An Ice Person

aka: Cryokinesis

He may seem cold at times, but he's also got a fiery side.

"Nature? Fire? Bah! Both are chaotic and difficult to control. Ice is structured, latticed, light as a feather, massive as a glacier. In ice, there is power!"

— Heidar, Rimewind master, Flashfreeze, Magic: The Gathering

The power to control ice, and create cold and frost at will. May be used as a trinity with Fire and Electricity, hence Fire, Ice, Lightning. Likely to be used as a contrast to fire — if the hero prefers fire, their rival, Archenemy, or Lancer will use ice, forming a Fire/Ice Duo. Sometimes the domain of evil or undead entities as Evil Is Deathly Cold. Goes hand in hand with Making a Splash, and may be involved with wind powers via cold air and snowstorms. In Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors with fire, one will usually defeat the other, though which one varies. Ice is unlikely to be any stronger or weaker than other elements though for Competitive Balance, and thus Harmless Freezing will be invoked. If you want to resort to this to kill an otherwise invulnerable entity, you're planning to Kill It with Ice.

May be used by Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti, Snowlems, a Winter Royal Lady, a Yuki-onna, or even the Ice Queen. May be a Tragic Ice Character. People with these powers may also have An Ice Suit, a Freeze Ray, and Icy Blue Eyes, or be subject to Elemental Baggage. They'll also often have blue clothes, hair, and/or skin because Blue Means Cold. If it's not blue, it'll usually be white, as a reference to snow. See also Human Popsicle. Frequently leads to Literally Shattered Lives.

Also called "cryokinesis." A common and unfortunate side effect of ice powers is using ice metaphors.

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Asian Animation

• BoBoiBoy: In the first film, the title hero unlocks the power of ice, the Next Tier Power-Up of water. He typically uses ranged weapons to shoot blasts which freeze targets upon impact.
• Happy Heroes Season 2 Episode 11 features an ice monster that can freeze objects by breathing ice on them.
• Mechamato: The fridge-like robot Sejuku is capable of freezing the town and river because he finds the tropical climate too hot for his liking.

Folklore and Fairy Tales

• "Morozko"/Father Frost. Generally, he simply brings winter to certain areas (winter/cold follows him everywhere), but some stories have him using his power to freeze people to death in an instant if they piss him off. Compare Old Man Winter, who is either a substitute for him, another name of his, or a separate entity entirely, depending on how he's depicted. If both of them are depicted as two different beings, then Jack Frost has control over ice and snow in general, whereas Old Man Winter, true to his name, only has domain over Wintry cold.
• Since the Soviet era, Morozko (now often called Ded Moroz, "Grandfather Frost") has been reworked into the Russian version of Santa Claus, since he was seen as a secular replacement for Saint Nicholas. He is usually accompanied by Snegurochka ("Snow Maiden"), who is either his daughter or granddaughter. Surrounding countries have counterparts with similar names and attributes.
• Jack Frost is similarly imagined as the one Painting the Frost on Windows. He doesn't have much "canon," but is usually imagined as a mischievous sprite.
• "Mother Holle", as well known as "Old Mother Frost," is an ancient German folk figure who is responsible for causing snow.
• "The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship": One of the Fool's companions is a farmer with a bundle of straw that makes things colder, rather than hotter, when burned.

Films — Animated

• In Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus, the evil wizard Wenlock turns everyone else in Princess Annika's kingdom to ice statues as a And Now You Must Marry Me ploy.
• Gru from the Despicable Me franchise has several kickass weapons that we see over the course of the two films, but his go-to weapon seems to be his Freeze Ray, which is also the one we see him use most frequently. Minions reveals that he got the freeze ray as a child at VillainCon, and has been using it ever since.
• In the Disney Fairies film The Secret of the Wings, the fairies learn about a sister race, the frost fairies.
• In Dragons: Fire & Ice Xenoz was given strong ice powers over the years. He uses it to wipe out an army in one scene.
• Fire & Ice: The wizard Nekron uses his magic to cause an ice age, as his domain is the icy lands.
• Frozen: Elsa could generate ice and snow as a young kid, but had a hard time controlling her powers. Her ice powers increase as she gets older so she can generate giant ice palaces and snow golems, but she still has difficulty controlling them, accidentally plunging her kingdom into an Endless Winter during summer and completely freezing the fjord. Her powers are fueled by her emotions, meaning they go haywire when she's afraid or anxious. It's not until an Act of True Love executed by her sister, Anna, that she finally sees that love is the key to safely control them.
• Frozone in The Incredibles, while a partial parody of the Silver Surfer, has the ability to generate ice as his main superpower.
• North Wind, the titular evil ice spirit from The Legend Of The North Wind.
• In Legends of Valhalla: Thor, Hel's primary ability is to freeze people in blocks of ice with her magic sword.
• The Magic Roundabout (2005)'s villain, Zeebad, is this. (Curiously, midway through the film, he actually beats someone Playing with Fire.)
• Jack Frost in Rise of the Guardians was granted the power to make winter.
• In Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas the roc turns a tropical island into an arctic tundra.
• The Snow Queen (2012) has the Snow Queen, who controls the powerful North Wind.
  • In The Snow Queen 2: The Snow King, the snow king may be even more powerful.
  • In The Snow Queen 3: Fire and Ice, Gerda is possessed by the snow queen and has her powers during that time.
• Snow Miser from The Year Without a Santa Claus is a supernatural being in command of all cold weather in the world. According to his Villain Song, whatever he touches "turns to snow in [his] clutch".

Films — Live-Action

• Snow White has ice powers in Avengers Grimm and is also a very cold person.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze in the critically panned 1997 film Batman & Robin. His dialog is essentially a nonstop collage of incredibly lame ice-related puns in a thick Austrian accent, which greatly accentuates the unintentional comedy factor in the movie. Pun times may be had by all. So far, the matter of whether the film is So Bad, It's Good or so bad that it's terrible has been rather...polarizing. One of two times that Arnold has ever taken the role of an antagonist. (The Terminator was the other.)
• Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): The Destroyer Titan Scylla, in contrast to her fellow Destroyer Rodan and the Protector Titan Godzilla who both generate fire, and in contrast to Ghidorah who generates lightning, emits liquid nitrogen which can have an ecosystem-wide cooling effect. In the ending, after Godzilla takes over kingship of the Titans and directs them to begin restoring the balance of nature instead of destroying it, Scylla reverses the manmade melting of the ice caps.
• From The Great Yokai War, a Yuki-Onna was one of those asked to help battle the Demon of Revenge. She says she can't help because it's not her season.
• The White Witch in the film version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was very much an ice person, possibly even more than her book incarnation.
• Long Road To Gallantry has its main villain, Chief Leng, whose inner chi can make him freeze objects by touching. Demonstrating his powers for the first time on a large bowl containing a goldfish, he freezes the water, goldfish and all, into a half-sphere block of ice, shattering the bowl in the process. His skills can also kill opponents by freezing the blood in their veins.
• A background character in Sky High (2005) simply known as Freeze Girl (no word on if she's actually defrosting), who's the last-minute hookup for Warren.
• The protagonist of the wuxia, The Spirit of the Sword, Bao-yu, has ice-related chi powers, capable of freezing enemies with a single touch. In one of the film's bigger action setpieces, he demonstrates his ice chi powers to its fullest extent — and freezes 3 enemy ninjas in one swoop.
• In Thor, the Frost Giants can create blasts of ice as well as shape it into weaponry. Loki is able to use the Casket of Ancient Winters to generate ice blasts as well, once he discovers his true heritage.
• X-Men Film Series
  • Iceman uses his mutant ability to create ice.
  • In X-Men: Days of Future Past, when confronted by mutant with a fire power the Future Sentinels turn to ice to combat that.

Manhwa

• Angel Diary: Dong-Young would have been the "Winter General" if she hadn't been chosen to marry the King of Hell. Despite her changed role, she can still wield the Ice Snow Sword (a literal Cool Sword as well as a Double Weapon).
• King of Hell: One of the escaped fiends uses ice abilities to fight and that same arc also revealed that Majeh has an ice technique of his own.
• The Ruler Of The Land: Dan Wu-Hyeon's signature technique Frozen Palm, which he uses to freeze his opponents solid then shatters them.

Music

• DJ the S' "Disciple of the Ice" is a compilation remix of Ice-based themes from video games.

Myths & Religion

• Pitjantjatjara mythology has the evil ice spirit Ninya, the Genius Loci of Mount Artilla (Mount Conner in their language). This is rather unusual as there is little snow in this mountain; some Aboriginal Australian stories date back to thousands of years ago, so this might be a remnant from the ice ages.
• Despiste most of Mexico being tropical/subtropical, Aztec Mythology does have quite a few gods of ice and frost (inland areas do get pretty frosty nights/mornings, not to mention all the mountains). Itztlacoliuhqui is specifically the god of frost and the "plant killer" while Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, the god of the planet Venus, similarly is associated with ice and snow. The latter actually throws an ice atlatl at the sun in a myth, who retaliates by burning him alive.
• The Yuki Onna from Japanese Mythology was often an extremely pale woman who lived within snow storms. Tended to guide travelers to either their frozen deaths or to safety, if she so wished to.
• Norse Mythology: Frost giants. Also, Skadi/Skathi who is considered the goddess/giantess of snow, mountains, winter, and wolves. She married Njordir, the god of wealth and the sea, but neither wanted to live in the other's realm so the marriage didn't last long
• Poli'ahu of Pacific Mythology, along with her sisters/friends Lilinoe, Waiau, and Kahoupokane. She is their leader, and widely noted for her beauty. She is said to live atop Mauna Kea, though she visits other snowy peaks on the island. She is the antithesis to the fire goddess, Pele.
• In Classical Mythology, Khione was the daughter of Boreas, the North Wind, and was worshiped as a minor goddess who brought snow.
• Altaic Mythology: Ayaz Babam whose name literally translates to 'Frost Father', is a god of frost and snow associated with winter seasons, depicted commonlu as an old man with a long white beard and the blue-robes of a shaman. Depending on which myths you read, he is either a son of Tengri — the Thunderer and Top God — or simply another aspect of him.

Professional Wrestling

• WCW wrestler Glacier had a whole entrance motif built around ice and snow. Fitting, since he was a knockoff...err, Captain Ersatz...of Sub-Zero.

Podcasts

• The Jade Regent Campaign from RPGMP3 features a character called Skygni, who's a magically Awakened frost-breathing Winter Wolf. He swore a Blood Oath (under duress) to not eat people. Well, at least not the ones travelling with the heroes' caravan, anyway.
• Yuki/ Winter from Sequinox has power over cold and ice, naturally.
• In Trials & Trebuchets, the wizard Ferimel specializes in ice magic and has an icy aura that turns the area around him freezing cold.

Roleplay

• Darwin's Soldiers has the aptly named experiment "Ice" with, well, ice powers. There are implications that several other experiments have similar powers, but they are never mentioned.
• Josephine Engel from Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues is able to create and manipulate both ice and electricity. She experiences a minor downside in that she struggles to turn it off, and instinctively lowers her own body temperature when agitated.
• In Lords of Creation, Aeron, The White Queen, is the goddess of winter and has this power.
• Dawn Fraser of Re Evolution freezes everything that touches her skin, including the clothes she is wearing and the food she tries to eat.

Toys

• Every single Toa of Ice in BIONICLE, plus a handful of other beings (though "a handful" does include an entire swarm of Kohrak). Thanks to Personality Powers, in this case "An Ice Person" often doesn't mean "a nice person".
• The Frosticons from Mixels. In an interesting play of this elements, two of the three members are ridiculously slow and lethargic thanks to their abilities and climate. Their ranks are made up of Flurr, Lunk, and Slumbo. 2015 introduced three more Frosticons, cousins of the originals: Chilbo, Snoof, and Krog.
• Ice-Bat from UglyDolls. Everything he touches turns into ice, and he lives in a frozen cave system, but his heart is the warmest part of him.

Visual Novels

• Yukinojo in Enchanted in the Moonlight is a yukibito (a kind of snow spirit), and correspondingly has the ability to create and control snow.
• Duke Vale aka Wolf in Villainous Nights has the ability to generate ice and cold, from walls of ice to an instant cold compress touch.

Web Animation

• Dreamscape:
  • Ahjeen has ice powers, like creating icicles.
  • Jenna can shoot balls of ice.
  • The blue fairy of Eleenin's Fire, Ice, Lightning fairy trio has ice powers.
  • By using a Spirit Rune with a snowflake on it, Drake can create a wave of icy wind that freezes whatever it hits.
• DSBT InsaniT:
  • Martha has ice powers, notably her Freeze and Kill attack.
  • Amber can freeze her opponents by summoning the Boomerang Nebula.
  • Icers can fire beams of ice and create ice crystals.
• Stalin and Hans Frollo (Claude Frollo's Russian cousin) in The Frollo Show both have ice power to reference the fact that they are from russia which is known for its coldness.
• Hisame from Karekore the Half Blood. She is a snow spirit and has the ability to freeze things at will.
• Race to the Mansion of Tomorrow: Old Man Ice is an anthro icecream cone who can can freeze anyone to defend himself.
• RWBY:
  • While she can use a variety of different Dust types, Weiss Schnee is most often seen using ice dust, which fits with her general appearance and personality.
  • The Winter Maiden, Fria, and after her death, Penny, and even later on, Winter Schnee is capable of various ice-based powers, from summoning freezing winds to creating hail and spears made of ice.
• In the Sock Series
  • Hothica the sky god freeze a pillar of water Sock was caught in.
  • Uquorion the water god create some ice arms that shoot high pressure water to pin Sock against a wall.

Webcomics

• 8-Bit Theater: Red Mage exclusively casts Ice spells, leaving Fire and Lightning to Black Mage. His spell level goes all the way up to Ice 9.
• Antihero for Hire: Coldular/Froster/Cubenator, the ice-themed villain who picked a different name every damned time he spoke, and managed to work up some cold-based puns that shamed anyone else on this list for their stupidity, and that is saying something.
  Coldular/Froster/Cubenator: I better make like a glacier and recede. Only, you know, faster.
• Champions of Far'aus: Ice magic is a subtype of water magic. Flamel’s main spell for combat casts flying shards of ice.
• Divine Bells: Yun can create ice projectiles to skewer his enemies (although they don't often work...).
• Drowtales: Sil'lice has an elementary affinity for ice (a snowflake is even part of her crest). She uses her powers to torture people by freezing their blood and certainly fits the "icy" part of this trope in personality.
• The Far Side of Utopia: This is the practical application of Tyler Weber's powers. Including freezing bullets out of the air, which consternates observers as that doesn't follow The Laws of Magic in world, and suggests that freeze effect is something of a side effect, if one he frequently leverages for creating Human Popsicles.
• Fetch Quest: Saga of the Twelve Artifacts: The Ice Immunes are so called because they are not affected by the severe cold that ice brings. In fact, they developed a style of martial art utilizing it.
• Girl Genius: In a world ruled by Mad Scientists, it's no surprise that the firefighters are something like the Ninth Aetheric Vapor Squad. Their firefighting tools are gas condensers that, when kicked up a notch, can freeze a castle to the point where you can crack it open with a hammer.
• Inhibit: Julia has the power of cryomanipulation, or control over ice.
• Oglaf has the Snow Queen, who seems to be a personification of winter, or at least be tied directly to the season. Satisfying her sexually is apparently necessary to bring winter to a close. Too bad her touch makes the touching bit freeze to ice after a while.
• Minion Comics: Dingus plans his minion identity "Icepick" around an ice theme, deciding that "I'll kill people, but only with weapons that are cold and shit.".
• My Impossible Soulmate: Nara has the ability freeze objects and create ice and snow.
• Pacificators: Larima is skilled enough at her power of water that she's able to chill it to produce snow. We've been told that the renegade Tiamat is capable of freezing people in large blocks of ice. Only those skilled enough at their water power are capable of this.
• In Polokoa Quest, Vampiresque Rokoa and her mother had magical powers over ice when they were alive. In keeping with the Ironic Hell theme of Rokolo's mindscape, Vampiresque Rokoa is imprisoned in a block of ice.
• The Shufflers: Played With. While he can’t control ice himself, Hiddenite’s world in his cloak consists of an ice biome, and each biome is unique to each Harvester.
• Slightly Damned: Kieri has ice powers along with her water magic, though, mostly, all she's done with them is Harmless Freezing. The demon Lazuli, on the other hand...
• Snow By Night has Winter and his daughter Snow-by-Night. Snow-By-Night's body is actually made of snow, she can create ice and freeze things at will, and her nature and personality are consistent with the Water element.
• Supermegatopia illustrates some of the problems with being an ice person.
• Wayward Sons: Saiden, along with his other water-based powers. Sefani specializes in this, not requiring water to be around like Saiden does.
• Whither: The Fair Folk are creatures of winter and various degrees of icy, from not feeling the cold up to bringing on Endless Winter.

Web Videos

• 7-Second Riddles: A literal Ice Queen shows up as the villain of one riddle. She lives in an Ice Palace, wants to turn the protagonist into an ice sculpture, and captures them when they're wandering through the snow.
• Johnny Snow from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog has a homemade Freeze Ray. He's Dr. Horrible's self-appointed nemesis, but doesn't actually appear in the video. He's the Hero Antagonist of one issue of the tie-in comics, though. The Doctor's own Freeze Ray stops time, however.
  It's not a Death Ray
  Or an ice beam — that's so Johnny Snow!
• Empires SMP Season 1: After obtaining a pair of boots enchanted with Frost Walker from Lizzie, Scott develops cryokinesis, and initially delights in being able to have an 'Elsa arc'. He got exactly what he asked for, and it doesn't go well for him.
• In "Frozen Flame" by Mahu, the frostlings as a whole are a race of creatures seemingly made of ice and feared across the continent.
• MovieBob's The Game Overthinker series has an enemy known as the Cryothinker, a ninja with Ice powers who freezes Bob (non-lethally, of course) on multiple occasions. He also has a Fire powered counterpart in the Pyrothinker.
• New Life SMP: The Chillager origin, held by Martyn in his first life, is based on the Iceologer which lost the Minecraft Live 2020 mob vote. They can briefly slow down other entities and turn themselves into a Human Popsicle temporarily to negate all damage. They can also spawn a small ice platform to drop onto enemies, which delivers the Freezing effect on the target and can take up to 7 hearts of damage, and are immune to the freezing effects of powdered snow. However, they have a slower attack speed (due to a loss in "fine motor skills") and receive the Blindness effect around blue soul fire.

Other

• The Cold Boy from The Fear Mythos. Moreover, he usually targets people who are afraid of being "cold" or cut off from others.
• In The Sol Wars, Kylie has the power to cryogenically freeze and thaw herself at will - this is important as it was this power that let her unfreeze herself in 2151 after being cryogenically frozen the old fashioned way.
• Surreal Memes: Dr. COOL Jasper will personally freeze you if you dare say the word "ice".

Real Life

• Ice-nucleating bacteria, such as Pseudomonas syringae, possess the ability to freeze water at warmer temperatures than normal, thereby damaging plants to feed on them. Scientists believe their ice nucleating proteins are an integral part of ice crystal formation in clouds.

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