KILLER FROST II
Real Name: Louise Lincoln
Class: Human mutate
Occupation: Criminal, formerly scientist
Group Affiliation: formerly Suicide Squad, The Society
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
First Appearance: (Louise Lincoln) Fury of Firestorm #20 (February, 1984), (Killer Frost II) Fury of Firestorm #34 (April, 1985)
Powers: Frost needed constant replenishments of warmth to survive, and could drain the warmth from a living being through touch. Exposure to cold drained her energy. She could project cold and ice from her body, and could manipulate cold air to allow herself to float.
History: Dr. Lincoln was a scientist who worked with Crystal Frost, who later became Killer Frost I. When Frost was dying she paid a last visit to her friend before her fatal conflict with Firestorm. Lincoln greatly admired her friend, and believed by using an experimental procedure to duplicate her friend's powers Killer Frost would live again. Lincoln became the new Killer Frost, and clashed repeatedly with Firestorm.
(Extreme Justice #14-18) -
(Chase #2, 3) - While in prison Frost was recruited by Amanda Waller for the Suicide Squad. The Squad was supposed to accompany D.E.O. agent Chase to Peru and destroy the remains of the Construct’s Temple. Before reaching the Temple Frost’s teammate Bolt created a jammer to prevent Waller from observing the Squad’s actions, and Copperhead pushed Chase off a cliff. The Squad then met up with Copperhead’s friend Sergei Yurskelyov and were flown off to Russia.
(JLA #59) - Joker Jokerized a number of inmates at the Slab, including Killer Frost. The insane Frost was captured, given an antidote to the Joker Venom, and put in a metahuman holding facility in Death Valley.
(Superman / Batman #3) - Frost and a number of other supervillains attempted to collect the billion dollar bounty President Luthor placed on Superman’s head but failed.
(Superman Secret Files and Origins 2004) - Maxwell Lord, impersonating Sarge Steel, hired Killer Frost, Captain Boomerang, Double Down, and King Shark to break into Belle Reve prison and kill Amanda Waller. The villains were defeated by Superman.
(Firestorm II #8,-10) -Killer Frost’s body started deteriorating, forming ice crystals in her joints. After the original Firestorm died a new one appeared on the scene, her physician Dr. Franks suggested he could help her. She was frustrated that he’d been unable to help her before, and froze Franks to death. Killer Frost decided to trick Firestorm into restoring her powers. She posed as Laura, a suicidal woman with cancer, and begged him to cure her. He resisted, but she pleaded, and he decided to give it a shot, taking a copy of a healthy human matrix and transferring it to her. He was starting to develop a crush on her, but when he unleashed his energy on her she revealed her true identity. The original Firestorm’s ally assisted the new hero in battling her, but her powers had been amped up, and she fought them to a standstill. She looked forward to killing the heroes, but told Firestorm she might let him live if he let her leech his energy anytime she wanted. Frost took a number of hostages, and made Firestorm submit to her, but when he asked what she wanted she told him she just wanted to see him cave in, and killed the hostages. Frost wanted to kill him so he didn’t undue blessing her with his power, and he was forced to merge with Firehawk to upgrade his own power. This awoke a tiny part of the original Firestorm Ron Raymond that was still alive in the matrix, and the three of them attacked Frost as Firestorm, with Ronnie leading the show, dismissing Jason and reminding him who the original hero was. Three people in the Firestorm-Matrix started to burn Firestorm out, and Ronnie began to disintegrate. Jason took over, and undid the cellular repair he did on Frost, but Ronnie disintegrated into nothing, and the matrix broke. Frost was outraged, and her body was in an even more damaged state that when she was rejuvenated, so she attacked Jason with an ice club, but the arrival of the police forced her to flee. Jason was taken to the hospital, where he realized Raymond was still communicating with him.
(Firestorm II #11) - In her debilitated state Frost followed Firestorm to the hospital, and overheard the two minds that made up the Firestorm-Matrix talking to each other. She couldn’t directly go after them, but going through underworld information specialist Calculator, she sold the information that the original Firestorm was alive to his old arch-nemesis Cliff Carmichael.
(Villains United #2) - Frost joined “Lex Luthor’s” Society. Luthor wanted to destroy the Secret Six III, a group of dissident villains that refused to join the Society, so he sent Frost and a number of other Society members to confront the Six aboard the Petrovia, a Russia cargo freighter carrying Thanagarian weapons destined for the Society. The Society defeated the Secret Six and brought them back to Lex Luthor.
(Villains United #3) - Frost was among the Society members assigned to guard the Secret Six while the Crime Doctor tortured them for information about their leader Mockingbird. Frost found the screams of agony from the Crime Doctor’s office to be most relaxing. The Secret Six escaped and defeated Frost and her compatriots, only leaving them alive so they could deliver a message to the leaders of the Society that their days were numbered.
(Green Arrow III #54-56) - The Society blew up Green Arrow’s home, and when he went looking for Dr. Light with Black Lightning the Society set a trap. Light hospitalized the heroic Dr. Light, and when Arrow and Lightning visited her in the hospital they were ambushed by Mirror Master and Killer Frost. The heroes prevailed, with Killer Frost being taken out by Green Arrow’s Greek Fire arrow that burned oncontact with water. The villains revealed that they were only put in place as a distraction so that Dr. Light could target Green Arrow’s loved ones.
(Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special #1) - The Society planned a worldwide prison break to free every incarcerated supervillain, and Killer Frost was one of the Society agents sent to threaten a warden to open the cell doors of his prison on an appointed date.
(Firestorm: The Nuclear Man II #24, 25) - Killer Frost had a new scheme to achieve power, and recruited Mr. Freeze to help her after making him fall in love with her. He told her he was still loyal to his deceased wife, and she promised not to push him. Frost’s tenderness was, of course, just another one of her manipulations. She had Freeze design a jet-box that she intended to attach to her nemesis Firestorm so she could reach the sun, and absorb its energy. Killer Frost started slaughtering people in Manhattan’s upper west side to attract Firestorm’s attention, and when he intervened Freeze waylaid him. Frost seized Firestorm, and used him to fly her to the surface of the sun. She rejoiced that she had no worries, and no need of men, because for the first time since becoming Frost she was warm. She rapidly drained the sun’s energy, but couldn’t care less about the consequences. Firestorm defeated her by slowing the molecules around her until they reached absolute zero. He returned to Earth with her, only to find that Batman had arrived and defeated his foe Freeze. The heroes took away their respective villains, and Freeze promised to wait for Frost, and she responded by calling him a loser.
Comments: Created by Gerry Conway and Rafael Kayanan.
Killer Frost II received a profile in Who's Who: the Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #12.
Killer Frost had cameos in Firestorm II #13, 21.
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