"note vampires as a result of government experiments related to the survival of a nuclear winter — one of which is Toki — being mentioned to have died from the effects of their transformation. While we don't know exactly how Madgie died, we do know that it wasn't nice. In "It looked like falling snow...", Madgie and Eglantine succumb to radiation sickness during the winter, with the former dying at the beginning of it. Broken Wings has Doki dying of terminal illness and kidney failure during a winter. Earlier, she stops at a graveyard; later, Jinx talks about his deceased girlfriend Olga and how to her, the snow seemed to "sparkle". |
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In Wendigo, all of the horror and death occurs in the beautiful snow shrouded countryside of upstate New York, where the crimson blood is in stark contrast to the pure white snow. George even quotes the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost when commenting on the beauty of the cold and the snow, shortly before he gets shot while sledding. | |
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In Kana: Little Sister, in one of the many endings that feature her death, Kana tells her brother that she will make it snow when she dies. And of course, the moment it starts to snow she's dead. | |
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Metal Gear: Sniper Wolf is fought and killed by Snake in a snowy field in Metal Gear Solid, though the initial fights against Vulcan Raven and Liquid Snake, which also take place out in the snow, subvert this due to them surviving. Crying Wolf in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is killed on the exact same snow field that Sniper Wolf died on nine years earlier. |
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In Your Lie in April, the last time Kousei sees Kaori alive is on a snowy rooftop. The way glowing particles fall to the ground during their possibly-imagined final performance together strongly evokes snowfall. Later, he retrieves Kaori's letter from her parents in front of the cemetery she's buried in under the raining snow. | |
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After the final battle results in a fistfight in the artic between Wilhelm and Ludwig, Dies irae ~Interview with Kaziklu Bey~ ends with their love interest Claudia experiencing an out of control Creation Figment that ends up claiming her life in her attempts to stop it. This leaves Wilhelm lying bloodied, bruised and alone in the snow, unable to do anything but bitterly laugh at how this sick joke of a love story turned out. | |
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I am Setsuna takes place in an entire world of snow, where the titular Setsuna must travel to the end of the world to sacrifice herself in order to stop an influx of monsters. The themes of the game involve death, sacrifice, and using what time you have to benefit the world. | |
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In The Kindly Lion (Yasashii Lion), after Buru-buru and his adopted mother Muku-muku are killed by a group of policeman. It begins snowing and their bodies end up slowly covered by snow. | |
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Warcraft: The Undead Scourge make their base in the frozen north and are thematically linked to ice and cold, doubling as Evil Is Deathly Cold. | |
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A positive example in Hussar Ballad: French invaders are fought off, in particular, by severe cold and snow. | |
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The State Counsellor: The first paragraph describes the icy snowbound Russian steppe the train is going through as "Nothing but snow, nothing but the wild whistling of the wind, the low, murky sky—darkness, cold, and death." Sure enough, Khrapov gets murdered at the end of the first chapter, the Plot-Triggering Death that starts the story. | |
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In the first episode of Galaxy Express 999, Tetsuro's mother is killed in the snow by Count Mecha. | |
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In Superman: Red Son, Svetlana dies in Superman's arms, surrounded by snow. | |
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Crying Wolf in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is killed on the exact same snow field that Sniper Wolf died on nine years earlier. | |
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Narrowly subverted in Our Tapes. Mio tries to kill herself on a snowy night but is stopped by her boyfriend. It then goes for a different usage of snow when he proposes to her. | |
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Queer as Folk (US): Brian's dad's funeral. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, as Yurin L'Ciel is dying, she shares a psychic vision of her time on Minsry with Flit. As the vision of Minsry's forest ends, the scenery changes and it starts to snow... | |
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In Leafie, a Hen into the Wild, it starts snowing when Leafie sacrifices herself so the weasel can feed her young. | |
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Sin City: That Yellow Bastard. | |
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"The Witch (1896)": The witch arrives at the home in the winter, with a carpet of snow outside and a sharp wind blowing. In so many words, she argues that she'll perish if she won't be let it. But by saving her, it is possible that the homeowner brought upon their own end. | |
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In Phantasmat: Crucible Peak, the player finds themselves in a resort that was emptied due to an unforseen avalanche. It turns out that Otto, one of the people you meet in the game, caused the avalanche via explosion. | |
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Fushigi Yuugi: The first Suzaku Seishi to die - and by extension the Seiryuu Seishi he did the death-battle with—does so after a bloody battle in a field of snow. Also invoked when the Star-Crossed Lovers Suzuno and Tatara get Together in Death. It's snowing in both worlds as this happens, and their souls are reunited in a snowy forest. |
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Red is able to invoke this near the end of Transistor, getting admin privileges to a Weather Control Terminal that allows her to make it snow after the Process have pretty much wiped out all of Cloudbank. | |
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The last episode of Welcome to the NHK combines this with Snow Means Love; for various reasons, Sato and Misaki both attempt to commit suicide at a snow-covered jetty and realise they love each other. | |
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Farscape: Two episodes occur on an ice planet: during these two episodes, Aeryn drowns when her ejector seat lands in a frozen lake, Diagnosan Tocot is killed by a Scarran operative in the cryogenics facility, two Peackeepers are shot in the frozen corridors... finally, the Scarran agent himself ventures out into a blizzard, only to be shot repeatedly by the resurrected Aeryn and stabbed to death with an icicle. Averted in any episodes that take place in Einstein's dimension, which is essentially a large iceberg floating in a sea of wormholes. In the first visit Einstein does warn Crichton that he might be forced to kill him, but most of the carnage of that episode takes place in the thoroughly non-snowy Unrealised Realities Einstein displays. |
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The Manor of Sleep, where Fatal Frame III takes place, is perpetually snowy. That's without mentioning the deceased spirits of the loved ones and the hostile ghosts that haunt the place... | |
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Smallville: Jonathan Kent's funeral. | |
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In Dead Poets Society, the boys are seen in a snowy field after learning of Neil's death. The sense of hopelessness that scene brings the rest of the film really is incredible. A less obvious but more literal Snow Means Death moment is when you see through the window that it's snowing just before Neil shoots himself. According to director Peter Weir, this was actually a spontaneous snowstorm that happened while filming, and Weir was inspired to relocate the former scene to fit the snow. | |
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In Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Smilla sees Isaiah's body in the snow, and her description of his funeral is punctuated by her observations about the snowfall. Of course, the book takes place in Denmark, it's winter, and the narrator is a bit obsessed with snow in general. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender plays with this - black snowfall, caused by the soot put out by their ships, heralds the arrival of Fire Nation forces at both the North and South Pole when they attack the Water Tribes. | |
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In Letter Never Sent, the last two survivors of an expedition to find diamonds in the Siberian forests are already in desperate straits as they are staggering toward the river that offers hope of safety. Then it starts snowing. Not only is the Siberian winter very bad in and of itself, Tanya notes that the winter might freeze the river. Soon after, Tanya dies of hypothermia. | |
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In Batman: Arkham City, it is discussed by The Joker when Batman, infected with the clown's poisoned blood, approaches the Steel Mill for a second time on his search for the cure. In his intercom speech, the Clown Prince of Crime says he's locked the Steel Mill, then says something along the lines of, "I dread having the thought of you lying dead in the sno-ho-ho-ho-ho-hoooooooowwwwwwww. That truly brings a smile to my face!" Given that it's winter in Arkham City, he seems to be making a point about it. | |
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In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, when CJ returns to Liberty City later in the game, he shows some Italian mobsters how to have fun in the snow, Grove Street style. | |
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While My Pretty One Sleeps: The novel takes place in late March and early April and it's noted by several characters that it's unusually cold for spring; it's still freezing out and it snows heavily at the start of the story. This becomes a plot point, as Ethel Lambston's body is better preserved than usual due to the cold temperatures, allowing for more evidence to be gathered. Neeve also picks up on the fact that despite the chilly weather, Ethel didn't take any of her winter coats when she supposedly left town, convincing her there's something off about Ethel's disappearance from the start. Renata Kearny was murdered on a bleak, snowy afternoon in November of 1971, as she was on her way to pick up her daughter from school. Myles noted that the white of the snow made the blood from her slashed throat stand out even more. Because it was so cold out, there were also few people in Central Park, so there were no witnesses to the crime either. |
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In the final episode of Eureka Seven Ao, it was snowing when Renton and Eureka were burying their firstborn infant daughter. | |
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Rubicon: David's funeral in the first episode. | |
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In Mass Effect 2 the Normandy SR1 crashes onto the surface of an ice planet; in one of the DLC missions you can revisit the wreckage and walk through a chillingly beautiful snowscape littered with debris from the original Normandy while collecting the dogtags of soldiers lost in the crash and placing a memorial statue to commemorate the ship. It's not actually snow, but the way Shepard catches falling particles of the Genophage cure in Mass Effect 3 is clearly meant to evoke this as a memorial to Mordin, Eve, and/or the hopes and dreams of a species, depending on your choices during Priority: Tuchanka. |
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It's not actually snow, but the way Shepard catches falling particles of the Genophage cure in Mass Effect 3 is clearly meant to evoke this as a memorial to Mordin, Eve, and/or the hopes and dreams of a species, depending on your choices during Priority: Tuchanka. | |
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The incident in the backstory of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, where Nanoha was unprepared for a sudden ambush. There was so much blood on her white Barrier Jacket and the snow-covered terrain, while Vita tried to keep her awake in the gently falling snow. Downplayed, since she didn't actually die (though she was almost crippled for life). | |
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In Full Moon, it's snowing once Mitsuki has learned of Eichi's death. | |
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Played straight and subverted in The Day After Tomorrow. The first time, some survivors have fallen asleep and froze to death while sleeping. They look peaceful. The second time is the naysaying policeman, whose frozen expression is rather pained. But that's what you get for ignoring the expert. Also the helicopter pilots in the beginning of the movie basically flash freeze to death. |
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Tales of Symphonia: Zelos gives a detailed account of his childhood, culminating in him witnessing his mother's murder in the snow. | |
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The Ice Storm is the cinematic tribute to this trope. | |
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Amulet has three instances of this: Emily lost her father when their car went over a snowy cliff after an accident. Max was about to die near Korthan when he escaped had he not made a deal with the Voice. Trellis lost his mother while they were living in the middle of a tundra. |
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Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden: Takiko finds Rimudo/Uruki when he (in his female form) is chained and set to die in the snow. Towards the end, it's said that Hokkan will be destroyed by a a glacial era. Takiko manages to stop that by summoning Genbu and dedicating her first Wish to avert it. |
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Used subtly in Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. The movie ends in the snow after the brutal murder of Mr. Baek. White is also used actively to symbolize purity, which is what Geum-ja is trying to move toward. Oldboy (2003) similarly ends in a field of snow after a similarly bloody climax. It may be used as a symbol for leaving the past behind or renewal. | |
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Slightly Damned: Sakido's death occurs during wintertime on the surface. On the other hand Rhea, killed during the fall, is resurrected in winter. |
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One segment of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams features the story of a mountain climber who, trapped in a blizzard and suffering from frostbite, either hallucinates or experiences a visit from a Yuki-onna — a snow demon who takes the form of a beautiful woman. A yuki-onna also figures in one of the stories in Kwaidan, an anthology film adapting several Japanese folk tales. | |
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In Dear Rabbit, the wolf kills the rabbit in the snow. | |
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North Face is about an attempt to climb the north face of the Eiger, a mountain famous for incredibly unpredictable and dangerous weather patterns. Things really start going bad when the snowstorm hits - an avalanche and hypothermia are, between them, responsible for killing most of the team. | |
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Alluded to in 5 Centimeters per Second, though it's the death of a relationship rather than a person. In the first part, heavy snowfall delays Takaki's trip to see Akari at Tochigi. Their relationship reaches its peak when they kiss that night in the snow, but it's all downhill from there. Their Long-Distance Relationship subsequently unravels to the point that she has undergone Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder, if not outright forgotten about Takaki, by the time they see each other (maybe) a long time later. In the third act, it's also in the snowing winter that Takaki's then-girlfriend Risa breaks up with him. | |
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Dead Snow is made of this trope, even if it's used for horror and comedy instead of explicit beauty. | |
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Roman, the 5th album in Sound Horizon is all about this trope given the main character Hiver died as a stillborn baby in winter. | |
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Bravely Default: The Gravemark Village located in the snowy continent of Eternia is exactly What It Says On The Tin. 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 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. | |
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Sabaton: "Talvisota", titled after the Finnish name for the Winter War: fought during one of the 20th century's coldest winters, use of snow camouflage by Finnish ski troops, resulted in defeat of superior numbers of Soviet troops unprepared for winter conditions. "Ruina Imperii", covering the Carolean Death March home across the winter of 1709-10 after the death of Carolus Rex at Fredriksten, and the fall of the Swedish Empire. "White Death": the Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä in the Winter War. Inverted in "Christmas Truce", where snowfall signifies the beginning of Christmas and the (temporary) end of the fighting. "Soldier of Heaven" is about the Alpine front in World War I (that is, Italy v. Austria-Hungary), and more specifically about "White Friday", an incident on 13 December 1916 when thousands of soldiers on both sides were killed in avalanches—many of which were deliberately set off by artillery fire. |
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The first Mobile Suit Gundam Wing intro. A city in ruins and an Empathy Doll Shot, all covered in a sheet of falling snow. The Movie Endless Waltz actually shows how it happened (Heero accidentally blew up an apartment building during a mission... and a little girl and her puppy, whom he had befriended the day before, were among the victims); as the realization sinks in, snow starts to fall. | |
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Sunset Over Imdahl takes place over the course of four seasons. Spring and summer are relatively cheerful, fall is when The Plague hits, and winter is when nobody's left to clear the snow out of the streets. | |
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In Curtains, Christie notices a small hand protruding out of the snow while ice skating at the edge of a pond, and uncovers a porcelain doll. She is then attacked and decapitated by someone in a grotesque hag mask. | |
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Played with in the Defenders of the Earth 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 defied when the other Defenders and their Psychic Warrior friend, Mara, arrive on Frigia to rescue the two men. Disney Death also comes into play at this point; Flash and Mandrake are both found unconscious and Jedda initially fears the worst until Mara reassures her: | |
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In Children Who Chase Lost Voices, Asuna's father died during the winter. Morisaki is also shown standing over his wife's grave in the falling snow. | |
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The Garden of Sinners: the deaths of Souren Araya and Lio Shirazumi, both villains. Narrowly averted with Shiki Ryougi, who gives up on living right after revenge-killing the latter, thinking her boyfriend was dead. | |
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: It is snowing throughout most of the titular battle, but specific examples: KÃli, FÃli, and Bolg all die on a snowcapped mountaintop; and Thorin and Azog kill each other on a frozen river. There is a scene of Thranduil walking through the ruins of Dale and seeing his dead kinsmen, while snow gently falls around them. It's even referenced in the lyrics of the film's song: |
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Girl Genius: When Agatha and co. come out the other side of the Queen's Mirror that was under the Red Cathedral they find themselves in winter in the mountains surrounded by deep constant snow. Martellus instantly goes on a murder spree through the fortress they're in and later Higgs and Dupree slaughter a bunch of Martellus' spark hounds in the snow, where there bloody corpses are set upon by crows. | |
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In The Patriot (2000), a few battles are set in winter, with corpses covered by snow. | |
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In Breakheart Pass, the first murder does not occur until they are above the snowline and there is nowhere for the Ten Little Murder Victims to go even if they could leave the train. All the deaths that follow take place amid scenery of pristine snowbound wilderness. | |
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Gundam: The first Mobile Suit Gundam Wing intro. A city in ruins and an Empathy Doll Shot, all covered in a sheet of falling snow. The Movie Endless Waltz actually shows how it happened (Heero accidentally blew up an apartment building during a mission... and a little girl and her puppy, whom he had befriended the day before, were among the victims); as the realization sinks in, snow starts to fall. Its use in After War Gundam X is quite flagrant when Carris Nautilus decides to try Suicide by Cop. When he tricks Garrod into shooting him, it's after a battle during a snowfall. Later, it starts snowing again when he leaves the infirmary to go and die of exposure. The snowfall shuts off immediately once Garrod and Tiffa have convinced him to live. Stella's burial in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny. As Shinn carries her corpse around and then gently lets it sink to the bottom of a nearby lake, it's snowing. In Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, as Yurin L'Ciel is dying, she shares a psychic vision of her time on Minsry with Flit. As the vision of Minsry's forest ends, the scenery changes and it starts to snow... |
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The Death Note anime has this one. It starts snowing just as Naomi lets down her guard enough to reveal her real name to Light, who sentences her to suicide. The snow continues as she walks to her fate. Also doubles as a massive amount of luck on Light's part, as the snow makes Kira Investigation member Aizawa get out his umbrella, obscuring his vision. The guy literally walks right past Light and Naomi without noticing either of them, because if he did see the two of them, Light's little reign would've ended then and there. | |
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In The Snowman (2017), the killer kills his victims in the first snow of winter. | |
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White Len, the "evil" counterpart to Len in Melty Blood, specifically makes her zone snow with her dream powers. | |
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Blasphemous: The Graveyard of the Peaks is a large, snowy mountain and the first part of the long and arduous pilgrimage partaken by 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. | |
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Weathering With You: As bad as things get, it isn't until unseasonal snow starts falling that things rapidly race to their nadir. | |
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The Wizard of Oz subverts the trope during the poppy field scene. The Wicked Witch enchants the poppies to put Dorothy and her companions into an eternal Forced Sleep. Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion are overcome by the poppies and it is indeed peaceful... Until snow comes, sent by Glinda, which kills the poppies, wakes up Dorothy and the Lion, and saves their lives. | |
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Subverted in The Shining. Jack does freeze to death, but his expression is anything but peaceful! | |
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Dinosaurs: The final episode has the dinosaur civilization being wiped out by an ice age, and ends with a shot of snow slowly burying the Sinclairs' home. | |
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In Orphan the entire movie takes place in snowy weather, and most of the film's violent scenes happen outside in the snow. | |
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In Street Fighter V, this almost happened to Kolin in the past, according to the Story Mode. During what's all but stated to be the collapse of the Soviet Union, the girl who would grow into Kolin lost absolutely everything: her homeland, her family and her friends. She fell through the Despair Event Horizon and decided to let herself die in a blizzard, and then was saved and taken in by Gill. | |
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One of the more famous examples is from Bambi in which the title character cries out for his mother during a heavy snowfall after she is shot dead. | |
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It snows in Bokurano during the deaths of Youko Machi (in the anime) and Kanji Yoshikawa (in the manga). The latter even comments on it. | |
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Mulan: Used somewhat more literally in when she uses a cannon to start an avalanche and wipe out the Hun army. Mostly. There's snow on the ground of the massacred village. It also starts snowing after Shang creates a memorial for his father. |
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In His and Her Circumstances, the most severe beating that a tiny Soichirou Arima got from his evil mother Ryouko was during a snowy and cold day. She later threw him out of the house and the poor kid was found bleeding severely in the snow-covered streets by his father Reiji, who immediately took him to safety and then decided to Give Him a Normal Life with his older uncle and aunt. | |
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As Case Closed is a series where people fall dead in almost every episode, there are many murder cases that happen in the snow, and where footprints and other signals happen to be totally vital as clues to reveal who killed the victim of the week: One of the most emblematic cases is The Ski Lodge Mystery, where a Hot Teacher organizes a ski trip with her workmates... to murder two of them, in punishment for having killed one of their students for knowing too much about their dirty deals. Both murders happen during a snowy night... And then Conan finds out and unmasks her through Ran. (Poor, poor little Ran.) Also weaponized in a filler case, where the envious Body Double of a famous actress kills her boss via drugging her, putting her in a simple white kimono that offers no protection against the cold and burying her in the snow, thus causing her to die of hypothermia. The killer then impersonates her boss until it's time to discover the woman's body in the snow, trying to make everyone believe that she was Driven to Suicide... Until Conan (through Kogoro) discovered her trick. Even more meaningfully, said actress's Star-Making Role was the one of... a Yuki-Onna, who throws herself off a cliff. We even get to see bits of the movie at the start of the episode Invoked again when Officer Takagi, while he's visiting an old friend's grave in the very snowy Hokkaido prefecture, is captured and put in a very cruel Death Trap inside a construction site — where he will either freeze to death, be blown up by a timebomb or be strangled in a makeshift gallow. He spends almost two days like this, and while he's rescued in the nick of time, he's said to have suffered frostbite and thus had to stay in the hospital for some days. To make things even more anvilicious, when Satou, Megure and Conan arrive to rescue Takagi in an helicopter, it actually begins to snow. (And then it switches to Snow Means Love, as not only Satou is the one who rescues Takagi, but once he's saved she happily kisses him on the lips... forgetting about a certain camera... |
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In Project K Mikoto kills the colorless king, and seemingly Shiro during the first snow of winter. Moments later Mikoto himself dies. | |
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Inverted after being invoked in Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno: Shishio's getting betrayed involves him getting repeatedly stabbed in winter and then being left to burn on a funeral pyre. However, a sudden snowfall puts out the fire and saves him. | |
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The movie sequel of Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai took place during winter and has a major arc revolving around Heroic Sacrifice, culminating in Mai's death on the day before Christmas. Even showing her blood pouring out amidst the snow when she was hit by the car from which she saved Sakuta. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: "Winter is coming" is the motto of House Stark, ruler of the almost perpetually frozen North. Not only the North is a generally harsh place to live, but there's also the menace of the long-disappeared Others, the living dead. Said Others happen to bring harsh winter for generations and seasons can already last for years in Westeros. Small wonder that when Jon Snow introduces himself to wildling woman Ygritte, she remarks he has an evil name. | |
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Yellowjackets: In the Season 1 finale, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi one of the girls spends the night outside the cabin. The next morning, she is found frozen to death after the first night of snow in the months the survivors have been in the wilderness. | |
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One Piece: It was snowing when Donquixote Rocinante, the second "Corazon" of the Donquixote Family, was shot by his older brother Donquixote Doflamingo. As he lay dying, he clung to life as long as possible to ensure the "spell" he put on Law to keep him unheard stayed so Law could escape. He finally died when the falling snow completely covered up his body, while Law's cries could finally be heard, only to be drowned out by the sounds of the battle between the Donquixote Family and the Marines. The Going Merry's death at the end of the Enies Lobby arc. |
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The Cold Moons: The book starts at the beginning of spring, however it's still so cold that frost and snow linger. By the end of the first chapter, all of the protagonist's sett (including his mate and their newborn cubs) have been killed in badger cullings. Winter, or "the cold times" as badgers call it, is a dangerous time for all animals, including humans. While most of the badgers survive the wintery part of the journey, along the way they come across many dead animals (including several birds who froze to death overnight while perched). |
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In Sand Chronicles Ann's mother Miwako commits suicide and is found dead on top of a mountain in the winter when it's snowing quite badly. | |
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Raptor Red and her pack encounter a whip-tailed sauropod on a snowy mountain near the end of the book. It does not end well. | |
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Green Antarctica: This is the Tsalal attitude, and why they fear the color white. Justified by the long, deadly, and very snowy winter, as well as the massive, uninhabitable glaciers in some antarctic regions. | |
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The death of Tsukiyono's brother in Gamble Fish. | |
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In the movie Three Days of the Condor, the protagonist, Joseph Turner (a.k.a. Condor), notices that Kathy Hale photographs and displays only scenes of winter (bare trees, lifeless snow). He comments to her that she is focusing on death, which she confirms. | |
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The most famous example of this trope in Argentina is Hector German Osterheld's magnum opus, El Eternauta. There, the first sign of the alien invasion of the Manos and the Ellos is glowing snow that kills on contact with the skin, forcing the protagonist, his friends and family to don radiation suits in order to survive. | |
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At the end of Winter Cicada, the doomed lovers commit seppuku in the snow. | |
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In the Hetalia: Axis Powers doujinshii "Our house in the big snow field", Ukraine and Belarus's lands are attacked and they have to run away in the middle of the snow. A child!Belarus urges her adult older sister to leave her to die since Death is Cheap for nations, and Ukraine apologizes as she buries her in the snow and keeps running to reach for Russia. She's ultimately caught and cornered by the enemy... and then the trope is subverted as an already unstable teenage Russia arrives in time to save his sisters's lives, but does so via a bloody Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the enemy. The three young nations ultimately survive, despite all the Break the Cutie. | |
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Touhou Project: Yuyuko is the Ghost Princess of the Netherworld and has the ability to induce death. Naturally, one of the things associated with her is snow, with her game taking place during a long winter. Even the weather effect assigned to her in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody is snow. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, Erinys's sister Annand is killed during a battle in the snow. | |
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The Graveyard of the Giants from La-Mulana. 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 colloosi into the frozen caverns where, overcome by sorrow, they all perished. | |
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Sniper Wolf is fought and killed by Snake in a snowy field in Metal Gear Solid, though the initial fights against Vulcan Raven and Liquid Snake, which also take place out in the snow, subvert this due to them surviving. | |
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Final Fantasy: In Final Fantasy VII, Aerith's human father Professor Gast was killed by his old teammate Hojo and his Shinra forces when he tried to protect his Cetra wife Ifalna and an infant Aerith. This happened in a now-abandoned house located in a permanently snowy village, on the frozen area of the Northern Continent. Final Fantasy X: During the last part of Yuna's pilgrimage, the group visits Mt. Gagazet. The snow-covered, towering mountain and home of the Ronso is considered sacred ground and is dotted by several makeshift monuments dedicated to all the summoners whose journeys met an abrupt end in the frozen peaks. The heroes also fight the third incarnation of Seymour Guado after he killed all the Ronsos that attempted to stop him from pursuing Yuna and co. In Final Fantasy Tactics, the first big Wham Episode occurs at the snowy Ziekden Fortress. Argath resolves a hostage situation involving Delita's younger sister Tietra by murdering her in cold blood, sending Delita down the path that would lead him to become king of Ivalice and the public hero of the War of the Lions. |
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The final mission in Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War takes place on New Year's Eve over the Avalon Dam, in the Grim Up North of Belka. A snowstorm kicks up right after your wingmate PJ is suddenly killed by former wingmate turned Final Boss, Pixy. The Final Boss even calls attention to it. | |
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The Revenant shows many deaths human and animal set in vast snowscapes and mountain vistas, ice, snow and blizzards accompany death at all times. | |
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The video for Beast in Black's "Blind and Frozen" depicts a woman in an Ethereal White Dress moving through a snowy castle, ending on her frozen corpse lying in a bed. | |
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The Sweet Hereafter depicts children in a horrific bus accident, caused and contrasted by the peacefulness of the snow around them. Snow and cold are used throughout the movie to symbolize the original serenity in the town. | |
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CLANNAD, an anime by Key/Visual Arts, makes use of this trope on several occasions. As a young child, Nagisa nearly dies in the snow, thus foreshadowing events years later in ~After Story~. She dies soon after giving birth to Ushio; not only is it snowing at the time, but the snow-clogged streets bring about her death in that they made it impossible to get her to the hospital or to get a doctor to her in time. A few episodes later, when Ushio dies, it is not because of the snow (most likely) — she's been ill for a long time — but the scene does take place in the snow, and immediately afterwards her stricken father Tomoya dies of grief. In addition, in the Illusionary World, the little girl (who is Ushio after her death, minus all her memories of the real world) essentially freezes herself to death in the snow. | |
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Its use in After War Gundam X is quite flagrant when Carris Nautilus decides to try Suicide by Cop. When he tricks Garrod into shooting him, it's after a battle during a snowfall. Later, it starts snowing again when he leaves the infirmary to go and die of exposure. The snowfall shuts off immediately once Garrod and Tiffa have convinced him to live. | |
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General and I: It starts to snow when Bei Jie (apparently) kills Ping Ting. | |
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Dinosauria; the second short "Our Frozen Past" takes place in the middle of the arctic winter 69 million years ago, and one of the troodontid chicks is killed an eaten by a Nanuqsaurus. | |
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Father Ted: Spoofed.. It snows the night before Father Jack's funeral. Ted gives a monologue about how it's snowing all over the island. On all the living, and the dead... Then Father Jack tells him to Shut the feck up. | |
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Played with in the 2001 movie Cats & Dogs. Lou, the heroic beagle, is basically at ground zero right as the main storage tank in a Christmas flocking factory goes bang, generating an artificial snowstorm, and is dragged out of the factory by another dog, Butch...lying motionless on a Christmas Wreath. This movie being intended as a comedy, he got better. | |
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Subverted in Marmalade Boy: Anju Kitahara has a massive heart attack during a snowy Christmas, but she survives. (Barely). | |
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In pretty much every adaptation of A Christmas Carol, there is snow in the churchyard when Scrooge discovers his (future) grave. | |
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In 7 Seeds, Mitsuru dies when she wears her old dancing kimono and dances "The Evening Crane" in the snow and ends up freezing to death. | |
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Mouse (2021): The first on-screen murders happen while it's snowing heavily. | |
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In These Words features a snowy outdoors setting when Asano wakes up from his torture session after being Left for Dead in a loosely closed coffin. | |
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In a dramatic moment on NoPixel, it starts snowing during Deputy Dias' final radio call at his funeral service.note This actually happened thanks to sheer unscripted serendipity; the automatic in-game snow animation coincidentally kicked on at the exact perfect moment. | |
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It's cold when the narrator of Broken Iris' song "A New Hope" visits his lover's grave. | |
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The death of Snowden obviously had quite the impact on the narrator of Catch-22, so much so that the first page of the book asks the question: "Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?" (a reference to "Ballad of the Ladies of Bygone Times" by Francois Villon). Snowden's last words are, "It's cold." Considering everyone else's name is symbolic, it's fair to see this as an example of this trope. | |
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Game of Thrones: The White Walkers seem to bring the cold with them. Jon Snow dies while it was snowing, making his name poignant. Summer was killed by White Walkers, who are associated with winter. |
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In Shutter Island: Dachau. | |
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The entirety of Shimeji Simulation's Chapter 45 shows the world blanketed in snow, but the snow that falls are the dream fragments of people in the simulation, showing the state of the world's utter collapse because of the Sis clone's actions during the school festival. However, the "snow" also signifies Big Sis' slow death, when she was simply found by Shijima, atoning for her past actions, while also telling her Dying Wish to her little sister: go back in time and reverse everything her clone caused, at the DIRECT expense of distancing herself from others. | |
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My-HiME: Immediately following Alyssa Searrs' defeat, the Searrs corporation ordered the "termination" of the project Alyssa had been created for due to her failure. This involves firing missiles at most of the main characters. No one actually dies from this, but it begins snowing immediately after. What happens next, you ask? Miyu, the robot girl, flees with a weakened Alyssa, who gets shot while Miyu is fetching water for her. So Miyu takes Alyssa's body, walks into a nearby pond with it, and freezes the two of them at the bottom. | |
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Barely averted in Candy Candy. When Susanna crosses the Despair Event Horizon after the accident that took away both her leg and her dreams of being an actress, she goes to the rooftop of a building in the middle of a snowstorm and attempts to throw herself from it. Candy catches on her intentions, however, and she decides otherwise. | |
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Ninjago: When Zane performs his Heroic Sacrifice in season 3, it spreads ice across the Overlord's forces, shattering them, which then acts as snowfall across Ninjago. It also snows at his funeral, which in this case is treated more peacefully, as his friends seem to feel his presence in it. Season 11's Ice Chapter has the ninja going to the Never-Realm, a barren icy region where being without fire means imminent death and the cruel Ice Emperor "executes" his enemies by trapping them in ice (though the ninja can still heartbeats, implying they'll be restored if they can be thawed out). |
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The movie Alive dramatizes the story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, where after the plane crashes atop the rugged Andes mountains, the survivors, which includes a rugby team, resort to cannibalizing the corpses of the other passenges in order to survive the freezing conditions until an expedition leads a rescue party to the crash location. | |
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In Fargo, several people die before a snowy background. | |
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See the Question in 52. Renee Montoya drags him through the snow trying — and failing — to get him to Nanda Parbat before he dies, leaving a question-mark-shaped trail. | |
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In Gensokyo 20XX, this trope is fairly prevalent, as some major character deaths occur in the winter: In 20XXI, we have Flandre, who dies of hypothermia, after she sets out to find Chen, who had run away, and, later on, we have Eirin who commits suicide in the winter afterwards. It would be worth noting that Reimu was virtually dying of starvation during the winter before Flandre passed away. In 20XXIV, we have Sakuya's death of radiation sickness occurring in the nuclear winter and later on we have some of Ran's pups dying, as well as the fact that she also miscarries them. On that note, Ran almost died as a result of pregnancy complications during said nuclear winter. Played with to a degree with Ran and Chen during 20XXIV, in that both attempted suicide in the winter at different points but both survived through some intervention, however, though the latter wouldn't have otherwise. |
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The Hateful Eight takes place during a blizzard. By the end of the film, the entire cast are either dead or dying. Although ironically, none of them die from exposure. | |
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Unsounded: Most snow seen is in flashbacks to the day Duane was killed. There's also a flashforward to a town being destroyed by First Silver where the only people seen lay dead in the snow. | |
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Moon Lovers: It's snowing when Myung-hee dies. | |
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The final fight in The Grimrose Girls takes place in a snowy landscape in the dead of winter. It ends in the middle of a frozen lake. The main characters all survive, but the villain dies, complete with blood splattering on the white background. | |
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Mahou Sentai Magiranger: After Miyuki Ozu's supposed death, snow fell. | |
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The Little Match Girl, which makes dying from cold and starvation lovely, glorious, and filled with so much Glurge. | |
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In God of War (PS4), The spell that grants Baldur nigh invulnerability and immortality is broken and Kratos proceeds to kill him permanently when the former attempts to kill Freya. In his last moments, he notes the snow falling on his face, showing relief in being able to physically feel his surroundings again one last time. | |
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Implied in The Outside, as, after Rae crashes her mobile home in a tree during a blizzard (why she crashed in the first place), she leaves to head to a town in the distance but she doesn't come back the next day or afterwards. The rest of the story plays with this trope, as Satsuki spends much of the winter critically ill. | |
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Final Fantasy X: During the last part of Yuna's pilgrimage, the group visits Mt. Gagazet. The snow-covered, towering mountain and home of the Ronso is considered sacred ground and is dotted by several makeshift monuments dedicated to all the summoners whose journeys met an abrupt end in the frozen peaks. The heroes also fight the third incarnation of Seymour Guado after he killed all the Ronsos that attempted to stop him from pursuing Yuna and co. | |
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Gunslinger Girl. The Final Battle between the Agency and the terrorists led by Dante takes place in the Turin Nuclear Power Plant in the middle of a snowstorm. It's downplayed though as the main characters who get killed die inside the building, rather than outside in the snow like the Red Shirt characters. | |
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Doctor Who: The Cybermen gatecrash a funeral in the snow in "The Next Doctor". "The End of Time": After he has seen Rose in a beautiful white snow scene punctuated with multicolored string lights, the Tenth Doctor struggles over to the TARDIS for his regeneration while the Ood begin to sing to him. |
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In Kimi ni Todoke, Ryu's mother died when he was young after her car crashed into an electric pole in a snowstorm. It goes on snowing for pretty much the whole chapter in which this takes place. | |
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Joan of Arc (the miniseries starring Leelee Sobieski): It begins to snow at Joan's execution. Notable because her burning took place in the middle of May. | |
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Stella's burial in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny. As Shinn carries her corpse around and then gently lets it sink to the bottom of a nearby lake, it's snowing. | |
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Sweet Piglet: After its master dies, it is implied the titular piglet dies at the beginning of winter. | |
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The winter scenes in Millennium Actress portend doom: when she first meets and falls in love with the artist he's bleeding; later during WWII she's imprisoned for helping him and he gets captured and executed; during the 50s she tries to find him in the snow fields of Hokkaido and nearly dies. During her actual death it's raining - close enough. | |
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In Snowpiercer, a few passengers attempted to escape the train earlier and walked a very short distance before freezing to death where they stood, making their frozen, standing corpses visible from the train years later. While this fate might have been played straight by the survivors of the train after it crashes, we see that a polar bear has survived, indicating that life can survive outside of the train at last. | |
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In the Grand Finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Ahsoka Tano's Star Destroyer crashes on an icy moon after Order 66. Too focused on killing her and Rex, the other clone troopers aboard go down with the ship, which, along with a makeshift cemetary the heroes set up for their comrades, is eventually buried in snow. Darth Vader tours the wreck site years later, and the final shot has his silhouette reflected in a half-buried clone trooper helmet's cracked visor. | |
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The Rise of Phoenixes: It starts to snow just before Zhi Wei's suicide. | |
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In "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, the main character gradually falls asleep in the snow after his fire is put out and dies of hypothermia. | |
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The War to End All Wars – The Movie: The entirety of two armies are buried in an avalanche in the "Soldier of Heaven" sequence, triggered by a failed attempt by a soldier to shoot a rabbit for dinner. Only two Italian skiers, one of them Sabaton guitarist Chris Rörland as an Ink-Suit Actor, manage to escape alive as the avalanche destroys every army position in its path. | |
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Professor Layton and the Unwound Future: It begins snowing just after Claire returns to 10 years in the past to die in the lab explosion. | |
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EastEnders naturally combines this with Soapland Christmas on multiple occasions. The most straightforward example was the death of Pauline Fowler on Christmas Day 2006: she walked out into the snow, suffered a fatal brain haemorrhage, and collapsed in the middle of Albert Square. | |
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Almost literally in Dark Angel; the story is set in Pennsylvania in winter, so it's frequently snowing. While trudging home in the snow at the beginning of the book, Gillian ends up falling into an icy creek and although she's able to drag herself out before she drowns, the freezing temperatures cause her to die from hypothermia; luckily she gets to come back, which is how she meets Angel, although she's still shaken up and ill afterwards. | |
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The Hunger Games implies this. It is mentioned that several tributes froze to death one year because they hadn't been provided with any means of making fires which would have kept them warm. | |
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In Final Fantasy Tactics, the first big Wham Episode occurs at the snowy Ziekden Fortress. Argath resolves a hostage situation involving Delita's younger sister Tietra by murdering her in cold blood, sending Delita down the path that would lead him to become king of Ivalice and the public hero of the War of the Lions. | |
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In Kunio Watanabe's 1958 version of The 47 Ronin, the whole film builds to the epic battle in a snow-covered courtyard. | |
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Soviet film The Ascent (1977) follows two Russian soldiers that belong to a partisan unit fighting the Germans during World War II. 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. | |
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No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: "For the first time in 120 years, snow had fallen on Santa Destroy." And that night, two things happen: One, Travis fights Skelter Helter to death as soon as the game begins, putting him back to the assassination games against his will. And two, Travis' best friend is killed by a mob hired by the game's villain. | |
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In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, the flashback origin story of Kuze takes place in the Korean winter. Let's just say it sufficiently explains how he became the terrorist leader. | |
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In the first Sailor Moon series, the final confrontation with the Dark Kingdom takes place at "D Point" near the North Pole, and the penultimate episode in which the Senshi all die facing the Doom and Gloom Girls is appropriately snow-covered. To fit with the theme, each one of them also happens to die on a mountain-like structure of spiked ice. Usagi herself battles the Metallia!empowered Queen Beryl while standing on a similar ice structure and defeats her, but dies as a consequence of releasing the whole potential of the Silver Crystal. They all get better when said Crystal, acting on Usagi's last wish, revives them (as well and Mamoru) but with temporal Trauma-Induced Amnesia. | |
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Tanjiro and Nezuko's family are all slain on a snowy mountain. Nezuko survives, but is turned into a demon. | |
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In The Fountain, the scientist's wife's funeral is on a snowy day. | |
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"White Mountain" by Genesis, which takes place in a forest in the middle of a snowstorm: "Dawn saw the white mountain tinted with red." | |
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Moulin Rouge! ends with the defeated Duke walking through a snowfall, leaving the theater in which the heroine Satine has just died. | |
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Horseland: In the "Mosey" episode, Sarah's old cat gets fatally hit by a car and eventually disappears into the oncoming snowstorm so she doesn't see the body. When Sarah couldn't find Mosey in the snowstorm other than his vanishing footprints, she comes to the conclusion he's never coming back and spends most of the winter grieving over his loss, until Will helps her deal with her sadness. | |
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Warrior Cats: In Bluestar's Prophecy, one of Bluefur's kits, Mosskit, freezes to death in the snow when Bluefur is taking them to Riverclan to stay with their father, Oakheart. In general, "leaf-bare" is the toughest season for all the Clans. Cats, being warm-weather animals, don't do particularly well in snowy forests. In chapters set in winter, food is frequently short (leading to starvation) and many characters die of "green-cough"/pneumonia. |
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In the Honoo No Alpen Rose manga, Toulonchamp's goons dump the injured Jeudi and her pet bird Printemps in the middle of a snowy and abandoned place, hoping she will freeze to death since she can't walk away due to her injured foot. She does her best but ultimately gets lost and then a snowstorm rages in. A kind villager and his family find Printemps and then Jeudi just in time, taking care of her until Lundi and General Guisan come for her. As Lundi and Jeudi hug happily, the trope becomes Snow Means Love. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Inverted when Angel's First Evil-inspired attempt to kill himself is foiled by an inexplicable snowstorm in southern California. | |
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In Megatokyo, snow begins to fall just as Miho prepares to meet her death. | |
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In Wolf's Rain there's a scene where Quent, thinking Blue is dead, lies down in the snow to die. It's a subversion because Toboe saves him by sharing his body warmth. In the final two episodes they and others end up dead anyway, and snow covers their bodies before the titular rain finally shows up. | |
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Ace Attorney: Elise Deauxnim, best known as Misty Fey, Mia and Maya's mother, in the fifth case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations. The series has a few cases set in the snowbound winter, and since Phoenix's cases are Always Murder... |
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In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, the destruction of Negi's hometown occurred over the course of one snowy night. | |
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Firefly: Tracey's funeral. It's also a meta-example, since it was also the very last scene shot for the entire series. | |
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Angel Beats! but on a smaller scale. Yuzuru Otonashi's sister Hatsune expires after her battle with an unknown illness on Christmas Eve. | |
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In Cannibal Girls, the cold Canadian winter serves as the backdrop of the film's story about a couple who become entangled with a cannibal cult in a small Ontario town. Only one makes it out alive, and the other is indoctrinated into the cult. | |
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In Rurouni Kenshin, Tomoe dies in the snow. More exactly, she attempts to help Kenshin during a very unfair fight but he accidentally strikes her alongside the enemy, and she dies few afterwards in the snowy fields. | |
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Cells at Work! has a rather dark two-part story where the body goes into hypovolemic shock due to cranial trauma and blood loss, and the body's temperature dropping is represented by a massive blizzard kicking up. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: In "Timeless", Voyager crash-lands on a frozen planet after dropping out of the quantum slipstream, killing everybody on board, and is found 15 years later buried in a glacier. | |
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Street Fighter: Necro and Effie barely avert the trope in Necro's Street Fighter III Third Strike ending. They're on the roof of a running train that travels through a snowy steppe and near a cliff, and they jump off to avert the Illuminati members following them. Effie, however, almost falls into the cliff itself; Necro uses his Rubber Man powers to catch her just in time and, as the two get away safely, this trope goes into Snow Means Love... In Street Fighter V, this almost happened to Kolin in the past, according to the Story Mode. During what's all but stated to be the collapse of the Soviet Union, the girl who would grow into Kolin lost absolutely everything: her homeland, her family and her friends. She fell through the Despair Event Horizon and decided to let herself die in a blizzard, and then was saved and taken in by Gill. |
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In Revenge of the Sith, Jedi master Ki Adi Mundi is leading the clonetroopers in a charge on Mygeeto, a snowy planet as Order 66 is issued to the troops, with Mundi trying and failing to fight them off. | |
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ElfQuest has a bloody elf-troll battle in the frozen north. | |
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Zack Snyder's Justice League: There's snow during the football match of Victor Stone that his father didn't attend. He has an argument with his mother Elinore when coming back from that match, which causes the car accident that kills Elinore and cripples Victor. | |
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planetarian: In the finale, The closing scenes of the game reveal that the rain has stopped and the snow is finally falling which represents hope not only for the Junker, but for humanity. | |
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The prologue of Katawa Shoujo initially appears to be Snow Means Love. The main character, Hisao, meets his High School Sweetheart on a snowy day for a confession of love. Unknown to anyone, he has cardiac arrhythmia and the excitement brings on a heart attack. He barely survives, but his old life is over. | |
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An interesting subversion in It's a Wonderful Life. The snow stops after George wishes that he'd never been born and only starts up again after he decides that he wants to live again. | |
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Resident Evil Village: This is one of the few twists that the game puts on its vampire lore, which otherwise hews as closely to the Classical Movie Vampire 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, as there are some differences with her biology compared to her daughters. | |
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War and Peace (1956): The straggling remnant of the French army retreating from Moscow. The retreat, which had already become difficult, becomes harrowing as the cold of winter arrives, and corpses start getting left behind in the snow. | |
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Relicta: Laia and her team all freeze to death while Angelica is in the Relicta; Angelica finds their frozen bodies. | |
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In The Rose Flower and Joe (Bara no hana to Joe), Joe the Dog and a rose flower that's implied to be sentient end up dying together by the end of Fall. Joe's body and the rose flower are completely covered in snow by the end of the story. However, we do see Joe as an angel reuniting with the rose flower and gives it a kiss as they head to heaven. | |
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Not a straight example, but the snow globe in Citizen Kane should get an honorable mention. | |
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The Chinese movie Raise the Red Lantern has the plot evolving by following the change of seasons. The climax fittingly takes place in winter, with the servant Yan'er kneeling outdoors in winter until she dies from the cold, while snow flakes fall around her. Then there is the unfaithful third wife accidentally being exposed by the protagonist when drunk and executed by her husband and servants. | |
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Toube from Ginga Densetsu Weed freezes to death after fighting Kamikiri and his pack. The next day, the Ohu soldiers find him...literally frozen to death. | |
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Blade Runner 2049, the final scene shows K lying down in the falling snow. He is severely injured but doesn't actually die onscreen, leaving viewers to draw their own conclusion. | |
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The end of House of Flying Daggers goes from brightly sunlit to a blizzard, just in time for the dramatic death scene. | |
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Saint Seiya: At the end of the Galaxian Wars arc, it starts to snow in the mountains where Phoenix Ikki has just been defeated by the other Bronze Saints. While Seiya and the others hold off Docrates' forces, preventing them from stealing the Sagittarius Gold Cloth, a dying Ikki regards the snow as a symbol of his purification... and then gets up and brings down the mountain on himself and Docrates to save the Saints' lives, burying everything and everyone in rock and snow. Then again, he IS the Phoenix Saint. The Asgard filler arc happens in a very snowy environment in the North of Europe. All but one of the Asgard Saints die in the snow. Saori herself almost kicks it too trying to sub in for the Brainwashed and Crazy Hilda, but she lives to tell. Similarly, another filler has the Crystal Saint dying in the middle of a snowy and icy scenario, with Hyoga desperately beggging him to live and Yakov and Seiya sadly watch over them. Later, Camus and Hyoga's duel in the Aquarius Temple leaves the whole place covered in ice - Camus dies, Hyoga almost kicks it too but Saori heals him. |
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Cold Case: The climactic death scenes on several episodes. Very tragically, the victims succumbed to hypothermia after having been previously injured and thus passing out in the snow. | |
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