

Usually the player just has to do some Button Mashing to break free and move at full speed/strength. Many Video Games have freeze attacks that trap the player. Not pretty.Īnd, of course - anyone who has spent a long time outside during the winter, or even a short time outside during a very cold winter snap knows that below-freezing cold is hardly harmless or painless in Real Life. Imagine having your extremities full of oxygen-starved blood while your heart is still frozen. Freezing is usually portrayed as instantaneous, but thawing is generally done more slowly. There are ways of minimizing ice damage to frozen organic tissue (usually by making sure the water in most cells includes special chemicals that prevent the water from expanding so much when it freezes), though whether it will be of any help to future scientists that try to revive the person is a matter of debate (one of the primary problems with this method is that all known suitable chemicals are extremely toxic).Įven if you avoid the ice crystals, there's the matter of having parts of your body at different states. When it thaws out, they die and the body's soft tissue turns into mush. Unless you take special precautions when you freeze organic tissue (which can be assumed to be the case when making human popsicles, especially if Applied Phlebotinum is involved), the water in each cell will freeze and expand - bursting the cells and dealing them mortal wounds (frostbite). If the character's body itself is frozen, the situation is even more unrealistic.

which must mean that you can freeze and thaw people out with no problem. After all, microwaving frozen food works! And there's all this buzz about "cryogenics," note Suspended animation via extremely low temperatures is actually called "cryonics" "cryogenics" is the study of the creation of extremely low temperatures and their effects on materials. Sure, they might shiver a bit, but they have absolutely no problems with hypothermia, frostbite, shock, or, with the covered in ice version, suffocation. Then shortly after, they thaw out, and they are mostly unharmed. This can be in the form of encasing the character in a giant ice cube or simply freezing the person. A character is frozen solid by superpowers or some sort of futuristic weapon.
