...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Thermal Dissonance
- 144 statements
- 27 feature instances
- 26 referencing feature instances
| Thermal Dissonance | type |
FeatureClass | |
| Thermal Dissonance | label |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance | page |
ThermalDissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance | comment |
Simply put, an object or person exhibits Thermal Dissonance when it's not the temperature it should be. It's true that some objects have a very low thermal conductivity, but these objects don't heat up or cool down no matter how long they spend in a hot or cold environment. They somehow seem able to defy conventional thermodynamics and choose what temperature they want to be, because of this the object can be a piece of hyper advanced Phlebotinum, an Ancient Artifact or stranger fare. When touched or held it is either much warmer or colder than the ambient temperature would indicate, with no obvious reason for this temperature difference. A sufficiently powerful Thermally Dissonant object may also be able to change the temperature of its surroundings, freezing an active volcano or melting a glacier if dropped in. Since temperature doesn't transmit well through visual media, characters who come in contact with the Thermally Dissonant object have to outright state that it's unusually hot, cold, or body temperature. The character will touch the object and either rapidly pull away their hand commenting on it being too hot or cold, or incredulously grab it since it isn't as hot or cold as it should be. If the object is worn or carried, it never changes temperature either. Compare to Thermal Dissident, where the individual prefers something hotter or colder than those around him. Likely to result in a Thermostat Tamper Tantrum. Related to Evil Is Deathly Cold, Chill of Undeath, and Convection, Schmonvection. |
|
| Thermal Dissonance | fetched |
2023-11-07T02:45:34Z | |
| Thermal Dissonance | parsed |
2023-11-07T02:45:34Z | |
| Thermal Dissonance | processingComment |
Dropped link to NoConservationOfEnergy: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Thermal Dissonance | processingComment |
Dropped link to Novelization: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Thermal Dissonance | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_17fa5f0a | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_17fa5f0a | comment |
This is played both ways with the Slytherin Locket Horcrux in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It is described as being cold to the touch, yet at one point it burns Harry's chest, leaving him with yet another scar. This is because not only is the locket imbued with very powerful Dark magic, it has something of a mind of its own — and a spiteful, cruel one at that. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_17fa5f0a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_17fa5f0a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_17fa5f0a | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_1bdeba5a | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_1bdeba5a | comment |
In the X-Men story "Lost in the Funhouse", the doors of an alien citadel stand up to a sustained blast from Havok without even getting warm. Havok compares them to Krell metal from Forbidden Planet (see below). | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_1bdeba5a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_1bdeba5a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| X-Men (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_1bdeba5a | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_5908ee91 | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_5908ee91 | comment |
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has the Daedric Artifact of Mephala, the Ebony Blade. It's described as cooling the hottest fires of the Skyforge. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_5908ee91 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_5908ee91 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_5908ee91 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_64dd58b2 | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_64dd58b2 | comment |
In the Harry Potter films, the presence of Dementors causes the temperature to lower drastically. Windows covered in frost, flowers wilt and die, humans can see their breath and even a thick layer of ice forms over the surface of a pond within moments. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_64dd58b2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_64dd58b2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Harry Potter | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_64dd58b2 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_6715932e | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_6715932e | comment |
While investigating the Demon Tsukuyomi in Spirit Hunter: NG, Akira finds a chain in a burnt locale and is shocked to find that it's hot to the touch, despite looking normal and having no reason to be heated up. This is a form of supernatural imprint from the chain's past, when it was used as part of the ritual that burnt down the department store. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_6715932e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_6715932e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Spirit Hunter: NG (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_6715932e | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_6c1234ed | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_6c1234ed | comment |
Dwarf Fortress The deepest level of the caverns has some giant mushrooms called nether-caps which have the property of always being cold, to add to their creepyness. Interestingly, this means that it is impossible to set nether-cap logs on fire— they stay just as cold even when they're at the bottom of a pool of magma. Quite a lot of creatures have the "fixed body temperature" tag, which does exactly what it says, including Magma Men and Fire Men. Interestingly they can still affect the temperature of other things even while their own stays the same, letting them spontaneously create or destroy a potentially infinite amount of heat. |
|
| Thermal Dissonance / int_6c1234ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_6c1234ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dwarf Fortress (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_6c1234ed | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_6e1d5f36 | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_6e1d5f36 | comment |
In Farscape, John (human) has a completely different body temperature than the outwardly human Peacekeepers (who have something of a weakness to heat), which gives him away since Scorpius has infrared vision. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_6e1d5f36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_6e1d5f36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Farscape | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_6e1d5f36 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_74700c46 | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_74700c46 | comment |
In Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, the kids jump into lava it's actually freezing cold. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_74700c46 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_74700c46 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_74700c46 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_794f2664 | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_794f2664 | comment |
Pokémon Master: Due to their elemental mastery, Fire and Water Pokemon Master's body temperature remains constant, regardless the environment. In a scene Misty wore a sleeveless outfit despite the temperature being freezing-cold because she is a Water Master and coldness does not affect her. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_794f2664 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_794f2664 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pokémon Master / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_794f2664 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_79a5c5e0 | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_79a5c5e0 | comment |
In Twilight (2005), Edward gives Bella his jacket, and she notes that it doesn't seem to have absorbed any of his body heat. Of course, in this case it's not the jacket but Edward who is unusual. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_79a5c5e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_79a5c5e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Twilight (2005) | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_79a5c5e0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_7fc78282 | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_7fc78282 | comment |
In The Lord of the Rings, Gandalf throws the One Ring into the fire to bring out the letters written on it. When he pulls it out, Frodo is surprised that it's not hot. It takes much hotter fire than normal to affect the Ring at all, which is why it has to be brought to Mount Doom to be destroyed. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_7fc78282 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_7fc78282 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lord of the Rings | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_7fc78282 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_8bbda387 | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_8bbda387 | comment |
The rocketpack from The Rocketeer remains cool even after flight. It's later explained by Howard Hughes that the rocketpack has a double-walled chamber into which the fuel is pumped, cooling the chamber while preheating fuel simultaneously, to Hand Wave the possibility of Toasted Buns. Real rockets indeed do this (it's called regenerative cooling), but it doesn't exactly keep things cool enough to touch. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_8bbda387 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_8bbda387 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Rocketeer | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_8bbda387 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_8bf08bcd | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_8bf08bcd | comment |
In Ultima Underworld II, one of the keys is described as feeling "unnaturally cold to the touch". | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_8bf08bcd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_8bf08bcd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ultima Underworld (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_8bf08bcd | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_8df0f9c3 | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_8df0f9c3 | comment |
In These Are the Damned, the protagonists discover a group of children hidden in a facility beneath a medical base. They realise something is wrong when the childrens' skin is cold and their guards all wear anti-radiation suits. Then they start feeling ill... | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_8df0f9c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_8df0f9c3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| These Are the Damned | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_8df0f9c3 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_8f4ee60f | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_8f4ee60f | comment |
The DeLorean in Back to the Future follows this, though it's as much a way of playing with the audience's expectations as anything - the DeLorean is ice-cold after making a trip through time, though you would expect it to be hot (especially given the fire trails it leaves behind). | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_8f4ee60f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_8f4ee60f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Back to the Future (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_8f4ee60f | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_a73a2606 | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_a73a2606 | comment |
Children of an Elder God: Touji and Kensuke were standing next to Rei when Asuka met the group. When Rei saw the German girl wrapping her arm around Shinji's and dragging him away, the ambient temperature suddenly dropped, and Touji and Kensuke felt a blast of cold hitting them. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_a73a2606 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_a73a2606 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Children of an Elder God (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_a73a2606 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_a8150af4 | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_a8150af4 | comment |
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: When Nori descends into the crater created by a meteorite to explore the mysterious man that came in that meteorite, she falls down on embers and flames, yet she is completely unaffected. It doesn't take her too much to notice the embers and the flames are completely cold. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_a8150af4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_a8150af4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_a8150af4 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_ac7adc37 | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_ac7adc37 | comment |
Forbidden Planet: During their tour of the Krell city, Dr. Morbius has Commander Adams try out his Ray Gun on a door made of 26 inches of molecular-condensed metal. The beam doesn't even warm it up. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_ac7adc37 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_ac7adc37 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Forbidden Planet | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_ac7adc37 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_b683f90f | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_b683f90f | comment |
The Perry Rhodan universe features "Luurs metal", which naturally maintains a constant temperature a bit above the freezing point of water. (It comes up as a plot point in one issue because thin threads of it are used in Terran bank notes as an anti-counterfeiting measure at that time; naturally, that issue is then all about somebody having found a way to make counterfeit notes anyway and using those to try to mount an economic attack on the Solar Empire.) | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_b683f90f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_b683f90f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Perry Rhodan | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_b683f90f | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_b8c3cc30 | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_b8c3cc30 | comment |
In Young Justice (2010), the characters almost fall into lava while in the Tower of Fate, only for a floor to close over it. As Aqualad notes, a relatively thin layer of stone should be incredibly hot or even melting from the lava, but after all, it's magic. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_b8c3cc30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_b8c3cc30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Young Justice (2010) | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_b8c3cc30 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_be03a5ee | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_be03a5ee | comment |
Left Behind: All over the place with the Tribulation Force and believers in Christ during the lethal Heat Wave caused by one of God's Bowl Judgments, as vehicles and structures owned and used by them are protected from the high temperatures. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_be03a5ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_be03a5ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Left Behind | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_be03a5ee | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_c43df4d8 | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
In the classic series of Doctor Who, Time Lord healing can involve developing a frost on the skin ("The Dæmons" and "Planet of the Daleks"). The Doctor's inhumanly low body temperature also gives him away in "The Mark of the Rani". | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_c43df4d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_c43df4d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doctor Who | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_c43df4d8 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_d5e9cf36 | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_d5e9cf36 | comment |
While performing an autopsy on a Muton in XCOM 2, Tygan is disturbed by the fact that the corpse is still warm hours or days after its death, when most other corpses cool long before then. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_d5e9cf36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_d5e9cf36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| XCOM 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_d5e9cf36 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_d8a9452c | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_d8a9452c | comment |
In The Waterboy, Bobby gives Vicky Valencourt a bottle of water that is extremely cold at all times, even though it's kept in a room-temperature environment. Supposedly this is because it was blessed by an Eskimo medicine man. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_d8a9452c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_d8a9452c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Waterboy | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_d8a9452c | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_ee9b4e9e | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_ee9b4e9e | comment |
Higher Learning: Misato has the misfortune of sitting next to Gendo at the school recital. The ambient temperature drops almost to freezing point when Gendo sees Rei smile and hug Miyazaki-sensei after her successful performance; when he gets up to leave, the cold lingers behind him — to the point that Misato, not having the nerve to look, is under the impression that he's still sitting there. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_ee9b4e9e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_ee9b4e9e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Higher Learning (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_ee9b4e9e | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_f1da64b5 | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_f1da64b5 | comment |
In The Lord of the Rings, not only does the One Ring remain cool enough to touch after being dropped into a household fire; when it's finally dropped into Mount Doom, it appears to actually cool the lava to a thin crust of solid black rock before the heat of the volcano becomes too much to resist, and it finally melts. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_f1da64b5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_f1da64b5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lord of the Rings | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_f1da64b5 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_f24bb5a | type |
Thermal Dissonance | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_f24bb5a | comment |
Maleficent in The Kingdom Keepers gives off a strong chill wherever she goes, notifying the imagineers of her presence whenever the temperature drops drastically. | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_f24bb5a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Thermal Dissonance / int_f24bb5a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Kingdom Keepers | hasFeature |
Thermal Dissonance / int_f24bb5a |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.