March 3, 2014

In honor of Titan

I'm not particularly thrilled with the convention of naming winter storms that the Weather Channel has adopted these past couple of years. I'm also not particularly thrilled with the choice to go this year with primarily Greek-mythological names as suggested by a Latin class at Bozeman High School in Montana.

Let's see if I can do better going with the theme of winter-/ice-/cold-themed comic book characters.

First, the characters, vaguely ranked from most important downward...
  1. Iceman/Bobby Drake (Marvel - X-Men)
  2. Storm/Ororo Munroe (Marvel - X-Men)
  3. Captain Cold/Leonard Snart (DC - Flash villain)
  4. Mr Freeze/Victor Fries (DC - Batman villain)
  5. Ice/Tora Olafsdotter (DC - Justice League/Global Guardians)
  6. Elijah Snow (Wildstorm - Planetary's fourth man)
  7. Snow Queen/Lumi (DC - Fables)
  8. Snow Miser (Rankin/Bass character)
  9. Frozone/Lucious Best (Disney - Incredibles friend)
  10. Weather Wizard/Mark Mardon (DC - Flash villain)
  11. Icemaiden/Sigrid Nansen (DC - Justice League/Global Guardians)
  12. Icemaster/Bradley Kroon (Marvel villain/Hostess Fruit Pie villain)
  13. Frost/Frost Noble (Image - hero)
  14. Killer Frost/Crystal Frost/seriously, that's her 'real' name (DC - Firestorm villain)
  15. Coldsnap/Alex Barros (Image) 
  16. Ice King/Simon Petrikov (Adventure Time)
  17. Icicle/Cameron Mahkent/Joar Mahkent (DC - Justice Society villain)
  18. Jack Frost (DC - Fables character)
  19. Blossom (Powerpuff girl - freezing breath) 
  20. Sailor Mercury/Ami Mizuno (Anime) 
  21. Snowbird/Narya/Anne McKenzie-Thompson/Virginia Dare - (Marvel - Alpha Flight)
  22. Killer Frost/Louise Lincoln/Catlin Snow (DC - Firestorm villain)
  23. Ymir (Marvel - frost giant king) 
  24. Mercurio (Marvel villain - seriously, check out his costume...it's outstanding)
  25. Endless Winter/Delores Winters (DC - Justice Society villain)
  26. Sylph/Jeanine Gale (DC - Super Friends villain)
  27. Polar Boy/Brek Bannin (DC - Legion of Superheroes)
  28. Icestar/Jonathan Grayson (Eclipse - Champions hero)
  29. Quisp (DC - Aquaman villain)
  30. Nightwind/Berta Skye Harris (DC - Legion of Superheroes)
  31. Idie Okonkwo/Oya - (Marvel - X-Men)
  32. Xraven  (Marvel - X-Men)
  33. Coldmoon/Wanxia (Marvel - Avengers)
  34. Chill/Ross Wexler (Marvel - DP7)
  35. Mandarin/Khan/Zhang Tong (Marvel - Iron Man villain - totally out of order)
Now, to the names based on that list...
  • A - Ami (#20, Sailor Mercury)
  • B - Barros (#15, Coldsnap)
  • C - Crystal (#14, Killer Frost)
  • D - Drake (#1, Iceman)
  • E - Elijah (#6, Elijah Snow, breaks pattern of alternating male-female names)
  • F - Frozone (#9, Best didn't feel right, L already taken)
  • G - Gramos (#24, Mercurio's home planet)
  • H - Harris (#30, Nightwind)
  • I - Idie (#31, Oya)
  • J - Joar (#17, Icicle)
  • K - Kroon (#12, Icemaster)
  • L - Lumi (#7, Snow Queen)
  • M - Miser (#8, Snow Miser)
  • N - Nansen (#11, Icemaiden)
  • O - Ororo (#2, Storm)
  • P - Petrikov (#16, Ice King)
  • Q - Quisp (#29, Quisp)
  • R - Ross (#34, Chill)
  • S - Snart (#3, Captain Cold)
  • T - Tora (#5, Ice)
  • U -
  • V - Victor (#4, Mr Freeze)
  • W - Wanxia (#33, Coldmoon)
  • X - Xraven (#32, Xraven)
  • Y - Ymir (#23, Ymir)
  • Z - Zhang (#35, Mandarin)
Left out
  • Weather Wizard/Mark Mardon - #10 - M already taken by Snow Miser
  • Frost/Frost Noble - #13 - can't name a storm Frost...N already taken by Nansen, can't move Nansen to Sigrid because of Snart, can't move Snart to Leonard because of Lumi
  • Jack Frost - #18 - can't name a storm Frost...J already take by Joar, can't move Joar to Mahkent because of Miser, can't move Miser to Snow 
  • Blossom - #19 - B already taken by Barros
  • Snowbird - #21 - N already taken by Nansen (see #13); A already taken by Ami, can't move Ami to Mizuno (see #18); M already taken by Mizuno (see #18); V already taken by Victor, can't move Victor to Fries; D already taken by Drake
  • Killer Frost - #22 - L already taken by Lumi; C already taken by Crystal, can't move Crystal to Frost; can't name storm Snow
  • Endless Winter - #25 - D already taken; can't name a storm Winters
  • Sylph - #26 -  J already taken (see #18); G already taken by Gramos, can't move Gramos to Mercurio (see #18)
Man, that leaves me totally stumped. I've searched the web for a list of cold- and wind- and frost- and ice-themed superheroes and villains, and I'm still stuck for a U. Any suggestions?

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