Harmless Freezing/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character is frozen solid and subsequently thawed with no serious adverse health effects.

• Straight: Bob is frozen by the Big Bad's freeze ray, but thaws some time later and is fine.
• Exaggerated:
  • Bob is frozen by the Big Bad's freeze ray for 300 years, until he finally thaws and proceeds to run a marathon while lifting weights.
  • Additionally, Bob dies from a horrible disease and is brought back to life by being frozen solid.
• Justified: Bob has undergone special conditioning and chemical treatments to prepare for being frozen solid.
• Inverted:
  • Bob is frozen solid but reverts into a messy pile of viscera when thawed.
  • Kill It with Ice
• Subverted: Bob is frozen solid, but scientists can't figure out a way to thaw him safely, so they leave him frozen.
• Double Subverted: The scientists discover a miraculous new thawing technique that allows Bob to thaw safely.
• Parodied: Being frozen solid becomes a popular carnival attraction, where people line up for miles to feel the sensation of being frozen and then thawed.
• Deconstructed: Bob appears normal after being thawed, but soon is beset by numerous health problems from having all his organs frozen for a sustained period of time.
• Reconstructed: Doctors discover miraculous new drugs that allow Bob to make a full recovery.
• Zig Zagged: Bob is frozen solid, but shatters into numerous pieces when being thawed. The scientists take all the thawed pieces, reassemble them, freeze the reassembled pieces, and re-thaw Bob as a complete person.
• Averted: The freeze ray misses Bob, so he never gets frozen.
• Enforced: The story's plot requires a character to survives 300+ years into the future, so cryogenics are the only feasible plot device.
• Lampshaded: "No worries Bob, after you're frozen we will just thaw you and you'll be perfectly fine!"
• Invoked: Bob is a scientist experimenting with the effects of freezing on the human body.
• Defied: After freezing Bob, the Big Bad gets a sledgehammer and shatters him into tiny pieces.
• Discussed: "Wow Bob, I would have expected the thawing to have gone...differently."
• Conversed: "Wait, so Bob's human body, which encounters frost bite from being exposed to anything just below 32 degrees, is completely unharmed by a subzero freeze ray?"

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