- "Super-ladies, they're always tryin' to tell you their secret identity. Think it'll strengthen the relationship or somethin' like that. I said, Girl, I don't wanna know about your mild-mannered alter ego, or anything like that. I mean, you tell me you're a super-mega-ultra-lightning-babe, that's all right with me. I'm good. I'm good."
- —A younger Lucius being interviewed.
Lucius Best (alias Frozone) is a major character in The Incredibles and Incredibles 2, and the deuteragonist of Mr. Incredible and Pals. He is the best friend and a close ally of Mr. Incredible and the Parr family. He has the ability to create ice and freeze surfaces by manipulating moisture.
Personality[]
A former "hot dog", Frozone has a "cool" personality and strong morals. He is always there to help his friends, even going as far as offering to house the Parr family after the Super Hero Relocation Program was shutdown by the government. He is also laid-back, charismatic, charitable, level-headed, friendly, heroic and supportive of others.
During the first movie, it is suggested that he has adapted to civilian life much more easily than his long-time friend, Bob Parr, though he still possesses a hidden cache containing his costume and all of his old gadgets in working condition.
Physical appearance[]
Frozone is tall and slender and has dark skin. He is bald but has some stubble of facial hair. When he was younger, he had hair and no facial hair. His supersuit is white and light blue in color and can deploy a variety of gadgets. He always wears goggles when carrying out superhero work to protect his eyes from the ice's harmful reflective rays and to protect his secret identity.
Biography[]
The Incredibles[]
Lucius was born around the year 1922. At the beginning of the movie, Frozone is being interviewed, where he says he only wants to know a women's superhero identity if he enters into a relation with one. After a day of crimefighting, he can be seen boarding a helicopter (with a hostage on board), telling Mr. Incredible that he should be getting ready for his wedding. He served as the best man in the wedding of Bob Parr and Helen Truax.
After Mr. Incredible is sued by people whom he had rescued and loses the cases, the Supers are outlawed. He married a woman whom he refers to as Honey, who is aware of his superhero past. Lucius is best friends with Bob, and a close friend of Helen and the kids, who are the only supers he socializes with following the banning of superheroes. Whenever Lucius and Bob go out on Wednesdays to engage in covert superhero work, they have to cover from their respective wives by claiming to be going bowling, but they stop going out when Bob is caught by Helen. Frozone was Syndrome's original target to be murdered in Operation Kronos (before Syndrome changed targets upon locating Mr. Incredible), as Mirage is seen watching the two friends rescue people in the burning building and hearing a radio transmission asking if she was sure if she wanted to change targets, and she responds saying Mr. Incredible is the one they were looking for.
When Mr. Incredible infiltrated Syndrome's headquarters after being presumed dead, he learned about Operation Kronos and reacted in horror to the long list of Supers who had been murdered by Syndrome. Bob's horror is magnified when he sees that Frozone's status is "known", finding out that Syndrome knows Lucius' whereabouts.
He later reappears in the second half of the film when the Omnidroid v.10 battle robot sent by Pine (now known as Syndrome) attacks Metroville (where the two families are residing), and it walks by the Bests' apartment. Lucius, who is getting ready to go out to dinner with Honey, looks for his supersuit but discovers it is missing from his small superhero base. On asking his wife, he quickly realizes she has hidden it somewhere else in the house and does not want him going out to perform any "derring-do" because they have been planning the dinner for two months. He eventually finds the suit, however, and manages to aid the Incredibles in defeating the Omnidroid.
Mr. Incredible and Pals[]
The Incredibles DVD's second disc features a fictional unproduced pilot of a children's cartoon called Mr. Incredible and Pals starring Golden Age Mr. Incredible, Frozone, and a "cute" cartoon sidekick rabbit named Mr. Skipperdoo. The short episode has optional commentary by Frozone and Mr. Incredible, in which both express disappointment, though Frozone is more outraged than Mr. Incredible by several aspects, including the show's overall campiness (in particular the rabbit), poor animation, and apparent racism.
Incredibles 2[]
Frozone helps the Parrs in battling the Underminer, where he is approached by Winston Deavor, who offers Lucius, Bob and Helen to come to Devtech as his ambassadors for a campaign to re-legalize supers. Intrigued, Frozone later goes to Bob and Helen's motel to offer them a place to stay at his apartment, to which they politely decline and also to bring them to DevTech. The trio are introduced to Winston and his sister, Evelyn Deavor, supporters of the superhero movement. Winston tells them they are going to run a campaign to make supers legal again and that they want Elastigirl to be its public face since her heroics cause the least collateral damage.
Sometime after Helen leaves, Lucius gets a call from Violet saying they need him to come over to help Bob deal with Jack-Jack, who was found out by Bob, Violet and Dash to have powers. When he gets there, he finds a sleep deprived Bob and a seemingly normal Jack-Jack. Lucius asks Bob when Jack Jack first revealed that he has powers and when he last slept. Bob tells him Jack-Jack started using them after Helen left and that he hasn't slept since then. Jack-Jack quickly reveals the reason why when he uses one of his powers to travel to another dimension, but Bob brings him back with a cookie. Lucius is flabbergasted since Jack-Jack's powers are nothing like his siblings, to which Bob agrees. When Lucius asks if Jack-Jack is good now, Irritated, Bob closes the cookie jar to show another superpower: turning into a red monster when he's angry. Lucius is further shocked at the infant's power and calls it freaky. He creates ice balls for Jack-Jack so he does not get angry, and advises that Bob should rethink how he can care for his kids and catch up on sleep.
Later, Bob calls Frozone and tells him to watch his kids while he goes to help Helen. Frozone agrees after receiving the call as he grabs his suit this time, ignoring the outcry of Honey. Frozone gets to the Parr's home in time to help Bob's kids. However, the hypnotized wannabe supers beat him there, though Frozone gets between them and Violet and Dash before they can be harmed, and blasts them with ice. Battling the mind-controlled Supers, he is able to handle himself until being grabbed and hypnotized with hypno-goggles. Fortunately, Dash summons the Incredibile, and he breaks free long enough to activate its voice system and orders the kids to do the same before getting put under Evelyn's control. Frozone then tries to attack the kids, but they escape.
Along with a mind-controlled Bob and Helen, Frozone attends the superhero conference to sabotage it by taking the crew and ambassadors hostage. However, the kids board the cruise and free their parents, and eventually Frozone, from the mind control. Since the ship is set course to crash into the city, Frozone generates ice on the water to slow it down while Bob manually stops the rudder, and they succeed in stopping the ship while Helen defeats Evelyn. The day is saved, and Frozone and the Incredibles celebrate over Supers becoming legal again.
The Incredibles in Holiday Heroes[]
Lucius goes to Mount Tiki-Toki with the Parrs while Honey goes to see her mother. Lucius is about to take a drink of fruit punch when the volcano blasts back to life. Lucius tries to congeal the lava, but the extreme heat from the eruption dehydrates him. It takes the intervention of Bob, Helen, and Dash to help Lucius ultimately save the day.
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer[]
Frozone arrives to help the Incredibles fight the Underminer, but after the sextet is surrounded by robots, Mr. Incredible tells the rest of the family to evacuate the city (along with the rest of the citizens of Metroville). Mr. Incredible and Frozone find out that the Underminer plans to use a machine called the Magnomizer to make the surface world feel like his home. After they fight their way to the Magnomizer, including fighting the Magnomizer Guardian, they reach the top of the building, where the Magnomizer is. Mr. Incredible uses his strength to unscrew the bolts that hold the machine down while Frozone fends off the guard robots. The heroes escape the building and find the Crustodian, and defeat it, though it escapes. They escape, and meet Dug in a power plant, who helps them save some non-human scientists who are stranded somewhere else in the plant, protecting Dug along the way. The heroes save the scientists without Dug's help, after which the scientists help the heroes reach the surface and confront the Underminer. After defeating all of his robots, the other Incredibles return to watch as the duo defeats him. His small machine goes haywire, takes off into the air, and crashes onto the big machine, creating a large explosion which possibly slays The Underminer, and the heroes escape the blast.
LEGO The Incredibles[]
Frozone was recruited by Mirage to stop the Omnidroid and ends up assisting Mr. Incredible in the same task. He later joins Bob at the train yard, during one of his friend's weight-loss workouts.
Powers & abilities[]
Powers[]
- Ice Generation/Cryokinesis: Frozone has the power to generate ice from his fingertips, but is limited by the amount of moisture in the air and his body. He can also freeze water and other liquids such as milk, or even ambient moisture in the air. It is also indicated that he can use the moisture of his own body to generate ice. He can freeze solid object in midair, such as bullets while congealing gun-wielding opponents. As a child, he was able to freeze a bowl of fruit punch merely through force of will, without the use of his ice blasts.
- Snow Generation: Frozone can also create snow, soft enough to cushion falls and slides on rough surfaces. As proven with the second film, he can even lower barometric pressure within a certain radius to stimulate snowfall.
- Cold Immunity: Though unconfirmed, since supers are told to be immune to their own powers, Frozone's cryokinetic power most likely renders him immune to cold (meaning he is completely undisturbed by any degree of cold).
- Airborne Mobility: He can generate ice in the air to skate across, which gives him the ability to skate mid-air for a few seconds at a time. He can skate across the air and board helicopters as a result, as seen early in the first film.
- Enhanced Strength: When escaping a burning building with Bob, Lucius is seen running with several unconscious people on his back, showing that he has significantly more strength than the average person.
Abilities[]
- Skiing: As he travels by ice locomotion (e.g. ice skis, ice skates, ice discs), Frozone is an expert skier.
- Visor: Frozone wears a sun visor to protect his eyes from snow blindness and to conceal his secret identity.
- Skilled Hand-To-Hand Combatant: Frozone has proven to be very skilled in combat.
Weaknesses[]
- Dehydration: When dehydrated, his superhuman ability to generate ice is weakened as a result.
- Low Humidity Environments: In hotter climates with little ambient water vapor, Frozone cannot generate large quantities of ice via the water in the air.
Trivia[]
- According to official sources, Frozone is 40 years old, is 6'2" (188 cm) and weighs 180 pounds (81 kg).
- Originally, Frozone was supposed to be recruited to "stop" Omnidroid v.8, but Syndrome and Mirage decided that Mr. Incredible would have been a better choice, as evidenced by the conversation they had when Mirage was tailing them and thus they knew his location.
- Although it is believed he is the godfather of Bob and Helen's three children, this has not been confirmed in the film. In Incredibles 2 he is referred to as "Uncle Lucius" by Dash Parr, but it is unclear whether Lucius is a biological uncle of Dash, Violet, and Jack-Jack or if this is simply a title of affection.
- According to the National Supers Agency, Frozone had attempted to represent the United States in the Winter Olympics, but was rejected on account of his Super abilities granting him a tremendously unfair advantage.
- Despite being a major character and being featured in promotional material, Frozone has little screen time in the first act of the first film, but has a little more screen time at the final battle. The screen time makes a total of six scenes of screen time making him a supporting character, but he has more screen time in the trailers. He has a larger role in Incredibles 2 as one of the film's six central characters (along with the Parrs).
- In the mobile game Disney Heroes Battle Mode, Frozone states that he was born with his powers.
- Frozone's powers give him a strong resemblance to Iceman from X-Men and Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat.
- Frozone's helmet and goggles are available in the first-person shooter game Team Fortress 2 as a cosmetic item for the character of the Demoman (under the name Hungover Hero).
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