Max Taylor

## Frostbite

* Frostbite
* Foxworth Enterprises
* Heroes and Villains

**Max Taylor**, also known as **Frostbite**, is a fictional character in the *Graffiti* series, created by David Ragin.

The older brother of Jake Taylor and cousin of Melrose Hawthorne and Chris Taylor, Max is a superhuman with cryokinetic abilities. A lover of all things superhero, Max works very closely with his friends to follow in the footsteps of his mentor and idol, Graffiti.

In film, Max Taylor / Frostbite is portrayed by Reggie Johnson, and has appeared in two Graffiti films to date, *Graffiti: Welcome to Foxworth Enterprises* (2015), and *Graffiti: Heroes and Villains* (2017).

## **Background**

Max and Jake learned of their abilities at a very young age, but were restricted from using their abilities from their parents. However, his cousin Melrose convinced them that she could train Max and his brother on how to safely and properly utilize their abilities, which the parents agreed to.

Melrose would go on to train the young superhumans until she relocated to Japan for college, leaving Dylan as their new trainer. Despite his orders, Max and Jake would frequently practice their powers outside of class, usually to unfortunate results.

## **Powers and Abilities**

* **Cryokinesis:** Max can generate, manipulate, and fully control ice, snow, and cold temperatures. He can use his superhuman ability to control moisture such as to freeze any air moisture into super-hard ice. He does not have to hold the ice physically with his hands in order to shape it. Apparently, he can simply direct the waves of coldness he projects in certain ways so as to create ice in the shape he desires. In the past, Max has formed ice-slides, ice-shields, ice-domes, ice-bolts, ice-blasts, ice-beams, and other constructs of ice. Max has created constructs of ice so powerful that he was able to easily encase and contain enemies, with them being unable to break out of it for quite some time. On at least one occasion, he has even been shown to make it snow or cause a blizzard.
	+ **Cryokinetic Constructs:** Max is able to form a rising column of ice beneath his feet, capable of lifting him off the ground. By forming long ice-ramps connected either to his ice-column or to an existing structure like a building or a bridge, Max is able to travel above the ground by sliding down the ramp he is creating.
	+ **Cryokinetic Blade Construction:** Max can construct bladed weapons of various shapes and sizes out of ice. He is able to manipulate the blade, making it extremely sharp, allowing him to freeze surrounding area or unleashing shards of ice that are capable of penetrating anything.
	+ **Cold Manipulation:** Max can lower both his external and internal body temperature, which projects intense coldness from his body. Max can mentally override his hypothalamus to lower his internal body temperature. Due to his cryokinetic-based powers, Max is able to sense, generate, and manipulate various cold aspects of the weather such as snow, hail, blizzards, cold air, freezing rain, etc.
	+ **Snow Manipulation:** Max can also create snow, soft enough to cushion falls and slides on rough surfaces.
	+ **Blizzard Generation:** He is able to use a combination of cold, winds and snow, sleet, hail, and/or ice to create blizzards of varying power. He can make a snow day on the scale of a natural disaster and disable ground and air traffic for example.
	+ **Avalanche Generation:** Max has the ability to create/generate avalanches (also called a snowslide or snowslip), which is a rapid flow of snow down a sloping surface.
	+ **Ice Breath:** Max is able to generate and manipulate ice/cold within them in a way that allows him to shape the exhaling of the effect. These shapes can include bursts, streams, spheres, even a mist of it from the mouth.
	+ **Ice Storm Creation:** He has the power to create ice storms, which results in the accumulation of at least 0.25-inch (6.4 mm) of ice on exposed surfaces. They are not violent storms, but instead commonly perceived as gentle rains occurring at temperatures just below freezing. The freezing rain from an ice storm covers everything with heavy, smooth glaze ice. In addition to hazardous driving or walking conditions, branches or even whole trees may break from the weight of ice.
	+ **Snow Generation:** He can generate and project snow from his skin such his feet or his mouth.
	+ **Ice Absorption:** Max can absorb ice, while removing it from the source, into his body and use it in various ways, gaining some form of advantage, either by enhancing himself, gaining the drained power, using it as power source etc., either temporarily or permanently.
	+ **Cold Immunity:** He can survive below freezing temperatures in cold harsh conditions.

* **Enhanced Durability:** As a superhuman, Max's body has the natural ability to sustain numerous blows of external assault, though his inner body can take damage if struck hard enough.

## **Weaknesses**

* **Hot Temperatures:** While not unable, Max is more susceptible to hot environments and has increased difficulty using his powers when around heat.