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.
- Hypersleep
- Temporal Stasis
- Cryogenic Freezing
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.