Artist's rendition of Reginald I.
(art by Zipper)

History of the Ice Boom Boom family

The Ice Boom Boom family is a clan of esteemed nobles, dictators, overlords, scientists, tech moguls, IP lawyers, and other individuals of various other oft-villainous occupations. The family name is renowned throughout the Milky Way and many other galaxies for their exploits, and each member possesses vast power and astute comprehension of the nature of reality compared to their standard-palette counterparts. Their latent potential usually manifests in the form of cheap party tricks, summoning magic, neon pastel anime angel powers and being moderately skilled at card games.

The first member, Reginald I, was born on September 7, 1234 and got his start as a shoe-shiner in Glasgow, Earth. After gradually developing his business up into a corporate conglomerate empire, Reginald became disillusioned with puppeteering global politics from the shadows and turned his sights to world domination. Leaving the corporation in the hands of his brother, Ronald "Disney" Ice Boom Boom (better known to some as William Gatesborough), Reginald rented out a floating castle in Vienna, Austria and proceeded to amass a large army of undead soldiers. Beginning his tour of tyranny in Norway, Reginald (now calling himself Grimlord Archduke of the Impenetrable Frost and referred to by his followers as the Demon King) eventually managed to annex the entire northern hemisphere into his territory before the world's occult leaders banded together, forming a coalition of sorcery (known as the Coalition of Sorcery) that managed to banish Reginald and his castle to another plane of existence.

As the next in the line to take the Demon King's name, Ice Boom Boom Reginald "Reggie" II is considered by many to be the black sheep of the family; an antisocial rebel, Reggie renounced his father's villainous legacy and escaped to the stars to pursue a long and prosperous life of temple-guarding, utilizing his gift of flight to protect many a temple dedicated to the ancient space demon deities. Reggie finally met his tragic end at the hands of a sword-wielding treasure hunter inside the frozen ruins of a Grandma Generator sanctuary.

Though Reggie had carved a respectable niche for himself, he would still ultimately be regarded as little more than a footnote at best in the family's history... in fact, rather than continue their late father's business of "watching over musty old relics", Reggie's own children, Regina, Regis, Reggo, and Reginald III.5th, opted to continue where their grandfather left off. Each with a different ideal of Reginald I's evil, they went their separate ways and proceeded to carve their own paths throughout space: Regina would develop her own galactic superweapon, the H.O.W.D.Y. Mk VII, which was used to terrifying effect by many fledgling empires; Regis would unleash a mutagen that would convert its victims into cybernetic Reginald I clones; Reggo developed the vaccine for Regis' plague and then patented it; and Reginald III.5th became the undefeated Pro Space Bass tourney champion.

Each of these nefarious Ice Boom Booms would go on to branch the family tree off further. It is estimated that, not counting the clones, several hundred Ice Boom Boom family members exist in the known universe to this day, and the number is still expected to rise. Some even theorize that, within several millenia, Reginald's family will make up all remaining life in our reality.


Return from whence I came...