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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'': Sakura incapacitates the Watery card by tricking her into entering a walk-in freezer and then locking the door. Wait a bit, and capturing her became a simple matter.

* ''[[Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z]]'': Him is weakened by cold (because, as a demon, he's all about hellfire and brimstone).

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* [[The Flash|Captain Cold]] has an ice gun capable of creating fields of absolute zero. Like the Kosmike Katastrophe spell by Evangeline from ''[[Negima]]'' this works by violating the second law of thermodynamics.

 

* Well, John in ''[[With Strings Attached]]'' could easily kill something with ice, but being an [[Actual Pacifist]], he explicitly rejects such behavior, except when it pertains to the undead. He's perfectly willing to riddle skeletons and zombies with ice shards.

* In episode 18 of ''[[Final Stand of Death]]'', [[Marilyn Manson]] attacks Spur ({{spoiler| [[Spice Girls|Emma]]}}) with a [[Computer Virus]] because... well, he's the evilest man in America. This allows Rameriz, then Zum, to after Spur, knowing her circuitry would be affected. However, [["Stone Cold" Steve Austin|Steve]] points out one problem consider this was a [[Robotic Angel]] they were dealing with, infecting them with any computer viruses was one of the worst ideas. Pointing out, an angelic anti-virus would force the user to use their zodiac element to kill the virus and anything around it. Both Victoria and Geri point out both Melanie and Emma are January babies, and the latter is being an Aquarius: an Air Sign. Knowing she'll have no other choice, Spur ready herself to destroy the men by freezing them, with United joining her to create the vortex needed. {{spoiler| This results in an explosion causing all to be [[Ice Breaker]]s as Zum and Rameriez were encased inside. The ice compartment explodes into pieces, killing Zum and Rameriez. Emma and Mel escape since they, along with Melanie, are all immune to the effects.}}

* Doug Sangnoir defeats boomers with ice spears and by encasing them in a block of ice the first time he fights by the side of the [[Bubblegum Crisis|the Knight Sabers]] in ''[[Drunkard's Walk|Drunkard's Walk II]]''.

 

* ''[[The Terminator|Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'': The shapeshifting T-1000 is apparently destroyed when a truckload of liquid nitrogen ruptures, restricting its ability to shapeshift or even move. Arnie then [[Literally Shattered Lives|shatters the T-1000]] to pieces [[Coup De Grace|with a bullet]]. Unfortunately this occurs in a smelting plant whose heat melts the T-1000 so it can [[Pulling Themselves Together|reassemble again.]]

** The novelization of the movie says that while the freezing of the T-1000 did not harm it, it mucked up its artificial intelligence (due to superconductivity) making it possible to defeat it in the end. This is also implied in the director's cut of the movie, which shows the T-1000 lurching around the plant exhibiting difficulty in controlling its shapeshifting—for instance, when it touches a railing, its hand takes on the appearance of the railing, apparently without it meaning to do so.

* A vat of liquid nitrogen is how {{spoiler|Boris Grishenko}} meets his end in '[[GoldenEye (film)|GoldenEye]]''. So much for being [[Catch Phrase|invincible]].

* The [[Hate Plague]] in ''[[Alien Cargo]]'' is succesfully counteracted by exposure to subzero temperatures.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* They're already dead, but in Dante's ''Inferno'' (part of the ''[[Divine Comedy]]''), the lowest circle of hell has traitors distorted and frozen in ice for all eternity. This is the same level that Brutus, Cassius, and Judas reside on, but with the added bonus of having their feet chewed on by Satan.

* [[Jack London]]'s classic short story "To Build a Fire" tells of a rather foolish and unsympathetic gold miner in Yukon Territory who goes off on a journey alone and winds up freezing to death after he falls into water and is unable to build a fire to warm himself.

 

* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'': In the pilot episode, Q bumped off a [[Red Shirt]] by freezing him after he drew a phaser.

** Also, Security Chief/first season regular Tasha Yar, but [[Unexplained Recovery|she got better.]]

* A bitchy fashionista on ''[[CSI New York]]'' fell onto the bent stem of a liquid nitrogen tank, which injected her chest with the frigid fluid and literally froze her heart solid.

 

 

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

* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]''' [[Odd Job Gods|god of rot]] Moander has penchant for controlling slaves via parasitic vines. Since they were of tropical variety any area spell cold enough to harm a victim was overkill for them. Later Moander itself {{spoiler|got a piece of paraelemental ice delivered and force-fed}}.

 

== Toys ==

* In one ''[[Bionicle]]'' serial taking place in an [[Alternate Universe]], {{spoiler|Kopaka and Onua kill Ahkmou by having Kopaka freeze him and Onua [[Literally Shattered Lives|smash him to pieces with his claws]].}}

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* The Soviets in ''[[War Front Turning Point]]'' love their liquid nitrogen weapons.

* This seems to be Soulcalibur's (and by extension Siegfried's) goal for ''the entire world'' in ''[[Soul Series|Soulcalibur IV]]''.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[Slightly Damned]]'': The demon Lazuli uses ice magic to summon sharp, pointy icicles. They are very fatal, and rather messy.

* Old Man Winter of ''[[Snow By Night]]'' does this to every bird he sees.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* While she in no way specializes in it, Weiss Schnee of ''[[RWBY]]'' incorporates a ''lot'' of ice into her combat style. (Of course, since her name is "Snow White" in German and her [[Chest Insignia|personal symbol]] is a snowflake, this is probably to be expected.)

** At the end of Volume 5, this is how {{spoiler|Raven Branwen}} defeats {{spoiler|Cinder Fall}}, with an implied case of [[Literally Shattered Lives]] immediately after.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* This was one method of dealing with the otherwise untouchable Inque in ''[[Batman Beyond]]''. However, after repeated exposure, she figured out that compressing herself in a ball would keep most of her body active while only freezing the outside layer.

* For defensive moves [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|water benders]] usually use water in a liquid form. When they really want to hurt someone, they start using ice, either as daggers or absurdly sharp flying disks.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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[[Category:These Tropes Were Frozen Today]]

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