History Main / MonsterInTheIce

* ''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.

* Both the titular monsters from ''Film/MegaSharkVsGiantOctopusFilm/MegaSharkVsGiantOctopus'' were first discovered frozen in a glacier. Inevitably, both monsters thaws out thanks to a stray helicopter crash, and proceeds to go on a rampage.

* ''VideoGame/Warcraft'' the first Lich King, Ner'zhul was this, his [[SealedEvilInACan soul sealed]] into the Frozen Throne and the Helm of Domination. Upon Arthas shattering the ice and becoming the Lich King himself, the Frozen Throne then becomes his actual throne.

* At one point in ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', Kratos and Atreus must work together to break three walls of ice blocking their path. Each one visibly contains a monster to fight, with a Stonebeard among them.

* ''VideoGame/SubnauticaBelowZero'' has two monsters in one: much of the plot revolves around an enormous frozen Leviathan. The Leviathan is very much dead, but it happens to be [[spoiler:carrying an ancient form of the Kharaa bacterium, which is still alive]].

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* ''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.

* ''Series/{{House of Frankenstein|1997}}'': 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/UltramanTowardsTheFuture'' have the Gigasaurus, a prehistoric brontosaurus-like monster discovered in an ice shelf where it was revived by the Gudis virus into going on a rampage.

** 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.

When the Monster in the Ice is still alive, this will almost certainly be a case of HarmlessFreezing, and may also be a source of LivingDinosaurs. 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.

* There have been [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth#Frozen_specimens many cases of mammoths]] found frozen in ice and extremely well preserved. In fact, the word "mammoth" may come from the Estonian "maa mutt", meaning "earth mole", because of how often their half-buried remains were found, and they were thought to be subterranean animals. In recent years, we have found permafrost mummies of many other ice age mammals such as woolly rhinos, bison, horses, wolves, bears, and no less than four cave lion cubs, and paleontologists predict that with global warming, more will come to light.

* There have been [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth#Frozen_specimens many cases of mammoths]] found frozen in ice and extremely well preserved. In fact, the word "mammoth" may come from the Estonian "maa mutt", meaning "earth mole", because of how often their half-buried remains were found, and they were thought to be subterranean animals.

* ''VideoGame/SubnauticaBelowZero'' has two monsters in one: much of the plot revolves around an enormous frozen Leviathan. The Leviathan is very much dead, but it happens to be [[spoiler: carrying an ancient form of the Kharaa bacterium, which is still alive]].

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': The frozen Esper discovered in Narshe is the catalyst that kicks off the entire plot.

* ''VideoGame/DinosaursForHire'' have a boss fought in a bio-lab, being a TRexpy frozen in a wall of ice that starts breaking loose as you enter the boss arena. The entire fight have you shooting at a button on the other side of the screen while avoiding the boss' attacks, which releases nitrogen gas and re-freeze it back to it's original state.

* The pilot episode of ''Anime/TheUltraman'' have the discovery of four monsters called Seagras in an ice shelf, which crashes on the Antarctic coast, awakening from their frozen slumber and immediately going on a rampage. Luckily that was ''minutes'' after Choichiro Hikari had bonded with the series' ultra, Ultraman Joneus - cue an ass-kicking debut from the Ultra.