X-MEN: The AoA Iceman

[starwolf_oakley]

We've been discussing how "all new, all different" Iceman is going to be, and if Iceman is going to be similar to the Age of Apocalypse Iceman. But how powerful was the AoA Iceman, and was he *anything* like "our" Bobby Drake?
Well, no. As I've said, he's more like sentient ice. I don't even think he resumes human form at all during AOA.



Magneto quotes Yogi Berra!



Pages after the cut.



As in this reality, Apocalypse has conquered most of North America and murdered millions of people, Bobby Drake isn't exactly the X-Men's resident "goofball accountant."

From X-MEN ALPHA:



From ASTONISHING X-MEN (vol 1) #1:



Six pages from AMAZING X-MEN #1:











From AMAZING X-MEN #2:

Comments

[dr_archeville]

Since Bobby cools by moving thermodynamic energy

Are we sure that's how his powers work?

Loki once amped him up so much he had to wear an Inhibitor Belt (made by Forge) to keep his powers in check (which he eventually figured how to do). Since then my theory's been his powers are that he's channeling the icy cold of Nifleheim; it's why Loki chose him in the first place. Mutants accessing other dimensions isn't new -- Magik and Nightcrawler do it, so does Cyclops (under at least one writer, his power isn't "generating blasts of energy" but "opening a portal, in his eyeballs, to a dimension filled with concussive energy, and letting it pour out").

There was also another comic -- X-Men Forever, I think (the first one, where Prosh kidnapped Iceman, Jean Grey Mystique, Toad, and one or two others and told them they all had some great destiny; it ended with Mystique's 'default' form, and Toad's body, being the same as their counterparts from the first movie) -- where they said Bobby's powers are to essentially create ice; not by freezing ambient water vapor but by just creating it, ex nihilo.


All that aside, playing with thermal energy's fun. He could turn most anything into a superconductor, including the air (boosting the electrical/electromagnetic powers of anyone in the area). (Maybe that's why Magneto keeps coming back to the school....)

[valismedsen]

"so does Cyclops (under at least one writer, his power isn't "generating blasts of energy" but "opening a portal, in his eyeballs, to a dimension filled with concussive energy, and letting it pour out")."

From which writer/issue is this from? I've read it before on the internet, but could never find where it's from.

[arbre_rieur]

The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, I believe it was.