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Suspended Animation

Suspended Animation

Suspended Animation/Temporal Stasis is where the human (or some form of life) is exposed to extreme cold, stopping their life functions, without killing them.

Name:
Suspended Animation
Aliases:
  • Hypersleep
  • Temporal Stasis
  • Cryogenic Freezing
Start year:
1938
First issue:
cover

Marvel Universe

Captain America was frozen in the North Atlantic, after being blasted into the sea by Baron Heinrich Zemo. He was later found by the Avengers in Avengers #4, where he joined the team, replacing the Hulk.

Another example is when the Russians froze Bucky Barnes in suspended animation to be used as the assassin Winter Soldier.

Other Universes

In the TV Series, Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Aang, Aang and Appa were frozen in an iceberg for one hundred years, after they fell into the sea, and Aang accessed the The Avatar State and froze the water around them.

In the TV Series of Futurama, Fry was cryogenically frozen for a thousand years.

Issues

December 1938

May 1952

September 1963

January 1964

March 1964

July 1968

February 1971

December 1972

February 1973

July 1973

August 1975

November 1977

March 1978

November 1978

January 1979

September 1979

May 1980

June 1980

October 1985

November 1987

January 1992

February 1994

March 1994

May 1994

November 1994

July 1996

October 1996

March 1997

May 1999

Volumes

1937

1938

1939

1941

1949

1952

1956

1959

1963

1968

1972

1973

1974

1975

1978

1985

1986

1989

1993

1994

1996

1997

1999

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