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The Dresden Files: Whenever Mab, the Queen of Winter Fae, stays on the material plane for too long, the winter seems to drag on forever, with snow and cold winds remaining firmly in place well into the months of spring. Recess: School's Out: Dr. Benedict tries to cause this after reading that schoolchildren in colder climates have higher test scores. He attempts it by using a tractor beam stolen from the military when the Moon is closest to the Earth; the plan entailed firing it at that point and moving it into another orbit, thereby causing summer vacation to be erased and children to stay inside and study, ultimately getting better test scores and him elected as President. This was more serious than the previous Disney examples- whereas those would be limited to mere countries, he would've plunged the entire world into a new Ice Age. Wizard101: In the side world of Grizzleheim, the Coven's evil plan is to bring about the Everwinter.
The Outer Limits (1995): In " The Refuge", Raymond Dalton is told that an organism discovered by a deep-sea drilling rig polymerized the world's water, which resulted in it having a much higher freezing temperature. However, it turns out that this is merely the setting of a virtual reality environment. Kings of War: A demon named Winter once covered the world in ice for 100 years, 'til all the surviving races rallied together and drove her out. However, the aftereffects of all the excess ice melting created a massive flood which split the largest human faction, causing them to be broken into several smaller factions.
The Huronian Glaciation, the first and longest ice age in Earth's history, lasted for three hundred million years.
The unnatural winter is noted to have had devastating effects on both local society and environments — since there is no growing season anymore, most plants have been forcefully dormant since Irrisen's founding and no large-scale cultivation is possible, making Irrisen extremely dependent on food and lumber imports and on the winteryew tree, a magical plant introduced by Baba Yaga during the conquest which is capable of growing edible seeds and bark year-round. It's openly stated that the winteryews are the only reason Irrisen wildlife didn't die out en masse. At a panel discussion during the October 2020 New York Comic Con, writer Ron Marz said the story came together around "Justice League Viking", a 10th-century version of the modern superhero team. [5] Plot [ edit ] The northernmost region of Westeros is dubbed "the Land of Always Winter", which presumably is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. This is also implied to be the region where the Others come from. Nuclear winter was a big worry during the Cold War (a Non-Indicative Name for the global conflict involved). This makes the modern issue of Global Warming somewhat ironic.
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Legend (1985): There are two unicorns that provide Light. When one is slain, winter ensues. If the second is killed, the winter will be made permanent. Honkai: Star Rail: The planet of Jarilo-VI was plunged into an ice age via a perpetual snow storm known as the "Eternal Freeze" about 700 years in the past that has rendered the planet nearly-inhospitable save for the city of Belobog. The Eternal Freeze was caused by the leader of the planet attempting to make a deal with a Stellaron to rid the planet of alien invaders. By the end of the Jarilo-VI storyline the Stellaron is sealed away, meaning that the snow storm is officially over though the planet is still ecologically devastated and will take centuries at least before it can fully recover.
A Song of Ice and Fire: The world's seasons are unnaturally long ( Word of God is that their length is caused by magic), and as such winters can last for years on end. Father Llymic, one of the Elder Evils, aims to do this alongside The Night That Never Ends. Should he be released from his prison, the Sun will start rising later and later and setting earlier and earlier every day until it will cease appearing at all. This will come with a corresponding drop in temperature as the Sun's warmth vanishes, plunging the planet into an ever-worsening ice age. Should Father Llymic not be stopped, the world will become a lifeless ball of ice that will never know light or warmth again. Triaxus, the seventh planet of the setting's solar system, has an orbit that requires 317 Golarion years to make one circuit. Consequently, its seasons last for generations, and both the wildlife and the natives ryphorian people have had to adapt to the periodic onset of intense, century-long winters that make farming impossible, choke the seas with ice, and force many creatures into dormancy. This is naturally balanced by the fact that the summers are just as long. Notably, the onset of summer, while welcome, isn't any less dangerous than the winter itself — the sudden rush of meltwater as a century's worth of snowfall melts over a few years causes floods, drastic rises in sea level and powerful storms, problems compounded by the emergence of hordes of dormant predators roused from hibernation. These seasonal extremes also impact the power of the dragon warlords of Triaxus' Drakelands; while the red, green, and blue dragons, creatures of fire, vegetation, and warm climes, are dominant over the warm season, the ice-breathing and normally barbaric white dragons rise to power over the long winters. Injustice: Gods Among Us: Killer Frost's classic ending ends up with her freezing the entire northern hemisphere and ruling it as the Winter Queen. Ninjago: The Big Bad of the second half of Season 11 is the Ice Emperor (Actually an amnestic Zane with the Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu), who long ago took control of the peaceful Never-Realm and trapped it in an endless winter.Dream Park: The Fimbulwinter game in The Barsoom Project takes place on an Earth where the sun is shrinking due to evil magic and humanity is faced with a planet-wide winter. Inverted with Markovia; despite being the same northerly latitude as Lamordia, the coldest Domain of the Core, the Domain has an incongruously tropical island clime. Frozen (2013) revolves around the newly crowned Queen Elsa's hidden powers inflicting this on the kingdom. She didn't know she was doing this until the others tell her and manages to end it when she gets control of her powers.
Fire and Ice (1983): The heartless wizard Nekron is able to expand his ice palace world into the tropics. His glacier stops advancing only when Nekron tires. Touhou: In Perfect Cherry Blossom, Yuyuko steals spring to feed a giant monstrous cherry tree in the ghost world, causing perpetual winter in the land of Gensoukyo. A Sub-Trope of Weather Dissonance and Sister Trope to The Night That Never Ends and Spring Is Late. Not to be confused with Frozen in Time. Characters may suffer from a Winter of Starvation. For truly apocalyptic cases of this, see Glacial Apocalypse. Helliconia, set on the planet of the same name, involves a world in a highly elliptical orbit around its sun. Its summers last decades, but its winter lasts for over a thousand years. It's so severe that it acts as a de facto Reset Button on the civilizations of the planet.The supplement Dungeon Master's Guide 2 has the Killing Frost of Ghulurak, which is meant to end the world by freezing it in an eternal ice age. Final Fantasy XIV: The region of Coerthas was plunged into an endless winter after the Calamity occurred. Due to the fall of Dalamud, Erozea's aether became totally screwed up. Corethas was once a lush green environment, but the Calamity turned into a winter wasteland that has only snow and ice. The people living in the region managed to adapt, but it also hinders their ability to effectively fight off the dragons.
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