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The Old North Wind

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The Old North Wind	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })"The North Wind" is a common name given to a specific gust of wind that formulates in the Northern hemisphere and blows south. It's often known for being a particularly powerful gust, and was especially seen as significant to people living in the Northern hemisphere, because its presence often meant winter was coming soon. As with many natural phenomena, the North Wind is often given an Anthropomorphic Personification in fiction, myth, and folklore. This anthropomorphic version is almost always male, and usually takes the form of an old man made of clouds or snow. He can be portrayed in any moral alignment, but tends to be portrayed as a malevolent character who enjoys freezing things, and especially making humans cold. After all, Evil Is Deathly Cold. However, he can just as easily be more neutral, or maybe even benevolent. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Having Blow You Away powers is practically a necessity, although he may also have other Elemental Powers such as An Ice Person. Compare Jack Frost. See also Cumulonemesis and Elemental Embodiment. Examples:
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The Old North Wind / int_141a7410	comment	Over the Garden Wall uses the trope by name in an ominous song titled "The Old North Wind". While Greg and Wirt try to sleep in the cold, windy forest, Greg envisions the wind as a villainous character in his dream, where the North Wind is depicted as a sinister old man made of clouds who, along with his three cloudlike minions, wreaks havoc on the Fluffy Cloud Heaven world in Greg's dream.
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The Old North Wind / int_388eab30	comment	H.R. Pufnstuf features anthropomorphic embodiments of the four winds. The North Wind is portrayed as a bitter old man with icy features. (The West Wind is a cowgirl, the South Wind is a Southern Belle, and the East Wind is an Oriental gentleman.)
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The Old North Wind / int_4685048b	comment	In Pokémon 4Ever, Suicune, a veritable Nature Spirit, is referred to by several characters as "The North Wind".
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The Old North Wind / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: There are various Gods of Wind: the two names so far are Zephyrus, God of Light Breezes, and the far more powerful Flatulus, written and illustrated as an Expy of the personification of the North Wind. When Flatulus blows, everybody knows about it.
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The Old North Wind / int_4be1bdd0	comment	Golden Sun: In the first game, the ultimate water elemental summon is Boreas, here represented as a giant robot who grinds a huge block of ice into powder, then blows an icy wind at the party's enemies. In Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, he still attacks with icy wind, but his form is now a gigantic mechanical horse-train-thing, who stomps the ice under him to generate a blizzard.
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The Old North Wind / int_6b1cf8ab	comment	At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald features a female North Wind. She's depicted as generally benevolent, but still capable of doing terrible things like sinking ships.
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The Old North Wind / int_753491f7	comment	Fantasia: In the Pastoral Symphony segment, Boreas appears during the storm and blows Bacchus all around.
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The Old North Wind / int_79d9b538	comment	The Palaververse: Thunderstorm and the Four Winds tells the story of how the pegasus Thunderstorm faced the personifications of the North, East, South and West winds to give pegasi the ability to control the weather. The Winds are all depicted as powerful and feared entities who batter and scour the land with storms, gales and harsh weather, and the North Wind in particular — in contrast to the spoiled and indolent West Wind, the largely neutral and overworked South Wind and the genuinely helpful East Wind — is a harsh, cruel bully who lives in the frozen north, constantly sending forth harsh winds and terrible storms and caring nothing about the people caught in its gales.
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The Old North Wind / int_800df7aa	comment	In The Lord of the Winds, the eponymous lord called Kotura is a personification of the winds in general and the north wind in particular; he appears in the form of a tall young man. He has a very strange moral code, summoning terrible snowstorms that pose a threat to the entire human population (or at least all the people in tundra) but being nice and polite when he actually meets humans in person, willing to give a second chance even to the unpleasant ones.
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The Old North Wind / int_817acecf	comment	In Fables, the North Wind turns out to be the father of Bigby Wolf, explaining the infamous "Huff and Puff" ability that he used against the Three Little Pigs as the Big Bad Wolf. He isn't depicted as villainous as such, but he's a terribly neglectful father, which he tries to excuse by claiming that it's his nature to be mercurial as a wind.
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The Old North Wind / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Pokémon: The Legendary Pokemon Suicune is described in Pokedex entries as the embodiment of the north winds.
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The Old North Wind / int_b3679210	comment	In the 1936 Happy Harmonies short "To Spring", Old Man Winter is a rather jaunty take on this trope, singing and blowing freezing snow as the last hurrah of winter as the gnomes of the short work to usher in spring.
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The Old North Wind / int_b37304ba	comment	The Heroes of Olympus: The wind gods of Classical Mythology make an appearance. Boreas, being the north wind, is based in Canada, and is depicted as a stodgy French Jerk. However, the bulk of the villainy is given to his daughter Khione, a snow goddess who sides with Gaia and generally enjoys freezing people.
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The Old North Wind / int_bd184166	comment	The Neverending Story: Lirr, the black North Wind, is one of the four giant elemental embodiments who guard the winds of Fantastica.
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The Old North Wind / int_be48fc93	comment	The Ugly Duckling: The "Winds of Winter" sequence depicts three malicious winds (and their "friend" Frost, who is depicted as a tiny crystalline creature) flying over the land and covering it with ice and snow, while singing about how they enjoy making people suffer in the cold.
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The Old North Wind / int_ce06dda3	comment	Aesop's Fables: "The North Wind and the Sun" describes a contest between the two titular entities over who will be able to strip a passing traveler of his cloak. The North Wind blew his harshest, strongest winds to tear the garment away from the man, but the more he did so the more the traveler pulled his cloak close to himself. The Sun simply shone brightly and warmly, and the traveler took off his cloak of his own accord in the pleasant weather. The story is meant to teach a moral about the value of civility and persuasion, as embodied by the Sun, instead of using the North Wind's brute force to solve problems.
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The Old North Wind / int_db034944	comment	The Year Without a Santa Claus: In A Miser Brothers' Christmas, the North Wind is depicted as a scheming figure who wants to get rid of Santa Claus and become the figurehead of Christmas himself.
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The Old North Wind / int_e0ce3a77	comment	The Winter Windster, the boss of Shivering Mountain in Wario World, seems to have been designed with this trope in mind. His Japanese name, Kantaro, is even a reference to a traditional anthropomorphic depiction of the North Wind.
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The Old North Wind / int_fe724d7f	comment	The Rammstein song Dalai Lama features an airplane full of passengers being utterly destroyed by God for encroaching on his territory (the sky). God is depicted using wind powers (and thunder and lightning, but the wind seems to be the main feature) and his "sons" (which may or may not be a literal title) are the wind. It also mentions "the driver of the clouds" (it's unclear whether this is God or a servant), which refers to wind pushing the clouds across the sky. It never specifies a north wind, however.
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The Old North Wind	processingCategory2	This Index Blows
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Fables (Comic Book) / int_c6044ad2	type	The Old North Wind
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The Neverending Story / int_c6044ad2	type	The Old North Wind
The Song of Hiawatha / int_c6044ad2	type	The Old North Wind
Over the Garden Wall / int_c6044ad2	type	The Old North Wind
The Legend Of The North Wind / int_c6044ad2	type	The Old North Wind

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