1. Rudolph
In the North Pole, Rudolph was a boring, high school reindeer living with his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. One day, he visited a science exhibit and was bitten by a radioactive spider and acquired the ability to fly and the red-noseness often associated with arachnids. Along with glowing red nose, Rudolph gained the ability to be made fun by his reindeer friends. Initially seeking to capitalize on his new abilities, Rudolph took advantage of a foggy night and led Santa’s sleigh. However, “He blithely ignores the chance to stop a fleeing thief, and his indifference ironically catches up with him when the same criminal later robs and kills his Uncle Ben.” Rudolph tracks and subdues the killer and learns the lesson, “With great power and a red nose there must also come—great responsibility!”
2. The Grinch
During the experimental detonation of a gamma bomb, scientist Bruce Banner rushes to save teenager Rick Jones who has driven onto the testing field; Banner pushes Jones into a trench to save him, but is himself hit with the blast, absorbing massive amounts of gamma radiation. He awakens later in an infirmary, seeming relatively unscathed, but that night transforms into a lumbering green form that breaks through the wall and escapes. A soldier in the ensuing search party dubs the otherwise unidentified creature a “Grinch.” The original incarnation of Banner transformed into the Grinch at sunset and reverted at sunrise.
3. Snow Miser and Heat Miser
After slaying Laufey, Odin found a small Asgardian-sized child hidden within the primary stronghold of the Frost Giants. The child was Snow Miser and Laufey had kept him hidden from his people due to his shame over his son’s small size. Odin took the boy, out of a combination of pity, to appease his father, and because he was the son of a worthy adversary slain in honorable combat, and raised him as his son alongside his biological son Heat Miser. Throughout their childhood and into adolescence, Snow Miser was resentful of the differences in which he and Heat Miser were treated by the citizens of Asgard. The Asgardians valued great strength, tenacity, bravery in battle, and ability to melt things in his clutch above all things, and Snow Miser was clearly inferior to his foster brother Heat Miser in those areas. What he lacked in size and strength, however, he made up for in power and skill, particularly as a sorcerer who can turn things to snow. As Snow Miser grew to adulthood, his natural talent for causing mischief would make itself manifest and earned him a nickname as the “God of Lies and Mischief and Making Things Cold.”
4. Frosty the Snowman
Frosty was born in the 1920s in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, to poor Irish immigrants, Sarah and Joseph Rogers. Joseph died when Frosty was a child, and Sarah died of pneumonia while Frosty was a teen. By early 1940, before America’s entry into World War II, Frosty is a tall, scrawny fine arts student specializing in illustration, and a comic book writer and artist.
Disturbed by the rise of the Third Reich, Frosty attempts to enlist but is rejected due to his frail snow-body. His resolution attracts the notice of U.S. Army General Chester Phillips and “Project: Rebirth”. Rogers is used as a test subject for the Super-Soldier-Snowman project, receiving a special serum.
The serum is a success and transforms Frosty into a nearly perfect snowman with peak strength, agility, stamina, intelligence, and the ability to talk and move.
5. Scrooge
Anthony Scrooge, the son of wealthy industrialist and head of Stark Industries, Howard Stark, and Maria Stark, was born on Long Island. A boy genius, he entered MIT at the age of 15 to study electrical engineering and later receives master’s degrees in electrical engineering and physics. After his parents are killed in a car accident, he inherits his father’s company.
Scrooge is injured by a booby trap and captured by enemy forces led by Wong-Chu. Wong-Chu orders Scrooge to build weapons, but Scrooge’s injuries are dire and shrapnel is moving towards his heart. His fellow prisoner, Ho Yinsen, constructs a magnetic chest plate to keep the shrapnel from reaching Scrooge’s heart, keeping him alive. In secret, Scrooge and Yinsen use the workshop to design and construct a suit of powered armor, which Scrooge uses to escape. But during the escape attempt, Yinsen sacrifices his life to save Scrooge’s by distracting the enemy as Scrooge recharges. Scrooge takes revenge on his kidnappers and heads back to rejoin the American forces.
6. Jack Frost
As a young boy, Jack Frost was horrified and traumatized when he watched his parents, the physician Dr. Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, murdered by a mugger with a gun. Jack refuses to utilize any sort of gun on the principle that a gun was used to murder his parents. This event drove him to train his body to physical perfection, teach himself how to nip noses, and fight crime in Gotham City as Jack Frost.
7. Santa Claus
Kris Kringle started breaking into houses of families that had small children and left gifts. It took a while for people to be cool with this but then he became a Saint and changed his name to St, Nicholas but also Santa Claus.
-Lauren Moliterno, Senior Staff Member