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We’re coming at you today with a part two list on one of the DC Universe’s female
villains that is rising in popularity these days – Killer Frost.
In the last list, Ron talked about the new 52’s Caitlin Snow and her reign as Killer
Frost, but this time around, we’ll be diving a bit more into the history of the character,
her past versions, and her influence in pop culture outside of the Arrow-verse.
That being said, let’s dive into our list of the top 10 killer frost facts – part
2.
10 Three Versions There’s three different versions of Killer
Frost that have made appearances on the pages of DC comics over the last several decades.
The first was Crystal Frost, who first appeared in Firestorm #3 back in 1978, as one of his
adversaries.
The next, Louise Lincoln made her debut in 1984 in the second volume of Firestorm, issue
21.
And last but not least, Caitlin Snow, who was primarily the feature of our part 1 video,
first appeared in Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Man issue 19 in 2013.
She’s the one who survived the new continuity of DC Rebirth.
9 A sign of the times With each new iteration of the character,
Frost got an aesthetic update.
Crystal Frost was a bit more glam, with her pearls, following open dress, oversized sleeves
and heeled boots.
Louise would make her debut looking almost identical to Crystal, except her look would
drastically change during the 90’s, and up until she was phased out and replaced.
Louise was a colleague of Crystal Frost’s, and after Frost died, she decided to repeat
the experiment that gave Crystal her powers and take up the helm, out of respect for her
mentor.
And lastly, Caitlin Snow tends to have a more ‘edgier’ look, usually with cropped hair
and a partially shaved head.
When she made her debut in the new 52, she had short spiky icy hair.
8 Crystal Frost’s Death Backtracking a bit into our last number, let’s
talk a little about how the first Killer Frost lost her life.
Crystal actually died in the second volume of Firestorm, and in the same issue that Louise
Lincoln made her first appearance as the villain.
Frost had Lincoln conduct tests on her, in which they discovered that Frost’s powers
were slowly killing her, to the point where she had days, potentially hours, to live.
This caused Crystal to go a bit insane, and when she encountered Firestorm during a terror
attack she was conducting on the George Washington Bridge, he saw that she was aging before his
eyes.
Figuring that the only way to save her life was to let her absorb the nuclear heat from
his body, the two kissed, but it backfired – the burst of nuclear energy killed her,
completely incinerating her.
7 Lego character You know you’ve made it when Lego turns
you into one of it’s Lego characters.
Killer Frost appears in a downloadable chapter of Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham.
This is the only adaptation of the character in DC video games that is Caitlin Snow that
appears alongside Firestorm.
There’s also a physical lego character that you can get your hands on too, but it’s
a very different look than the one that appears in the game.
6 Jennifer Hale Canadian actress Jennifer Hale has voiced
Killer Frost multiple times, including 2014’s Assault on Arkham, Batman: The Bold and the
Brave, the Justice League animated series and Justice League Unlimited.
But it’s not just Frost she’s voiced; she’s also voice the likes of many other
superheroes and villains, from Poison Ivy, Carol Danvers, Mary Jane Watson, Giganta,
Jean Grey, Black Cat and Spider-Woman.
She also has an extensive voice acting resume in video games, including the likes of Star
Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Metroid Prime (as the voice that makes all of Samus’
grunts) and the fem Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect series.
In 2013, Guinness World Records recognized her as “the most prolific video game voice
actor (female)”.
5 Her Creators Killer Frost was created by Gerry Conway and
Al Milgrom.
The two of them have quite prominent careers in comics, and together, the duo created Firestorm.
Conway is known for co-creating the Punisher, and for scripting the issue of The Amazing
Spider-man in which Gwen Stacey dies.
He also scripted the first major crossover, Superman vs the Amazing Spider-man.
Milgrom on the other hand was an editor for Marvel in the 80’s, and was fired in 2000
after putting a hidden phrase in a comic that was an insult to former editor Bob Harras.
The insult, on the spines of books on a bookshelf in the panel, read “Harras, ha ha, he’s
gone!
Good riddance to bad rubbish, he was a nasty SOB.”
4 Superman Slave In the pre-crisis DC Comics Presents number
17, Killer Frost encounters Superman and shares a kiss with the man of steel.
Not for romantic reasons, though.
After Firestorm had frozen Crystal’s Killer Frost in an attempt to put an end to the villain,
the Army gave her frozen body to S.T.A.R Labs to do an autopsy on what they believed was
her corpse.
They couldn’t find a way to unfreeze her though, so they asked Superman for his assistance,
thinking his heat vision would do the trick.
And it did.
And turns out she wasn’t dead, but had been conscious the entire time.
Yikes.
She then jumped Superman and kissed him, which injected ice into his brain and body, making
him her slave.
3 World Trade Center Continuing from our last point, Crystal Frost
sought to use her newly acquired Superman slave to take over the world.
You know, basic villain desire, 101.
Since she was able to convert Superman so easily, she wanted to turn all men into her
slaves, so she flew with the man of steel to the top of the World Trade Center, and
had him construct a massive amplifier that would give her the ability to project her
cold.
Firestorm came to the rescue, and rather than trying to fight him, he warmed him up, releasing
him from her control.
2 King Shark Louise Lincoln’s Killer Frost appears in
two DC animated films, including Batman: Assault on Arkham.
The film was adored by fans, with many calling it the kind of film that the Suicide Squad
feature should have been like.
Story wise, of course.
But aside from positive reviews, one of the other things that came out of the film was
the shipping of Killer Frost and King Shark.
While Louise’s fate is unknown – more on that in a minute – King Shark’s bomb
was detonated before it could be deactivated.
Prior to this, the two had begun to bond after Frost managed to impress King Shark by evading
his attempt to eat her.
The two even made a solid team in battle together.
And shared a few solid emotional moments, too.
So of course, this led to the fans being very keen on shipping the two, even though there
isn’t a chance the two could be together within this timeline.
Le sigh.
1 Lincoln May Have Died, too In Assault of Arkham, Killer Frost is seemingly
killed by Bane.
But let’s backtrack here.
Louise is part of the Suicide Squad, which has been assigned to break into Arkham to
retrieve information, but Louise has also been given the task of killing the Riddler.
But upon coming across Nigma, she discovers why Amanda Waller gave her the task of his
assassination: he figured out how to diffuse the bombs that are implanted in the Suicide
Squad members.
The ones that will detonate if they refuse to carry out Waller’s orders.
After the Joker sets all of the inmates loose, she attempts to escape via a stolen police
car.
But Bane is tossing around police cars right left and centre, and he grabbed the car she
was in, causing it to explode, leaving many to speculate as to whether or not she actually
died.
It hasn’t been confirmed and she didn’t get a death scene, so many are inclined to
say she made it out of the chaos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNTCa9UUwV0 – the beginning sort of
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