What makes iceman an omega mutant

Some time later, Iceman encounters Mirage, the "daughter" of Oblivion. Iceman journeys back in time and meets his parents before he was born, and battles Oblivion and Mirage. He then achieves reconciliation with his parents. With this new team, he encounters Apocalypse for the first time. During his time with the team, the Asgardian trickster god Loki captures Bobby, hoping to use him to gain control over the Frost Giants.

Loki enhances Bobby's powers and then extracts them to restore the size of the Frost Giants. Iceman is rescued by Thor. Loki's tampering increases Bobby's powers to such an extent that he begins to lose control of his abilities. During a later battle with the Right, he is fitted with a power-dampening belt which actually helps him control his abilities. Once able only to sheathe his own body in a protective coating of ice, Bobby finds he can encase the entirety of the Empire State Building.

With time, Bobby gains sufficient control over his augmented powers that he is able to stop using the inhibitor belt. Believing he has achieved his full potential, Bobby does not attempt to develop his abilities further. Iceman helps watch over many of the younger superheroes, something he once was. Most notably, he and Beast help Boom Boom gain a more normal life.

For a brief while, he also helps supervise the New Mutants and their sister team, the X-Terminators. They, in turn, save him from the deadly kiss of Infectia. Bobby also develops a romantic relationship with Opal Tanaka. After a session of ice sledding, she discovers threatening mail in her mailbox, a precursor to harassment by her cybernetically-enhanced relatives of the Tatsu Clan of the Yakuza, something Bobby helps her out with.

For much of his time, he continues his role as the team's practical joker and comic relief. However, when Emma Frost , the former White Queen of the Hellfire Club, takes over his body and uses his powers at levels which he has previously been unable to reach, Iceman begins to suffer from depression and starts to reassess his life. The White Queen subsequently believes that Iceman has the potential to be one of the most powerful mutants on Earth.

At one point, Iceman confronts Emma, demanding that she show him how she was able to use his powers in such a manner. Although she first tells him to "figure it out yourself," she later goads him into accessing the power all by himself. Around this time, Iceman takes a road-trip with fellow X-Man Rogue. She becomes a danger to herself and others, forcing Iceman into the role of protector. Iceman leaves the X-Men shortly after the incident with the White Queen, only to take an uncharacteristic turn as a leader during Operation: Zero Tolerance.

Not long after the Twelve incident against Daniel Bailey are summoned by the sentient spaceship Prosh who sends the make-shift team on a journey through time to uncover the keys to preserving human evolution.

Their mission: save the human race from a threat that might not manifest itself for millions of years. During their trips through time, Iceman is allowed to experience his abilities at far greater levels than he has ever attempted before. These experiences force Iceman to come to the realization that he no longer needs to fear the evolution of his abilities, and he returns to the X-Men intent on exploring his mutant powers to the fullest.

While working with a team of X-Men some time later, Drake undergoes a secondary mutation that prevents him from transforming a damaged portion of his chest back to flesh. Upon encountering Azazel and his followers, Iceman's body is shattered from the neck down. Afterward, he regains his entire ice form, but cannot change back to his human appearance. As a result, Bobby becomes both bitter and despondent because of this drastic change.

After Polaris breaks up with Havok , Iceman admits that he still has feelings for her. The two engage in mild flirtation, and a relationship between the two develops. After the events of the House of M, Iceman finds himself to be flesh and blood again and believes himself to have lost his powers.

Shortly after, while being held at gunpoint by the Leper Queen , Emma Frost "pushes" something in Bobby's mind that forces him to turn to ice. Further examination reveals that Drake had not lost his powers, but rather had unconsciously repressed them on his own. After this, Bobby is once again able to revert from ice to flesh. Iceman joins Rogue's team after she tells him that she wants him as a member.

Their first mission as a team is to fight a new threat, a powerful group known as the Children of the Vault. The team is successful and during this time, Bobby learns that he can be completely destroyed but then pull himself back together again. It was shown several times during the arc. The next mission for the team was to locate a man called Pandemic and defeat him.

The team was again successful, but Rogue was infected with a virus called Strain Cable took the team, including Bobby, to his island so Rogue could get treatment.

While on Cable's island, the team and Iceman began working to defeat the Shi'ar weapon known as the Hecatomb. He saved many lives by containing the explosion of the Conquistador, and, later, the Hecatomb itself.

As the in Rogue's childhood home, it appears that Mystique and Iceman begin a romantic relationship. Marauders soon infiltrated the house; they attempt to gain access to Destiny 's Diaries on the order of Mr.

Sinister who has been gathering information about the future from anybody and anything that could foretell the future. They are pursued by Sunfire ; they manage to get the better of him and take him prisoner, but not before he manages to cripple the jet. While Sunfire is unconscious, Iceman and Sam discuss the Mauraders' plan to eliminate all precognitive mutants and anyone with knowledge of the future as well as retrieving Destiny's Diaries before the Marauders can.

During this time, Bobby displayed sub-atomic control of energy transfers when he prevented Sunfire from using his fire-based powers. Cannonball and Bobby, telepathically prompted by Emma Frost, attempt to recover the diaries which are hidden in a dilapidated brewery.

Sinister uses the reverse-engineered version of Xavier's Cerebro to track the pair of X-Men to the brewery. The Marauders attack Cannonball and Iceman and overtake them. Bobby, while in his ice form, suffers a gunshot wound from Mystique, which severs one of his arms above the elbow.

They are beings of such immense power that they routinely partake in the destruction and creation of entire worlds. Naturally, the celestials have had more than a few run-ins with Marvel heroes. In one such incident, Iceman sneaked aboard a celestial spaceship, a vehicle of unimaginable power and unfathomable dimensions. He then proceeded to turn everything into ice. Not just everything inside the ship, but the very ship itself. There are plenty of super-strong heroes who have been shown to withstand the full blast of a fusion core explosion, which is equivalent to a nuclear explosion.

But how many are able to contain the explosion itself? Furthermore, this all happened while Iceman was busy getting some action. Naturally, instead of breaking up the kiss temporarily to move to a safer location, he turned the very explosion itself into ice.

To put that in perspective, this wasn't even something Iceman had to struggle to do. The dude can contain the energy of an entire nuclear bomb while tongue wrestling with Mystique. If you think of Juggernaut as just another super-strong guy, you haven't been paying attention to the comics. The Juggernaut is a magical being, who has been granted the ability to gain unstoppable momentum with each step until not even the enchanted hammer of Thor can stop him in his tracks.

Iceman managed to accomplish this feat during one of the X-Men's many encounters with the unstoppable entity. Granted, the Juggernaut was not in his top form at the time, but it was still one of the very rare times that any being had been able to take him out mid-stride. The Pheonix is a cosmic level entity and one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel universe. While usually linked to Jean Grey, the Pheonix Force has occasionally found a host in other humans.

Like the time it combined with Cyclops and became an even more unstoppable entity. The usually laid-back Iceman had to go all out to battle this version of the Pheonix. The process won't necessarily be painless, as Emma Frost found the experience agonizing, but to be fair she was unwittingly attempting to revert to some sort of quasi-human shape, meaning her very bones were attempting to reknit themselves. Furthermore, there's no reason to suppose it couldn't become easier with repetition.

Iceman is one of the most powerful mutants on the planet, and his ice-powers essentially mean he can manipulate the entire world's atmosphere. But Uncanny X-Men reveals there is another element of his powers, one that has never been explored since; he has the potential to be a shapeshifter as well.

It will be fascinating to see if any X-Men writers toy with the idea further down the line. Tom Bacon is one of Screen Rant's staff writers, as well as a Peer Mentor for new writers and a member of the Care Team, offering support and a listening ear to members of the Comics group. A lifelong fan of major franchises including Star Wars, Doctor Who, and Marvel, Tom is delighted his childhood is back - and this time it's cool.

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