The various sports and varieties of skiing, snowboarding, skating and more could be good power sets or skilled normal abilities.
I wouldn’t make the whole team Scandinavian despite their winter sport success and Norway’s in particular, but they could certainly be based up there. There’s little Scandinavian representation in the US-based superhero universes, and I want to avoid stereotypes while including archetypes.
The most wintry mainstream team is probably Canada’s Alpha Flight, with winter weather controller Snowbird, a furry Hulk type in Sasquatch, as well as hockey pun strong guy Puck. (They were initially led by an armoured hero and included a shaman, an amphibious swimmer and two speedsters named Northstsr and Aurora for less immediately relevant members.) They infamously had a major fight scene in a whiteout represented by seven pages of sound effects and speech bubbles over white panels. (See also Superhero Girl Versus Canadian-ness.)
So an international team based on dealing with cold weather issues.
Skiing, with a suitably radical snowboarding sidekick?
And/or ski jump?
Speed skating speedster.
Figure skating suggests a martial artist and/or superspy type.
Ice hockey obviously suggests a melee fighter role.
Biathlon is already James Bond Norwegian army training.
The sled sports? Armoured sub-team?
Curling (the one discipline I can imagine myself surviving) might be the guy-in-the-chair role.
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