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Intense cold can be just as destructive a force as intense heat. While freezing things solid may not be as pyrotechnically impressive as setting them alight or melting them into puddles, the fact remains that reducing the temperature of an object can have some interesting effects: namely, things that were once soft and pliable (like the human body) or rigid and impenetrable (like steel bars) turn brittle and hence easy to break. In fiction, this miraculous ability of cold to turn rubber balls into shrapnel bombs is, naturally, exaggerated. Simply encasing a thing in ice or freezing it to the point that frost forms on the surface is often treated as enough to make steel bars shatter with a dramatic kick. In reality, you'd need several minutes of exposure to liquid nitrogen to achieve such a result, and touching anything that cold with bare skin would probably leave you in need of a new appendage or two. (In fact, many science class demonstrations with liquid nitrogen involve freezing a banana, then using it to hammer in a nail... the exact opposite effect of what is shown on the movie screen.) Sometimes, this is an aversion of Harmless Freezing. Other times, a person frozen solid will be completely fine if they're thawed out, but until that happens they're vulnerable to having Literally Shattered Lives. See also An Ice Person, Kill It with Ice and Evil Is Deathly Cold. Not to be confused with those big ships used to clear paths for other ships in the northern oceans. Or with any slang about dating. Or that brand of gum. Not even with tools used to bypass Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics seen in some cyberpunk works. |
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Many steels, including a lot of common varieties used to make most everything, are cold-short — that is, they become brittle when exposed to cold, generally below -50-60°C. This is why you'd need special steels for construction and machinery designed to work in polar regions; or in space, where very low temperatures can be achieved. The catch is that this cold-shortness is often caused by phosphorus, which is a common additive to make steel immune to rust. | |
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A comedic version of the trope occurred much earlier in the series, when Ranma contracts a super-powerful cold that keeps mutating throughout the story. At one point, Ranma is so cold he can sneeze freezing wind at Happosai, encasing him in ice and handily breaking him apart with a mallet. | |
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Later when Anna throws herself between Hans and Elsa just before freezing completely solid, Hans's sword shatters against her frozen hand. Justified, as the blade has been subjected to probably Antarctic level of cold for some time, and Anna basically became a human pykrete statue. | |
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Many of Sub-Zero's Fatalities throughout the Mortal Kombat series employ freezing the opponent and uppercutting him to bits; holding them over his head, freezing them with his hands and breaking them in two; ripping their skull and spine from their frozen body and shatter it by swinging the skull like a flail, you name it. | |
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In Blood & Ice by Robert Masello, an attempt to cure vampires Eleanor Ames and Sinclair Copley of their need for blood involves injecting them with the blood of an Antarctic fish, which acts as a substitute means of allowing oxygen to circulate in their systems, thus replacing their need for fresh blood, but at the cost of rendering them extremely vulnerable to direct contact with ice; at the novel's conclusion, Sinclair freezes and falls into a crevasse when a few flecks of snow land on his face. | |
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The Cryo Legionnaire has an area-effect liquid nitrogen spray and a jump pack in theory allowing him to get out of trouble or bowl over infantry, but its intended use is for him to freeze a group or targets and jump on them, killing them instantly (and it turns out Future Tech actively recruited sociopaths to whom such an act is hilarious). And if that wasn't enough... they all speak like Ahnold as Mr. Freeze. | |
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Master Xehanort has this in a partial Cutscene Power to the Max in the Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep promotional video. While both cutscenes and in game boss battles have him with massive ice power, the promo video has him flash-freeze Ven, then throw him off a cliff. While we see this shatter Ven's mask and keyblade, Aqua manages to save Ven before he himself shatters. This is replicated as close as possible in the game proper. | |
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