Fries decides to use the device on Nora, to put her in cryo-stasis, but due to tampering from his boss, Nora is frozen and shattered and Fries becomes insane. Fries' boss decides to tell the mob about the gun, leading Batman to create a team of specialists to help him do his job better. Ī year and a half after Bruce Wayne becomes the Batman, Nora has contracted a disease, while Fries works on a freeze ray. In college, he meets a woman named Nora, whom he falls in love with and ultimately marries. His parents, horrified by his "hobby", send him to a strict boarding school, where he is miserable, feeling detached from humanity. As a child, he is fascinated by freezing animals. Victor Fries (surname pronounced "freeze") is an expert molecular biologist. Post- Crisis, Freeze was revamped utilizing Paul Dini's backstory. Freeze is a rogue scientist whose design for an "ice gun" backfires when he inadvertently spills cryogenic chemicals on himself, resulting in his needing subzero temperatures to survive. In the Pre- Crisis continuity series, it is explained that Mr. Schivell"), and the name quickly carried over to the comic books.īatman #121 (1959), the first appearance of the character as "Mr. Freeze (and portrayed Batman addressing him as " Dr.
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Zero, the producers of the 1960s Batman television series renamed him Mr.
Freeze was portrayed as one of many "joke" villains (see also Killer Moth) cast as stock enemies of Batman. Fictional character biography įrom the time of his first appearance in 1958 onward, Mr. This backstory was also made canon in the comics and has been Fries' official origin in almost every incarnation of Batman since.Įlements of this back story were incorporated into the 1997 film Batman & Robin, in which he was portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The episode was seen as groundbreaking for a Saturday morning cartoon and helped set the tone for the complex moral motivations seen constantly in the rest of the series. Freeze was resurrected in the comic after the episode aired. As a result, this more complex and tragic antiheroic character was enthusiastically accepted by fans, and has become the standard portrayal for the character in most forms of media, including the comic book series itself, which previously had the character casually killed off by the Joker. Freeze's origin in a landmark episode by writer Paul Dini, introducing his terminally ill, cryogenically frozen wife Nora, which greater explained his obsession with ice and need to build a criminal empire to raise research funds. Nearly 30 years later, a television adaptation of Batman revitalized him once again. Zero, he was renamed and popularized by the 1960s Batman television series, in which he was played by several actors. IGN's list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time List ranked Mr. In the 1997 film Batman & Robin, he was portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was voiced in Batman: The Animated Series by Michael Ansara, and by Clancy Brown in The Batman. Freeze was played in various episodes by George Sanders, Otto Preminger and Eli Wallach. In the original Batman television series, Mr. In the most common variation of his origin story, he is a former cryogenics expert who suffered an industrial accident while attempting to cure his terminally ill wife, Nora. įreeze is a scientist who must wear a cryogenic suit in order to survive, and bases his crimes around a "cold" or "ice" theme, complete with a "freeze gun" that freezes its targets solid. Created by Bob Kane, he first appeared in Batman #121 (February 1959). He frequently serves as a sympthetic enemy of Batman. Freeze is a fictional character, a supervillain who appears in comic books published by DC Comics.
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