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Serpents (Hebrew: נחש nāḥāš) are referred to in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. The symbol of a serpent or snake played important roles in religious and cultural life of ancient Egypt, Canaan, Mesopotamia and Greece. The serpent was a symbol of evil power and chaos from the underworld as well as a symbol of fertility, life and healing.[1] Nachash, Hebrew for "snake", is also associated with divination, including the verb-form meaning to practice divination or fortune-telling. In the Hebrew Bible, Nachash occurs in the Torah to identify the serpent in Eden. Throughout the Hebrew Bible, it is also used in conjunction with saraph to describe vicious serpents in the wilderness. Tanniyn, a form of dragon-monster, also occurs throughout the Hebrew Bible. In the Book of Exodus, the staffs of Moses and Aaron are turned into serpents, a nachash for Moses, a tanniyn for Aaron. In the New Testament, the Book of Revelation makes use of ancient serpent and the Dragon several times to identify Satan or the devil. (Rev 12:9; 20:2) The serpent is most often identified with the hubristic Satan, and sometimes with Lilith.
The story of the Garden of Eden and the Fall of Man represents a tradition among the Abrahamic peoples, with a presentation more or less symbolical of certain moral and religious truths.[2]
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1 Serpents in Mesopotamian mythology
2 Hebrew Bible
2.1 Eden
2.2 Moses and Aaron
2.3 Fiery serpents
2.4 Serpent of bronze
3 New Testament
3.1 Gospels
3.2 Temptation of Christ
3.3 Ancient serpent
4 Religious views
4.1 Biblical apocrypha and deuterocanonical books
4.2 Christian
5 See also
6 Footnotes
7 References
Serpents in Mesopotamian mythology[edit]
See also: Snakes in mythology and Serpent (symbolism)
Ouroboros, single and in pairs at SS Mary and David's Church, England
In one of the oldest stories ever written, the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh loses the power of immortality, stolen by a snake.[3] The serpent was a widespread figure in the mythology of the Ancient Near East. Ouroboros is an ancient symbol of a serpent eating its own tail that represents the perpetual cyclic renewal of life,[4] the eternal return, and the cycle of life, death and rebirth, leading to immortality.
Archaeologists have uncovered serpent cult objects in Bronze Age strata at several pre-Israelite cities in Canaan: two at Megiddo,[5] one at Gezer,[6] one in the sanctum sanctorum of the Area H temple at Hazor,[7] and two at Shechem.[8] In the surrounding region, a late Bronze Age Hittite shrine in northern Syria contained a bronze statue of a god holding a serpent in one hand and a staff in the other.[9] In sixth-century Babylon, a pair of bronze serpents flanked each of the four doorways of the temple of Esagila.[10] At the Babylonian New Year festival, the priest was to commission from a woodworker, a metalworker and a goldsmith two images one of which "shall hold in its left hand a snake of cedar, raising its right [hand] to the god Nabu".[11] At the tell of Tepe Gawra, at least seventeen Early Bronze Age Assyrian bronze serpents were recovered.[12] The Sumerian fertility god Ningizzida was sometimes depicted as a serpent with a human head, eventually becoming a god of healing and magic.
Hebrew Bible[edit]
In the Jewish Bible, the Book of Genesis refers to a serpent who triggered the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden in Eden (Gen 3:1-20). Serpent is also used to describe sea monsters. Examples of these identifications are in the Book of Isaiah where a reference is made to a serpent-like Leviathan (Isaiah 27:1), and in the Book of Amos where a serpent resides at the bottom of the sea (Amos 9:3). Serpent figuratively describes biblical places such as Egypt (Jer 46:22), and the city of Dan (Gen 49:17). The prophet Jeremiah also compares the King of Babylon to a serpent (Jer 51:34).
Eden[edit]
Biblia Pauperum illustration of Eve and the Serpent
The Hebrew word nahash is used to identify the serpent that appears in Genesis 3:1, in the Garden of Eden. In Genesis, the serpent is portrayed as a deceptive creature or trickster, who promotes as good what God had forbidden, and shows particular cunning in its deception. (cf. Gen. 3:4–5 and 3:22) The serpent has the ability to speak and to reason: "Now the serpent was more subtle (also translated as "cunning") than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made" (Gen. 3:1). There is no indication in the Book of Genesis that the serpent was a deity in its own right, although it is one of only two cases of animals that talk in the Pentateuch (Balaam's donkey being the other).
God placed Adam in the Garden to tend it and warned Adam not to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, "for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."[13] The serpent tempts Eve to eat of the Tree, but Eve tells the serpent what God had said (Genesis 3:3). The serpent replied that she would not surely die (Genesis 3:4) and that if she eats the fruit of the tree "then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." (Genesis 3:5) Eve ate the fruit and gave it to Adam and he also ate. God, who was walking in the Garden, finds out and to prevent Adam and Eve from eating the fruit of the Tree of Life and living forever, they are banished from the Garden and God posts an angelic guard. The snake is punished for its role in the fall by being made to crawl on its belly and eat dust.
Debate about the serpent in Eden is whether it should be viewed figuratively or as a literal animal. According to the Rabbinical tradition, the serpent represents sexual desire.[14] Voltaire, drawing on Socinian influences, wrote: "It was so decidedly a real serpent, that all its species, which had before walked on their feet, were condemned to crawl on their bellies. No serpent, no animal of any kind, is called Satan, or Belzebub, or Devil, in the Pentateuch."[15]
20th century scholars such as W. O. E. Oesterley (1921) were cognisant of the differences between the role of the Edenic serpent in the Hebrew Bible and any connection with "ancient serpent" in the New Testament.[16] Modern historiographers of Satan such as Henry Ansgar Kelly (2006) and Wray and Mobley (2007) speak of the "evolution of Satan",[17] or "development of Satan".[18]
According to German academic Gerhard von Rad, Lutheran theologian and University of Heidelberg professor, which applied form criticism as a supplement to the documentary hypothesis of the Old Testament, the snake in the Eden's narrative was more an expedient to represent the impulse to temptation of mankind (which is, disobeying God's law) rather than an evil spirit or the personification of the Devil, as the later Christian literature erroneously depicted it; moreover, von Rad himself states that the snake is not a demon, but one of the animals created by God, and the only thing that differentiates it from the others in Eden is the ability to speak:
“ The serpent which now enters the narrative is marked as one of God's created animals (ch. 2.19). In the narrator's mind, therefore, it is not the symbol of a "demonic" power and certainly not of Satan. What distinguishes it a little from the rest of the animals is exclusively his greater cleverness. [...] The mention of the snake here is almost incidental; at any rate, in the "temptation" by it the concern is with a completely unmythical process, presented in such a way because the narrator is obviously anxious to shift the responsibility as little as possible from man. It is a question only of man and his guilt; therefore the narrator has carefully guarded against objectifying evil in any way, and therefore he has personified it as little as possible as a power coming from without. That he transferred the impulse to temptation outside man was almost more a necessity for the story than an attempt at making evil something existing outside man. [...] In the history of religions the snake indeed is the sinister, strange animal par excellence [...], and one can also assume that long before, a myth was once at the basis of our narrative. But as it lies now before us, transparent and lucid, it is anything but a myth. ”
— Gerhard von Rad, Genesis: A Commentary (1973, Revised Edition), p. 87-88, The Old Testament Library, The Westminster Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ISBN 0-664-20957-2.
Moses and Aaron[edit]
When God had revealed himself to the prophet Moses in Exodus 3:4-22, Moses recognized that the call of God was for him to lead the people of Israel out of slavery, but anticipated that people would deny or doubt his calling. In Exodus 4:1-5, Moses asked God how to respond to such doubt, and God asked him to cast the rod which he carried (possibly a shepherd's crook) [19] onto the ground, whereupon it became a serpent (a nachash). Moses fled from it, but God encouraged him to come back and take it by the tail, and it became a rod again.
Later in the Book of Exodus (Exodus 7), the staffs of Moses and Aaron were turned into serpents, a nachash for Moses, a tanniyn for Aaron.
Fiery serpents[edit]
Further information: Seraph
"Fiery serpent" (Hebrew: שָׂרָף, Modern saraph, Tiberian sä·räf', "fiery", "fiery serpent", "seraph", "seraphim") occurs in the Torah to describe a species of vicious snakes whose poison burns upon contact. According to Wilhelm Gesenius, saraph corresponds to the Sanskrit Sarpa (Jawl aqra), serpent; sarpin, reptile (from the root srip, serpere).[20] These "burning serpents"(YLT) infested the great and terrible place of the desert wilderness (Num.21:4-9; Deut.8:15). The Hebrew word for "poisonous" literally means "fiery", "flaming" or "burning", as the burning sensation of a snake bite on human skin, a metaphor for the fiery anger of God (Numbers 11:1).[21]
The Book of Isaiah expounds on the description of these fiery serpents as "flying saraphs"(YLT), or "flying dragons",[20] in the land of trouble and anguish (Isaiah 30:6). Isaiah indicates that these saraphs are comparable to vipers,(YLT) worse than ordinary serpents (Isaiah 14:29).[22] The prophet Isaiah also sees a vision of seraphim in the Temple itself: but these are divine agents, with wings and human faces, and are probably not to be interpreted as serpent-like so much as "flame-like".[23]
Serpent of bronze[edit]
Further information: Nehushtan
In the Book of Numbers, while Moses was in the wilderness, he mounted a serpent of bronze on a pole that functioned as a cure against the bite of the "seraphim", the "burning ones" (Numbers 21:4-9). The phrase in Num.21:9, "a serpent of bronze," is a wordplay as "serpent" (nehash) and “bronze” (nehoshet) are closely related in Hebrew, nehash nehoshet.[1]
Mainstream scholars suggest that the image of the fiery serpent served to function like that of a magical amulet. Magic amulets or charms were used in the ancient Near East[24] to practice a healing ritual known as sympathetic magic in an attempt to ward off, heal or reduce the impact of illness and poisons.[1] Copper and bronze serpent figures have been recovered, showing that the practice was widespread.[24] A Christian interpretation would be that the bronze serpent served as a symbol for each individual Israelite to take their confession of sin and the need for God’s deliverance to heart. Confession of sin and forgiveness was both a community and an individual responsibility. The plague of serpents remained an ongoing threat to the community and the raised bronze serpent was an ongoing reminder to each individual for the need to turn to the healing power of God.[1] It has also been proposed that the bronze serpent was a type of intermediary between God and the people[24] that served as a test of obedience, in the form of free judgment,[25] standing between the dead who were not willing to look to God’s chosen instrument of healing, and the living who were willing and were healed.[26] Thus, this instrument bore witness to the sovereign power of Yahweh even over the dangerous and sinister character of the desert.[25]
In 2 Kings 18:4, a bronze serpent, alleged to be the one Moses made, was kept in Jerusalem's Temple[1] sanctuary.[22] The Israelites began to worship the object as an idol or image of God, by offering sacrifices and burning incense to it, until Hezekiah was made King. Hezekiah referred to it as Nehushtan[27] and had torn it down. Scholars have debated the nature of the relationship between the Mosaic bronze serpent and Hezekiah’s Nehushtan, but traditions happen to link the two.[1]
New Testament[edit]
Gospels[edit]
In the Gospel of Matthew, John the Baptist calls the Pharisees and Saducees, who were visiting him, a "brood of vipers" (Matthew 3:7). Jesus also uses this imagery, observing: "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Gehenna?" (Matthew 23:33). Alternatively, Jesus also presents the snake with a less negative connotation when sending out the Twelve Apostles. Jesus exhorted them, "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves" (Matthew 10:16). Wilhelm Gesenius notes that even amongst the ancient Hebrews, the serpent was a symbol of wisdom.[28]
In the Gospel of John, Jesus made mention of the Mosaic serpent when he foretold his crucifixion to a Jewish teacher.[26] Jesus compared the act of raising up the Mosaic serpent on a pole, with the raising up of the Son of Man on a cross (John 3:14-15).[29] Main: Nehushtan#New Testament
Ivory of Christ treading on the beasts from Genoels-Elderen, with four beasts; the basilisk was sometimes depicted as a bird with a long smooth tail.[30]
Temptation of Christ[edit]
In the temptation of Christ, the Devil cites Psalm 91:11-12, "for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in [their] hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone."[31] He cuts off before verse 13, "Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon (tanniyn)[32] shalt thou trample under feet."[33][34]
The serpent in Psalm 91:13 is identified as Satan by Christians:[35] "super aspidem et basiliscum calcabis conculcabis leonem et draconem" in the Latin Vulgate, literally "The asp and the basilisk you will trample under foot; you will tread on the lion and the dragon". This passage is commonly interpreted by Christians as a reference to Christ defeating and triumphing over Satan. The passage led to the Late Antique and Early Medieval iconography of Christ treading on the beasts, in which two beasts are often shown, usually the lion and snake or dragon, and sometimes four, which are normally the lion, dragon, asp (snake) and basilisk (which was depicted with varying characteristics) of the Vulgate. All represented the devil, as explained by Cassiodorus and Bede in their commentaries on Psalm 91.[36] The serpent is often shown curled round the foot of the cross in depictions of the Crucifixion of Jesus from Carolingian art until about the 13th century; often it is shown as dead. The Crucifixion was regarded as the fulfillment of God's curse on the Serpent in Genesis 3:15. Sometimes it is pierced by the cross and in one ivory is biting Christ's heel, as in the curse.[37]
Ancient serpent[edit]
Serpent (Greek: ὄφις;[38] Trans: Ophis, /o'-fēs/; "snake", "serpent") occurs in the Book of Revelation as the "ancient serpent"[39] or "old serpent"(YLT) used to describe "the dragon",[20:2] Satan[40] the Adversary,(YLT) who is the devil.[12:9, 20:2] This serpent is depicted as a red seven-headed dragon having ten horns, each housed with a diadem. The serpent battles Michael the Archangel in a War in Heaven which results in this devil being cast out to the earth. While on earth, he pursues the Woman of the Apocalypse. Unable to obtain her, he wages war with the rest of her seed (Revelation 12:1-18). He who has the key to the abyss and a great chain over his hand, binds the serpent for a thousand years. The serpent is then cast into the abyss and sealed within until he is released (Revelation 20:1-3).
In Christian tradition, the "ancient serpent" is commonly identified with the Genesis Serpent and as Satan. This identification redefined the Hebrew Bible's concept of Satan ("the Adversary", a member of the Heavenly Court acting on behalf of God to test Job's faith), so that Satan/Serpent became a part of a divine plan stretching from Creation to Christ and the Second Coming.[41]
Religious views[edit]
Biblical apocrypha and deuterocanonical books[edit]
The first deuterocanonical source to connect the serpent with the devil may be Wisdom of Solomon.[42] The subject is more developed in the pseudepigraphal-apocryphal Apocalypse of Moses (Vita Adae et Evae) where the devil works with the serpent.[43]
Christian[edit]
In traditional Christianity, a connection between the Serpent and Satan is created, and Genesis 3:14-15 where God curses the serpent, is seen in that light: "And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life / And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel" (KJV).
Following the imagery of chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation, Bernard of Clairvaux had called Mary the "conqueror of dragons", and she was long to be shown crushing a snake underfoot, also a reference to her title as the "New Eve".[44]
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Footnotes[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Olson 1996, p. 136
Jump up ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Adam". www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
Jump up ^ "Storytelling, the Meaning of Life, and The Epic of Gilgamesh". eawc.evansville.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-11-30. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
Jump up ^ Gerard Michon. "Meanings of Mathematical Symbols and Scientific Icons". Numericana. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
Jump up ^ Gordon Loud, Megiddo II: Plates plate 240: 1, 4, from Stratum X (dated by Loud 1650–1550 BC) and Statum VIIB (dated 1250–1150 BC), noted by Karen Randolph Joines, "The Bronze Serpent in the Israelite Cult" Journal of Biblical Literature 87.3 (September 1968:245-256) p. 245 note 2.
Jump up ^ R.A.S. Macalister, Gezer II, p. 399, fig. 488, noted by Joiner 1968:245 note 3, from the high place area, dated Late Bronze Age.
Jump up ^ Yigael Yadin et al. Hazor III-IV: Plates, pl. 339, 5, 6, dated Late Bronze Age II (Yadiin to Joiner, in Joiner 1968:245 note 4).
Jump up ^ Callaway and Toombs to Joiner (Joiner 1968:246 note 5).
Jump up ^ Maurice Viera, Hittite Art (London, 1955) fig. 114.
Jump up ^ Leonard W. King, A History of Babylon, p. 72.
Jump up ^ Pritchard ANET, 331, noted in Joines 1968:246 and note 8.
Jump up ^ E.A. Speiser, Excavations at Tepe Gawra: I. Levels I-VIII, p. 114ff., noted in Joines 1968:246 and note 9.
Jump up ^ Genesis 2:15 HE)
Jump up ^ Barton, SO "Midrash Rabba to Genesis", sec 20, p.93
Jump up ^ Gorton 1824, p. 22
Jump up ^ Oesterley Immortality and the Unseen World: a study in Old Testament religion (1921) "... moreover, not only an accuser, but one who tempts to evil. With the further development of Satan as the arch-fiend and head of the powers of darkness we are not concerned here, as this is outside the scope of the Old Testament."
Jump up ^ "The idea of Zoroastrian influence on the evolution of Satan is in limited favor among scholars today, not least because the satan figure is always subordinate to God in Hebrew and Christian representations, and Angra Mainyu ..."- Kelly, Henry Ansgar (2006). Satan : a biography (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 360. ISBN 978-0-521-84339-3.
Jump up ^ Mobley, T.J. Wray, Gregory (2005). The birth of Satan : tracing the devil's biblical roots. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6933-0.
Jump up ^ Keil and Delitzsch, OT Commentary on Exodus 4 http://biblehub.com/commentaries/kad/exodus/4.htm accessed 2015-10-09.
^ Jump up to: a b Gesenius, Wilhelm & Samuel Prideaux Tregelles (1893). Genenius's Hebrew and Chaldee lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures. J. Wiley & Sons. p. dccxcv.
Jump up ^ Olson 1996, p. 135
^ Jump up to: a b Noth 1968, p. 156
Jump up ^ Toorn 1998, pp. 746–7
^ Jump up to: a b c Thomas Nelson 2008, p. 172
^ Jump up to: a b Noth 1968, p. 157
^ Jump up to: a b Olson 1996, p. 137
Jump up ^ Joines, Karen Randolph (1968). The Bronze Serpent in the Israelite Cult The Bronze Serpent in the Israelite Cult. JOBL, 87. p. 245, note 1.
Jump up ^ Gesenius, Wilhelm & Samuel Prideaux Tregelles (1893). Genenius's Hebrew and Chaldee lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures. J. Wiley & Sons. p. dccxcvi.
Jump up ^ C. H. Spurgeon, "The Mysteries of the Brazen Serpent" Archived 2013-02-12 at the Wayback Machine., 1857
Jump up ^ The basilisk and the weasel by Wenceslas Hollar
Jump up ^ Matthew 4:6)
Jump up ^ Strong's Concordance: H8577
Jump up ^ (Psalm 91:13 KJV)
Jump up ^ Whittaker, H.A. Studies in the Gospels "Matthew 4" Biblia, Cannock 1996
Jump up ^ Psalm 91 in the Hebrew/Protestant numbering, 90 in the Greek/Catholic liturgical sequence - see Psalms#Numbering
Jump up ^ Hilmo, Maidie. Medieval images, icons, and illustrated English literary texts: from Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2004, p. 37, ISBN 0-7546-3178-8, ISBN 978-0-7546-3178-1, google books
Jump up ^ Schiller, I, pp. 112–113, and many figures listed there. See also Index.
Jump up ^ Strong's Concordance: G3789
Jump up ^ From the Greek: ἀρχαῖος, archaios (är-khī'-os) - Strong's Concordance Number G744
Jump up ^ Σατανᾶς, Satanas, (sä-tä-nä's) - of Aramaic origin corresponding to Σατάν (G4566) - Strong's Concordance Number G4567
Jump up ^ Harris, Stephen L., Understanding the Bible. Palo Alto: Mayfield. 1985.
Jump up ^ Alfred von Rohr Sauer, Concordia Theological Monthly 43 (1972): "The Wisdom of Solomon deserves to be remembered for the fact that it is the first tradition to identify the serpent of Genesis 3 with the devil: 'Through the devil's envy death entered the world' (2:24)".
Jump up ^ The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Expansions of the "Old ... James H. Charlesworth - 1985 "He seeks to destroy men's souls (Vita 17:1) by disguising himself as an angel of light (Vita 9:1, 3; 12:1; ApMos 17:1) to put into men "his evil poison, which is his covetousness" (epithymia, ..."
Jump up ^ Schiller, Gertrud, Iconography of Christian Art, Vol. I, p. 108 & fig. 280, 1971 (English trans from German), Lund Humphries, London, ISBN 0-85331-270-2
References[edit]
Bob Becking; Pieter W. van der Horst; Karel van der Toorn, eds. (1998). Dictionary of deities and demons in the Bible (DDD) (2., extensively rev. ed.). Leiden: Brill. pp. 746–7. ISBN 978-90-04-11119-6.
Gorton, John G; Voltaire (1824). A philosophical dictionary, from the French of M. De Voltaire. vol. 4. London: C. H. Reynell. p. 22.
Thomas Nelson (2008). The chronological study Bible : New King James version. Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-7180-2068-2.
Noth, Martin (1968). Numbers: A Commentary. 7. Westminster John Knox Press. pp. 155–8. ISBN 978-0-664-22320-5.
Olson, Dennis T. (1996). Numbers. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press. pp. 135–8. ISBN 978-0-8042-3104-6.
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Captain Cold
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Captain Cold
Art by Brian Bolland
Publication information
Publisher
DC Comics
First appearance
Showcase #8 (June 1957)
Created by
John Broome
Carmine Infantino
In-story information
Alter ego
Leonard Snart
Species
Human
Place of origin
New Earth
Team affiliations
Injustice League
Rogues
Secret Society of Super Villains
Suicide Squad
Justice League[1][2]
Legion of Doom
Freedom Fighters (Citizen Cold)
Notable aliases
The Man who Mastered Absolute Zero, Leonard Wynters, Blue Iceman, Citizen Cold
Abilities
Master tactician, Master Thief and strategist
Extensive knowledge of cryonics
Skilled marksman
Possesses a 'cold gun' that allows him to freeze objects to absolute zero temperatures
Captain Cold (Leonard Snart) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Captain Cold is the leader of the Rogues, a loose criminal association, as well as the older brother of Golden Glider. An acquaintance of the various superheroes known as the Flash, he has served as a bitter enemy to Barry Allen, both enemy and grudging friend to Wally West, and one of the regretting killers of Bart Allen. As part of 2011's The New 52 reboot, Captain Cold is a villain that with his team The Rogues lives by a code to never kill and sometimes can be perceived as a hero.[3]
IGN's list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains Of All Time List ranked Captain Cold as #27.[4] Actor Wentworth Miller has portrayed the character in The CW's television series The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow.
Contents
1 Publication history
2 Fictional character biography
2.1 "One Year Later"
2.2 Salvation Run
2.3 Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge
2.4 The Flash: Rebirth
2.5 "Blackest Night"
2.6 The Flash (Vol. 3)
2.7 The New 52
2.8 DC Rebirth
3 Powers and abilities
4 Other versions
5 In other media
5.1 Television
5.1.1 Live action
5.1.2 Arrowverse
5.1.3 Animated
5.2 Film
5.3 Video games
5.3.1 Lego series
5.3.2 Injustice series
5.4 Merchandise
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Publication history[edit]
Created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, the character made his first appearance in Showcase #8 (June 1957).
Fictional character biography[edit]
Leonard Snart was raised by an abusive father and took refuge with his grandfather, who worked in an ice truck. When his grandfather died, Snart grew tired of his father's abuse and set out to start a criminal career. Snart joined up with a group of small-time thieves and in planning out a robbery, each was issued a gun and a visor to protect their eyes against the flashes of gunfire. This visor design would later be adapted by Snart into his trademark costume. In recent years he has added a radio receiver to them which picks up the police band to monitor local law enforcement. Snart and the other thugs were captured by the Flash and imprisoned. Snart decided to go solo, but knew he had to do something about the local hero, the Flash.[3]
Snart read an article that theorized that the energy emissions of a cyclotron could interfere with the Flash's speed. He designed a weapon to harness that power and broke into a cyclotron lab, intending to use the device to charge up his experimental gun. As he was finishing his experiment, a security guard surprised Snart. Intending to use his gun only to scare the guard, he inadvertently pulled the trigger and discovered that his weapon had been altered in a way he had never imagined. The moisture in the air around the guard froze. Intrigued by this twist of fate, Snart donned a parka and the aforementioned visor and declared himself to be Captain Cold - the man who mastered absolute zero. Snart then committed a series of non-lethal crimes, on one occasion placing the city in suspended animation in an attempt to force Iris West to marry him as he had fallen in love with her when he saw her in the prison, but the Flash got through a wall of ice and was able to reverse the process. He later fell in love with a newscaster, and competed with Heat Wave (in his first appearance) over her in a crime spree, but they were both beaten by the Flash. But after Barry Allen's death, during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Captain Cold became a bounty hunter with his sister Lisa, the Golden Glider.[3]
During the events of Underworld Unleashed, Captain Cold lost his soul to Neron but Wally West brought it back to the land of the living. He soon returned to crime, this time a member of Wally's Rogues Gallery. The Rogues had first been assembled when another Flash foe, the super-intelligent Gorilla Grodd had broken them out of jail to distract the Flash. The Golden Glider had abandoned her bounty hunter career and had started partnering with a series of thugs who she dressed in a costume, armed with a copy of Captain Cold's signature Cold Gun, and called Chillblaine. Already distraught over the death of her lover, the Top, it seemed that the supposed death of her brother pushed her over the edge. But the last Chillblaine was a little smarter and more vicious. He murdered the Golden Glider, prompting Captain Cold to hunt him down, torture him and kill him by freezing his outer layer of skin and then pushing him off a high rise building. Not long after that, Snart was framed by a new incarnation of Mister Element. He used his Element Gun to simulate Cold's gun, using ice and cold to murder several police officers before Captain Cold and the Flash discovered who was actually responsible. With the death of his sister, and having killed Chillblaine and Mr. Element in vengeance, Cold has again become an unrepentant criminal. However, during a confrontation with Brother Grimm, Cold actually worked with Wally West to defeat the powerful magic user, although this was mainly because he and Mirror Master had been betrayed by Grimm and wanted revenge.[3]
Captain Cold was declared the leader of the Flash's Rogues Gallery. His skill and experience have made him a strong leader to the likes of the Weather Wizard, the new Trickster, the new Mirror Master, and the new Captain Boomerang. Len seems to have taken the young Captain Boomerang under his wing, after the elder Boomerang was recently killed. Tabloids rumoured that Captain Cold's sister, the Golden Glider, was Boomerang's mother, making him Captain Cold's nephew. This turned out to be false, however, as the new Boomerang's mother has been revealed to be Meloni Thawne, who is also the mother of Bart Allen. Despite his more ruthless nature as of late, Captain Cold's heart is not completely frozen, evidenced by having sent flowers to honor Sue Dibny, murdered wife of the Elongated Man.[volume & issue needed]
Traditionally, Captain Cold is driven by three things: money, women, and the desire to beat Barry Allen. Although not the lecher that Captain Boomerang was, Len Snart has an eye for the ladies, particularly models. When Barry Allen died, Captain Cold drifted for a while, jumping back and forth over the lines of crime and justice. He was captured by the Manhunter and served time in the Suicide Squad, worked with his sister as a bounty hunter (Golden Snowball Recoveries), and, with his longtime friend and sometimes nemesis Heat Wave, encountered Fire and Ice of the Justice League. He has teamed up with various villains over the years other than the many Rogues. These include Catwoman and the Secret Society of Super Villains. His favorite baseball team is the Houston Astros.[volume & issue needed]
"One Year Later"[edit]
In the 2006 "One Year Later" storyline, he and several other Rogues are approached by Inertia with a plan to kill the Flash (then Bart Allen). Though Inertia was defeated, Captain Cold, Weather Wizard, Heat Wave, Mirror Master and Abra Kadabra killed Bart with a combined barrage of their elemental weapons. He, Heat Wave, and Weather Wizard seemed to express guilt, however, after learning the identity of the Flash and how young he was.
Salvation Run[edit]
Captain Cold is one of the exiled villains featured in the 2007-08 miniseries Salvation Run along with his fellow Rogues: Heat Wave, Weather Wizard, Mirror Master, and Abra Kadabra.
Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge[edit]
In the 2008 miniseries Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge, Captain Cold and the Rogues briefly joined Libra's Secret Society of Super Villains. In Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge story, however, Cold and the rest of the Rogues reject Libra's offer, wanting to stay out of the game. Before they can retire, they hear of Inertia escaping and decide to stick around long enough to get revenge for being used.[5] Cold and his group is challenged by a new set of Rogues, formed by Libra to be their replacements. The new group, having kidnapped Cold's father, challenge the Rogues, and are defeated and killed. Cold goes to his father, talking to him about the abuse he suffered, and the fate of his sister. After the elder Snart insults him and his mother, calling them weak, Cold punches him, but finds himself unable to kill him, instead getting Heat Wave to do it.[6] The Rogues have their confrontation with Inertia, despite interference by Zoom and Libra, and kill Inertia. Libra then reveals that he needs the Rogues because Barry Allen has returned from the dead, and the Flashes are potential threats to him and Darkseid. Though shocked by the news that Allen is alive, Cold still rejects his offer of membership. After regrouping, Cold and the other Rogues agree not to retire, claiming that the game is back on.[7] In "Final Crisis" #7, someone that looks like Captain Cold appears as a Justifier and is seen fighting the Female Furies alongside the other Justifiers under Lex Luthor's control.
The Flash: Rebirth[edit]
In the 2009 The Flash: Rebirth miniseries, Captain Cold is seen with the other Rogues, reading about Barry Allen's return and claiming that they would need more of the Rogues.[8] The Rogues are still debating Allen's return, with Cold saying it's time to pull out their contingency plan that Scudder came up with, stating "In case The Flash returns, break glass."[9]
"Blackest Night"[edit]
In the 2009–2010 "Blackest Night" storyline, the Rogues realize that the bodies of various dead Rogues are missing and prepare to fight them. Captain Cold knows that his sister, the Golden Glider, is among the reanimated Black Lanterns but is still ready to lead the Rogues against the zombies.[10] He is confronted by the Black Lantern Glider, who attempts to use his feelings of love for her against him. However, Captain Cold manages to suppress these feelings long enough for him to fight back, freezing her within a block of ice.[11] He subsequently kills Owen Mercer by throwing him into a pit with his Black Lantern father when he learns that Owen has been feeding people to his father in the belief that consuming flesh will restore him to life, informing Owen that Rogues do not kill women and children.[12]
The Flash (Vol. 3)[edit]
In The Flash (Vol. 3), Captain Cold and the Rogues visit Sam Scudder's old hideout and unveil a giant mirror with the words In Case of Flash: Break Glass written on it and release beings from a Mirror World upon breaking it.[13] However, Captain Cold is told by Mirror Master he had discovered that the giant mirror is actually a slow acting poison.[14]
The New 52[edit]
In the timeline of the 2011 company-wide reboot of all its superhero titles, The New 52, Captain Cold is reintroduced as a younger man than in the previous timeline and now with his Rogues lives with a code to never kill. His origin remains the same, however, his sister Lisa has not been the Golden Glider, and is instead dying of cancer. Upon learning that the hospital does not have enough energy to power a laser that could save her life, because of an EMP seemingly caused by the Flash, Cold blames him for everything that has happened to him, including a falling out with the Rogues, and decides to break the rules of their "game" and kill the Flash. Captain Cold has undergone experiments that have given him ice-based metahuman powers, including the ability to slow down the molecules around him, creating a field of inertia that reduces the Flash's speed to human level, allowing Captain Cold to touch him and effortlessly beat him.[15] He and the Rogues are set to return,[16] but later defeated them with help from Flash, and the Pied Piper.[17]
After freeing the Trickster and attending the meeting at the Justice League Watchtower, the Rogues return to Central and Keystone City, only to see that both have been destroyed by Gorilla Grodd. Grodd returns to Central City during the eclipse, while a ceremony commemorating Flash between the humans and gorillas is occurring. Grodd proceeds to take control of Central City as its king and renames it Gorilla City. Captain Cold sees the city's cops tied up from Grodd, and proceeds to free them. He then asks Mirror Master to help him get to the hospital where his sister is being held in order to check on her. While there, the Crime Syndicate send Black Bison, Hyena, Multiplex, Plastique and Typhoon to finish Grodd's work and destroy the hospital. The Rogues are able to hold them off, only to be interrupted by Deathstorm and Power Ring, who were sent by Ultraman to deal with the Rogues for resisting the Crime Syndicate's offer to join them. After battling Deathstorm and Power Ring, Deathstorm attacks Captain Cold and is able to extract his freezing powers from his DNA. Mirror Master attempts to get the Rogues out through the Mirror World, but Power Ring destroys the mirror causing the Rogues to be separated. Captain Cold ends up at Luthor and his Kryptonian clone's location where they are also joined by Black Manta, who has retrieved Black Adam from the ocean.[18] Luthor realizes that, with the help of his clone, Black Adam, Black Manta, and Captain Cold, he may be able to stop the Crime Syndicate. Captain Cold and the rest of the squad, now joined by Batman, Catwoman, Sinestro and Deathstroke, infiltrate the fallen Watchtower, where Black Manta kills the Outsider and Cold proceeds to shatter Johnny Quick's right leg after having frozen the molecules in it with his cold gun. He then unmasks the hooded prisoner brought over from Earth-3, revealing it to be Alexander Luthor, who is their version of Shazam, Mazahs, who states he will kill them all.[19][volume & issue needed] After defeating the crime syndicate, Captain Cold is pardoned by the U.S government, and becomes a member of the Justice League, along with Luthor.
DC Rebirth[edit]
Snart and the Rogues first made a cameo appearance in the DC Rebirth's storylines; they are fleetingly watching a news report about the many newly created speedsters appearing throughout the city in The Flash #3. Snart quips that it is time for the Rogues to leave Central City for a while. Visually the Rogues still seem to be based upon their New 52 appearances in this cameo, though when Snart later appears in one of Flash's memory flashbacks he has resorted to an even older look. He and the other Rogues retain these costumes in their later appearances.
Snart and the Rogues make their first full-length appearance in The Flash #15, where they are attempting to steal a valuable golden statue of the god Mercury from the small island nation of Corto Maltese. The Flash arrives to stop them, but they turn out to be constructs of Mirror Master laid so that the Rogues can commit a crime spree in Central City. Captain Cold reveals what he had been working on in his absence from the city—a "black ice gun" that uses the anti-Speed Force weaponry of the terrorist group Black Hole combined with his regular freeze gun. After a fight, the Golden Glider had a chance to kill the Flash, but was talked out of it by her fellow Rogues. Despite this setback, Flash manages to finally beat Snart and the rest of the Rogues without killing them. By the end of The Flash #17, Snart appears to be ready to take over Iron Heights from the more neophyte villains, including Papercut.
In the Watchmen sequel Doomsday Clock, Captain Cold and his fellow Rogues are among the villains that attend the underground meeting held by Riddler that talks about the Superman Theory.[20]
Powers and abilities[edit]
Like the majority of the Flash's Rogues, Snart had no innate superhuman powers. He instead relied on his cold guns and instincts. Over the years, Snart had modified his weapons to allow a variety of effects such as:
A cold beam that freezes anything it hits instantly.
Creating a cold field where people and objects literally stop in their tracks. Cold uses this ability to slow down the Flash's movements.
Bathing his opponent in a wide beam of ice designed to freeze the skin of the target so they stay conscious and do not go numb to the pain. Cold used this to kill Chill Blaine who murdered Cold's sister to make him suffer as much as possible.
Creating a slippery field of ice which can slow down the Flash.
Forming sharp stalagmites on the ground to impale his enemies. Used to kill Chill Blaine after freezing the outer layer of his skin so he could inflict as much pain as possible.
An "ice grenade" which was stated to "turn this place into an iceberg". Used to freeze everything in a large radius, and the whole of Iron Heights during the events of Blackest Night.
Creating "mirages" out of extreme cold-like heat.
Fellow ice-based villain Mr. Freeze has noted that Cold is the only cold-themed villain in the DC Universe to have mastered "absolute zero" with his weapons.
In the New 52 universe Captain Cold temporarily had metahuman ice powers, including the power to slow down the Flash or objects traveling at high velocities via molecular deceleration caused by Absolute Zero, but these powers are later lost in the Forever Evil series when he is attacked by Deathstorm- the Earth-3 counterpart of Firestorm- with Cold reverting to using his classic ice gun. Despite his lack of professional or technical expertise, Cold states that he spent so long analyzing the parts of his cold gun that he is able to recreate it in just over half an hour using parts stolen from a standard electronics shop.[21] He's even skilled enough to program it for a host of unique effects simulating some of his powers; like his "Cold Field" which quick cools the atmosphere to the point everything caught in it grinds to a halt,[22] or an auto activation function which triggers his Cold Gun's freeze ray via vocalized password input.[19]
During the Rebirth storyline, Snart augmented his Cold Gun even further by combining it with the anti-Speed Force technologies by the science criminal cell called Black Hole.[23] The newly christened Black Ice Gun now tacked directly into The Speed Force in order to painfully disrupt a speedster's connection to it. Snart's new cold gun was so powerful that not only could it hinder the Flash in the most excruciating way possible, it was vastly more powerful in scope, able to freeze both the harbor and several city blocks adjacent to their current location.[24]
Other versions[edit]
Captain Cold appears in Darwyn Cooke's series DC: The New Frontier. Here he robs a Las Vegas casino where some DC heroes and others are attending a boxing match between Cassius Clay and Ted "Wildcat" Grant. Captain Cold bursts in and freezes Iris Allen's hand attached to a phone, Barry Allen hears the call from his home and turns into the Flash, then stops Captain Cold from freezing Vegas via cryogenic detonators. While trying to escape, Flash crashes the copter with Captain Cold's henchwoman inside and takes him down. The Flash then rewired his gun and it backfired on Captain Cold, freezing him inside in the process.[25]
Based in the DC Super Friends universe, Captain Cold is part of a group of ice-themed villains called the "Ice Pack" that encased a city in ice and snow. The Ice Pack appear in DC Super Friends #16 (August 2009).
A teen version of Captain Cold known as Kid Kold appeared in the Teen Titans Go! comic as an enemy of Kid Flash. Like his adult counterpart, Kold had a sister who was also a supervillain, dubbed Ice Kate.[26]
The 25th century Captain Cold is a heroic Captain Cold, named Commander Cold as part of the 25th Century cops known as The Renegades from Professor Zoom's future, and the team's leader. Commander Cold's face, in the one shot of it without his shades, shows an uncanny resemblance to Barry Allen. He may be a descendant, or even a future version of Allen.[27]
Captain Cold had made two appearances in the animated-continuity comic Justice League Adventures. In issue #12, he and other ice-related villains encased an African city in ice.[28]
In the alternate "Flashpoint" timeline, the character is a hero going by the name Citizen Cold. He retains his current wardrobe and weaponry, and is Central City's main hero, with a museum similar to the Flash Museum, and a Rogues Gallery similar to that of the Flash, though he has killed some of his opponents. It is hinted that his heroics are a cover to hide a terrible secret.[29] He is contacted by Cyborg to join in the fight against Aquaman and Wonder Woman. When Batman refuses to join, Citizen Cold declines as well.[30] After Citizen Cold defeats Mister Freeze, he returns home and sees a news report that his sister, Lisa, has been arrested for killing their brutal father. When Wally West discovers Citizen Cold's true identity, that of a former low-level criminal, Citizen Cold confronts him before he can reveal this information, and freezes Wally in a block of ice.[29] Later, Citizen Cold invites Iris West to dinner, but it is interrupted by calls that his sister Lisa has been kidnapped by the Rogues. Citizen Cold tries to rescue Lisa, but the Rogues attack him for revenge on what he did to them. Citizen Cold is too late and Lisa is killed. Citizen Cold is injured while escaping and collapses outside his car near Iris.[31] Iris then brings him to her home. After he recovers, he gives her a key to his penthouse, and an offer to join him when he leaves Central City. He then goes after the Rogues, killing them all for what they did to his sister. When he returns home, he is confronted by Iris and the Pied Piper, who had revealed to her his murder of Wally. Citizen Cold attempts to kill Pied Piper, but Iris uses one of his own weapons to freeze him in a block of ice, just as he did to Wally.[32]
At the time when the "Forever Evil" storyline was happening, Grid access the files of Rhonda Pineda where the Earth-3 version of Leonard Snart was a police officer alongside Mick Rory where they have been pursuing Jonathan Allen and Rhonda. When Jonathan and Rhonda wanted the two of them to fight to the death upon being captured, Mick won the fight only for him to be killed by Jonathan anyway.[33]
Captain Cold appears in Injustice: Gods Among Us comic, with Superman's parents having been kidnapped by Mirror Master, the Justice League begins a large manhunt for the Rogue and start their search in Central City with several League members fighting various Flash Rogues. Captain Cold first appears being confronted by the Flash in Central City, with the Flash dodging blasts of ice from his cold guns and demanding Mirror Master's location. When the Flash shoves Cold's guns against his shoulder and legs in midblast, freezing him in place, Cold hastily relents. He reveals the location of a villains' bar called World's End in Keystone City as a possible place where Mirror Master should be. As Flash leaves, Cold asks him to "Do what you have to with Mirror Master but go easy on the rest of 'em, yeah? Heroes weren't the only ones lost in Metropolis, you know?" The Flash leaves and Cold has not been seen since.
Captain Cold is among the mind-controlled villains who attack the heroes as they assault Krona's Stronghold in JLA/Avengers #4.
Captain Cold appears in Injustice 2 prequel comic. Following the events of the first game, Cold is shown to be a member of this universe's Suicide Squad.
In other media[edit]
Television[edit]
Michael Champion as Captain Cold on the 1990s The Flash TV series.
Wentworth Miller as Captain Cold on 2014's The Flash TV series.
Live action[edit]
Captain Cold appeared in the 1990s The Flash television show, played by actor Michael Champion. Named Leonard Wynters and costumed in a trenchcoat, he is an infamous albino hitman in his self-titled episode "Captain Cold" who used a nuclear-powered freeze weapon to kill his victims. He was hired by Central City crime boss Jimmy Swain (Jeffrey Combs) to kill local mob bosses and later the Flash. Flash eventually manages to defeat Captain Cold.
Captain Cold appears, face unseen, in the Smallville television show. In the episode "Prophecy", he appears as part of a group assembled by Toyman. Captain Cold is assigned to kill Bart "Impulse" Allen.
Arrowverse[edit]
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Wentworth Miller portrays Leonard Snart / Captain Cold in The CW's Arrowverse.[34]
The character first appears as a recurring villain on The Flash. In season one, his stolen S.T.A.R. Labs 'cold gun' was created by Cisco Ramon to subdue a speedster, due to its ability to freeze anything to absolute zero temperatures. In the first season, Snart attempts to eliminate the Flash multiple times, eventually recruiting his former colleague Mick Rory to join forces against the new hero, giving his pyromanic accomplice a handheld flamethrower to do so. Now known as the supervillains Captain Cold and Heat Wave, the two end up being defeated by the Flash, only to escape with the aid of his sister Lisa Snart. Snart then captures Cisco and learns the Flash's secret identity Barry Allen with whom he makes a deal: Snart will keep Barry's identity a secret and refrain from killing innocent people, and in exchange Barry will not interfere with his heists. Barry later requests Snart's help with a metahuman prison transfer, and Barry eliminates all of the authorities' records of Snart in exchange. However, Snart then betrays Barry by freeing the inmates from captivity, stating that they would make a great addition his "Rogues" crew. In season two, Snart is blackmailed into working with his abusive father Lewis Snart who plants a bomb in Lisa to ensure his son's cooperation. When the bomb is deactivated, Snart kills his father in retaliation. After being apprehended, Snart is freed from prison by Weather Wizard to bring the Rogues together, but Snart declines and instead goes back to robbing banks alongside Mick and Lisa. In season three, Barry recruits Snart to steal a Dominator power source from A.R.G.U.S. for Iris West. The two are able to get past the guard King Shark thanks to Snart's knowledge on sharks being weak to cold from Shark Week, however, King Shark comes to and seizes Snart. Despite Snart telling Barry to leave him and take the power source to save Iris, Barry forces a door shut on King Shark's arm to mangle and frees Snart for the Earth-2 metahuman. After they succeed, Snart advises Barry to use his own good to deal with Savitar.
Snart returns as a main character in Legends of Tomorrow.[35] In season one, he and Mick Rory are recruited into Rip Hunter's team to prevent the immortal Vandal Savage from conquering the world; the two join the time-travelling crew to steal valuables from the past before they're discovered. At one point, Snart attempts to alter his own past and prevent the cycle of abuse he and his sister suffered at the hands of their father. Unfortunately, Snart learns that the timeline always finds a way to restore itself. Later Snart starts to reform, becoming a true hero, which leads him to confrontation with Mick. When Heat Wave later betrays the team, Snart maroons his partner in an isolated area. The vengeful Rory then returns as the Time Masters' temporal bounty hunter Chronos, and subsequently captures Snart for being abandoned. Snart later manages to escape, and convinces the team to try and reform Rory after his friend's defeat, and Rory rejoins the team. Ultimately, Snart is instrumental in defeating and capturing Savage by convincing Scandal Savage to turn against the immortal. Snart sacrifices himself to save Rory and ensure the team's survival after they learn that the Time Masters have been working with Savage and manipulating the team for their own ends. In the series, Snart has a blossoming romance with Sara Lance which reaches its peak when the two share a kiss before Leonard sacrifices himself to put an end to the Time Masters. In season two, Snart is a member of the Legion of Doom. Prior to that, his former cold gun used by Ray Palmer in order to continue in the field after the Atom equipment's initial destruction, and Rory starts to see hallucinations of Snart to try to indulge in villainous impulses. After Eobard Thawne informs him of his future death, a past version of Snart is recruited for the Legion from before he reformed or gained any honor, agreeing to work with the Legion to change his fate. Snart convinces Rory to betray the Legends and join the Legion, bringing the Spear of Destiny and allowing the Legion to rewrite reality to fit their goals. However, Rory eventually turns back to the Legends when becoming disillusioned with this reality and the increasingly abusive Snart. While Snart manages to kill Vixen in this reality and Thawne destroys the Spear of Destiny to cement the reality, the remaining Legends are able to go back in time and prevent the Legion using the Spear of Destiny in the first place. Teaming up with past versions to stop the Legion despite knowing a paradox would ensue, the Legends face off with the Legion in the midst of World War I and the remaining Legends from the future are killed, but the Legion is defeated and reality is saved. After Thawne and the Spear of Destiny are erased from existence by the Black Flash, the Legends return the Legions to their time proper periods, with Mick erasing Snart's memories as he is returned to 2014 to safeguard his destiny.
An alternate version, preferring to be called Leo Snart and Citizen Cold, appears in the four-part crossover event "Crisis on Earth-X".[36] This version is from the parallel world "Earth-X" where the Nazis won World War II and acts as a hero against the New Reich. Citizen Cold is shown to have a same-sex relationship with Ray Terrill / The Ray and helps Green Arrow, the Flash, Kara Zor-El and their allies fight against the armies of Earth-X. Citizen Cold appears on season three of Legends of Tomorrow, staying on Earth-1 for a period with the Legends, both to help them deal with their grief over Martin Stein's death and to give himself a chance to cope with the death of his own version of Mick Rory but he returns to Earth-X after assisting the Legends with a couple of cases, speculating that he will propose to Ray. Citizen Cold returns in season four of The Flash, arriving on Earth-1 while pursuing Siren-X to help with Fallout from an A.R.G.U.S. transport. When Siren-X plans to augment Fallout's abilities at the Central City Police Department enough to cause an explosion, Citizen Cold helps Flash deal with Elongated Man getting taken over by the Thinker. Following Siren-X's defeat, Citizen Cold gives Team Flash the offer to attend his and Ray's wedding and plans to bring Ray's uncle to Earth-1 at some point.
Animated[edit]
Captain Cold appeared in Challenge of the Super Friends, voiced by Dick Ryal. This version was depicted as having pale blue skin. He is one of two Flash villains (along with Grodd) who appear as members of Lex Luthor's Legion of Doom.
Captain Cold appeared in the Super Friends series. In the episode "Revenge of Doom", he is seen with the Legion of Doom when they get back together.
Captain Cold as he appears in Justice League Unlimited.
Captain Cold appears in Justice League Unlimited, voiced by Lex Lang. In the episode "Flash and Substance", he joins fellow Rogues Captain Boomerang, Mirror Master, and Trickster into doing various attacks on the Flash (Wally West) on the verge of the Flash Museum grand-opening in Central City. It is also mentioned in the episode that he's married which is ironic considering his womanizing ways in the comics.
Captain Cold is featured in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by Steven Blum. He and Mirror Master are mentioned in "The Golden Age of Justice" where they were stopped by Batman. In "Requiem for a Scarlet Speedster", Captain Cold assists Heat Wave and Weather Wizard into robbing a bank where they end up fighting Batman. During the fight, Captain Cold and the Rogues mention about the loss of the Flash. With the help of the Flash (Jay Garrick) and Kid Flash, Batman was able to defeat the Rogues. By the episode's end, Barry Allen returns to the present time just as Captain Cold, Heat Wave, and Weather Wizard were in the midst of a robbery. The Rogues were glad that the Flash is back as Barry joins Jay and Kid Flash into beating up the Rogues.
Captain Cold appears in the Young Justice cartoon series, voiced by Alan Tudyk.[37] In "Independence Day", he was robbing a jewelry store in Central City only to end up defeated by the Flash and Kid Flash. In "Terrors", Captain Cold and fellow ice villains Icicle (Cameron Mahkent), Killer Frost (Crystal Frost) and Mr. Freeze were sent to Belle Reve where Superboy and Miss Martian infiltrate the prison as the Terror Twins. Batman's suspicions of the four ice-based villains being in Belle Reve is confirmed when Captain Cold, Icicle, Killer Frost, and Mr. Freeze meet up with Icicle (Joar Mahkent) in a plot to cause a mass breakout. Captain Cold is defeated when his inhibitor collar was reactivated. In "Coldhearted", Captain Cold alongside the other four ice-based villains were seen in their cells when Hugo Strange tells Batman and Flash that none of the ice-based villains have left their cells at the time when five ice fortresses attacked the United States. According to Greg Weisman, it was stated that Captain Cold and the other ice-based villains had helped to power one of the ice fortresses.[38] In "Satisfaction", Captain Cold targets a bank that is near where Rocket is having a bridal shower. His robbery is thwarted by Rocket, Zatanna, Miss Martian, Batgirl, Black Canary, Bumblebee, and Wonder Girl.
Captain Cold appears in one of the Animal Man shorts on the DC Nation block, voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.
Captain Cold appears in Lego DC Comics: Batman Be-Leaguered, voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.[39]
Captain Cold appears in the intro of Justice League Action.
Film[edit]
Captain Cold appears in the direct-to-video movie Justice League: The New Frontier, voiced by James Arnold Taylor. This version is depicted as bald and wearing an all-white cloak similar to the comic version. He attempts to rob a casino in Vegas before The Flash (Barry Allen) stops him.
Captain Cold appears in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, voiced by Michael Gough (albeit uncredited). In the movie, Captain Cold along with Killer Frost (Louise Lincoln), Icicle (Cameron Mahkent) and Mr. Freeze are part of the villains who seek to go after the bounty for Superman. They attack and defeat Batman, but are defeated by Superman's heat vision.
Leonard Snart appears in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, voiced by Danny Jacobs. In the film's beginning, Captain Cold and the Rogues are attacking the Flash (Barry Allen) but Professor Zoom betrays the Rogues and attaches bombs to the group which cannot be removed. When the Justice League arrive and manage to dispose of the bombs, Wonder Woman uses one of his own weapons to freeze Captain Cold's belt and rid away from the bomb radius to save his life. In the distorted Flashpoint timeline, Citizen Cold is a superhero.
Captain Cold appears in JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time, voiced by Corey Burton.[40] He is seen as a member of the Legion of Doom.
Captain Cold appears in the direct-to-dvd animated film Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League, voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.
Captain Cold appears in Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Attack of the Legion of Doom with Kevin Michael Richardson reprising his role. He appears as a member of the Legion of Doom.
Captain Cold appears in Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash with Kevin Michael Richardson reprising his role.
Video games[edit]
Captain Cold appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced again by Steven Blum.
Captain Cold appears in DC Universe Online, voiced by Ryan Wickerham.[41] In the hero campaign, Captain Cold (alongside Heat Wave, Mirror Master and Weather Wizard) is a boss in the Stryker's Island alert. In the villain campaign, Captain Cold is located in the power core area of the Hall of Doom offering missions to higher level villains. In the tie-in comic book "DC Universe Online Legends" which begins in a possible future, Captain Cold dies attempting to defend the Kryptonite-poisoned Superman from Lex Luthor.
Captain Cold appears as a playable character in DC Unchained.
Lego series[edit]
Captain Cold appears in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, voiced again by Steven Blum.
Captain Cold appears as a playable character in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, voiced by Robin Atkin Downes.
Captain Cold appears as a playable character in Lego DC Super Villains, yet voiced again by Steven Blum.
Injustice series[edit]
Captain Cold is alluded in Injustice: Gods Among Us. Leonard Snart's name is listed on a hit list during Deathstroke's outro. He is also mentioned in a wager dialogue between the Flash (Barry Allen) and Killer Frost.
Captain Cold appears as a playable character in Injustice 2, voiced by C. Thomas Howell. In the story, he seeks his vengeance against the Regime for murdering the Rogues (including his sister) by joining the Society.[42] In Captain Cold's ending, he turns on Gorilla Grodd after discovering that Grodd and Brainiac were planning on using the Society to destroy the planet and leaves their frozen bodies for the authories. He returns to Lisa Snart's grave, where he tells his sister that he's now become the Flash's crime-fighting partner.
Merchandise[edit]
Funko has released a POP! vinyl figure of Captain Cold in their The Flash television series line.[43] A variant of this figure, without the hood and goggles, was later released as an Entertainment Earth exclusive.[44] Funko has also released a Captain Cold POP! pin.[45]
DC Collectibles has released a figure of Captain Cold, based on his appearance in the live-action TV show The Flash.[46]
A Lego minifig of Captain Cold has been released in a two-pack with the Flash.[47]
See also[edit]
List of Flash enemies
References[edit]
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