History Main / YukiOnna

* ''ComicBook/{{Blade}}'' has [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a tribe of vampires that could turn themselves into ice shards and had mild control over weather alongside their normal vampire abilities]] called [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Yiki]]-Onna. Of course some (if not all) of them were male.

* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': [[BrokenBird Mizore]] is a Yuki-onna with a crush on the protagonist. As a species, Yuki-onnas have pupil-less eyes and cool colored hair. Average temperature for a human is sweltering to them, so they [[OralFixation constantly chew]] on magic lollipops to keep themselves cool. Mizore's OneWingedAngel form turns her hair and arms into ice, and allows her to make ice clones of herself.

** ''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'': In issue #14 of her pre-ComicBook/New52 series, Zatanna faces off against a creature who is a yuki-onna InNameOnly: she is more of a cross between a gorgon and a succubus who controls Z's cousin Zachary (who got attracted to her in one of his many instances of thinking with his "bottom head") to make him fighting her.

* ''VideoGame/{{Nioh}}'': A Yukionna appears as a boss. She has an azure complexion and hair, is very beautiful and fights with an ice-covered [[BladeOnAStick naginata]] she can occasionally morph into a sword. Slaying her reveal that [[spoiler: she's the reincarnation of Nohime, the spouse of UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga]] and nets William the Guardian Spirit Usura-Hicho, a swarm of snowflake-like butterflies.

Literally meaning "snow woman", Yuki-onna appear as beautiful women in snowy, cold, or mountainous regions. They're typically depicted as pale women with long, black or (particularly in modern depictions) [[ElementalHairColors blue]] hair that wear kimonos (however, some traditional depictions also show them being nude). DarkerAndEdgier depictions often reveal this to be an illusion [[ThisWasHisTrueForm and their true form]] is actually a blackened, frostbitten mummy. Yuki-onna are the spirits of [[TragicIceCharacter women who died during snow storms]].

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Yuki-onnas, sometimes spelled yuki-on-nas, appear in some material -- such as ''Oriental Adventures'', a supplement detailing ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''[='=] [[{{Wutai}} East Asia stand-in]], and ''Frostburn'', one dealing with arctic adventures in general -- as [[TheFairFolk fey]] that associate with snowy lands and resemble incredibly beautiful women with black hair and ice-white skin. Most individuals are evil beings that enjoy killing travelers with their icy abilities, but a handful of them are benevolent creatures that assist those lost in the cold. While they're not undead, they're speculated to be the spirits of either particularly cold-hearted villains or of people who became lost and died during blizzards. They can also cause people they touch to become unable to orient themselves or find their way anywhere and can paralyze others with a glance.

** The Pokémon Froslass ("Yukimenoko" in Japan, which is essentially an old-fashioned way of saying "yuki-onna"). You even meet one as a boss and her gallery of [[HumanPopsicle frozen]] victims in the ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' spinoff series. Froslass evolves when a female Snorunt is exposed to a Dawn Stone. They're more humanoid than most Pokémon, but still aren't exactly human-looking [[note]]Their arms are directly attached to the sides of their heads and the kimono-like body is actually hollow.[[/note]]. Pokédex entries mention that, according to legend, Froslass are the souls of women who died in snowstorms reborn as Pokémon. She freezes her victims, be they Pokémon or human, then either eats them or uses them as decorations in her cave. According to the ''Moon'' entry, Froslass are especially fond of men.

* ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'': Yukime, who is a CuteMonsterGirl version of a yuki-onna with [[AnIcePerson all the powers of this monster]]. Her story is about being rescued by Nube when she was 11, 5 years after she appeared in the series, and since then she falled in love with him. This particular Yuki-Onna is a Clingy Jealous Girl in a Love Triangle over Nube's affections, and is generally friendly and nice [[BewareTheNiceOnes unless you get on her bad side]]. [[spoiler:In the end [[LastGirlWins she won Nube's heart.]]]]

* ''Manga/GoblinSlayer'': The Ice Witch is an all-white, [[AnIcePerson ice-wielding]] sorceress that [[spoiler:is revealed to have several traits in common with the undead]].

* ''Manga/InuYasha'': Miroku encounters one in episode 101 who lures him to her home and asks that he help her care for the many children there. The children turn out to be nothing more than snow but as Miroku is under her spell he cannot tell until her fight with Inuyasha breaks her hold on Miroku.

%%* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'': Appears as an NPC, monster, and attainable ''shikigami''.

** [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Ghostrick_Yuki-onna Ghostrick Yuki-onna]], which is shown as a CuteMonsterGirl. Here it works as a {{Necromancer}}, since if this card goes to the graveyard, you can restore a monster card destroyed in battle previously. Also, cannot be normally summoned unless you already control a "Ghostrick" monster.
** There's also Yuki-Musume, the Ice Mayakashi and her OlderAlterEgo Yuki-Onna, the Ice Mayakashi. Compared to her Ghostrick counterpart, she's more sinister, as she wants to plunge the world into night and rule over it with her fellow Yokai. She steals Shiranui Skillsaga Supremacy's staff and becomes Yuki-Onna, the Absolute Zero Mayakashi

Stories of Yuki-onna seducing men and leading them to freeze to death is believed to be an old folkloric explanation for the curious phenomenon of "paradoxical disrobing". People dying of hypothermia often begin to feel uncomfortably hot as their body uses up the very last of its thermal energy and in their final delirium will frequently strip off all their clothes, hastening their demise. Since few if any people who reached such an advanced state of hypothermia ever lived to tell the tale before modern medical technology, being seduced by a beautiful woman was the best explanation anybody could come up with for why so many dead people were found naked in the snow.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1529 SCP-1529 ("King of the Mountain")]], implied to be the cause of many (if not all) of the deaths on Mt. Everest, acts a lot like one: it dresses all in white, can freeze with a touch [[spoiler: (and through sight if it sees you looking at it through a telescope)]], and seduces climbers with visions of tropical paradise. Pretty much the most significant difference is that its actual gender is ambiguous since it is dressed head to toe in mountaineering gear.

* ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' have a winter episode where Shin-Chan and friends built a snow house, and then Masao starts telling them the Yuki-Onna legend, only to accidentally scare everyone else (including ''himself''). When Kazama tries responding with, "Come on, it's just a legend, there's no way the Yuki-Onna really exists..." comes a ''real'' Yuki-Onna (albeit a 5-year-old version), causing everyone else to flee. Except Shin-Chan, who actually befriends the young Yuki-Onna who at the end of the story, likes Shin-Chan enough but decides ''not'' to abduct him because he's "too weird".

* ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' have a winter episode where Shin-Chan and friends built a snow house, and then Masao starts telling them the Yuki-Onna legend, only to accidentally scare everyone else (including ''himself''). When Kazama tries responding with, "Come on, it's just a joke, there's no way the Yuki-Onna really exists..." comes a ''real'' Yuki-Onna (albeit a 5-year-old version), causing everyone else to flee. Except Shin-Chan, who actually befriends the young Yuki-Onna who at the end of the story, likes Shin-Chan enough but decides ''not'' to abduct him because he's "too weird".

* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': A winter episode have Nobita asking for Doraemon's help when Suneo and Gian wants to drag him out into a snowball fight, but as Doraemon doesn't want to leave the warmth of the house, instead gives Nobita one of his Yokai pills, summoning a Yuki-Onna (one who, oddly enough, appears to be dressed like a western angel despite being a character of Japanese myths). The initially mischievous Yuki-Onna managed to scare away Gian and Suneo, but later decides NOT to return to Doraemon's gadgets and drag Nobita around having fun, until she unintentionally causes Nobita to catch a terrible cold just as she started becoming friends with him. SHe finally performs a HeroicSacrifice to cure Nobita of his cold.

%%* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': Nobita inevitably summons one using one of Doraemon's gadgets. Initially mischievous, it does a HeelFaceTurn when Nobita catches the flu, and does a HeroicSacrifice to save him.%%ZCE

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': Shiva is a summonable monster almost always depicted as a beautiful, blue-skinned woman, and she always has ice-themed powers. She is usually immune to ice-based attacks and is normally depicted with little clothing on. Her name may be a {{pun}} on the word "shiver."

Whether Yuki-onna simply like cold climates, are cursed to live in cold climates, or literally can't survive outside of cold climates depends on the incarnation. Some incarnations sleep with lone travelers to steal valuable body warmth, others will simply make them get lost during their travels in order to freeze to death, yet others will kill travelers by tricking them into touching them or a baby they hold in their hands. More benevolent Yuki-onna will either lead the victims to safety (and possibly sleep with them), or simply leave them alone; the more wicked ones will lead them astray to begin with, kill them with the methods described above, or use them. Some evil Yuki-onna have been described as letting their victims go if they are [[WouldntHurtAChild too young]] or [[BeautyEqualsGoodness too attractive]].

* Perhaps the most well-known Yuki-onna story was first recorded by a Western author, Lafcadio Hearn, in ''Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things'' (1904). Hearn, who moved to Japan in 1890 and became a naturalized citizen known as Koizumi Yakumo, writes that he got it from a villager informant. The story goes that a woodcutter is spared by one during a blizzard after she'd already frozen his older master to death, because he is young and handsome. She warns him never to speak of this to anyone, or else she would find and kill him. Unsure if it was all just a dream, he later falls in love with a girl named Oyuki, and they marry and have ten children. One night, he tells his wife about the snow woman, and sure enough she reveals her true form. She spares him only for the sake of their children, but she dissolves into mist and is never seen again.

Whether Yuki-onna simply like cold climates, are cursed to live in cold climates, or literally can't survive outside of cold climates depends on the incarnation. Some incarnations sleep with lone travelers to steal valuable body warmth, others will simply make them get lost during their travels in order to freeze to death, yet others will kill travelers by tricking them into touching them or a baby they hold in their hands. More benevolent Yuki-onna will either lead the victims to safety and then sleep with them (or just lead them to safety), or simply leave them alone; the more wicked ones will lead them astray to begin with, kill them with the methods described above, or use them. Some evil Yuki-onna have been described as letting their victims go if they are [[WouldntHurtAChild too young]] or [[BeautyEqualsGoodness too attractive]].