Bobby Drake

Frosty (Nickname by Kitty Pryde)

Mr. Friese (Nickname by Magneto)

Evilin Drake (paternal aunt)

Mary Drake (cousin)

Joel Drake (cousin)

## History

### Early Life (1991-2003)

Robert "Bobby" Drake was the son of William and Madeline Drake. They lived in Fort Washington, Long Island. As an infant, young Bobby looked up to his parents and thought very highly of them. From a young age the imaginative Bobby could tell he enjoyed the company of women and men but would be unable to tell his parents about this fearing they would disown him (in reality bobby was just insecure). By the time Bobby entered his teen years, the boy began to feel cold all the time, an early manifestation of his mutant powers.

Bobby’s full powers manifest themselves for the first time when he froze the water in his family's swimming pool. His parents realized that their son was a mutant and tried to hide young Bobby’s abilities from the world. Despite this Bobby would regularly practice with his powers outside of his home and away from others coming to love the idea of being a mutant.

In school, Drake began dating classmate Jude Harmon secretly earning the ire of local bully Rocky Beasely. One day he asked Jude out on a date to the movies where they would be harrassed by Rocky and his gang. Fearing for Jude’s life, Bobby used his powers to freeze Rocky in a block of ice. Word quickly spread around town about this leading to a mob coming after the Drake family and attempting to kill the child. A mutant himself, the town sheriff took the family in and introduced them to Professor Charles Xavier who offered to take Bobby in and teach him how to use his powers. The Drakes accepted and Bobby moved to Xavier’s estate in uptown New York.

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

Robert Drake has been stated to be an Omega Level Mutant. On a day-to-day basis, Drake's powers aren't capable of their highest level of performance, but this potential has been unlocked on some occasions by various encounters- specifically with Emma Frost. On other occasions, his abilities were unlocked by telepaths, such as Psylocke.

**Thermokinesis:** Iceman is a mutant with the ability to lower both his external and internal body temperature, which projects intense coldness from his body.

**Thermal Vision:** When lowering his body temperature, Iceman can see other beings via the heat signatures they give off because of the absence of heat around himself.

**Cryokinesis:** Iceman can generate, manipulate, and fully control ice, snow, and cold temperatures.

**Organic-Ice Form:** Ability to not only cover his body with ice, but to actually become organic ice.

**Hydrokinesis:** Iceman can manipulate water at molecular level, he can use surrounding moisture to augment himself, allowing him to travel within large bodies of water very quickly.

**Molecular Moisture Inversion:** The ability to freeze water molecules turning them into solid ice.

**Molecular Moisture Conversion:** The ability to transform organic matter, such as a human body, to organic ice and back again.

**Ice Clone Generation:** The ability to generate ice clones of himself. It is unknown how many ice clones he can create at once.

**Cellular Replacement:** Bobby discovered that he was able to use his control over moisture to draw ambient moisture into himself and thus use that moisture to replace his bodies cells.

### Weaknesses

Like that of any trained athlete, Iceman's ability to perform is directly related to his daily physical health and current mental state. Under normal conditions, he can usually form ice continually for a period of about 5 hours before becoming mentally exhausted. He seems to lack the creativity and imagination to use his powers to their full potential, though fear of losing control over them may be a factor in his reluctance.

### Paraphernalia

#### Equipment

Early in his life, Bobby had to use a power belt to keep his powers under control.