Talk:Ice Manipulation/@comment-2227733-20150830164308

What about manipulation non-water ices, I.E. frozen carbon dioxide (aka dry ice) and certain other volatiles? In the series I'm writing, cryokinetics and ice controllers can control any sort of ice as well the actual substance dry ices and other dry ice and other ices are made of in the same way they can control water. Another rarely seen application of this power is that it can manipulate the absence of heat itself.

It should also, if taken to its logical extent, be able to do the opposite of everything pyrokinesis can do. I've seen some applications of pyrokinesis, specifically Charlie Mcgee in Firestarter, state that they have the potential to cause nuclear explosions or even crack the world open, the latter presumably by controlling the magma and the hot substances inside the planet. A powerful enough cryokinetic should be able to do the opposite of that. Besides containing a nuclear explosion, they should logically be able to cause a nuclear winter, as well as be able to snuff out the heat inside the Earth's core, which would kill all life on the planet just as quickly as if the sun's heat were snuff out.

It's a shame that the potential for cryokinesis is so underused compared to pyrokinesis, Elsa and Bobby Drake being some of the few exceptions, but even they're limited to water ice. Yeah, logically, an ice controller should be limited to how much moisture, carbon dioxide, etc. there is, but the same goes for pyrokinesis. Creation of fire out of nowhere, as well as starting fires without a physical trigger, is just as much sci-fi/magic physics as creation of ice from nowhere. Flamethrowers use napalm to shoot fire and matches use specific chemical substances to start fire.