Fictional character biography
Pre-Crisis
Golden Age version
Professor Chemico of Holliday College creates a climate changing machine which can make hot and cold climates. He plans to use the machine to make the North Pole into a warm fertile area. Princess Snowina of Iceberg-Land learns about the invention and fears the machine will melt her people and their civilization. Her advisor Prime Minister Blizzard convinces Snowina to let him steal the invention. Minister Blizzard steals the climate changing machine from Chemico and the Holliday Girls, trapping them in a block of ice. While Wonder Woman rescues the girls, the Minister uses the machine to create a giant glacier to threaten New York. When Princess Snowina discovers his plan, Blizzard captures her and sends the glacier against New York, using the Holliday Girls as hostages to prevent a counterattack. Wonder Woman manages to stop him and then makes peace with Snowina while the Minister is taken into custody. Ultimately, Chemico's invention is not used to change any area of the Earth's climate and is largely forgotten about.Silver & Bronze Age version
Minister Blizzard appears next in ''Wonder Woman'' #162. While walking in Manhattan with Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman suddenly finds that the city has been iced over by a weapon created by Minister Blizzard. The Minister captures Wonder Woman with her own lasso and begins to carry out his plan to steal Manhattan Island. Wonder Woman is able to create a diversion and cause the Minister to drop her lasso. Wonder Woman then escapes, rescues Steve, and destroys Minister Blizzard's forces. Minister Blizzard later joins forces with fellow ice-powered villains Icicle I and Captain Cold to create a miniature ice age in Ecuador. Distracting Wonder Woman and the Justice League long enough to stage a crime spree in Gotham City, the trio are ultimately captured, but not before Minister Blizzard reveals that he and the villainous Shadow Thief are the true mastermind's of what was to be a larger plot to freeze the entire world.Post-Crisis
After DC Comics rebooted its continuity in 1985 (a publication event known as the '' Crisis on Infinite Earths''), Wonder Woman, her supporting cast and her enemies were re-imagined. Though originally absent from this revised mythos, Minister Blizzard would be reintroduced to the Wonder Woman canon in 2007 by writer Allan Heinberg as "a radical environmentalist bent on invoking another Ice Age". In a plot coordinated by the wicked sorceress Circe, he teams with a far-reaching coalition of Wonder Woman's adversaries, including the Cheetah, Hercules, the Duke of Deception, Doctor Psycho, Silver Swan,The New 52
In The New 52 reboot of DC Comcs' continuity, Minister Blizzard is presented as a cult leader who controls an unnamed group of religious fanatics. Though the events are unchronicled, he was, at one point, a recurring enemy of the expatriate Amazon assassin Myrina Black.DC Rebirth
In the post-Rebirth continuity, Minister Blizzard attempted to kill billionaire Barry O'Neill during a wintertime seasonal celebration in Gotham City. Seeking to recover "a hidden kingdom encased in snow", the Minister regarded O'Neill's creation of an ice-themed fairy tale children's attraction as a mockery to his holy efforts. He was defeated byPowers, abilities, and equipment
Minister Blizzard carries a gun that fires a beam capable of instantly freezing anything it hits, as well as spontaneously generating enormous amounts of ice, snow and cold. In his earliest appearances, his gun produced a "mind-paralysis ray" which could effectively "freeze" opponents' cognition and motor responses, as well as scramble their thoughts. The Minister is capable of propelling himself through the air by using his gun to materialize ice slides which rapidly form beneath and behind his feet, similar to the Marvel Comics mutant superhero Iceman. Additionally, the gun appears to be able to formulate moving constructs made of ice and vapor, not unlike the hydrokinetic abilities of the DC Comics superhero Mera. Though imposing, his advanced technology is not his only formidable weapon. The Minister has consistently demonstrated a cunning capacity for deceitful manipulation. Whether abusing his position asIn other media
* Minister Blizzard appears in issue #12 of '' Justice League Adventures''. He joins forces with Captain Cold, Cryonic Man, Icicle, Killer Frost, Mr. Freeze, Polar Lord, and the Snowman to form the Cold Warriors and take over a small African nation, but they are defeated by the Justice League. * Minister Blizzard appears in issue #16 of ''DC Super Friends''. He joins forces withReferences
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