Mr. Freezeedit
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| Mr. Freeze | |
| Real name: | Dr. Victor Fries |
| First Appearance: | Batman #121 (Feb. 1959) |
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Created by: | Bob Kane |
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Affiliations: | Injustice League Secret Society of Super Villains |
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Abilities: | Genius-level intelligence Expert in cryogenics Wields a Freeze Gun and wears a suit that keeps his body temperature below freezing and enhances his strength. |
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Portrayed by: | George Sanders, Otto Preminger, and Eli Wallach - Batman (TV Series) Arnold Schwarzenegger - Batman & Robin |
Dr. Victor Fries (Fries is pronounced "freeze") was an accomplished scientist until a fateful accident at the lab. A brilliant cryogenicist whose beloved wife Nora was stricken with a fatal degenerative disease. He placed her in suspended animation while searching for a way to cure her, but the corporation that funded his research--and Nora's life--pulled the plug, triggering an accident that transformed Fries' body into a cold-blooded form that must always be kept below zero; at normal room temperature he will die. Wielding a number of freezing weapons, he wears protective armor in his quest to somehow bring back his wife and avenge her fate--which he partly holds Batman responsible for.
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[edit] Biography
When Victor Fries was a child he made a hobby of freezing animals to death. Worried by this behavior, his parents sent him to a strict boarding school where Victor felt outcast and became depressed. However, when he met and befriended a young woman named Nora, the two fell in love and later married. But their happiness was short-lived: Nora was diagnosed with a fatal disease (known as MacGregor's Syndrome in Batman and Robin ), and Fries, sickened with sorrow, attempted to save her using cryogenic technology. However, the experiment went terribly wrong and Fries' equipment malfunctioned, consuming him and his lab in an explosion of ice.
Victor somehow survived, but now his body could only survive at sub-zero temperatures, and Nora's condition was now even more serious. In an effort to continue his wife's treatment, he constructed a suit which would now protect him in his altered state. Calling himself Mr. Zero, he began to rob several banks to earn money. He was eventually thwarted by Batman and Robin, but struggled on. As Mr. Zero, he uses cryonic technology to create a gun, which fires a beam that freezes any target within its range.
After faking his death, Gotham City believed he was dead. During this time, Fries rearranged his costume and returned, calling himself Mr. Freeze. To this day he continues to fight Batman and Robin.
In Villains United #1, Freeze has frozen everyone inside a courtroom. While using a frozen man as a chair, he talks with the Calculator, who convinces him to join the Secret Society of Super Villains. During his time with the group, he fashions for Nyssa al Ghul a sub-zero machine in exchange for the use of her own Lazarus Pit. He attempts to restore Nora to life without waiting for the adjusting needed in the pool chemicals. However, she returns to life as the twisted Lazara, and escapes. She blames her husband for her plight, and estranges herself from him.
He is usually imprisoned in Arkham Asylum when apprehended by the Batman, as it is the only facility in Gotham that can accommodate his medical requirements for a refrigerated cell.
He appears in the Robin section of the No Man's Land crossover, as one of the villains competing for control of Gotham City's sewers. During this time he flash freezes the duo Tommy Mangles and Gearhead.
Mr. Freeze has joined with the Injustice League but was arrested after the villains attacked Green Arrow and Black Canary's wedding. Amanda Waller has the remaining members of the Injustice League taken away to a distant planet, Freeze included.
Most recently he has been seen as the main villain in "The Battle for the Cowl" One Shot "Commissioner Gordon".
[edit] Powers and Abilities
Mr. Freeze is a scientific genius, with a specialty in cryogenics. He employs an extensive array of cryo-weaponry in his driven quest, motivated by his grief and anger over the fate of his wife Nora. Due to the fact that his body has been permanently altered to survive at a sub-freezing state, Freeze wears protective freezing armor whenever in an above-zero climate.
[edit] In other media
[edit] Film
Main article: Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
[edit] Telvision
[edit] 1960s Batman
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[edit] Batman: The Animated Series
Main article: Mr. Freeze (BTAS)
[edit] The Batman
Main article: Mr. Freeze (The Batman)
[edit] "Batman: The Brave and the Bold"
Mr. Freeze, in his Mr. Zero appearance, appears in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Legends of the Dark Mite." He, along with The Joker, Catwoman, The Riddler, Killer Moth, Mad Hatter, Kite Man, Two-Face, Penguin, Catman, and several other villains are shown briefly in Bat-Mite's imagination.
[edit] Video Games
[edit] Gallery
 Mr. Freeze |
Mr. Freeze and Batman |
 The Batman version of Mr. Freeze |
 Mr. Freeze on Batman: The Brave and the Bold. |
 Mr. Freeze on Superman/Batman: Public Enemies. |
