Iceman

Robert ''Bobby'' Louis Drake was born was born in Floral Park, Long Island, New York into Jewish-Catholic family. His parents are William Drake and Madeline Drake. He was always shivering and one day his mutant powers manifested when he accidentally froze entire pool. Bobby and his parents were very prudent and careful , if Bobbys secret would expose he would have been in danger. After his 16th birthday together with his girlfriend Judy Harmon , Robert was attacked by bully named Rocky Beasely and his gang. Robert had no choice and used his cryokinetic powers to freeze attackers. People heard about it and started to execute Robert with lynch mob. Local Sheriff stopped lynch and placed Bobby in jail cell for his own protection. Xavier was informed and tasked Cyclops to rescue Bobby. Cyclops offered Bobby to follow him but Drake refused it and two mutant started to fight each other until mobs arrived. Xavier stepped in and psionically removed memories of people alongside with Roberts parents and friends. After this events Bobby said farewell to his parents and joined the X-Men.

As a part of the original X-Men, he was the "class clown" often making jokes; this and the fact that he was the youngest member, led for the rest to often under appreciate him. He soon developed a tight friendship with his fellow X-Men Hank McCoy and both began dating Zelda and Vera Cantor respectively; Zelda worked in Café-A-Go-Go, that was usually the place were the four spent their time, listening to Bernard The Poet. They always got in trouble with Zelda and Vera because they had to keep their identities secret to them and were always running from their dates to fight villains.

At first Bobby when turning to Iceman, he had an snow like exterior, but with the help of Cyclops he learned to increase the temperature and turn to the icy form we all know. As the original X-Men, Iceman, Beast, Angel, Cyclops and Marvel Girl they fought the likes of: Magneto, Vanisher, Blob, Unus, Juggernaut, The Sentinels, The Brotherhood, Locust, Grotesk, Lucifer, Mimic, The Living Monolith, Sauron and many more.

Powers Originally Iceman could lower the temperature of his body and encase himself in an icy armor of varying shape and consistency. He has since gained the ability to turn his entire body into a flexible form of organic ice. He can also freeze the moisture in the air and can create objects such as slides, ladders, and projectiles. He can reform any part of his body in his ice form, and can augment his shape and size. He has demonstrated the ability to animate ice forms by creating figures and through rapid freezing and unfreezing of their structure, and thus creating movement. These figures do not gain intelligence, and he is still in the developmental stage of this ability as it requires much concentration.

When in ice form he is generally translucent, and his appearance ranges from human-like to jagged and geometric. He is also known to add additional ice mass to his shoulders and knuckles (often jagged and sharp) for a fight. In addition to altering his appearance and shape, Bobby can also augment his size(an ability he has used to grow to heights of over 100 feet) A side effect of this alteration is superhuman strength to match his larger form.

With unexpected aid from Mystique (after she laced his blood with a potent concentration of chemicals) Bobby learned that by using his power to "ice up" and draw the moisture out of the air around him, he could turn himself into his own form of air filter, allowing him to let the poison molecules dissipate into vapor, effectively swapping his cells each time he released the ice and return to his flesh form or as he put it "A body swap, done one piece, one cell at a time".

If damaged, he can reform damaged or missing body parts. While physically and mentally taxing, this ability can be used to reform his entire body if necessary, as he has been able to reform himself to ice from sentient water vapor. This ability was taken even farther when he was under Emma Frost's control and he was able to turn himself into sentient liquid, travel in this form through a body of water, and return back to his organic ice form. He has not been able to replicate this ability, however it does suggest that with practice he could shift through any phase of water. For a time he was stuck permanently in ice form, however since M-Day has regained his ability to return to human form. Bobby also was at one time a Certified Public Accountant.

During the Curse of the Mutants story arc Iceman had himself blessed to make his ice into 'Holy water' to give him an advantage against the vampire attackers.

Iceman has demonstrated the ability to control chemical reactions involving heat exchange and can prevent people with fire based abilities from using their powers.

As with all the X-Men, Bobby has been trained in unarmed combat, tactics, and resisting mental attacks. During (and after) the " Age of Apocalypse" storyline, it was revealed that Iceman's potential powers included the ability to, in essence, teleport via reverse-freezing molecules, meaning he theoretically can travel instantaneously across oceans when in full control of his abilities. However this method of teleportation has been described as extremely painful for anyone potentially traveling with Bobby.

During the run of Wolverine and the X-Men, Bobby demonstrated the ability of creating multiple Ice clones. He is also able to control them but they are not self aware. This act tired him greatly afterwards. He managed to use the ice clones without tiring in a bout against the Red Hulk. However, they were in a snowy setting which may have contributed to Bobby not wearing down.

Weaknesses Currently Bobby started to overcome his main weaknesses but there are still some significant issues about it. Robert has almost vast potential but he would never access his full range of abilities because of human mind. He often gets exhausted after making big constructions and usually attacks opponents with ice blasts while he can just simply freeze them from inside. Iceman`s powers depends on moisture as shown in Amazing X-Men he passed out after freezing extradimensional hell due to scarcity of moisture around him.