FreezeFlame22

**FreezeFlame22** is a British YouTuber and the creator of the shows *The Koopa Kids*, *Carl*, *Bowser's Koopalings*, *Donkey Kong Island* and *Wars of Frozen Flames*.

He edits the videos in addition to writing the scripts for the episodes, although he sometimes needs additional help from Popplio Power. He also creates some of the sprites for the series, such as the sprites for Wendy, Lanky and Chunky, as well as the location sprites such as Toad Town and Dark Valley.

He voices many of the characters in his shows, doing all of the voices up until the *Bowser's Koopalings* episode "The Murderer Mystery", where he started to heavily struggle to do higher voices, and pitching up the voices in audacity no longer cut it, so he gave some fans the opportunity to voice act for his videos, including his close friend Popplio Power, as well as AverageToaster19, Swoldow EVGRB, Carmen and Mononerd among others.

## Channel History

### 2013

FreezeFlame22 started uploading videos in the Summer of 2013, the first of which being "Oh Father Where Art Thou"*,* the first episode of *The Koopa Kids*, on August 4th. He made *The Koopa Kids* episodes relatively frequently, however the quality of the videos wasn't the best as FreezeFlame22 had just started making videos, and mainly took inspiration from the YouTuber SMG4, and a lot of his humor can be seen in FreezeFlame22's early work. Despite the poor quality of the videos, these still managed to gain a small following of fans.

### 2014-2015

In 2014, however, due to him enjoying videogame countdowns, he started making countdowns of his own. Unfortunately they were horribly made, featuring footage recorded off of a TV using a camera, as well as frequent stuttering as FreezeFlame22 didn't use a script. The third of the countdowns, *Top 10 Most Hated Mario Characters*, was exceptionally hated as FreezeFlame22's points for disliking certain characters weren't very strong, due to FreezeFlame22 being younger at the time. The video got more dislikes than any video on his channel, and was deleted sometime in 2015 due to FreezeFlame22 not wanting to be known for old countdowns anymore, as it was the second most popular video on his channel at the time. He initially planned to make more countdowns, but decided that he couldn't do both sprite series' and countdowns, so ultimately chose sprite series' as that's what he was better at and overall enjoyed more.

He specifically disliked the *Super Mario Bros.* character Rosalina at this time, and seemingly just for being a playable character in the videogames *Mario Kart 8* and *Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and Wii U* over characters he liked such as Bowser Jr., who ironically ended up being an unlockable character in the latter, and a character in the Deluxe version in the former. He made a *The Koopa Kids* episode about Rosalina known as "Rosalina's Wrath", where she was portrayed as an evil villain who abused her Lumas. Thankfully FreezeFlame22 grew out of this, and no longer dislikes Rosalina at all, regretting his behavior back then.

In 2015 he collaborated with YouTuber Dafawfulizer in a countdown video listing the *Top 10 Problems with Modern SMG4*, where they listed the 10 things that were worse about SMG4's content at the time, as FreezeFlame22 was not enjoying the direction SMG4's videos were going. There is no beef between the YouTubers and SMG4, however, as the video was just made for critique purposes and SMG4 handled the video professionally and was polite and civil in his response. The video even helped SMG4 improve in the eyes of some fans, including Dafawfulizer himself. Despite this, FreezeFlame22 doesn't look back on the video very fondly, not because of anything particularly wrong with it, but mainly because he feels the script wrongfully ripped off the popular video *Top 10 Problems with Modern Spongebob*.

### 2016

FreezeFlame22's upload schedule heavily slowed down around early 2016, however. He mainly attributed this to things going on in his personal life, although he later spoke about how at the time he decided he was heavily losing interest in *The Koopa Kids*. He grew to hate the canon he had created for the show, as well as the dynamic of the show grouping all of the Koopalings together and not letting them be their own characters, and wanted to scrap it all and start over. Despite this he attempted to give what the fans thought would be a satisfying finale, and the last few episodes of the show were uploaded during the remainder of 2016. He also made a few "Reading Hate Comments" videos around this time, however felt they were out of place on his channel after a while.

### 2017-Present

In early 2017, he had started to make a new series known as *Carl*, which he was much more fond of than *The Koopa Kids*. Despite this, some fans weren't pleased with the new series and wanted to see the Koopalings again. Initially FreezeFlame22 was planning on continuing *The Koopa Kids* and was considering doing a fourth season, however towards mid-2017 he started to change his mind, and instead planned to reboot the series, which came October 4th 2017 with *Bowser's Children*, later renamed to *Bowser's Koopalings*. He also planned a project known as *Mario & Bowser: Behind The Beef*, at this time, but this was later scrapped, as FreezeFlame22 decided he no longer wanted Mario to be involved in Bowser's backstory or the show as a whole, in addition to thinking the title was horrible.

In late 2018, he made a Casting Call video for voice actors after he started to heavily struggle with doing higher voices for his videos. Since then several voice actors are also apart of the channel and help FreezeFlame22 with his videos, with two other Casting Call videos being made in the years 2020 and 2023. Over the time, many voice actors have come and left Freeze's team, with the current major voice actors including FreezeFlame22 himself, Popplio Power, AverageToaster19, Swoldow EVGRB, Carmen and Mononerd. In addition to those, YoshiEgg95, Bassi-Kun 99 and Cowabunga also provide additional voices, albeit much less frequently.

## Projects

### *The Koopa Kids* (2013-2016)

*The Koopa Kids* was the first show that debuted on FreezeFlame22's channel. It was created as FreezeFlame22 was a fan of the Koopalings, but didn't like how everyone portrayed them with the same personality types similar to the *Super Mario Bros. 3* cartoon from 1990, so he made his own show with his own portrayals. The show was about the Koopalings getting into random antics while living on an airship in the sky. It mainly centered around Lemmy, Morton and Wendy, while Roy, Iggy and Ludwig were a group of bullies, and Larry was basically just a supporting character on the same level as Bowser Jr.. The show also featured Bowser in a drastically different role to his role in *Bowser's Koopalings*, as in this show he is trying to take over a Kingdom rather than already ruling one, and was considered the biological father of the Koopalings. Ultimately, though, the show came to an end in late 2016, as FreezeFlame22 no longer liked the canon he created for the show. Initially he planned to continue the show using a castle as a new setting, however as time went on he decided he wanted to completely start from scratch and create a new canon, which lead to the creation of *Bowser's Koopalings*. *The Koopa Kids* was unlisted in early 2018, due to the videos still receiving the most traction despite no longer being content that FreezeFlame22 stood by, as well as confusing fans, some of which believed that *Bowser's Koopalings* was a continuation of the show.

### *Carl* (2017-Present)

*Carl* is the first series that takes place in the current FreezeFlame22 Universe's canon. It is a show about Carl, an average teenage boy going through high school alongside his friends, Blooper, Dry Bones, Boo and Marvin, his pet Piranha Plant. He often tries to impress his love interest Grace, and gets into beef with Gooper, the school bully, and his gang. FreezeFlame22 created the Carl series because he wanted to take a break from bizarre stories about the Koopalings and focus on average and somewhat relatable high school stories instead, so he used the minor character Carl from his old show, re-designed his sprite and re-wrote his personality and created a new backstory for him. The show has a continuous structure, as elements introduced in episodes remain for the rest of the show, with the most notable one being Carl and Grace becoming an official couple at the end of season 2.

### *Bowser's Koopalings* (2017-Present)

*Bowser's Koopalings*, originally *Bowser's Children*, is the most popular series on FreezeFlame22's channel, as well as a reboot to the original *The Koopa Kids* series. The series is drastically different to *The Koopa Kids*, as in *Bowser's Koopalings* Bowser is the ruler of the Koopa Kingdom, also known as the Mushroom Kingdom in earlier episodes, and the Koopalings are his adoptive children that serve in the Koopa Troop, which is now more like a military, whereas Bowser Jr. is his only biological son. The series this time focuses on all the Koopalings, and doesn't specifically portray any of the Koopalings as the main antagonists of the show. The show still tends to be about random antics the Koopalings get into from day to day, and follows more of an episodic format than Carl. Despite that there are still certain elements that carry over from other episodes. The show's title was changed to *Bowser's Koopalings* starting with the season 5 episode "Zombie Invasion". The show is currently in its sixth Season.

### *Donkey Kong Island* (2019-Present)

Donkey Kong Island is the first of FreezeFlame22's series' to not primarily focus on Koopas, or take place in the Koopa Kingdom for that matter. The show revolves around DK and Diddy, both of which are the main characters and are portrayed as brothers, working at a warehouse for their boss, King K. Rool, alongside their friends, Dixie, Tiny, Lanky and Chunky. The episodes tend to follow a similar structure to Carl, where it has more of a continuous structure, although there are exceptions, such as Krusha getting stabbed by K.E.B.A.B. in *The Krembot*. It is currently in its second season.

### *Wars of Frozen Flames* (2022-TBA)

*Wars of Frozen Flames* is a mini-series created by FreezeFlame22, which is heavily based off of Wars of the Roses. As it is based on the real-life events of Wars of the Roses, the mini-series does not take place in present day but in medieval times with the first episode, The Feeble King, taking place in the late 1470s. The mini-series revolves around the monarch King John Koopa VI, based on King Henry VI, an unfit ruling monarch who is struggling with ruling the Koopa Kingdom and is easily controlled by his Queen, Cynder Von Bohnenrotte, and her subjects while also focusing on John's Second Cousin Once-removed Lord Richard Koopa, based on Richard of York, having concerns over the Kingdom's trouble.

## Voice Works

FreezeFlame22 voices many characters in his shows, even voicing all of the characters for all of the first two seasons of *Carl* and *Bowser's Koopalings* and the first three episodes of the third season of each show, following which he hired a team of voice actors.

## Trivia

1. ↑ Speaking voice in debut episode only. Swoldow EVGRB voices Sebastian from "The Election" onwards, with FreezeFlame22 providing Sebastian's Northern England accent only.