This page is about the comic book character. For other uses, see Nora Fries (Disambiguation)
Nora Fries (born: Nora Smithy or Nora Fields depending on continuity) is the fatally ill wife of Batman's sub-zero enemy, Mr. Freeze.
History
Nora met Victor Fries in a boarding school, and later they are married. Shortly after, Nora fell terminally ill with a malady. Victor discovered a way to put Nora into cryostasis, hoping to sustain her until a cure could be found. In time her husband would become one of Batman's well known enemies, Mr. Freeze. Over time she would fall to pieces while in her frozen state, but Freeze would fortunately put her back together.
Lazara
Nora as Lazara
Freeze helped Nyssa Raatko by creating a machine for the Society that could also be used to capture Batgirl, and in return, Nyssa would help him restore his wife using the Lazarus Pit. Instead, they put Nora in the pits themselves. But because of all the years of being altered and broken, she had absorbed the pit's alchemy, giving her the powers to conjure flame and reanimate the dead. Calling herself Lazara, she became a powerful villain. Freeze later had no choice but to freeze her into a block of ice in order to stop her.
The New 52
After the events of Flashpoint, it is revealed that Nora was never Victor Fries' wife and is in fact Nora Fields, a woman from 1943 who was put in cryogenic suspension when she was discovered to be dying of a rare heart condition. Fries became obsessed with curing Nora ever since she wound up in his department of Wayne Enterprises, with the accident occurring during an argument with Bruce Wayne due to Bruce's disagreement with Fries' interest in the patient, arguing that Nora is old enough to be his grandmother.
DC Rebirth
Following DC Rebirth, Nora was changed back to being the frozen wife of Mr. Freeze. In this universe, Victor (assisted by Lex Luthor) managed to finally cure Nora's illness and bring her back. As a result, Nora shared a condition similar to that of her husband's and had to be kept in sub-zero temperatures.
Having been driven mad by her new life, Nora began calling herself Mrs. Freeze and became the criminal-accomplice to her husband.
Powers and Abilities
Nora Fries
Powers
Lazara
- Conjure flame and reanimate the dead (as Lazara)
Mrs. Freeze
Abilities
-Subzero Physiology:
- Cold Adaptation: Her altered biology caused his skin cells to become storage units for the cold to help her body chemistry to be comfortably chilled, allowing her to become both entirely immune and adapted to sub-freezing temperatures
- Thermokinesis: Because of Fries' extremely low body temperature, anything her skin comes into contact with will freeze.