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* [[CardCaptorSakura Card Captor Sakura:]] Sakura incapacitates the Watery card by tricking her into entering a walk-in freezer and then locking the door. Wait a bit, and capturing her became a simple matter.

* In ''[=~Pokémon~=]'', this is the standard way of dealing with enemy dragons, since the only other type that's super-effective against them is their own.

** Grass and ground-types are also weak to Ice, though they both have more common weaknesses (the other two Kill It With... tropes, in fact.) Keep this in mind when taking on the Dragon/Ground types Garchomp and Flygon ForMassiveDamage.

** Hell, offensively ice is one of the ''best'' types because it does double damage against four incredibly common types, which is why Ice Beam is so horribly overused.

*** The fact that ice is supereffective against grass + the ability of ''every damn water type ever'' to learn ice moves = major frustration for those who chose the Grass starter.
** There's also Sheer Cold, an Ice-type OneHitKill. Notably, the only one without a type immune to it.

While [[KillItWithFire fire is the traditional means]] of destroying evil, sometimes [[color:blue:c]][[color:cyan:o]][[color:lightblue:l]][[color:navyblue:d]] works just as well. This can range from liquid nitrogen to just luring your opponent into a very cold place. Attacking people in this way almost always results in an [[OneHitKill instant kill]] through immediate cessation of bodily function, although in real life it would still take time to induce hypothermia or stop the heart.

While [[KillItWithFire fire is the traditional means]] of destroying evil, sometimes cold works just as well. This can range from liquid nitrogen to just luring your opponent into a very cold place. Attacking people in this way almost always results in an [[OneHitKill instant kill]] through immediate cessation of bodily function, although in real life it would still take time to induce hypothermia or stop the heart.

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* Evangeline A.K. [=McDowell=] from ''{{Negima}}'', when she can actually use her magic, specializes in dark and ice spells. Her most powerful spell shown, Kosmike Katastrophe, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome freezes a massive demon, then shatters it with a snap of her fingers.]] If memory of supplemental material serves, that spell breaks the laws of thermodynamics to freeze the target 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.

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* Quick rule of thumb: if MegaMan is up against both a fire-using boss and an ice-using boss in the same batch of Robot Masters, the one using fire will usually be weak to one using ice. Otherwise, KillItWithWater. (The real unfortunate one out of this is Sword Man ''Mega Man 8'' - he was weak to both Frost Man's weapon and Aqua Man's weapon).

** Good thing they were counting on the ''alien'' shattering, and not the lead itself, huh?

*** From what I read this wouldn't work due to the lower cooling temp of lead -- so if anyone knows for sure one way or the other?
*** Flamethrowers didn't work in ''Aliens''. They just kept the creatures at bay so Ripley could escape. She had to use actual bullets to really kill anything.

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* [[TheFlash Captain Cold]] has an ice gun capable of creating fields of absolute zero.
** [[YouFailPhysicsForever This means no movement on any level]], which is impossible for violating the third law of thermodynamics. Absolute Zero would work more effectively as atomizer than a ice-based weapon. (Get close enough to absolute zero and atoms fall apart and mixing with each other)

* [[CardCaptorSakura]] [[spoiler:Sakura incapacitates the Watery card by tricking her into entering a walk-in freezer and then locking the door. Wait a bit, and capturing her became a simple matter]].

* Being AnIcePerson, this is Vexen of ''KingdomHearts'''s weapon of choice. Erm, besides his big-ass shield.

* ''RedAlert3'' gives the Allied faction several new ice-based superweapons and units, including Cryoblasts and Cryocopters. While the ice itself doesn't do any damage, it does leave frozen targets vulnerable enough that a single shot from the weakest infantry unit will shatter an Apocolypse tank.