History Main / SnowySabertooths

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfWonders4'': Introduced in ''Primal Fury'', muscular sabertooths (sporting an exaggerated "smile") are present as animals and [[HorseOfADifferentColor mounts]]. Interestingly, the trope of sabertooths living in frigid climates is [[InvertedTrope inverted]] -- while the [[InHarmonyWithNature Primal]] culture can adopt the sabertooth as their animal totem, it's associated with ''volcanic ashlands'' (the snow climate being given to the mammoth totem).

* ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger': The lost city of Hyperborea, far above the arctic circle, contains the body of a massive ''Smilodon'' the size of a Clydesdale frozen as a MonsterInTheIce. Apparently, it was the Guardian of the Shrine of the Aramaspi. The film’s climax has the WickedWitch Zenobia possessing the ''Smilodon'' to break out and attack the film’s heroes.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': The game takes place in the [[GrimUpNorth cold and snowy]] province of Skyrim, and one of the animals the player and come across is the sabre cats, which are large feline predators with large fangs. There's also the snowy sabre cat, a stronger variant with a white coat found in the northernmost regions of the map.
* ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'': PlayedWith, as the game's sabertooth cats, modelled after ''Smilodon populator'', can be found throughout the entire region of Oros, from the snowbound mountains in the North, to the much more temperate valleys and forests in the South, East and West. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with the Bloodfang Sabertooth, a Legendary Beast which took up residence in the same cave where it first attacked [[PlayerCharacter Takkar]] and Sayla in the Southern region of Oros.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': The Barioth, a [[OurWyvernsAreDifferent Pseudo Flying Wyvern]] first introduced in [[VideoGame/MonsterHunter3Tri the third game]], is a massive white creature that lives in the Tundra, which [[MixAndMatchCritters looks like a cross between a sabre-toothed cat and a dragon]]. In addition to its chosen living habitat, the Barioth also has [[AnIcePerson ice-based elemental attacks]], such as [[BreathWeapon blowing freezing blasts from its mouth]] or [[BlowYouAway creating freezing twisters]] to throw itself at hunters. The Frostfang variation, introduced in ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld Iceborne'', is even more rugged and actually has a thick sheeting of ice armouring its body. The Frostfang's breath attacks are more powerful than a normal Barioth's, and it can create icy patches to slow down hunters. Their subspecies Sand Barioth, which debuted in ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterPortable3rd'' is a ''desert''-dwelling variation instead of this trope.

* In ''VideoGame/TitanQuest'', those felines are known as Sabrelions and are fought in cold or semi-cold areas of China and the Himalaya.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In the episode "Fun on a Bun", Fry ends up in a frozen LostWorld inhabited by Neanderthals and prehistoric mammals. Among said prehistoric mammals are the saber-toothed cat ''Machairodus'', which the Neanderthals use for a [[CatAPult catapult]] against the battle against modern humans.

* ''WesternAnimation/TarzanLordOfTheJungle'': "Tarzan and the Conquistadors" features a saber-toothed cat named Tar-Sheeta (meaing "White Leopard) who lives high up in a snowy mountain range and sports pure white fur. [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology He also has a long tail and is built like a modern big cat]], [[RecycledAnimation mainly because most of his animation is retraced from the show’s usual lion and panther models]] (this is a [[NoBudget Filmation]] cartoon, after all).

In real life, despite living during the last glacial period of the Pleistocene, ''Smilodon'' actually wasn't super fond of cold regions. While the North American ''S. fatalis'' would've had to endure cold winters, it didn't live any further north than Alberta, and preferred warm woodlands. Meanwhile, the South American ''S. populator'' was found primarily in tropical grasslands, although fossils of it have been found as far south as the southern tip of Chile, where it can get rather chilly (even more so during the Pleistocene). Also, the genus didn't typically coexist with woolly mammoths (although ''S. fatalis'' was found alongside the less famous Columbian mammoth), and its preferred diet was medium-sized herbivores such as bison, horses, and camels.

''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'':The lost city of Hyperborea, far above the arctic circle, contains the body of a massive ''Smilodon'' the size of a Clydesdale frozen as a MonsterInTheIce. Apparently, it was the Guardian of the Shrine of the Aramaspi. The film’s climax has the WickedWitch Zenobia possessing the ''Smilodon'' to break out and attack the film’s heroes.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduces the legendary Pokémon Chien-Pao, an Ice type who looks like a combination of a sabretooth tiger and a snow leopard. It's also literally [[{{Snowlems}} made out of snow and ice]] (save for the cursed sword whose two halves form its fangs).

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The Sabyr [[AnimalisticAbomination Grimm]] resemble sabertooths and are native to the icy continent of Solitas. They're little more than mooks, easily cut down in droves by the heroes.

''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'':The lost city of Hyperborea, far above the arctic circle, contains the body of a massive ''Smilodon'' the size of a Clydesdale frozen as a MonsterInTheIce. Apparently, it was the Guardian of the Shrine of the Aramaspi. The film’s climax has the WickedWitch Zenobia possessing the Smilodon to break out and attack the film’s heroes.

''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'':The lost city of Hyperborea, far above the arctic circle, contains the body of a massive Smilodon the size of a Clydesdale frozen as a MonsterInTheIce. Apparently, it was the Guardian of the Shrine of the Aramaspi. The film’s climax has the WickedWitch Zenobia possessing the Smilodon to break out and attack the film’s heroes.

In real life, despite living during the last glacial period of the Pleistocene, ''Smilodon'' actually wasn't super fond of cold regions. While the North American ''S. fatalis'' would've had to endure cold winters, it didn't live any further north than Alberta, and preferred warm woodlands. Meanwhile, the South American ''S. populator'' was found primarily in tropical grasslands, though fossils of it have been found as far south as the southern tip of Chile, where it can get rather chilly (even more so during the Pleistocene). Also, the genus didn't typically coexist with woolly mammoths (though ''S. fatalis'' was found alongside the less famous Columbian mammoth), and its preferred diet was medium-sized herbivores such as bison, horses, and camels.

* Averted in ''Series/WildNewWorld'', where ''Smilodon'' is shown living in the warmer climes of Arizona and Florida respectively, while its cousin ''Homotherium'' is shown roaming Washington, back then at the edge of the great ice sheet and covered in tundra instead of forests. The episode set in Beringia (Alaska), however, features cave lions (though ''Homotherium'' is also known to have lived there).
* Averted in ''Series/WalkingWithBeasts'', where sabretooth cats appear in two episodes, both set in warm climates. "Next of Kin" features a ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinofelis Dinofelis]]'' preying on early humanoids in an African forest, and "Sabre Tooth" is about a pride of ''Smilodon'' in the grasslands of South America. The final episode, "Mammoth Journey", gives us a proper Ice Age winter, and while there is a brief appearance by a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_spelaea Eurasian cave lion]], sabretooths are nowhere to be seen. The cave lions, however, [[ArtisticLicenseBiology are portrayed with their canine teeth sticking out of their closed mouths like those of sabretooth cats]][[note]]most likely due to their character model being a PaletteSwap of the ''Dinofelis'' model[[/note]].

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsFifthEdition'': In the adventure ''TabletopGame/IcewindDaleRimeOfTheFrostmaiden'', saber-toothed tigers are part of the wildlife in the arctic expanses of the Frozenfar, where the adventure takes place. One of the animal-themed nomadic tribes who lives in the tundra, the Tribe of the Tiger, is even named after them, and their queen keeps one as a pet that she rides on into battle.
** In Revised [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition 3rd Edition]] (or 3.5E), the Smilodon appears as a monster in the ''Frostburn'' sourcebook, which is all about playing in snowy regions. The art depicts it with a snow-white coat, striding through a blizard.

* In ''VideoGame/LetsBuildAZoo: Dinosaur Island'', the sabertooth prefers Arctic enclosures. This is despite the fact that their fossils are dug up in South America, suggesting they're the tropical-dwelling ''Smilodon populator''.

* The saber slimes from ''VideoGame/SlimeRancher'' are themed around sabre-toothed cats. While this trope is averted in the first game, where their hybrids are found in the tropical Wilds, in [[VideoGame/SlimeRancher2 the sequel]] they're exclusive to the SlippySlideyIceWorld.

* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', the Sabyr [[AnimalisticAbomination Grimm]] resemble sabertooths and are native to the icy continent of Solitas. They're little more than mooks, easily cut down in droves by the heroes.

* One episode of Creator/{{Filmation}}'s ''WesternAnimation/TarzanLordOfTheJungle'' ("Tarzan and the Conquistadors") features a saber-toothed cat named Tar-Sheeta (meaing "White Leopard) who lives high up in a snowy mountain range and sports pure white fur. [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology He also has a long tail and is built like a modern big cat]], [[RecycledAnimation mainly because most of his animation is retraced from the show’s usual lion and panther models]] (this is a [[NoBudget Filmation]] cartoon, after all).

* One episode of Creator/{{Filmation}}'s ''WesternAnimation/TarzanLordOfTheJungle'' ("Tarzan and the Conquistadors") features a saber-toothed cat named Tar-Sheeta who lives high up in a snowy mountain range and sports pure white fur. [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology He also has a long tail and is built like a modern big cat]], [[RecycledAnimation mainly because most of his animation is retraced from the show’s usual lion and panther models]] (this is a [[NoBudget Filmation]] cartoon, after all).

In real life, despite living during the last glacial period of the Pleistocene, ''Smilodon'' actually wasn't super fond of cold regions. While the North American ''S. fatalis'' would've had to endure cold winters, it didn't live any further north than Alberta, and preferred warm woodlands. Meanwhile, the South American ''S. populator'' was found primarily in tropical grasslands, though fossils of it have been found as far south as the southern tip of Argentina, where it can get rather chilly (even more so during the Pleistocene). Also, the genus didn't typically coexist with woolly mammoths (though ''S. fatalis'' was found alongside the less famous Columbian mammoth), and its preferred diet was medium-sized herbivores such as bison, horses, and camels.

* ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'': The daggarats are predators that have an enlarged fang-like upper incisor that they use to pierce through the thick hide of their prey. The largest species, the slayber, inhabits tundras and taigas during the Glaciocene and prey on the mammoth-like hammoths.