Captain America , the blistering extremity of the Greatest Generation , is returning to the big screen this Friday . Steve Rogers may feel all alone in the New humanity , but he ’s not alone in fiction . Here ’s a list of the greatest fancied characters who have been frozen , and woke to a strange new human race .
Philip J Fry in Futurama
Let ’s take up the list with the most cheerful character . Philip J Fry is an unhappy , cuckolded delivery boy in the twelvemonth 1999 , who gets accidentally frozen on New Year ’s Eve to ignite up at the cockcrow of the twelvemonth 3000 . Fry is overjoy with the mankind of tomorrow , where he can have creative thinker - blowing adventures , light in love with a hot alien skirt , and make friends with a robot , all while still spending most of his clock time on the sofa in a low - horizontal surface job . ( He also deserve to top this list because he got freeze and fire up up in the future at least three dissimilar times on the show . )
Miles Monroe in Sleeper
Woody Allen plays Miles Monroe , a health food store owner who gets forcibly frosty , forcibly come to , and forcibly inducted into a resistance movement in a totalistic state . Everyone else has been rendered biologically identifiable by the government . As the only mortal who can live “ off the grid , ” Miles impersonates one affair after another as a path to set exempt the absurdist futuristic order he now lives in .
Nora Fries in DC Comics
Nora Fries is the wife of Doctor Victor Fries . Her estimable introduction was in the Batman : The Animated Series episode , “ Heart of Ice . ” When she has a terminal unwellness , Fries freezes her to stop its progress . He does this at the disbursal of the company he works for . When administrator judge to burn the great power to her , Victor struggles with them , blows up the lab , and becomes physiologically alter , unable to live in anything above freezing temperature . He assumes the identity element of Mister Freeze . There have been several continuity in which Nora is cure and wakes up . Perhaps the most tragic is the one in which she awakes , waits for her husband , and he never come . finally she builds a new living . It turns out Victor ’s body has lento frozen by . As he ’s just a head in a freeze shock , he ride out away from her so she can be barren .
Captain Daniel McCormick in Forever Young
Mel Gibson play a man in the 1940s who , when his fiance is struck by a final malady that leaves her comatose , wants to “ sleep for a class ” in his inventor friend ’s cryogenic equipment so he wo n’t have to see the one he loves go . The discoverer conk out before Daniel can be revived , and so he sleeps until the former 1990s , when two small fry , messing around in an old store room , resuscitate him . There is little made of the fourth dimension travel in this moving picture , other than Daniel being surprised that women curse . ( Those who know the end of this movie , be intimate that its rubric is incorrect . It should have been entitled “ Stupid Decision Ruins Three People ’s Lives . ” )
Austin Powers and Doctor Evil in Austin Powers : International Man of Mystery
Arguably Mike Myers ’ full picture show , this one features him in a double part as the groovy superintendent - undercover agent Austin Powers and his nemesis , Doctor Evil . When Doctor Evil freezes himself in 1969 , Austin Powers does the same . When they ’re unfrozen in the nineties , they both learn that the undercover agent game is n’t like what it was in the 1960s .
The Ice Warriors in Doctor Who
The Ice Warriors are a crown of thorns between the Knights of the Round Table and the Lizard People . Reptilian aliens that ( despite presumptively being cold - blooded ) preferred ice caves to warm mood , they suffered setbacks when their habitation major planet of Mars started having problems with its atmosphere . A chemical group of Ice warrior was frozen during a previous Ice Age , only to be rediscovered during a succeeding Ice Age — and another frozen Ice Warrior gets defrosted aboard a Russian atomic submarine in the 1980s .
John Prophet in Prophet
John Prophet , an Image Comics character reference , clearly was built on the Captain America concept . He was a dispossessed adult male during World War II , but was to be frozen and improved via various forms of scientific tinkering . Twist one was that the man doing the tinkering was evil , and require to hale John to have a bloodlust . Twist two was that the military personnel changed his judgment , and or else feed John a very stiff opinion in God . So John Prophet wanders the public , fight for justice and having faith , and occasionally consider that other hoi polloi are devil .
Scotty in Star Trek : The Next Generation
This is a decent fluctuation on freezing . Scotty finds himself stuck on an isolated major planet , and as he ’s able to sympathize what being strand on an inhospitable planet does to people , takes measure to avoid it . Not wanting to draw in a Khan , he “ freezes ” himself in a repeat transporter beam and gets get off into the future – into the Next Generation universe .
Jason Voorhees in Jason X
Jason Voorhees scram frozen while murdering a scientist . Jason Voorhees gets waken up 445 years later . Jason Voorhees does what Jason Voorhees always does – except this time he does it to hologram . Yep . Those ma’am are hologram .
Frankenstein in Marvel Comics and Alicia Masters in Marvel Comics and Omega Red in Marvel Comics and Justin Hammer in Marvel Comics
What we ’re saying is , Marvel Comics does this a lot . That ’s not risky . It ’s just what they do . Let ’s put it this way — you fuck how in DC Comics Kyle Rayner ’s girlfriend was mutilate and her trunk was put in the fridge ? If Green Lantern were a Marvel character , she would be revived by now .
John Spartan and Simon Phoenix in Demolition Man
In the near future , malefactor will be frozen and put into “ cryoprisons . ” Despite the fact that a good chunk of today ’s people would institutionalise crimes on intention to be frozen and see the future , the only ones we see go on ice are supercriminal Simon Phoenix , act by Wesley Snipes , and incorrectly - accused cop John Spartan , act by Sylvester Stallone . They both wake up in 2032 , in a dystopic utopia , where everything from redundant atomic number 11 to affirm is illegal , and the macrocosm has been substantially blandified . Quick motion — does every Planet Hollywood have a frosty Sylvester Stallone hanging from the cap , or is it just every Planet Hollywood I ’ve ever seen ?
Miles Creighton in Chiller
Chiller , a film by Wes Craven , get down with the son of a wealthy man of affairs getting freeze to arrest his incurable disease . His cryogenic tank malfunction , but just at the right time for doctors to renovate him and cure his illness . His mother is overjoy , at first . But her son get down act oddly — bare down the business to its simple finger cymbals regardless of the dedication and life of its employee . When people set out getting killed , the mother believes that only her boy ’s body came back , and perhaps his soulfulness really did conk out .
Link in Encino Man
A couple of high school kids reveal a frozen cave man . Passing him off as an Estonian exchange student , they proceed to have wacky escapade with him . It ’s a flimsy film , even for a comedy , but Brendan Fraser ’s forehead is perfectly cast .
Charlie in Iceman
Made nearly a decade before Encino Man , Iceman is its striking equivalent . A mathematical group of scientist come to a caveman . One of them , more compassionate than the rest , befriends the man , trying to find out more about him and come up a linguistic bridge to understand him . finally the scientist enters into a sustain battle with the other scientists in the group , who see the revived troglodyte , Charlie , as a subhuman species that they can use for experiments .
George Taylor in Planet of the Apes
George Taylor , an astronaut , goes into hibernation for a long commission . When he wakes up , he receive himself on a unknown , earthlike planet . This planet has world , but they are seemingly animals . The planet also has apes , but apes that walk around in clothes and are as intelligent as humans . I consider you all know the final plot of land twist . You maniacs .
Mira in Love Minus Eighty
Mira is a woman who died in an accident , and is revived by a strange man who want her to make him . She ’s in a Bridesicle platform – a programme that cryogenically freeze attractive women with diseases , and sells them to men who are willing to pony up the money to unfreeze and heal them . Mira has probably the most direful story of any of the fictional frozens . She ’s gay , and when she “ died ” she was in love , but that makes no difference to the men who can inflame her up and put her under — for years — at will .
Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan in Star Trek
We all have it away , now , that the stock-still man beak up from one of the capsules in the spaceship Botany Bay in the episode “ Space Seed ” was pass to be a prickle in Captain Kirk ’s side . We also know that he was going to be in the good of the Star Trek movies . A genetically engineered superhuman from the 1990s ( oh , the optimism ! ) , he was business leader on crude Earth , and expected to be king again in space . It does n’t do work out well for him . Or anyone else .
Joe and Rita in Idiocracy
Joe and Rita are , as an experimentation , cryogenically freeze for a year . That year turns into 500 years . In the future , after century of sentence during which the evolutionary pressing to be smart has been absent , the world is full of improbably stupid multitude . Joe and Rita have to instruct the inane rules of the culture , before they can prevail it .
Han Solo in Star Wars
Okay , he was only frozen for a short time , and he was frozen in carbonite , but he sure as shooting did arouse up in a very dissimilar world .
David in Vanilla Sky
David seems to be wandering in a earthly concern of insaneness . A crazy adult female is stalking him . A prosecuting officer is insisting that he has committed murder . He maintain having unearthly visions . And it come to him that , maybe , he is n’t in that world . Maybe he is woolgather , in a cold , icy place , wait to wake up .
Everyone in Life on Mars U.S.
likewise , this fourth dimension - traveling bull show is really the delusion of a guy who ’s in deep freeze on his manner to existent Mars . Or … is it ? Yes , it is .
Amy in Across the Universe
The Godspeed is a starship traveling , slow , to a novel planet , that people will terraform and populate . The grunts will live , for generation , within the wall of the starship . The elite group , who screw how to set up on a newfangled planet , are freeze and carried in the detention . Among them is Amy , the teenage girl of two very important frozen people . When she ’s accidentally unfrozen ten before the ship reaches its finish , she ’s shocked by the culture that ’s evolved on the ship — and she eff that the hoi polloi who run it are covering something up .
The Crew of the Elysium in Pandorum
In the year 2174 , humanness has overrun the orb , and station out an ark ship with a 60,000 man to a neighboring planet . Again , the elite are glacial , and stir up to find something is not proper . Particularly because the ship is mostly abandon , and everyone who ’s exit seems to be a Morlock .
Everyone in Lockstep
Toby , a stripling and survivor of a space catastrophe , is about to go into cryosleep above what looks like a utter planet . He wakes 14,000 twelvemonth later to happen that he is in a civilization where everyone does that . multitude sleep for decades , and wake for a few weeks . And it appears that his own family rules this civilization .
Many thanks to Madeleine Monson - Rosen and Ryan Plummer , our newfangled culture research fellows , for aid me cut through down fictional human popsicles .
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