History Main / FreezeRay

%% * A staple of Dr. Eggman's winter-themed weapons in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' games.

** The prequel ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}'' shows a much younger Dr. Nefario demonstrating the gun to a young Gru (and freezing his own hand) at Villain-Con, which implies Gru actually got the gun (or perhaps stole it) from him.

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* ''Film/Predator2''. Peter Keys' team had "nitrogen guns" (liquid nitrogen backpacks attached to sprayers), which they planned to use to freeze (and thereby capture) the Predator.

* ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'' features the Stasis Beam, whose effects are similar to the Crystallizer above. Good thing it only works on ghosts...

A SubTrope of ImpossiblyCoolWeapon[[note]]Pun not intended[[/note]] and RayGun.

* GoldenAge ComicBook/GreenLantern foe the Icicle wielded a freeze ray. His son internalized the cold powers and became AnIcePerson.
* ''ComicBook/IronMan'' foe Blizzard uses a battlesuit that shoots freeze rays from its gloves.

* ''VideoGame/PrimeTarget'' has a Nitrogen blaster that fires ice-cold orbs which freezes enemies on the spot. Hit them with another weapon and LiterallyShatteresLives ensues. The only enemy type who uses this weapon are henchwomen mooks, and if you happen to get yourself frozen the screen from your POV turns blue-green for several seconds.

* In the second WesternAnimation/{{Care Bears|1980s}} special, Professor Coldheart invents a freeze ray called "The Careless Ray Contraption," which he uses to freeze all the kids in town.

* ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders [[http://en.dcdatabaseproject.com/Batman_and_the_Outsiders_Vol_1_6 #6, "Death Warmed Over!"]]''. The team battles the Cryonic Man, a villain with a backpack full of liquid nitrogen attached to wrist-mounted sprayers that he uses to freeze the Outsiders solid.

** On the cover of ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1942}}'' [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/bondage/277_4_162.jpg #162]], Minister Blizzard has frozen Steve Trevor with his freeze ray gun and is about to do the same to Franchise/WonderWoman.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' has the appropriately named Cryocopters and later Cryo Legionnaires who fire sprays of liquid nitrogen in a cone (and naturally, [[TheAhnold have]] [[Creator/ArnoldScharzenegger heavy]] [[Film/BatmanAndRobin Austrian accents]]). There is also the KillSat superweapon version Cryoshot/Cryoblast/Cryogeddon. These are [[HarmlessFreezing mostly harmless]] in that they deal no damage and a frozen unit will eventually thaw out, but frozen objects will [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatter]] if hit with the slightest damage, and for air units (done by cryo legionnaires garrisoned in a multigunner turret/IFV) the result is not something to laugh at since they will immediately come crashing down when frozen.
* ''VideoGame/WarFrontTurningPoint'': an earlier example. The [[RedsWithRockets Soviet Union]], with their can deploy air-dropped [[SovietSuperscience freeze bombs]] and "Ice Spitter" Tanks in advance of an attack force; the metaphor used in-game is ''"canned Siberian weather"''. Frozen units recover after a time, but are very vulnerable to damage and immobile.

* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2424 SCP-2424 ("Hostile Walrus Cyborg ''research ongoing''")]]. In the anomalous VideoGame ''Eskimo Moe'', the enemies known as Goonters (intelligent penguins) have pistol-like devices that can fire a freezing ray.

* Mr. Freeze from the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' (restating it because Mr. Freeze as we currently know him was created for ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''). He reappears in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''. Once, Bruce himself uses an old freeze gun, which he keeps as a memento, to against Inque. The second time, Inque learns to destroy the gun first. In another episode, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Derek Powers]] clones Freeze and implants the villain's memories into the clone. When Freeze has a relapse of his condition, he dons an upgraded suit, which has freeze rays built into the arms.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' had a sketch parodying a similar situation to the Young Justice example above. Several different cold-themed villains with freeze-rays show up, one after another, to steal the same priceless giant gem and they all start bickering over who has a better thematic claim to it. Eventually, yet another villain destroys a wall with his freeze-ray in order to burst in, and the combined structural damage they've all done making their entrances collapses the entire building on top of them.

* Using directed energy to ''lower'' temperatures may sound absurd, but on a molecular scale, cold is just slowness. Lasers have demonstrated an ability to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_applications_for_lasers#Laser_cooling produce cold, given very, VERY specific circumstances]]. See: Atom Trapping.

* Gru from ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' wields a freeze ray he invented, making for a comical opening scene of him cutting in line at the coffee shop by casually zapping people while [[CallingYourAttacks shouting "Freeze ray!!"]] Conveniently, the HarmlessFreezing effect allows him to be a villain without actually killing anyone.

* ''Young Samson & Goliath'' episode "The Colossal Coral Creature''. The villain Darvo uses a freeze ray to solidify a cloud in an attempt to destroy a plane that Samson and Goliath are riding on.