Marvel Comics/Iceman

**Iceman** (Robert Louis "Bobby" Drake) is a mutant from New York and one of the original X-Men.

## Powers and Abilities

Iceman is an Omega-level mutant. He was also considered an Omega Level Mutate by Supergiant, an Alpha-Level Mutant by Apocalypse, and a High Threat by the O\*N\*E. According to Prosh, his comparative mutagenic power register was of 3.2.

On a day-to-day basis, Iceman's powers are not capable of their highest level of performance, but this potential has been unlocked on some occasions by various encounters - specifically those encounters with Loki, Mikhail Rasputin, and Emma Frost. On other occasions, his abilities were unlocked by telepaths, such as Psylocke.

**Cold Inducement:** Iceman is a mutant with the ability to lower both his external and internal body temperature, enabling him to project intense coldness from his body by overriding his hypothalamus to allow his body temperature to be lowered. This ability converts latent thermal energies in and around his body into an unknown form of energy that is efficiently dissipated. Iceman can consciously lower his body temperature from its normal 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit to absolute zero and lower within the span of a few tenths of a second. He can selectively lower the temperature of isolated parts of his body.

As his body temperature falls, the surrounding moisture in the air that is in contact with him is similarly lowered. Just as condensed moisture forms frost, this moisture forms an icy covering which encompasses his entire body, obscuring his facial features. When he first began to lower his body temperature, this covering took on a snow-like appearance, but he has learned to increase the intensity of his coldness, causing the covering to take on the consistency of the crystalline ice that it currently has. The ice constantly cracks with any movement of his body and immediately reforms.

* **Thermal Perception:** 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.
* **Cold Immunity:** A related mutation has rendered his bodily tissues unaffected by sub-zero temperatures.

**Cryokinesis:** Iceman can generate, manipulate, and fully control ice, snow, and cold temperatures. He can use his mutant ability to freeze moisture so as to freeze any air moisture into super-hard ice. Iceman's control of his powers are so vast that it extends to the molecular level to the point where he can freeze all of the molecules of an object or being with a thought, as well as unfreeze them. He has used this fine-tuned control to freeze blood in the veins of living beings and control chemical reactions on the molecular level; at one point, he even prevented Sunfire from accessing his powers.

* **Ice Constructs:** This ice can be formed into any object of his choosing, the only limitation being his own imagination and the ambient air temperature which determines how long his sculptures will remain icy. Thus far, he has produced ladders, slides, shields, domes, bolts, and beams made of ice. While in his ice form, he can use this power to create spikes, shields, or attach extra appendages to his body.
* **Ice Form:** Iceman is able to transform his body into organic ice. Although the appearance is similar to his ice-covered form when he generates intense coldness, Iceman can actually become ice.
	+ **Reconstitution:** Iceman is virtually indestructible in this form, allowing him to reform his body should it be shattered or evaporated. He has been incinerated while in his human form and was able to rebuild himself.
* **Atmospheric Sense:** Due to his cryokinetic powers, Iceman is able to sense various cold aspects of the weather, including snow, hail, blizzards, freezing rain, and cold air.
* **Clairvoyance:** After he managed to freeze the Earth in ice and snow, Iceman was able to spread his consciousness through the icy matter and perceive all events occurring within it.

**Hydrokinesis:** Iceman can manipulate water at the molecular level, allowing him to use surrounding moisture to augment himself and his abilities.

* **Water Travel:** He can also travel within large bodies of water very quickly. He accomplishes this by breaking himself down to his base levels and reforming at his destination.
* **Water Absorption:** By absorbing water or water vapor in the air, he can convert his body to gigantic proportions.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** When he does this, he gains superhuman strength to match his great size.
* **Body Part Replacement:** Iceman discovered that he is able to use his control over moisture to draw ambient moisture into himself to use it to replace the cells of his body. With this ability, he was able to avoid receiving a fatal dose of a neurotoxin by letting the poisoned molecules of his body dissipate into vapor and be replaced by untainted water molecules from his surroundings.

### Former Powers

**Symbiote Bonding:** While on Ulgriath, Iceman bonded to a symbiote that escaped from Haze Mancer's collection that adapted to his unique powers. His symbiote assimilated his ability to create ice and augmented this with its shapeshifting powers.

**Black Vortex Empowerment:** Iceman was briefly cosmically empowered by the Black Vortex, temporarily strengthening his ice powers and altering his ice form for a time even after the power was removed.