Freeze Ray - TV Tropes

"In this universe, there's only one absolute... everything freezes!"

• Daimos has the Freezer Storm, head-mounted Freeze Rays that made-up the first part of the Finishing Move of the eponymous mecha after its Mid-Season Upgrade.
• Fairy Tail: Gray's Ice-Make magic can also freeze objects, as shown when he manages to freeze Fukuro's flames after he eats Natsu.
• Mazinger Z: One of the weapons of the titular Humongous Mecha is this: its helmet's horns shoot freezing beams that turn the enemy into a chunk of frozen, brittle ice. It is called REITOU BEAM!!!. It is also used in Mazinkaiser.
• Tekkaman: The Space Knight has... OH NO! A FREEZE RAY!

• Happy Friends: In Season 8 episode 23, this is one of the things Careless S. has invented. It becomes useful when Happy S. indirectly causes a tornado and a wildfire after defeating a dragon summoned by Huo Haha, threatening the plant people.
• In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Mighty Little Defenders, Weslie uses a gun that shoots ice. The gun cannot be used if there is a full moon outside; otherwise, the user will be unable to move for a while.

• Mr. Freeze from Batman. The exact size and shape of Freeze's Freeze Gun has varied wildly over the years; when it first debuted, it looked more like a teakettle than anything. Since then, it's been portrayed as everything from the standard futuristic-pistol design to a massive two-handed cannon connected to a backpack to a tiny, unassuming-looking device mounted on the wrist of his armor.
• In Batman and the Outsiders #6, "Death Warmed Over!", the team battles the Cryonic Man, a villain with a backpack full of liquid nitrogen attached to wrist-mounted sprayers that he uses to freeze the Outsiders solid.
• In Empowered, Thug Boy uses one against Willy Pete, an Ax-Crazy fire elemental. He gets better.
• Captain Cold from The Flash claims to be an exception. He doesn't use a freeze ray, he uses a cold ray, by which it seems he means that it freezes things not by spraying them with cold fluids, but by directly stopping the motion of the target's atoms. The difference is largely semantic though, as for all practical purposes it does the same thing as any other freeze ray.
• The Iron Man villain Blizzard wears a battle suit that shoots freeze rays from its gloves.
• Justice Society of America: The Golden Age villain called the Icicle wielded a freeze ray. His son internalized the cold powers and became An Ice Person.
• The Powerpuff Girls: In the story "No Business Like Snow Business", Mojo Jojo uses a Zamboni with ray cannon that shoots out ice and snow. He turns Townsville into a winter wonderland in the middle of summer, having cornered the market on winter goods.
• Wonder Woman:
  • On the cover of Wonder Woman (1942) #162,◊ Minister Blizzard has frozen Steve Trevor with his freeze ray gun and is about to do the same to Wonder Woman.
  • The villain Byrna Brilyant (the Blue Snowman) uses a variety of weapons with freezing abilities.

• With This Ring mentions several varieties of freeze rays and cold guns. Notably, whereas most types of freeze ray work in more or less reasonable ways, typically condensing water from the atmosphere onto the target, the guns produced by Captain Cold are different, instantly dropping the target to zero Kelvin — and they tend to bypass many varieties of shielding used by spacecraft, too, so Paul uses them extensively in combat.

• In BoBoiBoy: The Movie, BoBoiBoy Ice makes his debut on the battlefield, and his primary weapon is an ice cannon.
• Despicable Me: Gru wields a freeze ray he invented, making for a comical opening scene in the first movie of him cutting in line at the coffee shop by casually zapping people while shouting "Freeze ray!". Conveniently, the Harmless Freezing effect allows him to be a villain without actually killing anyone. The prequel Minions shows a much younger Dr. Nefario demonstrating the gun to a young Gru (and freezing his own hand) at Villain-Con, which implies Gru actually got the gun (or perhaps stole it) from him. Minions: The Rise of Gru contradicts this, though, as not only Gru meets Dr. Nefario for the first time in the movie, he also uses a cheese ray early in the movie as a Call-Forward.
• In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The MOVIE 2nd A's, Chrono's Durandal is depicted as this, being a Boom Stick that comes with multiple Attack Drones, all capable of firing ice beams that could freeze a monster the size of a small island and the ocean surrounding it.

• Mister Freeze (again) from Batman & Robin. In the film, he also creates a much larger version using the Gotham Observatory's telescope, which he then uses to freeze the entire city.
• Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe: During a midair battle, Cody uses the freeze ray on his rocketship to fog up the gun turret on the alien rocketship so they can't aim their Death Ray at him.
• There are some examples from the Godzilla series: some tanks shoot freeze rays, the Super X-3 has freeze missiles and beams, and Kiryu has an Absolute Zero cannon in his chest. They are the few weapons to actually work on Kaiju.
• Predator 2: Peter Keys' team has "nitrogen guns" (liquid nitrogen backpacks attached to sprayers), which they plan to use to freeze (and thereby capture) the Predator.
• Will Stronghold has to build one for a Mad Science class in Sky High (2005).
• Suburban Commando has a freeze weapon that two hoods find and use to rob a bank. It's the source of the Memetic Mutation "I WAS FROZEN TODAY!" Ramsay, however, is immune to the effects because he chugged antifreeze (it's that kind of movie).
• Superman: The Movie: The Death Course protecting Lex Luthor's Supervillain Lair includes Sentry Guns, a Flame Spewer Obstacle and finally large vents that blast Superman with freezing air until he's covered in ice. Lex and Otis are smirking in satisfaction at having finally got Superman... until he effortlessly casts off the ice and continues walking.

• Arrivals from the Dark: A handheld (or hand-mounted) weapon in Fighters of Danveys called the Freezer fires a shot which, at a specific point, creates a micro-singularity (i.e. a tiny black hole), which instantly drains the area within a several-meter radius of all heat. Yes, Space Is Cold. Oh, and there's a rapid-firing version of the weapon.
• Castle Brass in The History of the Runestaff has such a defensive weapon, among many others.
• In Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind universe, there is a staff-like weapon which drains heat from the opponent, freezing him or her on the spot and then slowly releasing the absorbed heat via radiation. In the short story "The Dead Lady of Clown Town", an Instrumentality soldier kills Underpeople and robots with it during a riot.
• The Killing Star has a weapon of mass destruction that's the inverse of an atomic bomb. Instead of converting matter into energy, it does the opposite, which means sucking huge amounts of heat out of the ambient environment to form a tiny amount of matter, leaving behind a frozen hell.
• Lisa couldn't help but slip one of these into her arsenal in Lone Huntress, though most people consider such a thing to be exceedingly impractical. Since Powered Armor already protects against temperature extremes, it can only freeze someone wearing normal clothing. Its main use is by futuristic paramedics, freezing trauma victims to slow their body functions before thawing them out in an ER (where they can be treated for hypothermia, in addition to whatever else ails them). Lisa mentions that she finds it useful for putting out fires.
• Sonic the Hedgehog Adventure Gamebooks: In Sonic vs. Zonik, Sonic has an Energy Gun on him that when fired freezes the target for a while (i.e. Badniks and Zonik), but it costs and costs ten rings per use.
• The War Against the Chtorr: The protagonist is scouting with his commander. The commander has a flamethrower while the protagonist has a weapon that shoots liquid nitrogen. Which comes in handy as they're trudging through huge dunes of alien plant dust. The spray weapon is able to compact the dust so they can walk on it. The flamethrower, as it turns out, has a more explosive reaction to that environment.

• Mr. Freeze (again) in Batman (1966).
  • His standard weapon is a rifle-like device that spews out a stream of freezing gas at short range.
  • In the episodes "Ice Spy"/"The Duo Defy", Mr. Freeze creates an ultra-powerful version called the Thermodynamic Ice Ray Gun that can freeze large areas of effect at long range.
• A Comedy programme on The BBC had a man come in with an invention where he froze the dragons of Dragons' Den after they refused to fund production of his gun which heated chicken instantly (and also did the reverse). He then nicks their cash.
• Warren's freeze ray in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which turns people into popsicles.

  Guard: What are you boys doing?
  Warren: Uh, we're with a tour group. The Get-the-freeze-ray tour group. Must've gotten separated.
  Guard: Museum closed five hours ago.
  Warren: Huh! Guess we just lost track of time, we should probably get the freeze ray out of here.

• In The Flash (1990), Captain Cold has the BFG version. He's pretty effective with it, despite it looking pretty unwieldy.
• In The Flash (2014), Leonard Snart gets his hands on a "cold gun" created by Cisco in case Barry turned out to be evil, figuring that a gun that slows down molecules is the only real weapon that can stop someone with Super-Speed. It also explains how a guy with a cold gun can be a match for someone who can outrun lightning: just being in the area where it's being used saps Flash's powers to a significant degree. Snart (whom Cisco dubs "Captain Cold") learns to use the gun quite effectively both against the cops and Barry. He gives Barry a Sadistic Choice, when the latter corners him on a train: Barry can either chase down the bad guy, or save a train full of people that's about to be derailed by the cold gun. Naturally, Barry chooses the latter, but Snart doesn't run away and nearly kills Barry. Cisco tricks Snart by threatening him with the prototype cold gun (it's actually a vacuum cleaner with some LED strips attached).
• A few Super Sentai/Power Rangers weapons have had this.
• Warehouse 13 has a variation in Claudia's insta-freeze snow globe.

• Arduin Trilogy Volume III: The Runes of Doom: If a living target takes 100% of its Hit Points in damage from an icer weapon (hand, rifle or semi-portable), it will be frozen solid.
• Champions: In the "Red Doom" section of the supplement Classic Organizations, the Non-Player Character Cold Warrior has a power pack backpack that can condense water out of the air to create ice. He uses it to create ice bolts and entangle opponents.
• Fabula Ultima has the Freezing Shot, a rare ice-elemental gun that inflicts the Slow status effect to whatever it hits.
• GURPS Warehouse 23: The Greys have a Freeze Ray device that can fire a beam of focused cold at the target, freezing it solid and coating it with ice.
• Pathfinder and Starfinder have "Zero" guns; high-tech energy weapons that deal cold damage and come in Pistol, Rifle and BFG sizes.
• Rocket Age: The Ancient Martians experimented with freeze ray technology, and a few may still be found in working order.
• Space 1889 has a freeze ray as a possible invention. Living creatures hit by the ray are frozen solid and thaw out one hour later with no ill effects.
• Warhammer 40,000: The Space Wolves Chapter of Space Marines have access to unique Helfrost weapons. These arcane devices focus a powerful laser through rare glimmerfrost crystals, resulting in the targeted area being instantly frozen to near absolute zero.

• In Sonic: Live in Sydney, Robotnik captures Sally with a freeze ray after using new boots to distract her.

• BIONICLE: Thok carries one to channel his innate ice powers, which he cannot access under normal circumstances.

• In Batman: Arkham City, the Penguin takes possession of Mr. Freeze's gun upon imprisoning him, allowing him to fill his hideout, the Iceburg Lounge, with actual ice. Later on, Batman deals with the gun again while battling Mr. Freeze, who uses the weapon to neutralize Batman's strategies after every attack.
• BioShock: While the player character can eventually acquire ice powers, freezing enemies can also be done via the chemical thrower when using liquid nitrogen. However, this only freezes the target in place, dealing no damage.
• The Ice elemental damage in BLOODCRUSHER II slows enemies and can turn them into a Human Popsicle.
• Cannon Brawl has the Frost Tower- although, it is less of a "Ray" and more of a crystal projectile^note .
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 has the appropriately named Cryocopters and later Cryo Legionnaires, who fire sprays of liquid nitrogen in a cone (and, naturally, have heavy Austrian accents). There is also the Kill Sat superweapon version Cryoshot/Cryoblast/Cryogeddon. These are mostly harmless in that they deal no damage and a frozen unit will eventually thaw out, but frozen objects will shatter if hit with the slightest damage, and for air units (done by cryo legionnaires garrisoned in a multigunner turret/IFV) the result is not something to laugh at since they will immediately come crashing down when frozen.
• Crusader: No Regret has the BK-16 "Crystallizer" Molecular Inhibitor Rifle which works in a different manner from other freeze rays. The aptly named Crystallizer instead fires a self-contained field that brings the molecular motion of any target to a screeching halt, effectively exposing them to a few minutes in Absolute Zero. The kill animation is bloodless yet still looks and sounds painful to emphasize how it is not Harmless Freezing. The corpsicle can then be shattered with additional weapons fire or an explosion.
• Crying Suns: The Sub-Zero battleship weapon freezes a target squadron for a few seconds, inflicting no damage but leaving the target at the mercy of nearby enemy squadrons.
• In Crysis, the aliens have freeze rays, and Prophet makes a human-usable weapon out of one of them. In addition, the Ice Sphere flash-freezes the island, creating a cold wasteland.
• Deep Rock Galactic: The Driller can unlock the Cryo Cannon as one of his main armament options. While the damage is significantly lower than his usual flamethrower, freezing enemies solid completely paralyzes them, nullifies their special abilities (which means the usual explosive glyphids will die quietly), and it triples any damage directed at them. As such, it's perfectly viable to bring down arctic hell on your enemies before just leaving them to your sidearm, your teammates/Bosco, or your pickaxe. Or, in the Macteras' case, just let gravity do the rest.
• Dr. Brain: IQ Adventure has a freeze blaster you can use to temporarily freeze enemies in place.
• The Freezethrower from Duke Nukem 3D, which allows you to kick your frozen enemies into pieces.
• The Cryolator from Fallout 4 sprays enemies with a cryogenic compound (heavily implied in-game to be liquid nitrogen) in order to freeze them. It can also be modified to shoot chunks of solid ice.
• One of the bosses in Final Fantasy Tactics has a magic gun that shoots blocks of ice.
• Fracture features one, the appropriately named ALM-37 Deep Freeze.
• Ghostbusters: The Video Game features the Stasis Stream, which uses "order-reversing particles" to slow down ghosts and crystallises them in a form vulnerable to the secondary fire mode Shock Blast. Despite the obvious connection to a freeze ray by the other Ghostbusters, Egon clarifies that it has nothing to do with cold.
• Gift (2001): Gift's Magic Staff shoots these when charged with Blue Crystal energy.
• Horizon Zero Dawn has Freeze arrows and Freeze bombs that Aloy can use, and numerous machines like Glinthawks, Snapmaws, and Frost Bellowbacks use ice attacks. In the expansion The Frozen Wilds, Aloy can also get a new weapon, the Ice Rail. Initially, it functions somewhat like a flamethrower, blasting enemies with a spray of ice at close range, but it can be upgraded to add a secondary firing mode that uses a charge-up shot to fire powerful, long range ice bolts.
• In the first stage of In the Hunt, your submarine has to navigate a series of icebergs with these attached. They can't kill you, but they make your character temporarily immobilized. Interestingly enough, they do this to enemy subs too.
• Kaiju Wars: The experimental Freezer weapon is a mobile cannon which fires beams of heat-sapping blue energy. It won't actually freeze a kaiju solid, but it will hurt them and lower their movement speed for a turn.
• Killing Room has the giant robot snowman boss who can blast a freeze-beam from it's mouth as an attack. If it hits you, the beam freezes you on the spot and slows you down considerably leaving you exposed to other attacks.
• In Kirby: Squeak Squad, the leader of the titular gang, Daroach, has a fancy cane that serves as one of these.
• In Luigi's Mansion, this is one setting that the Poltergust 3000 is eventually upgraded to. The freeze ray setting is necessary for fighting Drippy Ghosts and the Boss Battle with Boolossus.
• Mass Effect not only has Cryo Ammunition — a cooling laser collapses the ammunition into a Bose-Einstein Condensate that snap-freezes an impacted target — but also the appropriately named M-622 Avalanche heavy weapon from Mass Effect 2, which uses a mass effect bubble that carries a larger condensate payload that "explodes" on impact — essentially a handheld ice cannon.
• Blizzard Buffalo from Mega Man X3 uses a huge one as his Desperation Attack. This doesn't damage X, but will freeze him in place, allowing Buffalo to ram him and shatter the ice for extra damage.
• Metal Slug: Awakening introduces a whole new weapon to the roster called the Ice Gun, which can turn enemies into solid blocks of ice before breaking apart. A later update of the game gives you the "Blizzard", which freezes lava pits!
• The Ice Beam from Metroid games. Metroid Prime 2: Echoes has a Palette Swap of the beam in the Dark Beam (which only freezes with charged shots).
• Nightshade (1992): Die too many times, and you're thrown into a Death Trap where you'll unavoidably be blasted with a freeze ray until you're frozen solid.
• In Overwatch, Mei's main weapon is an ice gun that can fire off a freezing spray that freezes enemies solid as well as firing icicles and can create a wall of ice.
• The plot of the first Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures tie-in console game involves Lord Betrayus stealing a weapon called the Frigidigitator, a giant freeze ray with the power to cover entire landscapes in snow and ice. It's powerful enough to do this even to the Netherworld, which is covered in volcanoes and lava. It's even capable of temporarily freezing lava solid.
• The shotgun in Painkiller has this as its secondary fire mode. Ideally, this can be used to first freeze an enemy, and then fire the shotgun to instantly shatter the monster, often sparing lots of time.
• Different attacks from the Ice type in Pokémon, like Ice Beam or Blizzard, have the chance of freezing your opponent solid.
• Prime Target has a Nitrogen blaster that fires ice-cold orbs which freezes enemies on the spot. Hit them with another weapon, and Literally Shattered Lives ensues. The only enemy type who uses this weapon are henchwomen mooks, and if you happen to get yourself frozen the screen from your POV turns blue-green for several seconds.
• Prismata has several units that can freeze defenders, allowing bypass defenses and hit your opponent's vulnerable backline.
• Purple hands out freeze-rays late in the game (starting at the appropriately themed World 5). Their function is to freeze enemies for use as a stepping stone. No side effects! Unless it's a boss, or a breakable block.
• Putrefaction has a freeze gun as one of the last, and best weapons you can obtain. It's also the only weapon capable of harming putrid spirits, ghostly enemies otherwise immune to bullets — you freeze them, turning the putrid spirits into a physical form, and switch to another firearm to blast them apart.
• The third Resistance game features a straight-forward liquid nitrogen thrower. To make things just a bit more interesting, its secondary fire is a compressed air shotgun blast, which does minimal damage under normal circumstances, but against frozen enemies...
• In Riddle School 5, this is the ultimate plan of Viz — he plans to freeze all the planets using a ray that harnesses Zack's coldness. Fortunately, it backfires on him.
• In Rock Raiders, you can arm your Rock Raiders with freezer beams to defend your base. They don't work very well against rock or ice monsters (the laser beam works much better), but they're devastating to lava monsters.
• In Rogue Galaxy, Simon has flamethrowers as his weapon of choice, but some of his guns shoot ice instead.
• Like everything else, one is summonable in Scribblenauts. It temporarily traps things in blocks of ice. Freezing is harmless, so it's a good way to deal with hostile creatures you're not allowed to hurt.
• In Scars Above you can upgrade your weapon into a Cryo Launcher capable of blasting freezing enzymes on monsters. This weapon does wonders on bosses, encasing them in ice and causing massive damage to their health as you keep spamming freezing rounds on bosses before they can break out.
• Spelunky has a Freeze Ray. While not as powerful or long ranged as many weapons, once frozen, an opponent can be shattered for a OHKO (including the Shopkeeper). Also, anyone frozen in midair will be shattered by falling.
• Toki Tori's Freeze-o-matic turns enemies into blocks of ice. On land, they can be used as platform, but underwater, they float up. Either way, they can block your path if you're not careful, causing a need for a reset.
• The Creonites' freeze weapons in Total Annihilation: Kingdoms. They have a similar effect to the Taken for Granite petrifying spells, except that the target turns to ice rather than stone.
• The Freeze Ray Gun is one of the Martian weapons that can be found in Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams. It's powered by raw radium and immobilizes the targets.
• Warframe: The Glaxion, released in update 14.5, turns enemies into ice statues when killed, which easily shatter upon impact from repeat attacks and other weapons.
• In War Front: Turning Point, the Soviet Union can deploy air-dropped freeze bombs and "Ice Spitter" Tanks in advance of an attack force; the metaphor used in-game is "canned Siberian weather". Frozen units recover after a time, but are very vulnerable to damage and immobile.
• War Robots: The EvoLife corporation specializes in these.
  • Morana (Light), Chione (Medium), and Jotunn (Heavy), are a set of weapons that shoot freezing two-missile salvos at targets and inflict the FreezeBlast effect, which causes the enemy to explode into a targeted snowstorm that will freeze other robots within its range.
  • Rime (Light), Cryo (Medium), and Glacier (Heavy) are missile launchers that shoot short-range freezing projectiles with high rate of fire.
  • Snaer (Light), Skadi (Medium), and Hel (Heavy) are straighter examples of this trope as though they shoot a beam of lightning, it will freeze the opponent over time.
• The Medusa Gun in Will Rock is a variation: it shots a strange, blue gas that turns enemies into stone statues and break them.
• X-COM:
  • More of a Freeze Rod/Bomb, but the Thermal Tazer and Thermal Shok Bomb in X-COM: Terror from the Deep both use intense cold to render their targets unconscious.
  • The Alien Hunters DLC for XCOM 2 adds the Frost Bomb, which causes Harmless Freezing. It works on every enemy that gets caught in the blast radius, even Alien Rulers, robots and Avatars.

• Adventurers!: Tesla, the party's gun-wielder, gets a freeze gun at one point (she refers to being in the party as "the Gun-of-the-month Club"). It shoots flames. Karn doesn't see what the problem is.
• Gunnerkrigg Court. Just because if you release laser cows (robots), it's a good idea to equip them with something fire-suppressing as well.
• In Our Little Adventure, Emily has a magic spell called 'Frozen Ray' which does just this. It's an ice version of Angelika's 'scorching ray'.

• SCP Foundation: SCP-2424 ("Hostile Walrus Cyborg ''research ongoing''"). In the anomalous video game Eskimo Moe, the enemies known as Goonters (intelligent penguins) have pistol-like devices that can fire a freezing ray.

• Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: Dr. Horrible has a "freeze ray", although of course his freeze ray stops time; it's Johnny Snow who has the "ice beam".

• The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode "Baby-Sitter Jitters" features Robotnik's "Reversible Melt-O/Freeze-O Ray", pairing this trope with its inverse. However, the two modes aren't used in tandem to any significant effect: early on, Robotnik is hit by the "Freeze-O" mode and trapped in a block of ice, while in the climax the "Melt-O" mode makes a hole in a thick metal door that's trapping Sonic and Tails.
• Birdman (1967):
  • In "The Pirate Plot", the pirates use a freeze ray against several armed officers of the ship they're attacking, encasing them in ice.
  • The titular villain of "Skon of Space" uses a "cold ray" to freeze Birdman solid.
• In the second Care Bears (1980s) special, Professor Coldheart invents a freeze ray called "The Careless Ray Contraption", which he uses to freeze all the kids in town.
• The physical impossibility of such a device is mentioned in an episode of ChalkZone, but Rudy draws one up anyways, reasoning that imagination overrides logic in a realm composed of animated chalk drawings.
• Mr. Freeze from the DC Animated Universe (restating it because Mr. Freeze as we currently know him was created for Batman: The Animated Series). He reappears in Batman Beyond. Once, Bruce himself uses Freeze's old gun, which he keeps as a memento, against Inque. The second time, Inque learns to destroy the gun first. In another episode, Derek Powers clones Freeze and implants the villain's memories into the clone. When Freeze has a relapse of his condition, he dons an upgraded suit, which has freeze rays built into the arms.
• Filmation's Ghostbusters has a gizmo called the Fright Freezer. Sometimes it's a handheld gun, while at other times it's mounted on the Ghostbuggy.
• The Flamin' Thongs: In "Freeze a Crowd", Holden builds a nuclear-powered air-conditioner to combat Whale Bay’s hottest day ever. When he’s unable to turn it off and they can’t get out of the house, the Thongs face freezing then thawing out in the Whale Bay of the future.
• Flash Gordon (1979) has a variation with the Arborians' ice arrows.
• Heloise from Jimmy Two-Shoes has one. Among its uses: freezing Jimmy to keep him around.
• In the Johnny Test episode "Johnny vs. Brain Freezer", a coffee guy/science student gets angry about not winning 1st place in the science fair, so he gets a blaster, combines it with his coffee machine, becomes the Brain Freezer and starts freezing people.
• Olaf from Kaeloo owns one of these. He uses it in episode #104 to freeze Kaeloo and Mr. Cat alive and put them in People Jars.
• In MAD, an alien asks a person to take him to his people's leader; the guy responds mockingly by pretending to call the president on his cellphone and insulting the alien's proposition. The alien then responds by saying "I think you're making fun of me." The guy replies "Where do you come from, the genius planet?" The alien then freezes him with his gun, and the guy says "I regret nothing."
• In Men in Black: The Series, MIB agents often use the Icer, a freeze ray which is frequently used to non-lethally subdue and capture enemies. Special notice should go to the fact that it can freeze fire.
• Ready Jet Go!: In "Mindy's Ice Rink", Sunspot builds a freeze ray for Mindy, so she can make her own ice rink.
• Robot Chicken has a sketch parodying a similar situation to the Young Justice example below. Several different cold-themed villains with freeze-rays show up, one after another, to steal the same priceless giant gem and they all start bickering over who has a better thematic claim to it. Eventually, yet another villain destroys a wall with his freeze-ray in order to burst in, and the combined structural damage they've all done making their entrances collapses the entire building on top of them.

  Mr. Freeze: It took me six years of research to build my freeze ray. How do you high-school dropouts keep making them?! Are they as easy to build as HAM radios, and I'm just some asshole?!

• Rocky Kwaterner: Professor Torpille is determined to refreeze Rocky to turn him into a museum piece, and to this end has invented several tools and weapons to instantly freeze anyone or anything. Including freeze rays.
• She-Ra: Princess of Power:
  • The Horde have energy batons given to its Troopers (a creative work-around since Lou Scheimer didn't like guns being portrayed in cartoons) which can fire either a laser beam, a stun bolt, or a freeze ray. Various other Horde Weapons, including on Horde spaceships, also have freeze rays.
  • Catra's mask has a hidden power, revealed in the episode "Magicats", which fires a freeze-ray if the phrase "Freeze fire!" is uttered.
• Space Ghost:
  • The title character fires one from his Power Bands in "Lokar - King of the Killer Locusts" against Lokar's metal-eating locusts. He does it again against a giant ant/spider hybrid Insectoid Alien in "The Web".
  • In "The Heat Thing", Jan and Jace use the Phantom Cruiser's "cold units" ray to seal the title monster into a lava pit.
  • The eponymous antagonist of "The Iceman" has an Ice-Ray Projector that can be used to create a wall of ice between the Ghost Planet and its sun as well as encasing Space Ghost in ice.
  • In "The Meeting", Metallus' Freeze Robots fire beams of cold that cover the Phantom Cruiser in ice.
  • In "The Final Encounter", Space Ghost uses his Freeze Ray against the Sultan of Flame's fire demon, but unfortunately, his technology is useless against the Sultan's magic.
• There's a freeze weapon of some sort in Speed Buggy, prompting Speedy to complain "Who put the anti-freeze in my carburetor?"
• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) episode "Return of the Fly" has Bebop and Rocksteady equipped with freeze guns.
• The Transformers: Several Autobots and Decepticons have weapons that approximate a freeze ray, including Ironhide and Warpath. Cliffjumper's Glass Gas gun approximates some of the effects of a freeze ray, but isn't ice-based in nature.
• Transformers: Animated: Blitzwing can shoot freezing projectiles in his Icy and Random personalities.
• The Venture Bros.: In "The Trial of the Monarch", the Monarch uses a ray that freezes Brock in green ice — but this is total fiction in the Venture boys' loopy testimony. Later, though, the Guild of Calamitous Intent does freeze the entire courtroom long enough to rig the verdict.
• The pilot of Young Justice (2010) features four ice-themed villains — Mr. Freeze, Killer Frost, Icicle Jr. and Captain Cold. Mr. Freeze and Captain Cold have freeze ray guns; Killer Frost and Icicle don't have them, instead generating freeze rays through their hands.
• In the Young Samson and Goliath episode "The Colossal Coral Creature", the villain Darvo uses a freeze ray to solidify a cloud in an attempt to destroy a plane that Samson and Goliath are riding on.

• Using directed energy to lower temperatures may sound absurd, but on a molecular scale, cold is just slowness. Lasers have demonstrated an ability to produce cold, given very, VERY specific circumstances. See: Atom Trapping.
  • Specifically, a photon is more likely to be absorbed by an atom if it's just the right wavelength. If you make the laser just a bit redder, it will be blueshifted from the point of view of the atoms moving towards it, and hit them, slowing them down.
  • Not exactly an energy ray, but if you hold a can of compressed air upside down, the can sprays a jet of very cold liquid. It's fun as a novelty, but that's about it. This is because the sudden drop in pressure causes the propellant ^note  to spread its energy over a wider area, making it colder. The propellant most often used? Nitrogen, in this case liquid nitrogen. It should go without saying that letting this touch you is probably a bad idea.
  • Lasers can super-cool plasma. Find a way to launch the plasma, and you've got this.
• Ironically, a flamethrower without the pilot light can become a freeze ray depending on the fuel used. Many designs use Napalm engineered to be hyper stable when not exposed to an open flame, and as a consequence tend to sublimate (producing extreme cold) very aggressively when not confined to a pressurized tank. As an added bonus (for the shooter) the target won't be able to heat themselves up or they risk the opposite problem of frost bite.
• At its basest, a Super Soaker filled with liquid nitrogen can be this. Still, it is not recommended to try this at home, since the quality and durability of plastic in water guns can vary, and many plastics become extremely brittle in the presence of extreme cold. Combine this with the fact that liquid nitrogen does very...unpleasant things to skin on contact, and you have a painful trip to he hospital waiting to happen if your impromptu freeze ray shatters in your hands.