Cryokinetic

Cryokinetic

Cryokinesis is the superhuman ability which allows control of ice and, less often, water. The power is very popular in comic books and fantasy shows. A person with the ability of cryokinesis is called "cryokinetic". The word, even though it's very popular in the media, is a neologism.

In Popular Culture

*On the WB series Charmed, Prue Halliwell's past life P. Bowen, had this power, she generated it from her mouth (she blew it out, like a gust of wind).
*On the BBC series, "Heroes", the super-powered serial killer Sylar has the ability reduce the temperature of matter, causing it to freeze. Also in Volume 3: Villains a new character named Tracy Strauss demonstrates the same power.
*In the X-Men series the character Iceman is a cryokinetic.
*In the Midway game series "Mortal Kombat", the characters "Sub-Zero" and "Frost" are both cryokenetic.
*DC comics has a handful of cryokinetic supervillains in Killer Frost, Icicle, and Minister Blizzard. DC villains Mr. Freeze and Captain Cold use cryokinetic weapons. DC's cryokinetic superheroes include Polar Boy, Icemaiden, and Ice.
*Glace Winters can manipulate ice in any way, shape or form and is even invincible because his body slows down or even frezes itself in healing ice when it is hurt. Rory Perry has also accidentally used his power, when freezing, then imploding the Melinda's Henchman Morndawe as revenge for Melinda killing her brother Tarrant (Rory is an empath).
*In the Australian series , Claire Holt's character has the power to freeze water molecules. She cannot generate ice but creates it from the water. She discovers this when her friend Cleo throws water at her and she holds up her hands in defence, which triggers her power.
*In the Pixar animated film "The Incredibles", the superhero Frozone has the ability to create ice and snow so long as there is enough moisture in the air.
*In the Final Fantasy games, black mages have power over ice. It is produced through spells such as Blizzard, Blizzara and Blizzaga. Other ice spells exist also as do items with an ice element such as "Arctic Wind". There is also a summon spell for an ice creature. In most games, it is Shiva who freezes all enemies in ice, then destroying it, causing the damage.
*In Metroid Prime 3 Corruption (Wii) the character Rundas uses cryokinesis for bounty hunting. This power is common among his species, but is rarely used for bounty hunting.
*On the Nickelodeon show, , Waterbenders have the cryokinetic and hydrokinetic abilities.
*In the 2007 video game Bioshock, Cryokinesis is one of many plasmids that the player can use to alter his/her genetic structure.
*In the Japanese anime and manga One Piece, Admiral Aokiji has the power to manipulate, generate, absorb and transform into ice and freeze his opponents due to the Hie Hie no Mi (ヒエヒエの実 Ice Ice Fruit).
*Most, if not all, the Pokémon of the Ice-type have powers to freeze objects, mostly with the use of the attacks Ice Beam or Blizzard. Regice, Articuno and Suicune in particular seems to possess the strongest variants of this ability, allowing them to freeze down huge areas in a matter of seconds. The attack Sheer Cold involves freezing a target down to absolutely zero, which causes instant defeat of the opponent.


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