What's your favorite ice enemy?

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This thread is about enemies found mostly in ice-based areas or with ice-based abilities.



I was always a big fan of the flurries from SMB2. They slipped around on the ice and everything, and if you threw them on a non-slippery surface they wouldn't slip around anymore! It was almost like they were programmed to interact with what little environment there was. It was a pretty cool detail for a video game back then. Not to mention they'd fly at you at a billion miles per hour while you were trying to traverse their stages.



These guys were cool, too. I liked Metroid Prime, it was cool to explore around and look at all the enemies. After a while most of them got tedious, but I never got tired of seeing sheegoth for some reason. The adult version wasn't as cool, but fighting the babies was a good time. They even had frost breath so you could get frozen like a scrub. Wowwww!

[Jesuiscontent]

These guys from Mario Kart 64. They made such funny sounds whenever you got around them. Also I like how they completely screw you over if you happen to hit one of them. Like they stun you forever and they push you around all over the place, that was always hilarious in multiplayer. GET OFF OF MY FACE DAMN PENGUIN.


Also doesn't the title imply you can only choose ONE favorite enemy??!?!?

[limepie20]

I like The crystal king from paper mario


and this guy

[freelop]

It was inevitable

[limepie20]

Oh wait I need to explain.

Crystal king:
Well it's paper mario and the paper mario series is my favorite set of games that even have ice enemies. As in if I go down my list of best games, paper mario ttyd is the first one I come across with ice enemies. Unless you want to argue that pikmin 2 has ice enemies. But, I didn't just pick these guys because they're in a game I like but they are good enemies. Crystal king has awesome boss music and an awesome castle. The guy himself looks really cool and he's a challenging boss.

Monstar:
What can I say? He's hilarious. He's some cliche monster blocking your path ends up being a pushover.

[Bean]

Freeze Man, Mega Man 7
Dude's one of the better bosses from this underrated game. His pattern's made so that if you're shooting him while you're running around, he'll do a small hop to throw you off. In fact, you really want to keep moving with this guy because he can freeze the floor (and you with it if you're still on it), create sharp stalactites, and hop over your buster shots.

The best things about him are that if you do nothing at the start, he taunts at you to do something and that if you try to use his own weapon on him in the rematch, he'll freeze the fight for a moment to taunt and heal himself up a bit, too.

Chilly, Kirby series
There's something cool about a snowman attacking you. It looks so harmless, then it gets you with its ice breath. I like Kirby 64's version since you can use it to transform into a snowman that explodes or use it as ice skates.

Also, I think that Metroid Prime enemy is called a Sheegoth, but it's been a couple of years since I played that one.

[Ace]

Not a huge fan of the enemy exactly, but I love the freeze ability. Although I always found it odd that there was both the freeze and ice ability in Kirby's Adventure. I mean, shouldn't they be the same damn thing?

E: Looks like I waited too long to hit the submit button, I got ninja'd out of Chilly ;(

[Bean]

E: Looks like I waited too long to hit the submit button, I got ninja'd out of Chilly ;(

You at least posted a picture.

[Dollop of Mayo]

You end up fighting her pretty frequently in the various Final Fantasy games.

I wouldn't mind getting my tongue stuck on her if you know what I mean.

Alluding to the idea that since she is very cold and I want to lick her, my tongue would probably adhere to her body, and I would not be too bothered about it.

[Cobalt]

Mainly because R/S was a really big game in my childhood so i always thought this guy was cool (haha get it)

[Cup]

[ano0maly]

Fairy Leviathan

[Argumentable]

Also doesn't the title imply you can only choose ONE favorite enemy??!?!?

It's not a poll, it's a discussion

[morsel/morceau]

Thirteen replies and no pengator? Ice'll have to do something about that!

'What's a pengator?', you ask? Well, pengator is an ice enemy (or do I mean a nice enemy, tee-hee [edit: no, I meant ice enemy - not sure what I was thinking here]) from A Link to the Past. Actually, he doesn't have the greatest name - I didn't even know what it was! After typing 'penguin ice zleda' into google, I ended up at 'Zelda Wiki, the Zelda encyclopedia'. I was told 'The Pengator[1] is a bird-like creature, appearing as a hybrid of alligator and penguin', evidently extrapolating from the name (penguin-alligator) rather than the appearance:

Yeah, I see the penguin part, but alligator? '...they lunge at their quarry with razor sharp alligator-like fangs from their penguin-like bill at very high speeds, sliding across the ice on their stomachs.'

Ok, I see two fangs. Here's an alligator for comparison:
(more than two fangs.jpg)

Also, note pengator's fangs stick down from the upper jaw, but the alligator's fangs stick up from the lower jaw. This might be just a weird alligator. I dunno.

To add further confusion, a reference from Zelda.com appears after the article: "Pengators are duck-billed mammals who live in arctic environments..." So that's duck instead of penguin and mammal instead of reptile. What the flipper is going on here?

Well, clearly Zelda.com is simply following official Nintendo policy of introducing maximum confusion into the Zelda series just for the hell of it. But what of this alligator nonsense? Thankfully, there is a clue on the Pengator Wiki page: 'Japanese ファンギン (Fangin) '. Ah, of course, it was a bad localization. It should just be Fanguin, a penguin with fangs. No need to bring alligators into it at all. Good job we got that cleared up.

[Dark Hunter]

Ice enemies tend to annoy me due to the constant slipperiness of their stages.

That said,



This guy was actually fun to fight, and his name is KHOLDSTARE! I mean, that's just awesome.

Either that or EXTREME Gundam Ignis Phase from Gundam Extreme Vs., who, bizarrely enough, has an icy theme to its attacks.

[RobinLSL]

Cup and morsel for the win!

Stationary ice blocks in pretty much any Zelda game. Get too close, and BAM! you're frozen. Actually, they're not my favourite but the one I hate the most. Woops. Well honestly I hate all ice enemies (because I hate being frozen) so I can't really pick a favourite.

[Paperkoopa]

I'd say Rundas from Metroid Prime 3.

He has awesometastic music and a great personality.

[BTYM]

These guys are pretty awesome

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What are they

[morsel/morceau]

right click -> save image as

[Argumentable]

So much for the discussion part

What is it?
It's a guy
What does it do?
It does stuff
Why do you like it?
It's neat

Great!

[Sqawl]

I've always been partial to the Bumpties in Yoshi's Island:


Yeah, they're just penguins, but they're silly-looking and bouncy. Of course, they can be a major pain when you're trying to do some platforming, but I had much more fun bouncing off of them than I had frustration being bounced into pits. That's why I like them so much: they're a challenging obstacle, but also a fun thing to just play around with.

[Cobalt]

What are they

yetis from maple story
J>LVL35 DEXLESS DW!!!@@!@!!!!@!!@!@!@!@!@!@
^basically this

[Argumentable]

I've always been partial to the Bumpties in Yoshi's Island:


Yeah, they're just penguins, but they're silly-looking and bouncy. Of course, they can be a major pain when you're trying to do some platforming, but I had much more fun bouncing off of them than I had frustration being bounced into pits. That's why I like them so much: they're a challenging obstacle, but also a fun thing to just play around with.

More of this

yetis from maple story
J>LVL35 DEXLESS DW!!!@@!@!!!!@!!@!@!@!@!@!@
^basically this

Less of this

Edit: I don't know why I'm being a butt

[Cobalt]

see the joke is you will see everyone saying that to get a party to actually fight those yetis
i ruined the joke for you i hope you like it </3
EDIT: oh i guess you couldn't tell that i was talking about bartle's pic but yeah maple story yeti is what that is


Okay how about the frozen shade from castlevania
I like her in harmony of despair because ice needle is pretty good for range also she drops pudding for some reason so that's cool too