Frost Mercenary

The **Frost Mercenary** is a character in *Turtle Man and DaPhantom* who has appeared within a handful of episodes. Within his first appearance in Season 6, he cast a blizzard spell upon The City of Nexus but was stopped by Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M.

## Appearance

Though his real face and identity has yet to be seen by anybody, on the outside the Frost Mercenary wears a dark blue coating of armor with icy gloves and darker coloured boots covered in snow. The centre of his chestplate is slightly cracked and also contains a frost core surrounded by illuminant snowflakes where his powers are stored. He is most commonly seen carrying around a giant ice battleaxe which he often uses as a weapon in combat, and wears a lighter coloured ice helmet with cracks and a visor that one of his eyes can sometimes be seen glowing through.

In the second movie, he reveals that he is in fact a snowman but still has yet to show his actual face.

## Background

The Frost Mercenary once belonged to a distant ice kingdom where he acted as a guard of the Ice Castle and protected it alongside others just like him, at all costs. However, he has disobeyed the monarchy many times and as a result was banished from the kingdom, prompting to leave and try find somewhere cold where he can reside well on his own. He visited many places across the lands attempting to freeze them over in order to make them his own domain, but the residents of these places fought against him and kicked him out of there forcing him to have to move. The Frost Mercenary had met a fellow villain named the Icy Guy and tried to form an alliance with him, but the Icy Guy just played many tricks on him which made the mercenary mad and so he fought back on occasion. Someday, the Frost Mercenary found a place to settle his icy domain - outside of a city called Nexus and so decided to build his own ice fortress within the local Mountain Range, spreading snow and ice all over the city before he actually went in for an attack. This blizzard was causing disruption, and so Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. decided to search for the source of it and followed a trail of ice chunks falling from the sky. These ice chunks were revealed to be coming from his fortress and he was using them to spreading the winter, so the trio breached the fortress and had an intense fight against him. With the help of the random stuff from Turtle Man's shell, they managed to defeat the mercenary and send him flying away - he exacted revenge on them one day.

It seems that after this, the Frost Mercenary did actually find somewhere to settle his icy domain down: in a distant tundra where he could also be away from the Icy Guy. He created a new, smaller fortress for him to stay and things seemed fine, until he had encountered the Manic Mage who was wandering by and used her Amulet of Souls to met all the snow in his path. He attempted to stop her from proceeding any further and was ready to attack, but was quickly met by a punch to the face and he had his soul stolen by the Amulet and into the mage's vessel which gave her his memories, allowing her to know where Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. were. At the end of the movie, his soul is returned to him following the defeat of the Manic Mage by the trio, so he just decides to continue his business like nothing happened.

He also participated in the Mountain Race hosted by the Vice President and is shown to be mad at the trio due to his last physical encounter with them, and promises them that he will be the winner. Ironically, he forgot to give his own vehicle specialised ice wheels and so he was the first person to crash and lose it. The mercenary had his next appearance when Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. visited the local icy biome in search of some Raw Yoshium shards, as he took the last one they needed with the intent to make an Ice Tank superweapon. As he fought the trio over the last shard he tried to blast them with an icy shot to freeze them, but froze himself as Turtle Man reflected it back at him and they were free to take the shard. Later on he fought during the Soul War after Turtle Man called for his help from the Mystical Acres with a snowball, and he also gave the trio some lyrics to use when they were trying to write a song for a competition and visited the Mountain Range, which proves he still visits the mountains often.

## Personality and Relationships

The Frost Mercenary is a rather mean person who only really cares about his own feelings and wellbeing; anybody who tries to oppose or insult his ways will often see some ice blasts to the face. He is pretty tyrannical and aims to have as much control as possible over the places in which he settles his territory, going to large lengths in order to make sure he can sustain the power and control. Also he doesn’t really have any known friends which makes him lonely, but he does not seem to mind at all.

Unlike many of the other villains, the mercenary had no particular hatred towards Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. when he arrived to commit his evil deeds - in fact he only became aware of their existence and fought them when they came to his ice palace to stop him. Though he did remain spiteful to them after they had previously foiled his plans and grown a bit of hatred towards them because of it, but not too much. However, one person who he absolutely hated and was enemies with was the Icy Guy as he saw him as an insult to ice deities, and in return the Icy Guy played many tricks on him which was very annoying. He would probably be happy to know that the Icy Guy is now dead thanks to Turtle Man.

## Abilities

The Frost Mercenary has quite a lot of strange yet dangerous abilities, not all of which include snow or ice-related attacks. His abilities range from conjuring blasts of ice and snow in the form of avalanches to controlling huge chunks of frost and being able to move it around anywhere he wants. He even has the ability to control his size in order to grow larger or smaller, making him be able to turn big and easily stomp any enemies that he may be fighting. Furthermore, the mercenary has also carved out many ice weapons including daggers, battleaxes, hammers and chains which he all can carry around and use in combat. On top of this, he can also control the weather with ease, being able to bring a harsh blizzard to the most sunny of days which he does in order to keep the temperatures cool.

Despite all this, the Frost Mercenary has one pretty major weakness that can be used against him; that being heat. Warm temperatures are able to weaken him as well as melt many of his attacks and weapons away, which is why he has been trying to make areas colder in order to prevent this from happening.

## Appearances

* S6E12 - Snow Day
* Turtle Man and DaPhantom: The Lost Origins
* S8E1 - Mountain Race
* S8E10 - The Blacksmith
* S8E15 - Soul War
* S9E6 - Find Your Tune

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