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* [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Hulk]], [[Comicbook/GhostRider Blackheart]],[[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Sentinel]] [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Colossus]], [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Juggernaut]], [[MegamanLegends Tron Bonne]], {{Thor}}, [[FinalFight Haggar]], and [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis Nemesis]] in the MarvelvsCapcom series

** Princess Peach in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' also qualifies. She can lift things up more slowly than the other player characters. What a strong woman. How talented.

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* The Frost Atronach in VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim is a very literal example, being a huge ice golem. It lacks ranged attacks like its lightning and fire counterparts, but if it ''does'' hit you, it deals frost damage that slows ''you'' down and hinders strong melee attacks.

Should not be confused with the pro wrestler Wrestling/{{Glacier}}, who, despite this name, is not this trope.

* Smasher [[http://www.mobygames.com/images/i/15/12/166762.jpeg (far right)]] from ''Fighting Force'' is this, contrasted with the three other playable characters: FragileSpeedster Alana and JacksOfAllStats Hawk and Mace. Smasher's unique ability is to pick up enemies/heavy objects and use them as weapons.

* Subverted in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', where Sloth can ironically travel at high speeds despite his oversize muscled form. The catch is he cant control himself, and most of the time stops by slamming into something.

* Zangief, T. Hawk, Birdie, Alex, Hugo, Q, and Urien from the ''StreetFighter'' series. With the exception of Hawk, Q and Urien, most of glaciers in ''StreetFighter'' are wrestlers or feature wrestling-esque moves in their moveset. Subverted with oil wrestler Hakan (he's a low-level LightningBruiser [[note]]In other words, Hakan is not extremely fast, but not too slow to be a full-on glacier[[/note]]). Alex is a unique glacier in that while he moves rather slow, some of his attacks launch and/or hit ''very fast'', like the Stun Gun Headbutt.

** As well as the giga beast from ''PhantomBrave'', and one of the slime-types. Mimic I believe. They have extraordinarily high defense and moderate attack, but half of their moves work off their defensive stat anyway. Mimics are literal Mighty Glaciers. Golems less so, having on average bad magical defense.

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* Epic Creatures in ''{{Spore}}'', particularly in the Creature phase. They have at least more than 9 times the maximum HP of a regular creature and can instantly kill other creatures when attacking, but they are as slow as dirt.

* From ProblemSleuth, this is exaggerated with Tootsie Roll Frankenstein Pickle Inspector, who has great attack, good defence, but moves so slow that it takes him several minutes to move several inches forwards.

** As well as the giga beast from ''PhantomBrave'', and one of the slime-types. Mimic I believe. They have extraordinarily high defense and moderate attack, but half of their moves work off their defensive stat anyway. Mimics are literal Mighty Glaciers. Golems less so, having on average bad magical defense.* The Bangaas in ''FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' and ''FinalFantasyTacticsA2''. Most of their classes favor defense, offense, and HP over speed and evasion. In A2 however, the Trickster class has a decent amount of speed growth in exchange for less power.

* A few Franchise/{{Kamen Rider}}s who use [[MultiformBalance multiple forms]] have forms that emphasize strength and defense over speed.
** ''[[KamenRiderBlackRX Black RX]]'': '''Robo Rider'''
** ''[[KamenRiderKuuga Kuuga]]'': '''Titan Form''' and '''Rising Titan Form'''.
** ''[[KamenRiderAgito Agito]]'': '''Burning Form'''
** ''[[Series/{{KamenRiderDenO}} Den-O]]'': '''Ax Form'''
*** ''[[TheLancer Zeronos]]'': '''Vega Form'''
** ''[[KamenRiderKiva Kiva]]'': '''Dogga Form'''
** ''[[Series/KamenRiderDouble Double]]'': Any form that uses the Metal Memory.
*** ''[[TheLancer Accel]]'': Default form.
** ''[[KamenRiderOOO OOO]]'': '''[=SaGoZo=] Combo'''
** ''[[Series/KamenRiderFourze Fourze]]'': '''Magnet States'''
** ''[[Series/KamenRiderWizard Wizard]]'': '''Land Style'''
*** ''[[TheLancer Beast]]'': '''Buffa Mantle'''

*** Scrafty serves as an interesting variation on this trope; while one of its common sets uses Dragon Dance and the sweeper-friendly ability Moxie to make it a LightningBruiser and rely on its defenses being good even uninvested to keep it afloat, an alternate set for it focuses almost entirely on HP and Special Defense before using Bulk Up to raise its Attack and Defense, evading status effects like poison through the Shed Skin ability. Barring moves like tricking it a choice item, phazing it out, or hammering it HARD the second it switches in, Scrafty becomes slow but nearly invincible once it's used Bulk Up two or more times and can proceed to plow through the entire enemy team using nothing but Drain Punch and Crunch/Payback, Resting as necessary.

** Again to mention Brawl Minus (a side competitive field for SSBB), Ganondorf's rank on the tier list goes from bottom to top, with most of his moves being instant KO's. His warlock punch alone deals 666 damage and instant KO's anyone hit, and all of his other moves are upgraded in power and range, such as his forward smash creating explosions. Bowser gets an upgrade as well, as he no longer flinches from moves that do 10 damage or less, allowing him to simply walk through projectiles and some attacks. This wouldn't be such a big deal if it wasn't for the fact that Bowser's attacks now hit potentially multiple times and kill at simple damage areas like 40%. His Up B on the ground for example not only hits far more often, but creates a whirlwind sucking opponents into it. Both characters are still extremely slow however, and Ganondorf, to make up for his ridiculous power, is even slower than standard Brawl.

**** [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 No credit for]] [[MemeticMutation partial answers,]] [[DrillSergeantNasty maggot!]] The other half of Newton's First Law is that "An object at rest ''tends to stay at rest'', unless acted upon by an outside force", hence the poor acceleration speed.

*** Sure does explain the failure accuracy of Crabhammer.
** Many Rock, Ground, or Steel-type Pokémon in general fit this trope. Those that aren't tend to be {{Stone Wall}}s or (rarely) {{Lightning Bruiser}}s
** A surprising number of Unova Pokemon exhibit this trait, one of the most notorious being Reuniclus, who (barring the Dream World) is absolutely immune to weather damage and has an ability to protect it from everything other than direct damage. High defenses, profound Special Attack, and HP higher than a hippie on an airplane, but a pitiful base Speed of 30. [[LightningBruiser Then Trick Room comes out to play...]]
*** Then you've got Musharna, with slightly better bulk, lower speed still, and not as useful abilities. And then there's stuff like Escavalier who is one of the slowest fully-evolved mons but stupidly strong, Conkeldurr (given that it's the {{expy}} of one of the original Fighting-type Mighty Glaciers, Machamp...), Throh, Eelektross, Bouffalant...

** ''[[Series/{{KamenRiderDen-O}} Den-O]]'': '''Ax Form'''

* The ''VideoGame/{{X}}-Universe'' series has two versions of this; M3+ (ultra-heavy fighters) are very powerful and well shielded, but are even slower than their already slow M3 (fighter) cousins. Ships built by the Teladi also fit this; they're very slow, but mount ridiculously powerful shields. Also destroyers among capital ships.

* The Greek hoplite was designed to fight as a part of a huge, unstoppable steamroller; slow, but virtually impossible to halt with anything short of ''another'' hoplite formation. It took quite a while [[HitAndRunTactics for ranged skirmisher tactics]] to be figured out to abuse the glacier aspect of them. Later [[TurnedUpToEleven taken to it's logical conclusion]] by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_Phalanx the Macedonian phalanx]], which utilized smaller shields with enormous two-handed spears to be even less manueverable, but even more unstoppable.[[hottip:*:More technically, they had lighter armour to let them run faster and longer than past hoplites, but their large spears nonetheless made ''turning'' a tremendous issue if it ever came up, rendering the formation incredibly vulnerable to flanking.]]

* The Greek hoplite was designed to fight as a part of a huge, unstoppable steamroller; slow, but virtually impossible to halt with anything short of ''another'' hoplite formation. It took quite a while [[HitAndRunTactics for ranged skirmisher tactics]] to be figured out to abuse the glacier aspect of them. Later [[TurnedUpToEleven taken to it's logical conclusion]] by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_Phalanx the Macedonian phalanx]], which utilized smaller shields with enormous two-handed spears to be even less manueverable, but even more unstoppable.[[hottip:*More technically, they had generally lighter armour to let them run faster and longer than past hoplites, but their large spears nonetheless made ''turning'' a tremendous issue if it came up, making the formation incredibly vulnerable to flanking.]]

* The Greek hoplite was designed to fight as a part of a huge, unstoppable steamroller; slow, but virtually impossible to halt with anything short of ''another'' hoplite formation. Later [[TurnedUpToEleven taken to it's logical conclusion]] by the Macedonian phalanx, which was even less manueverable, but even more unstoppable.