- For a gallery of examples for Ice Manipulation, see here.
- "Nature? Fire? Bah! Both are chaotic and difficult to control. Ice is structured, latticed, light as a feather, massive as a glacier. In ice, there is power!"
- ― Heidar, Rimewind master (Magic the Gathering)
The ability to manipulate cold and ice. Sub-power of Thermal Manipulation, variation of Water Manipulation. The opposite of Magma Manipulation.
Also Called
- Cryokinesis
- Frost Manipulation
- Glaciokinesis
- Ice Release
- Icebending
Capabilities
User can create, shape and manipulate ice, water frozen into a solid state and appears naturally in forms of snow, hail, icicles, ice spikes and candles, glaciers, pack ice, frost, and polar ice caps, and cold by reducing the kinetic energy of atoms and thus making things colder, for various effects and combinations.
Applications
Divided into two groups depending on whether they use Cold or Ice:
- Create/generate/increase, shape and manipulate cold for various effects, freezing areas of differing sizes/shapes and/or objects for several effects:
- Cold Energy Manipulation
- Frostbite to freeze anything to atomic levels making it fragile.
- Cellular Disintegration by causing frostbites that cannot be repaired.
- Create/generate/increase ice.
- Burrowing with choice between simply gliding through ice or leaving a tunnel.
- Shape, compress, and/or otherwise manipulate ice.
- Efficacy Manipulation including speed, density, hardness and/or sharpness.
- Shard Manipulation
- Cryokinetic Constructs including weapons, walls, armors or allies/servants.
- Move/lift ice at nearly any speed whether in/on a surface, air or water. One could even do this in vacuum of space if one has a way to survive the experience.
- Cryokinetic Surfing
- Elemental Flight using ice.
Techniques
- Cryokinetic Combat
- Cryokinetic Invisibility
- Cryokinetic Regeneration
- Cryoportation
- Cryostasis
- Ice Aura
- Ice Empowerment
- Ice Healing
- Ice Mimicry
- Ice Storm Creation
- Ice Transmutation
Variations
- Dark Ice Manipulation
- Demon Ice Manipulation
- Esoteric Ice Manipulation
- Ice Embodiment
- Ice Magic by using ice to perform magical activities.
- Pure Ice Manipulation
- Snow Manipulation
- Sub-Zero Rain
Associations
- Air Manipulation
- Cold Immunity and/or Thermal Resistance are both extremely desirable.
- Certain aspects of Weather Manipulation (Snow, Hail, Blizzards, etc.)
- Crystal Manipulation - Ice is a type of crystal.
- Reflection Manipulation
- Thermal Manipulation
- Ultimate Freeze
- Water Manipulation
Limitations
- Distance, mass, precision, etc. depend upon of the knowledge, skill, and strength of the user.
- May be unable to create ice, being limited to manipulating only from already existing sources.
- Creation of ice may depend on the amount of moisture available, dry areas could make this difficult or impossible.
- Ice is affected by everything that normal ice would be, although the user is perfectly able to use their power to return the ice in its original shape and/or controlling it even under these forces:
- Melt under extreme heat (Fire Manipulation or Magma Manipulation).
- Vibrations are difficult (if not impossible) to freeze, as they cause the ice to shatter, making sound-based abilities a perfect counter.
Known Users
See Also: An Ice Person and Kill It with Ice
Manga/Anime
- Aokiji/Kuzan (One Piece); via Devil Fruit
- Ur (Fairy Tail)
- Gray Fullbuster (Fairy Tail)
- Silver Fullbuster (Fairy Tail)
- Lyon Vastia (Fairy Tail)
- Ultear Milkovitch (Fairy Tail)
- Toshiro Hitsugaya (Bleach)
- Rukia Kuchiki (Bleach)
- Sa Ghang Gwon (Trace)
- Mizore Shirayuki (Rosario+Vampire)
- Tsurara Shirayuki (Rosario+Vampire)
- Mizore Shirayuki (Rosario + Vampire)
- Tsurara Shirayuki (Rosario + Vampire)
- The Snow Priestess (Rosario + Vampire)
- Ice Release users (Naruto)
- Faafa (Psychic Academy)
- Blue Rose/Karina Lyle (Tiger & Bunny)
- Nobara Ibaragi (Gakuen Alice)
- The Freeze (Cardcaptor Sakura)
- Yukihina (Code:Breaker)
- Karudio (Zatch Bell)
- Cygnus Hyoga (Saint Seiya)
- Aquarius Camus (Saint Seiya)
- Aquarius Degel (Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas)
- Yukina (Yu Yu Hakusho)
- Seiryu (Yu Yu Hakusho)
- Touya (Yu Yu Hakusho)
- Aidou Hanabusa (Vampire Knight)
- Esdese (Akame ga Kill); via Demon's Extract
- Eis Shenron (Dragon Ball GT)
- Omega Shenron (Dragon Ball GT)
- Cirno (Touhou)
- Letty Whiterock (Touhou)
- November 11 (Darker than Black)
- Vongola Primo, Vongola Nono, and Tsuna (Katekyo Hitman Reborn)
- Adelheid Suzuki (Katekyo Hitman Reborn)
- Kusunoki Nami (Alive: The Final Evolution)
- Deek Slasky (Black Cat)
- Yoshino (Date A Live)
- Irori (Unbreakable Machine-Doll)
- Jack Frost (Unbreakable Machine-Doll)
- Mitsuru Kirijo (Persona Series)
- Princess Snow Kaguya (Sailor Moon S)
- Reika Aoki/Cure Beauty (Smile Precure)
- Cure Diamond/Rikka Hishikawa (Doki Doki Precure)
- Cure Aqua/Karen Minazuki (Precure 5/Yes! Precure 5 GO!)
- Ludmila Lourie (King of the Magic Arrow and the Vanadis)
- Pet Shop (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
- Allen Rogarth (Infinity Vikings)
- Mountainbolt (Nindragon: Scale Squad 5)
- All Ice Dragons (Nindragon: Scale Squad 5)
- All Ice Mustangons (Nindragon: Scale Squad 5)
Western Comics
- Iceman (Marvel)
- Jack Frost (Marvel)
- Storm (Marvel)
- Killer Frost (DC Comics)
- Mr. Freeze (DC Comics)
- Ice (DC Comics)
- Blizzard (Marvel)
- Lumi, the Snow Queen (Fables)
- Jack Frost (Fables)
- Elijah Snow (Planetary)
- Eddie Hope (Angel: After the Fall)
- Captain Cold (DC Comics); New 52, formerly
Western Series/Film
- Nieves (Los Protegidos)
- P. Bowen (Charmed)
- Ludlow (Charmed)
- Henry Mitchell Jr. (Charmed)
- Lily (Misfits)
- Emma Gilbert (H2O - Just Add Water)
- Pamela Fried (Mutant X); via temperature control
- Francine/Frosta (Kidlat - Filipino Superhero TV-Series)
- Michie Rapisora (Super Noypi Film)
- Engkantao Edward (Pedro Penduko at ang mga Engkantao)
Western Animation
- Waterbenders (Avatar the Last Airbender/Legend of Korra)
- Avatars (Avatar the Last Airbender/Legend of Korra)
- Articguana (Ben 10/Ben 10: Ultimate Alien/Ben 10: Omniverse)
- Big Chill (Ben 10: Alien Force/Ben 10: Ultimate Alien/Ben 10: Omniverse)
- Ultimate Big Chill (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
- Necrofridgians (Ben 10: Alien Force/Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
- Heatblast (Ben 10); via a cold-induced mutation
- 523/Slushy (Lilo and Stich)
- The Ice King (Adventure Time)
- Danny Phantom (Danny Phantom)
- Frostbite (Danny Phantom)
- Vortex (Danny Phantom)
- Omi (Xiaolin Showdown)
- Lucius Best/Frozone (The Incredibles)
- Tridart the Despair (W.I.T.C.H.)
- Kewl Breeze (Zevo 3)
- Maureen Connor/Permafrost (Static Shock)
- Icy (Winx Club)
- Aurora (Winx Club)
- Artic Faries (Winx Club)
- Abbey Bominable (Monster High)
- Frostcrawlers (SlugTerra)
- Zane (Lego Ninjago)
- Jack Frost (Rise of the Guardians)
- Snow Fairies (Disney Fairies)
- Elsa (Frozen)
Literature
- The Snow Queen (Once Upon a Time)
- Elsa (Once Upon a Time)
- The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen)
- Marina/Number Seven (Lorien Legacies)
- The White Witch (The Chronicles of Narnia)
- Jill (Firespell)
Video Games
- Most Ice-type Pokémon (Pokémon)
- Weiss Schnee (RWBY)
- Sub-Zero (Mortal Kombat)
- Frost (Mortal Kombat)
- Dante Alighieri (Dante's Inferno)
- Gill (Street Fighter III)
- Freezia (Spyro: A Hero's Tail)
- The Element Lord of Ice (BIONICLE)
- Kohrak, Bahrag, and some Skakdi of Ice (BIONICLE)
- Toa of Ice (BIONICLE)
- Kopaka (BIONICLE)
- Nuju (BIONICLE)
- Matoro (BIONICLE)
- Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons Game)
- Kula Diamond (The King of Fighters)
- White Len (Melty Blood)
- IceDevimon (Digimon)
- Sasquatch (Darkstalkers)
- Cryo (TF2 Freak)
- Frost Spy (TF2 Freak)
- Anivia (League of Legends)
- Ashe (League of Legends)
- Nunu (League of Legends)
- Sejuani (League of Legends)
- Most Magic users (Kingdom Hearts)
- Vexen (Kingdom Hearts)
- Jack Ryan (Bioshock); via Winter Blast Plasmid
- Martin Finnegan (Bioshock); via Winter Blast Plasmid
- Atlas/Fontaine (Bioshock)
- Subject Delta (Bioshock 2); via Winter Blast Plasmid
- Cole Macgrath (inFamous 2)
- Lucy Kuo (inFamous 2)
- Vermak 88/Ice Gang (inFamous 2)
- Ice Climbers (Ice Climbers Series)
- Olga (Asura's Wrath)
- Chilla (Kameo: Elements of Power)
- 40 Below (Kameo: Elements of Power)
- Asura/Dark Knight (Dungeon Fighter Online)
- Various Mage subclasses (Dungeon Fighter Online)
- Glacial Master (Dungeon Fighter Online)
- Slam Bam (Skylanders)
- Jin Kisaragi (BlazBlue)
- Ice mane (Mane-online)
- Loretta Lecarde(Castlevania)
- Megan (Nexus Wars)
- Jack Frost (Shin Megami Tensei)
- Fabularis (Super Robot Wars)
- Serph (Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga)
- Grotius (Telepath RPG Ch. 2)
- Fayt Leingod (Star Ocean: Till The End of Time)
- Mario (Mario)
- Digifanatic (Super Smash Stadium)
- Kalto (Bluehog Gaming Studio)
- Unity (Bluehog Gaming Studio)
- The Grizz (Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time)
- Kratos (GOW)
- Noxus (Metroid)
- Rundas (Metroid)
- Sheegoths (Metroid)
- Thardus (Metroid)
- Queen Of Ice (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Skadi (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Aurora (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Rimururu (Samurai Shodown)
- Vexen (Kingdom Hearts series)