Cryokinesis in fiction

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Cryokinesis is a popular term for the purported psychokinetic ability to lower temperatures. Cryokinesis comes from the Greek "Cryo" for "Cold" and "Kinesis" meaning move, movement, etc. Cryokinesis utilizes slowing down the speed of atoms and bonding the atoms closer, changing it to a cooler and more solid object, where as its sister ability, Pyrokinesis speeds up the atoms. The term is not commonly used by parapsychologists

[edit] Cryokinesis in fiction

Cryokinesis is a popular power with many fictional characters. In most fiction, Cryokinetics can usually survive hostile cold areas to a degree, and with some, can even become ice (Iceman), due to the coldness freezing them.

Cryokinesis is also often portrayed in tandem with Hydrokinesis, in which the Hydrokinetic person(s) can change the water into it's solid form, ice, or make the surrounding cold. Similar to waterbenders on Avatar: The Last Airbender. DC Comics' Mister Freeze doesn't truly have cryokinesis, but can freeze moisture in the air with his freeze gun.

It was also once used in Charmed episode Pardon My Past. When the past life of Prue Halliwell had this power as opposed to past Phoebe's pyrokinesis.