History Main / KillItWithIce

* The eponymous ImplacableMan of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' is particularly susceptible to liquid nitrogen grenades. However, just like everything else, [[RecurringBoss it doesn't keep him down for more than a few minutes]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Firestorm}}'': While it doesn't actually kill her, this is one method for defeating [[AnIcePerson Killer Frost]]. Unlike most ice characters, she freezes things by absorbing the heat from them instead of the usual inexplicable 'cold ray,' and ''she must do so to stay warm.'' Encasing her in ice cuts off her power supply, and should rightfully be ''more'' dangerous to her than to a civilian. Of course, it's often [[HarmlessFreezing not even dangerous to civilians]].

* PlayedForHorror in the Weird Route of Chapter 2 of ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}''. Normally, you can't kill any enemies with your attacks, as they run away when their health reaches zero. Once you get Noelle in the party, though, her ice-based magic is very, very capable of killing enemies. She even gets a [[OneHitKill stronger ice attack]], whose description is simply "[[NothingIsScarier Fatal]]," if you have her freeze every available enemy. Once you get back to the light world after Noelle uses it on Berdley and leaves, Berdley doesn't wake up with the rest of the group...

* PlayedForHorror in ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}''. Normally, you can't kill any enemies with your attacks, as they run away when their health reaches zero. Once you get Noelle in the party, though, her ice-based magic is very, very capable of killing enemies. She even gets a [[OneHitKill stronger ice attack]] if you have her freeze every available enemy whose description is simply "[[NothingIsScarier Fatal]]." Once you get back to the light world after Noelle uses it on Berdley and leaves, Berdley doesn't wake up with the rest of the group...

* Dio Brando, of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' fame, had the vampiric ability to lower his own body temperature to the point where any flesh he touches freezes solid. He used this ability to protect himself from his weakness to the Ripple technique by freezing his enemies when they made contact with him to stop the Ripple from traveling. He demonstrated this quite effectively by mangling Will A. Zeppeli's arm and effectively taking him out of the fight. Later he showed even more powerful applications...such as freezing Dire's entire body before shattering him like glass.

* ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'': Him is weakened by cold (because, as a demon, he's all about hellfire and brimstone).

* This was shown in the ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]'' comic as one of the few effective ways of hurting ComicBook/PlasticMan. Since he is apparently immortal, actually killing him is out of the question.

* Downplayed in ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', but a common tactic for defeating the Lizard involves luring him into a freezing area such as a fridge car. Being coldblooded, he will slow down and eventually lose consciousness.

* ''Film/MortalKombat'': Liu Kang kills Sub-Zero (who is known for his ice powers) this way in the movie. He uses a bucket of water that goes through Sub-Zero's ice shield and becomes an ice spike that impales him [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice with extreme prejudice]], pins him to a wall, and then freezes him solid. Then, in ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'', when Sub-Zero's heroic younger brother shows up, he freezes Smoke and saves Liu Kang. To cement that Smoke dies, the robot then explodes.

* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' has Cygnus Hyoga, his master the Crysta Saint (only appears in the anime), the ''latter's'' master Aquarius Camus (Hyoga's direct master in the manga), and [[spoiler:Hyoga's RivalTurnedEvil Kracken Isaac]]. All of their attacks are ice-themed.

* The standard method employed by Mr. Freeze in the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' franchise (sometimes non-lethally but often with deadly effect).

* This was shown in the ''[[ComicBook/JusticeLeague JLA]]'' comic as one of the few effective ways of hurting ComicBook/PlasticMan. Since he is apparently immortal, actually killing him is out of the question.

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* Evangeline A.K. [=McDowell=] from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', when she can actually use her magic, specializes in dark and ice spells. Her most powerful spell shown, Kosmike Katastrophe (translates roughly as ''End of the World''), freezes a massive demon, then shatters it with a snap of her fingers. The spell breaks the second law of thermodynamics to freeze a 150 square foot area 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.

* Evangeline A.K. [=McDowell=] from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', when she can actually use her magic, specializes in dark and ice spells. Her most powerful spell shown, Kosmike Katastrophe (translates roughly as ''End of the World''), freezes a massive demon, then shatters it with a snap of her fingers. The spell breaks the second law of thermodynamics to freeze a 150 square foot area 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.
** Evangeline's latest spell, Endless White Nine Heavens, is an original ice-lightning spell made specifically to combat constructs, and locks-on to an enemy and continually freezes them and their surroundings solid while leaving them conscious, so they can [[ColdBloodedTorture suffer for all eternity.]]
** In the magic system of ''Negima'', ice spells are considered higher-level than fire spells of roughly equivalent power, because ice spells violate more of the laws of physics.

* In ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}'', there are a variety of ice-based magic spells, ranging from the "weak enough to use on yourself as air conditioning" to the "instant kill if used on a human". The strongest such attack is Dynast Breath, which freezes the target within ice. The ice then shatters, and the victim with it.

* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Captain Cold has an ice gun capable of creating fields of absolute zero. Like the Kosmike Katastrophe spell by Evangeline from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' this works by violating the second law of thermodynamics.

* Mercury does this very thoroughly when she faces [[spoiler:Zoicite]] in ''FanFic/WhiteDevilOfTheMoon''. [[spoiler:First she locks him inside a large razor-edged fractal ice sculpture, then while he's trying to get out, she drops a car-sized hailstone on his head.]] The narration devotes an entire paragraph describing ''exactly'' how deadly ice can be.

* In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword]]'', [[spoiler:Ninian and Nils are half ice-dragons and ''could'' potentially use these attacks, but their shared dragonstone was taken away by the Black Fang. But after being revived, and most likely due to being near the powerful Dragon's Gate, Ninian uses ice blasts to kill two dragons and wound another (which becomes the FinalBoss), [[ApologeticAttacker while begging them for forgiveness and crying for their deaths]].]]

** Noon's specialty in ''Videogame/ShiningForceIII'' "Now bare by arctic wrath!"
** ''Videogame/ShiningWisdom'' Gueid, the only way to defeat him is to freeze the hot rocks he throws at you and then throw them back while they’re frozen.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'', ice fairies can often to do this. One of the strongest fairies is Cirno who can manipulate cold to this extent. Even if it's effective enough to freeze enemy projectiles, she likes to freeze frogs more.

* Freezing to death from staying outside too long is one of the ways you can let VideoGame/NancyDrew die in ''Treasure in the Royal Tower'' and ''White Wolf of Icicle Creek'', and in one of these games the villain tries to get rid of her this way.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' has the "Cryolator", a prototype weapon found in Vault 111 that functions in a similar manner to a flamethrower (and uses the same ammo), except freezing enemies into brittle chunks of ice as opposed to burning them to a crisp. There's also the Freezing legendary weapon effect, which adds ice damage and the chance to freeze enemies to any gun.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', at the end of the first act, the party's gotten in Edea's way for a bit too long, so what does she do? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtnnWfpWJGo Impale.]]
* The Soviets in ''VideoGame/WarFrontTurningPoint'' love their liquid nitrogen weapons.
* This seems to be Soulcalibur's (and by extension Siegfried's) goal for ''the entire world'' in ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soulcalibur IV]]''.
* ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' introduces ice-elemental weapons that can freeze enemies solid and shatter them into teeny-tiny pieces. DLC character Aurelia not only has an Action Skill that does constant Cryo damage at a certain area, but also has an entire skill tree dedicated to doing Cryo damage in a large area, with her final ability letting her do Cryo damage with any gun after scoring a kill.
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', frost damage hurts health and stamina. A ''lot'' of enemies in Skyrim favor ice too. The more powerful Undead shoot frost from their hands, vampires fling spikes of ice magic, Wispmothers fling volleys of ice spells while their children attack, Ice Wraiths are hostile elemental spirits of ice and air, and Dragons occasionally use the Frost Breath Shout. The native people of Skyrim, the Nords, developed a hardy resistance to cold in response to the various ice-wielding menaces in Skyrim. Including Skyrim itself, since it's the coldest province in Tamriel. Conversely, ice isn't that practical for the player character to use since so many of the enemies in the game are resistant to it. Taken to an even higher level in ''Dragonborn'' with the return of ''Bloodmoon's'' Stalhrim. Players can now forge weapons made of enchanted ice that are on the same level as Ebony weapons that also increase the power of any Frost enchantments placed on them.
* Used to [[LiterallyShatteredLives truly spectacular effect]] by the Kingslayer in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tEA_wUk5pUs#t=93s intro video]] of ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2'', with an ice bomb instantly freezing an entire ship (and almost everyone on board) liquid nitrogen-style
* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' and its [[VideoGame/BioShock2 sequel]] have the Winter Blast plasmid, which freezes splicers when hit, then you can [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatter them into pieces]] with your wrench or any other weapon before they thaw out for a few seconds. The drawback here is that you won't get loot after doing this method. Later on, some splicers will have attained this ability, and are much resistant to your own ice-based attacks. Therefore, [[KillItWithFire do the opposite thing on them, which isn't hard to figure out]]...

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateDarkAlliance'' has several magical spells that work like this, with the potential for turning enemies into little ice chunks if you have the proper spell setup. They either turn all blue for a time where you can hit them physically to shatter them, or if you do it long enough, they shatter all on their own. It's not really practical to do this sometimes because they might be immune to it for some reason or another, or it's rather mana-intensive to do this for long periods.
* Subverted slightly in ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' with the Freezethrower. It fires frozen nitrogen crystals that bounce around the room and damage any enemies they hit ([[HoistByHisOwnPetard including yourself]] if you're not careful), but when they reach death, they instead freeze solid, at which point they are a OneHitPointWonder - although they will [[HarmlessFreezing harmlessly thaw out]] after a few seconds (but can still be downed or re-frozen in one hit). ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' changes the Freezethrower into a ray-based weapon (actually some kind of [[ImprovisedWeapon maintenance tool]]) with a similar effect.
* In VideoGame/FireEmblem, the [[http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/Ice_Dragon Ice Dragon]] can theoretically do this via using their ice breaths. In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia'', Tiki (who's actually a Divine Dragon) can use ice dragon-like attacks if she gets an Ice Stone from the secret shops.
* In [[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword]], [[spoiler:Ninian and Nils are half ice-dragons and ''could'' potentially use these attacks, but their shared dragonstone was taken away by the Black Fang. But after being revived, and most likely due to being near the powerful Dragon's Gate, Ninian uses ice blasts to kill two dragons and wound another (which becomes the FinalBoss), [[ApologeticAttacker while begging them for forgiveness and crying for their deaths]].]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'', ice fairies can often to do this. One of the strongest fairies is Cirno who can manipulate cold to this extent. Even if it's effective enough to freeze enemy projectiles, she likes to freeze frogs more.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'', all of the Glacial Behemoth's abilities are ice themed. Two inflict the standard slow effect, while one slows reload speed and another [[PinnedToTheWall freezes hunters in place]].
* ''VideoGame/{{BlazBlue}}'' has Jin's main ability which is to freeze opponents with his katana, alongside [[AnIcePerson summoning ice swords, creating ice barriers, turning his sword into a bow that shoots icy arrows,]] [[MemeticMutation and riding ice cars.]]
* The titular ImplacableMan of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' is particularly susceptible to liquid nitrogen grenades. However, just like everything else, [[RecurringBoss it doesn't keep him down for more than a few minutes]].
* If you want to fight it instead of dodging it until the elevator arrives, Salazar's "Right Hand" in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' is much easier if you use the conveniently-located canisters to repeatedly freeze it solid and pump it full of lead while it's frozen (or just freeze it once, pull out the rocket launcher, and call it a day).
* The playstation version of ''VideoGame/XenaWarriorPrincess'' has a late power-up called the Frostbiter, which allows Xena to solidify her enemies into an ice statue with a single hit. Land a second hit and the frozen enemies [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatter into ice shards]].
* In VideoGame/{{Doom}} mod ''VideoGame/{{GMOTA}}'', The alternate attack of Daggar subweapon turns your sword into ice and freezes enemies. Frozen enemies will shatter and become tasty ice creams, so [[EatingTheEnemy you can eat it]] to replenish your health.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', Sonic and Knuckles battle Chaos 6 on the deck of the Egg Carrier. Dr. Eggman tosses freezer bombs, intending to use them to freeze Sonic or Knuckles, but the two can use them to freeze Chaos 6 by tossing them at him or tricking him into sucking them up with his VacuumMouth. Once Chaos 6 is frozen, Sonic or Knuckles can jump on him to damage him.
* ''VideoGame/{{Gift|2001}}'': The Blue Crystal power, while freezing water, kills everything in it. Including you.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' in the episode "Johnny vs Brainfreezer" has the Brainfreezer a disgruntled barista/university student who made a freeze ray from his coffee maker and Susan and Mary's blaster.

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* Being AnIcePerson, Admiral Aokiji in ''Manga/OnePiece'' can freeze someone solid, then kill them by shattering their frozen body. Even barring that, they can still die if thawed improperly.

* In ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}'', there are a variety of ice-based magic spells, ranging from the "weak enough to use on yourself as air conditioning" to the "instant kill if used on a human". The strongest such attack is Dynast Breath, which freezes the target within ice. The ice then shatters, and the victim with it.
* Done several times by Todoroki from Class 1-A's Manga/MyHeroAcademia, but no one (hopefully) has died from them.
** The first time was Class 1-A's first Battle Training. He froze the whole building, constraining Hagakure's and Ojiro's feet. This is quickly averted with Todoroki reheating the place with his fire.
** The second time around was portrayed differently. Unlike the aforementioned situation where he just simply immobilized his classmates, he was freezing some actual thugs of the League of Villains. He quickly froze them though, not releasing them and until they told him their schemes.
** The Sports Festival preliminary fight between Todoroki and Sero ended in a matter of seconds after Todoroki froze Sero with his Heaven Piercing Ice Wall.
* Evangeline A.K. [=McDowell=] from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', when she can actually use her magic, specializes in dark and ice spells. Her most powerful spell shown, Kosmike Katastrophe (translates roughly as ''End of the World''), freezes a massive demon, then shatters it with a snap of her fingers. The spell breaks the second law of thermodynamics to freeze a 150 square foot area 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.
** Evangeline's latest spell, Endless White Nine Heavens, is an original ice-lightning spell made specifically to combat constructs, and locks-on to an enemy and continually freezes them and their surroundings solid while leaving them conscious, so they can [[ColdBloodedTorture suffer for all eternity.]]
** In the magic system of ''Negima'', ice spells are considered higher-level than fire spells of roughly equivalent power, because ice spells violate more of the laws of physics.
* Dio Brando, of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' fame, had the vampiric ability to lower his own body temperature to the point where any flesh he touches freezes solid. He used this ability to protect himself from his weakness to the Ripple technique by freezing his enemies when they made contact with him to stop the Ripple from traveling. He demonstrated this quite effectively by mangling Will A. Zeppeli's arm and effectively taking him out of the fight. Later he showed even more powerful applications...such as freezing Dire's entire body before shattering him like glass.

* In ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', this is how Black wins his Gym Battle against Drayden despite not having any Ice-types on his team. [[spoiler:Black has his Braviary destroy the doors to the building where the battle is taking place, letting the blizzard outside seep in and slow down Drayden's Druddigon, which gives Braviary the upper hand.]]
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', it turns out a Briggs winter is even capable of incapacitating [[spoiler:a homunculus]]. From ''Brotherhood'', there's [[AnIcePerson Isaac]] [[MakingASplash the Freezer]]. He's actually capable of [[KillItWithWater killing people with water in any number of ways]], including flash-frying them with steam and creating blades of high-pressure water, but ice is apparently his favorite and it's what he uses for his ultimate technique.

* In ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', Sailor Mercury eventually learns ice-based attacks.
* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' has Cygnus Hyoga, his master the Crysta Saint (only appears in the anime), the ''latter's'' master Aquarius Camus (Hyoga's direct master in the manga), and [[spoiler:Hyoga's RivalTurnedEvil Kracken Isaac]]. All of their attacks are ice-themed.
* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': Sakura incapacitates the Watery card by tricking her into entering a walk-in freezer, then locking the door, waiting a bit, and capturing her became a simple matter.
* ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'': Him is weakened by cold (because, as a demon, he's all about hellfire and brimstone).

* This was shown in the ''[[ComicBook/JusticeLeague JLA]]'' comic as one of the few effective ways of hurting ComicBook/PlasticMan. Since he is apparently immortal, actually killing him is out of the question.

* While it doesn't actually kill her, this is one method for defeating [[AnIcePerson Killer Frost]]. Unlike most ice characters, she freezes things by absorbing the heat from them instead of the usual inexplicable 'cold ray,' and ''she must do so to stay warm.'' Encasing her in ice cuts off her power supply, and should rightfully be ''more'' dangerous to her than to a civilian. Of course, it's often [[HarmlessFreezing not even dangerous to civilians]].
* [[ComicBook/TheFlash Captain Cold]] has an ice gun capable of creating fields of absolute zero. Like the Kosmike Katastrophe spell by Evangeline from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' this works by violating the second law of thermodynamics.

* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', [[spoiler:ice is one of the only things Draconequi like Discord cannot affect with their powers.]] Ice is created by taking away heat and their magic doesn't work on something born from the absence of something.
* In ''Fanfic/AMinorVariation'', weather captain "Hurricane" Fluttershy incapacitates Gilda the griffon by luring her high enough that her wingfeathers freeze up. She even quotes ''Film/IronMan1'': "How'd you solve the icing problem?"
* ''Fanfic/FantasyOfUtterRidiculousness:'' Megas's flaming sword can be turned into an ice sword when Coop turns on the air conditioner. Fittingly, it's powered by a Mega Slush.

* ''Film/TheDevilsMessenger'': In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom knocks Dr. Olsen [[DeathByFallingOver to floor and possibly kills him]] during an argument in the cold room. He then makes sure of the job by open a pipe and dousing olsen in freezing liquid.

* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' Double Adventure "The Chamax Plague/Horde", the title alien monsters are defeated by luring them into an icy snowfield and with a cold-generation field, respectively.

* In many editions ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', as well as spinoff ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', fire-associated creatures (like fire elementals, fire giants, or red dragons) tend to be especially vulnerable to cold damage. [[SubvertedTrope This can't be relied on all the time]], though, as many of these creatures are smart enough to be aware of their weakness, and will use their resources to acquire some method of resisting cold damage.

* In ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', this is the standard way of dealing with Dragon-types, since the only other type that's super-effective against them is their own (or, starting with [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Generation VI]], the [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Fairy type]]). You will want something else for [[PlayingWithFire Reshiram]], [[ChromeChampion Dialga]], [[MakingASplash Palkia]], and [[AnIcePerson Kyurem]], however. Ice is also super-effective against [[GreenThumb Grass]], [[DishingOutDirt Ground]] and [[BlowYouAway Flying]] types, which makes it even better for dealing with Dragon/Flying and Dragon/Ground Pokémon such as Dragonite and Garchomp.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** A secret research lab is built in high mountains on a permanently frozen planet, the idea being that if anything goes wrong, the cold would stop whatever they create from leaving the labs. In case of an emergency, the doors are locked and the power cut off, and after a week or so, cleanup teams with arctic gear can take care of the frozen mess.
** [[DepletedPhlebotinumShells Cryo and Snowblind rounds]] freeze targets solid with [[LiterallyShatteredLives predictable results]]. This is one way to keep Krogans from regenerating and coming at you again.
** The sequels add Cryo Blast as a tech ability, and the Avalanche heavy weapon. The N7 Paladin and Alliance Infiltration Unit classes in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'''s multiplayer have the [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Snap_Freeze Snap Freeze]] ability that sprays ice in an arc in front of them. It can cause damage on its own but is particularly useful for slowing enemies down and increasing the damage they take, as well as being able to hit enemies through cover. If a frozen or chilled enemy is hit by a detonating power, such as Overload or Concussive Shot, it will also set off a Cryo Explosion that harms and freezes enemies across a wide radius.
* ''VideoGame/{{Magicka}}'': Ice and Frost are both 2 elements you can use.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' has the Ice Arrows, which freezes enemies upon contact. Weaker enemies will be killed the moment they're thawed out, while stronger enemies will need either another Ice Arrow or to be dealt with up-close. ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]'' uses an Ice Rod instead of Ice Arrows. ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'' gives you the option of using an Ice Arrow to freeze the enemy and then using the [[DropTheHammer Skull Hammer]] to smash the enemy to pieces for an instant kill. Even on ''Darknuts'' if you're quick enough.
* ''VideoGame/LuminousArc'': Mel the Torrent Witch starts out with a simple [[MakingASplash water spell]], but she later learns Ice Crush, her strongest magical attack second only to Claire's Volt Storm. She is also the CombatMedic.
* ''VideoGame/LuminousArc2'': Fatima's Shadow Frost Spell, while technically a [[CastingAShadow Dark Magic Spell]], has a taste of this. Her FD is pure of this though.
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': Sub-Zero, being AnIcePerson in general, hands out plenty of these as Finishing Moves.

* Torch Bearer from ''VideoGame/{{Demigod}}'' switches between this and KillItWithFire.
* ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'' has frost-based aliens armed with ice-shard guns. Later on, you can get one of their weapons to use against them. And it has infinite ammo, too!
* Attempted in ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' with the hunter, which you have to lure into a cryogenic chamber to freeze it solid. This works for a while, but it eventually breaks free and keeps coming after you, no worse for the wear. In the end, it requires firing the rocket engines of a spaceship into its face to really kill it dead.
* One of the bosses in the final level of ''VideoGame/KidDracula'' requires to shoot it with an ice projectile which is almost completely useless elsewhere.
* ''Franchise/MegaMan'':
** If the eponymous character 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, though this is occasionally inverted. Otherwise, KillItWithWater.
** ROMHack ''VideoGame/RockmanNoConstancy'' has Ice Circle, [[AnIcePerson Wood Man's]] new weapon.
** Inverted in ''6'' - [[AnIcePerson Blizzard Man]] is weak to the weapon that [[PlayingWithFire Flame Man]] gives Mega Man.
** ''10'' has Solar Man (fire), Chill Man (ice) ''and'' Pump Man (Water). Kill Solar Man with water. The Chill Spike (which creates spines of ice on the ground) is good against Nitro Man ([[TransformingMecha who turns into]] a [[FridgeBrilliance motorcycle]]).

* In ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'', the Scourge specializes in ice attacks (since EvilIsDeathlyCold), particularly the Lich heroes. The Lich King provides the page quote.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', Mages and Death Knights are both capable of specializing in Ice-based attacks. Also, Shamans have Frost Shock. Averted with Hunters, whose freezing traps don't kill, but merely immobilize an enemy in ice or create a slick surface that slows enemy movement. As mentioned above, many Scourge mobs also tend towards ice.
* One fascinating quirk of dwarven physics in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' is that any water exposed to open air below freezing temperature, freezes ''instantly'' along with anything that was unlucky enough to be in it. When you melt or dig out the ice, only things left are bones and metal equipment.

* You have a lot of options to do this in a standard ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'' game: the Ice/Blizzard series of spells is generally one of the [[SquishyWizard Black Mage's]] basic abilities, ice-elemental equipment is [[SortingAlgorithmOfWeaponEffectiveness usually obtained around the half-way point]], and summoners have Shiva (or Mateus in the Ivalice games).
* ''VideoGame/{{Hexen}}: Beyond Heretic'' has the Mage's Ice Spell, which if you kill someone with it, they freeze, and you can shatter them like glass.

* ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' has one in White [[AnIcePerson Len]].

* In many types of extermination in the real world, cold temperatures, or freezing, is used to kill pests. It can be ineffective, or take a long time. KillItWithFire, and cold temperatures, are used to kill bed bugs and other pests in some cases, other than poison, in which the house's temperature is lowered, or raised, substantially. This can take multiple attempts, such as the process being done every other day or so for a year. And if the problem persists, once again, another year.

* The [[BlobMonster glufferflork's]] cause of death in FanFic/DividedRainbow.

* ''Anime/DemashitaPowerpuffGirlsZ'': Him is weakened by cold (because, as a demon, he's all about hellfire and brimstone).