Snow Miser

Snow Miser is a character from the Rankin/Bass-produced 1974 stop-motion animated Christmas special The Year Without a Santa Claus. Snow Miser was voiced by actor/comedian Dick Shawn.

In the special, Snow Miser controlled cold weather all over the Earth; his nemesis is his half-brother, Heat Miser. Mother Nature herself is their mother.

Snow Miser is a Jack Frost-like being, with an icicle cane and the ability to freeze objects at will. As he sings in his "The Snow Miser Song" ("whatever I touch turns to snow in my clutch"), he freezes objects with a touch or causes them to burst into snowflakes (he can also restore the objects he has transformed into snowflakes). He can also project cold from his hands or mouth to form objects of solid ice. As suggested by his name, he prefers cold weather ("I never want to know a day that's over 40 degrees-I'd rather have it 30, 20, 10, 5 and let it freeze!"). Snow Miser lives in an ice castle and is attended to by miniature clones of himself called the Mini Misers. He defends his domain fiercely, but unlike his half-brother Heat Miser, he is gregarious and generally friendly.