Big Chill (Ben 23: OV)

## Appearance

### Ben as Big Chill

Big Chill is a humanoid, moth-like alien, whose four wings and two antennae-like wing folds can fold up into a poncho-esque robe with a hood, giving him the appearance of a phantom. He has a black body with blue patching on his slender chest, and running along his legs and arms, the latter reaching up to the back of his neck. He has cyan patches that resemble ice chunks on his legs and arms. Thick black lines border the back end of each wing, which also contain three cyan patches of their own.

Big Chill's face is blue but has harsh black lines surrounding his eyes and mouth, which all meet at the center of his face. He also has a black marking on his head that extends over his scalp, forcing the remaining blue parts of his forehead into a Y-shape. His eyes are bright green, with small darker spots inside. His mouth is a frown showing four bluish-white teeth, which rarely moves, even when speaking. He has three pointed fingers and a thumb on each hand, and three toes on each foot: two in front and one behind.

In **Omniverse**, Big Chill has a much more muscular build with a larger chest and is more hunched over. On his face, there are additional blue brows surrounding his eyes; his chin juts out more and has a blue stripe; and his mouth is wider, now showing six teeth. Blue now covers most of his chest, although long black hair now drapes over top of it. He has bigger claws and wings, the latter of which now are less moth-like and more shaped like a bat's. His rib lines are less pronounced, but still visible, as well as there being an extra line running down his abdomen. When his wings are folded, his hood is larger, and the robe goes down to his ankles instead of his knees.

16-year-old Big Chill wears a green belt with a white stripe with the Omnitrix symbol on his waist, while 15-year-old Big Chill wears the original Omnitrix symbol on his chest to reflect his original appearance.

## Powers and Abilities

Big Chill has the power of cryokinesis, meaning that he can influence the direction of the ice that grows from his breath and palms with extreme precision. This allows him to create simultaneous ice constructs that bend and weave through the air before solidifying.

Big Chill is capable of breathing a wind or beam that can reduce the temperature surrounding it to just this side of absolute zero, turn to ice constructs either mid-air or upon touching a target, or encase a target completely in ice. His breath can be also be used as a strong gust of wind without freezing anything, capable of pushing the Rust Bucket 2 off a cliff. Big Chill can freeze strong adhesives using his ice breath and make them brittle.

Big Chill can fly using his wings. He can also leave behind an ice trail while flying.

Big Chill can levitate.

Similar to Ghostfreak, Big Chill can become intangible and pass through solid matter, to the point where he can cause opponents and objects to freeze by phasing through them if he chooses to. Big Chill can also turn himself partially invisible by becoming intangible.

Big Chill can freeze objects just by touching them.

Big Chill possesses sharp claws, which were able to tear through Inspector 13's suit to remove one of his devices.

Big Chill can fold up his wings into a hooded robe.

Big Chill has enhanced strength, as seen when he was on a metal-eating spree, where he effortlessly ripped apart a large metal statue and snapped iron girders in half. He can also carry a Revonnahgander while keeping steady flight.

Big Chill's strength extends to his feet, which are prehensile, as Freezeghost could carry an Opticoid while flying.

Big Chill is rather durable, as he was able to take a laser blast to the back from Kraab and only be slightly fazed.

Big Chill is quite agile, as he is capable of dodging attacks while flying, as well avoiding laser attacks from afar, as demonstrated by Freeze-Ghost.
Big Chill can survive underwater, as well as in the vacuum of space.

Big Chill is immune to extreme temperatures, both hot and cold. As such, he can drink molten steel and keep it hot without suffering severe internal damage.

Big Chill can withstand radiation, such as that generated by a Prypiatosian-B.

Big Chill can generate ice beams from his hands.

Big Chill can spit out ice shards, as demonstrated by the Necrofriggians on Mikd'lty.

Big Chill has a powerful jaw capable of chewing up and devouring metal statues, poles, buildings, signs, iron girders, and serving trays.

## Weaknesses

Being a Necrofriggian, Big Chill is vulnerable to being hypnotized by a Psycholeopterran. His ice breath is also useless against Psycholeopterrans, as shown when Hypnotick escaped by using her own intangibility.

Some objects are capable of touching Big Chill while he's intangible, those being: The Rust Bucket 2's netting, the Shield of Seagle, the Techadon Factory's defense systems, and the Plumber Headquarters' prison cell door.

Big Chill's intangibility is useless against opponents who can also turn intangible, such as Ectonurites and other Necrofriggians, as it will cancel out their abilities to do so.

Big Chill can be harmed by electricity, such as that generated by a Cerebrocrustacean and/or the Shield of Seagle.

Big Chill is sensitive to high-pitched sounds, such as those of an Evolved Sonorosian's Sonic Disks, as demonstrated with several Albino Necrofriggian guards.

## History

* Big Chill makes his first appearance in Mission from the Unknown Dimension: Part 2, where he defeated Nega Ben as The Darkness, before leaving the scene after telling Ben 23 that he has a plan.

## Appearances

* Mission from the Unknown Dimension: Part 2 (first appearance)

## Trivia

* When asked about Big Chill's sex, the crew had differing views:
	+ Dwayne McDuffie believed Big Chill is "sort of" female.
	+ Matt Wayne sees him as definitely female.
	+ Derrick J. Wyatt thought he could be like a male seahorse.
* Big Chill tends to make ice-based puns, which was Dwayne McDuffie's idea.
* Big Chill and Swampfire are the only aliens whose natural biological behavior has overridden Ben's normal state (not counting personality-related ones such as Rath and Juryrigg).
* Throughout **Alien Force** and **Ultimate Alien**, Big Chill's hologram on the re-calibrated Omnitrix and Ultimatrix is mostly shown in his cloaked form, though there are a few instances where it displays him in his uncloaked form.
* Big Chill had concept art drawn by Eric Canete. In his final design, the back view was created by Glenn Wong, whereas the front view was created by either Glen Murakami or Chap Yaep, with color styling by Chris Hooten.
* Big Chill's design has many similarities with both the third and current incarnation of Blue Beetle from DC Comics and the altered and more famous interpretation of Mothman.
	+ The idea behind Big Chill's redesign in **Omniverse** was to make him more like Man-Bat from **Batman: The Animated Series** in terms of proportion.
	+ Though he did not regret making Big Chill look muscular, Derrick stated that he would consider redesigning the character to make him skinny if the fans preferred it.
* Big Chill is one of Dee Bradley Baker's favorite aliens to voice, the other being Spidermonkey.
* The packaging of Big Chill's **Omniverse** figure mistakenly has his name spelled as one word.