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This page covers the Marvel comicbook hero Iceman also known as Bobby Drake , Bobby , Ice-Man , Drake Roberts , Robert Trefusis , Mr. Friese , Bob Drake . If this is not the page you were looking for check here.
The youngest member of the original X-Men, Bobby is an Omega-level mutant with the ability to drop his internal and external body temperature. Allowing him to turn his body into ice & freeze objects.
Origin
Robert Drake was born in Fort Washington, New York. He is also the son of William and Madeline Drake. Bobby’s mutant powers manifested when he was a teenager and he would soon be approached by Professor X. Bobby is recruited to join the X-Men and he quickly becomes a member. While with the X-Men he befriends Beast and the two enjoy joking around with each other. Bobby also pursued a romantic relationship with Lorna Dane (Polaris), but it did not last long. Since Bobby was the youngest X-Men at the time, he became self-conscious. When the X-Men were captured and imprisoned in Krakoa, Iceman was among those captured. After they were rescued, Bobby decided that he could not handle putting his life in danger so much, so he did not return with the X-Men when they started a new team.
The Champions
Bobby decides to move to Los Angeles and began attending UCLA. However, even in the west coast Bobby was still up to his old superhero antics and eventually created the west coast superhero team The Champions. The Champions would later disband and Bobby decided to become a full-time student and retire from superhero business. Bobby was able to graduate and earned a degree in accounting. When a group named the Defenders was formed, Bobby joined to reunite with his former teammates Beast and Angel. They go on several adventures but would eventually disband. Bobby decides to just find a job in accounting and try to live a normal life.
X-Men
Bobby would later return to the X-Men when some of the senior members left to form X-Factor. Eventually the X-Factor would rejoin the X-Men and things were back to like they used to be. Later Emma Frost would take over his body after the death of her Hellions. Emma displays powers that were unimaginable to Bobby. Bobby would regain his body but was still amazed at the power she portrayed. He later goes and seeks out Emma to find out about his powers. Emma tells him that he could easily be one of the most powerful mutants on Earth, but rejected to show him how to use it. This put Bobby in a state of depression for a while. Bobby leaves the X-Men for awhile and would go out and do stuff on his own.
Later Bobby would return to the X-Men but would also go through a secondary mutation. It caused him to not be able to transform a damaged part of his chest back to human form. Later Bobby’s entire body would shatter, but he was able to regain himself in ice form. However, this left him permanently in ice form and he was no longer able to transform back to human form. Bobby becomes bitter and depressed again due to this new mutation.
After the events of House of M, Bobby was in human form again and appeared to have lost his powers. Later when he had a gun pointed to his head, Emma triggered something in Bobby’s mind and he was able to use his powers again. Later it explained that he had subconsciously repressed his mutant abilities, Bobby can now transform into ice or human form anytime. He is a part of Rogue’s X-Men team and they recently fought a group named Children of the Vault.
Recently, when the X-Men were attacked by the Marauders, Iceman lost his power when Mystique slipped him a neural inhibitor that was in her lipstick. He was then shot in the ensuing battle, and was saved by Cannonball. Iceman regained his powers by jumping out of an airplane, just in time to defeat Sunfire. The two X-Men destroyed the Destiny Diaries, and managed to escape without serious harm.
During the Messiah CompleX, when the New X-Men attacked the Purifiers but then retreated and teleported back in separate locations, Iceman volunteered to look for them with guidance from Emma Frost. When they go back from the institute, they were suddenly attacked by the Sentinel Squad ONE, whose human pilots were infected by nano-sentinels programmed to take control of the pilots to kill the mutants. They defeated the Sentinels but the humans pilots escaped. Iceman participated in the final battle for the Baby Mutant where Bobby helped attacking Predator X, he also witness the death of his mentor Professor X at the hands of Bishop. Iceman disappeared after Cyclops disbands the X-Men.
Characteristics
Gender - Male Height - 5'8" Weight - 145 lbs Eyes - Brown Hair - Brown
Powers
One Bad Case of Frostbite
Cold to the Touch
Originally Iceman could lower the temperature of his body and encase himself in an ice armor of varying shape and consistency. He has since gained the ability to turn his entire body into a flexible form of organic ice. He can also freeze the moisture in the air and can create objects such as slides, ladders, and projectiles. He can reform any part of his body in his ice form, and can augment his shape and size. He has demonstrated the ability to animate ice forms by creating figures and through rapid freezing and unfreezing of their structure, and thus creating movement. These figures do not gain intelligence, and he is still in the developmental stage of this ability as it requires much concentration.
When in ice form he is generally translucent, and his appearance ranges from human-like to jagged and geometric. He is also known to add additional ice mass to his shoulders and knuckles (often jagged and sharp) for a fight. In addition to altering his appearance and shape, Bobby can also augment his size. A side effect of this alteration is superhuman strength to match his larger form. If damaged, he can reform damaged or missing body parts. While physically and mentally taxing, this ability can be used to reform his entire body if necessary, as he has been able to reform himself to ice from sentient water vapor. This ability was taken even farther when he was under Emma Frost's control and he was able to turn himself into sentient liquid, travel in this form through a body of water, and return back to his organic ice form. He has not been able to replicate this ability, however it does suggest that with practice he could shift through any phase of water (and potentially gain new abilities in each of these forms). For a time he was stuck permanently in ice form, however since M-Day has regained his ability to return to human form. Bobby also was a Certified Public Accountant.
Iceman's abilities stem from his ability to psionically manipulate energy and water. It is also important to note that he has been described as an Omega-level mutant, with more than just the ability to create ice. As such, with further development he may reach power levels limited only by his imagination.
Iceman now has the ability to control chemical reactions involving heat exchange and can prevent people with fire based abilities from using their powers.
As with all the X-Men, Bobby has been trained in unarmed combat, tactics, and resisting mental attacks.
Alternate Realities
Iceman in the Age of Apocalypse
Earth-295
In the Age of Apocalypse, it was not Xavier but Magneto who founded and trained the X-Men, Bobby being among the first mutants he located. Magneto pushed the boy much harder than Xavier would have, making the youngster drop his humorous attitude and tap into his full potential. Iceman could alter his shape while in his frozen form, and merge with any body of water, moisture or ice, and re-emerge from it at some other points even miles away, within the matter of seconds. When Bobby’s ice-form was damaged or shattered, he could easily pull himself back together. On top of that, he was able to take people along by a process referred to as "moisture molecular inversion", but it was rather unpleasant for the passenger. However, as he seemed to become less human and more and more unstable, his teammates somewhat retreated from Bobby.His large and ridged form provided super strength.
Earth-1610
In the Ultimate Marvel continuity, Bobby Drake is the youngest founding member of the X-Men. He ran away from his family at the peak of government-supported Sentinel attacks, fearing his family would be killed in such an attack.
Ultimate Iceman never had the snowman look of his counter-part, instead generating a flexible ice armor from the beginning and still does so to this day. Bobby establishes himself as a valuable asset, single-handedly taking out the Ultimates once with a gigantic ice wall, as well as single-handedly halting an invasion by Colonel Wraith (Kestrel) and Weapon X. He was only able to be stopped by Rogue, who was in temporary possession of Marvel Girl's telepathy. Professor X has stated that Bobby is one of the three most powerful X-Men. During the World Tour arc, after enlarging his armor to form a gigantic ice troll, Bobby is greatly injured by Proteus, which resulted in a lawsuit issued by his parents against Xavier. Bobby eventually rebels against his parents, and later returns to the X-Men.
Before Bobby joined the X-Men he had a girlfriend, but Professor Xavier erased all memories of her from Bobby's head when he told her too much about the X-Men (he presumably also erased the girl's memories). Upon her acceptance into the X-Men, Bobby begins to date Rogue. The pair date for a considerable amount of time, but eventually break up due to Bobby's growing feelings for Kitty Pryde and Rogue's feelings for Gambit. Eventually Rogue leaves, and Bobby starts to date Kitty until she dumps him after finding Bobby was still emailing Rogue. When Rogue returned to the X-Men, her original powers had been replaced with those of Gambit's and, now being able to touch each other, Bobby and Rogue rekindle their relationship. However, recently problems erupt when Rogue's old powers begin to return.
Though Ultimate Iceman is still somewhat clumsy at present, the Ultimate version of Hammer, who hailed from the future, exclaimed upon meeting and subsequently battling him: "Bobby Drake, huh? The Legend! I can't believe you're so inept at this point in your life! It's been an honor to kick your..." only for Wolverine to interrupt him. Bishop, too, hinted to Bobby that he has a lot of potential, but Iceman shrugs off the acknowledgment.
It should also be noted that Bishop has made the hint that this version of Iceman has a different source for his freezing ability. In Ultimate X-men 80 Bishop talks to Bobby about his potential and comments "With minimal effort you are taking moisture out of the air and slowing water molecules down to make them cold. What else can you slow down?" He also asks Bobby about exploring the possibilities with his powers. He is shrugged off, however, while Bobby continues to play his videogame.
Earth-1298
In the Mutant X reality Iceman's powers were amplified by Loki and spun out of control. He found himself stuck in his ice-form at sub-zero temperatures, preventing him to ever touch another human being for it would have instantly killed them. Still, Bob Drake (who didn’t like himself being called Bobby), kept his optimism and his sense of humor, and he was part of a team called The Six, that world’s equivalent to X-Factor, who had split off from the X-Men when the school was taken over by Magneto. Eventually, after having lived several years with boosted abilities, his friend and teammate Hank McCoy found a way to undo Loki’s changes, and Ice-Man was restored to his regular power level.
Earth-9997
Bobby Drake of Earth X shared a somewhat similar fate to that of the Mutant X reality, his power having mutated at one point and him being stuck in ice-form, though with a different result. Bobby had to remain in a cold environment, or else he would have melted, and he went north to the arctic regions where he created a wonderland of ice for himself and the Inuit living nearby. Only after Earth’s climate changed, due to the planet’s mass having been altered and Earth leaving its regular orbit, was he able to return to the United States. Once there, Iceman joined several other heroes in an attempt to overpower Mephisto’s followers, though unfortunately he perished in that battle.
Earth-311
A time-traveling experiment gone wrong created another divergent timeline, one in which present day heroes already emerged in the 17th century, the year 1602 to be precise. Mutants were referred to as “witchbreed” and, as such, feared and hunted. The counterpart of Iceman was called Robert Trefusis and, despite his young age, he showed a great control over his power. For example, he managed to encase an entire sailing ship in a block of ice and was able to turn rain into an ice-storm. Robert also claimed to have served as the cabin boy of the famous Sir Francis Drake, who happened to be his uncle.
Earth-58163
In the House of M reality, Iceman is a member of Horsemen of Apocalypse. When Apocalypse set out for Wakanda to kill Black Panther, Iceman helped his master by freezing Namor and Storm, but he was severely injured by Sunfire.
Earth-8107
In this reality Iceman works together with Spider-Man and Firestar as the Amazing-Friends.
Earth-12 In this reality, Iceman is still a member of the X-Men and is good friends with Mimic, a member of the Exiles.
Earth-905
In this reality, Iceman is a member of the Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants.
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