Old Man Winter



"OLD MAN WINTER: Freeze your foes with this Arctic ally!"

- Ryan Industries advertisement

Old Man Winter is a new drinkable Plasmid in BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea that works similar to a Vigor. Although Old Man Winter allows the player to freeze enemy Splicers much like Winter Blast, it can also create ice traps, as well as freezing gushing water to create an icy bridge.

Burial at Sea
As an alternative to Plasmid injections, Old Man Winter was a drinkable Plasmid that had been created by Yi Suchong. When Suchong discovered that a "window" revealed Jeremiah Fink stealing and modifying his Plasmid formulas with an oxidation agent, Suchong retaliated by stealing Fink's formulas, and presenting this to Andrew Ryan as a drinkable Plasmid. Old Man Winter had its drawbacks, in which it produced dry ice instead of regular ice. It also had side-effects with massive doses, forming large ice crystals around the user's body, as seen on Frosty Splicers.

Behind The Scenes

 * Old Man Winter originally appeared as one of the unused Vigor icons in The Art of BioShock Infinite, resembling an old man with an icy beard. It was not named until the April of 2013, when a fan, nicknamed Trie215 on the 2K Games forums, sent his fan-made poster of the Vigor via Twitter to Irrational Games. As inspiration, the fan used the icon as the bottle's visage.
 * Old Man Winter is the only Plasmid in Burial at Sea - Episode 1 which has its own presentation video, like other Plasmids had in the previous games. Also, this video uses the same sound and voice track as Winter Blast in BioShock.
 * This Plasmid's name comes from a personification of the Winter season.
 * While Winter Blast already exists, an explanation for why Old Man Winter also exists could be that it is exclusively available in drinkable form whereas all of the preexisting plasmids are exclusively available via injection.

Video
A short introduction video by Ryan Industries