Basic Trope: Characters associated with cold/ice/snow tend to be sympathetic, tragic, and/or emotional characters.
- Straight: Winter is An Ice Person, and has a Dark and Troubled Past. He acts cold towards others, and often feels lonely.
- Exaggerated:
- Every character associated with the cold is tragic/sympathetic in some way.
- Winter's backstory takes at least an hour to describe, and it is so soul-crushingly depressing that it will leave even the toughest person sobbing.
- Downplayed: Winter has a few sad aspects of his backstory, which tie into his role as an ice-themed character.
- Justified:
- Winter has been isolated in a cold climate for much of his life, causing him to have difficulty interacting with others.
- Winter once injured/killed someone with his ice powers — he feels guilty about it, and is trying to ensure it never happens again.
- Inverted:
- Winter is an ice-themed character, but he's also a Keet who always remains happy no matter what.
- Blaze has fire powers and is a tragic character. Themes of loss and regret are highlighted by motifs of ash, smoke, and burnt things.
- Subverted: Winter seems like he might have some issues, but he turns out to be a stable and optimistic person.
- Double Subverted: ...but he has depressing Hidden Depths which he keeps buried very well.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Elemento is a tragic character who shapeshifts between different element-based forms. He uses an ice form somewhat frequently, but also uses forms based on other elements too.
- Averted:
- Nobody has any cold-themed motifs.
- Winter is ice-themed, but he doesn't have any tragic aspects to him.
- Lampshaded: "It's always the icy guys with all the problems, huh?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Horror: Winter is a slasher movie villain who came Back from the Dead as an evil killer because someone left him out to die in the snow.
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