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11	[[caption-width-right:350: She seems like an ice lady.]]
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15	雪女 (''yuki-onna'', literally "snow woman") appear as beautiful women in snowy, cold, or mountainous regions. They're typically depicted as pale women with long black hair (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]].
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17	Like all mythological creatures, Yuki-onna have [[DependingOnTheWriter many different interpretations]]. Some are benevolent while others are malicious. Some Yuki-onna are essentially normal women who live in snowy areas, while others have specific powers. These powers can include turning into mist when scared, [[AnIcePerson ice or snow powers]], and the ability to hover over snow as to not leave footprints.
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19	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 (sometimes called a ''yukinko'') 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]].
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21	Traditionally, Yuki-onna are just average women however within the past several decades it's become commonplace to see them depicted as princesses. The popularity of Queen Oyuki from ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' and the WinterRoyalLady trope (especially the White Witch from ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'') are likely the reasons for this.
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23	If a Yuki-onna isn't just outright called "Yuki-onna", she will usually have a snow themed name (with "[[ALizardNamedLiz Yuki]]" being the most generic).
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25	Their beautiful designs and dark stories have caused Yuki-onna to become one of the most popular yokai out there, to the degree where they even appear in works [[CulturalCrossReference made outside of Japan]].
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27	Stories of Yuki-onna seducing men and leading them to freeze to death is believed to be [[JustSoStory 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.
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29	SubTrope to {{Youkai}}. Compare to StringyHairedGhostGirl, a similar trope often seen in Japanese media. See also EtherealWhiteDress, which is used in non-Japanese media for a similar archetype.
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36	* [[Myth/RussianMythologyAndTales Snegurochka]] in ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' is repeatedly compared to or mistaken for a yuki onna by Japanese characters, though their commonality is limited to being well-dressed young women associated with ice (and this version of Snegurochka appears to be a pre-teen). Once, she and Matsuri disguise themselves as such to scare away humans, dressing up in white kimono and [[CombinationAttack combining]] their wind and ice powers. The English version originally left "yuki onna" untranslated (except for one time [[YouAreTheTranslatedForeignWord explaining]] it mean "snow woman"), but after changing translators made it "snow fairy".
37	%%* ''Manga/AkazukinChaCha'': One of the teachers is a Yuki-onna.%%ZCE
38	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Sode no Shirayuki ("snow-white sleeve"), the spirit of Rukia Kuchiki's sword in the anime adaptation, is heavily based on a Yukionna, being a tall, fair-skinned damsel in a white kimono with ice-based powers. [[spoiler: Upon activating Bankai, Rukia herself becomes fully white and covered in a pristine kimono, while her freezing powers skyrockets.]]
39	* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': The Snow card is one of the Clow's cards that is AnIcePerson and is basically based on a yuki-onna, having the classic look of this youkai. Sakura captured the card during the start of the school year after the city was nearly buried by snow.
40	* ''Manga/CaseClosed'': A variant of the ''yuki onna'' legend (in which the yuki onna melts due to her victim's display of concern) is discussed as a way to clue Shinichi in on the solution to a murder mystery.
41	* ''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, "[[TemptingFate 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".
42	* ''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 after experiencing the world outside for the first time in years, 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.
43	%%* ''Manga/DororonEnmaKun'': Yukiko-hime is a junior version of the Yuki-onna.
44	* ''Manga/FrankenFran'': In one story, Fran's latest victi-er, patient, is a recently-blinded man to whom she gives the eyes of a sea creature that can see the whole of the light spectrum. As he runs off in terror, dodging normally-invisible [[EldritchAbomination things]], he runs into a Yuki-onna who is vacationing in Tokyo for the summer. They fall in love and he returns to Fran to thank her.
45	* ''Literature/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]].
46	* ''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, and 5 years later she appears in the series, and since then she fell 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.]]]]
47	* Himuro from ''Manga/TheIceGuyAndHisCoolFemaleColleague'' is male, but he's descended from a yuki-onna and he has [[AnIcePerson ice powers]] as a result. His powers tend to flare up during emotional moments.
48	* ''Manga/InterviewsWithMonsterGirls'': Yuki Kusakabe is one of the yuki-onna type of [[HumanSubspecies demi-humans]]. She has fewer sweat glands (thus more adopted to colder climate), and, keeping in line with the yuki-onna legends' sad theme, would freeze her body fluids when she in [[HeroicBSOD emotional stress]].
49	* ''Manga/InuXBokuSS'': Yukinokouji. Her human form doesn't resemble a typical Yuki-onna much, having light brown hair and western attire, however she does have IcyBlueEyes ([[AdaptationDyeJob green]] in the anime). Unusually for a Yuki-onna, she is a lesbian, [[spoiler:though it's [[MaybeEverAfter implied]] she'll make [[IfItsYouItsOkay an exception]] for Renshou]]. She has a SugarAndIcePersonality, being cold and distant towards men but excitable and flirty towards women.
50	* ''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.
51	* ''Manga/KemonoJihen'': Akira ([[DudeLooksLikeALady despite his looks]]) is a yuki-onoko, the {{Gender Flip}}ped version of this trope. He struggles to control his freezing abilities and is rarely able to freeze anything larger than a lollipop, but when he manages to get it to work, [[HerdHittingAttack he can freeze entire tunnels]] while thoroughly averting HarmlessFreezing. [[spoiler:The fact that he's male is an important plot point, as he and his twin brother Yui are the only yuki-onoko to be born in a hundred years.]]
52	* ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles'': Two mysteries feature legends of an especially murderous version of the ''yuki onna'' called the ''yuki yasha'' and wearing a Hanya mask (a type of mask in Noh theater); of course, both times, sightings of such spirits turn out to be the murderer pulling a ScoobyDooHoax.
53	* ''Anime/TheLittlBits'': One episode Willibit and Lillibit encounter a version of the Yuki-onna who, according to popular legend, kidnaps and murders disobedient children. However, she turns out to be a sweet woman who is mourning her own missing son and enjoys the company of children because it makes her feel less lonely.
54	* ''Manga/MissionsOfLove'': Yukina Himuro is derisively nicknamed "Yuki-onna" (rendered as "The Snow Woman" in the English translation) both because of circulation issues that leave her literally cold to the touch and because of her [[IceQueen icy personality]].
55	%%* ''Manga/MononokeSharing'' has yuki-onna named Yuki as one of the main characters.
56	* ''Monster Girl Encyclopedia'': Yuki-onna use blizzards to lure men to their cabin. She will treat a man with a home-cooked meal and warm reception, then seduce him. Should he reject her, she will use ice breath which causes him a terrible cold, and the freezing man will seek a warm touch from her. Yukiwarashi, a child Yuki-onna, will sometimes visit a human village and play with human kids. Should she have an interest in a boy, the Yukiwarashi will take him as her husband once she becomes Yuki-onna.
57	* ''Manga/MonsterMusume'': Yukio. She runs an onsen despite being AnIcePerson. She has EmotionalPowers and when she gets emotional she [[PowerIncontinence loses control of them]]. Yukio has a [[TheStoic stoic]] demeanor and has difficulties smiling.
58	%%* ''Manga/NekoMusumeMichikusaNikki'' features Ibuki, a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]] yuki-onna, and Mashiro, her young attendant.%%ZCE
59	%%* ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan'':
60	%%** ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan'': Tsurara, the Yuki-onna. She's even called just yuki-onna before she is sent to protect Rikuo at school.%%ZCE
61	%%** Reira, an adult yuki-onna who lives in Tohno.%%ZCE
62	* ''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. The yuki-onna are also a DyingRace due to their extremely short fertile periods.
63	* ''Manga/SpiderManManga'': In Ryoichi Ikegami's Spider-Man, one of the new foes Yu Komori/Spider-Man has to fight is a yuki-onna, called as "The White Woman", who appears in the city freezing people at will, including Yu himself.
64	* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'': Oyuki. She is often cited as the reason why Yuki-onna are depicted as either princesses or as at least wearing ice crowns. As the manga revolves around aliens inspired by yokai stories, Oyuki is a HumanAlien instead of a ghost. She is the queen of Neptune, which is depicted as a frozen planet populated only by women.
65	* ''Anime/TheUltraman'' has an alien girl named Yukiko, whose appearance is based directly on the Yuki-onna myth. She's actually an alien woman who fled her freezing home planet after an invasion from a hostile monster, escaping to earth and living in the Japanese Alps as an urban legend not unlike the mysterious Snow Woman.
66	* ''Manga/UshioAndTora'': Two appear during Ushio's brief sojourn in Sapporo: the older one, Asagiri, is a cruel old hag who wants to take her revenge on humans [[spoiler: ([[LoveHurts because her human husband abandoned her when he discovered her real nature]])]] by freezing the entire city thanks to her "daughter", Shizuri, who's in love with a human boy. Ultimately, Shizuri becomes human and gets to live happily ever after with her beau, while Asagiri is persuaded to let go of her rancor [[spoiler: and is last seen helping Ushio in the final battle]]. Asagiri is also shown to be pretty powerful, as she managed to survive being slashed by the usually lethal [[WeaponOfXSlaying Beast Spear]].
67	* ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'' Invoked but subverted by the hero: when a mysterious, white-clad beauty [[note]] Hakki Snakeman in disguise[[/note]] asks for shelter in the group's hut during a snow blizzard, Yaiba accuses her of being the Yukionna. She points out that she would otherwise melt near the fire.
68	* ''Anime/{{Yatterman}}'': In episode 45, Dokurobei sends the Doronbo Gang after the legendary Yukionna, who's said to have a fragment of the Dokurostone in her cavern. In this case, Yukionna is a malevolent spirit who freezes people with sleet, but she's also the loving mother of a child. The TerribleTrio actually manages to defeat her by dousing her with hot water, but she ultimately survives.
69	* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': Yukina is a type of youkai called a Koorime ("Ice Maiden"). They seem to be based on Yuki-onna, except that they reproduce via parthenogenesis and live on a floating glacier. Relations with men are strictly forbidden, and caused Yukina's brother (Hiei) to be thrown off the glacier.
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73	* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': [[https://scryfall.com/card/sok/120/yuki-onna Yuki-Onna]] appears as a card in ''Saviors of Kamigawa''. Notably, she's a Red card (ice and spirits normally go to Blue; Red is more closely tied to fire and earth; however, Red is associated with mountains, where Yuki-Onna lives). InUniverse, the yuki-onna was used by Toshiro Umezawa to get rid of Uramon's men led by Kiku and Marrow-Gnawer, who pursued him. Then, by a ritual performed with the reluctant help of Kiku and Marrow, Toshi imprisoned the yuki-onna in a ceramic tile and stole part of her power, which he embedded into a new purple kanji on his forehead. The game makes a full five-color card cycle by adding four CanonForeigner counterparts of Yuki-Onna in the other colors: Haru-Onna ("Spring Woman", Green), Nikko-Onna ("Sunlight Woman", White), Kiri-Onna ("Mist Woman", Blue) and Kemuri-Onna ("Smoke Woman", Black).
74	* ''TabletopGame/MitosYLeyendas'': "[[http://www.cambiacartas.com/im/selectCard/card_id/112647/cards_lang/1 Yuki-onna]]", part of the ''Samurai Code'' expansion, can discard cards from player's hand. In an interesting detail, the Yuki-onna drawing shares visual similarities with [[Characters/FatalFury2 Mai Shiranui]].
75	* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'':
76	** [[https://yugipedia.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.
77	** There's also [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Yuki-Musume,_the_Ice_Mayakashi Yuki-Musume, the Ice Mayakashi]] and her OlderAlterEgo [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Yuki-Onna,_the_Ice_Mayakashi Yuki-Onna, the Ice Mayakashi]]. Compared to her Ghostrick counterpart, she's more sinister -- as one of the boss monsters of the Mayakashi archetype, she wants to plunge the world into night and rule over it with her fellow Yokai. She steals Shiranui Skillsaga Supremacy's staff, upgrading into [[[[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Yuki-Onna,_the_Icicle_Mayakashi Yuki-Onna, the Icicle Mayakashi]] and eventually becoming [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Yuki-Onna,_the_Absolute_Zero_Mayakashi Yuki-Onna, the Absolute Zero Mayakashi.]]
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81	* ''ComicBook/AnthonyBourdainsHungryGhosts'': "The Snow Woman" features a man who encounters a yuki-onna who kills his father and has sex with him. Years later, he finds a girl and marries her, revealed to be the same yuki-onna.
82	* ''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 [[InconsistentSpelling Yiki]]-Onna. Of course some (if not all) of them were male.
83	* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
84	** ''ComicBook/DCComicsPresents'': In issue #46, Superman and the Global Guardians fight a group of magical villains, one of whom was Yuki-Onna. It's not clear if she was an actual nature spirit or just a Japanese sorceress with a specialty in ice spells.
85	** ''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'': In issue #14 of ''ComicBook/Zatanna2010'', Zatanna faces off against a creature who is a yuki-onna InNameOnly: she is more of a cross between a gorgon and a [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus]] (Zatanna in fact explicitly refers to her as a succubus at one point) 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 fight her.
86	* ''Series/TheStoryteller'': In the comic book spin-off , the "Minokichi" story was adapted during the "Witches" mini-series.
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90	* ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'': One of the girls in Izuku's harem, Yukimura Fuyuko, is a yuki-onna with human heritage, who was ostracized by her family due to having a fire-manipulation Quirk.
91	* In ''Fanfic/StoriesFromStevensFuture'', one appears as the main antagonist of the second Halloween arc, trying to kill the Yukino family, Vihaan, and Mystery. [[spoiler:It turns out she was being blackmailed by a businessman who wanted to tear down Grandma Yukino's house and turn it into an arcade.]]
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95	* ''Film/AkiraKurosawasDreams'': One appears in the segment "The Blizzard", in which a man wandering through a blizzard and succumbing to the cold sees the creature. It's generally seen in the west among those unfamiliar with Japanese folklore as an example of surrealism in the film.
96	* ''Film/{{Kwaidan}}'': A yuki-onna has mercy on a young woodcutter lost in the snow, and decides not to freeze him because of his youth. But she warns him not to tell anyone...
97	* ''Film/TalesFromTheDarksideTheMovie'': There's a segment where a monster kills someone and makes a witness promise not to tell anyone about the murder which he ends up doing later to what turns out to be the human form of the same monster. Sound familiar? Granted, it's not a woman with the ability to freeze people, but it is a monster whose story is similar.
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101	* ''Literature/AnnoDracula'': Yuki-Onna is the ruler of Yokai Town in ''One Thousand Monsters''. Like all yokai, she's actually a vampire. But while most vampires in the setting (even the yokai) are basically just people with unusual powers and unfortunate dietary requirements, she's the rarer kind (like Drac himself) who has honed her vampric abilities (in this case, cold) to become something possibly more than, and definitely ''other'' than, human.
102	* The book ''Literature/BladeOfTheYoungSamurai'' has a Yuki-Onna as its final villain, who's made a kind of morbid museum where she's frozen the realm's greatest warriors alive.
103	* Creator/HansChristianAndersen's ''The Ice Maiden'''s titular maiden bears a striking similarity to a yuki-onna, but is reportedly inspired by a local [[UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}} Swiss legend]]; in this case, she [[{{Foreshadowing}} marked the male protagonist as hers]] and killed his mother when he was a baby, and is one of the corners of the love quadrangle the protagonist couple are involved in. This being an Andersen tale, it likely won't surprise anyone that [[DownerEnding it all ends in tears]], with the foreshadowing arguably being the only thing making it avoid being a DiabolusExMachina.
104	* ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'': The Velvets are very clearly related -- one offers to guide the protagonists to Islington's hall and [[spoiler: steals Richard's heat with a kiss. The Marquis makes her give it back, though.]]
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108	* ''Series/Akumaizer3'': Yukionna is one of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Akuma Captains]] the team encounters. She's depicted as a woman made of snow who wields a FreezeRay that can spray people with snow until they turn into snow men. Oh, and she's the childhood friend of [[TheBigGuy Gabura]].
109	* ''Series/MythQuest'': In "Minokichi", Alex steps into the role of the titular mythical character via the [[InterdimensionalTravelDevice Cyber Museum]]: a Yuki-Onna freezes his mentor to death in his sleep but spares Minokichi for his youth and beauty, then later appears to him in disguise to become his lover. This version refers to the Yuki-Onna as a vampire and has her drink her victims' blood, rather than just steal their warmth.
110	* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'':
111	** A Yuki-onna appeared as a MonsterOfTheWeek in ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger''. She could transform people into snowmen or create giant angry snowmen to fight the Kakurangers.
112	** ''Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger'' also had a Yuki-onna. Since all the Youkai in the series were inanimate objects transformed into monsters, she was made from a snowcone machine that she could crank to produce freezing breath. She appeared in ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel'' as Snow Fright.
113	* ''Franchise/UltraSeries''
114	** Mentioned in an episode of the original ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' when Science Patrol meets a girl living in a mountain village named Yuki who is shunned by her neighbours for supposedly being the daughter of a Yuki-onna. Her real "mother" is in fact Woo, [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti a hairy yeti-like kaiju]] that is based on the Yuki-onna but instead, a GuardianEntity implied to be the ghost of Yuki's mother protecting her from beyond.
115	** The [[AnIcePerson icy]] {{kaiju}} Snowgon from ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'' is able to transform into a Yuki-onna, blasting people with its freezing breath in that form. However, its true form more closely resembles a polar bear mixed with a dragon.
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119	* "Lady of the Snow" by Music/SymphonyX is inspired by the myth of the Yuki-onna, describing a beautiful, pale woman dressed in white who seduces the singer as he tries and fails to resist her deadly charms. The intro and outro also feature Japanese-inspired instrumentation in reference to the myth's origin.
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123	* In the 14th century, Japanese poet Sogi claimed to have personally seen a Yuki-onna in Echigo.
124	* Perhaps the most well-known Yuki-onna story was 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.
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128	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
129	** 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'' (a [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition 3.5e]] book 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 ChaoticEvil 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 [[{{Humanshifting}} change their appearance]], cause people they touch to become unable to orient themselves or find their way anywhere, and can paralyze others with a glance.
130	** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition'' also has the Frostwind Virago from ''Monster Manual V'' - a far, ''far'' more powerful NeutralEvil take on the concept, which has {{flight}}, [[ResistantToMagic Spell Resistance]], a [[CompellingVoice mystically captivating voice]], a "Mind Freeze Aura" which passively scares or [[CycleOfHurting stunlocks]] everyone around it, and immunity to cold ''[[OneHeroHoldTheWeaksauce without]]'' vulnerability to fire. It lacks the illusory abilities of the yuki-onna, but can make hard-hitting attacks which deal a mix of cold and NonElemental damage, either by touching opponents in melee, or by generating an icy vortex which [[HerdHittingAttack damages everything nearby]].
131	* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Pyramid 45: [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters]]'' features Yuki-onna as a form of TheFairFolk. They're callous, arbitrary, and not above freezing an entire town if they feel like it.
132	%%* ''TabletopGame/LegendOfTheFiveRings'' features traditional Yuki-onna. '''Administrivia/ZeroContextExample'''
133	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Yuki-onnas are incorporeal undead formed from the spirits of women who freeze to death in the snow without receiving proper burials. They resemble beautiful, blue-haired women dressed in long kimonos, and vent their anger over their unjust deaths by luring travelers into the snows and using their control over ice and snow to subject them to the same death that ended their own lives.
134	* ''Franchise/TheWorldOfDarkness'': In ''Midnight Roads'', the Snow Brides are creatures that mimic pale women, appear in snowstorms and try to drain heat from people.
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138	* Music/{{Tsukipro}}: In the yokai AU, as seen in the second SQ stage play, Rikka is a male yuki-onna.
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142	* ''VideoGame/AyakashiRomanceReborn'': Shizuki is a [[GenderBender male]] yuki-onna, who is essentially Toichiro the kitsune's valet.
143	* ''VideoGame/CassetteBeasts'' has Spooki-onna monsters that are found among the frozen peaks of Mt. Wirral; their Bestiary entries specifically refer to Yuki-onna myths. They look like kimono-clad women whose [[FogFeet feet and arms trail off into clouds]], and they learn an assortment of icy moves (as well as the HP-draining Life Drain).
144	* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'': While never referred to in the dub as a yuki-onna, there is a snow spirit living on a high mountaintop who froze a village in retaliation for one of the villagers telling them about her after she rescued him.
145	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
146	** 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."
147	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' in particular has the Snow enemy located at Great Glacier, a vast icy region; she's explicitly referred to as a ''yuki-onna'' by a man in the bar in the Japanese script. Being a PaletteSwap of the Jemnezmy, she's wearing little more than a leotard despite the frigid conditions.
148	%%* ''VideoGame/HeavenlyGuardian'': Sayuki and her sister Koyuki, the main protagonists.
149	* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagicAshan'': Yuki-onna appear in ''Might and Magic: Heroes VI'' as elite versions of the Snow Maiden monster and recruitable allies for the [[MakingASplash water themed]] [[{{Wutai}} Sanctuary]] faction. They are said to be the daughters of Winter itself, and have the ability to slow enemy movement through their touch and the ice-shard traps they can summon.
150	* ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade'': The Yuki-onna appears as enemy mooks in snow-covered stages. They fly and, unlike popular images, they're quite buxom.
151	* ''VideoGame/NinjaShadowOfDarkness'': The Tundra level boss is a Yuki-Onna-based monster who can ''swim'' through snow and attack by siccing avalanches and snowballs on you.
152	* ''VideoGame/{{Nioh}}'': A Yukionna appears as a boss. She has an azure complexion and hair, is very beautiful and fights with an ice-covered 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.
153	%%* ''VideoGame/Onmyoji2016'': Appears as an NPC, monster, and attainable ''shikigami''.
154	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
155	** The Pokémon Froslass is an all-female species based on the yuki-onna, spelled out in its Japanese name "Yukimenoko"[[note]]"me-no-ko" is an archaic reading of "onna-no-ko" (i.e. girl)[[/note]]. 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.
156	*** The ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' spinoff series features a Froslass as a boss, along with her gallery of [[HumanPopsicle frozen]] victims.
157	*** ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'': The sidequest ''Traces of a Lost Village'' leads the player to ruins inhabited by a number of Snorunts who flee on sight, as well as a single angry Froslass who serves as a BossBattle. A damaged journal in the area includes recognisable fragments of the Hearn yuki-onna myth, strongly implying that its writer was unknowingly married to this Froslass for years (with the subtler implication that it killed him and destroyed his village after being exposed). On a sadder note this Froslass ''cannot be caught'', something which normally happens only when Pokémon already have a human trainer, implying that even after all this time it refuses to forget him.
158	** Additionally, its pre-evolved form Snorunt is partially based on the Yukinko, a small youkai typically described as the son of the Yuki-onna, with added traits of the ZashikiWarashi.
159	* ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'': While Yumi is human, she's designed as a Yuki-onna: Icy blue eyes, pale skin, a white and pale blue kimono, and most importantly, [[AnIcePerson ice powers]]. More direct relation happens with the "Snow Maiden" enemy in ''Deep Crimson''.
160	* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'': Yuki Jyorou is a recurring demon, specified to be the type of Yuki-onna that kills people. Her FlavorText claims she appears to travelers and asks them to hold her baby, which gets heavier the longer it gets carried. If the baby is dropped, she kills the traveler, but if they manage to hang in there, she'll aid them instead. As a summon, she specializes in ice and darkness spells, and when capable of speech, hints to a crush on her summoner.
161	* ''VideoGame/{{Shinobi}}'': A Yuki Onna is the first boss in the 3DS adaptation. In a section before the fight there's a [[SnowMeansDeath frozen corpse of a previous victim]] hinting at what's to come.
162	* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Letty Whiterock goes into hibernation during the spring and is only seen during the winter. She controls the snow. Unlike more traditional depictions, Letty wears a blue-and-white dress and has curly off-white hair rather than the typical kimono and black hair.
163	* ''VideoGame/TsukinoParadise'' features cards of the band's Yokai AU, including the male Yuki-onna Rikka.
164	%%* ''VideoGame/TheTwistedTalesOfSpikeMcFang'': The juvenile version, ''yukinko'', appears under the translated name "Ice Queen".
165	* ''VideoGame/{{Yodanji}}'': The Yuki Onna is one of the many "character classes" that a player can choose from.
166	* ''Franchise/YokaiWatch'': Frostina and her S-rank evolution Blizzaria are known as "Yukionna" and "Fubukihime" in Japan. They're [[LighterAndSofter toned down]] incarnations of Yuki-onna that look like children (with the exception of Blizzaria's adult-looking Shadowside form). Though Frostina is the one named "Yukionna", Blizzaria is more similar to Yuki-onna than her:
167	** Frostina is a ShyBlueHairedGirl who wears a cape and hood over her blue kimono. She owns a bar in Downtown Springdale under the guise of a human woman named "Ms. Frost". Frostina wears a cape because she can't control her powers well (and because she has bad circulation). Frostina was once a young girl who became lost in the mountains. She went into a cave to stay warm but ended up freezing to death.
168	** Blizzaria is older and more confident than Frostina. She ditched her hood and wears her ponytail tied up with a hairclip that resembles ice (the hairclip item is what causes her to evolve). In the [[Anime/YokaiWatch anime adaptation]], Blizzaria is a BreakoutCharacter due to her cuteness and appears in several intro sequences, promotional materials, and episodes (where she's often a love interest in pop culture parody skits). Blizzaria is far cuter and sweeter than most incarnations of Yuki-onna however can still be malicious, such as when she crashed a fire-themed yo-kai party using her ice powers (though whether it was intentional or not is never specified).
169	* ''VideoGame/YukiOnna2020'': One serves as the antagonist. She chases you throughout the game, and will start to freeze you with ice breath if she's close enough to you.
170	* ''VideoGame/YokaiHunterShintaro'' have the winter-themed stage that, unsurprisingly, ends with a Yuki-onna as it's boss. She can sic a plethora of ice-related powers on you as well, including dropping icicles, materializing snowballs as projectiles, and creating a spear made of ice as a close-range weapon.
171	* ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'' contains an effect that allows protagonist Madotsuki to transform into a Yuki-onna.
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175	* ''VisualNovel/EnchantedInTheMoonlight'': Yukinojo is named as a "yukibito," and is basically a male version of a yuki-onna, complete with a translucent white veil over his hair in his ayakashi form. He has power over ice and snow, and even in his human form his hands are always cold.
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179	* ''Website/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.
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