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[[File:mrfreeze 7548.png|link=Batman: The Animated Series|frame|He won't be screaming long... but that's a very
{{quote|"''In this universe, there's only one absolute... everything freezes!''"|'''Mr. Freeze''', ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]''}}
An [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]]
The mechanism varies from gun to gun. Some freeze rays operate by spraying a target with a sheet of ice or snow, like an icy version of a [[Kill It with Fire|flamethrower]]. Some spray a stream of liquid, e.g. liquid nitrogen. Most commonly though, freeze rays fire blasts of coldness as [[Frickin' Laser Beams]] to freeze the target. Note that coldness [[Artistic License Physics|doesn't quite work that way]]; coldness isn't energy, but rather lack of it (from the point of view of our environment's parameters). As such, you can't transfer coldness; you make things cold by transferring heat away from them. But, [[MST3K Mantra|it isn't really worth getting into heated debates]] over the mechanics of the '''Freeze Ray'''. So what if it's another example of writers giving [[No Conservation of Energy|Conservation of Energy]] the cold shoulder? They've been getting along just fine over the years thanks in part to the [[Rule of Cool]] [[Hurricane of Puns|Cool]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Mr. Freeze from ''[[Batman]]''.
** The exact size and shape of Freeze's Freeze Gun has varied wildly over the years; when it first debuted, it [https://web.archive.org/web/20131110052114/http://www.comics101.com/comics101//news/Comics%20101/67/mrzero.jpg looked more like a teakettle than anything]. Since then, it's been portrayed as everything from the standard futuristic-pistol design to a massive two-handed cannon connected to a backpack to a tiny, unassuming-looking device mounted on the wrist of his armor.
* Captain Cold from ''[[The Flash]]'' comics.
* ''[[Batman and the Outsiders]] [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.
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* ''[[Champions]]'' supplement ''Classic Organizations'', "Red Doom" section. The [[NPC]] Cold Warrior has a power pack backpack that can condense water out of the air to create ice. He uses it to create ice bolts and entangle opponents.
* ''[[GURPS]] Warehouse 23''. The Greys (space aliens) have a Freeze Ray device that can fire a beam of focused cold at the target, freezing it solid and coating it with ice.
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' being known to [[Planet of Hats|run on gimmicks a bit too much]], it should not be too surprising that Space Wolves, as Vikings [[In Space]], use "Helfrost" weapons in sizes from personal to aircraft mounted. These were used as a plot point in 7th edition lore — [[This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman|such quaint gunship armaments came in very handy]] when… a group of Space Wolves was caught by their sorcerous arch-enemies using a river of lava.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* [[Transformers Animated|Blitzwing]] can do this in his Icy and Random personalities.
* The 1987 ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' episode "Return of The Fly" has Bebop and Rocksteady equipped with freeze guns.
* One episode of ''[[The Jetsons]]'' had a gang of crooks who used freeze-gas guns. Unfortunately for them, [[Laser-Guided Karma|the police used them too.]]
== [[Real Life]] ==
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