History Main / KillItWithIce

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': While not necessarily killed by the ice, in the live-action movie Megatron was frozen for decades after crashing into the North Pole. He was kept frozen while hidden in the Hoover Dam. When [[spoiler:Bumblebee]] was captured, they kept him immobilized with blasts of carbon dioxide.

** Rukia possesses an ice/snow type zanpakutou that lowers the temperature of her own body. Anything that comes into contact with her body or sword is immediately reduced to the same temperature, transforming to ice. She is capable of reaching Absolute Zero and bringing her enemies down to that temperature as well. Her special techniques [[spoiler:and especially her Bankai]] serve to increase the power's range, allowing her to "touch" and thereby freeze enemies without having to get close enough to make physical contact.

* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', Goku manages to beat a rubbery monster named Buyon by causing the cold air outside to freeze him, and he broke him afterwards.
* The most powerful Ice Magic in ''Manga/FairyTail'', Iced Shell, can trap its target in an (mostly) unbreakable block of ice that will eventually kill it since freezing is not [[HarmlessFreezing harmless]]. The downside is that the caster's own body ''becomes'' the ice. Silver, the Ice [[DemonSlaying Devil Slayer]] and one of the Nine Gates of Tartaros, wields an extremely powerful form of Ice magic that is especially effective against [[spoiler:his fellow]] demons. [[spoiler:And when Gray, his son, gets that very same magic, he shows off said effectiveness by [[CurbStompBattle curbstomping]] a demon that gave Natsu a hard time and taking down the DragonInChief of Tartaros]].

* As a ''yuki-onna'', Yukime from ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'' can use her powers to do this. In fact she attempts to do that to Nube in her first intervention -- but then she commits the mistake of [[WouldhurtAChild targetting his students]] when they tried to stop her, making Nube go BadassTeacher on her. She sees the error of her ways and releases them. [[spoiler:For massive and cruel irony, ''Yukime'' ends up in the receiving end thanks to Ippon Datana. When she refuses to follow his orders, he freezes her in place and ''stabs her all over with icicles'', which finally kills her. (She's BackFromTheDead later, but not before ''again'' trying to kill Nube with ice only to be stopped with ThePowerofLove.)]]
* In ''Manga/HoshinEngi'', [[DiscOneFinalBoss Chou Komei]] unleashes his OneWingedAngel form: a colossal, ever-expanding lily flower. While the heroes try to [[KillItWithFire burn him]], he counters by pointing out that he can spread his seeds and regenerate at a faster rate, so [[TheSmartGuy Taikoubou]] decides to take advantage of his LogicalWeakness as a plant and blasts him with a hurricane of icy air from the mesosphere, freezing Chou Komei to death. Later, one of the Juttenkun tries to kill Taikoubou, Supuu and Fugen with his ice-manipulating Paopei, to no avail.

** The appropriately named Ghiaccio (GratuitousItalian for "ice") has the Stand White Album, which takes form of a bodysuit with ice skates and allows Ghiaccio to rapidly lower the temperatute of the air around him. HarmlessFreezing is very much ''not'' in effect. When pushed into a corner, he reveals a sub ability, White Album Gently Weeps, which according to him, lowers the temperature of the air around him to near-absolute zero temperatures, creating ice crystals that float in the air around him and are able to deflect bullets.

** Evangeline A.K. [=McDowell=], when she can actually use her magic, specializes in dark and ice spells. Her most powerful spell shown, Kosmike Katastrophe (translates roughly as ''End of the World''), freezes a massive demon, then shatters it with a snap of her fingers. The spell breaks the second law of thermodynamics to freeze a 150 square foot area in absolute zero temperatures. She also has a smaller-scale ice spell that's supposed to freeze the target for a few years, but Asuna manages to break out of it quickly enough due to her magic nullification ability.
** Evangeline's latest spell, Endless White Nine Heavens, is an original ice-lightning spell made specifically to combat constructs, and locks-on to an enemy and continually freezes them and their surroundings solid while leaving them conscious, so they can [[ColdBloodedTorture suffer for all eternity.]]

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': A common tactic for defeating the Lizard involves luring him into a freezing area such as a fridge car. Being coldblooded, he will slow down and eventually lose consciousness.

* "Literature/TheFrostTheSunAndTheWind": The Frost threatens to turn the traveler into an ice block in retaliation for his slight, but the Wind points out the Frost cannot freeze anybody if he doesn't blow.
* In "Literature/{{Morozko}}", Father Frost freezes the old woman's daughter to death when she makes the mistake to insult him repeatedly.

* Mister Big in ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' uses a pool of ice water to execute those that have displeased him; either they die of hypothermia and exposure, or they drown. He never kills anyone onscreen, but almost "iced" Nick and Judy when they were caught breaking into his property.

** ''Film/Alien3'': Ripley and the others lure the alien into a lead smelting plant, first super-heating it (with lead) then suddenly cooling it with water sprays. This causes the creature to shatter like glass would under such conditions (but unfortunately not lead).

* ''Film/TheDevilsMessenger'': In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom knocks Dr. Olsen [[DeathByFallingOver to floor and possibly kills him]] during an argument in the cold room. He then makes sure of the job by open a pipe and dousing Olsen in freezing liquid.

* ''Literature/FengshenYanyi'' (''The Investiture of the Gods''), at one point wise Duke Ji Chang is ask to divine the future of King Zhou's duo of corrupted chancellors and, much to his own surprise, predict that they'll perish in ice, a notion which they both mock as no one in the empire has ever suffered such a death. It proves real several years later (InUniverse), where they both freeze to death when Jiang Ziya summons a heavenly blizzard to trap the invading army in ice and snow. Much later in the story, one of the Ten Heavenly Kings showcases the Frozen Ice Formation, a magic trap which uses ice to freeze whoever enters the area and then smash them to a pulp using giant masses of ice as cudgels.

** Leonard Snart/Captain Cold wields the [[FreezeRay Cold Gun]]. Much like his comics counterpart it can fire blasts of absolute zero.
** [[AnIcePerson Killer Frost]], introduced in Season 2 as the [[AlternateSelf Earth-2]] counterpart of Caitlin Snow, is a metahuman with the power to freeze things. Later in Season 3, due to a CosmicRetcon, the main Caitlin Snow also turns into Killer Frost and gains ice based powers, explained by her absorbing the heat of whatever she is targeting.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E23Displaced Displaced]]", when Voyager's crew is trapped in a prison with different environments for different species, Tom and B'Elanna dispose of two Nyrian mooks (from a very warm planet) by luring them into a subzero habitat. Later Captain Janeway beams the rest of the Nyrians there, and threatens to keep them there until her ship is returned.

** [[VigilanteMan Expatriette]] can load Liquid Nitrogen Rounds in any of her [[WalkingArmory many]] guns. Guns loaded with such rounds deal Cold damage instead of Projectile damage, and inflict a damage debuff to any enemy hit by said rounds.

* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': A series of {{flashback}}s show that Kokoro's mother Mitsuki and her family were all killed in a breach by a monster that used dangerously low temperatures as its mode of attack. Mitsuki's father was fully encased in ice and frozen solid; her mother was frozen from the waste down and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled through the chest]] with a chunk of ice; and Mitsuki herself was partially frozen and suffered fatal [[MindRape contact wounds]] while staying behind [[HeroicSacrifice to protect the infant Kokoro]]. Mitsuki's childhood friend Mingxing was the first to respond to the breach, and in the fight that ensued, [[AnArmAndALeg her right arm was frozen and broken clean off]] before she managed to take the monster down.
* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': The demon Lazuli uses ice magic to summon sharp, pointy icicles. They are very fatal, and rather messy.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', a bonus pop up noted Katara only covers the face of firebenders when she freezes people. This is presumably because others can't survive.

** Partial subversion; many historians now say that winter is not the worst time to campaign in the arctic. Indeed apparently the Finns were praying for spring to bring them lots of good old fashioned ''mud''.

* In many types of extermination in the real world, cold temperatures, or freezing, is used to kill pests. It can be ineffective, or take a long time. KillItWithFire, and cold temperatures, are used to kill bed bugs and other pests in some cases, other than poison, in which the house's temperature is lowered, or raised, substantially. This can take multiple attempts, such as the process being done every other day or so for a year. And if the problem persists, once again, another year. Putting anything that can't be treated with heat in the freezer is a tried and true method of getting rid of the leftovers of a head lice infestation too.

* Inverted [[note]]without becoming KillItWithFire or KillItWithWater[[/note]] with snow scorpionflies (also known as snow fleas), [[MeaningfulName insects specifically adapted to live in winter conditions]]... to the point that holding one in your hand will instantly kill it from the tiny increase in warmth. They eat mosses and bacteria adapted to live in the same low-temperature environments, and pupate during ''warm'' weather instead of over the fall and winter.

[[caption-width-right:349:[[JustForPun A chilling display of his cold heart.]]]]

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** Downplayed in ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'' story arc ''ComicBook/TheAttackOfTheAnnihilator'': the titular villain is defeated and depowered when he is encased in solid ice by ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s freezing breath.

* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': One ''JLA'' issue showed freezing as one of the few effective ways of hurting ComicBook/PlasticMan. Since he is apparently immortal, actually killing him is out of the question.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheUntoldStoryOfArgoCity'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} stops an alien invasion by freezing their liquid bodies solid.
* In a graphic ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' novel by Creator/WilliamGibson (his unused script for the third ''Alien'' movie), a character realises that he's been infected by the zenomorph pathogen and is able to [[LockedInAFreezer get to a freezer and lock himself inside]]. They find his frozen corpse later, morphed [[HumanoidAbomination halfway into an alien form]].

* In ''Manga/SoulHunter'', [[DiscOneFinalBoss Chou Komei]] unleashes his OneWingedAngel form: a colossal, ever-expanding lily flower. While the heroes try to [[KillItWithFire burn him]], he counters by pointing out that he can spread his seeds and regenerate at a faster rate, so [[TheSmartGuy Taikoubou]] decides to take advantage of his LogicalWeakness as a plant and blasts him with a hurricane of icy air from the mesosphere, freezing Chou Komei to death. Later, one of the Juttenkun tries to kill Taikoubou, Supuu and Fugen with his ice-manipulating Paopei, to no avail.

* ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}'': A vat of liquid nitrogen is how [[spoiler:Boris Grishenko]] meets his end. So much for being [[CatchPhrase invincible]].

** This was the weakness of the Morbuzakh, [[WhenTreesAttack sentient vines with dreams of city-wide conquest]], that were [[StarterVillain the first major threat]] faced by the Toa in the Metru Nui Saga. Its strengths and weaknesses are based on temperature, dwelling in the city's Great Furnace to be strengthened by the heat and to protect itself from the cold. Later on, the Toa met the Karzahni, sentient moss-tree and the FlawedPrototype of the Morbuzakh that they figured had the same weakness...[[AvertedTrope only for it to laugh and casually shatter the ice covering]]. As it turns out, the Karzahni was also the SuperPrototype that completely lacked the temperature issues. [[BigBad Makuta]] added that weakness to the Morbuzakh to make it more controllable than its [[OmnicidalManiac city-wide destroyer]] "brother".

* ''Film/{{Sinister}} 2'': The family in the "Christmas Morning" reel are bound and gagged, then are buried up to their necks in snow to die of hypothermia. With one last [[IncrediblyLamePun chilling shot]] of the mother who looks at the camera and breathes out her last before it ends.

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'':

* One demon in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "Expecting" is taken down with liquid nitrogen.

* ''Series/TheFlash2014''.

* ''Series/StargateSG1'' has an episode in its 8th season where Anubis, a half EnergyBeing, is possessing people. He can't be killed but can't act without possessing a body. What choice is left for the SGC? "Let him escape", but redirect the stargate to an ice planet and freeze the body he's currently possessing. Unfortunately, he does later manage to get off that planet somehow and start taking new hosts.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In the pilot episode, Q immobilized a {{redshirt}} by freezing him after he drew a phaser; he doesn't die, but it's implied he might have without immediate medical attention. Also, Security Chief/first season regular Tasha Yar, but Q agrees to restore her when Picard protests.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' ("Displaced"): When Voyager's crew is trapped in a prison with different environments for different species, Tom and B'Elanna dispose of two Nyrian mooks (from a very warm planet) by luring them into a subzero habitat. Later Captain Janeway beams the rest of the Nyrians there, and threatens to keep them there until her ship is returned.
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': Mirror!Phlox tortures a Tholian by reducing the temperature in its cell. When it drops low enough, the poor Tholian [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatters]]. Unusual in that Tholians normally live in a superheated environment, and the cell was still well above normal for most folks.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In "Roland", it's revealed that the alien virus can be rendered harmless by lowering the temperature of its environment.

* In ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'', Scooby takes down the Tar Monster by freezing him with... a fire extinguisher... then propelling the cannister to smash it to pieces.