Iceman

__**Bobby Drake / "Iceman" **__



__**History **__

Bobby Drake discovered his mutant power to create ice while in his early teens, yet kept his condition hidden from everyone but his parents. Initially, Bobby was unable to stop feeling cold and shivering, but soon managed to keep it under control. When a bully named Rocky and his friends attacked Bobby and his then-girlfriend, Judy, the youngster panicked. To save Harmon, Bobby temporarily encased Rocky in ice, thus revealing his abilities for all to see. Believing the boy to be a menace, the townspeople organized a lynch mob. They broke into Bobby's home and overpowered him, but the local sheriff took the teenager into custody for his own protection. Meanwhile, the situation had come to the attention of Professor Charles Xavier, the telepathic mentor of the team of teenage mutant super heroes the X-Men.

Professor X dispatched his first X-Man, Cyclops, to contact Bobby. Cyclops stole into the jailhouse as planned, but the two were caught by the lynch mob. Cyclops and Bobby were about to be hanged when they broke free. Professor X used his mental powers to halt the townspeople in their tracks and erase their memories of Bobby's powers. A grateful Bobby then accepted Xavier's invitation to enroll at his School for Gifted Youngsters and took the codename Iceman. Though initially granting him a snow-like form, Bobby soon learned to increase his degree of cold control resulting in an ice-like, almost transparent form.

Hated and feared by humanity, the X-Men honed their amazing abilities while standing in defense of a world pushed to the brink of genetic war by a handful of mutant terrorists. Iceman, the team's youngest founding member, became known as the comedian of the group. Regardless, he pulled his weight and worked well with rest of the team.

Following a short break-up after believing their mentor was dead, the X-Men reformed with two new members - the magnetism-manipulating Polaris and the plasma-charged Havok. Bobby had a brief romantic relationship with Polaris until she realized that her heart belonged to Havok. Bobby had trouble accepting her decision, which led to increased tension between himself and Havok. Eventually, Bobby quit the team for a short time to sort out his feelings.

Later, when the sentient island-being known as Krakoa took Bobby and his teammates captive, Professor X assembled a second team of X-Men to rescue them. Soon after, most of the founding members left the team and Bobby began attending college. Eventually, he helped his former teammate Angel form the Champions of Los Angeles. When the Champions disbanded, Bobby quit his life as a costumed adventurer and returned to college full time to study accounting.

Later, Bobby was contacted by Professor X to assist in rescuing friends and family of the X-Men from the assassin known as Arcade. Along with other former X-Men Banshee, Polaris, and Havok, the ad-hoc team managed to free the hostages and Bobby finally came to accept Polaris' love for Havok.

During a summer break from college Bobby became involved with a superhero group called the Defenders. When several members seemed to perish, the team disbanded. Bobby then joined other founding X-Men to form X-Factor, an organization that intended to seek out and aid other mutants under the pretense of hunting down those perceived menaces to society. During his time with the team, the Asgardian trickster god Loki captured Bobby, hoping to use him to gain control over the Frost Giants. Loki enhanced Bobby's powers to such an extent that he was forced to wear a power-dampening belt. Once able only to sheathe his own body in a protective coating of ice, Bobby found he could encase the entirety of the Empire State Building. With time, Bobby gained sufficient control over his augmented powers that he was able to stop using the inhibitor belt.

It was later revealed that Bobby hadn’t truly gained control of his powers. He instead dealt with the augmentation of his powers by having half of his mutant ability siphoned away by the reality-changing mutant, The Scarlet Witch. She created a host body to house the other half of his power until he was able to deal with it without losing control. Professor Xavier created a mind for the body, complete with memories of a life never lived. Thus Agape Irene Chionia was born (named after three saints). Agape enrolled as a student in Xavier’s school.

Over time Bobby began to learn to deal with his powers. Colossus’ brother, Mikhail, forced him into a form composed entirely of ice. When Emma Frost took mental possession of his body, she used his powers in ways he never thought possible. He learned to safely revert back to his human form after his ice form's chest had been shattered in battle.

Later, when Apocalypse sought to siphon the awesome energies of "The Twelve" (mutants of incredible power, destined to alter the course of human history), Bobby was one of those chosen. These experiences forced Iceman into the realization that he no longer need fear the evolution of his abilities, and he returned to the X-Men to explore his mutant powers to the fullest. After suffering a chest injury, Bobby was unable to prevent his body from transforming into solid ice due to the manifestation of a secondary mutation.

After the House of M incident Iceman suffered a subconscious reaction to the trauma of that reality warp. Due to this, his ice form has taken on a much more jagged appearance. Recently, Iceman has been using his powers in innovative ways, including the ability to exist as a sentient gas. He discovered this ability while fighting the Children of the Vault.


 * School's Out / High School Never Ends**

Iceman left the school to deal with the trauma of the House of M incident and to grapple with his new powers. He seemingly returned to Xavier's school after the X-Men left Earth for a mission and the remaining teachers were put into a temporal coma by the Travelers. He said he was there to help run the school with the remaining seniors. In a battle with Mystique's Brotherhood of Mutants, it was revealed that Iceman was actually an illusion created by Lucius, a senior. Lucius, a student with Asperger's, created Iceman out of a subconscious desire to have someone else in charge.

When the seniors travel to the future to help stop the villain Victorious, they learn that Bobby has turned himself into water and merged with the ambient moisture in the atmosphere.


 * Welcome to Paradise / Hotel California**

When the seniors from Xavier's school graduate they accept the X-Men's offer to become teachers at a new west coast mutant school called Academy X. In their review of student files, they learn that Agape (who has transferred from the east coast school to Academy X to become a prefect) was actually created from Iceman. Later, when Agape becomes head girl following Meghan's departure, she accesses her own files to learn the truth as well.


 * My Generation / Children's Crusade**

During summer break after Academy X's first school year, Bobby finally feels he's ready to accept the full extent of his power. He's also motivated by a prophecy that he'll need his powers soon to prevent death and destruction. To regain his powers, however, Agape will have to lose hers. When the headmasters of Academy X (Bastienne and Dane) learn this, they ask Agape what she wants. She says she doesn't want to lose her powers. Cameron flies off with Agape to keep her safe. When Bobby learns this, he is furious and flies off.


 * Valley of Lost Souls / Empire of the Damned**

During the Necrosha event, Bobby helps fight Selene along with several other X-Men. In the battle, Nightcrawler is killed. Iceman was almost able to stop Selene, and he believes if he'd had the other half of his powers from Agape, he would have been successful. He blames the staff of Academy X for Nightcrawler's death, as do many other at the east coast school.

__**Powers and Abilities**__ //Thermokinesis//: Iceman is a mutant with the superhuman ability to lower his external and internal body temperature, projecting intense coldness from his body.

// T // //hermal Vision//: The ability to see beings due to the heat signature that others give off, because of the absence of heat around him.

//Cryokinesis//: Iceman can use his mutant ability to control moisture such as to freeze any air moisture into super-hard ice. In the past, Iceman has formed ice-ladders, ice-slides, ice-shields, ice-bats and other constructs of ice. Iceman has created constructs of ice so powerful that he was able to easily encase and contain the likes of the Hulk with him being unable to break out of it.

//Organic-Ice Form//: Ability to not only cover his body with ice, but to actually become organic ice. Iceman is virtually indestructible in this form, allowing him to reform his body should it become shattered. In his ice form, he is able to use the moisture in the air to form spikes, shields and attach other extra appendages to his body. It is currently unknown if Bobby would be considered immortal.

//Hydrokinesis//: Iceman can use surrounding moisture to augment himself, allowing him to travel within large bodies of water very quickly. He is able to convert his body to gigantic proportions as well, through absorption of a body of water or water vapor in the air. One side effect of this is he gains superhuman strength to match his superhuman size. Iceman has demonstrated the ability to be transformed into nothing more than water vapor, yet remain conscious and retain the use of his powers. His conscious control of his abilities has allowed him to exist simultaneously in two places at once.

//Ice Clone Generation//: The ability to genarate ice clones of himself. It is unknown how many ice clone he can create at once