Ice (comics)
| Ice | |
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Ice, art by Adam Hughes
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Justice League International #12 (April 1988) |
| Created by |
Keith Giffen (writer) J. M. DeMatteis (writer) Kevin Maguire (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Tora Olafsdotter |
| Team affiliations |
Justice League Global Guardians Cadre White Lantern Corps |
| Partnerships | Fire |
| Notable aliases | Icemaiden |
| Abilities |
Cryogenesis and cryokinesis Snow control & manipulation Snow creation Snow/ice magic Cryokinetic constructs Blizzard creation Snowstorm creation |
Ice (Tora Olafsdotter) is a fictional character, a comic book superheroine in publications from DC Comics. Created by Keith Giffen, J. M. DeMatteis, and Kevin Maguire, she first appeared in Justice League International #12 (April 1988).
Ice is a separate character from Icemaiden, although the two are similar in appearance, group affiliation, and powers. When Icemaiden first appeared, she had blue skin and pointy ears, and was named Sigrid Nansen. When the character joined Justice League International, the comic book creators believed that her real name had never been given but were mistaken; it was revealed in the Global Guardians entry in Who's Who in the DC Universe.
After Ice was killed, the original Icemaiden (Sigrid Nansen) joined the Justice League. A backstory revealed that she was the first Icemaiden, who quit the Global Guardians when Tora appeared.
A new origin was revealed in Justice League: Generation Lost #12 (2010), written by Judd Winick and art by Fernando Dagnino Guerra.
The princess of an isolated tribe of magic-wielding Norsemen, Tora Olafsdotter has the natural ability to create and manipulate ice.
A different origin was presented in Justice League: Generation Lost. It has not been revealed in what respects this story replaces Tora's original history.
In the Justice League: Generation Lost story, Tora's parents and brother are Romanifolket, and her grandfather was the head of a small sect of Romanifolket known as the Is Bygd. Tora was trained to stay calm in order to control her metahuman abilities to create and manipulate ice, to ensure that her grandfather (from whom Tora's parents sought to hide their daughter) could not find her and force her to use her power to keep control over the other Bygd residents. Eventually Tora's grandfather tracked his family down and, after seeing her father being beaten, she lost control, causing the death of several, among them her own father.
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