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“	Nana: Hey, guys! Popo: It's Ice Climbers. Nana: Well, I'll show you how to move. Get rhythm with your friends and rock the iceberg!	„
	~ Ice Climbers

“	Yup!	„
	~ Popo and Nana's famous catchphrase.]

The Ice Climbers (アイスクライマー, Ice Climber), individualized as Popo (the boy in blue, ポポ) and Nana (the girl in pink, ナナ), are the titular main protagonists of Nintendo's video game series of the same name.

True to their name, the Ice Climbers are a fundamental pioneer mountaineer duo, though each Ice Climber is differentiated from each other especially by the coloration of their inuit parka outfits. The duo consists of an elder boy, Popo, dressed in an indigo inuit parka who is the leader, and a younger girl, Nana, dressed in a pink inuit parka who is the follower and accompaniment, respectively. To fittingly reflect their characteristic leitmotifs, the Ice Climbers, true to their epitome as pioneer mountaineers, seek to scale various glacial and enormous mountains, yet must also avoid various obstacles and antagonists during their routes to each summit. In order to successfully accomplish each level, the duo must catch a vegetable-stealing condor.

In their illustrious timeline, the duo have pursued the aforementioned condor who, peculiarly, had possession of cucumbers, eggplants, and various other vegetables, while fending off and watching out for threatening species that roam around the mountain and attempt to prevent their progress, such as Polar Bears, Nitpickers and Topis. Meanwhile, the duo also had to be sentient of other destructive and threatening obstacles while scaling those mountains, such as falling stalagmites of ice, known as icicles, and strong gusts of wind.

The Ice Climbers are voiced by Sanae Kobayashi, alongside Kaede in Elfen Lied, Allen Walker from D.Gray-man, Reiko Natsume from Natsume's Book of Friends and Alexis Rhodes from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX.

Appearance

Together, the Ice Climbers both wear wintertime inuit parka outfits, have shade brown chin-length hairstyles, blushing pink cheeks visible on their faces, and are proficient in using their hammers, their primary weapon for defense. The duo also wears brown gloves, white boots with wooden soles and ice cleats underneath them, attached by blue (Popo) and pink (Nana) boot-straps, and have long black eyes that are almost typically depicted with a white shine. Thus, these traits collectively make them somewhat identical to Kirby. Additionally, their boots and hammers also appear to be covered in light-powdered snow.

Popo is a short and young boy who wears an indigo wintertime inuit parka outfit, has brunette and spiky chin-length hair, possesses blushing pink cheeks visible on his face, and is proficient in using his mallet, his primary weapon for defense. He also wears brown gloves, white boots with wooden soles and ice cleats underneath them, attached by blue boot-straps, and has long black eyes that are almost typically depicted with a white shine. Thus, these traits collectively make Popo somewhat identical to Kirby. Additionally, his boots and hammer also appear to be covered in light-powdered snow. His parka's hood resembles the Freeze Copy Ability's hat Kirby can collect.

Nana is a short, young and tomboyish girl whose genuine appearance is identical to Popo, with the exceptions being Popo's blue coloration being replaced with a light shade of pink, and Nana's hair being much smoother and halting near the middle. Nana wears a pink wintertime inuit parka outfit, has brunette and smooth waist-length hair, possesses blushing pink cheeks visible on her face, and is proficient in using her mallet, her primary weapon for defense. She also wears brown gloves, white boots with wooden soles and ice cleats underneath them, attached by pink boot-straps, and has long black eyes that are almost typically depicted with a white shine. Thus, these traits collectively make Nana somewhat identical to Kirby. Additionally, her boots and hammer also appear to be covered in light-powdered snow. Her parka's hood resembles the Freeze Copy Ability's hat Kirby can collect, only being pink. In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Nana's hair coloration is shown to be lighter than Popo's. On the official North American box artwork of Ice Climber, however, Nana's inuit parka is ironically colored red. This was due to inconsistent coloring.

Personality

True to their quintessential incarnations in their own series, the Ice Climbers are overall mischievous, considerate, lighthearted and energetic mountaineers who are entertained by climbing summits and routing through glacial and enormous mountaintops. Demonstrated in the Ice Climber franchise, the Ice Climbers are heroic and valiant, proven when the duo begin their pursuit after the vegetables. Despite being in their early childhood, the Ice Climbers have surprisingly high intelligence and are proficient in brawling and/or fighting antagonists, by landing powerful hits using their predominate weapons (their sole means of defense), their wooden mallets. However, their sole interest in mountaineering does not mean that the Ice Climbers are not sentient of themselves nor oblivious of other events occurring around them, as the duo are reactive of possessing cryokinesis and scaling the glacial peak to access the Battleship Halberd (battling against the Great Fox), respectively.

Additionally, when the Ice Climbers meet up with Meta Knight in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, he flies ahead of them and the mountaineers follow him behind in a fit of rage, rendering Meta Knight's phenomenal speed as a challenge. This shows that the duo seek entertainment in climbing mountains in such a manner that not only do the two desire racing other skilled people to the top, but also demonstrating more of their confidence and courageousness as the duo scale several mountains while simultaneously foregoing the threat of antagonists who lurk and invade themselves in mountains the Ice Climbers proceed to scale, an example being the Subspace Army. Despite being professional fighters themselves, the duo ironically despise spectating and/or dealing with fights or arguments, as shown in the Subspace Emissary where Meta Knight and Lucario prepare to fight each other while the Ice Climbers spectate in fear before becoming relieved after their reconciliation. It is also shown that the Ice Climbers are merciful and quite forgiving, as the duo do not show grudge against Meta Knight and Lucario for leaving them to fall towards the canyon after the Battleship Halberd crashed the Great Fox onto the Glacial Peak, and the latter two manage to board the Halberd without thinking twice about the Ice Climbers.

As an archetypical tag-team duo, the Ice Climbers, themselves, have an incredible dependence on each other for almost all situations. Popo and Nana have reliance on each other for teamwork to achieve full level of their fighting prowess and combat, which often leads to occasional trouble: antagonists can receive the free opportunity to easily separate them if the Ice Climbers are reckless, and if under the absence of one climber, the remaining climber will be drastically hindered in combat and skills; in turn, Popo and Nana's skills are at their best when combined, so their levels of prowess are half as effective alone.

Popo

Although living in his early childhood, Popo's personality is ironically reminiscent of an adolescent. Popo serves as a kindhearted, egalitarianic and selfless leader who relentlessly goes out of his routine on protecting and assisting other people, especially those who are meaningful to him in terms of loyalty. Popo is best characterized with leadership, as he is the more sophisticated of the duo and guides and protects his fellow partner, Nana, throughout his entire whereabouts, even if it leads either Popo himself or Nana into additional danger.

Reflecting his mountaineering career, Popo shows high entertainment and professionalism in scaling extensive and giant glacial mountaintops to reach the summits, more especially the Icicle Mountain, the world's largest mountain. Demonstrated in the Ice Climber franchise, Popo is heroic and valiant, proven when he and Nana begin their pursuit after the vegetables and their confrontation with their arch-nemesis, the condor, who is responsible for stealing Popo and Nana's vegetables. It is also implied that Popo is athletic, being notable for scaling mountains at superhuman speeds with the supplement of his incredible jumping prowess, allowing him to reach impressive heights just by jumping. Additionally, Popo excels in hammermanship, being able to knock out an onslaught of enemies by using his sole weapon for combat, his wooden mallet.

As mentioned before, Popo has pristine loyalty towards Nana. This is because Popo and Nana have a blood bond, which is a long-standing custom practiced around the world that involves a pair of distinct people swearing loyalty to one another. Therefore, Popo and Nana must dwell in pristine teamwork for justice and to unleash their full potential. Another circumstantial point, during the opening movie of Super Smash Bros. Melee, includes Popo scaling the Icicle Mountain before landing on an unstable platform that dissolves before Nana arrives to save Popo from falling victim down to the bottom of the entire mountain, and Popo smiles with pure gratification for Nana's savior.^[3] Additionally, another scene depicts Popo and Nana high-fiving one another with a small heart emerging from emerging from where their hands meet, further reflecting their blood bond.^[4]

Popo demonstrates great heroism over his favourite hobbies, more especially mountaineering. However, his sole interest in mountaineering does not mean that Popo is not sentient of himself nor oblivious of other events occurring around him, as he is reactive of possessing cryokinesis and scaling the glacial peak to access the Battleship Halberd (battling against the Great Fox), respectively.

Additionally, when Popo and Nana meet up with Meta Knight in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, he flies ahead of them and the mountaineers follow him behind in a fit of rage, rendering Meta Knight's phenomenal speed as a challenge. This shows that Popo (and Nana) seeks entertainment in climbing mountains in such a manner that not only does he desire racing other skilled people to the top, but also demonstrating more of his confidence and valor as he scales several mountains while simultaneously foregoing the threat of antagonists who lurk and invade themselves in mountains Popo proceeds to scale, an example being the Subspace Army.

Despite being a professional warrior himself, Popo ironically despises spectating and/or dealing with fights or arguments, as shown in the Subspace Emissary where Meta Knight and Lucario prepare to fight each other while Popo and Nana spectate in fear before becoming relieved after their reconciliation.

It is also shown that Popo is merciful and quite forgiving, as he and Nana do not show grudge against Meta Knight and Lucario for leaving them to fall towards the canyon after the Battleship Halberd crashed the Great Fox onto the Glacial Peak, and the latter two manage to board the Halberd without thinking twice about Popo and Nana.

Nana

Nana is fittingly characterized as a Genki Girl — being an enthusiastic and forthcoming little girl who dwells in assurance more than his partner, Popo. Nana is a thrill-seeking and cautious sidekick whose personality is ironically reminiscent of an adolescent, despite living in her early childhood, like Popo. However, she is often dimwitted and misguided due to her younger appearance in comparison to Popo's. She also tends to be occasionally stubborn and naive, but can especially be often inelegant, being notable for having the tendency to fall out of Popo's lineup out of folly. As such, Nana is best characterized with partnership and accompaniment, and she must follow Popo throughout his entire whereabouts, even if it leads either of them into additional danger.

Reflecting her mountaineering career, Nana shows high entertainment and professionalism in scaling extensive and giant glacial mountaintops to reach the summits, more especially the Icicle Mountain, the world's largest mountain. Demonstrated in the Ice Climber franchise, Nana is heroic and valiant, proven when she and Popo begin their pursuit after the vegetables and their confrontation with their arch-nemesis, the condor, who is responsible for stealing Nana and Popo's vegetables. Like Popo, it is also implied that Nana is athletic, being notable for scaling mountains at superhuman speeds with the supplement of her incredible jumping prowess, allowing her to reach impressive heights just by jumping. Additionally, Nana excels in hammermanship, being able to knock out an onslaught of enemies by using her sole weapon for combat, her wooden mallet.

As mentioned before, Nana has pristine loyalty towards Popo. This is because Nana and Popo have a blood bond, which is a long-standing custom practiced around the world that involves a pair of distinct people swearing loyalty to one another.^[5] Therefore, Nana and Popo must dwell in pristine teamwork for justice and to unleash their full potential. Additionally, a scene in the opening movie of Super Smash Bros. Melee depicts Popo and Nana high-fiving one another with a small heart emerging from emerging from where their hands meet, further reflecting their blood bond.^[6] However, Nana displays high fragility, as she cannot stand up for herself due to her cowardice and requirement of Popo to do so as she serves as his sidekick for accompaniment, meaning that she is virtually misguided. Whenever Nana is separated from Popo, she will attempt to return back to Popo without much means of defending herself from incoming opponents that intend to attack her. Her dimwitted nature is another major factor of this, especially in the Super Smash Bros. series: she tends to be perplexed when it comes to returning back to Popo, especially on platforms. More than that, Nana is even unable to grab opponents nor even take action whenever Popo grabs or throws someone, instead just end up cheering for him, demonstrated in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Therefore, while Nana is a supportive and faithful sidekick, she is typically at her best when it comes to being together with Popo. Despite these flaws, Nana still shows high loyalty to Popo, and their pristine teamwork still compensates for such issues.

Nana demonstrates great heroism over her favourite hobbies, more especially mountaineering. However, her sole interest in mountaineering does not mean that Nana is not sentient of herself nor oblivious of other events occurring around her, as she is reactive of possessing cryokinesis and scaling the glacial peak to access the Battleship Halberd (battling against the Great Fox), respectively.

Additionally, when Nana and Popo meet up with Meta Knight in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, he flies ahead of them and the mountaineers follow him behind in a fit of rage, rendering Meta Knight's phenomenal speed as a challenge. This shows that Nana (and Popo) seeks entertainment in climbing mountains in such a manner that not only does she desire racing other skilled people to the top, but also demonstrating more of her confidence and valor as she scales several mountains while simultaneously foregoing the threat of antagonists who lurk and invade themselves in mountains Nana proceeds to scale, an example being the Subspace Army.

Like Popo, despite being a professional warrior herself, Nana ironically despises spectating and/or dealing with fights or arguments, as shown in the Subspace Emissary where Meta Knight and Lucario prepare to fight each other while Nana and Popo spectate in fear before becoming relieved after their reconciliation.

It is also shown that Nana is merciful and quite forgiving, as she and Popo do not show grudge against Meta Knight and Lucario for leaving them to fall towards the canyon after the Battleship Halberd crashed the Great Fox onto the Glacial Peak, and the latter two manage to board the Halberd without thinking twice about Nana and Popo.

Biography

Prior to the events of Ice Climber, Popo and Nana were once residents of a mysterious village in the North, and were living their traditional lives until an orange pterodactyl, the condor, ambushed the village and stolen all of their vegetables, urging the Ice Climbers to train themselves to become professional mountaineers and begin their pursuit to the condor and their stolen vegetables, leading them to the Icicle Mountain, the world's largest mountain, which is where the condor has littered the village's vegetables around, prompting the duo to scale up to 32-48 glacial, narrow and enormous mountains filled with dangerous species, such as Polar Bears, Topis, Seals, Bees and Nitpickers, while also watching out for falling stalagmites of icicles and high chances of dangerous blizzards, to collect and retrieve their stolen vegetables and confront the condor by hoisting onto its talons, in order to prevent it from stealing or holding onto more vegetables it has since stolen.

As suggested by the series' title, the Ice Climbers have gone out of their routine in scaling a countless series of glacial and extensive mountains throughout the entire lifespan of Ice Climber. During the illustrious timeline, the pioneer mountaineer duo have relentlessly pursued the aforementioned condor who, peculiarly, had possession of cucumbers, eggplants, and various other vegetables, while fending off Polar Bears, Nitpickers, and Topis along their routes while climbing the mountains the duo pass by.

After the Ice Climbers have conquered all required mountains, the duo return home with their retrieved vegetables.

Ice Climber

In Ice Climber, the first player controls a child in a blue/indigo inuit parka and wielding a mallet as the default first player, Popo. In a cooperative two-player mode, a second feminine mountaineer in a pink/maroon parka, Nana, becomes a simultaneous second-player character. The Ice Climbers are motivated into jumping up through vertical, platform-heavy "glacial mountain" stages when all of their vegetables are stolen by a giant condor that retreats to the top of each stage, and along their routes, the duo must smash overhead blocks of ice either by jumping into them from underneath or using their mallets to dissolve them down. In addition to forming random glacial stalactites that fall down from above (icicles), several varieties of antagonists native to the mountains threaten to reduce an Ice Climber's limited stock of lives: a flying bird, titled the Nitpicker, an upright-walking Polar Bear that wears pink shorts and sunglasses, and a Topi, which undergone an infamous alteration from a seal to a more fictional and rotund, yeti-like creature in the Western edition of Ice Climber, perhaps to avoid potential accusations of endorsing animal cruelty (in that the game depicts humans bludgeoning live seals for a point-reward).

VS. Ice Climber

The Ice Climbers make their reappearance in the arcade expansion, VS. Ice Climber, which includes a pair of exclusive enemies that were omitted from the original NES release: the Bee, which wields a spear and flies across the screen, and the Butterfly, which replaces the Condor in the second and more challenging set of mountains after completing eight mountains in a row in the first and original set. The upper half of all stages is an antagonist-free "bonus" stage in which the Ice Climbers have the opportunity to navigate a tricky set of platforms, collect vegetables for points, and potentially jump up to and grab the condor's talons (or the Butterfly's feet in the second set of mountains in VS. Ice Climber) at the mountain's peak under a time-limit of 40 seconds, all for a massive point-bonus.

Other Media

Super Smash Bros.

Super Smash Bros. Melee

The Ice Climbers made their debut appearance in the Super Smash Bros. series, after a total of sixteen years from the release of their original installment of their series, Ice Climber. The Ice Climbers are a dual-controlled pair of fighters, making them unique compared to the other fighters. The duo, as a singular entity, are one of the 14 default characters available from the start. As a duo-dynamic pair of fighters, the partner duplicates whatever the leader performs. If the following Ice Climber is KO'd during the current stock, the remaining Ice Climber's fighting prowess is only half as effective; vice versa, however, if the leading Ice Climber is KO'd before the partner, the partner will be rendered KO'd as well.

Like in Ice Climber, Popo is the leading climber who is controlled under the player's influence by default, while Nana is the CPU-controlled ally; however, the Ice Climbers' third and fourth alternate costumes will instead make Nana the leading climber and make Popo the follower, thus reversing the role. The difference between the duo is purely aesthetic.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

The Ice Climbers make their official reappearance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, as playable characters and being available at the start of the game. In addition to retaining their moveset and attributes from Super Smash Bros. Melee, their own designs have been aesthetically altered, and the duo have received a final smash, titled Iceberg.

The Subspace Emissary

Prior to the events of the Subspace Emissary, it has been hinted that Tabuu has spread the Subspace Army across the Glacial Peak, the mountain the Ice Climbers intend to scale, leading into the army ambushing the Ice Climbers and prompting the duo to relentlessly fend them off while simultaneously attempting to reach to the summit, before Meta Knight, Marth, Lucas, the Pokémon Trainer and Ike arrive to the Glacial Peak.

The Ice Climbers make their first appearances in the Glacial Peak, climbing the glacial and enormous mountain leading to the Battleship Halberd and the Great Fox battling against each other in the sky. Upon noticing Meta Knight flying past them, the duo perceive this as a challenge, angering them and leading to the duo racing him to the top of the mountain while fending off a sizeable portion of the Subspace Army along their route to the top. When the Ice Climbers and Meta Knight reach the top of the mountain, the trio find a meditating Lucario there (waiting for Meta Knight and the Ice Climbers' arrival), who challenges Meta Knight to a battle, while the Ice Climbers spectate in fear. After the fight, the victor revives the trophicated loser, and Meta Knight and Lucario reconciliate, relieving the Ice Climbers, but more than that, the Ice Climbers are especially delighted that Meta Knight and Lucario have befriended each other instead of continuing to be rivals. However, relief was short-lived, as the Battleship Halberd crashes the Great Fox into the mountain. Meta Knight and Lucario manage to board the Halberd, and the Ice Climbers are knocked back to the ground towards the canyon from the earthquake inflicted by such impact (along with a multitude of Shadow Bugs raining from the sky), where Marth, Lucas, the Pokémon Trainer and Ike are located. After the Ice Climbers defeat a portion of the Subspace Army (with the assistance of Mario, Kirby, Pit, Link and Yoshi), the Ice Climbers team up with the other fighters.

The Isle of Ancients has been engulfed by a plethora of activated Subspace Bombs, and the ten fighters notice this (Ice Climbers among them). After annihilating the Subspace Gunship with the assistance of the Falcon Flyer (containing Samus Aran, Pikachu, Olimar, Captain Falcon, Diddy Kong, Donkey Kong, and R.O.B.) and the reowned Halberd (retaken by Meta Knight, Lucario, Solid Snake, Peach, Princess Zelda/Sheik, Fox McCloud, Falco Lombardi, and Mr. Game & Watch), the Ice Climbers and the other fighters invade the Subspace.

The Ice Climbers and the other fighters eventually confront Tabuu. Unfortunately, Tabuu trophicates the rest of the fighters once again using his off waves without enough warning, including the Ice Climbers. However, the duo were miraculously revived by Kirby (who was revived by eating a Dedede Brooch), and accompanies Ness, Luigi, King Dedede and the rest of the fighters into the Great Maze. In the end, the Ice Climbers and the other fighters not only finally defeat Tabuu, but the latter's defeat also results in the Subspace successfully wiping out into nonexistence. The Ice Climbers and the other fighters then manage to escape from Subspace, and all the colonies composing the Great Maze (World of Trophies) are restored to their rightful positions in the real world, with the rifts of Subspace all being sealed off, excluding the Isle of Ancients. Because of the plethora of detonated Subspace Bombs engulfing said isle, it is impossible for the Isle of Ancients to return. As such, it is claimed to be permanently erased from existence. Instead, it leaves a giant luminous cross in its place, where the rest of the fighters look at in triumph and victory, including the Ice Climbers (with Nana peeking to the luminous cross while embracing behind Popo).

Super Smash Bros. for 3DS/Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

The Ice Climbers do not make their reappearance as playable characters for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, although the duo is regulated in both variations as a collectible trophy. According to Masahiro Sakurai, the Ice Climbers and their franchise were successfully functional and playable in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, but because of Nintendo 3DS's lack of hardware power, the Ice Climbers were ultimately scrapped from both variations of Super Smash Bros. 4, so that they share the same roster because Sakurai did not desire to have an exclusive character for the Wii U. Additionally, the duo were deemed as "low-priority" characters since it was unlikely that the duo would receive a new game in their series.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Alongside the rest of the entire veterans of the Super Smash Bros. series, the Ice Climbers make their ultimate reappearance to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as unlockable characters, being formally announced within the game's E3 2018 trailer on June 12th, 2018.

The Ice Climbers appear on the story mode, World of Light, where they, along with the other fighters (excluding Kirby), were vaporized by Galeem when he unleashed his beams of light and placed under his imprisonment. Gameplay-wise, the Ice Climbers are found in the southern portion/bottom of the icy mountain next to the Temple of Light (where Pit and Simon are unlocked), located at the top left corner of The Light Realm. Unlocking them eliminates the icy paths in order for them to be successfully traversed in both directions, as well as unblocking an additional path to the shrouded forest, making the Ice Climbers' unlock obligatory for completing the story.

Later, the Ice Climbers and the rest of the other reunited fighters prepare their final stand against Galeem and Dharkon.

WarioWare Series

WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames!

Popo, the duo's leader, makes a cameo in WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames!, making an appearance in the microgame, titled the original game's same name "Ice Climber." In this microgame, Popo has to travel to the top of the mountain and grab the condor.

WarioWare: Twisted!

Popo makes a reappearance as a cameo in WarioWare: Twisted!, with his primary mission to smash the oncoming antagonists with his hammer.

WarioWare Gold

Popo makes a reappearance in WarioWare Gold, in the microgame, "Ice Climber." The player's objective is to grab onto the condor before time runs out. On the third-level difficulty, he has to reach the eggplant before time runs out.

Quotes

“	Two can play!	„
	~ Ice Climbers

“	Hah!	„
	~ Popo performing Ice Shot, in the Super Smash Bros. series.

“	Aey!	„
	~ Nana performing Ice Shot, in the Super Smash Bros. series.

Powers and abilities

• Hammermanship: The Ice Climbers are known for wielding their sole weapon, their hammer. This allows them to excel at close to mid-ranged combat, and offers them exceptional attacking range despite their short stature.
• Combat Skills: Using their hammers, the Ice Climbers are capable of combating their opponents through multiple and countless strategies, by swift hammer sweeps, hammer swings, long-ranged hammer swipes, hammer flicks, and most categorically, swift and powerful hammer slams.
• Raw Power: The Ice Climbers excel in overall raw power, courtesy of their aforementioned combat skills above, but also due to their hammers sustaining high weight, offering them the opportunity to inflict high levels of damage output and knockback by smashing their hammers onto opponents, and knocking them out with only a few hits.
• Agility: The Ice Climbers have above-average agility (in more simple terms, running speed), which offers the duo the opportunity to outspeed their opponents or catch up with one another if separated.
• Jumping prowess: A sentiment originated from Ice Climber, the duo possess an excellent jumping prowess, allowing them to excel in reaching impressive heights. This is especially prevalent and versatile when it comes to climbing mountains.
• Athleticism: The Ice Climbers are notable for scaling mountains at superhuman speeds with supplement of their incredible jumping prowess, demonstrated in the scene in the opening movie of Super Smash Bros. Melee, where Popo climbs the Icicle Mountain at incredible speed, making them surprisingly athletic despite being kids.
• Flexibility: In collaboration with the duo's small size and short stature, the Ice Climbers benefit from their aforementioned agility and jumping prowess, along with their athleticism, but also from their high air acceleration, which allows the duo to easily mix up their movement in the air (despite their extremely slow air speed). In addition, the duo also benefit from hyperactive attacking speed, which allows the Ice Climbers to constantly pressure the opponent and take on an aggressive playstyle.
• Cryokinesis: The psychic ability to control and create ice and cold temperatures. This allows the Ice Climbers to perform omnipotent tactics (such as summoning a giant iceberg or devastating snowstorm, blowing out gusts of blizzard from their palms), or simple and powerful techniques, including freeze tags, freeze touches or freeze sneezes.
  • The Ice Climbers have an extremely powerful and magical gift from birth, that of generating and controlling ice, cold and snow at will. Using this power, Popo and Nana are capable of several versatile applications: the duo have demonstrated both immense power (by creating a gigantic ice palace) and subtle usage (by generating an icy path to walk on water or by creating several geometric shapes by combining her magic with her creative spirit). The duo also have demonstrated the ability to generate freezing rays from their hands or to create stalactites.

Weaknesses

• Reliance on teamwork: The Ice Climbers are otherwise over-reliant on each other for teamwork, as if one climber gets lost and/or knocked out, the remaining climber will become drastically weakened.
• Range: Despite wielding hammers as weapons to excel at close to mid-ranged combat, the range of their hammers fall short to especially excel at long-ranged combat, allowing opponents with long-ranged combat skills or zoners to wall them out.
• Floatiness: As mentioned before, the Ice Climbers are burdened with a slow falling speed, which makes it difficult for them to land immediately and safely, while their poor air speed does not allow their floatiness to compliment their prowess in the air in the first place.
  • Floaty jumping: When combined with their light weight, their aforementioned floatiness also causes their jumps to be very "floaty," despite their excellent jumping prowess.
• Separation: The Ice Climbers are vulnerable to getting separated rather effortlessly, especially by attacks with high levels of strength. Upon separation, the opponent has the opportunity to assault either the more vulnerable leader (Popo) or the more helpless partner (Nana).
• Aerial Drift: Despite their good agility and air acceleration, the Ice Climbers are burdened with sluggish aerial and falling speeds, which heavily references said mechanics in Ice Climber, causing the duo to flounder against opponents who excel in aerial combat.
  • Lateral horizontal jumping: When combined with their aforementioned "floaty" jumping and slow falling speed, this also makes the duo's lateral horizontal jumps very underwhelming, as the duo will cover little horizontal distance within their jumps.

Trivia

• The Ice Climbers are implied to be the youngest members of the entire Super Smash Bros. cast. Like the Pokémon Trainer, however, their exact age is not specified, as Toon Link is the only child in Smash Bros. whose age is known (12 years old).
• Popo is chronologically the first male character in the Super Smash Bros. series to:
  • Not be a swordfighter, instead rely on a different weapon (his mallet).
  • Be a starter character with a newly-represented franchise.
  • Be both a newcomer and starter character other than Bowser. In this case, he is the first male starter newcomer to not be a heavyweight.
  • Be both a newcomer and starter character who depends on a weapon.
• Popo is the only male character in the Super Smash Bros. series to:
  • Be reliant on a weapon that is not a sword other than King Dedede. In this case, he is the only male character with this trait to not be a heavyweight.
  • Be both a newcomer and starter character to eventually become a veteran other than Bowser. In this case, he is the only starter newcomer to not be a heavyweight.
  • Appear in multiple Super Smash Bros. installments before being scrapped, then returning to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The reason Popo and Nana were scrapped from SSB4 is due to the consistent technical issues that Masahiro Sakurai and the development team faced when attempting to make them function properly in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.
• Nana is chronologically the first female character in the Super Smash Bros. series to:
  • Be represented with a weapon. Nana is also the only starter newcomer in Super Smash Bros. Melee to become a veteran in Brawl who wields a weapon.
  • Not be a swordfighter, instead rely on a different weapon (her mallet).
  • Be a starter character with a newly-represented franchise.
  • Be both a newcomer and starter character who depends on a weapon.
• Nana is the only female character in the Super Smash Bros. series to:
  • Be reliant on a weapon that is not a sword.
  • Be both a newcomer and starter character to eventually become a veteran who wields a weapon.
  • Be a fighter in Super Smash Bros. Brawl with a weapon.
  • Be scrapped in a Super Smash Bros. installment.
  • Appear in multiple Super Smash Bros. installments before being scrapped, then returning to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The reason Nana and Popo were scrapped from SSB4 is due to the consistent technical issues that Masahiro Sakurai and the development team faced when attempting to make them function properly in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.
• The Ice Climbers are one of the two archetypical tag-team characters to appear in the Super Smash Bros. series. The other is considered, Rosalina & Luma. Unlike Banjo & Kazooie and Duck Hunt, the Ice Climbers are simultaneously controlled by the player in a separate manner instead of singular. The duo are also the first characters in the series with this trait.
• The Ice Climbers are the only characters to appear in multiple Super Smash Bros. installments before being scrapped, then returning to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The reason the Ice Climbers were scrapped from SSB4 is due to the consistent technical issues that Masahiro Sakurai and the development team faced when attempting to make them function properly in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.
  • During Palutena's Guidance regarding the Ice Climbers, however, Pit assumes that their absence in SSB4 was due to illegal teaming, in which this dialogue is a humorous reference to the aforementioned reason above for the Ice Climbers' absence in Smash 4.
  • The Ice Climbers cease to return as playable characters in Super Smash Bros. 4, but then made a cameo as being relegated to a collectible trophy. In a column for the Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, Masahiro Sakurai claimed that technical limitations of the Nintendo 3DS prevented their inclusion; the two were reportedly difficult to implement on the system, and since the characters were unlikely to have a new game in their series, Sakurai deemed the Ice Climbers "low-priority" characters. While the duo were successfully functional on the Wii U, Sakurai decided to scrap them in order for the roster to be identical for both installments.
• Popo makes cameos without Nana in WarioWare Inc.: Mega Microgame$, WarioWare: Twisted, and WarioWare: Touched. However, both Ice Climbers appear as cameos in WarioWare: Get It Together! when playing the "Ice Climber" microgame with two players.
• Contrary to popular belief, the pair are not canonically siblings. In an interview with Masahiro Sakurai, he has referred to the pair as "childhood friends like boy-and-girl pair" and goes on to state that their relationship is “more than friends, but less than lovers,” along with revealing that their relationship is platonic.
  • Following this, Super Smash Bros. Brawl reaffirmed Sakurai's stance on the relationship both in-game and in supplemental material. The Ice Climbers' Smash Bros. DOJO!! page refers to them as friends in two instances while detailing their special moveset.^[7] In particular, the description regarding Belay reads, "When you use Belay with two climbers, they perform a feat that leaves you dazzled at the depths of their friendship!"^[8] Another circumstantial point is the final stanza of the description regarding Blizzard reads: "Ahem... And let’s overlook our friend’s occasional impulse to wander off, shall we?"^[9]
    • Despite this, however, issue 152 of Nintendo Power seemingly lost his comment in translation and instead referred to Popo and Nana as siblings regardless.^[10]
    • Additionally, Solid Snake's codec conversation regarding the Ice Climbers depicts Mei Ling mentioning that Popo and Nana have a "blood bond," which is a long-standing custom practiced around the world that involves a pair of distinct people swearing loyalty to one another.^[11] This implies that Popo and Nana are supposed to be siblings due to possessing relentless dependability to each other and promising to never leave each other behind.
    • An extra hint of their relationship is that during the 2-player cooperative mode of Ice Climber, Popo and Nana are theorized to be "frenemies." When scaling mountains, Popo and Nana can either scale the mountain and collect vegetables with teamwork, or through means for one of them to reach the top of the mountain while leaving the other one behind to prevent them from catching up to their pace. This is further supplemented by the elements of the Bonus Stage and Super Bonus Stage, where either Popo and Nana must grab the condor's talons or reach the top of the mountain with the flag planted on the summit first, respectively.
• The Ice Climbers have never unequipped their hoodies or gloves, not even revealing their full hairstyles. As such, the duo are potentially referred to as “eskimos.”
• On the official North American box artwork of Ice Climber, Nana's parka is ironically colored red. This is due to inconsistent coloring.
  • In the NTSC description of the Ice Climbers' trophy in Super Smash Bros. 4, Nana is erroneously described as wearing red, even though she is typically seen wearing pink (as mentioned by the PAL version). This is potentially referring to her appearance on the official box artwork for Ice Climber on the NES.
  • Additionally, while Nana's fourth and final alternate costume depicts Nana's parka as red (which references her appearance on the North American boxart of Ice Climber) in Super Smash Bros. Melee, her in-game model depicts her outfit as maroon instead, which is reminiscent of her in-game sprite in Ice Climber.
• In various languages, Popo's name is altered to "Pépé." This is because "popo" means "buttocks" in Turkish and "poop" in Spanish.
  • In German, "Popo" is a basic slang term for "butt" when translated to English.

External Links

• Ice Climbers at the Heroes Wiki
• Ice Climbers at the Heroic Benchmark Wiki
• Ice Climbers at the Love Exalted Wiki
• Ice Climbers at the Nintendo Wiki
• Ice Climbers on the Wikipedia
• Ice Climbers at the Super Smash Bros. Wiki

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