Fire/Ice Duo

Together forever as lovers or enemies.

Captain Cold: Fire and Ice...
Firestorm: A played out theme, don't ya think?
Captain Cold: Got a soft spot for the classics.

— Injustice 2

Fire and ice. Two distinct opposites that could never work out together, right? Wrong. In the land of fiction, it’s common place to see these two elemental powers in close proximity with each other. They provide a great contrast, either covering for each other's weaknesses or serving as each other's Achilles' Heel.

They can be best buddies, reluctant teammates, or mortal enemies. So long as they constantly interact, then this trope applies.

Subtrope of Fire/Water Juxtaposition and Elemental Rivalry. Given Elemental Personalities, the characters will often also form a Red Oni, Blue Oni pairing, with their emotional and impulsive Fire contrasting the stoic and reserved Ice. They'll also contrast in terms of appearance, where the "fire" character will have warmer colors in their design and the "ice" character will have cooler colors (often blue), often going hand in hand with Orange/Blue Contrast. When the motif is done via terrain, see Hailfire Peaks.

If an electric character is added to this mix, it becomes a Fire, Ice, Lightning dynamic.

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Examples:

Advertising

• This 2018 Super Bowl ad for Doritos Blaze and Mountain Dew Ice features Peter Dinklage and Morgan Freeman as elemental super beings of fire and ice, respectively, who engage in Battle Rapping to sell their products.

Anime & Manga

• Daigunder: DragoFlame and DragoFreeze are a pair of dragon-based mechs that wield fire and ice respectively that eventually join the heroes.
• Digimon Adventure: Tai's and Matt's Digimon in their most powerful forms, WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon, wield the fire and ice elements respectively. Their elemental affinities match up with Tai and Matt's Red Oni, Blue Oni dynamic, and the Digimon can fuse to become the ultra-powerful Omnimon.
• Dragon Ball GT: The two brothers Nova Shenron (fire) and Eis Shenron (ice). Despite both being against Goku, they have completely opposite personalities and fighting styles. Nova is the Token Good Teammate of the evil Shenrons and fights fairly, while Eis is an arrogant, twisted villain who has no problem using dirty tricks. Nova turns out to be the result of King Piccolo's selfish wish, the only such wish to create a Shadow Dragon; the others all resulted from selfless ones.
• Fairy Tail has the boisterous, hot-blooded, red-haired, fire-wielding hero Natsu (Fire) and his serious, level-headed (most of the time), ice-wielding foil Gray (Ice).
• Fire Punch has the protagonist Agni, a Differently Powered Individual coated in flames and blessed with a Healing Factor strong enough to keep him alive while coated in said flames, and the villain, another Differently Powered Individual, referred to as the Ice Witch who's used their ice powers to blanket the world in snow and ice. In actuality the Ice Witch is a myth made up by the nation of Behemdolg to serve as a common enemy for uniting the people, really the reason the world is covered in ice is that the world has entered a regular ice age that will most likely wipe out humanity within twenty years.
• Juni Taisen: Zodiac War has this dynamic with the Tatsumi Brothers, Dragon and Snake, who have an icethrower and a flamethrower, respectively. Dragon, the elder brother, is calm and composed, while Snake is reckless and a violent pyromaniac.
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha INNOCENT: When Nanoha's two friends, the Hot-Blooded Arisa and the Shrinking Violet Suzuka, gain Magical Girl forms, they're revealed to have fire and ice attributes respectively.
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS has two Unison Devices: Reinforce Zwei of the Yagami family and Agito, an ally of the Big Bad. Agito has a built-in affinity for fire magic — a phenomenon known in the series as "Mana Conversion Affinity", of the flame-type in this case,—and while there is no canonical equivalent for ice-based magic, Rein's offensive spells are all cold-based. Needless to say, the two of them rapidly develop an intense rivalry (especially since Rein has a designated master, while Agito technically doesn't), which gets resolved at the end of the season by Agito being adopted into the Yagami family, as well.
• My Hero Academia:
  • Invoked by Endeavor, who sought out a woman with a strong ice Quirk to complement his fire Quirk, and trapped her in marriage. She eventually gave birth to Shoto, who can generate fire from his left side and ice from his right.
  • During the Meta Liberation Army arc, fire-using villain Dabi is matched up against Geten, an MLA enforcer with a powerful ice Quirk. The two have a difficult time cancelling out each other's Quirks.
• My-HiME: The main heroines share this dynamic. The fire-using Mai is outgoing and friendly but reluctant to start a fight, while her ice-using friend Natsuki is a Defrosting Ice Queen who doesn't hesitate to respond to a challenge.
• One Piece: Two of the Admirals provide this dynamic: the lazy but righteous Aokiji and the ruthless General Ripper Akainu. Aokiji is as forgiving as a Marine can be with the Straw Hats, while Akainu is willing to kill ''his own men'' if they even think of deserting during battle. He deeply hates pirates and is the first character to kill a significant pirate in a non-flashback scene. After the timeskip, Aokiji and Akainu get into a fight. Akainu wins, injuring Aokiji in the process.
• Ranma ½: Ranma Saotome gains this dynamic with Saffron, the Final Boss of the manga. Ranma's Finishing Move is the Hiryu Shoten Ha, a tornado technique that requires the user to have a icy cold Battle Aura to contrast the hot angry aura of the opponent. This is taken to full effect with Saffron who is a humanoid phoenix that specialises in fire attacks. During their battle, Saffron and Ranma also wield the Kinjakan and Gekkaja, Legendary Weapons that generate extreme heat and cold respectively. This allows Ranma to amplify his Hiryu Shoten Ha with the heat of Saffron's literal flames to lethal levels.
• Rurouni Kenshin: Kenshin and the Kyoto arc Big Bad Shishio Makoto can be considered rivals (both were highly skilled hitokiri during the Bakumatsu period (1853-1868), and now they're enemies. In their final battle, Kenshin's revamp and secret attack summons forth a fierce squall, while Makoto's special attack and power up are announced by roaring flames.
• YuYu Hakusho: Fire demon Hiei and his twin sister, the ice demon Yukina. They are actually the offspring of a male fire demon and a female ice demon, making it also a case of Gender Equals Breed.

Comic Books

• DC Comics:
  • Batman and the Outsiders: The villain team Masters of Disaster included members called Heatstroke and Coldsnap. They were lovers whose powers prevented them from even touching. Their motivation for being supervillains was to earn enough money to find a cure for their powers so they could be together.
  • Firestorm and Killer Frost might just be the most well-known examples.
    • Killer Frost is a female scientist who got granted ice powers after an accident. She became one of Firestorm's first foes, wanting revenge on the world and especially against Firestorm, eventually becoming his Arch-Enemy. Even though there's two Firestorms out there (Ronnie Raymond and Jason Rusch) and three-four different incarnations of Killer Frost, the Arch-Enemy relationship between them stays intact through every iteration.
    • A strange version of this happens in Crisis on Infinite Earths, where Killer Frost suffers a temporary amnesia and helps the heroes commanded by the Monitor and even falls in love with Firestorm (to his surprise and dislike).
  • The Flash's Rogues Gallery members, Captain Cold and Heatwave are typically partners in crime, with the two of them wielding a Freeze Ray and a flamethrower as their trademark weapons.
  • In Justice League International, both of the members of the team, the Brazilian Beatriz "Bea" Bonilla da Costa and the Finnish Tora Olafsdotter, more known for their superhero names "Fire" and "Ice", are Heterosexual Life-Partners, being both friends and confidants.
  • Retroboot Legion of Super-Heroes portrays Sun Boy and Polar Boy as having become Vitriolic Best Buds during the time skip.
• Marvel Comics:
  • The Mighty Thor: Marvel's Asgardian gods fear Ymir, the most powerful Frost Giant, and Surtur, the fire creature destined to be the Big Bad of Ragnarok. They're also mutual enemies, and would destroy the world if they tried to fight each other (especially if they're in two different locations and rampage their way towards each other). Doctor Strange once helped The Avengers prevent exactly that.
  • X-Men:
    • This trope (and Elemental Motifs) is part of what helps solidify Cyclops' two love interests, Jean Grey and Emma Frost, as diametric opposites of one another. Jean is a red-haired woman who has gone by the code name "Phoenix" for a good bit of her career, frequently wears a flaming bird insignia as part of her costume, and has psychic powers that frequently manifest themselves as flames. Appropriately, she is known for her warm, compassionate nature, and (on darker occasions) for her unpredictable fiery temper. Emma (while not actually having ice-based powers) is frequently visually associated with ice and the cold because of her surname "Frost", her blonde hair, her all-white clothing, and her diamond-based form that makes her resemble an ice sculpture. Appropriately, she is known for her coldly stoic personality, and her often cynical attitude towards life.
    • A notorious rivalry is Iceman, a known member of the X-Men, and Pyro, a rogue mutant and member of Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Both naturally can create and control ice and fire respectively and are considered to be Arch-Enemies. This is given a twist with the second Pyro in X-Men: Gold, who turns out to only be a villain due to Mind Control, and later petitioned to join the X-Men. Bobby is unhappy with having a Pyro on the team, but they later sleep together.
    • Speaking of Iceman: outside of X-books, he has also teamed up with the Human Torch several times. A memorable occasion had them fight Equinox, a villain with fire and ice powers. When meeting in the Days of Future Present crossover, they lampshade this trope:
      Iceman: Yo! Ice and fire...
      Torch: The unbeatable combo!
    • In All-New X-Men (2016), the team has the time-displaced versions of Iceman and Angel. The latter got his wings replaced/upgraded by fire-like constructs after the events of The Black Vortex and can use them to unleash fire storm-like attacks. There's also Oya, who got temperature control powers, meaning she can use fire and ice. Iceman tends to be a bit jealous of her abilities.
• Stormwatch PHD features a fire-and-ice rivalry between the fiery heroine Fahrenheit and icy psychopath Cooler.

Fan Works

• Earth-27: The most well known super-hero examples are present, such as Firestorm and Coldsnap, Fire and Ice and Captain Cold and Heatwave.
• Facing the Future Series: Following becoming Danny's partner, Sam ends up developing fire powers in contrast to Danny's freezing powers. The two have since worked to use their elements in tangent, particularly to deliver a strike that's half-freezing, half-burning.
• The Road Not Trekked Series: Nerr's rival older sisters, Hinoka and Camilla, respectively wield the fiery naginata Amaterasu and the icy axe Artemis, weapons named after goddesses of the sun and moon.
• We Are All Pokémon Trainers: Pianis (an Ice monotyper) and Jenna (a Fire monotyper) used to be a romantic couple, but a Noodle Incident led to a bad breakup and they've avoided each other ever since.
• The Secret Return of Alex Mack: Victor Cready can't stop himself leaking fire everywhere. Tsurara can't stop herself from freezing everything around her, and will die herself from the cold if she doesn't have a constant heat source. It's a match made in... well, a lab.
• Scoob and Shag: Fred and Daphne have powers focused on ice and fire, and they work best used together. Fred can only freeze a target to immobilize them but cannot deal much damage, while Daphne's fire attack cannot affect a target if it simply keeps moving. Used in combination, however, they form a powerful combo that shuts a target down while simultaneously dishing out massive damage.
• Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus: Chloe Cerise and Amelia Hughes are the fire and ice of the Red Lotus Uprising. Chloe is a Fiery Redhead who uses the Cloak of Marchosias to burn everything down whereas Amelia is the stoic and calculated engineer that wields the Ice Wand.
• Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls: Sunset Shimmer wields the fire-type Zanpakuto Hokori, while Sixth Division Captain Platinum wields the ice-type Zanpakuto Fuyukogo. Not only do the two clash on personality and ideological issues, their Zanpakuto also are quite eager to clash against each other, something both of them comment on. Fittingly enough, the two face each other both at the prelude to and the climax of the Soul Society Arc ala Ichigo and Byakuya.

Films — Animation

• Ne Zha: The aggressive and impulsive Ne Zha's magic mostly manifests in the form of fire and flames, while the focused and deliberate Ao Bing's creates and manipulates ice.
• The Year Without a Santa Claus: The brothers Snow Miser, who loves snow and cold weather and would love for winter to last year-long, and Heat Miser, who loves heat and doesn't like temperatures below high noon in August. Their fights throw the planet's seasons into disorder. Part of the plot is to get them to agree to allow snow on a Southern town. An unusual example, as Snow is the excitable one and Heat is the calculating one.

Films — Live-Action

• Sky High (2005): The pyrokinetic Warren and a girl with ice powers end up as partners at the school dance.
• X-Men: The Last Stand: Iceman and Pyro are rivals and paired up in fights.
• This is Spın̈al Tap: Derek describes David and Nigel as being fire and ice, and says that he often moderates between them, which makes him lukewarm water.

Literature

• The Beginning After the End: The Prince and Princess of Sapin, Curtis and Kathyln Glayder, are a Brother–Sister Team version of this trope. The former is a Fiery Redhead who is an augmenter specializing in Fire Magic and has a powerful World Lion as his Bond while the latter is an Defrosting Ice Queen who is a conjurer specializing in Ice Magic and is even known as the "Ice Princess" (their respective fighting styles also making them an instance of Guys Smash, Girls Shoot as well).
• The Grace of Kings: The two patron gods of Cocru. Kana is the goddess of fire and volcanoes; her twin Rapa is the goddess of ice and glaciers. Despite this dichotomy they act in tandem and are mentioned to be as close as their other domains, death and sleep.
• InCryptid: Antimony is a pyrokinetic. James is a cryokinetic. They join forces to destroy the Crossroads, and afterwards she adopts him into the Price family.
• In The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School and The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School by Kim Newman, a series about an Extranormal Institute girls' boarding school in the Genteel Interbellum Setting, there are girls called Frost and Thorn who have ice and fire powers respectively, become friends, and are indicated to become a supervillain duo as adults.
• A Song of Ice and Fire: Expected, given the title.
  • Fire and ice are the respective elemental motifs of House Targaryen (descended from dragon riders and people otherwise associated with fire, traditional seat is the volcanic island of Dragonstone, house words: "Fire and Blood") and House Stark (who govern the icy North, Ancestral Weapon: sword named Ice, house words: "Winter is Coming"):
    • Likely the reason Rhaegar Targaryen pursued Lyanna Stark, sparking a civil war in the process; he was hoping to sire the prophesied "prince that was promised" who bears "the song of ice and fire". What exactly this means, however, is unknown.
    • Fire & Blood tells of the Pact of Ice and Fire, the alliance between Rhaenyra Targaryen and House Stark. Supposedly, Rhaenyra's son Jacaerys married Cregan Stark's bastard daughter Sara Snow to seal it.
  • R'hllor, god of fire, life, and light, has a counterpart, enemy, and diametric opposite called the Great Other, the god of darkness, cold and death. This is directly inspired by the dynamic between Ormazd and Ahriman in Zoroastrianism.
• Warrior Cats: The second book is called Fire and Ice. It may be referring to the main character Fireheart, and possibly the winter season the book takes place during, or it may be a metaphor for the conflicts in the book.
• Wintersmith: The eternal dance of the Wintersmith and the Summer Lady, although they're not supposed to actually meet.

Live-Action TV

• Arrowverse:
  • Leonard Snart/Captain Cold and Mick Rory/Heatwave are once again criminal buddies, brandishing their Cold Gun and Heat Gun respectively. Their personalities are complete opposites, with Snart being stoic and snarky, while Rory is Hot-Blooded and reckless. To make it even better, if the beams of their guns cross they will end up cancelling each other out. This carries on into Legends of Tomorrow where both serve as the Token Evil Teammates for the Legends.
  • Ronnie Raymond ends up becoming one half of Firestorm, while his fiancée/wife, Caitlin Snow, later becomes Killer Frost. While they are never actually together when they both had powers, their Earth-2 counterparts play it straight with both their powers showed off and are Happily Married to each other.
    Caitlin: He used to say we were like fire and ice.
  • Mick Rory and Killer Frost have teamed-up in a few crossovers including Crisis on Earth-X and Crisis On Infinite Earths, where both find the other is an effective substitute for their late partners.
• Game of Thrones:
  • As in the books, invoked by Rhaegar (the Targaryen crown prince, descended from a family of dragon riders) when he pursued Lyanna Stark (a daughter of the Stark family, who govern the icy North).
  • Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen. The former is a Stark bastard who is greatly associated with ice as he leads the grim, northern Night's Watch and participates in the fight against the White Walkers. Dany is Rhaegar's younger sister, and is greatly associated with fire thanks to her three dragons. The two meet and sparks fly between them.
• Gotham features Mr. Freeze and Firefly as a pair of Psychos for Hire.
• Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Kamen Rider Brave's Gashacon Sword can switch between Fire Mode and Ice Mode.
• Power Rangers:
  • Power Rangers Wild Force features the Black Bear (fire) and Polar Bear (ice) Wild Zords.
  • Power Rangers Mystic Force: Udonna, the White Mystic Ranger, has ice-based powers, while her husband Leanbow, the original Red Mystic Wizard, had fire powers. Once Leanbow stops being Koragg, he gets his fire powers back as well.
  • Power Rangers Operation Overdrive featured the fire-based Moltor and the ice-based Flurious as rivals and occasional allies.

Music

• In "I'm Ready" by Sam Smith and Demi Lovato, Smith says "It's a cold night in my bed in the heat of the summer" and they're looking for "a warm, warm-blooded achiever", while for Lovato "It's a hot night in my head in the chill of the winter" and they seek "a cold, cold-blooded defeater".

Myths & Religion

• Pacific Mythology: Poli'ahu and her sisters/friends Lilinoe, Waiau, and Kahoupokane are snow goddesses. Poli'ahu is their leader and the antithesis of the volcano goddess, Pele. They both had a fight that resulted in Pele accepting to let Poli'ahu rule the northern part of Hawai'i Island.

Sports

• The ice dancing duo Torvill & Dean performed a production called Fire and Ice in the mid eighties about a Prince of Fire and Princess of Ice falling in love against the wishes of their families and people.

Theme Parks

• Dueling Dragons at Universal's Islands of Adventure starred Pyrock and Blizzrock, dragons of fire and ice, respectively.

Toys

• BIONICLE: In most Toa teams, the Toas of Fire and Ice have a Red Oni, Blue Oni dynamic. The Toa of Fire is The Leader and the Toa of Ice is generally The Lancer.
  • In the Toa Mata/Nuva, Tahu is a Hot-Blooded warrior and Kopaka is a cold and analytical Ineffectual Loner.
  • The Toa Metru mess a bit with the formula since the ice character Nuju is more The Smart Guy than anything else. ^note The Lancer role is taken by Onewa (stone) and/or Matau (air). The fire leader, Vakama, is a Guile Hero, making them not that different.
  • The Toa Inika/Mahri got Jaller (fire) as leader, but the lancer Matoro (ice) turns out to be The Chosen One.
• Monster High: Both G1 and G3 make an Official Couple out of Abbey Bominable, a yeti with snow and ice-creating abilities, and Heath Burns, a literally hotheaded fire elemental.

Video Games

• Banjo-Tooie: The bosses of Hailfire Peaks are Chilli Billi and Chilly Willy, dragon brothers who inhabit the respective fire and ice sides of the level. Chilli Billi attacks with fire, while Chilly Willy attacks with ice.
• Breath of Fire IV: Ryu and Fou-Lu have very similar movesets, but Ryu's moves are generally fire-themed, while Fou-Lu's are themed around water and ice, and Fou-Lu is explicitly described as having an affinity for water (and a corresponding weakness to fire). This represents the fact that Ryu and Fou-Lu are two halves of the Yorae Dragon, an immensely powerful god that was split into two beings by the ritual that summoned it.
• Chrono Trigger: Marle and Lucca have ice and fire techs respectively, using them together as a Yin-Yang Bomb causes Shadow damage.
• City of Heroes has Infernia and Glacia, twin sisters, survivors of the Omega Team strike on the Rikti homeworld, and members of Vanguard.
• Digital Devil Saga: Serph and Heat; the former is a Stoic who almost never speaks and shapeshifts into an ice-themed demon, Varna, while the latter is a hot-headed and impulsive Blood Knight who shapeshifts into a fire-demon, Agni. The backstory also reveals that they, or rather the humans their personalities were based on, were involved in a Betty and Veronica Switch Love Triangle over Sera.
• Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice: Magic Knight Mao is able to learn Ice magic naturally, while his Childhood Friend and rival Squishy Wizard Raspberyl excels in Fire magic.
• Dota 2:
  • Jakiro, the Twin Head Dragon, is a two-headed dragon with one head using ice powers and the other using fire.
  • The rivaling sisters of Rylai, the Crystal Maiden and Lina, the Slayer. Rylai uses ice magic while Lina uses fire and lightning.
• Drakengard: While Seere and Leonard both got one elemental spirit (Golem and Sylph), Arioch ends up with both Salamander and Undine, using them together as a kind of Yin-Yang Bomb.
• DragonFable: Xan the Insane Pyromancer usually delves in fire magic from his Pyronomicon. However, one Frostval he ends up in an ice cave with the Eggnogonomicon which grants him ice magic. His Evil Plan involves freezing the entire world. Though his downfall is his own fire magic melts his ice magic tome.
• Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and The Blight Below: Luceus and Aurora, the Captains of the Royal Guard, respectively use fire-themed and ice-themed attacks. They also have Red Oni, Blue Oni personalities, with Luceus being The Strategist who believes in devising complex plans of attack before any potential encounter, which are always ruined by Aurora recklessly charging into the fray before he can enact them.
• Epic Battle Fantasy 5 has premium-only bosses Sól and Skadi, a pair of sisters that respectively attacks with fire and ice. They fit the theme of the region they are the Dual Bosses of, a Hailfire Peaks cave that is frozen on the west half and filled with magma on the east. The player fights both of them at once, but can pick which side of the cavern they are fought in, which determines the weather effects.
• Final Fantasy has the recurring summons Ifrit and Shiva for Fire and Ice. Final Fantasy VI pairs them up as a Dual Boss, Final Fantasy VIII sees Ifrit pull an Oh, Crap! if you summon Shiva against him, and in Final Fantasy XV the pair are Star-Crossed Lovers.
  • Final Fantasy VI: Terra learns primarily fire spells, while her Foil Celes focuses on ice spells.
  • Final Fantasy XIV:
    • The Thaumaturge/Black Mage is built around switching between the Astral Fire and Umbral Ice states. In Astral Fire, you blast the enemy with powerful Fire spells that drain mana quickly, before using Blizzard spells to swap to Umbral Ice, where it regenerates rapidly.
    • The Ascians Lahabrea and Igeyorhm, when faced as the Dual Boss of the Aetherochemical Research Facility, cast Fire and Ice spells respectively. Their Fusion Dance, the Ascian Prime, utilizes both in tandem.
  • Final Fantasy XVI: Player Character Clive is the Dominant of the Eikon Ifrit, while his Love Interest Jill serves as the Dominant of the Eikon Shiva.
• Fossil Fighters: Frigisaur (Ice) and Ignosaur (Fire) from the first game are Olympus Mons that come into control of conflicting factions and can only be damaged in each others' presence.
• Genshin Impact seems to love this trope:
  • Most relevant to the main story, we have Diluc and Kaeya, a pair of estranged Sworn Brothers, who even received their elemental powers on the same day. They Foil each other with their individual appearances, personalities, and the main themes of their backstories.
  • Amber (an archer with a Pyro Vision) and Eula (a claymore fighter with a Cyro Vision) are Childhood Friends.
  • The two half-adepti in game, Ganyu and Yanfei, are also an example of this. Ganyu is quiet, shy and often feels like she doesn't fit in because of her bloodline. Yanfei, on the otherhand, is energetic, talkative, and extroverted.
  • Commonly featured together in fanon would be the Friendly Zombie Qiqi and Person of Mass Destruction Klee, who uses ice and fire powers respectively. They're both short, childlike girls.
  • Klee also often plays with the other little girl of Mondstadt with a vision, the Cryo user Diona, who embodies the Tsundere nature of cats.
  • Qiqi also canonically despises Hu Tao because she used to always try to bury said zombie. Qiqi also finds her too warm.
  • Ayaka (an elegant princess with a Cryo Vision) and Yoimiya (a fireworks-maker) are shown to know each other and cooperate on festival-planning together. They also traveled together to Fontaine.
  • Ayaka also has her housekeeper Thoma, who uses a Pyro vision.
  • A group commonly depicted together in fanon are Hu Tao, Xiangling, Chongyun and Xingqiu (all members of a same banner, though canonically they do know each other). Hu Tao OR Xiangling (both are Pyro) could form this dynamic with Chongyun, and they would form a Fire/Water Juxtaposition dynamic with Xingqiu.
  • Lyney (who has a Pyro vision) and Freminet (who has a Cryo vision) are brothers via adoption.
• Injustice 2 lampshades this trope during Pre-Battle Banter if Captain Cold is fighting Firestorm. The quote is featured at the top of the page.
• Killer Instinct contrasts Glacius, an ice-themed alien shape-shifter, with Cinder, a human who was mutated into a living flame by an experiment gone wrong.
• Kingdom Hearts:
  • Organization XIII is a shadowy cabal of super-powered Nobodies who all draw their powers from different elemental "attributes" (Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Ice, Lightning, Flower, Moon, Time, Space, Illusion, Light and Nothingness). Appropriately, the resident Fire-user Axel and the resident Ice-user Vexen have polar opposite personalities, with Axel being friendly, carefree, down-to-Earth, irreverent, and Brilliant, but Lazy, and Vexen being cold, arrogant, hardworking and scholarly; and while Axel ultimately does a Heel–Face Turn and joins the heroes, Vexen is one of Xemnas' most loyal servants. Oddly subverted with Axel and the resident Water-user Demyx, who are—if anything—the most similar in personality.
  • The general consensus of enemies in Agrabah in Kingdom Hearts II follows this motif, the Heartless enemies dealing primarily in either fire-damage or ice-damage, including the duo bosses Volcanic Lord and Blizzard Lord.
• The King of Fighters series has K' and Kula Diamond from the NESTS arc (KOF 99-2001). K' is a Badass Normal with fire powers thanks to having Kyo Kusanagi's DNA in his system. Kula is an ex-agent of NESTS with ice powers that mimic most of K's moves, and was even codenamed the "Anti-K'". After the fall of NESTS, K' and Kula put aside their differences and become friends, and are even on the same team in later installments in the series.
• The Legend of Zelda series features multiple enemies with a fire/ice dynamic:
  • Twinrova is a Recurring Element in the franchise, appearing in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games. She's an entity composed of twin sisters Koume (who uses fire spells and has red highlights in her design) and Kotake (ditto for ice and the color blue). The twins can form a Fusion Dance to form Twinrova, who has both fire and ice powers. Unlike other examples, though, the twins are The Dividual and are pretty alike in terms of personality.
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: Trinexx is a turtle boss with two additional heads — one that's red with fire breath, and one that's blue with ice breath. Similarly, Gleeok from The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is a two-headed dragon that can shoot fireballs from its red head and frigid ice from its blue.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons: Frypolar is a mini-boss that can shift between being a fire spirit or ice spirit during battle.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: Fraaz can control both ice and fire, shown by one eye being red and the other being blue. When he's hit enough he splits into two Fraaz Jr.'s, which each control one element.
• Little Fighter and Little Fighter 2 feature Firen and Freeze. The two of them are even able to fuse together to form Firzen.
• Mortal Kombat: A classic example of this trope can be found between the mortal enemies Scorpion — an undead wraith who utilizes Hellfire — and Sub-Zero — a cryomancer assassin. Their rivalry is so intense that two Sub-Zeroes are subject to Scorpion's wrath. However, by Mortal Kombat X, they've managed to finally make peace, making them a proper duo that's willing to work together.
• Pocket Mortys: There are two sets of this among the titular alternate universe variants of Morty, based on increasing levels of extreme temperatures and with thematically appropriate elemental attacks.
  • Hot Morty and Cold Morty are, respectively, a sweaty Morty who's always too hot, warm to the touch and likes ice cream and cold breezes and a Morty in a scarf who's always too chilly, is cold to the touch and likes hot cocoa and warm comforters.
  • Hot Morty and Cold Morty can be evolved into Flaming Morty and Frozen Morty, who are respectively depicted as an orange and a light blue version of Morty covered in flames or icicles, and with more powerful elemental attacks. Their descriptions also note that Flaming Morty likes superheroes while Frozen Morty prefers supervillains, and they also have diametrically opposite origin stories: Flaming Morty was callously abandoned by his Rick in deep space where he was transformed by a massive dose of cosmic radiation, while Frozen Morty was transformed in a cryogenics accident while trying to save his Rick from a deadly disease.
• Pokémon:
  • Vulpix and Ninetales are normally Fire-Type Kitsune. Pokémon Sun and Moon then added regional variants, including Vulpix that became Ice-types to adapt to life high in the mountains, creating a duality between the species.
  • Similarly, Pokémon Sword and Shield introduces the Ice-type Galarian Darumaka and Darmanitan as counterparts to their original Fire-type forms. Notably, Galarian Darmanitan's Zen Mode is both Ice and Fire-type.
• Psychonauts 2 has the two sisters Lizzie (Cryokinetic) and Norma (Pyrokinetic). The two subvert the idea of Personality Powers because Norma is prim, smug and calculating while Lizzie is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold as well as an Outdoorsy Gal.
• Shin Megami Tensei does this with folktale characters, pairing up the icy sprite Jack Frost with the fiery spirit Jack-o'-Lantern (also known as Pyro Jack in the games) as brothers. A third Jack Brother, Black Frost, is often seen using both.
  • Persona 4: Chie Satonaka learns a few ice skills while her best friend Yukiko Amagi is the party's fire specialist. The two generally invert Personality Powers, with Chie being rather Hot-Blooded while Yukiko is reserved in comparison.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time: In the Technodrome stage (before the Turtles are sent back into the past), are Tokka and Rahzer working as a Dual Boss. Specifically in the SNES version, these mutants have both a Breath Weapon, Tokka has ice and Rahzer has fire.

Web Animation

• DEATH BATTLE!:
  • "Danny Phantom vs. American Dragon: Jake Long" had this dynamic between the two combatants, pitting Danny's ice powers as part of his ghostly capabilities versus Jake Long's fire powers as part of his draconic abilities.
  • Played with by "Prince Zuko vs. Shoto Todoroki". While both combatants had fire-based abilities, Shoto also had ice powers as well, making it a case of Fire vs. Ice+Fire.
  • Sauron vs. The Lich King plays this straight, with the former being heavily associated with fire while the latter is known for ice accompanying him wherever he goes.
• hololive: In Kiara and Calli are depicted as having this dynamic in their original song "Fire N Ice", where Kiara as a phoenix is the fire, while Calli as death is depicted as ice.
• RWBY:
  • The titular team has one such example. Yang Xiao Long is a Boxing Battler whose gauntlets allow her to augment her punches with fire. Weiss Schnee wields a Royal Rapier that allows her to utilize multiple elements — her specialization being ice. The two start off as reluctant teammates, but the two become close enough that Weiss ends up performing a Heroic Sacrifice during the Vytal Festival to protect Yang and ensure the two emerge victorious.
  • The penultimate episode of Volume 5 has a battle between the Cinder and Raven aka the Fall and Spring Maidens respectively. Cinder attacks with fireballs and weapons made of black glass while Raven uses ice.

Webcomics

• Eerie Cuties: Cess and Laura are a snow fairy and a fire ifrit, respectively. They are two minor antagonists in the comic, trying to reach an Alpha Bitch status in the All-Ghouls School they attend.
• Homestuck: Dave, who is given a lava planet by the game, is best friends with Jade, who ends up stuck on a planet that is entirely frozen. It even turns out a large part of their role in completing the game is having Dave thaw Jade's planet as they learn to work together.
• Ménage à 3: Tess and Maura are two professional wrestlers with the stage name "Frosti and Pyre", who wear ice-themed and fire-themed costumes. They are an explicit Shout-Out to Cess and Laura from Eerie Cuties, down to the name.
• Imp has Celina and her imp favor fire and ice magic respectively.
• Sleepless Domain: Melty Flame and Melty Frost are a duo of Magical Girls with fire and ice powers, respectively. They're also lovers, which is why Undine decides to not ask to join their team, despite her water powers complementing them, since she'd just feel like a third wheel.
• Yokoka's Quest: Yang and Yin respectively, though so far they've only been seen together or using their magic in bonus artworks (such as free/Patreon wallpapers).

Web Original

• Looming Gaia: Jeimos and Linde, two members of the Freelance Good Guys, specialize in fire magic and ice magic respectively. They get along very well, and eventually start dating.

Western Animation

• Adventure Time: "Hitman" has the Ice King — a goofy, fun-loving Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain — trying to defend Finn and Jake from the overzealous assassin Scorcher — an eerily silent, ruthlessly efficient killer — when he almost accidentally has them murdered. Notably, this is one of the first episodes of the show in which the Ice King is completely on Finn and Jake's side, and signals the beginning of his Character Development into a more sympathetic Anti-Villain.
• The Batman: "Fire & Ice" has Mr. Freeze teaming up with Firefly. The two criminals have trouble getting along with their vastly different personalities, and eventually turn on each other.
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold:
  • Fire and Ice are once again best friends and superhero partners, as well as both members of Justice League International.
  • The teaser for "Darkseid Descending!" reveals Ronnie Raymond (one half of Firestorm) had an ex-girlfriend who became Killer Frost. Firestorm and Killer Frost do battle before Batman intervenes. By the end, Jason remarks to Ronnie how she was both his ex-girlfriend and his Arch-Enemy, to which Ronnie thinks there was no difference between the two.
• Ben 10: Alien Force: In "Above and Beyond", when Ben pretends to turn evil and fights the Plumber's Helpers, what form does Ben choose to use against Alan? Big Chill of course, with his icy powers overwhelming the young Pyronite.
• Justice League Action: Firestorm gets pitted against both Killer Frost and Mr. Freeze, with the former having a Dating Catwoman relationship with the hero.
• Kid Cosmic has Carlos and Ramona, parents of Rosa, when they get their ice and fire stones respectively. Thestone's previous user, Boss Fiosa, might also qualify as she/they has/have two heads.
• The Owl House: In "Adventures in the Elements", Luz learns the ice glyph while Amity practices a fire spell. Both girls also flip the power stereotypes. Luz the ice user is enthusiastic and bubbly, while Amity the fire user is cold and distant.
• Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends: Spidey's companions in crime fighting are Firestar and Iceman.
• Steven Universe: Ruby (fire) and Sapphire (ice) have contrasting color schemes and personalities that match their respective elements, and are also lovers. Their fusion, Garnet, also has electric powers, but it's not a visible theme like Ruby and Sapphire's elements.
• Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) has an example of a fire-powered and ice-powered pair in Razorpaw's henchmen Swelter and Glacius.
• Winx Club: Bloom, The Protagonist of the show who possesses the powerful Dragon Flame, is frequently at odds with Icy, an ice-wielding Wicked Witch who is one-third of The Trix.

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