Does metal shatter if cold enough?

In movies or shows where the character has ice powers or a ice based weapon they can freeze stuff like metal and break through it easily causing the metal to shatter like glass. Is this scientifically accurate? And if so would the same apply to rock, wood, or people?

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xmedleft · 51-55, M

If you get anything cold enough to stop molecular motion it will become brittle enough to shatter like that, this is aided by many metals and metal alloys forming crystalline lattices in a crystal there is usually one direction of impact that it is strong in and another direction in which you shift positive molecules off of negatives and the pole shift forces them apart at straight lines, which appears on the macro level as "shattering"

NoodleJuice · 31-35, F

Wow that's so cool 😎