{"id":14551,"date":"2015-01-27T21:24:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T21:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2023.biowars.com\/?p=14551"},"modified":"2023-03-06T12:20:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:20:13","slug":"7-weird-ice-powered-villains-youve-never-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2023.biowars.com\/blog\/7-weird-ice-powered-villains-youve-never-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Weird Ice-Powered Villains You\u2019ve Never Heard Of"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we move into the wintriest part of the year, the weather naturally turns colder. Or \u2026 does it?<\/p>\n

Yes, January is always a chilly time in\u00a0much\u00a0of the world. But lowering temperatures and raising havoc have been part of the villain playbook for a long time. Mr. Freeze<\/a> and Captain Cold<\/a> are some of the best-known ice villains, squaring off against Batman and the Flash respectively. But there are\u00a0others\u00a0lurking that you probably had no idea existed. We examine the careers of a few.<\/p>\n

#1 Snowman<\/h3>\n

The first thing to know about ice-powered villains: their names are usually super-literal. In the Himalayas, a lost explorer met an Abominable Snowman after a climbing expedition went wrong, and the result was Snowman. He likes cold climates, travel, and freezing entire cities. He once tried to freeze Gotham to make it more to his taste.<\/p>\n

Powers: <\/i>Ability to radiate cold and freeze people and objects around him.<\/p>\n

Snowstorm danger: <\/i>Moderate. He does have the power to cause really bad weather. And while he was thought to be dead after a fight in Tibet, he\u2019s been sighted since<\/a>.<\/p>\n

#2 Cryonic Man<\/h3>\n

Cryonic Man was born when he and his wife cryogenically\u00a0froze themselves with two friends, fearing nuclear war. While waking up to check on the others, he discovered that the cryogenics were failing and a degenerative disease was slowly killing them all. Hoping to save his wife, he began raiding hospitals periodically for human organs, which is where he got himself into trouble.<\/p>\n

Powers: <\/i>Flying, knockout gas, liquid nitrogen.<\/p>\n

Snowstorm danger:<\/i> Very low. Mostly\u00a0interested in human organs.<\/p>\n

#3 Blue Snowman<\/h3>\n

The deception of Blue Snowman starts with the name. Byrna Brilyant\u2014a.k.a. Blue Snowman\u2014isn\u2019t actually a man, let alone a snowman: her costume is\u00a0an elaborate disguise which (spoiler alert) Wonder Woman unmasks. Blue Snowman has been pretty obscure since then, despite having some pretty cool robot minions back in 1946.<\/p>\n

Powers<\/i>: She\u2019s armed with a snow ray that produces blue snow, freezing everything it touches.<\/p>\n

Snowstorm danger: <\/i>Low. But deserves credit for the immortal line<\/a>: \u201cRobots\u2014fill the vat!\u201d<\/p>\n\"Sensation\n

#4 Icicle<\/h3>\n

Originally a scourge of the Green Lantern, Icicle is the villain name of European physicist Joar Mahkent, who\u00a0turned up in Gotham on an ocean liner one day, faked his own death, and hit town armed with a freeze gun.<\/p>\n

Powers:<\/i> Freeze gun. Has an insulating suit to protect himself from its effects.<\/p>\n

Snowstorm danger: <\/i>Very low. He was killed during DC\u2019s Crisis on Infinite Earths<\/i> in 1985 and replaced as Icicle by his son, Icicle Jr. But \u2018dead\u2019 is always relative in comics.<\/p>\n

#5 Icicle Jr.<\/h3>\n

Despite his name, Icicle Jr. doesn\u2019t deserve to be in his father\u2019s shadow. Unlike his father, Cameron Mahkent doesn\u2019t need a gun to freeze anything: he\u2019s an albino with an altered genetic structure and a determination to avenge his father\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Powers: <\/i>Can freeze objects and people and lower the temperature of a room.<\/p>\n

Snowstorm danger: <\/i>Moderate. It\u2019s dangerous to be in his neighborhood, but he mostly seems to freeze the things immediately around him.<\/p>\n

#6 Minister Blizzard<\/h3>\n

An obscure DC character with just 13 issues to his name, he is the former Prime Minister<\/a> of the kingdom of Iceberg Land. However,\u00a0he ends up focusing on foreign policy: his main achievement in office is trying\u00a0to freeze Gotham City with a stolen climate-changing machine, a plot which\u00a0has to be foiled by Wonder Woman (again!).<\/p>\n

Powers: <\/i>Skilled at operating stolen climate-changing machines.<\/p>\n

Snowstorm danger: <\/i>Moderate. He has the tools, but probably not the ability to overcome superheroes.<\/p>\n

#7 Chill<\/h3>\n

Not to be confused with Joe Chill, who orphaned Bruce Wayne<\/a>, Chill was an ambitious villain but not a very good one. One of the New Rogues, his career lasted about eight months back in 2008. He made the mistake of taking on Captain Cold in a fight, and\u00a0got his own hand\u00a0snapped off trying to punch him. That was more or less the end of Chill.<\/p>\n

Powers: <\/i>Cold gun. Not that it did him much good.<\/p>\n

Snowstorm danger: <\/i>Is there anything lower than very low?<\/p>\n

In short: if there\u2019s danger from villains, it\u2019s probably not these guys. Keep warm, stay indoors if you can, and catch up on Biowars<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we move into the wintriest part of the year, the weather naturally turns colder. Or \u2026 does it? Yes, January is always a chilly time in\u00a0much\u00a0of the world. But lowering temperatures and raising havoc have been part of the villain playbook for a long time. 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