Lucius Best (also known as Frozone) is a major character in the 2004 Disney•Pixar animated film The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel. He is the best friend of Mr. Incredible and a close ally to the Parr family. He has the ability to create ice and freeze surfaces by manipulating moisture.
Background[]
Lucius is a long time friend of Mr. Incredible (Bob Parr) and therefore, the Parr family as a whole. He served as the best man in the wedding of Bob Parr and Helen Truax. Although it is believed he is the godfather of Bob's three children, this has not been confirmed in any film. In Incredibles 2, he is referred to as "Uncle Lucius" by Dash Parr, but it is not clear whether he is a biological uncle, or if this is simply a title of affection. Frozone is able to manipulate the water molecules in the air and freeze them, but is unable to utilize this ability when he suffers from dehydration. According to the National Supers Agency, Frozone had attempted to represent the United States in the Winter Olympics, but was rejected on account of his Super abilities granting him a tremendously unfair advantage.
Official Description[]
- Lucius Best used to be known as the coolest superhero on the planet – and not just because he was best friends with Mr. Incredible. His style, wit and attitude made Frozone, as he was known then, the hippest of the lot. Of course his powers made him cool too, literally. Lucius’ ability to create ice from moisture in the air, and then travel on it with his special boots, made him the envy of every gadget-loving little boy. Lucius knows the old days are done and there’s no going back, so he doesn’t try to relive the past. But he knows Bob still wants to, and he tries to help him adjust in any way he can.[1]
- Frozone is not only Bob’s best friend, he’s a fellow-former Super who’s so chill, he can make ice with the point of a finger. But even when he’s not fighting crime as Frozone, Lucius is all about style. He has a quick wit and a cool, can-do attitude—and he wouldn’t think twice about breaking out his supersuit if it could help bring Supers out of hiding.[2]
Physical appearance[]
According to official sources, Frozone is 40 years old, is 6'3" (188 cm) and weighs 180 pounds (81 kg).[3] He is a tall, slender African-American man. He is bald but has some stubble of facial hair. His supersuit is white-and-light-blue colored and can deploy a variety of gadgets. He always wears goggles when carrying out superhero work to protect his eyes from the ice's harmful reflective rays and to protect his secret identity.
Powers and abilities[]
Frozone wields control over ice. He can generate ice from his fingertips but is limited by the amount of moisture in the air and his body. He has made water and milk solid and can freeze bullets in midair while congealing gun-wielding opponents. As a child, he was able to freeze a bowl of fruit punch merely through force of will, without the use of his usual ice blasts. He has limited airborne mobility, not necessarily complete levitation, but he can quickly maneuver along coasters of midair icicles (which deteriorate as he goes) which boost him in the air a good hundred or more feet. He can also take large bounds and leaps when in the air. In the movie, he skated across the air and hitchhiked onto a helicopter because of this.
His special boots have soles that materialize into either ice skates, skis, or a disc—the equivalent of a snowboard. Combined with chutes of ice, these make for particularly speedy travel. He must also wear special goggles (reminiscent of Cyclops' ruby-quartz visor) to protect his eyes from snow blindness and to best conceal his secret identity as Lucius Best, Bob Parr's best-life friend.
He can also create snow, soft enough to cushion falls and slides on rough surfaces.
Appearances[]
The Incredibles[]
Frozone being interviewed during the Golden Age of Superheroes.
Frozone's first appearance is in the film's prologue in a compilation of interviews conducted during the Golden Age of Superheroes. He is portrayed as a great seducer but complains that the superheroines he dates are always eager to reveal their secret identity to him while he abhors normality. After Mr. Incredible finishes arresting a burglar, Frozone is shown moving through the skies of Metroville on ice he creates to chase a helicopter with a hostage on board, asking Incredible if he shouldn't be ready before he leaves to save the hostage. It is later revealed that what Frozone was referring to is Incredible's wedding day to Elastigirl (Helen Truax), being the best man at his longtime friend's wedding. So when Bob arrives at his own wedding at the last minute, Lucious he lectures him (unaware that Incredible was late for the wedding because he was delayed by the villain Bomb Voyage, and the intervention of Buddy Pine made it even longer) and reminds him that he forgot to take off his superhero mask. In the end, Lucious along with the other guests (which included fellow superheroes, Edna Mode and Rick Dicker) watch with joy the union of Bob and Helen.
Unfortunately, the superhero universe will collapse the day after this wedding: the government must face a series of complaints against superheroes in general and Mr. Incredible in particular. Oliver Degris is indeed suing the superhero who saved his life, accidentally injuring his neck during the rescue when he had decided to die and is now suffering terrible pain; the users of the subway that was damaged following the fight between Mr. Incredible and Bomb Voyage, who was disturbed by Buddy Pine, are also questioning the actions of the one who saved them. To put an end to the scandal, the government therefore decrees that superheroes must now abandon their activities and resume their true identities. Lost and now condemned to clandestinity, all will be helped by an agency specially created for the occasion, led by special agent Rick Dicker. Frozone will then lose contact with all his former vigilante colleagues, with the exception of Bob and Helen Parr. Apparently, Lucius would eventually marry an apparently normal woman named Honey, and they live in a nice apartment.
Lucius trying to convince Bob that their glory days are over.
Fifteen years after these events, Lucius is still seeing the Parr couple, who have in the meantime given birth to three children: Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack, still a baby. One evening, Lucius rings the doorbell while the Parr family has not yet finished dinner: like every week, he comes to pick up Bob for a guys' night out. As he enters the living room, Dash spits water at him, which the superhero with freezing powers quickly turns into ice and catches before it hits the ground. Lucius and Bob pretend that they are going bowling, this is not the case in reality: they are illegally listening to the police frequency so that they can intervene if necessary and reconnect with the sensations and adrenaline of their past superheroic exploits. They then decide to intervene in the context of a fire, to rescue the victims trapped in the burning building but they find themselves trapped. By pulverizing one of the walls of the burning structure, Mr. Incredible allows them to reach the neighboring building, out of danger. But there you go, it turns out that it is a jewelry store whose alarm the two superheroes accidentally trigger: warned, the police then take them for thieves. They manage to escape in the nick of time thanks to Frozone who freezes the policeman who was holding them at gunpoint, after having taken a glass of water which allowed him to recover the powers he had lost because of the heat of the fire. However, after this accident and Helen catching Bob after the act one day, they stopped going out.
Frozone was Syndrome's original target to be murdered in Operation Kronos (before Syndrome changed targets upon locating Mr. Incredible), as Mirage is seen watching the two friends rescue people in the burning building and hearing a radio transmission asking if she was sure if she wanted to change targets, and she responds saying Mr. Incredible is the one they were looking for. When Mr. Incredible infiltrated Syndrome's headquarters after being presumed dead, he learned about Operation Kronos and reacted in horror to the long list of Supers who had been murdered by Syndrome. Bob's horror is magnified when he sees that Frozone's status is "known", realizing that Syndrome knows Lucius' whereabouts and intended to target him.
Frozone returns to action to help the Parr family defeat Syndrome's robot.
He later reappears in the final act of the film when the Omnidroid v.10 battle robot sent by Syndrome attacks Metroville (where the two families are residing), and it walks by the Bests' apartment. The combat robot is being hunted by the army, he does not know that Bob, Helen and their two eldest children are being held prisoner on Nomanisan Island by its creator. Lucius, who is getting ready to go out to a special dinner, tries to change into Frozone but discovers his supersuit is missing from his small superhero base. On asking his wife, he quickly realizes that she has hidden it somewhere else in the house and does not want him going out to perform any "derring-do" because they have been planning the dinner for two months. However, he eventually finds the suit and helps the Incredible family fight and destroy the Omnidroid before it destroys the city.
When Frozone appears on the scene to help the Incredible family face the Omnidroid but is shot down. Fortunately, he gets back up just in time to save Dash who is threatened by the Omnidroid because he holds the remote control that controls it. With the little boy on his back, he flees by sliding on the ice he creates but does not manage to outrun the robot: while they cross a stretch of water, the machine falls on them. They then manage to dodge the blow but lose their balance and end up in the powder that Frozone had time to generate. He then creates ice to make the Omnidroid slide and fall, helped by Elastigirl who stretches out to make him stumble. He then understands that the robot can be controlled by the remote control that Elastigirl has in her hands and rushes to erect an ice wall in front of the Omnidroid to give the superheroine time to figure out how it works. Elastigirl eventually figures out how to operate the claw that Mr. Incredible managed to undo from the robot and, when the robot lets go of her while she is running at full speed, she pierces the robot and destroys its central system. The superheroes win and the grateful crowd gave them a standing ovation, with Frozone and Mr. Incredible hopeful that things will go back to the way they were in their golden years.
Mr. Incredible and Pals[]
The Incredibles DVD's second disc features a fictional unproduced pilot of a children's cartoon called Mr. Incredible and Pals starring Golden Age Mr. Incredible, Frozone, and a "cute" cartoon sidekick rabbit named Mr. Skipperdoo. The short episode has optional commentary by Frozone and Mr. Incredible, in which both express disappointment, though Frozone is more outraged than Mr. Incredible by several aspects, including the show's overall campiness (in particular the rabbit), poor animation, and apparent racism.
Incredibles 2[]
In the sequel, Frozone first appears to help the Incredibles fight The Underminer. On his way out of the battle, he is approached by a man representing Winston Deavor, CEO of DevTech. Winston tells him they have a way to make Supers legal again and enlists him to recruit Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl for his cause. Intrigued, Frozone later goes to Bob and Helen's motel to offer them a place to stay at his apartment, to which they politely decline and also to bring them to DevTech. The trio are introduced to Winston and his sister, Evelyn Deavor, supporters of the superhero movement. Winston tells them they are going to do a campaign to make Supers legal again and that they want Elastigirl to be its public face since her heroics cause the least collateral damage.
Sometime after Helen leaves, Lucius gets a call from Violet saying they need him to come over to help Bob deal with Jack-Jack who has powers. When he gets there, he finds a sleep deprived Bob and a seemingly normal Jack-Jack. Lucius asks Bob when Jack Jack first revealed that he has powers and when he last slept. Bob tells him Jack-Jack started using them after Helen left and that he hasn't slept since then. Jack-Jack quickly reveals the reason why when he uses one of his powers to travel to another dimension, but Bob brings him back with a cookie. Lucius is flabbergasted since Jack-Jack's powers are nothing like his siblings', to which Bob agrees. When Lucius asks if Jack-Jack is good now, Bob, irritated, closes the cookie jar to show Jack-Jack's other superpower: turning into a red monster when he's angry. Lucius is further shocked at the infant's power and calls it freaky. Later, Bob and Lucius have managed to calm Jack-Jack down by creating an ice ball for him. After conjuring yet another ice ball for Jack-Jack to gum down, Lucius, who has realized exactly why Bob is so bone-tired, advises Bob that he needs time to rethink how he can care for his kids.
Later, Bob calls Lucius and tells him to watch his kids while he goes to help Helen. Frozone agrees after receiving the call as he grabs his suit this time, ignoring the outcry of Honey. Frozone gets to the Parr's home in time to help Bob's kids to escape from the mind-controlled wannabe supers. However, the heroes tell him that he's a target too and he blasts them away. Battling the mind-controlled Supers, he is able to be able to handle himself until being grabbed by Brick. Fortunately, the Incredibile arrived and he breaks free long enough to activate its voice system and orders the kids to do the same before getting put under Evelyn's control. Frozone then tries to attack the kids but they escape.
Along with a mind-controlled Bob and Helen, Frozone attends the superhero conference to sabotage it by announcing the public that they won't protect people anymore and also by taking the crew and ambassadors hostage. However, the kids board the cruise and free their parents, and eventually Frozone, from the mind control. Since the ship is set course to crash into the city, Frozone generates ice on the water to slow it down while Bob manually stops the rudder, and they succeed in stopping the ship while Helen defeats Evelyn.
The day is saved, and Frozone and the Incredibles celebrate over Supers becoming legal again.
Printed media[]
The Incredibles in Holiday Heroes[]
In the short comic, The Incredibles in Holiday Heroes, Lucius goes to Mount Tiki-Toki with the Parrs while Honey goes to see her mother. Lucius is about to take a drink of fruit punch when the volcano blasts back to life. Lucius tries to congeal the lava, but the extreme heat from the eruption dehydrates him. It takes the intervention of Bob, Helen, and Dash to help Lucius ultimately save the day.
Video games[]
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer[]
In the video game Rise of the Underminer, Frozone arrives to help the Incredibles fight The evil Underminer, but after the sextet is surrounded by robots, Mr. Incredible tells the rest of the family to evacuate the city (along with the rest of the citizens of Metroville). After destroying the robots, Mr. Incredible and Frozone follow The Underminer underground and fight more robots along the way. When they access The Underminer's main computer, they learn that he plans to use a machine called the Magnomizer to make the surface world feel like his home. In order to stop the Magnomizer, they have to go through the Sludge Station. After fighting more robots and hard obstacles, they destroy a machine blocking their path and apparently do the same thing to a wall which reveals a snowy underground part. They go through it and enter a room where they encounter the Magnomizer Guardian and her robot minions. Mr. Incredible throws enough objects to make the Guardian go into overdrive and destroy the room. He and Frozone escape in time and take an elevator into the Magnomizer basement. They fight more robots and work their way up, but have to avoid falling from a trap staircase that they cross, and finally reach the top of the building, where the Magnomizer is. Mr. Incredible uses his strength to unscrew the bolts that hold the machine down while Frozone fends off the guard robots.
After Incredible unscrews the last bolt, the building starts to self-destruct. Luckily, the heroes escape with a tank-like machine which falls all the way into a deep, dark pit. There, they fight more robots, whom the Crustodian, head of the Giant Robot Factory, had alerted of the heroes' presence in the Factory. Finally, the two reach the apparent main office, where the Crustodian is, and eventually defeat the Crustodian in battle and the Factory crumbles apart. The Crustodian starts to leave, and Frozone tells Mr. Incredible that there is no time to destroy it (which Incredible is obsessed with doing). They leave once the Crustodian disappears and take an elevator that leads to an underwater tower. They figure out that they are in a power impressure plant run by a robot named Dug, and that the water is breaking through the crumbling plant! The two reach Dug (after battling difficult robots), who tells them that he did not intend to have the robots attack them, and he agrees to help them save some non-human scientists who are stranded somewhere else in the plant. Along the way, the heroes protect Dug from rogue robots over which Dug has no command and also lasers, lethal obstacles, and gaps.
After all this, Dug opens the door to another elevator to allow Mr. Incredible and Frozone to rescue the scientists but refuses to travel any further, leaving the heroes on their own. The heroes find the scientists and save them from being exterminated by rogue robots and lasers. After the heroes take these threats down, the scientists help them return to the surface and confront The Underminer, who shows off a giant machine. But first, the heroes must first battle more robots that The Underminer has for them, and after the duo defeats the robots, The Underminer returns with another machine. The heroes give damage to the machine but The Underminer returns to the bigger machine while the rest of the robots fall at the hands of the heroic duo. The Underminer returns to give damage to the heroes who end up giving him more damage than the other way around. When The Underminer returns to the smaller machine, he has run out of reinforcements and the rest of the Incredible Family returns to watch as the duo defeats him, the small machine goes haywire, takes off into the air, and crashes onto the big machine, creating a large explosion which possibly slays The Underminer, and the heroes escape the blast.
LEGO The Incredibles[]
In the Lego game, Frozone was recruited by Mirage to stop the Omnidroid and ends up assisting Mr. Incredible in the same task. He later joins Bob at the train yard, during one of his friend's weight-loss workouts.
Disney Heroes: Battle Mode[]
Frozono is the first hero to be unlocked when the player opens the first diamond chest, he teams up with Elastigirl along with Ralph to rescue the fallen heroes from the infected villains.
Other games[]
Frozone appears in Disney Magic Kingdoms, as part of the Incredibles set along with Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, Dash, Violet and Jack-Jack.
Frozone appears as a playable character in Disney Melee Mania.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Originally, Frozone was supposed to be recruited to "stop" Omnidroid v.9, but Syndrome and Mirage decided that Mr. Incredible would have been a better choice, as evidenced by the conversation they had when Mirage was tailing them and thus they knew his location.
- In the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers film, Frozone appears on a frozen TV dinner called "Frozone Food", implying he has his own product line.
References[]
- ↑ "The Incredibles Characters Details". Official Pixar Website. Retrieved on November 5, 2004.
- ↑ "Incredibles 2 Characters Details". Official Pixar Website. Retrieved on June 5, 2018.
- ↑ "Official Handbook for Young Supers Part1". Tumblr. Retrieved on October 25, 1018.
External links[]
Lucius Best on The Incredibles Wiki
Lucius Best on Pixar Wiki
- Frozone on the Heroes Wiki
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