S3E07: Cold as Ice

## Summary

"Cold as Ice" (Japanese title: Eternal Winter Strikes! We Must Thaw the Ice) is Season 3's seventh episode, and the twenty-seventh episode of the series "Teenage Mutant Ninja Mobians (1987)."

## Plot

The episode opens with a cold day in New York City the day after Thanksgiving. Elise Oriana III and Christopher Aonuma's groups have finished eating their breakfast at a local diner when they saw that the weather made a error announcing it would snow today, but there's no snow today with the sun out. In the sewer lair, the TMNM, Tiny Tiger, Dingodile, and Yuffie Kisaragi have just finished their morning training with Cloud Strife and Aerith Gainsborough on how to deal with cold weather conditions. Back at the surface, Tai Kamiya's group, along with Kara Wallaroo and Roxanne Pear, are visiting the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory since Roxanne wants a job as a waitress. But while everyone else waited for the manager to come out and interview Roxanne, they heard a loud commotion and secretly snooping, saw Loki's group and their henchmen stealing some ice in a freezer. After leaving, they contact our heroes and told them what's going on. Then they meet up along with Elise and Christopher's groups, the TMNM, and their allies at Greenwich Village and try to figure out why Loki's group would steal ice, but then concluded that until Loki's group strikes again, they'll wait. In the Jotundrome in the center of the Earth, Loki's group and their henchmen returned successful on stealing ice for Uka-Uka's group's new Freeze Ray, a machine that is powered by ice and that no matter how many times it fires ice, it'll never run out of ice power, and it's even powerful enough to freeze even the sun. Deciding to test out the Freeze Ray, Loki's group ask Uka-Uka's group to lend them the Freeze Ray, but are denied that permission since Uka-Uka's group claim it's theirs, despite Dr. Eggman pointing out that he invented it from Uka-Uka's group's concept. But later, Loki's group and their henchmen manage to secretly steal the Freeze Ray behind Uka-Uka's group's back and return to New York City to test it out. Once there, they begin freezing everything in their path, creating ice and snow, including trapping Chief Clancy Wiggum, Lou, and Eddie in ice blocks, except their heads, so they won't intervene. But when the Komodo Brothers take the Freeze Ray and both fight over who will use it next, they end up freezing the sun. Then the result; A blizzard hits New York City.

With New York City in an eternal winter due to the sun freezing and the blizzard already over, our heroes, after Blaze the Cat and Dingodile free and rescue Wiggum, Lou, and Eddie, discover that the ice and snow is slowly spreading beyond New York City, on the verge of freezing the entire world. Deciding to split into search parties for Loki's group and their henchmen and steal the Freeze Ray so they can reverse the Freeze Ray's blasts to restore the sun, our heroes brave the cold conditions. With Elise's group, they arrive in the Plaza Hotel when they found Loki's group and their henchmen there, using the place as their ice palace to rule the world with. Then Uka-Uka's group, having found out about the cold weather conditions and Loki's group taking the Freeze Ray behind their backs, arrived and after a good scolding towards Loki's group for disobeying them, agree to rule the world on the condition that they hold the Freeze Ray instead of Loki's group and both groups share world domination 50-50. But when Elise's group contacted our heroes and told them what's going on after being spotted, the henchmen captured and tied them them. After being brought up to Loki and Uka-Uka's groups, Uka-Uka's group then freeze Elise's group's bodies in their own blocks of ice, imprisoning them in the storage room, planning on freezing them to death which, according to Uka-Uka's group, is "In a slow way for them to suffer."

Back with our heroes, they arrive at the hotel and confront Loki and Uka-Uka's groups and their henchmen. When Christopher's group and Blaze heard a crash in the storage room during the fight, they discover Elise's group locked in there, and manage to free Elise's group from the ice blocks and ropes tying their hands with Blaze's pyrokinetic powers. Unaware of the rescue, our heroes and the villains continue their fight, despite that most of them, except Sonic the Hedgehog, Shadow the Hedgehog, Silver the Hedgehog, Dingodile, and Yuffie, are frozen in ice blocks. However, Elise and Christopher's groups and Blaze arrive and, with Sonic, Shadow, Silver, Dingodile, and Yuffie's help, manage to snatch away the Freeze Ray and, after freeing the rest of our heroes with Blaze and Dingodile's fire powers and flamethrower, froze Loki and Uka-Uka's groups and their henchmen in ice blocks, Miles "Tails" Prower, after reversing the Freeze Ray's beam, fires at the sun, restoring and unfreezing it. Then immediately, the snow and ice melted and New York City and whatever places frozen by the Freeze Ray returned to normal. But Vanitas and Sephiroth breaks themselves and the villains free and the villains got away back to the Jotundrome. After they're gone, our heroes destroy the Freeze Ray, to ensure it never falls in the wrong hands again. Then in the end, Roxanne ends up getting the waitress job at the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory and our heroes celebrate Roxanne's first day on the job at the place with Charmy Bee ordering ice cream pizzas for the occasion.

## Notes

* Heroes' Insult Count: 3 (1 by Shadow, 1 by Jamieson, 1 by Rainbow Dash)
* Villains' Insult Count: 24 (3 by Eggman, 3 by Vanitas, 2 by Hunter J, 2 by Mephiles, 2 by Uka-Uka, 1 by Oxide, 3 by Infinite, 1 by Demidevimon, 1 by N. Gin, 1 by N. Brio, 1 by Tropy, 1 by Loki, 1 by Sephiroth, 1 by Myotismon, 1 by Cortex)
* Insult count: 27
* Locations: City Streets, City Sewers, Mobians' Sewer Lair, Jotundrome, Center of the Earth, Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory, Greenwich Village, Convention Center, Times Square, and Plaza Hotel
* Vehicles: Pneumatic Module
* Gadgets: Mobiancom and Freeze Ray
* Mephiles, Blaze, and Silver break the Fourth Wall in this episode, when Mephiles says he made a funny when he made an ice joke regarding "Cold-hard cash" and when Blaze asked if our heroes have time for a flashback on how she and Dingodile found and rescued the sick Wiggum, Lou, and Eddie, resulting Silver to reply that "[the readers] even need to know."
* Demidevimon made a reference to the Soup Nazi's famous line "No soup for you" from "Seinfeld" by saying "No Freeze Ray for you," when he and Uka-Uka's group denies Loki's group permission to share and test out the Freeze Ray.
* The episode title references the name of the Foreigner song "Cold as Ice."
* Roxanne gets an official job as a waitress at the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory in the end of this episode.
* Hans Christian Anderson's "The Snow Queen" is referenced twice in this episode, the first time by Pinkie Pie, and the second time by Vector.

## Goofs

* In the shot where Vanitas says "If you hadn’t had tiny brains, I would freeze them easily," his skin color is white instead of pale peach.
* In one shot while groveling to Uka-Uka's group in fear, the Komodo Brothers' winter scarves are missing.
* Wiggum, Lou, and Eddie's red fever rashes on their faces are missing in one shot when Dingodile says "Don’t you dare kick the bucket on us!"
* Mephiles claims he made a funny for the first time in this episode. But it's an error, he actually made his first funny in "Mobians on Trial," which was five episodes ago.
* In one shot when Tiny is shot by the Freeze Ray along with Roxanne, her eyes are colored blue instead of brown in that shot.

## Character Appearances

**Heroes**

* Ace D. Copular
* Adagio Dazzle
* Aerith Gainsborough
* Agumon
* Allison Oriana
* Amy Rose
* Applejack
* Aria Blaze
* Big the Cat
* Big William "Billy" W. Williams
* Biyomon
* Blaze the Cat
* Braeburn
* Caramel
* Charmy Bee
* Cheese the Chao
* Chief Clancy Wiggum
* Chris Thorndyke
* Christopher Aonuma
* Cloud Strife
* Comet Tail
* Cosmo the Seedrian
* Cream the Rabbit
* Dingodile/Dale Wallaroo
* E-123 Omega
* Eddie
* Elise Oriana III
* Ember
* Espio the Chameleon
* Flash Sentry
* Fluttershy
* Froggy
* Gabumon
* Gatomon
* Gomamon
* Grubber J. Gribberish
* Hoffman
* Izzy Izumi
* J. Jonah Jamieson
* Joe Kido
* Kara Wallaroo
* Kari Kamiya
* Kayla the Wolf
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Li'l Arturo de la Guerra
* Lou
* Matt Ishida
* Max the Wolf
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Mimi Tachikawa
* Palmon
* Patamon
* Pinkie Pie
* Pokey Pierce
* Rainbow Dash
* Rarity
* Rouge the Bat
* Roxanne Pear
* Sanford "Snake" D. Ingleberry
* Seifer Almasy
* Shadow the Hedgehog
* Silver the Hedgehog
* Soarin
* Sonata Dusk
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Sora Takenouchi
* Spike
* Starlight Glimmer
* Sunset Shimmer
* Tai Kamiya
* Tentomon
* Thunderlane
* Tikal
* Tiny Tiger/Tucker Tigerson
* TK Takaishi-Ishida
* Trixie
* Twilight Sparkle
* Vector the Crocodile
* Yuffie Kisaragi

**Villains**

* Arukenimon (Temporally changes into her Beast form in this)
* Cubot
* Demidevimon
* Dr. Eggman
* Dr. Nefarious Tropy
* Dr. Neo Cortex
* Dr. Nitros Brio
* Dr. Nitros Gin
* General Traag (Non-speaking cameo)
* Granitor (Non-speaking cameo)
* Hunter J
* Infinite
* Koala Kong/Kent Kong
* Komodo Joe/Joe Komadipatatim
* Komodo Moe/Moe Komadipatatim
* Loki
* Mephiles the Dark
* Mummymon (Temporally changes into his Beast form in this)
* Myotismon
* Nitros Oxide
* Orbot
* Pinstripe Potoroo/Paul "Pinstripe" Potolini
* Rilla Roo/Richard Rooter
* Ripper Roo/Ricky Rooter
* Sephiroth
* Tribot
* Uka-Uka
* Vanitas

## Episode Titles in Other Languages

* Japanese
	+ 攻撃の永遠の冬！ 我々たち氷を解かなければ
	+ Kōgeki no Eien no Fuyu! Wareware-tachi Kōri o Tokanakereba
	+ Eternal Winter Strikes! We Must Thaw the Ice
* English
	+ USA: Cold as Ice
	+ UK: Cold as Ice
* Latin America Spanish
	+ Golpes Eternos de Invierno
	+ Eternal Winter Strikes
* Castilian Spanish
	+ Golpes Eternos de Invierno
	+ Eternal Winter Strikes
* Catalan
	+ Etern Hivern
	+ Eternal Winter
* French
	+ Froid Comme la Glace
	+ Cold as Ice
* Canadian French
	+ Fwad kòm Glas
	+ Cold as Ice
* German
	+ Wir Müssen das Eis Auftauen
	+ We Must Thaw the Ice
* Italian
	+ Inverno Ghiacciato
	+ Icy Winter
* Portuguese
	+ Um Tempo Muito Frio
	+ A Really Cold Time
* Brazilian Portuguese
	+ Um Tempo Muito Frio
	+ A Really Cold Time
* Mandarin Chinese
	+ 永恒的冬季罢工！ 我们必须解冻冰
	+ Yǒnghéng de Dōngjì Bàgōng! Wǒmen Bìxū Jiědòng Bīng
	+ Eternal Winter Strikes! We Must Thaw the Ice
* Cantonese Chinese
	+ 永恆的冬季罷工！ 我們必須解凍冰
	+ Yǒnghéng de Dōngjì Bàgōng! Wǒmen Bìxū Jiědòng Bīng
	+ Eternal Winter Strikes! We Must Thaw the Ice
* Korean
	+ 영원한 겨울의 일격! 우리는 얼음을 녹여야한다
	+ Yeong-wonhan Gyeoul-ui Ilgyeog! Ulineun Eol-eum-eul Nog-yeoyahanda
	+ Eternal Winter Strikes! We Must Thaw the Ice
* Danish
	+ Kold Vinter
	+ Cold Winter
* Dutch
	+ Ijzig Winter
	+ Icy Winter
* Swedish
	+ Iskalig Vinter
	+ Icy Winter
* Icelandic
	+ Engin Sól, Is Inn
	+ No Sun, Ice In
* Norwegian
	+ Ingen Sol, Is Inn
	+ No Sun, Ice In
* Thai
	+ นิรันดร์ฤดูหนาวโต้! เราต้องละลายน้ำแข็ง
	+ Ni rạn Dr̒ vdū ̄Hnāw tô! Reā t̂xng Lalāy ̂Nảk̄hæ̆ng
	+ Eternal Winter Strikes! We Must Thaw the Ice
* Russian
	+ Забастовка вечной зимы
	+ Zabastovka Vechnoy Zimy
	+ The Strike of Eternal Winter
* Polish
	+ Odwilż Lód
	+ Thaw the Ice
* Finnish
	+ Taistele Iankaikkinen Talvi
	+ Fight the Eternal Winter
* Hungarian
	+ Harcolj az Orök Tél Ellen
	+ Fight the Eternal Winter
* Greek
	+ Αποψύξτε τον Αιώνιο Χειμώνα
	+ Apopsýxte ton Aiónio Cheimóna
	+ Thaw the Eternal Winter
* Hebrew
	+ עצור את החורף הנצחי
	+ 'Etsvr at Hhvrp Hntshy
	+ Stop the Eternal Winter
* Arabic
	+ إنهاء الشتاء الأبدي
	+ 'Iinha' Alshita' al'Abdii
	+ End the Eternal Winter

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