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Robert Drake (Earth-1610)

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Bobby Drake

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Madeline Drake (Mother), William Drake (Father), Joel Drake (Brother)

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Body is made of ice when in ice form.

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Student, Adventurer

Origin
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Bobby is a Mutant, born with his powers.

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History

Ultimate Bobby Drake skating

At fifteen-years-old, the government-sponsored Sentinels began tracking and killing mutants. Young Bobby Drake ran away from his family in New York to protect them, fearing that the Sentinels would kill him and/or his family if it was discovered that he was a mutant.

Also in New York, Professor Charles Xavier, a mutant rights activist and mutant himself, used his psychic-enhancing machine Cerebro to locate Bobby. Sending his team of assembled mutants on their first mission, the X-Men found Bobby alone and scared on a bus in downtown New York City. Before the X-Men could offer Bobby a place alongside them at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, a group of Sentinels attacked. Just as a decapitated Sentinel was toppling over onto a group of innocent bystanders, Bobby took action and froze the robot in mid-fall, saving the bystanders below and giving the Beast a good reason to christen him "The Iceman!" Bobby's heroic act, however, didn't stop the bystanders from hurling glass bottles and bricks at the Bobby, the "mutie freak."

At the time, Bobby had a girlfriend. Wanting Bobby to join his team, Professor Xavier erased her from Bobby's memories because Bobby had told her too much about the X-Men and Xavier feared that Bobby would stay with his romance over joining the team.

Believing the X-Men - as well as influenced by Xavier - to be a righteous place, Bobby accepted their offer and became an X-Man. He was, at that time, the youngest member, being fifteen. Taking the codename Iceman, Bobby quickly became a valuable asset to the team. At one point he single-handedly took out all of the Ultimates with a gigantic ice wall; at another time, he halted an invasion by Colonel Wraith and Weapon X solo. Only Rogue, temporarily in control of Marvel Girl's telepathy, was able to stop Iceman.

Bobby was severely and greatly injured by Xavier's son Proteus [1]. Furious at Xavier for his reckless treatment of their son, Bobby's parents withdrew their son from the Institute and threatened to sue. Unpleased with his parents' desires, Bobby rebelled, took the time to heal, and returned to the X-Men. Fully healed, Bobby returned to the X-Men in a dramatic fashion. Being hunted by the government, Bobby appeared and saved all of his friends and teammates, displaying great control over his powers.

Upon her acceptance into the X-Men, Bobby began to date Rogue. The pair dated for a considerable amount of time until they grew apart due to Bobby's growing feelings for Shadowcat and Rogue's feelings for Gambit, who convinced Rogue to leave with him. Kitty and Bobby parted and Rogue returned to the X-Men, this time lacking her own powers and sporting those of the now-deceased Gambit. Now able to touch people, Bobby and Rogue began to date one another again.

Iceman fought Hammer who showed amazement over Iceman's clumsiness. Hammer had referred to him as "the Legend!" His comments led to the belief that Bobby would gain a much greater control over his powers.

When Cyclops disbanded the X-Men[2] and Bishop and Storm created a new team, Iceman stayed at the Institute as a student only until Xavier returned and reformed his X-Men. Professor X was later discovered to be alive and the X-Men returned to the Xavier Institute, which was also when Iceman rejoined the X-Men line up. Jean Grey soon discovered that fellow X-Man, Colossus, was using a drug called Banshee to enhance his mutant abilities. The X-Men were highly against this, but Colossus managed to convince Rogue, Dazzler, Angel, Nightcrawler, and Cyclops to join him on his own X-Men team. Iceman remained on Professor X's drug-free X-Men and fought the Banshee enhanced X-Men. Xavier's X-Men won and the two teams combined again with nobody using drugs.

The Ultimatum Wave hit the X-Men killing several of the X-Men (Beast, Dazzler, and Nightcrawler). Magneto and the Brotherhood attacked the world and Iceman helped the world's heroes fight them off. Most of the X-Men died, but Iceman (alongside Rogue, Storm, Colossus, and Jean Grey) was able to survive Magneto's attack. He was among the X-Men demolishing the X-Mansion alongside Rogue and Jean Grey and burying the deceased X-Men in its place. He found it hard to destroy their home, but he felt it to be the right thing to do now that Professor Xavier was dead

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Iceman in his ice-form, has enhanced strength and durability. He can absorb and dispel heat by manipulating thermal energy. He is able to lower his body temperature without causing harm to himself. He has the capacity to manipulate all forms of moisture and possesses all of the abilities to generate unusually hard ice to form projectiles, slides and shields that are strong enough to stop bullets. He can travel rapidly along these ice-slides or ice-bridges by causing ice to form rapidly beneath and behind his feet, pushing him along the slick surface. He is also able to summon moisture from the air and create a flood. Iceman is immune to sub-zero temperatures and has thermal vision: the ability to detect objects visually by how much heat the objects generate. He is able to fashion an armor of solid ice strong enough to stop bullets. He can deposit his bodily mass into a river and reconstitute his entire mass a great distance away, transform his body into pure organic ice and to augment his organic ice form with razor sharp adornments to his shoulders, elbows, knees, and fists; reconstitute his ice-form if any part of it is damaged or completely shattered, without permanent harm to himself. He also can temporarily add the mass of a body of water to his own to increase his mass, size and physical power. His strength and durability in his ice-form are enhanced beyond normal human levels. He can survive not only as sentient ice, but as sentient water and vapor. He has also developed the ability to transform his body from a gaseous state back to a solid, although it is taxing both physically and mentally.

Trivia

  • Before Rogue and Shadowcat joined the X-Men, Bobby was the youngest member.
  • Despite his experience, Bobby was demoted by Xavier to the junior group for his cockiness, something that does not sit well with Bobby.
  • Bobby and Rogue are again dating and finally able to touch one another, given Rogue's new powers.
  • Bobby is perhaps the most obvious example of Xavier's use of manipulation by means of obtaining and maintaining students and followers.

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  1. ↑ Ultimate X-Men #19
  2. ↑ Ultimate X-Men #81
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