How many medals would Frozone have won at the Winter Olympics?
As soon as Disney used the Winter Olympics on NBC to unveil its new trailer for Incredibles 2, and Frozone — who created figure skating, according to one pundit — popped up on our screens, the gears started turning. This is a superhero who can literally create ice out of thin air. How would he have done at these Winter Olympics?
First thing’s first: Frozone’s qualifications.
Inspiration:
It’s rumored that Frozone is based off Shani Davis, an American speedskater with two gold medals and two silver medals. Davis, who likely competed in his final Olympics this year, was the first Black athlete to win an individual gold medal at the Winter Olympics. Davis is a true legend and would have been perfect inspiration for Frozone at the Olympics.
Secret identity:
Frozone’s real name is Lucius Best. BEST. It’s right there. That’s at least one gold medal.
Other powers:
This seems most important. Frozone can make ice and snow. He’s had this power his whole life — even freezing fruit punch as a child, according to the Pixar wikia — so he should certainly have experience maneuvering by now. He also has superhuman leaping ability and can create tiny icicles in mid-air to essentially fly.
Most importantly, he cares desperately about the greater good.
What a bastion of upholding Olympic values.
Costume:
Frozone’s superhero costume — likely an Edna Mode cape-free special — is a big advantage for him. His boots convert into equivalents of ice skates, skis and a snowboard-like disc, and he uses them to swiftly traverse the ice and snow he creates. He’s also shrewd, donning goggles to avoid snow blindness! What a guy.
Experience:
This, from the Pixar wikia, really says it all: “According to the National Supers Agency, Frozone had attempted to represent the United States in the Winter Olympics, but was rejected on account of his Super abilities granting him a tremendously unfair advantage.”
So, essentially, Frozone would win almost anything he entered. The NSA didn’t let him enter because of a “tremendously unfair advantage”! In this alternate world where they don’t care anymore, Frozone is essentially on PEDs. Of course, in the Olympics, just about everyone else is too. But I’ll assume Frozone has his super powers and takes PEDs on top of them.
In figure skating, he can do tricks no one else can at heights no else can reach. We see him outrun the Omnidroid (for the most part) in The Incredibles, so it seems likely he would have won at speedskating to continue Davis’s legacy.
He’d be a championship level hockey player by literally freezing his opponents. Maybe he’d be scared of luge, so let’s say he loses that and all similar events, like the bobsled and whatever skeleton is. He could really struggle with the snowboard events because the disk he uses is shaped a little differently from a snowboard. He would have easily dominated cross-country skiing, the ski jump and all other ski events.
As for everyone’s favorite sport, curling? Frozone would not be into it because it’s too similar to bowling (I think? I still don’t really get it) and he never actually went to do that with Mr. Incredible. Finally, at first glance, the biathlon seems like it wouldn’t be Frozone’s game. Sure it’s skiing, but it also involves shooting and we never see Frozone fire a gun. But, he makes up for that by freezing everyone else’s bullets in mid-air until he can make enough shots himself.
His main obstacles would be 1. having to reveal his secret identity, which I already did earlier in this story, 2. potentially killing people by freezing them, 3. having to miss events to avoid missing plans he already made, and 4. not being able to find his suit in time.
Final medal count:
Loosely taking into account overlapping event times, I have Frozone slated to win 18 individual gold medals. Frozone would likely need to compete at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing to top Michael Phelps’ Olympic record of 28 total medals.
But, those 18 golds are four more than Norway and Germany, the top two countries at this year’s games, managed to win. That would also be three more medals of any kind than Marit Bjørgen has won in her career as cross-country skier. Bjørgen is — or was — the most successful Winter Olympian of all time.
