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** Levistus, an [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils archdevil]] who rules over the [[CirclesOfHell fifth layer]] of the [[{{Hell}} Nine Hells]] known as Stygia, is magically encased in a giant iceberg within his own domain as punishment for [[TheStarscream attempting to overthrow]] [[SatanicArchetype Asmodeus]] and take over the Hells long time ago. Even in his frozen state, Levistus is still able to conduct his infernal duties through his networks of spies and servants in the courts of other archdevils, hoarding mortal souls and scheming behind the backs of his fellow archdevils with the long-term goal of destroying his rivals and usurp Asmodeus as the ruler of devilkind.
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** Levistus, an [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils archdevil]] who rules over the [[CirclesOfHell fifth layer]] of the [[{{Hell}} Nine Hells]] known as Stygia, is magically encased in the creatively named Tomb of Levistus, a giant giant, indestructible iceberg within his own domain domain, as punishment for [[TheStarscream attempting to overthrow]] [[SatanicArchetype Asmodeus]] and take over the Hells a long time ago. Even in In a twisted bit of political chess on [[TheChessmaster Asmodeus']] part this actually serves to eliminate two of his frozen state, greatest enemies at once: although Levistus is still able to conduct his infernal duties through his networks of spies and servants trapped in the courts of other archdevils, hoarding mortal souls and scheming behind the backs of his fellow archdevils with the long-term goal of destroying his rivals and usurp Asmodeus as ice, he is still technically the ruler of devilkind.Stygia, conducting his business telepathically or via minions, which prevents another scheming Archdevil, Geryon, from seizing the layer for himself and also going after Asmodeus as he can't harm Levistus as long as he is stuck behind the ice.
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** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'': Goht, the boss of the Snowhead Temple, is found frozen solid by Link and needs to be defrosted before being fought.
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** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'': Goht, the boss of the Snowhead Temple, is found frozen solid by when Link enters his boss chamber, and needs to be defrosted before being fought.
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* ''VideoGame/SubnauticaBelowZero'' has two monsters in one: much of the plot revolves around an enormous frozen Leviathan which happens to be carrying an ancient form of the Kharaa virus.
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* ''Anime/MonsterRancher'': Moo's original body has been preserved this way. [[spoiler:Same goes for the Phoenix.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': In "[[Recap/YoungJusticeS1E8Downtime Downtime]]", a glacier holding [[Characters/YoungJustice2010OtherVillains Starro the Conqueror]] is excavated by the Atlanteans. During a fight involving Black Manta who covets the contents, Starro's preserved arm is broken free, but the glacier and most of the creature are promptly blown to kingdom come. It's revealed in later episodes that Starro was alive enough for the Light to create MindControl chips from its surviving tissue.
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* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': In "[[Recap/YoungJusticeS1E8Downtime Downtime]]", a glacier holding [[Characters/YoungJustice2010OtherVillains Starro the Conqueror]] is excavated by the Atlanteans. During a fight involving Black Manta who covets the contents, Starro's preserved arm is broken free, but the glacier and most of the creature are promptly blown to kingdom come. It's revealed in later episodes that Starro was alive enough for the Light to create MindControl chips from its surviving tissue.
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* ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'' has Galdon, the boss of [=DarkIce=] Mines, who is frozen when you first enter his arena until you have Tricky thaw him out. It's explained in the original ''[[VideoGame/DinosaurPlanetRare Dinosaur Planet]]'' that Garunda Te froze him a few years before the events of the game using a waterfall.
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* ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'' has Galdon, the boss of [=DarkIce=] Mines, who is frozen when you first enter his arena until you have Tricky thaw him out.out with his Flame command. It's explained in the original ''[[VideoGame/DinosaurPlanetRare Dinosaur Planet]]'' that Garunda Te froze him a few years before the events of the game using a waterfall.
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* ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'' has Galdon, the boss of [=DarkIce=] Mines, who is frozen when you first enter his arena until you have Tricky thaw him out. It's explained in the original ''[[VideoGame/DinosaurPlanetRare Dinosaur Planet]]'' that Gerunda Garunda Te froze him a few years before the events of the game using a waterfall.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Father Llymic is an entity from the Far Realms that was sealed within a magical prison of ice, which freezes under the sun and melts in the darkness. As long as the sun keeps shining in the sky, Father Llymic remains trapped. Should his influence spread far enough to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds, though, he will break free and end the world.
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** Father Llymic is an entity from the Far Realms that was sealed within a magical prison of ice, which freezes under the sun and melts in the darkness. As long as the sun keeps shining in the sky, Father Llymic remains trapped. Should his influence spread far enough to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds, though, he will break free and end theworld.world.
** Levistus, an [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils archdevil]] who rules over the [[CirclesOfHell fifth layer]] of the [[{{Hell}} Nine Hells]] known as Stygia, is magically encased in a giant iceberg within his own domain as punishment for [[TheStarscream attempting to overthrow]] [[SatanicArchetype Asmodeus]] and take over the Hells long time ago. Even in his frozen state, Levistus is still able to conduct his infernal duties through his networks of spies and servants in the courts of other archdevils, hoarding mortal souls and scheming behind the backs of his fellow archdevils with the long-term goal of destroying his rivals and usurp Asmodeus as the ruler of devilkind.
** Father Llymic is an entity from the Far Realms that was sealed within a magical prison of ice, which freezes under the sun and melts in the darkness. As long as the sun keeps shining in the sky, Father Llymic remains trapped. Should his influence spread far enough to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds, though, he will break free and end the
** Levistus, an [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils archdevil]] who rules over the [[CirclesOfHell fifth layer]] of the [[{{Hell}} Nine Hells]] known as Stygia, is magically encased in a giant iceberg within his own domain as punishment for [[TheStarscream attempting to overthrow]] [[SatanicArchetype Asmodeus]] and take over the Hells long time ago. Even in his frozen state, Levistus is still able to conduct his infernal duties through his networks of spies and servants in the courts of other archdevils, hoarding mortal souls and scheming behind the backs of his fellow archdevils with the long-term goal of destroying his rivals and usurp Asmodeus as the ruler of devilkind.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheWorldOfDavidTheGnome'': One episode has David visit a civilization of gnomes in the Arctic. One of their primary jobs is harvesting leather from the skin of a frozen mammoth.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The corpse of the evil giant Oars was found frozen on the Kand of Ice after he had died of the cold from wearing nothing but a {{Loincloth}}. Gecko Moriah would use this body for what he dubbed Special Zombie #900.
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* ''Manga/FairyTail'': In the Sub-Zero Emperor Lyon Arc, Natsu's team travels to an island where a demon named [[SealedEvilInACan Deliora]] has been frozen in magical ice that can only be melted by a spell that takes three years to prepare, which unfortunately is soon after they arrive. [[spoiler:The spell succeeds, but fortunately, the magic ice had been sapping away at the demon's energy for seven years at that point, so all it can do when it's freed is take its last breath.]]
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* ''Manga/FairyTail'': In the Sub-Zero Emperor Lyon Arc, Natsu's team travels to an island where a demon named [[SealedEvilInACan Deliora]] has been hidden after being frozen in magical ice that can only can't be broken or melted except by a spell that takes three years to prepare, which unfortunately is prepare. Unfortunately, the spell set to be completed soon after they arrive. [[spoiler:The spell succeeds, but fortunately, succeeds but, thankfully, the magic ice had been sapping away at the demon's energy for seven years at that point, so all it he can do when it's he's freed is take its his last breath.breath before being ReducedToDust.]]
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* ''Manga/FairyTail'': In the Sub-Zero Emperor Lyon Arc, Natsu's team travels to an island where a demon named [[SealedEvilInACan Deliora]] has been frozen in magical ice that can only be melted by a spell that takes three years to prepare, which unfortunately is soon after they arrive. [[spoiler:The spell succeeds, but fortunately, the magic ice had been sapping away at the demon's energy for seven years at that point, so all it can do when it's freed is take its last breath.]]
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* ''Manga/FairyTail'': In the Sub-Zero Emperor Lyon Arc, Natsu's team travels to an island where a demon named [[SealedEvilInACan Deliora]] has been frozen in magical ice that can only be melted by a spell that takes three years to prepare, which unfortunately is soon after they arrive. [[spoiler:The spell succeeds, but fortunately, the magic ice had been sapping away at the demon's energy for seven years at that point, so all it can do when it's freed is take its last breath.]]
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* ''Film/TheThing1982'': At the start of the film, a FlyingSaucer which is carrying the Thing crash-lands in the Antarctic, leaving the Thing frozen in the ice for more than 100,000 years, per Norris' estimation. It's then dug out of the ice by the Norwegian expedition, and subsequently encountered by the Americans when the last Norwegians try to kill the dog-Thing.
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* ''Film/TheThing1982'': At the start of the film, a FlyingSaucer which is carrying the Thing crash-lands in the Antarctic, leaving the Thing frozen in the ice for more than 100,000 years, per Norris' estimation. It's then dug out of the ice by the Norwegian expedition, expedition (depicted in [[Film/TheThing2011 the 2011 prequel]]), and subsequently encountered by the Americans when the last Norwegians try to kill the dog-Thing.
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* ''Film/TheTomorrowWar'': [[spoiler:The Whitespikes are these, with the ship carrying them having crashed in Siberia during medieval times and subsequently remaining in the ice until human-caused climate change freed them, whereupon they decimate humanity. The present-day protagonists are ultimately able to locate and destroy them, preventing this from happening.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': In the PilotMovie "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E1TreasureOfTheGoldenSuns Treasures of the Golden Suns]]", while exploring a penguin civilization in Antarctica, Mrs. Beakley and her granddaughter come across a giant "prehistoric woolly walrus" frozen in ice. Later, when Scrooge McDuck and the nephews free themselves from the penguins' prison with a tuning fork, the [[GlassShatteringSound shattering noise from the fork]] also frees the walrus.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': In the PilotMovie "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E1TreasureOfTheGoldenSuns Treasures of the Golden Suns]]", while exploring a penguin civilization in Antarctica, Mrs. Beakley and her granddaughter come across a giant "prehistoric woolly walrus" frozen in ice. Later, when Scrooge McDuck [=McDuck=] and the nephews free themselves from the penguins' prison with a tuning fork, the [[GlassShatteringSound shattering noise from the fork]] also frees the walrus.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'': In one episode, the dragon of the week is a [[ShockAndAwe Skrill]] found frozen in an iceberg - and unlike most other dragons in the franchise, that thing CANNOT be tamed. Unlike all the other dragons who are portrayed as quirky and highly intelligent animals, the Skrill is near demonic in how relentless it is in its assault, and how incredible its lightning BreathWeapon is. In the end, the only option Hiccup and Toothless had was to freeze it in an iceberg ''again''.
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* ''Podcast/FriendsAtTheTable'': The ultimate evil of the [[RealRobotGenre COUNTER/Weight]] series is Rigour, an ancient MechanicalAbomination by way of a HumongousMecha that a MegaCorp unwittingly excavated from the frozen planet of Ionias, having laid entombed in ice for thousands of years following the ''last'' time galactic civilization attempted to kill it. As soon as it?s free, it picks up right where it left off in trying to [[WorldOfSilence enslave the galaxy.]]
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* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'': During the Carnen questline, [[NatureSpirit Carnen]], Talion and Celembrimbor come across a group of Orc acolytes who were sent by Sauron to enlist the aid of Tar-Goroth, a Balrog that had been recently reawakened by Talion and Celebrimbor?s forging of the New Ring. Tar-Goroth had other ideas, and rampaged across Mordor until Talion, Celebrimbor, Carnen caught up to him. After battling with the giant fire demon, Carnen uses the last of her life force to seal Tar-Goroth away underneath the icy surface of a frozen lake, effectively killing him. One of the surviving Orc acolytes later tries to resurrect him again, but fortunately Celebrimbor and Talion slay the Orc before he could do it, leaving Tar-Goroth to remain frozen forever.
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* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'': During the Carnen questline, [[NatureSpirit Carnen]], Talion and Celembrimbor come across a group of Orc acolytes who were sent by Sauron to enlist the aid of Tar-Goroth, a Balrog that had been recently reawakened by Talion and Celebrimbor?s Celebrimbor's forging of the New Ring. Tar-Goroth had has other ideas, and rampaged rampages across Mordor until Talion, Celebrimbor, Celebrimbor and Carnen caught catch up to him. After battling with the giant fire demon, Carnen uses the last of her life force to seal Tar-Goroth away underneath the icy surface of a frozen lake, effectively killing him. lake. One of the surviving Orc acolytes later tries to resurrect him again, but fortunately Celebrimbor and Talion slay the Orc before he could can do it, leaving Tar-Goroth to remain frozen forever.
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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E08Ice Ice]]" revolves around an scientific expedition to Alaska who discover strange worm-like organisms frozen in the ice covering an ancient impact crater. [[spoiler:The worms infect the scientists, mind-control them, and make them kill each other,]] and Mulder believes them to be of extraterrestrial origin.
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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E08Ice Ice]]" revolves around an a scientific expedition to Alaska who discover strange worm-like organisms frozen in the ice covering an ancient impact crater. [[spoiler:The worms infect the scientists, mind-control them, and make them kill each other,]] and Mulder believes them to be of extraterrestrial origin.
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** ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': Godzilla emerges from a radioactive iceberg he'd been trapped in during the previous movie.
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* ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'': The title monster, the rhedosaurus, was frozen in Arctic ice since the early Cretaceous and is thawed out by nuclear testing.
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* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': In "[[Recap/YoungJusticeS1E8Downtime Downtime]]", a glacier holding [[spoiler:[[Characters/YoungJustice2010OtherVillains Starro the Conqueror]]]] is excavated by the Atlanteans. During a fight involving Black Manta who covets the contents, [[spoiler:Starro]]'s preserved arm is broken free, but the glacier and most of the creature are promptly blown to kingdom come. It's revealed in later episodes that [[spoiler:Starro]] was alive enough for the Light to [[spoiler:create MindControl chips]] from its surviving tissue.
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* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': In "[[Recap/YoungJusticeS1E8Downtime Downtime]]", a glacier holding [[spoiler:[[Characters/YoungJustice2010OtherVillains [[Characters/YoungJustice2010OtherVillains Starro the Conqueror]]]] Conqueror]] is excavated by the Atlanteans. During a fight involving Black Manta who covets the contents, [[spoiler:Starro]]'s Starro's preserved arm is broken free, but the glacier and most of the creature are promptly blown to kingdom come. It's revealed in later episodes that [[spoiler:Starro]] Starro was alive enough for the Light to [[spoiler:create create MindControl chips]] chips from its surviving tissue.
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** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons'': In ''The Arctic Giant'', a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is thawed out of a block of ice and goes on a rampage. Of course, this being the 40s, it looks more like Franchise/{{Godzilla}} than an actual ''T. rex''.
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** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons'': In ''The Arctic Giant'', a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is thawed out of a block of ice and goes on a rampage. Of course, this being the 40s, it looks more like Franchise/{{Godzilla}} than an actual ''T. rex''. Though it averts being a {{Notzilla}} by predating the {{Kaiju}} by 14 years, making for a case of OlderThanTheyThink.
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In more fantastical sorts of settings, when traveling through or across glaciers or icebergs, one may see vast, dim shadows deep in the ice. They may be vague and obscure at first -- a vast curve here, a sharp edge there -- but on closer inspection the image soon resolves itself into the shape of a vast monster, entombed in ice like a bug in amber.
In some instances, the things in the ice remain inert set pieces. In this case, they typically serve to illustrate the timeless, ancient nature of the place they are found in, or to give a sense of deep history and of ancient, long-gone things. Other times, however, the Monster in the Ice will break free at some point, miraculously still alive and hungry after hundreds, thousands or millions of years spent frozen, and promptly rampage through the modern world. This is often a direct result of human meddling with the creature's frozen tomb, as people recklessly try to extract it to use for their own purposes or to display as a trophy before realizing they cannot actually control it. This is often also used as part of a GreenAesop when human-caused global warming, or a similar environmental disturbance, is what thaws out and releases a horror that should have stayed safely frozen, in which case it often ends up overlapping with SpaceWhaleAesop.
There is a particular tendency for this to be applied to primordial creatures, especially dinosaurs and similar beings, as a way to explain how a given monster endured into the present day. In these cases, this typically overlaps with FossilRevival. Note here that the Earth was entirely free of permanent glaciers or arctic ice until well after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs.
How these things got ''into'' the ice in the first place will rarely be explained in detail, as it would require them to remain still for long enough for a considerable mass of ice to gather and form around them. This may be explained through the creature having been frozen mid-hibernation or similar, but may result in puzzling situations when a creature is shown frozen mid-movement or in an active pose. In some cases, [[SealedEvilInACan the creature may have been artificially sealed in the ice to keep it safely canned away from the world]].
When the Monster in the Ice is still alive, this will almost certainly be a case of HarmlessFreezing. See also HumanPopsicle for when people try to replicate this effect as a form of one-way time travel and CryoPrison for when this is used as a way to imprison criminals. Often overlaps with SealedEvilInACan and DugTooDeep or, if the monster in question is revealed to be GoodAllAlong in a plot twist, a story's BigGood, or a NonMaliciousMonster, with SealedGoodInACan. May be revealed by a GiantEyeOfDoom if the characters discover the creature by accident.
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* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': In one story, Uncle Scrooge starts melting tunnels through the Antarctic glaciers to find new mineral deposits beneath them. As he and his nephews explore the new tunnel system, they find a variety of Mesozoic creatures sealed in the ice, ranging from fern leaves to fishes to entire dinosaurs.
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* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'':
** In the first movie, while crossing a network of tunnels through a glacier, the characters come across a variety of bizarre creatures frozen in the ice, including a series of sloth ancestors leading up to Sid's species, a giant fish, a carnivorous dinosaur caught mid-charge and an alien flying saucer.
** ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'': The film's villains, Maelstrom and Cretaceous, are a pair of Mesozoic sea monsters that were sealed in ice for ages, only to be released as the Ice Age's glaciers begin to melt.
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* ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'': The title monster, the rhedosaurus, was frozen in Arctic ice since the early Cretaceous and is thawed out by nuclear testing.
* ''Film/{{Eternals}}'': The titular Eternals are immortal aliens who've been on earth since the dawn of human civilization, tasked to defeat monstrous Deviants. They were under the impression that they defeated the last of Earth's Deviants about five hundred years ago, so they're surprised when new ones turn up in the present day. It's later revealed that these "new" Deviants were frozen in ice in Alaska for millennia and were thawed out due to glacial melting.
* ''Film/GiantMonsterGamera'': Ripping directly from ''The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms'', Gamera is awakened by an accidental atomic detonation in the Arctic, freeing him from the ice.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':
** At the end of ''Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain'', Godzilla is buried in a snowy avalanche, and this [[BroadStrokes partly]] carries over into the next film, ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'', which is set several years later and begins with Godzilla accidentally being released from inside an iceberg.
** ''Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack'': After being defeated in ancient times, the {{Orochi}} was lain to rest in an ice cave near Mount Fuji to reincarnate as a [[BenevolentMonsters good monster]] next time. When Godzilla threatens Japan in the present day, he's awakened prematurely as the three-headed monster Ghidorah to fight him.
** ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'': In the prologue, Godzilla is defeated by the Gotengo trapping him inside an Antarctic glacier. Fifty years later, an AlienInvasion with an army of {{kaiju}} threatens the Earth and the humans [[SummonBiggerFish decide to release]] Godzilla from his frozen dormancy to fight back.
** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': King Ghidorah was frozen in the Antarctic glaciers for eons, before being awakened and unleashed by ecoterrorists.
** ''Film/KingKongVersusGodzilla'': Godzilla emerges from a radioactive iceberg he'd been trapped in during the previous movie.
* ''Film/RareExportsAChristmasTale'': In prehistoric times, Lapland was ruled the evil Santa Claus (here portrayed as a huge, demonic {{Santabomination}}). The Sámi defeated Santa by tricking him onto a lake covered in thin ice, where he fell into the frigid water and ended up frozen solid. They later pulled the ice block out of the lake, covered it in saw dust to stop it from melting, and buried it beneath a mountain to prevent him from ever escaping. However, in the present day, Santa's elves are trying to free Santa from his icy prison. [[spoiler:Unlike most examples of this trope, Santa never manages to escape.]]
* ''Film/{{Reptilicus}}'': The titular monster is discovered frozen in the permafrost of Lapland. A chunk of its tail is dug up, transferred to an aquarium in Copenhagen, and placed in refrigerated storage for study. Of course, mishandling allows the tail to thaw out and it resumes cellular activity, eventually regenerating into a full-blown {{kaiju}} that goes on a rampage.
* ''Film/TheSuperInframan'': The monsters have been hibernating in an ice cave for ten million years since the ice age ended, until the monster monarch, Princess Dragon Mom, arrives on earth to conquer the planet and awakens the monsters to be her servants.
* ''Film/TheThing1982'': At the start of the film, a FlyingSaucer which is carrying the Thing crash-lands in the Antarctic, leaving the Thing frozen in the ice for more than 100,000 years, per Norris' estimation. It's then dug out of the ice by the Norwegian expedition, and subsequently encountered by the Americans when the last Norwegians try to kill the dog-Thing.
* ''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld'': Arctic scientists discover a flying saucer buried beneath the ice, but accidentally destroy it with thermite trying to dig it out. They manage to retrieve the frozen alien inside, but it accidentally gets thawed out when a superstitious watchman covers it with a blanket, not realizing that it's an electric blanket that's plugged in. With the ice melted, the alien immediately revives and escapes.
* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': [[Characters/TransformersFilmSeriesDecepticons Megatron]] was discovered by Archibald Witwicky in the Antarctic ice, where he'd been frozen for thousands of years. He was removed from the ice cave and transported to [[spoiler:Hoover Dam]], where Sector 7 has been keeping him frozen up to the present day, until [[spoiler:Frenzy]] thaws him out.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Recap/AsterixAndTheGriffin'': A Roman expedition sent to find the griffin for Caesar's menagerie discovers it in Sarmatia (modern-day Ukraine), where the locals revere it. But instead of the eagle-lion hybrid they were expecting, they instead discover it's [[spoiler:a ''Styracosaurus'']] frozen deep beneath a lake (so deep that only its silhouette is visible). The Romans are furious with the shaman they forced to guide them, as so ridiculous-looking a creature can't be brought to Caesar.
* ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'': "Cold Water Survival" by Holly Phillips has a group of adventurers setting up a base on an iceberg that's split off from Antarctica realize that various {{Eldritch Abomination}}s frozen in the ice are slowly thawing out as the berg travels into warmer regions.
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': One book has Greg admit the idea of thawing prehistoric creatures is cool, but that there are some things that should ''stay'' frozen. His illustration depicts a cruise ship passing by a large iceberg and being surprised at the sight of [[PrehistoricMonster a mammoth-dragon hybrid creature]] frozen inside ice [[OhCrap that is cracking]].
* ''Literature/WorldWarZ'': Zombies can be frozen without killing them, so even though almost all of the Zombies were killed, people living in arctic places still face the risk of thawed-out zombies attacking during spring.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' often uses this trope in regards to creatures from Mars. Two out of three Martian villains, the Ice Warriors and [[TheVirus the]] [[MurderWater Flood]], have been sealed in ice and break free at some point. The latter breaking free ends with the base it's in exploding to keep it from spreading to Earth.
* ''Series/HouseOfFrankenstein'': Frankenstein's monster is found frozen inside an ice block found in the Arctic and brought as an exhibit to Grimes's nightclub, where naturally he escapes and havoc ensues (especially when it turns out Grimes is a vampire).
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': At the start of "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIEpideme Epideme]]", the crew finds an abandoned ship in the middle of an astro-glacier, with one of the dead bodies contained within being completely encased in ice. As it turns out, said ice block contains a corpse that is reanimated by an AffablyEvil sentient virus contained within that freezes its victims when there is no one else to infect. Said corpse proceeds to infect Lister, leading to the crew trying to save his life before the virus kills him.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E08Ice Ice]]" revolves around an scientific expedition to Alaska who discover strange worm-like organisms frozen in the ice covering an ancient impact crater. [[spoiler:The worms infect the scientists, mind-control them, and make them kill each other,]] and Mulder believes them to be of extraterrestrial origin.
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[[folder:Organized Wrestling]]
* ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'': One of the most infamous moments in wrestling history involved a block of ice carved "from the north face of Kilimanjaro", containing a huge wrestler called the Yeti. When he finally came breaking out of the ice, the Yeti looked more like a BandageMummy and attacked Wrestling/HulkHogan in a stiff manner that looked like Yeti was humping him.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Father Llymic is an entity from the Far Realms that was sealed within a magical prison of ice, which freezes under the sun and melts in the darkness. As long as the sun keeps shining in the sky, Father Llymic remains trapped. Should his influence spread far enough to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds, though, he will break free and end the world.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
** Marit Lage is an immensely powerful EldritchAbomination that rampaged through Dominaria in the ancient past, before being sealed in the heart of the Ronom Glacier. The card [[https://scryfall.com/card/uma/241/dark-depths Dark Depths]] represents her icy seal, and after certain conditions are met -- i.e. the costly "unsealing" process of removing ten ice counters from it -- Marit Lage herself enters the field of play.
** [[https://scryfall.com/card/soi/92/thing-in-the-ice-awoken-horror Thing in the Ice]] depicts a ship towing an iceberg into port with an immense monster frozen within. The card comes into play with four counters on it, with one being removed any time the player uses magic; when all counters are removed, the monster breaks free and reveals itself as a monstrous, destructive kraken.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': The ''Storm of Magic'' supplement mentions that Carnosaurs, immense dinosaurian monsters that once roamed the world but which are now largely restricted to the jungles of Lustria and the Southlands, are occasionally found frozen in glaciers as far north as Naggaroth and Norsca, entombed there since the earliest ages of the world.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Old One Eye is a powerful Tyranid monster that was believed dead after being shot in the eye, but was later found frozen in a glacier and went on a new rampage after being dug out. It eventually went missing again, but its body is rumored to have become once again entombed in ice on a different world where it is worshipped by a Genestealer cult.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'': In the level "Blurry Flurry", the Mega Squeekly enemy from the previous game can be seen in the background encased in a giant block of ice.
* ''VideoGame/FlightRising'': This is part of the Ice Flight's motif. They use icebergs as frozen prisons for creatures influenced by [[TheCorruption the Shade]].
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'': Goht, the boss of the Snowhead Temple, is found frozen solid by Link and needs to be defrosted before being fought.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Icy mountain areas contain large chunks of ice scattered about the landscape, often blocking off passages and roads unless Link melts them with fire arrows or fire-infused weapons. However, many of them also contain monsters frozen within them, visible as dim outlines from the outside, and if the block holding them is melted through they will break free and attack.
* ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'': Several follower cards play into this trope.
** The Ancient Yeti is partially trapped in a glacier with only its head able to move around. Every round, the cost of the card decreases by one, showing that the ice is slowly losing hold of the massive creature.
** Frostguard Thralls are trolls transformed by Lissandra the Ice Witch into mind-controlled soldiers, which she then reserves inside blocks of ice for when they're needed. Instead of being summoned like regular units, Thralls are played as landmarks (Frozen Thralls), and every round a timer depletes to signal that the ice around them is thawing, allowing them to finally enter battle after eight rounds. Several cards can speed up this timer, including Countdown skills and the Draklorn Inquisitor who lets the thralls be summoned after only ''four'' rounds instead.
* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'': During the Carnen questline, [[NatureSpirit Carnen]], Talion and Celembrimbor come across a group of Orc acolytes who were sent by Sauron to enlist the aid of Tar-Goroth, a Balrog that had been recently reawakened by Talion and Celebrimbor?s forging of the New Ring. Tar-Goroth had other ideas, and rampaged across Mordor until Talion, Celebrimbor, Carnen caught up to him. After battling with the giant fire demon, Carnen uses the last of her life force to seal Tar-Goroth away underneath the icy surface of a frozen lake, effectively killing him. One of the surviving Orc acolytes later tries to resurrect him again, but fortunately Celebrimbor and Talion slay the Orc before he could do it, leaving Tar-Goroth to remain frozen forever.
* ''VideoGame/Persona2'': Combined with HumanPopsicle and SealedEvilInACan, there is [[spoiler:a group of evil aliens frozen beneath Xibalba. Upon entering the room, Maya Okamura unfreezes them and they immediately attack your party.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'': Between the three major story missions, the player is flung into a frozen dreamworld where a mysterious voice whispers to you with offers of rewards in exchange for your allegiance; it's not until the end of the main story that this realm is revealed to be Antarctica, where a [[CosmicKeystone Gaia Engine]] has been buried deep beneath the ice... and each engine contains one of [[EldritchAbomination the Dreamers]], essentially serving as [[SealedEvilInACan a prison to contain its powers]] and [[EvilTakesANap a music box to keep it asleep]]. In Issue 12, it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Antarctic Gaia Engine has been dug up and transported to Tokyo, where it is now hidden deep beneath Orochi Tower]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Syberia}}'': There are rumors that there are frozen mammoth remains under the arctic ice, and a native tribe, the youkols, are still living off the meat, skin, and ivory of these remains. In the second game, it's revealed that [[spoiler:these mammoths are still alive]].
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/BloodIsMine'': The purpose of [[Area51 Zone Fifty]] Bunker B is to [[spoiler:contain the EldritchAbomination that awoke FromASingleCell in a failed government experiment, now frozen and cut into multiple blocks of ice as an extra precaution]]. That happened over a century ago and the structure still stands there with the frozen creature inside when the protagonists stumble onto it.
* ''Webcomic/ParadoxSpace'': In "Night at the [=100DSEUM=]", the crowning piece of Equius' collection is [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti the Sweati]], a gigantic yeti-like creature frozen in a block of its own sweat, which he found sealed inside a glacier during a mountain expedition and brought back home after digging it out. [[spoiler:It's set free when Terezi, driven past her breaking point by a night spent tasting nothing but sweat, starts furiously hacking at it and accidentally shatters the ice.]]
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''Podcast/FriendsAtTheTable'': The ultimate evil of the [[RealRobotGenre COUNTER/Weight]] series is Rigour, an ancient MechanicalAbomination by way of a HumongousMecha that a MegaCorp unwittingly excavated from the frozen planet of Ionias, having laid entombed in ice for thousands of years following the ''last'' time galactic civilization attempted to kill it. As soon as it?s free, it picks up right where it left off in trying to [[WorldOfSilence enslave the galaxy.]]
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'': In one episode, the dragon of the week is a [[ShockAndAwe Skrill]] found frozen in an iceberg - and unlike most other dragons in the franchise, that thing CANNOT be tamed. Unlike all the other dragons who are portrayed as quirky and highly intelligent animals, the Skrill is near demonic in how relentless it is in its assault, and how incredible its lightning BreathWeapon is. In the end, the only option Hiccup and Toothless had was to freeze it in an iceberg ''again''.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': In the PilotMovie "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E1TreasureOfTheGoldenSuns Treasures of the Golden Suns]]", while exploring a penguin civilization in Antarctica, Mrs. Beakley and her granddaughter come across a giant "prehistoric woolly walrus" frozen in ice. Later, when Scrooge McDuck and the nephews free themselves from the penguins' prison with a tuning fork, the [[GlassShatteringSound shattering noise from the fork]] also frees the walrus.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': In "Cold Cash and Hot Water", Jim Venkman (Peter's father) finds one of these in Alaska; it turns out to be Hob Anagarak, a very powerful demon [[SealedEvilInACan encased in a block of black ice]]. The black ice can't be melted except with the use of special magic spells.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'': In the Season 1 finale, the gigantic cryptid thought to be Kur [[spoiler:(actually a RedHerring)]] is discovered frozen in the Antarctic ice along with its symbiont cryptids, awakening and breaking free thanks to Argost's efforts.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': In "Prehistoric Pterodactyls", after millions of years frozen in Arctic ice, two pterodactyls are freed and immediately go on a rampage.
** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons'': In ''The Arctic Giant'', a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is thawed out of a block of ice and goes on a rampage. Of course, this being the 40s, it looks more like Franchise/{{Godzilla}} than an actual ''T. rex''.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': In "[[Recap/YoungJusticeS1E8Downtime Downtime]]", a glacier holding [[spoiler:[[Characters/YoungJustice2010OtherVillains Starro the Conqueror]]]] is excavated by the Atlanteans. During a fight involving Black Manta who covets the contents, [[spoiler:Starro]]'s preserved arm is broken free, but the glacier and most of the creature are promptly blown to kingdom come. It's revealed in later episodes that [[spoiler:Starro]] was alive enough for the Light to [[spoiler:create MindControl chips]] from its surviving tissue.
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In more fantastical sorts of settings, when traveling through or across glaciers or icebergs, one may see vast, dim shadows deep in the ice. They may be vague and obscure at first -- a vast curve here, a sharp edge there -- but on closer inspection the image soon resolves itself into the shape of a vast monster, entombed in ice like a bug in amber.
In some instances, the things in the ice remain inert set pieces. In this case, they typically serve to illustrate the timeless, ancient nature of the place they are found in, or to give a sense of deep history and of ancient, long-gone things. Other times, however, the Monster in the Ice will break free at some point, miraculously still alive and hungry after hundreds, thousands or millions of years spent frozen, and promptly rampage through the modern world. This is often a direct result of human meddling with the creature's frozen tomb, as people recklessly try to extract it to use for their own purposes or to display as a trophy before realizing they cannot actually control it. This is often also used as part of a GreenAesop when human-caused global warming, or a similar environmental disturbance, is what thaws out and releases a horror that should have stayed safely frozen, in which case it often ends up overlapping with SpaceWhaleAesop.
There is a particular tendency for this to be applied to primordial creatures, especially dinosaurs and similar beings, as a way to explain how a given monster endured into the present day. In these cases, this typically overlaps with FossilRevival. Note here that the Earth was entirely free of permanent glaciers or arctic ice until well after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs.
How these things got ''into'' the ice in the first place will rarely be explained in detail, as it would require them to remain still for long enough for a considerable mass of ice to gather and form around them. This may be explained through the creature having been frozen mid-hibernation or similar, but may result in puzzling situations when a creature is shown frozen mid-movement or in an active pose. In some cases, [[SealedEvilInACan the creature may have been artificially sealed in the ice to keep it safely canned away from the world]].
When the Monster in the Ice is still alive, this will almost certainly be a case of HarmlessFreezing. See also HumanPopsicle for when people try to replicate this effect as a form of one-way time travel and CryoPrison for when this is used as a way to imprison criminals. Often overlaps with SealedEvilInACan and DugTooDeep or, if the monster in question is revealed to be GoodAllAlong in a plot twist, a story's BigGood, or a NonMaliciousMonster, with SealedGoodInACan. May be revealed by a GiantEyeOfDoom if the characters discover the creature by accident.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': In one story, Uncle Scrooge starts melting tunnels through the Antarctic glaciers to find new mineral deposits beneath them. As he and his nephews explore the new tunnel system, they find a variety of Mesozoic creatures sealed in the ice, ranging from fern leaves to fishes to entire dinosaurs.
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'':
** In the first movie, while crossing a network of tunnels through a glacier, the characters come across a variety of bizarre creatures frozen in the ice, including a series of sloth ancestors leading up to Sid's species, a giant fish, a carnivorous dinosaur caught mid-charge and an alien flying saucer.
** ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'': The film's villains, Maelstrom and Cretaceous, are a pair of Mesozoic sea monsters that were sealed in ice for ages, only to be released as the Ice Age's glaciers begin to melt.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'': The title monster, the rhedosaurus, was frozen in Arctic ice since the early Cretaceous and is thawed out by nuclear testing.
* ''Film/{{Eternals}}'': The titular Eternals are immortal aliens who've been on earth since the dawn of human civilization, tasked to defeat monstrous Deviants. They were under the impression that they defeated the last of Earth's Deviants about five hundred years ago, so they're surprised when new ones turn up in the present day. It's later revealed that these "new" Deviants were frozen in ice in Alaska for millennia and were thawed out due to glacial melting.
* ''Film/GiantMonsterGamera'': Ripping directly from ''The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms'', Gamera is awakened by an accidental atomic detonation in the Arctic, freeing him from the ice.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':
** At the end of ''Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain'', Godzilla is buried in a snowy avalanche, and this [[BroadStrokes partly]] carries over into the next film, ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'', which is set several years later and begins with Godzilla accidentally being released from inside an iceberg.
** ''Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack'': After being defeated in ancient times, the {{Orochi}} was lain to rest in an ice cave near Mount Fuji to reincarnate as a [[BenevolentMonsters good monster]] next time. When Godzilla threatens Japan in the present day, he's awakened prematurely as the three-headed monster Ghidorah to fight him.
** ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'': In the prologue, Godzilla is defeated by the Gotengo trapping him inside an Antarctic glacier. Fifty years later, an AlienInvasion with an army of {{kaiju}} threatens the Earth and the humans [[SummonBiggerFish decide to release]] Godzilla from his frozen dormancy to fight back.
** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': King Ghidorah was frozen in the Antarctic glaciers for eons, before being awakened and unleashed by ecoterrorists.
** ''Film/KingKongVersusGodzilla'': Godzilla emerges from a radioactive iceberg he'd been trapped in during the previous movie.
* ''Film/RareExportsAChristmasTale'': In prehistoric times, Lapland was ruled the evil Santa Claus (here portrayed as a huge, demonic {{Santabomination}}). The Sámi defeated Santa by tricking him onto a lake covered in thin ice, where he fell into the frigid water and ended up frozen solid. They later pulled the ice block out of the lake, covered it in saw dust to stop it from melting, and buried it beneath a mountain to prevent him from ever escaping. However, in the present day, Santa's elves are trying to free Santa from his icy prison. [[spoiler:Unlike most examples of this trope, Santa never manages to escape.]]
* ''Film/{{Reptilicus}}'': The titular monster is discovered frozen in the permafrost of Lapland. A chunk of its tail is dug up, transferred to an aquarium in Copenhagen, and placed in refrigerated storage for study. Of course, mishandling allows the tail to thaw out and it resumes cellular activity, eventually regenerating into a full-blown {{kaiju}} that goes on a rampage.
* ''Film/TheSuperInframan'': The monsters have been hibernating in an ice cave for ten million years since the ice age ended, until the monster monarch, Princess Dragon Mom, arrives on earth to conquer the planet and awakens the monsters to be her servants.
* ''Film/TheThing1982'': At the start of the film, a FlyingSaucer which is carrying the Thing crash-lands in the Antarctic, leaving the Thing frozen in the ice for more than 100,000 years, per Norris' estimation. It's then dug out of the ice by the Norwegian expedition, and subsequently encountered by the Americans when the last Norwegians try to kill the dog-Thing.
* ''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld'': Arctic scientists discover a flying saucer buried beneath the ice, but accidentally destroy it with thermite trying to dig it out. They manage to retrieve the frozen alien inside, but it accidentally gets thawed out when a superstitious watchman covers it with a blanket, not realizing that it's an electric blanket that's plugged in. With the ice melted, the alien immediately revives and escapes.
* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': [[Characters/TransformersFilmSeriesDecepticons Megatron]] was discovered by Archibald Witwicky in the Antarctic ice, where he'd been frozen for thousands of years. He was removed from the ice cave and transported to [[spoiler:Hoover Dam]], where Sector 7 has been keeping him frozen up to the present day, until [[spoiler:Frenzy]] thaws him out.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Recap/AsterixAndTheGriffin'': A Roman expedition sent to find the griffin for Caesar's menagerie discovers it in Sarmatia (modern-day Ukraine), where the locals revere it. But instead of the eagle-lion hybrid they were expecting, they instead discover it's [[spoiler:a ''Styracosaurus'']] frozen deep beneath a lake (so deep that only its silhouette is visible). The Romans are furious with the shaman they forced to guide them, as so ridiculous-looking a creature can't be brought to Caesar.
* ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'': "Cold Water Survival" by Holly Phillips has a group of adventurers setting up a base on an iceberg that's split off from Antarctica realize that various {{Eldritch Abomination}}s frozen in the ice are slowly thawing out as the berg travels into warmer regions.
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': One book has Greg admit the idea of thawing prehistoric creatures is cool, but that there are some things that should ''stay'' frozen. His illustration depicts a cruise ship passing by a large iceberg and being surprised at the sight of [[PrehistoricMonster a mammoth-dragon hybrid creature]] frozen inside ice [[OhCrap that is cracking]].
* ''Literature/WorldWarZ'': Zombies can be frozen without killing them, so even though almost all of the Zombies were killed, people living in arctic places still face the risk of thawed-out zombies attacking during spring.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' often uses this trope in regards to creatures from Mars. Two out of three Martian villains, the Ice Warriors and [[TheVirus the]] [[MurderWater Flood]], have been sealed in ice and break free at some point. The latter breaking free ends with the base it's in exploding to keep it from spreading to Earth.
* ''Series/HouseOfFrankenstein'': Frankenstein's monster is found frozen inside an ice block found in the Arctic and brought as an exhibit to Grimes's nightclub, where naturally he escapes and havoc ensues (especially when it turns out Grimes is a vampire).
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': At the start of "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIEpideme Epideme]]", the crew finds an abandoned ship in the middle of an astro-glacier, with one of the dead bodies contained within being completely encased in ice. As it turns out, said ice block contains a corpse that is reanimated by an AffablyEvil sentient virus contained within that freezes its victims when there is no one else to infect. Said corpse proceeds to infect Lister, leading to the crew trying to save his life before the virus kills him.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E08Ice Ice]]" revolves around an scientific expedition to Alaska who discover strange worm-like organisms frozen in the ice covering an ancient impact crater. [[spoiler:The worms infect the scientists, mind-control them, and make them kill each other,]] and Mulder believes them to be of extraterrestrial origin.
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[[folder:Organized Wrestling]]
* ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'': One of the most infamous moments in wrestling history involved a block of ice carved "from the north face of Kilimanjaro", containing a huge wrestler called the Yeti. When he finally came breaking out of the ice, the Yeti looked more like a BandageMummy and attacked Wrestling/HulkHogan in a stiff manner that looked like Yeti was humping him.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Father Llymic is an entity from the Far Realms that was sealed within a magical prison of ice, which freezes under the sun and melts in the darkness. As long as the sun keeps shining in the sky, Father Llymic remains trapped. Should his influence spread far enough to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds, though, he will break free and end the world.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
** Marit Lage is an immensely powerful EldritchAbomination that rampaged through Dominaria in the ancient past, before being sealed in the heart of the Ronom Glacier. The card [[https://scryfall.com/card/uma/241/dark-depths Dark Depths]] represents her icy seal, and after certain conditions are met -- i.e. the costly "unsealing" process of removing ten ice counters from it -- Marit Lage herself enters the field of play.
** [[https://scryfall.com/card/soi/92/thing-in-the-ice-awoken-horror Thing in the Ice]] depicts a ship towing an iceberg into port with an immense monster frozen within. The card comes into play with four counters on it, with one being removed any time the player uses magic; when all counters are removed, the monster breaks free and reveals itself as a monstrous, destructive kraken.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': The ''Storm of Magic'' supplement mentions that Carnosaurs, immense dinosaurian monsters that once roamed the world but which are now largely restricted to the jungles of Lustria and the Southlands, are occasionally found frozen in glaciers as far north as Naggaroth and Norsca, entombed there since the earliest ages of the world.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Old One Eye is a powerful Tyranid monster that was believed dead after being shot in the eye, but was later found frozen in a glacier and went on a new rampage after being dug out. It eventually went missing again, but its body is rumored to have become once again entombed in ice on a different world where it is worshipped by a Genestealer cult.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'': In the level "Blurry Flurry", the Mega Squeekly enemy from the previous game can be seen in the background encased in a giant block of ice.
* ''VideoGame/FlightRising'': This is part of the Ice Flight's motif. They use icebergs as frozen prisons for creatures influenced by [[TheCorruption the Shade]].
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'': Goht, the boss of the Snowhead Temple, is found frozen solid by Link and needs to be defrosted before being fought.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Icy mountain areas contain large chunks of ice scattered about the landscape, often blocking off passages and roads unless Link melts them with fire arrows or fire-infused weapons. However, many of them also contain monsters frozen within them, visible as dim outlines from the outside, and if the block holding them is melted through they will break free and attack.
* ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'': Several follower cards play into this trope.
** The Ancient Yeti is partially trapped in a glacier with only its head able to move around. Every round, the cost of the card decreases by one, showing that the ice is slowly losing hold of the massive creature.
** Frostguard Thralls are trolls transformed by Lissandra the Ice Witch into mind-controlled soldiers, which she then reserves inside blocks of ice for when they're needed. Instead of being summoned like regular units, Thralls are played as landmarks (Frozen Thralls), and every round a timer depletes to signal that the ice around them is thawing, allowing them to finally enter battle after eight rounds. Several cards can speed up this timer, including Countdown skills and the Draklorn Inquisitor who lets the thralls be summoned after only ''four'' rounds instead.
* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'': During the Carnen questline, [[NatureSpirit Carnen]], Talion and Celembrimbor come across a group of Orc acolytes who were sent by Sauron to enlist the aid of Tar-Goroth, a Balrog that had been recently reawakened by Talion and Celebrimbor?s forging of the New Ring. Tar-Goroth had other ideas, and rampaged across Mordor until Talion, Celebrimbor, Carnen caught up to him. After battling with the giant fire demon, Carnen uses the last of her life force to seal Tar-Goroth away underneath the icy surface of a frozen lake, effectively killing him. One of the surviving Orc acolytes later tries to resurrect him again, but fortunately Celebrimbor and Talion slay the Orc before he could do it, leaving Tar-Goroth to remain frozen forever.
* ''VideoGame/Persona2'': Combined with HumanPopsicle and SealedEvilInACan, there is [[spoiler:a group of evil aliens frozen beneath Xibalba. Upon entering the room, Maya Okamura unfreezes them and they immediately attack your party.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'': Between the three major story missions, the player is flung into a frozen dreamworld where a mysterious voice whispers to you with offers of rewards in exchange for your allegiance; it's not until the end of the main story that this realm is revealed to be Antarctica, where a [[CosmicKeystone Gaia Engine]] has been buried deep beneath the ice... and each engine contains one of [[EldritchAbomination the Dreamers]], essentially serving as [[SealedEvilInACan a prison to contain its powers]] and [[EvilTakesANap a music box to keep it asleep]]. In Issue 12, it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Antarctic Gaia Engine has been dug up and transported to Tokyo, where it is now hidden deep beneath Orochi Tower]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Syberia}}'': There are rumors that there are frozen mammoth remains under the arctic ice, and a native tribe, the youkols, are still living off the meat, skin, and ivory of these remains. In the second game, it's revealed that [[spoiler:these mammoths are still alive]].
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* ''Webcomic/BloodIsMine'': The purpose of [[Area51 Zone Fifty]] Bunker B is to [[spoiler:contain the EldritchAbomination that awoke FromASingleCell in a failed government experiment, now frozen and cut into multiple blocks of ice as an extra precaution]]. That happened over a century ago and the structure still stands there with the frozen creature inside when the protagonists stumble onto it.
* ''Webcomic/ParadoxSpace'': In "Night at the [=100DSEUM=]", the crowning piece of Equius' collection is [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti the Sweati]], a gigantic yeti-like creature frozen in a block of its own sweat, which he found sealed inside a glacier during a mountain expedition and brought back home after digging it out. [[spoiler:It's set free when Terezi, driven past her breaking point by a night spent tasting nothing but sweat, starts furiously hacking at it and accidentally shatters the ice.]]
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* ''Podcast/FriendsAtTheTable'': The ultimate evil of the [[RealRobotGenre COUNTER/Weight]] series is Rigour, an ancient MechanicalAbomination by way of a HumongousMecha that a MegaCorp unwittingly excavated from the frozen planet of Ionias, having laid entombed in ice for thousands of years following the ''last'' time galactic civilization attempted to kill it. As soon as it?s free, it picks up right where it left off in trying to [[WorldOfSilence enslave the galaxy.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'': In one episode, the dragon of the week is a [[ShockAndAwe Skrill]] found frozen in an iceberg - and unlike most other dragons in the franchise, that thing CANNOT be tamed. Unlike all the other dragons who are portrayed as quirky and highly intelligent animals, the Skrill is near demonic in how relentless it is in its assault, and how incredible its lightning BreathWeapon is. In the end, the only option Hiccup and Toothless had was to freeze it in an iceberg ''again''.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': In the PilotMovie "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E1TreasureOfTheGoldenSuns Treasures of the Golden Suns]]", while exploring a penguin civilization in Antarctica, Mrs. Beakley and her granddaughter come across a giant "prehistoric woolly walrus" frozen in ice. Later, when Scrooge McDuck and the nephews free themselves from the penguins' prison with a tuning fork, the [[GlassShatteringSound shattering noise from the fork]] also frees the walrus.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': In "Cold Cash and Hot Water", Jim Venkman (Peter's father) finds one of these in Alaska; it turns out to be Hob Anagarak, a very powerful demon [[SealedEvilInACan encased in a block of black ice]]. The black ice can't be melted except with the use of special magic spells.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'': In the Season 1 finale, the gigantic cryptid thought to be Kur [[spoiler:(actually a RedHerring)]] is discovered frozen in the Antarctic ice along with its symbiont cryptids, awakening and breaking free thanks to Argost's efforts.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': In "Prehistoric Pterodactyls", after millions of years frozen in Arctic ice, two pterodactyls are freed and immediately go on a rampage.
** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons'': In ''The Arctic Giant'', a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is thawed out of a block of ice and goes on a rampage. Of course, this being the 40s, it looks more like Franchise/{{Godzilla}} than an actual ''T. rex''.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': In "[[Recap/YoungJusticeS1E8Downtime Downtime]]", a glacier holding [[spoiler:[[Characters/YoungJustice2010OtherVillains Starro the Conqueror]]]] is excavated by the Atlanteans. During a fight involving Black Manta who covets the contents, [[spoiler:Starro]]'s preserved arm is broken free, but the glacier and most of the creature are promptly blown to kingdom come. It's revealed in later episodes that [[spoiler:Starro]] was alive enough for the Light to [[spoiler:create MindControl chips]] from its surviving tissue.
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