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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Ranma ½|Ranma 1/2]]'', the [[The Phoenix|Phoenix]] [[Person of Mass Destruction|King]] [[Playing with Fire|Saffron]]'s only weakness is cold. When Ranma stabs his arm with the freezing weapon [[Blade on a Stick|Gekkaja]], half of Saffron's body is frozen solid, and then his own weapon, the [[Rings of Death|Kinjakan]], breaks through and shatters said arm, setting him free just before the Gekkaja could turn all of him into ice. Later, Ranma turns the Gekkaja on ''[[Harmless Freezing|himself]]'' to avoid death from Saffron's [[Wave Motion Gun|mountain-vaporizing heat ray]], and Saffron nearly breaks ''him'' in half with the Kinjakan. The battle finally ends when Ranma, still half-frozen, delivers an attack so unbelievably ''cold'' it breaks even the ice left on his fist and ''instantly'' freezes and shatters Saffron like so much glass.
** A comedic version of the trope occurred much earlier in the series, when Ranma contracts a super-powerful cold that keeps mutating throughout the story. At one point, Ranma is so cold he can sneeze freezing wind at [[Trickster Mentor|Happosai]], encasing him in ice and handily [[Rule of Funny|breaking him apart with a mallet]].
* In ''[[Saint Seiya]]'', foes hit with [[An Ice Person|Cygnus Hyoga]]'s Diamond Dust or [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|Aurora Execution]] tend to fall to pieces unless they [[Nominal Importance|are recurring characters]]. His master, Aquarius Camus, can do the same.
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*** A deleted scene did show that the T-1000 was still affected by its cold spell, with its mimic ability glitching and out of control, even copying the floor it was walking on.
** This scene was parodied in ''[[Hot Shots]] Part Deux'' by President Benson freezing Saddam Hussein (and his little dog, too!) with, uh, a fire extinguisher. Wait, what?
*** [[Truth in Television]], sort of. CO2 fire extingishers contain liquid carbon dioxide (kept liquid via high pressure), which smothers a fire by displacing oxygen, and discourages re-ignition via cooling. The cooling is due to both evaporative effects as the liquid reverts to gas as it leaves the nozzle, and by rapid expansion (the same physical effects are at the heart of air conditioners and refrigerators). The blast from a CO2 fire extinguisher is so cold that the discharge is like a dry-ice snowblower, and users can suffer serious "cold burns" if they hold the wrong part of the fire exinguisher while it is in use. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3-zBLIYCyM
* At one point in ''[[The Sorcerers Apprentice]]'', when Balthazar is immobilized by bent metal piping, he escapes by magically supercooling the bits that were holding him and snapping them off.
 
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** So does Samus in ''[[Metroid Prime]]'', if she gets attacked by an ice-based weapon.
* ''[[Duke Nukem]] 3D'' lets you do this to enemies: Frozen enemies will shatter into shards no bigger than your fist if kicked or shot, without fail. However, if they have time to thaw they'll still somehow be able to keep fighting with one hit point.
** Same in ''[[Hexen]]'', but there, once an enemy is frozen, it shatters by itself within a few seconds.
* Freeware game ''^[[Exit Fate]]'' has a "Freeze" status ailment: Affected characters cannot dodge and will be killed instantly by any physical attack.
** And in ''[[Luminous Arc 2]]'', freezing works almost the same way. The only difference is that Frozen characters can't take any action whatsoever.
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* The ''[[Metroid]]'' series has a few variations on this. When using the [[Freeze Ray|Ice Beam]], a creature not strong enough to survive the shot simply explodes into frozen chunks, while a stronger creature will freeze and can be shattered with a missile. Some take more than one. Other times, a frozen enemy may be used as a stepping stone to reach higher areas, and will not shatter when a 200+ pound suit of armor jumps on top of it.
* In ''[[Diablo]] 2'' any player character with an ice enchanted weapon or ice based spells could destroy enemies like this. Shattering an enemy like this leaves no corpse behind, which is helpful against Nihlathak or Regurgitators, but a hassle for Necromancers and Barbarians, who have skills that consume corpses.
* in ''[[BioshockBioShock (series)]]'' your ice plasmid does this. Though the damage something takes while frozen is actually separate from their regular health bar...
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' frost mages have a talent called Shatter which greatly increases their critical strike chance against frozen targets.
** Frost death knights also get the "Brittle Bones" talent that causes creatures infected with the frost fever disease to take extra damage. This disease makes their ''bones'' easier to ''break'' by lowering their temperature and is quite survivable.
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* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Aang uses water to freeze a lock to let Flopsy free.
** Justified, as mentioned above, in that water does expand with quite impressive force as it freezes.
* ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'' also uses this trope. The Xiaolin Warriors and Jack are held in the dungeon. Even Dojo can't escape his cage by growing to his super size. But all it takes is for Omi to freeze the bars, and the warriors easily break free. (Omi is even able to break the bars of Jack's cell [[Cherry Tapping|with his PINKY!]])
* Subverted in ''[[King of the Hill]]'': Peggy tries to demonstrate the "make it brittle by dipping it in liquid nitrogen" part mentioned above on a rose, but apparently didn't hold the thing in long enough, as it easily bends when she tries to break it.
* In [[Superfriends]], Captain Cold was able to ''knock a building over'' by freezing and then ''punching'' it.
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