Frostique - Art by Mike de la Cruz
Art by: Mike de la Cruz
Frostique

History | Powers | Abilities | Paraphernalia
Weapons | Weaknesses | Trivia


History

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Powers

Unique Physiology:

Her form is very basic, almost primal in appearance. Nearly all of her abilities were stolen from meta-mutants, many of whom were killed to acquire their DNA. Some powers are side effects of her experimentation on herself.

Those powers include:

Concussive Blasts: Frostique can fire blasts of concussive force from her hands. These blasts are powerful enough to match Chirurgeon's energy blasts at their full power for a considerable period of time and have a great destructive power.

Retarded Aging: Her metamorphic powers have retarded the degenerative effects of aging. She has always had this ability even before her DNA enhancements; she is either close to or over one hundred fifty years old.

Superhuman Durability: Frostique's muscles and tissues are far more durable than those of an ordinary human allowing her to resist gunshots, physical damage, shocks and energy blasts. Her durability can be enhanced by her regeneration ability, telekinesis, and force fields.

Superhuman Reflexes: Frostique's reflexes and agility are enhanced to levels that are beyond the human body's natural limits.

Superhuman Speed: Frostique is capable of running at speeds far greater than those of the finest human athletes.

Superhuman Stamina: Frostique's muscles produce considerably fewer fatigue toxins than the muscles of ordinary humans. She can exert himself at peak capacity for several days before fatigue begins to affect her.

Superhuman Strength: Frostique possesses superhuman strength, which may be a product of her shape-shifting. She has been categorized as able to press/lift within 2 to 10 ton range. Later classification has identified her having an upper limit of possibly 25 tons.

Genetic Enhancements Using Stolen Meta-Mutant DNA:

Frostique is a unique meta-mutant who can incorporate DNA and merge it into her own. She is continually improving upon her original powers over the years, incorporating the genetic material of certain meta-mutants into her DNA to gain their abilities, or perform other self-experiments to alter her genetic capabilities.

Stolen powers, taken from the DNA of heroes or villains, was extracted from either blood or body parts left at battles or from the meta-mutant personally after she took them captive. Stolen powers will be labeled: Name of Power (Person Stolen From):

Cellular Shape-Shifting: (Dead female shape-shifter with blue skin and red hair.) Frostique possesses the ability to control every molecule of her body. This allows her to psionically alter the formation of her biological cells at will and assume the form of any one she wishes. Her control is so exact that she can precisely duplicate another person's retina patterns, their fingerprints, palm lines and skin-pore patterns, smell to overlap the original being, and vocal cords to match voices to the point of corresponding voice prints. She can reduce herself into a semi-liquid state, or harden her body like living armor.

Astral Projection: (A green Martian, the last of his kind, that died in the process.) Ability to astral travel and communicate with others astrally through her own will or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others. In the Astral Plane, she can use her powers to create "ectoplasmic" objects.

Cryokinesis: (Stolen from a female ice manipulator held in captivity within Starshield Labs.) She can generate ice spikes to spear her opponents, kill an ordinary human with her freezing kiss and/or create a ice storm powerful enough to freeze everything, killing multiple people.

Dilate Power: (Shutdown) She has the ability to mentally paralyze a foe she is touching and the ability to psionically "turn off" the superpowers of any meta-mutant, creating a mental block. She can also create mental links with others and even to objects and locations like the bases she has used over the years. (Due to Shutdown's powers being what they are, Frostique was unable to completely copy the DNA and so only gained a partial match of her powers.)

Enhanced Physical Attributes: (Dead female shape-shifter with blue skin and red hair.) Able to enhance her strength, speed, agility, durability, reflexes, and senses.

Force Fields: (Doctor Day) She can erect multiple force barriers to repel, reflect and defend against incoming onslaughts. She normally uses them on a personal level but it is assumed she can not only increase and decrease the protection level but also enhance the size of the shield to englobe others and even entire areas.

Heat Absorption: (Stolen from a female ice manipulator held in captivity within Starshield Labs.) Frostique is a so-called "Heat Vampire", to stay alive, she must regularly absorb heat. The most efficient way to satiate this "hunger" is to absorb the body heat of others.

Immortality: (Lady Robinpool) Frostique is functionally immortal in the sense that she is immune to aging and disease and she can rapidly regenerate almost any damaged bodily tissue. However, it was possible for her to be killed. This ability originated from her stolen healing factor.

Mental Amnesia: (Green Martian, the last of his kind, that died in the process.) Ability to cause loss of particular memories and amnesia in another person or even in a group of people. Those she wants to affect must be within a 20-foot radius from her.

Mental Detection: (Raptor) Can sense the presence of another meta-mutant within an as yet undefined radius of herself, by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being.

Metamorphic Adaptation: (Dead female shape-shifter with blue skin and red hair.) After her first transformation Frostique showed the ability to adapt her body depending on her situation at the time. She was able to camouflage her body according to her surroundings, shift her organs into her lower extremities, and mimic the textures of metals (when she took on the form of Magnus and his helmet). She also clearly stated that she was always naked and simply made her skin look and feel like other materials to fool others.

Mind Link: (Green Martian, the last of his kind, that died in the process.) Ability to develop a mental link with any person, which remains as a connection to that individual.

Psychic Defense:(Green Martian, the last of his kind, that died in the process.) Frostique's unnatural theft also provides her with a natural defense against telepathic intrusion.

Psionic Blasts: (Green Martian, the last of his kind, that died in the process.) Can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind, so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and can even kill an adversary.

Psionic Shield: (Green Martian, the last of his kind, that died in the process.) Ability to erect a psychic shield for protection of herself and of others minds.

Regenerative Healing Factor: (Lady Robinpool) Frostique is able to rapidly regenerate damaged or destroyed tissue with much greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. She can fully heal from injuries that result in massive tissue damage or loss such as multiple gunshot wounds, slashes, puncture wounds, broken bones, and severe burns within a matter of moments. Apparently an extension of the stolen healing factor she took from Lady Robinpool, Frostique's healing factor is such that she no longer requires the functionality of her brain or other internal organs to survive. She has been blasted in half or had holes blown through the center of her head without consequence.

Technology Interface: (N1ghtr@zr) Frostique is able to directly interface with various technologies she has at her disposal, mentally activating or summoning them.

Telepathy: (Green Martian, the last of his kind, that died in the process.) She can read minds and project her own thoughts into the minds of others within a radius of 250 miles (on Earth). With extreme effort she can greatly extend that radius. Frostique is resistant to other's telepathic powers.

Telekinesis: (Cyberian) She possesses telekinetic abilities enabling her to levitate and psionically manipulate living beings, inanimate objects, and to some extent energy. She can "lift" as much as 100 tons of weight and possibly even more and can achieve other effects. Capable of very fine control over objects, including herself.

Telekinetic Flight: (Cyberian) By levitating herself, she can "fly" for indefinite amounts of time and at varying speeds.

Toxin & Disease Resistance: (Dead female shape-shifter with blue skin and red hair.) She has also developed a resistance and immunity to toxins and diseases.

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Abilities

Genius Intelligence: Frostique is a genius with expertise in various fields of science, mainly genetics with years of her research at her command, meta-mutations and their powers, human and alien biology, cloning, all levels of physics, engineering (including mechanical, genetic and electrical engineering) and more. Her intellect has been said to match Mr. Excelsior and Melltithio making her one of the smartest people on Earth. Frostique, having lived for over 150 years has acquired vast knowledge over many known fields, being a formidable scientist and a talented inventor. Considered the most brilliant mind of her time, Frostique was already a genius with a PhD and an M.D and other honors in biology and genetics and was a member of the British Royal Society (despite not being British). Her intellect later grew to new levels after her time with advanced technology she discovered buried in the pyramids of Bosna i Hercegovina, mastering not only them but all technology from Earth (allowing her considerable expertise in cybernetics, robotics and computers) but also new sciences to aid her in her goals to create the perfect meta-mutant.

She is a genius and a geneticist of the highest order, able to predict genetic mutations and splice DNA and can solve difficult equations in a single day's time, as well as repair and operate heavy, energy generating machinery. It is quite probable she can also produce large amounts of clones, and she is an expert on the art of cloning and on meta-mutants, with vast knowledge of powers, genes, and more due to the hundreds of samples of meta-mutant DNA she has access to. She is normally described as the world's greatest geneticist and is one of the leading authorities on meta-mutants in the entire world, next to Dr. Artemis Samson.

Covert Operative: Strategist in terrorism and commando operations.

Expert Marksman

Master Manipulator: She possesses a good deal of knowledge in psychology, and is a skilled manipulator, being able to convince others with simple words and facial expressions. Frostique is also a capable leader and a master strategist, capable of creating plans with ease and even outmatch brains like those of Vigilante and Magnus, being several steps ahead of her opponent.

Master Martial Artist: Frostique is a highly skilled combatant. Her skills rival those of Almaeisha Almawt and X-Terminator.

Master Surgeon: She is a master surgeon, having excised a portion of Deadrun's brain, only to later restore it. Besides this area she is also a skilled doctor, one of the best from her time in Bulgaria with honors in medicine and later in biology.

Multilingual: Frostique has stated that she knows at least eleven languages; besides her presumably native Bulgarian and Bosnian, she has demonstrated fluency in German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Farsi, Korean, Swedish and Czech.

Skilled Mechanical Engineer: having created devices that seem to have been taken from the tales of Jules Verne, her inventions include advance ships, devices that negate all meta-mutant powers, except for her own, or transfer them, perform healing and almost resurrection, teleportation, genetics, project energy blasts and other attacks using meta-mutant powers, aircraft and many more. Although her inventions are not as spectacular as those of The Engineer or Quartermaster, she is a very talented inventor and engineer.

Trained Actress

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Paraphernalia

Genetic Bank: She at one time possessed tissue samples of thousands of people, dating possibly as far back as the 1860s, including several American Presidents.

Living Bases: Many of her bases seem to have some quasi-biological properties, able to "grow" tentacles from a surface to hold a prisoner at Frostique's mental commands.

Clone Army: Frostique augments much of her technology with clones of meta-mutants, such as a power-drainer that disabled The Engineer.

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Weapons

Conventional firearms and an energy beam pistol.

Various skull-shaped explosives usually carried on her belt. In early appearances Frostique demonstrated the ability to alter the shape of items stored as skulls on her belt.

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Weaknesses

Appearance Limitation: Originally, it was clearly stated that Frostique's powers were limited to appearances only; she could not assume the powers of the people she morphed into or alter her body to adapt to different situations. Although Frostique's powers were enhanced, Frostique could never duplicate the powers of other meta-mutants, and she still cannot duplicate the powers of the person she imitates: for example, when she turned herself into a duplicate of Nacht Wunder, she did not gain the ability to teleport. However, she can use her powers to mimic the powers of others; such as assuming the form of Hisţiriŷā, and then using her powers to enhance her senses, strength, speed, agility, and of course naturally heal at an accelerated rate.

Power Instability: Frostique will die unless she regularly absorbs heat. This extends to areas of extreme cold for too long. It is believed this is why most of her bases are powered by volcanoes.

Schizophrenia: Frostique's shape-changing physiology causes her brain to suffer from constant and subtle shifts in her brain tissue that manifested in the form of schizophrenia. Her personality constantly changes, making her volatile and unpredictable.

Unchangeable Body Mass: While she can make herself look exactly like a person who is physically bigger than herself, she will not weigh as much as the real person does. As such, she will be considerably weaker than the true person she copies, as evidenced by her form of an imposter Hisţiriŷā, where her powers were less effective than the genuine Hisţiriŷā. Also, the longer she takes the form of someone with greater mass, the greater a strain on her body which could reach a "breaking point" where she is forced to turn back into her normal self. Since her enhancements, Frostique has stated that her body mass now changes when she does, although the truth, as with everything concerning Frostique, remains shrouded.

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Trivia

(Physical Features/Speaking Voice/Likely Vocabulary/Characteristics/Mannerisms)

Casual Drinker: Frostique seems to enjoy drinking as she is seen drinking wine or other beverages on multiple occasions.

Age: Frostique has stated that she was not born in the last century and that she is "over 150 years old". Her earliest meeting with her friend Toxicant was "at the dawn of the 20th century". In 1921 she met Savage Immortus in Republic of South Africa, and they all later worked together in Rìoghachd na h-Alba, shortly before World War II.

Birthday: Despite the fact that it is unknown when she was born, it can be assumed that she was born in the month of September - she was once given a sapphire necklace, because apparently it was her birthstone (traditionally associated with being born in September), to which she replied "How did you know when I was born?"

Early Triggering: Her powers manifested when she was twelve years old. If this is true, she could be the first meta-mutant on record.

Naked: She never wears true clothing. Due to the nature of her powers she can simply create clothes from or over her skin, thus eliminating the need for regular clothing or those made from unstable molecules. Because of this she is always naked as she admitted to Cyrano de Purrgerac.

Self-Loathing: Frostique cannot stand her own appearance, and therefore never wants to look at her reflection in a mirror.

Family Tree: In the past, Frostique married the son of Katrin Vogel, one of Warhawk's previous incarnations, in Bundesrepublik Deutschland. His name was Kurt Darkholme. After Frostique got pregnant, Kurt was killed in the line of duty. Their child, was named Kurt, in his honor, but put up for adoption. Later the baby was adopted by the Bâtsôn family in Bundesrepublik Deutschland. That child is Kurt Bâtsôn. Neither Warhawk nor Nacht Wunder are aware of their connection.