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Ice Magic is a type of magic featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the twenty-second episode of the third season.
Ice Magic is based on Elsa's magic from the Disney film, Frozen, and the Snow Queen's powers from the fairytale.
Uses
Ice magic is the magical ability to control and create ice and cold temperatures for various purposes. It appears that unlike most practitioners of Witchcraft, this magic does not need to be learned but the practitioner is naturally born with it. As so, the effects are very strong, being linked to the user's emotions. Efficient practitioners, such as Ingrid, are capable of freezing whole kingdoms solid in one swipe of their hand.
So far, only members of the royal bloodline of Arendelle have demonstrated a propensity for this type of magic. According to Rumplestiltskin, it's a very rare gift, as out of many practitioners of magic, Elsa and Ingrid are the only known practitioners who have this ability. In both generations, it was inherited by the eldest female daughter who was also heir to the Arendelle throne.
This magic can be specifically contained by a magic urn, which traps the user inside and seals away their power. ("A Tale of Two Sisters," "The Snow Queen," "Smash the Mirror") et al.
List of Uses
| S | Ep | Effect | By | Intention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 22 | Freezing and destroying the Magic Urn | Elsa | Intentional |
| Leaving a trail of ice | Unintentional | |||
| 4 | 1 | Leaving a trail of ice | Unintentional | |
| Freezing Storybrooke's sign | Unintentional | |||
| Freezing Leroy's van | Intentional | |||
| Freezing hands | Unintentional | |||
| A swirl of snowflakes | Unintentional | |||
| Creating a Snow Monster | Unintentional | |||
| Freezing the door lock of Mr. Gold's Shop | Intentional | |||
| 2 | Creating an ice barrier at the town line | Intentional | ||
| Erecting icicles and causing an avalanche | Unintentional | |||
| Melting a hole in the ice wall | Intentional | |||
| Trying to remove the ice wall | Intentional | |||
| Refreezing a melted carton of ice cream | Ingrid | Intentional | ||
| Freezing the fridges | Intentional | |||
| 4 | 3 | |||
| Putting a spell in Marian's ice cream | Intentional | |||
| Freezing Hans into a statue | Intentional | |||
| Freezing Hook's feet in place | Intentional | |||
| Creating hanging icicles | Intentional | |||
| Pulverizing icicles | Intentional | |||
| Creating sharp icicles | Elsa | Intentional | ||
| 4 | 4 | Frosting the ground beneath Emma's car | Ingrid | Intentional |
| Leaving a trail of ice | Intentional | |||
| 4 | 5 | |||
| Creating a human replica of Anna from ice | Ingrid | Intentional | ||
| Freezing a human replica of Anna into ice | Intentional | |||
| Shackling Elsa with ice chains | Intentional | |||
| Summoning a blizzard | Intentional | |||
| Summoning a Snow Warrior | Intentional | |||
| Materializing a mirror | Intentional | |||
| Creating an ice bridge | Elsa | Intentional | ||
| Pulverizing ice chains | Intentional | |||
| Blasting Ingrid with ice magic | Intentional | |||
| 4 | 6 | |||
| Creating a snowflake | Elsa | Intentional | ||
| Creating a snowflake | Ingrid | Intentional | ||
| Summoning a storm | Intentional | |||
| 4 | 7 | |||
| Freezing a tree branch | Ingrid | Unintentional | ||
| Materializing a mirror | Intentional | |||
| Conjuring and throwing an icicle | Intentional | |||
| A swirl of snowflakes | Unintentional | |||
| Freezing sheriff's station door | Intentional | |||
| Teleporting away in a flurry of snow | Intentional | |||
| Pushing the Duke of Weselton away | Unintentional | |||
| Blasting the Duke with ice | Intentional | |||
| 4 | 8 | |||
| Freezing the Sorcerer's hat | Ingrid | Intentional | ||
| Attempting to blast Mr. Gold with ice | Intentional | |||
| Pulverizing mirror shards | Intentional | |||
| Freezing Anna, Kristoff, and all of Arendelle | Intentional | |||
| 4 | 9 | |||
| Breaking a cave wall | Elsa | Intentional | ||
| 4 | 10 | Unveiling memory stones | Ingrid | Intentional |
| Pushing Anna away | Intentional | |||
| 4 | 11 | Removing ice wall | Elsa | Intentional |
Known Practitioners
Trivia
On-Screen Notes
- Witchcraft can create similar effects as ice magic as Wish Rumplestiltskin created a snowstorm blizzard with a flick of the wrist through witchcraft. ("Homecoming")
Appearances
| Once Upon a Time: Season Three | ||||||||||
| "The Heart of the Truest Believer": | "Lost Girl": | "Quite a Common Fairy": | "Nasty Habits": | "Good Form": | "Ariel": | "Dark Hollow": | "Think Lovely Thoughts": | "Save Henry": | "The New Neverland": | "Going Home": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "New York City Serenade": | "Witch Hunt": | "The Tower": | "Quiet Minds": | "It's Not Easy Being Green": | "The Jolly Roger": | "Bleeding Through": | "A Curious Thing": | "Kansas": | "Snow Drifts": | "There's No Place Like Home": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears |
| Once Upon a Time: Season Four | ||||||||||
| "A Tale of Two Sisters": |
"White Out": |
"Rocky Road": |
"The Apprentice": |
"Breaking Glass": |
"Family Business": | "The Snow Queen": |
"Smash the Mirror": |
"Fall": | "Shattered Sight": |
"Heroes and Villains": |
| Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears |
| "Darkness on the Edge of Town": |
"Unforgiven": | "Enter the Dragon": | "Poor Unfortunate Soul": |
"Best Laid Plans": | "Heart of Gold": | "Sympathy for the De Vil": |
"Lily": | "Mother": | "Operation Mongoose Part 1": |
"Operation Mongoose Part 2": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| Once Upon a Time: Season Seven | ||||||||||
| "Hyperion Heights": | "A Pirate's Life": | "The Garden of Forking Paths": | "Beauty": | "Greenbacks": | "Wake Up Call": | "Eloise Gardener": | "Pretty in Blue": | "One Little Tear": | "The Eighth Witch": | "Secret Garden": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "A Taste of the Heights": | "Knightfall": | "The Girl in the Tower": | "Sisterhood": | "Breadcrumbs": | "Chosen": | "The Guardian": | "Flower Child": | "Is This Henry Mills?": | "Homecoming": | "Leaving Storybrooke": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Archive |
| Once Upon a Time: Specials | ||||||||||
| "Magic is Coming": |
"The Price of Magic": | "Journey to Neverland": | "Wicked is Coming": | "Storybrooke Has Frozen Over": | ||||||
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | ||||||
| "Secrets of Storybrooke": | "Dark Swan Rises": | "Evil Reigns Once More": | "The Final Battle Begins": | |||||||
| Absent | Archive | Absent | Absent | |||||||
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.
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