History Main / HumanPopsicle

* In ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'', the Chron-O-Johns are incapable of transporting organic matter, which means that a ''hamster'' from the present day gets the popsicle treatment to be used in the future. Restoring the hamster requires nothing more than a microwave and a sweater that's been forced to take TheSlowPath by spending two hundred years in a tumble dryer. Although the microwave is of (presumably) more advanced tentacle manufacture and may operate differently. Laverne even lampshades this, pointing out that under normal circumstances, putting a hamster in the microwave leads to horrible consequences, and children who do that are taken away. Her monologue is also a reference to the game's predecessor, ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion'', where putting a hamster in the microwave causes it to explode. No cryonics involved in that game, though.

* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': The season 1 finale ends with all the clones being frozen in the school's freezer, which ended up being the perfect setup for what would be a 20 year gap between seasons - the season 1 finale aired in 2003, and the story was not continued until [[{{Revival}} the season 2 premiere in 2023]]. Because of the ending of season 1 though, this allowed the writers to keep the show in the current year while still not having to age the main cast up (aside from Principal Scudworth), by simply saying that the clones had been frozen for 20 years.

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* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends '' has Cro-Marmot who, despite being encased in a block of ice, is still capable of movement and interaction with others.
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* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends '' has Cro Marmot, who is pretty much just a LivingProp in the series.
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* Gets a reference in Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000. After Mike and his robots return to Earth after 500 years, they find that Pearl, the mother of their old adversary Dr. Forrester is still around thanks to “some very fancy cryogenics”.

* Franchise/{{DCAU}}:

The billionaire {{Tech Bro}}'s TimeTravel: be put into a high-tech cryonic pod after death and wake up in the distant future. Unfortunately, this time travel is [[TheSlowPath one-way]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} unless time is cyclical]].

In science fiction, cryonics is often either used for something that makes little practical sense or forgotten entirely when it could potentially save the life of a person killed in an accident. An example of the former is using cryonic freezing for [[CryoPrison incarcerated criminals]]. The various rationales that justify it range from relative safety and cheapness compared to feeding, housing, and guarding prisoners at the taxpayers' expense to being an alternative to the death penalty. However, it undermines the punishment aspect of incarceration. Being able to sleep through your long sentence and not have to endure the daily ugly aspects of prison life is not much of a deterrent to criminal behavior. And since one does not age in cryonic prison, life sentences are pointless and the prisoner has served time without having lost a significant portion of his lifespan. He may even outlive his original jailers or former victims. Today, prison sentences of over a hundred years are given only to ensure that the felon will never be eligible for parole in his lifetime. With cryonics, this prisoner will effectively be awakened in an era that he would not have lived to see otherwise. In many stories that heavily rely on the death of RedShirt characters to amplify drama and suspense, it never occurs to anyone to place these dead minor characters into cryonic suspension so that their lives may be saved later. And this is almost always in future worlds that should have cryonic suspension and the medical knowledge to reverse clinical death in cases of injuries or accidents.

The millionaire {{Tech Bro}}'s TimeTravel: get into a cryptic pod after death and wake up in the distant future. Unfortunately, this time travel is [[TheSlowPath one-way]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} unless time is cyclical]].

The millionaire {{Tech Bro}}'s TimeTrave: get into a cryptic pod after death and wake up in the distant future. Unfortunately, this time travel is [[TheSlowPath one-way]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} unless time is cyclical]].

The poor man's TimeTravel -- unfortunately, it's [[TheSlowPath one-way]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} unless time is cyclical]].

* In ''Film/{{Sexmission}}'' Two scientists, after a botched cryo experiment, find themselves in a StrawFeminist society (a global war wiped out most males). Naturally malcontent with their new role, they decide to [[IncrediblyLamePun fuck the system.]]

* ''Film/Interstellar''. When Dr. Mann is woken from his cryo-pod, he says he never set a wakeup date as he'd either be rescued or he'd be marooned on the planet forever, [[GoMadFromTheIsolation so it would be best never to wake up.]]

* ''Series/{{Wiseguy}}''. Mark Volchek runs the town of Lynchboro, Seattle as a personal fiefdom. The OCB is sent in to investigate him, only to find that his big plan is merely to build a cryonic storage hospital for the entire town in order to sate his own phobia of death.

* ''Series/DarkMatter'': The Seers' ship keeps people with predictive abilities on board this way.

* One of the immortals of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' spent around 250 years, from the early 1700s to sometime during the Cold War, trapped in a crevasse in the Arctic Circle.

* Academy City in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has perfected this technology, but not for the usual reasons. Their combat aircraft are capable of such incredible maneuverability that the G-forces involved would kill a human pilot, so pilots are frozen, put on life support, and control the aircraft with their minds.

* In ''LightNovel/SorcererStabberOrphen'', [[spoiler: [[GrandTheftMe Azalie-in-Childman's body]] does this to [[{{seers}} Lai]] when [[HeKnowsTooMuch he finds out the truth about her]]. He's released towards the end of the series.]]

** An episode also involved a ship sent from Earth shortly before FirstContact (and use of FTL) with a married couple in stasis chambers. Unfortunately, only the woman survives. Her husband is dead, but not due to a malfunction. Actually, [[spoiler:he is "eaten" by an EldritchAbomination that hitched a ride on the ship]].
* The boxing's ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. The consciousness of a particular humanoid Cylon is to download from his or her body into cold storage ''[[NightmareFuel indefinitely]]''.

* In ''Series/{{Cleopatra 2525}}'', the main character is a stripper put in suspended animation for 500 years after a failed boob job (yes, really). And in the final CliffHanger episode, it was revealed that [[spoiler:so was the BigBad. Well, minus the boob job. It wouldn't look good on him.]]

* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
** ''[[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed Space Seed]]'' gives us Khan and his followers, found in their cryo-sleep pods aboard the ''Botany Bay''.

* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': [[GirlInABox When we first meet River]], she appears to have been preserved in this way. However, that was for medical purposes, and she was presumably only frozen for a short period of time. Also, the Alliance was looking for a brother and a sister together, not one man with a crate.

* ''Film/FierceCreatures'': The new zoo owner; Rod McCane, has made plans to have himself frozen and wait for a cure if anything happens to him, both to ensure his immortality and to spite his son, Vince (since Rod would be legally alive, Vince wouldn't be able to inherit his money). [[spoiler: When Rod gets shot in the head near the end, Vince panics and tries to pack his body in ice, until Rollo points out there's no cure for fatal headshots.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', the police officer from the jewelry store is frozen by Frozone so that he and Mr. Incredible can escape the building after being surrounded by police. Of course, he did tell [[AnIcePerson Frozone]] to "[[ExactWords freeze]]."

** ''[[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed Space Seed]]'' gives us Kahn and his followers, found in their cryo-sleep pods aboard the ''Botany Bay.''

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->''"You can freeze\\

Like a 30th century man"''

* ''Videogame/AlienLegacy'' starts with the seedship UNS ''Calypso'' arriving to the Beta Caeli system after traveling for many thousands of years (according to some calculations). The crew has been on ice this whole time. You start with only a small portion of the colonists with the remaining ones still frozen due to a lack of livable space and resources. As you build up your planetside colonies and ship colonists from the ''Calypso'', more are awoken. A random event may happen that will kill the still-frozen colonists due to a malfunction if you're too slow in waking them up. Imagine the colonists' surprise when they found out that another seedship (launched 16 years later) beat them to the punch by 21 years thanks to advances in fusion.