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* The ruling family of the Ice Kingdom in ''Literature/TheBigSisterAndLittleSister''. After making a pact with the Mountain Spirit, they have become a sort of ice elementals. They can also turn people and animals into ice.



* Juniper Taylor in ''Literature/TheDescendants''. Not just water ice, either. She's frozen ''air'' at least once.
* ''Literature/{{Deviant}}'' has the appropriately named Blizzard, known for freezing people solid. This isn't the limit of her powers, though, as she can also summon snow, frost, and ice, and pretty much control it any way she desires. She's also unaffected by temperature change.



* ''Literature/TrintonChronicles'':
** Frost is one of these - he creates and controls ice and cold into every useful tool he can. It also helps that he is immune to cold with the draw back that his powerful icy-aura can't be turned off, only down, makes dating and cuddling rather interesting.
** As a sub-trope, technically, the ''[[TheFairFolk Fairy Sisters]]'' have a touch of this too, as they control the Ice Maze in the first story arc.



* The ruling family of the Ice Kingdom in ''Literature/TheBigSisterAndLittleSister''. After making a pact with the Mountain Spirit, they have become a sort of ice elementals. They can also turn people and animals into ice.

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* The ruling family of the Ice Kingdom in ''Literature/TheBigSisterAndLittleSister''. After making a pact with the Mountain Spirit, they ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
** Characters like Icer, Winter, Bifrost, Nahga, and Frostbite.
** And inventor Mister Cool, who doesn't
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* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' has Rime, a female superhero from Los Angeles. Her power consists of generating little balls of ice which expand into iceberg-sized ice formations on contact with solid objects.
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* "Literature/WizardBait": Ice Witch Besberdin is, well, a witch made of ice with the powers of "Ice Hell", having arrive to retrieve the Sword of Winters from Thusalah's horde.

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* ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses'': Kallias, the High Lord of the Winter Court, has powerful ice magic.


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* ''Literature/TheWitchOfKnightcharm'': A rookie witch named Megumi who attends an evil WizardingSchool learns some ice spells to help her in fights with other students. They aren't her primary attack, but she proves competent enough to use them effectively in challenging fights.

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* The villain of Caroline Cooney's ''Freeze Tag'' combines this oddly with TakenForGranite -- her basic schtick is that if she touches you, she renders you frozen and immobile, apparently forever, [[AndIMustScream while fully conscious and aware]]. She never actually kills any of her victims and, at several points, undoes the effect just to toy with them. (This leads to part of the conflict over whether or not to kill her -- if she can't be [[HeelFaceTurn redeemed]], a lot of people will stay frozen.)

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* ''Literature/ForbiddenSea'': This is one of the powers of Araedyn, the younger Sea Prince. In ''Shadow in the Sea'', he impresses Sadelyn by cupping water in his hand and freezing it into an ice sculpture of a starfish.
* The villain of Caroline Cooney's ''Freeze Tag'' ''Literature/FreezeTag'' combines this oddly with TakenForGranite -- her basic schtick is that if she touches you, she renders you frozen and immobile, apparently forever, [[AndIMustScream while fully conscious and aware]]. She never actually kills any of her victims and, at several points, undoes the effect just to toy with them. (This leads to part of the conflict over whether or not to kill her -- if she can't be [[HeelFaceTurn redeemed]], a lot of people will stay frozen.)

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* Alexander Velitzyn, main character of J. M. Siderova's ''The Age of Ice'', conceived on a bed of ice is immune to cold and when in a state of high emotion his flesh becomes painfully cold to the touch. In time he learns to control this, being able to make ordinary ice diamond hard and to turn water to ice at will. Extreme, as in Arctic level, cold puts him into a state of suspended animation. After doing this once he stops aging, his story extending over 250 years. It is hinted that he may be an incarnation of Old Man Frost.
* {{Creator/Amoridere}}'s "Ice Queen" (probably a metaphorical AuthorAvatar) in the poems ''A momentary thaw'', ''Antifreeze'', ''Burned'', and ''Dying Flames'' is a different example than most. From what's implied, she can generate fire (or warmth), like she does with ice, however, she seems to have some PowerIncontinence, as she can't control how often she freezes, nor can she can keep herself from being burned by her own flames.
* The [[DivineParentage demigods]] in ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'' have different powers, depending on who their divine parent is. The children of Poseidon and Boreas can also master the ice. The children of Hades can do it too, but they are much weaker in this regard.
* In ''Literature/CastleHangnail'', the evil sorceress Eudaimonia has a magic wand that gives her ice powers, appropriately for someone so cold-hearted.
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', Jadis the White Witch causes EndlessWinter for a hundred years and lives in an ice castle. She has other powers, however, most notably [[TakenForGranite turning dissidents to stone]].
* [[PlayingWithFire Firecrafters]] in ''Literature/CodexAlera'' can do this by using their furies to ''remove'' heat from something instead of adding it. We first see this demonstrated by [[SmugSnake Kalarus Brencis Minoris]], who thinks it's funny to push [[TheCallPutMeOnHold the obvious bully-target]] into a fountain and freeze the water around him.
* The eponymous ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}'', of the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel, though this is just a subset of his general "Embodiment of the force of winter itself" bit.
** In ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'', we find out that Kaos, the fifth horseman who left before they became famous, has a sword that's so cold it goes beyond absolute zero and generates a sort of "burning cold" anti-heat. He uses it to keep milk fresh by putting it in the same room as a super-hot burning furnace.
* In ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', The Devil is the originator of the blizzards which freeze the final circle of Hell. Thanks to the winds from his six wings, thousands upon thousands of traitors are frozen with him in Lake Cocytus, forever to hate each other for eternity.

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* ''Literature/TheAgeOfIce'': Alexander Velitzyn, main character of J. M. Siderova's ''The Age of Ice'', Velitzyn was conceived on a bed of ice ice, is immune to cold and cold, and, when in a state of high emotion emotion, his flesh becomes painfully cold to the touch. In time he learns to control this, being able to make ordinary ice diamond hard and to turn water to ice at will. Extreme, as in Arctic level, cold puts him into a state of suspended animation. After doing this once he stops aging, his story extending over 250 years. It is hinted that he may be an incarnation of Old Man Frost.
* {{Creator/Amoridere}}'s "Ice Queen" (probably a metaphorical AuthorAvatar) in the poems ''A momentary thaw'', ''Antifreeze'', ''Burned'', and ''Dying Flames'' is a different example than most. From what's implied, she can generate fire (or warmth), like she does with ice, however, she seems to have some PowerIncontinence, as she can't control how often she freezes, nor can she can keep herself from being burned by her own flames.
* ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'': The [[DivineParentage demigods]] in ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'' have different powers, powers depending on who their divine parent is. The children of the sea god Poseidon and the wind god Boreas can also occasionally master the ice. The children of Hades can do it too, but they are much weaker in this regard.
* In ''Literature/CastleHangnail'', the ''Literature/CastleHangnail'': The evil sorceress Eudaimonia has a magic wand that gives her ice powers, appropriately for someone so cold-hearted.
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': Jadis the White Witch causes EndlessWinter for a hundred years and lives in an ice castle. She has other powers, however, most notably [[TakenForGranite turning dissidents to stone]].
* ''Literature/CodexAlera'': [[PlayingWithFire Firecrafters]] in ''Literature/CodexAlera'' can do this by using their furies to ''remove'' heat from something instead of adding it. We first see this demonstrated by [[SmugSnake Kalarus Brencis Minoris]], who thinks it's funny to push [[TheCallPutMeOnHold the obvious bully-target]] into a fountain and freeze the water around him.
* The eponymous ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}'', of the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel, though this is just a subset of his general "Embodiment of the force of winter itself" bit.
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** In ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'', we find out that ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'': Kaos, the fifth horseman who left before they became famous, has a sword that's so cold it goes beyond absolute zero and generates a sort of "burning cold" anti-heat. [[MundaneUtility He uses it to keep milk fresh by putting it in the same room as a super-hot burning furnace.
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** ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}'': The Wintersmith has ice-based magical powers as a subset of being the AnthropomorphicPersonification of winter.
* In ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': The Devil is the originator of the blizzards which freeze the final circle of Hell. Thanks to the winds from his six wings, thousands upon thousands of traitors are frozen with him in Lake Cocytus, forever to hate each other for eternity.

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* {{Creator/Amoridere}}'s "Ice Queen" (probably a metaphorical AuthorAvatar) in the poems ''A momentary thaw'', ''Antifreeze'', ''Burned'', and ''Dying Flames'' is a different example than most. From what's implied, she can generate fire (or warmth), like she does with ice, however, she seems to have some PowerIncontinence, as she can't control how often she freezes, nor can she can keep herself from being burned by her own flames.
* The [[DivineParentage demigods]] in ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'' have different powers, depending on who their divine parent is. The children of Poseidon and Boreas can also master the ice. The children of Hades can do it too, but they are much weaker in this regard.



* In the ''Literature/MerryGentry'' series, the character Frost is the sidhe embodiment of winter, and Jack Frost.

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* ''Literature/TheFoolOfTheWorldAndTheFlyingShip'': One of the Fool's companions is a farmer who bears a bundle of straw that makes things colder when burned.
* The villain of Caroline Cooney's ''Freeze Tag'' combines this oddly with TakenForGranite -- her basic schtick is that if she touches you, she renders you frozen and immobile, apparently forever, [[AndIMustScream while fully conscious and aware]]. She never actually kills any of her victims and, at several points, undoes the effect just to toy with them. (This leads to part of the conflict over whether or not to kill her -- if she can't be [[HeelFaceTurn redeemed]], a lot of people will stay frozen.)
* In Creator/RobertEHoward's Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian story "''Literature/TheFrostGiantsDaughter''", the ''Literature/MerryGentry'' series, the titular character Frost wears nothing but a veil of gossamer on a snowfield, can run over snow without leaving tracks, and, when Conan catches her, is as cold as ice.
** Her dad, Ymir, who doesn't actually appear but rescues her and freezes Conan almost to death in
the sidhe embodiment of winter, and Jack Frost. process.



* The villain of Caroline Cooney's ''Freeze Tag'' combines this oddly with TakenForGranite--her basic schtick is that if she touches you, she renders you frozen and immobile, apparently forever, [[AndIMustScream while fully conscious and aware]]. She never actually kills any of her victims and, at several points, undoes the effect just to toy with them. (This leads to part of the conflict over whether or not to kill her--if she can't be [[HeelFaceTurn redeemed]], a lot of people will stay frozen.)
* In Creator/RobertEHoward's Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian story "''Literature/TheFrostGiantsDaughter''", the titular character wears nothing but a veil of gossamer on a snowfield, can run over snow without leaving tracks, and, when Conan catches her, is as cold as ice.
** Her dad, Ymir, who doesn't actually appear but rescues her and freezes Conan almost to death in the process.

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* The villain of Caroline Cooney's ''Freeze Tag'' combines this oddly with TakenForGranite--her basic schtick is that if she touches you, she renders you frozen and immobile, apparently forever, [[AndIMustScream while fully conscious and aware]]. She never actually kills any of her victims and, at several points, undoes the effect just to toy with them. (This leads to part ''Literature/HowTheSixMadeTheirWayInTheWorld'': One of the conflict soldier's five companions is a man who brings frost unless he wears his hat crooked over whether or not one ear. This ability comes in handy when a greedy king tries to kill her--if she can't be [[HeelFaceTurn redeemed]], a lot of people will stay frozen.)
* In Creator/RobertEHoward's Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian story "''Literature/TheFrostGiantsDaughter''",
all the titular character wears nothing but companions by luring them into a veil of gossamer on room with a snowfield, can run over snow without leaving tracks, and, when Conan catches her, is as cold as ice.
** Her dad, Ymir, who doesn't actually appear but rescues her and freezes Conan almost to death in the process.
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* The [[LizardFolk drakulles]] from the German SF series ''Literature/{{Maddrax}}'' can blow out clouds of ice that cause their opponents to freeze.



* In the ''Literature/MerryGentry'' series, the character Frost is the sidhe embodiment of winter, and Jack Frost.



* The winter court in the ''Literature/WickedLovely'' series. Specifically, Beira the winter queen and Donia the winter girl. [[spoiler: Donia later becomes the next winter queen after Beira's death. Her icy nature is caused by bitterness about being forced to become the winter girl, and thus not being able to be with her [[StarCrossedLovers love]], Keenan, the summer king - their very natures are incompatible, although it is implied that, after Beira's death, they at least try. I would imagine it would be painful; Keenan would end up covered in frostbite and Donia in burns.]]

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* The winter court in the ''Literature/WickedLovely'' series. Specifically, Beira the winter queen and Donia the winter girl. [[spoiler: Donia later becomes the next winter queen after Beira's death. Her icy nature is caused by bitterness about being forced to become the winter girl, and thus not being able to be with her [[StarCrossedLovers love]], Keenan, the summer king - -- their very natures are incompatible, although it is implied that, after Beira's death, they at least try. I would imagine it would be painful; Keenan would end up covered in frostbite and Donia in burns.]]



* ''Literature/TheFoolOfTheWorldAndTheFlyingShip'': One of the Fool's companions is a farmer who bears a bundle of straw that makes things colder when burned.
* ''Literature/HowTheSixMadeTheirWayInTheWorld'': One of the soldier's five companions is a man who brings frost unless he wears his hat crooked over one ear. This ability comes in handy when a greedy king tries to kill all the companions by luring them into a room with a heated iron floor.
* The [[DivineParentage demigods]] in ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'' have different powers, depending on who their divine parent is. The children of Poseidon and Boreas can also master the ice. The children of Hades can do it too, but they are much weaker in this regard.
* The [[LizardFolk drakulles]] from the German SF series ''Literature/{{Maddrax}}'' can blow out clouds of ice that cause their opponents to freeze.
* {{Creator/Amoridere}}'s "Ice Queen" (probably a metaphorical AuthorAvatar) in the poems ''A momentary thaw'', ''Antifreeze'', ''Burned'', and ''Dying Flames'' is a different example than most. From what's implied, she can generate fire (or warmth), like she does with ice, however, she seems to have some PowerIncontinence, as she can't control how often she freezes, nor can she can keep herself from being burned by her own flames.

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* ''Literature/TheFoolOfTheWorldAndTheFlyingShip'': One of the Fool's companions is a farmer who bears a bundle of straw that makes things colder when burned.
* ''Literature/HowTheSixMadeTheirWayInTheWorld'': One of the soldier's five companions is a man who brings frost unless he wears his hat crooked over one ear. This ability comes in handy when a greedy king tries to kill all the companions by luring them into a room with a heated iron floor.
* The [[DivineParentage demigods]] in ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'' have different powers, depending on who their divine parent is. The children of Poseidon and Boreas can also master the ice. The children of Hades can do it too, but they are much weaker in this regard.
* The [[LizardFolk drakulles]] from the German SF series ''Literature/{{Maddrax}}'' can blow out clouds of ice that cause their opponents to freeze.
* {{Creator/Amoridere}}'s "Ice Queen" (probably a metaphorical AuthorAvatar) in the poems ''A momentary thaw'', ''Antifreeze'', ''Burned'', and ''Dying Flames'' is a different example than most. From what's implied, she can generate fire (or warmth), like she does with ice, however, she seems to have some PowerIncontinence, as she can't control how often she freezes, nor can she can keep herself from being burned by her own flames.
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* {{Creator/Amoridere}}'s "Ice Queen" (probably a metaphorical AuthorAvatar) in the poems ''A momentary thaw'',''Antifreeze'', ''Burned'', and ''Dying Flames'' is a different example than most. From what's implied, she can generate fire (or warmth), like she does with ice, however, she seems to have some PowerIncontinence, as she can't control how often she freezes, nor can she can keep herself from being burned by her own flames.

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* ''Literature/InCryptid'': James Smith is a sorcerer with natural ice abilities, just like Antimony has [[PlayingWithFire natural fire abilities]].
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* In the ''Literature/MerryGentry'' series, the character Frost is the sidhe embodiment of winter, and Jack Frost.
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* In ''Literature/LorienLegacies'', [[spoiler: Marina/Number Seven]] develops this power immediately after [[spoiler: Five kills Eight, who she'd clearly been in love with]]. Eventually [[spoiler: John/Four]] gets it too, but only because [[spoiler: his legacy lets him use any legacy he's observed/experienced]].
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* The [[DivineParentage demigods]] in ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'' have different powers, depending on who their divine parent is. The children of Poseidon and Boreas can also master the ice. The children of Hades can do it too, but they are much weaker in this regard.
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* ''Literature/HowTheSixMadeTheirWayInTheWorld'': One of the soldier's five companions is a man who brings frost unless he wears his hat crooked over one ear. This ability comes in handy when a greedy king tries to kill all the companions by luring them into a room with a heated iron floor.
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* The eponymous ''Discworld/{{Wintersmith}}'', of the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel, though this is just a subset of his general "Embodiment of the force of winter itself" bit.
** In ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'', we find out that Kaos, the fifth horseman who left before they became famous, has a sword that's so cold it goes beyond absolute zero and generates a sort of "burning cold" anti-heat. He uses it to keep milk fresh by putting it in the same room as a super-hot burning furnace.

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** In ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'', ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'', we find out that Kaos, the fifth horseman who left before they became famous, has a sword that's so cold it goes beyond absolute zero and generates a sort of "burning cold" anti-heat. He uses it to keep milk fresh by putting it in the same room as a super-hot burning furnace.
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* In ''Literature/CastleHangnail'', the evil sorceress Eudaimonia has a magic wand that gives her ice powers, appropriately for someone so cold-hearted.
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* In ''Literature/TheWitchlands'', Icewitches are a subset of Water witches who can freeze things.
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* As a {{Yukionna}}, Rin from ''Literature/GrimmTales'' is literally one of these. Her mastery of ice and snow is so great she can even make ice duplicates of her opponents to fight for her.
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* In ''Literature/{{Renegades}}'', Frostbite can create and manipulate ice.
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* The ruling family of the Ice Kingdom in ''Literature/TheBigSisterAndLittleSister''. After making a pact with the Mountain Spirit, they have become a sort of ice elementals. They can also turn people and animals into ice.
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* Alexander Velitzyn, main character of J. M. Siderova's ''The Age of Ice'', conceived on a bed of ice is immune to cold and when in a state of high emotion his flesh becomes painfully cold to the touch. In time he learns to control this, being able to make ordinary ice diamond hard and to turn water to ice at will. Extreme, as in Arctic level, cold puts him into a state of suspended animation. After doing this once he stops aging, his story extending over 250 years. It is hinted that he may be an incarnation of Old Man Frost.
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', Jadis the White Witch causes EndlessWinter for a hundred years and lives in an ice castle. She has other powers, however, most notably [[TakenForGranite turning dissidents to stone]].
* [[PlayingWithFire Firecrafters]] in ''Literature/CodexAlera'' can do this by using their furies to ''remove'' heat from something instead of adding it. We first see this demonstrated by [[SmugSnake Kalarus Brencis Minoris]], who thinks it's funny to push [[TheCallPutMeOnHold the obvious bully-target]] into a fountain and freeze the water around him.
* The eponymous ''Discworld/{{Wintersmith}}'', of the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel, though this is just a subset of his general "Embodiment of the force of winter itself" bit.
** In ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'', we find out that Kaos, the fifth horseman who left before they became famous, has a sword that's so cold it goes beyond absolute zero and generates a sort of "burning cold" anti-heat. He uses it to keep milk fresh by putting it in the same room as a super-hot burning furnace.
* In ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', The Devil is the originator of the blizzards which freeze the final circle of Hell. Thanks to the winds from his six wings, thousands upon thousands of traitors are frozen with him in Lake Cocytus, forever to hate each other for eternity.
* In ''[[Literature/AfterTheGoldenAge Dreams of the Golden Age]]'', Teia has freezing-based superpowers.
* [[TheFairFolk Queen Mab of the Winter Court of Faerie]] in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' has near absolute control over ice and, in one instance, [[EyeScream froze the water in Harry Dresden's eyeballs]] to prove a point (namely, that he should shut up).
** Harry also figured out that he can adjust his fire spells to draw heat less evenly from the surroundings and, a couple of times, uses this to freeze water.
** After [[spoiler: he took Mab's offer of becoming the Winter Knight,]] Harry has been able to use ice-related spells much more. It was hinted that his new mastery of ice and his old mastery of fire are significant somehow.
* The villain of Caroline Cooney's ''Freeze Tag'' combines this oddly with TakenForGranite--her basic schtick is that if she touches you, she renders you frozen and immobile, apparently forever, [[AndIMustScream while fully conscious and aware]]. She never actually kills any of her victims and, at several points, undoes the effect just to toy with them. (This leads to part of the conflict over whether or not to kill her--if she can't be [[HeelFaceTurn redeemed]], a lot of people will stay frozen.)
* In Creator/RobertEHoward's Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian story "''Literature/TheFrostGiantsDaughter''", the titular character wears nothing but a veil of gossamer on a snowfield, can run over snow without leaving tracks, and, when Conan catches her, is as cold as ice.
** Her dad, Ymir, who doesn't actually appear but rescues her and freezes Conan almost to death in the process.
* The Creator/HarukiMurakami short story ''Ice Man''...a woman falls in love with a guy who has "white patches of snow" in his hair and a look "piercing like an icicle" and it doesn't end too well.
* The ''Jaz Parks'' series has Vayl, a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire of [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a particular type]] called a Wraith, who have the power to produce cold temperatures. He later [[PowerCopying gains the ability]] to form superhard ice armor, in the manner of [[ComicBook/XMen Iceman]].
* In ''Literature/TheMagicians'', though we don't really see her use it, Janet mentions her discipline is a specialized form of cold magic.
* ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'':
** The [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Jaghut]] have powers connected to ice, cold and death -- possibly also giving them a limited control of time. They have their own Warren (Path of Magic) called Omtose Phellack, also known as the Hold of Ice, and are fond of calling down [[EndlessWinter ice ages]]. Elder God Mael calls ice 'the Jaghut answer to everything'.
** The Stormriders combine this with IceMagicIsWater. They are a mysterious people living in a deep ocean trench, only appearing during storms, sheathed in ice armour and riding hybrid-mounts made of water and ice. They may be connected to the Jaghut.
* The titular character from Creator/MercedesLackey's [[Literature/TalesofTheFiveHundredKingdoms Snow Queen]], [[spoiler: especially the second one]], has this ability, as does the Icehart.
* The Groke ("Mårran" in the original) in ''Literature/TheMoomins'' stories is a hag-like being who is ice cold. [[WalkingWasteland She freezes the ground she walks on and kills the plants with frost]]; if she stays too long, [[TouchOfDeath nothing ever grows there again]]. She cannot create ice directly, but once, when she need to take a sea trip, she wades out on the beach and lets the water freeze into an icefloe, giving her a makeshift boat. The one time we get to see things from her perspective, we learn [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold she longs for heat, light, and company and is not cold or dark by choice]].
* The Clayr of the ''Literature/OldKingdom'' trilogy, though primarily a clan of [[OneGenderRace all female]] clairvoyants, use ice to amplify their Sight, hence why they live in a Glacier. When away from the glacier, they use spells to create a screen of ice on which they project their Sight, so as to show others.
* Ilke in ''Literature/{{Phenomena}}'', she was given some of the spirit of a Frost spirit and can use most powers related to frost, like ice and snow.
* In the ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' series, Jack Frost, the goblins, and some of the fairies all have ice magic.
* In ''Literature/TheSingerOfAllSongs'', there are several kinds of chantments (magic songs). The Daughters of Taris, an all-female religious order, can sing the chantments of ice, and they protect their territory with a giant ice wall. Instead of combining with water (indeed, it's noted that the ability to swim isn't particularly common among them), the High Priestess also bears and passes on the knowledge of the chantments of ice that invoke darkness, the opposite of the chantments of fire which also have power over light.
* "Literature/TheSnowQueen." She seems to be a member of TheFairFolk, with similarly inscrutable motives; she rules a race of creatures who resemble snowflakes, and lives far north of our heroine.
* [[HumanoidAbomination The Others]] from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' ''are'' the ice. They're associated with [[GrimUpNorth the perpetually frozen far north]], appear with the worst weather winter can bring -- unless the winter follows ''them'' -- and even seem to be ''made'' of ice, melting when they die, and come equipped with armour and weaponry made of magically altered ice. They embody the EvilIsDeathlyCold aspect of this trope, seeking to plunge the world into an endless winter and killing every living human they come across, reanimating them as mindless [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Wights]] under their command. They are also associated with "giant ice spiders" in legends. Whatever those are.
** In the short novel, ''Literature/TheIceDragon'', which provided some inspiration for ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', the main character, Adara, is a young girl who was born during the coldest winter in living memory, and somehow winter had left its mark upon her. Many readers have noted that she bears a resemblance to the Others. Though she does not have any active powers, she has a strong affinity for the cold and can stay outside during winter without it even bothering her. Her skin is also pale and cold to the touch, on top of having a fittingly icy personality brought about by her unusual condition. On top of all this, she is capable of riding the titular ice dragon, which has plenty of icy powers of its own.
* The first spell Grumph casts in ''Literature/SpellsSwordsAndStealth'' is an ice spell, used to assist Thistle in their first real fight as adventurers. In the second book, Grumph puts the ice spell to creative use during his mage trial by casting it on ''himself'' when he has to cross an obstacle hot enough to knock him out if he went unprotected.
* ''Literature/SuperPowereds'' has Michael Clark, who can throw blue bolts that freeze anything they hit. He throws them by punching towards the target. He can also form an armor of ice to protect himself, regenerating it as it melts or takes damage. He's a bit of a bully and has a hard time coping with the fact that he's no longer the strongest of his peers ([[NormalFishInATinyPond as he was in his hometown]]). Ever since his first match with Vince, he holds a deep grudge towards him despite the fact that he won that fight. Michael convinces himself that Vince humiliated him by not [[EnergyAbsorbtion charging up]] before the fight and nearly beat him with what Michael considers a sucker punch. By Year 2 he is still under the mistaken assumption that he's better than Vince when, in fact, Vince has left him far behind and doesn't even consider beating Michael to be a challenge. It helps that while Michael's ice armor may provide some resistance against Vince's fire blasts, it does nothing to hinder an electrical blast and Michael didn't know that Vince could absorb and emit other kinds of energy.
* Blizzard in ''Literature/TalesOfAnMazingGirl'' can create ice with his gun. He is of course named after the video Game company, Activision/Blizzard.
* ''Literature/TrappedOnDraconica'': Zarracka can do this with her BreathWeapon.
** ''Literature/LegacyOfTheDragokin'': So can her nephew, Benji.
* ''Literature/TwilightDragon'' has Princess Atoli, who is specifically known as the Sorceress of Snow.
* The winter court in the ''Literature/WickedLovely'' series. Specifically, Beira the winter queen and Donia the winter girl. [[spoiler: Donia later becomes the next winter queen after Beira's death. Her icy nature is caused by bitterness about being forced to become the winter girl, and thus not being able to be with her [[StarCrossedLovers love]], Keenan, the summer king - their very natures are incompatible, although it is implied that, after Beira's death, they at least try. I would imagine it would be painful; Keenan would end up covered in frostbite and Donia in burns.]]
* [=Icewing=] drgons in ''Literature/WingsOfFire'' are well-suited for living in cold environments. This includes the ability to breathe a deadly freezing breath.
* ''Literature/TheWizardOfLondon'': After her pact with the Ice Dragon, Lady Cordelia is basically a mage version of this. David is well on his way to becoming one as well.
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