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7	Let's admit it: snowflakes are beautiful. They look like very intricate six-branched stars made of ice. The problem is that they are tiny teensy things that can hardly be distinguished with the naked eye, and they often fall in aggregates.
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9	In some fictions, though, snowflakes are ''much'' bigger, allowing the viewers to see them individually even from far away, in their full six-points glory. Some works also features them as characters or enemies, typically in SlippySlideyIceWorld settings.
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11	Interestingly, some works take liberties with the number of points each snowflake possesses (see the top image, where they have ''eight''), despite snowflakes that don't follow sixfold symmetry being incredibly uncommon. One would also be hard pressed to find a fictional snowflake that doesn't have a starry pattern, despite the fact that snowflakes can take pretty much any form -- as long as it ''does'' follow sixfold symmetry. Some examples can be seen [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Snowflakeschapte00warriala-p11-p21-p29-p39.jpg here]].
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13	Unrelated to SpecialSnowflakeSyndrome and CastOfSnowflakes.
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17	!!Examples
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19	[[AC:VideoGames]]
20	* Once you build a Snowmam in ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Animal Crossing: New Leaf]]'', she will ask you to gather oversized snowflakes with a bug net and bring them to her, as she collects them. They emit a glistening sound when coming near them and hover aimlessly above the ground.
21	* An easily missed example from ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'': when someone is frozen in a block of ice, several Sizable Snowflakes will be emitted from the ice.
22	* The second level in ''VideoGame/BigFunInFurbyland'''s minigame ''In the Cloud'' is snow-themed, and static snowflakes are the only thing decorating the background. They seem rather far away and yet they are nearly as big as the Furby!
23	* In ''[[VideoGame/DontStarve Dont Starve Together]]'', the Crab King has an attack that considerably decreases the temperature around it, emitting many sizable snowflakes around it.
24	* Humongous, beautiful snowflakes appear are hazards in the ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'' level "Forest Folly". Touching them will hurt the Kongs. And then at the end of the level, even ''bigger'' snowflakes drop from the sky, and these even destroy the platforms.
25	* Huge snowflakes are emitted when [[AnIcePerson Felicia]] throws daggers at enemies in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', to emphasize her powers over ice.
26	* The snow falling in the [[SlippySlideyIceWorld icy world]] in ''VideoGame/IgglePop'' consists of big, detailed snowflakes.
27	* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'':
28	** Such snowflakes appear all around [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Snow Land]] in ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'', although they mostly are part of the platform and background settings instead of fallen like, well, snow. Taken to ridiculous extremes in the "Frosty Wheel" level, where the titular ferris wheels are positively humoungous snowflakes approximatively six times as big as Kirby.
29	** Big snowflakes approximatively half the size of a little Kirby fall in the wintry levels from ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack''.
30	** [[AnIcePerson Francisca]], the Frozen General in ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'', is surrounded by a faint aura which constantly emits giant snowflakes. She also wields a huge staff adorned with one.
31	* Big, sparkly snowflakes appear hovering over the frozen room in which Blizzeta is fought in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''.
32	* King Ping, the giant penguin boss of Chillydip Cove in ''VideoGame/TheLegendaryStarfy'', has an attack where he sends positively humongous snowflakes at Starfy. To put in perspective, these snowflakes are four times bigger than Starfy himself.
33	* Sentient cyclopean snowflakes named Crystals appear as enemies in ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'', along with their purple variant. They also drop the Iceberg Salad grub, which is decorated with an enormous snowflake as well. Snow in the [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Powdered Peaks]] can also take the form of individual snowflakes.
34	* In ''VideoGame/{{Octogeddon}}'', the Penguin tentacle shoots gigantic snowflakes which freeze enemies, slowing them down.
35	* In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', when Amaterasu is running around in the frozen Kamui, she leaves behind a flurry of big fancy snowflakes instead of the flowers she spawns the rest of the time.
36	* Such snowflakes fall over the arctic locations in ''VideoGame/PizzaFrenzy''.
37	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
38	** The Pokemon Cryogonal, which debuts in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' is a giant snowflake with an aggressive-looking face. It is, as one could expect, a pure Ice type.
39	** In ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity'', [[spoiler:the main antagonist is a giant icy formation that looks like an enormous snowflake named the Bittercold. It is a dreadful EldritchAbomination that is the embodiment of all the negative emotions of Pokemon and tries to destroy the world.]]
40	* The ''WesternAnimation/SantaClausIsCominToTown'' video game features giant snowflakes as collectables, with the gold ones as power ups.
41	* In ''VideoGame/SpongebobSquarepantsBattleForBikiniBottom'', the Villain Containment System containing Prawn in the Mermalair, which freeze the villains solid to trap them, constantly sheds big starry snowflakes. Even when Prawn is de-iced, snowflakes continue to fall.
42	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series:
43	** Such snowflakes fall gently upon Shiver Snowfield in ''VideoGame/PaperMario64''.
44	** Giant detailed snowflakes fall in the foreground in the region of Fahr Outpost in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''. Although the ones falling further are merely seen as dots.
45	** Similarly in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar'', the snow falling in World 4 consists of big starry snowflakes.
46	** In ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', enormous snowflakes appear during Bonechill's boss battle anytime he uses an ice attack.
47	** In the [=3DS=] remake of ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'', starry snowflakes are seen hovering in the air in the frozen Joke's End.
48	** In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'', such snowflakes are seen in the background when Fawful transforms Midbus into [[AnIcePerson Blizzard Midbus]].
49	** Big six-branched snowflakes occasionally fall in the foreground in Mount Brrr in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPaperJam''.
50	** An occasional Sizable Snowflake falls amongst the snowfall in the ''Super Mario 3D World''-themed snow levels in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker2''.
51	* The Winter Interior in ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'' looks like a frozen tundra with every possible arctic cliché, with giant snowflakes gently falling down.
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54	* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner:'' Whenever it snows in Decemberween cartoon, the flakes in the foreground are big--large enough to see they look like construction paper cutouts.
55	* ''WebAnimation/BamanPiderman:'' In the Happy Winter Friends episode, the snowflakes are larger than any of the characters.
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57	[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
58	* The snowflakes falling in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'''s ChristmasEpisode all are Sizable Snowflakes.
59	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom Sonic Rainboom]]", when the main characters are taking a tour of the Cloudsdale weather factory ([[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows where the weather is produced]]), one station features pegasi hoof-carving snowflakes the size of small dishes. This is notably inconsistent with the rest of the series, where snow is depicted as the uniform white mass it looks like in real life, with none of the plate-sized snowflakes the weather factory apparently manufactures visible anywhere.
60	* The snowflakes seen in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' are as big as Luz's palm. [[spoiler:Given the circumstances behind their appearance, it's entirely possible that [[GeniusLoci the island itself]] deliberately made them that large to teach her the Ice Glyph.]]
61	* During Poppy's travel montage in ''{{WesternAnimation/Trolls}}'', she passes through a frozen landscape where giant, black and glittery snowflakes are falling behind her. While trolls are depicted as equivalent to the size of the real life toys, this is still quite exaggerated.

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