History Main / IcePalace

** ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' has the igloo in Snowman's Land, as well. It's BiggerOnTheInside, and its contents vary depending on the game's version: In the original, it has a maze made of ice walls that can be passed through with the Vanish Cap (the Star is encased within a ice cube that hangs on the ceiling, thus necessitating that powerup for its collection). The DS version adds a large pond of water, as well as Red Coins that reward Mario with a second Star when all of them are gathered; the method of obtaining the first Star varies as well: Luigi has to get it by scooping a Power Flower and use the vanishing ability (as it's now exclusive to him). In both versions, a Bob-Omb Buddy is present, and talking to him will enable the use of a cannon outside.

** In ''VideoGame/DonkeryKongCountryTropicalFreeze'', Lord Fredrik installs one within the core of the volcano located in Donkey Kong Island, and it's from there that he's governing the island after he and the Snowmads take over. When the Kongs arrive, Fredrik makes a large leap to challenge them in battle, but due to his weight and the impact of his jump the ice floor of the throne room breaks, taking them to the red hot bottom where the boss fight starts for real.

** Ice Palace in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', located in a half-frozen lake in the DarkWorld. The slippery ice floor makes traction more difficult.
** Snowhead Temple in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''. Inside the temple are large chunks of ice that can only be defrosted with Fire Arrows (technically with Hot Spring Water as well, but it's impractical to try to use them as they cool over time, losing their effect).
** Snowpeak Ruins in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''. It's not made of ice, but instead is a ruined manor that has frozen over. This one is actually inhabited, by two friendly Yeti--the ice is a non-issue and the monsters just household pests to them.
** Temple of Ice in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass''. It is where the Azurine, one of the Pure Metals needed to forge the Phantom Sword, lies. In addition to slippery floors, it has several pits that can only be avoided with the help of the Grappling Hook.
** Sword and Shield Dungeon in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'', which is actually a HailfirePeaks Palace.
** The Temple of Droplets in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap''--plenty of ice, and the boss is a frozen octorok.
** The Snow Temple in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'', which not only has slippery ice but also dense snowy terrain, where the White Wolfos are better at moving through than Link. Large bells are hit with the Boomerang to open doors.
** The Ice Ruins in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'', located in the eastern side of Lorule's DeathMountain, where Turtle Rock was in ''A Link to the Past'' (and is now where the Ice Palace was in the 1992 game, namely in the lake). The Fire Rod is required to melt the large ice blocks that obstruct Link's progress.
** Stage 3-4 in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTriForceHeroes''.

** The last level of World 4 in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' has not one, but ''two'' tall towers full of ice. The first has to be climbed upward while avoiding the incoming Flurries, while the latter is accessed for the descent and requires some CraniumRide due to the abundance of SpikesOfDoom. There's a third building shortly afterwards, but its only content is the entrance to the world's boss (Fryguy).
** The second Ice Land mini-fortress in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' (in contrast, the other two are warm on the inside). It is made of giant ice blocks, and the frozen floor makes dodging the Thwomps a difficult task.

** The Crystal Palace in ''VideoGame/PaperMario''. It is located atop Shiver Mountain during Chapter 7, and it's there where the then-following boss (the Crystal King) is faced. Goombario repeatedly complains about how cold it is in his Tattles.
%%** Joke's End in ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga Superstar Saga]]''.
* There's a small ice castle within Crystal Caves in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64''. The front entrance leads to a tile swap minigame, while the upper entrance leads to a sliding race.

* The palace from ''VideoGame/EnchantedArms'' where you fight the hot Ice Queen Demonic Golem and yes, that name is pretty much correct.

** Phendrana Drifts in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' houses a Chozo chapel, which includes a Chozo statue that, upon Samus using the Plasma Beam, unveils a passageway leading to one of the Chozo Artifacts.
** In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', [[spoiler:Bryyo's hidden ice area]], where the Screw Attack can be found.

* Icicle Pyramid from ''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing''. Not evil, but it is used as a battle arena rather than a racetrack.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' has the igloo in Snowman's Land, as well. It's BiggerOnTheInside, and has Red Coins that reward Mario with a Power Star when all of them are gathered. The DS remake adds an extra star to this area.

** The second Ice Land mini-fortress in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' (in contrast, the other two are warm on the inside). The frozen floor makes dodging the Thwomps a difficult task.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' has the igloo in Snowman's Land, as well. It's BiggerOnTheInside.
** The Crystal Palace in ''VideoGame/PaperMario''.
** Joke's End in ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga Superstar Saga]]''.

* The notoriously crazy former {{UsefulNotes/Turkmenistan}} President Saparmurat Niyazov had one constructed near the capital (keep in mind that Turkmenistan is a ''desert country'', and not a cold desert either).

* The notoriously crazy former {{UsefulNotes/Turkmenistan}} President Saparmurat Niyazov had one constructed near the capital (keep in mind that Turkmenistan is a ''desert country'', and not a particularly cold one either).

* The notoriously crazy former {{UsefulNotes/Turkmenistan}} President Saparmurat Niyazov had one constructed near the capital (keep in mind that Turkmenistan is a ''desert country'').

* St. Hermelin High School is transformed into one of these in the Snow Queen Quest of ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei: VideoGame/{{Persona}}''.

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* Naturally, Queen Elsa in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' builds an enormous, beautiful Ice Palace during the course of her song "Let It Go". It ends up reflecting her emotions -- growing more frightening the more scared she becomes, with icicles spiking out everywhere and changing to darker colours. [[spoiler:It returns to normal after Marshmallow makes it his home.]] By the end of the movie, [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/5f548e971a9a8cb4ba41e5cfa0f208af/tumblr_pyarokVBJe1sf0d1no1_1280.png she's made the castle in Arendelle]] into a second ice palace, coating a good portion of the castle's roofing in ice, adding a giant snowflake to the tallest spire, and creating snowflake-shaped ice sculptures in the courtyard fountains. While merely an exterior change, it symbolizes Elsa being more at peace with herself, combining the home she made for herself to be free in though it meant she’d have to be alone, and the home she always had and was filled with love for her, though she could not let it in, and had to shut away who she really was.

* Appropriately enough, two different videos of [[Disney/{{Frozen}} "Let It Go"]] were shot at the Midway Ice Castle in Utah, one by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dakd7EIgBE The Piano Guys]] and one by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAJYk1jOhzk Alex Boye.]]

->''The Castle of Bones loomed over her now. It certainly deserved the capital letters, up this close... The pillars at the entrance were hundreds of feet high. Each of the steps leading up was taller than a man. They were the grey-green of old ice. Ice. Not bone. There were faintly familiar shapes to the pillars, possibly a suggestion of femur or skull, but it was made of ice.''

->''The Castle of Bones loomed over her now. It certainly deserved the capital letters, up this close... The pillars at the entrance were hundreds of feet high. Each of the steps leading up was taller than a man. They were the grey-green of old ice.'' Ice. ''Not bone. There were faintly familiar shapes to the pillars, possibly a suggestion of femur or skull, but it was made of ice.''

-->-- ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}''

** In ''Discworld/{{Wintersmith}}'', once the title character has become capable of understanding why it would, it creates an ice palace for it and the Summer Lady to live in.
** The Castle of Bones, home of the title character in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' is not made of bones but of ancient ice, with occasional hints that it was once sculpted to ''look'' like bone. And in the absence of its owner, it quickly collapses.

* Permafrost in both ''VideoGame/EverQuest'' and ''VideoGame/EverQuest2''. Also parts of The Tower of Frozen Shade.

* Naturally, Queen Elsa in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' builds an enormous, beautiful Ice Palace during the course of her song "Let It Go". It ends up reflecting her emotions -- growing more frightening the more scared she becomes, with icicles spiking out everywhere and changing to darker colours. [[spoiler:It returns to normal after Marshmallow makes it his home.]]
** By the end of the movie, [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/5f548e971a9a8cb4ba41e5cfa0f208af/tumblr_pyarokVBJe1sf0d1no1_1280.png she's made the castle in Arendelle]] into a second ice palace, coating a good portion of the castle's roofing in ice, adding a giant snowflake to the tallest spire, and creating snowflake-shaped ice sculptures in the courtyard fountains. While merely an exterior change, it symbolizes Elsa being more at peace with herself, combining the home she made for herself to be free in though it meant she’d have to be alone, and the home she always had and was filled with love for her, though she could not let it in, and had to shut away who she really was.

** By the end of the movie, [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/4/45/Arendelle-Castle-at-the-end-of-Frozen.png/revision/latest?cb=20140111143256 she's made the castle in Arendelle]] into a second ice palace, coating a good portion of the castle's roofing in ice, adding a giant snowflake to the tallest spire, and creating snowflake-shaped ice sculptures in the courtyard fountains. While merely an exterior change, it symbolizes Elsa being more at peace with herself, combining the home she made for herself to be free in though it meant she’d have to be alone, and the home she always had and was filled with love for her, though she could not let it in, and had to shut away who she really was.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has the Icecrown Citadel, shown above. A fortress constructed from metal containing the blood of an [[EldritchAbomination Old God]], built atop and within a titanic glacier. Not a nice place to visit.

* Naturally, Queen Elsa in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' builds an enormous, beautiful Ice Palace during the course of her song "Let It Go". It ends up reflecting her emotions -- growing more frightening the more scared she becomes, with icicles spiking out everywhere and changing to darker colours. [[spoiler:It returns to normal after Marshmallow makes it his home.]] By the end of the movie, she's made the castle in Arendelle into a second ice palace, coating a good portion of the castle's roofing in ice as well as creating ice sculptures in the courtyard. Merely an exterior change, it symbolizes Elsa being more at peace with herself, combining the home she made for herself to be free in though it meant she’d have to be alone, and the home she always had and was filled with love for her, though she could not let it in, and had to shut away who she really was.

* In a rare non-fantasy and non-Sci-Fi example, the villain in the James Bond film ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' has an ice palace in the middle of Iceland. Needless to say, Bond soon trashes the place.

* Naturally, Queen Elsa in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' builds an enormous, beautiful Ice Palace during the course of her song "Let It Go". It ends up reflecting her emotions -- growing more frightening the more scared she becomes, with icicles spiking out everywhere and changing to darker colours. [[spoiler:It returns to normal after Marshmallow makes it his home.]]
** By the end of the movie, she's made the castle in Arendelle into a second ice palace, coating a good portion of the castle's roofing in ice as well as creating ice sculptures in the courtyard. Merely an exterior change, it symbolizes Elsa being more at peace with herself, combining the home she made for herself to be free in though it meant she’d have to be alone, and the home she always had and was filled with love for her, though she could not let it in, and had to shut away who she really was.

* Naturally, Elsa in Disney's ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' builds an enormous, beautiful Ice Palace during the course of her song "Let It Go". It ends up reflecting her emotions -- growing more frightening the more scared she becomes, with icicles spiking out everywhere and changing to darker colours. [[spoiler:It returns to normal after Marshmallow makes it his home.]]

->''The Castle of Bones loomed over her now. It certainly deserved the capital letters, up this close... The pillars at the entrance were hundreds of feet high. Each of the steps leading up was taller than a man. They were the grey-green of old ice. Ice. Not bone. There were faintly familiar shapes to the pillars, possibly a suggestion of femur or skull, but it was made of ice.''

* There exist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hotel hotels]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_palace castles/palaces]] made of ice! Typically inhabited by paid guests, unless an Action Hero happens to be stopping by. An episode of ''Series/DinnerImpossible'' had Chef Robert cooking for one of these ice hotels, forcing him to do his cooking outside lest the heat from the ovens melt the building.

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* In the ''{{Literature/Dragonlance}}'' novel ''Dragons of the Highlord Skies'', and in the corresponding ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' adventure modules, one group of the Heroes of the Lance must retrieve one of the Dragon Orbs from [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Icewall Castle]].

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* Jack Frost's palace from ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo in Slumberland''.
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'''Shego:''' [mocking] 'We'll build a frozen fortress, she'll ''never'' find us there!'

-->--''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}''

->'''Kristoff:''' [''seeing Elsa's ice castle''] Now ''that's'' ice! I might cry.\\
'''Anna:''' Go ahead. I won't judge.
-->-- ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''

->'''Kristoff:''' ''[seeing Elsa's ice castle]'' Now ''that's'' ice! I might cry.\\

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* {{Superman}}'s Fortress of Solitude is, at least in modern comics, an Ice Palace. This largely comes from the Donner films, however; see the example under Films. It is true that the Fortress was located in the arctic since the Silver Age, but it wasn't depicted as being made from ice until the films.

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