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* ''Series/DarkMatter2015'': The Seers' ship keeps people with predictive abilities on board this way.

* [[spoiler: Satella and Fiore]] in the ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' manga both wake up over seventy years after the events of the series after [[spoiler: Satella freezes them both during their battle]]. Many years later, Azumaria's grandson is helping [[spoiler: Satella]] adjust to it all while [[spoiler: Fiore]] [[HoYay rode off with Shader into the sunset on a motorcycle]].
* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': Having been frozen fifty years or so ago is part of [[spoiler:Faye's]] BackStory.
* Used in the 2001 version of ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'' on the first four cyborgs, in order to keep Albert Heinrich/004's attempt to cross the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall intact. While logically all four of them should have suffered considerable culture shock, [[GermanicDepressives Albert]] gets the most specific and frequent comments on how much has changed in forty years. Ivan/001 was an infant before being placed in suspended animation, and was still an infant going out: he wasn't old enough to know what the world was like before he became a cyborg to be able to make such comments after the process.

* ''Anime/{{Daltanious}}'': When Dr. Earl and Prince Harlin arrived from Earth from Helios as refugees, he set his cryo-sleep device to keep them frozen for 50 years, since they landed in Japan during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo. Though Earl awakens in 1995, Harlin has already escaped because the device malfunctioned and is nowhere to be found.
* ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolySecondComing'': Broly, due to his injuries from his defeat against Goku, went into a seven-year coma. Consequentially, the crater from his arrival on Earth became a lake and froze during this time.

* In ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'', after Davey shoves Whitey into a port-a-potty then kicks him down a hill, he comes out covered in feces and Davey sprays him off and he freezes into a block of ice. Davey comments:
-->'''Davey''': Smell you later poopsicle!

-->'''Davey''': See you later poopsicle!

* One episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' has a VictimOfTheWeek who had a monitoring system to alert a cryonics company to collect him for freezing upon his death. This causes several problems for Castle and Beckett when the company in question absconds with the body before the police arrive.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

* In ''VideoGame/FZero Falcon Densetsu'', this was the backstory to Ryu, a policeman from 2051. He was horribly wounded in a car chase trying to apprehend the criminal Zoda, and frozen to save his life. Zoda was eventually apprehended and put in cryosleep to serve his sentence. In 2201, Zoda was broken out of prison by Black Shadow, and Ryu was unthawed to help catch Zoda.

* The Alpine Weta from New Zealand anybody? (Where do you think Weta Digital got their name?) freezes into a block of ice, comes the spring...

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E60TheRipVanWinkleCaper The Rip Van Winkle Caper]]", after stealing $1 million worth of gold bars, Farwell, [=DeCruz=], Brooks and Erbie place themselves in suspended animation for 100 years so they can evade the authorities and spend the gold when they awaken in 2061. Erbie died when a rock broke his suspended animation animation. [[spoiler: As it turns out, it was AllForNothing as a way to manufacture gold was discovered during their long sleep.]]
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E135TheLongMorrow The Long Morrow]]", the astronaut Commander Douglas Stansfield is placed in suspended animation when he is sent on a mission to a solar system 141 lightyears from Earth on December 31, 1987. He removes himself from suspended animation in June 1988 so that he will be the same age as his love Sandra Horn when he returns to Earth in 2027. [[spoiler: When he does eventually come home, he discovers that Sandra had herself placed in suspended animation shortly after he left. As such, he is now 71 and she is still 26.]]

** "Quarantine" concerns Matthew Foreman, who was frozen in 2023 and revived into a seemingly idyllic but stagnant future in 2347. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed to be... not so stagnant...]]
** In "Stranger in Possum Meadows", Danny Wilkins is placed in cryostasis aboard Scout's ship as [[TheCollector the human specimen]] in Scout's study of Earth. However, he is frozen for at most several hours before Scout begins to feel guilty and returns him to his mother.

* "Bronzing" in ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' is functionally equivalent, except the victim remains conscious.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'' has the [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Abominable Snowbug]] boss, first seen trapped in a large block of ice (presumably frozen during the ice age). He breaks out as soon as Bug walks a few steps.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' makes extensive use of cryostasis pods to preserve people, both for space travel and to save the critically wounded. Spartan Linda-028 was preserved in stasis after sustaining a fatal wound in ''The Fall of Reach'' until she was revived in ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike''; the Master Chief awakens from cryo at the start of ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'', and enters cryo at the end of ''VideoGame/Halo3'' while awaiting rescue in the severed ''Forward Unto Dawn''.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' makes extensive use of cryostasis pods to preserve people, both for space travel and to save the critically wounded. Spartan Linda-028 was preserved in stasis after sustaining a fatal wound until she was revived in ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'', while ''VideoGame/Halo4'' saw the Master Chief entering stasis at the end of the game while awaiting rescue from the severed ''Forward Unto Dawn''.

** The four prison/colony ships carrying the Terran colonizers for the Koprulu Sector held them in cryo until landing. It's implied that the UED fleet that follows in Brood War used the same tech.

** ''VideoGame/StarcraftIILegacyOfTheVoid'' has the ''Spear of Adun'' arkship carrying entire armies of Protoss in stasis.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': In the prologue, the Tenno is rudely awakened from a cryopod by invading Grineer. Their long sleep [[AmnesiacHero robbed them of their memories]], but they can still fight. Cryopods are also the standard target in Defense missions, though some have something different.

* In the ''Videogame/HalfLife'' series, [[spoiler:stasis used as a plot device when long passage of time is needed, as the game follows the philosophy that everything the main character experiences must also be experienced by the player, and it wouldn't be too popular with either gamers or programmers if they had to go through several years of mundane experiences. So far, stasis has been used three times throughout the series: Once in the twenty-or-so years between ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' and ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', once to depict the passage of a week in the middle of ''Half-Life 2'', and a much shorter stay of less than a day between ''Half-Life 2'' and Episode One.]] The "week" example was half stasis, half TimeTravel

** The four prison/colony ships carrying the Terrans held them in cryo until landing. It's implied that the UED fleet that follows in Brood Wars used the same tech.
** Many SciFi-Games tend to use the more advanced and less explained variant called Stasis. In ''Starcraft'' for example it is used as a prison and offensive/defensive technique. Interestingly enough: ships in a stasis field are still able to float.

-->'''Arsenal:''' So, let me get this straight. While I was on ice you found [[CloningBlues another Roy Harper]], the side-kicks formed their own team, aliens invaded the Earth, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Ollie grew that dopey goatee]]?

Often overlaps with Really700YearsOld, but the people from this trope rarely experience the time in-between freezing and thawing.

** The episode "SB-129" has Squidward being locked in the Krusty Krab freezer and not let out for 2000 years; he ended up in a parody of the [[ShinyLookingSpaceships Shiny Future]] (literally ''everything'' was chrome) filled with [=SpongeBob=] clones, and ended up in a fetal position screaming "Future!" Lucky for him, by this point in time people have perfected time travel, and Future-[=SpongeBob=] directs him to a time machine that will take him back to his own time -- but not before accidentally leading him into the ''can opener.''
** In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III", while looking after the Mermalair, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick find Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's enemy Man Ray preserved in frozen tartar sauce until Patrick frees him because [=SpongeBob=] [[ExactWords said he had so many questions to ask him]].
** Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy themselves appear cryogenically preserved in the retirement home in "Man Ray Returns".

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** "Irrational Treasure" has Quentin Trembley, the 8 1/2 President of the United States who tried to preserve himself in peanut brittle for 150 years. [[TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight And it worked, too]].
** That same episode had a FreezeFrameBonus stating that a "gigantic, time-devouring baby from another dimension" was frozen in a glacier in Antarctica. [[BlatantLies Then it stated that glaciers never melt]], [[TemptingFate so there was nothing to worry about]]. The very next episode, "The Time Traveler's Pig", showed that global warming had freed Time Baby, who then proceeded to ''[[BadFuture take over the universe]]''. Rather than being horrific, the revelation is PlayedForLaughs, since the event doesn't happen for at least several centuries, and thus has no effect on the main characters.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/MightyMouse Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures]]'': "The Ice Goose Cometh" has old WsternAnimation/{{Terrytoons}} character Gandy Goose thawing from a glacier and suffering future shock. [[HereWeGoAgain At the end]], the same thing happens with fellow Terrytoon star Deputy Dawg.

* ''ComicBook/TheFrankensteinMonster'': The Monster is twice found encased in ice, first in 1898 and then 1970s which leads to his introduction to the modern times.

** ''VideoGame/Fallout2RestorationProject'': The EPA facility has three people on ice, as well as enough of a special compound to revive ''one'' of them and recruit. (The other two can be revived as well, but will die quickly without the extra care.)

** [[spoiler: It's eventually mostly subverted: this was the story the people in New Los Angeles were ''led'' to believe. In truth, the humans' consciousnesses and memories were [[BrainUploading uploaded to a huge database inside the Core]]. The humans' original bodies were destroyed alongside Earth, and the Core only houses the aforementioned database, as well as protoplasm and DNA banks to recreate new flesh-and-blood bodies for the humans to go back to after Mira is made safe. Only ''one'' body was actually frozen like they told the people in New LA: Elma's real body.]]

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* ''VisualNovel/{{Ever17}}'' does this, involving an extremely elaborate plan to give the game a happy ending. [[spoiler:The main character ends up waking up from cryonic storage to find he has two teenage children almost as old as him, the result of a brief fling he had just before he got frozen. He takes this surprisingly well considering (they are very cute kids). He's also in denial.]]
* In ''VisualNovel/InvisibleApartment'', the Sleepers aren't technically ''frozen'' (it's some kind of [[PeopleJars liquid suspension]]), but it plays out much the same anyway, with people being put into stasis if their illness can't currently be treated but might be treatable in the future. However, it's revealed that the old ruling families are secretly using the same facilities as a kind of CryoPrison for people they'd rather be rid of. (One such person, though, actually got sent there on purpose, after getting a chip implanted that would allow enough consciousness to connect to a computer network. Since she's supposedly in a coma, nobody suspects her of being the mystery hacker.)
* In ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'', this happens to [[spoiler:Clover, Alice, and Phi, who were put into cryonic stasis for 45 years so that they could participate in the third Nonary Game in 2074]]. This also happens to [[spoiler:the real K in Phi's ending -- since Sigma and Phi were able to go back into the past and save Akane, she put K into a stasis pod so that she could use his armor to play the Nonary Game while pretending to be him]].
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* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': Project Iceman... a.k.a. [[IncomingHam "I AM MEGATRON!"]]