You ever wonder if Elsa is an omega level mutant?
I mean Disney now owns Marvel and Elsa is insanely powerful from what we can see in
the events of Frozen.
I mean she sent all of Arendelle into eternal winter in the middle of summer and we know
for a fact that Iceman from the X-Men is omega level so they seem pretty comparable.
This seems like it would require an obnoxiously long deep dive which means that I’m going
to have to rewatch Frozen, the shorts, maybe read some of the comics as well…
Let’s get to the bottom of this.
Before we get into it, let’s get a couple of things out of the way.
So some of y’all are bound to make comments about how Elsa can’t be a mutant because
that would require her to have the X-gene.
That’s a fair point, but to play devil’s advocate, Elsa was specifically born with
her powers and a less scientifically advanced civilization would probably classify any abnormal
powers as magic so I feel like it’s a sound comparison.
Besides, where’s the fun in writing off an entire discussion over such a small technicality?
The second bit of housekeeping is to define what an omega level mutant even is in the
first place.
That’s a bit hard to do since well… there isn’t a specific definition.
In his writings, Professor Charles Xavier said that he thinks of omega level mutants
being those of unlimited potential.
I mean just look at some of the other mutants that are confirmed to be omega level like
Jean Grey and her seemingly endless telekinetic powers, Elixir who can manipulate the body’s
functions at a genetic level, and Vulcan who can absorb, channel, and harness virtual any
kind of energy.
These are some strong guys, but in order to try and gauge Elsa’s omega...ness, let’s
compare her with Bobby Drake A.K.A.
Iceman.
But first, let’s take a look at what she’s been shown to be able to do with her powers.
So even at a young age, Elsa was doing quite a bit with her abilities We’ve seen her
freeze the ground, fill an entire ballroom with snowflakes, create large piles of snow,
and fire ice blasts that are strong enough to scoot her, Anna, and a snowman together
across ice.
Probably her greatest feat at this age was after she accidentally shot Anna with an ice
blast and she unintentionally froze the entire ballroom.
If her parents didn’t bust in and intervene, it’s very well possible that this could
have gotten a lot worse.
Compare that to Bobby when he first joined the X-Men.
At first, he was just a walking showman that could make some icy constructs.
They were pretty much on par at the time.
Since then, Bobby went on to better hone his abilities whereas the only work that Elsa
did was to conceal, not feel.
So remember, all of the feats that Elsa performs as an adult is with minimal training or even
intention.
Fast forward to Elsa’s coronation when she and Anna got into their public fight.
The icicles she produced were much larger and menacing than anything she had made prior.
Also notice how these are solid ice as opposed to snow.
This is an evolution of her powers similarly to when Iceman learned how to change into
his more solid ice form and at the same time, his constructs went from snow to solid ice.
This can also be seen during “Let It Go” where we see that Elsa starts building her
staircase out of snow before it solidifies into ice.
As she grows more confident throughout the song, she surpasses that limitation, growing
her ice castle primarily in this secondary form.
Bobby’s ice constructs are able to be just as large and even be a bit more complex.
My personal favorite is when he made his very own Voltron.
If we circle back around to the coronation, this is also where we get arguably Elsa’s
greatest feat, she unintentionally send all of Arendelle into winter in the middle of
summer.
This was such an intense cold that Elsa was able to freeze an entire fjord, trapping plenty
of large ships in the process.
At the end of the movie, this was all undone just as quick.
As impressive as this is though, I want to actually want focus on another, possibly equally
impressive one, the golems.
So during the events of Frozen, Elsa creates two golems, Olaf and Marshmallow.
Oh, and I guess also these little guys in Frozen Fever.
These all have their own personalities and are completely autonomous as evidenced by
how Elsa didn’t even know that Olaf was around.
If she didn’t know that Olaf existed, then there’s no way that she was controlling
his actions.
While Iceman has been able to create his own golems and doppelgangers, most times in great
quantities, it’s a bit hard to tell just how autonomous they really are.
In most cases, Bobby just uses them as distractions or as an attack, but an alternate future version
of him did manage to create an Ice Hulk that completely betrayed him so I guess the potential
is there.
Another thing to mention is that once summer returned at the end of Frozen, Olaf started
to melt pretty quickly.
Although Bobby’s golems usually don’t exist for long, they do tend to keep their
cool and they don’t melt during combat regardless of season.
Now Elsa was able to create a miniature flurry for Olaf so her golems do have the ability
to resist natural heat so I’d say that it’s pretty even in terms of their meltyness.
As for the strength of the ice itself, we’ve seen that Elsa’s abilities were strong enough
to break though the iron locks of her shackles, but also one of the blasts that Elsa hit Anna
with during the course of the film caused her to turn into an ice sculpture strong enough
to shatter Prince Hans’ sword.
Because Elsa’s powers were directly responsible for the creation of the ice that Anna became
encased with, let’s just say that that’s the strongest ice that she could make.
Well Bobby’s ice is pretty durable itself, being able to withstand gunfire and even slashes
from of them make some pretty strong ice!
That’s pretty much all of the abilities that Elsa really showed.
I mean besides being able to make a dress.
Well multiple dresses... and that bit of animation where her hair phases through her arm ala
Kitty Pryde.
But here’s the thing…
All of that is not why Iceman is considered to be an omega level mutant.
Oh sure, ice manipulation is his main power and that is what he started off just being
able to do, but Bobby has since gone on to become insanely powerful.
Although he mostly uses ice, Bobby actually has control over most water, being able to
turn into liquid to travel through it and even reconstructing his body using nothing
but moisture.
That’s just an entire realm of powers that Elsa isn’t shown to have at all.
Even with JUST the ability to create ice though, Elsa’s greatest feat is only making it winter
in her kingdom.
Now don’t get me wrong.
That IS impressive, but Iceman is so strong that he literally froze a part of Hell.
Because comics.
It didn’t last long and he was exhausted afterwards, bit still.
IT’S HELL!
I think that’s just a little bit more impressive.
When he was powered up with a Death Seed, Bobby was able to turn into steam, make the
entire PLANET experience winter and through all that snow, Iceman could see everything,
giving him the omnipresent clarity of a god.
Besides, Elsa is susceptible to the common cold.
Bobby was once poisoned with a neurotoxin so he just remade his entire body out of fresh,
clean water.
If Iceman only had his ice powers and was still classified as omega level then I’d
say that Elsa would be evenly matched, but the abilities that we’ve seen Bobby use
far surpass anything that she’d be capable of.
Now I would like to remind you about something that I said at the top of the video, Professor
X defined omega level mutants as those of unlimited POTENTIAL.
After all, we’ve had decades worth of stories to learn about Iceman and watch his powers
develop compared to Elsa’s one movie and a couple of short films.
It’s within the realm of possibility for Elsa to practice and get stronger, but to
the extent that Iceman has shown?
Yeah… that’s not likely.
Now like I teased it at the top of the video, there ARE Frozen comics out there and I’ve
combed through all of them and I can tell you with certainty that they do not flesh
out Elsa’s powers at all.
The most impressive things that she does are create slides ala iceman and then she stops
a very small avalanche.
So… yeah.
Nothing really to go on there.
Of course, I am making this video before Frozen 2 comes out so maybe she does some amazing
feats there that makes some of the stuff that she does in the first Frozen look like child’s
play, but I’m not going to hold my breath.
For those of you guys that are really hoping that Elsa could possibly be omega level?
Just let it go.
Buf if you liked this video then why not consider subscribing or even watching another one?
And if you like the idea of talking about Iceman then I made a pretty controversial
video about how it actually makes sense that Iceman is now gay in the modern comic canon.
So I guess go watch that?
I’m excited to see what you comment there.
Yup.
But anyway, I hope you learned at least a little something new and hopefully I’ll
see you next time!