#gothcorp

[docgold13]

Batman: The Animated Series - Paper Cut-Out Portraits and Profiles

Mister Freeze

Victor Fries was a scientist working at GothCorp. When his beloved wife Nora was diagnosed with a terminal illness, he began experimenting with cryogenics.  He found a means of sustaining Nora in cryogenic stasis where she could remain until a cure for her disease could be found.  All of this work was done at GothCorp, using huge amounts of the company’s funds.  When Ferris Boyle, the chief executive officer at GothCorp, discovered what Fries had been up to, he went to Fries’ laboratory with his men to shut the whole matter down.

Fries begged for his wife's life, but an irate Boyle had his men destroy the equipment.  Fries himself was kicked into a batch of chemicals, causing a terrible explosion that consumed the entire lab.  

Fries managed to survive this ordeal but the cryogenic chemicals had caused a dramatic and irreversible change to his physiology.  His body could no longer survive in temperatures above zero degrees celsius.  He created for himself a specialized cryo-suit that kept his body at low temperatures.  This suit also tripled his normal strength. He additionally devised a freeze gun that could fire torrents of ice that flash-froze anything it came into contact with.  

Devastated by the loss of his wife and now seeing himself as a cold and unfeeling entity, Fries re-dubbed himself ‘Mister Freeze’ and set about on gaining cold-blooded vengeance against Farris Boyle.  

Freeze’s efforts to bring down GothCorp attracted the attention of The Batman and the Dark Knight barely survived his first encounter with the villain.  After further investigation, Batman was able to determine Freeze’s true identity as well as Boyle’s culpability in the accident that had created him.  

Batman was ultimately able to defeat Freeze while also exposing Boyle’s murderous actions.  Boyle was sentenced to prison whereas Freeze was remanded to Arkham Asylum.  It would prove the first of many battles between Batman and Mr. Freeze.

Actor Michael Ansara provided the voice for Mr. Freeze, with the cold-hearted villain first appearing in the third episode of the first season of Batman: The Animated Series, ‘Heart of Ice Part One.’

[ladygatuna]

a little bit of what I thought!

Veronica Thorn recently returned to gray Gotham City, intending to stop running from her demons!

Your adventures with your spider friends have come to an end, but it was great while it lasted!

She joined the spider society very early, after all, she became a spider very early. Veronica was a child surrounded by violence, but very intelligent, getting a scholarship to a rich school, and that only made things worse, since children can be very cruel!

And it was in a heavy bullying session, on a school trip to GothCorp. She ended up trapped in a secret room, where there were several spiders being studied, a frightening sight for a child. As she tried to get out of there, she ended up breaking one of the aviaries, and there was a very strange black widow that bit her.

This should kill her, at least that's what the doctors said, at least the hospital bills were paid, after all, they were just kids playing. And after a lot of pain, everything disappeared, she was back, and her mother bought her silence by accepting money from dirty people. however, she didn't return to that shy girl, who was afraid to even breathe too loudly around her bullies.

She realized that that spider was not normal, and the symptoms appeared a while later, they were classic. Then, others appeared that were very useful for his revenge. She acquired some characteristics of the black widow, and the best of them was poison.

No one has discovered how people so young ended up getting involved with drugs, and how much of a politician can be such a liar!

After all, heroes aren't born from violence and neglect, at least not in Gotham!

[yellowskinnedwackyman]

*looks around to see if anyone is around the area, starts running up Gothcorp's building* Damn this enchantment on my boots is working wonders! *smirks* Looks like I've got another similarity to Good Ol' Spidey!

[lastlycoris]

So my boss in the prison medical wing is Dr. Nora Fries (pronounced freeze). She's an MD-Ph.D, both a military doctor and a biomedical engineer specializing in prosthetics. It's said that all warsuits that the rich people keep for "personal protection" are derivatives from her initial work. Her criminal moniker is Dr. Fries, which kinda just shows how infamous she is - you know - that they just outright use her name.

As for why she's here, that goes back two decades ago according to personnel here. Mostly to warn me to not mention the former company GothCorp she and her husband (important later) worked at. Because this lady has two obsessions: to restore her husband from a cryogenic freeze without killing him and getting revenge on the company that caused it.

I don't really know about their personal lives. Just two strange people meeting in college and fell in love. Eventually their paths had it so they ended up working in the same company.

Her husband was a specialist in cryogenics, Ph.Ds in physics, engineering and chemistry. And the hopes were to make a chemical gel that could easily preserve pharmaceuticals and food at the end of a cold chain.

And then an accident occurred when the company decided to scuttle the project for insurance purposes and blame Mr. Fries. Of course, this information came out much later.

In any case, they still call those series of small inhabitable inter-connected islands, where the Factory was housed, the Ice Rink. Because every so often, a vat of what's being called Friesium would rupture and instantly send everything in the area to below liquid nitrogen temperatures, which is not survivable.

Logs showed that one of the researchers noticed something was wrong with the chemical vats and sounded the alarm for evacuation to get everyone else out. The six that remained, including Dr. Fries's husband, were required to prevent the entire factory from freezing everyone instantly.

People do not survive getting frozen solid without help - if the initial freeze doesn't kill them, the defrosting will. However, logs apparently showed that Fries's husband had injected everyone with an experimental cryoprotectant fifteen minutes prior to the cryoexplosion - preventing the nastier effects like water expanding to ice to rupture cells - and a single outgoing phone call to his wife.

The rest is history. Dr. Fries makes the first prototype warsuit in three days, a suit impervious to cold and sudden pressure changes from extreme temp drops, and marches in to retrieve the lab members. Ferris Boyle, the president, tries to pull the plug stating it's futile and expensive to continue keeping the six on ice, and Dr. Fries offers the cryosuit design to make payment. He accepts and then goes back on their deal stating it never happened - and then claims it was an attempt at a bribe to prevent him from revealing that it was her husband and lab team that sabotaged the factory.

And I guess that was the moment where she descended into supervillainry.

It was quiet for a week as the Board argued about the PR nightmare pulling the plug would do, even if they claimed these were the ones that caused it.

Then someone armed to the teeth in a shiny warsuit decided to break into GothCorp with a bunch of goons to retrieve the pods - who were funded by the money she got for selling a simplified warsuit design to different criminal factions and companies . And then she declared war on GothCorp.

Now this is twenty years ago before this era of superheroes and supervillains. That warsuit was the pinnacle of high tech at its time, and it singlehandedly brought the military to the city after a month. Why they didn't come sooner was because she was very selective with the damage. Only to GothCorp assets and zero casualties beyond the broken bones people dumb enough to physically get in a walking tank's way.

She singlehandedly brought the company to near bankruptcy. And the military only helped because the company took up a military contact on a very big deficit. Otherwise, they would've just treated it as a civil matter for the police to deal with. After all, no dead people, damage only to private property, and it wouldn't look nice if the military got their asses handed over to them too.

It wasn't even the military that got her in the end. It was some fresh detective named Gordon, now Commisioner, who figured out where she's hiding because running cryogenic preservation for six people took a stable large supply of electricity.

A deal was made between the two. Nora voluntarily surrendered after five days. Gordon discovered the system logs from the factory, showing the company's sabotage of its own factory. Wayne Industries makes a generous offer to preserving and eventually finding a cure for the frozen researchers.

And she's been researching cryogenics in prison every day ever since. The only prisoner. allowed her own laptop and allowed outside to visit her husband every month as part of the unusual deal made with the police.

Except now that Wayne Industries took a severe blow after their Tower collapsed and President kidnapped and probably dead, the frozen six apparently moved to some no-name company, and the decaying law and order of our city, it seems she's taking matters into her own hands because it looks like no one can keep the people she wants to protect safe. At least that's what it seems like.

Makes me wonder, if their places were switched, whether her husband would show the same single-minded devotion to her.

I certainly hope so.

[linkspooky]

oh dc? do you know Mr freeze i love him.

This is going to be about Batman the Animated Series Mr. Freeze, because that's where his modern origin story came from. Without BTAS he'd just be a dude with a freeze ray.

I made an earlier post about how Batman is his Villains, and that is true for the relationship between Batman and Mr. Freeze as well.

Batman and Freeze are both going outside the law to try to save people. If you look at it from Freeze's perspective, he is the hero of the story. Victor Fries married to Nora Fries tries to experiment with cryogenics using GothCorp's funds to save his wife from a terminal illness. The CEO decided to shut down the experiments even when Fries was begging for his wife's life, the man broke into his laboratory, destroyed his wife's equipment, and left Fries to die.

If Fries were the protagonist of the story, his actions would be totally justified in the eyes of the audience. After all, that's his hero origin story. He was given super powers by the villains destroying him and his wife, and now all he wants is to save her, isn't that a sympathretic motivation? Isn't he trying to save someone just like how Batman fights crime to save people? I mean if you follow the Punisher from his perspective, we don't really see the Punisher as a villain because he is the one who was traumatized by the deaths of his family, and even the people he kills, well they probably deserve it right?

When Mr. Freeze is no longer the protagonist, his motives are much less justified to us as the audience. Freeze's desperation becomes ruthlessness. His desire to punish the people who destroyed his life, is now revenge. If Freeze were the protagonist of the story, he could be a hero incredibly similiar to batman, he's trying to save someone but it's just one person as opposed to a city.

So like what's the right thing to do in Freeze's situation? Bruce is allowed to take the law in his own hands to beat up muggers. Freeze is going after corporates crimminals. Robbing banks is wrong but what if he's using that money just to make a drug that will cure Nora and also everyone else who has her terminal illness? When do his actions become unjustified? When do they turn from Justice to revenge?

Those are all interesting questions that Freeze's character asks, and the quality he most mirrors is Batman is his ruthlessness which cane easily make his pursuit of justice look like revenge. Freeze isn't really concerned about the bystanders who get caught up in his operation, the world didn't show him any care or concern when he was turned into Mr. Freeze so why should he look out for them?

Batman and Mr. Freeze Subzero does a really godo job of exploring his character and relationship with Batman. To begin with Viktor isn't really a naturally hateful or malicious person, he only fights back when pushed by circumstances. He is basically living in peace and isolation at the beginning of the movie, when outsiders completely destroy his life yet again and put Norah's life in danger.

However, Mr. Freeze has a selfish streak. I mean one thing is his feelings of not wanting to lose Nora come over everything else, including Nora's own feelings. He never asked if Nora even wants him committing these crimes for her sake. He even says in the movie that he has lost everything else, Nora is the one thing he can't let the world take away from him. He objectifies her just a bit, but at the same time his feelings for her are genuine.

Batman does a really good job of foiling Freeze in that movie and showing why he is the main character, because heroes you know... save people. Batman demonstrates you can go through a similiar trauma as Mr. Freeze and still try to help out and reach for others, but not in a victim-blamey way (like Freeze just should have been better it was his fault he turned evil) but instead showing Mr. Freeze a kindness the world didn't show him.

Mr. Freeze was gonna butcher Barbara and take her heart. He justifies it to Barbara by saying the world never showed him any concern or tried to help him when he was an innocent. Mr. Freeze's plans fall apart and he is caught in a fire, not only does Barbara help the man who tried to kill her when he has a broken leg, but Batman and Barbara together get Norah, and Batman even goes back in the flaming wreckage to try to get Mr. Freeze. Because this is Barbara and Bruce that the world DOES CARE about what happened to him, and not everyone in the world is his enemy.

The movie ends with Bruce Wayne using his money to get Nora the heart transplant, even after everything Freeze did, because both Nora and Victor are victims and Batman doesn't fight victims he saves them.

[coolhearted]

Batman - One Bad Day: Mr. Freeze.

okay so. let's start with the good things? i very much like the art style and how it was painted. it looks very crunchy, dynamic, solid and expressive, and the designs are delicious. i love how freeze's first suit was inspired by btas, while the more tech-y one gave me a batman beyond vibe. batman himself was written out to be very interesting to read in this verse, especially because of his lack of clear communication and the fact that robin had to basically translate him for people more than once lol. robin was adorable and i feel him. freeze's expressions in Some panels were hilarious to me as a vic writter personally because, yeah. Yeah. thats a freeze body language alright

now onto the bad things: while paul dini's 1997 comic on mr. freeze is a classic, i don't find it very fitting in a more general sense. and i do get the feeling this is the angle this new particular script writer was going for in here too. my issue is that the whole point of freeze's character is that it's a tragic story about love. true love even, or perhaps a man who feels he doesn't have a choice and is forced (from his perspective) to hurt others in order to achieve his goal. he doesn't enjoy hurting people. he doesn't want this life of crime. all he wants is for his wife, his only love, to have a long, happy and healthy life, even if that could still mean she'd one day choose to leave him behind. you're supposed to sympathize with the character, to see him as more morally neutral and to some point even question batman's actions to put him behind bars? he is an anti-villain, not a villain, for a reason.

of course he's done terrible things and i don't excuse them, but this is a man who genuinely truly believes he doesn't have a choice in most of the things he does. when presented when a better alternative, one which is potentially less harmful for anyone, he is known to take it. he was someone who was supposedly a good person before the incident at gothcorp, someone who wanted to help people and the world, but has since started seeing everything more negatively and has started reacting with rage towards anything he may find threatening enough. this is obviously extremely unhealthy, and he definitely needs proper therapy and someone to work with him through all of it if possible.

however, the way i see it, this is a character who would definitely try to improve and better himself positively if given the chance. he craves that sense of normalcy and a less extreme lifestyle. even though he has a list of priorities, nora being at the very top, he would also much rather have what he used to have and be who he used to be, rather than what he has turned into.

the very end was probably the thing that made all of these aforementioned strikes a touch more salvageable for me. he's apprently decided to move on, to maybe improve, to do something good after so long. he feels more free, more human, and it could be a big step in the right direction both for him, and for the characterization as a whole.

[paradoxicwashere]

Mr Freeze: The Man Who Lost Everything

Buckle Up everyone because I'm obsessed with the Snowman and am about to make it everyone's problem. Here's my pitch for reinventing Mr Freeze with his own mini-series.

Alright, first hurdle to jump is that I *hate* the New 52 retcon that Nora was never his wife. It's dumb and it ruins everything that makes Freeze great. I don't know exactly what Rebirth did but I'm sure it, or one of the other yearly universe ruining events was catastrophic enough to undo that stupid, stupid retcon.

So here we go! Long start up with the actual pitch a little ways down.

Mr Freeze was reinvented by Batman: The Animated Series with a new tragic origin that made the character everything he's become today. But the one problem with the character is his story is quite literally, frozen. Every appearance he is trying to cure his beloved Nora and every time he fails. Something has to change, and Nora finally being cured / awoken has already been explored beautifully in both the Adventures Continues & The Arkham Games. So we have to go in the other direction:

Out in the arctic, Victor works against the clock - freezing Nora slowed down her condition, it didn't stop it. He has one last chance, he races to finish the formula that will save Nora. He has but moments to save her.

He fails.

The Serum wasn't ready in time. He missed it, he didn't even get to say goodbye. Nora Fries has passed on, and Victor failed. He's broken, of course. He was so desperate to save her he didn't even see her go.

And then Batman arrives. The Dark Knight, perusing the hijacked Research Vessel. He finds it in the middle of a blizzard. Victor, kneeling in the center of it. His rage fueling the storm. But Batman dosen't stop him, he dosen't throw a batarang, he dosen't even raise his voice.

He offers Victor his hand. He knows what it's like to lose your entire world and dosen't want Victor to suffer alone. He couldn't ever get through to Victor when he was blinded by desperation, but now - maybe grief can bring clarity.

Later, back in Gotham - Police get a report that the villainous Mr Freeze has been spotted walking into a store on 34th and 12th. They arrive only to see a slightly surprised Florist with a $20 note on her counter. Elsewhere, Victor apologizes for being late as he lays flowers down on Nora's grave.

Victor has new purpose. He couldn't save Nora, but she isn't the only one to suffer her disease. He will finish the cure, and in his mission he will come to blows with the Company that ruined his life in the first place: GothCorp.

My Comic follows Mr Freeze re-imagined as an Anti-Hero hellbent on war with GothCorp, the corporation that turned Freeze into the cold-hearted Doctor in the first place and stole key parts of his research, research that he wants back. With a few new allies Freeze will do whatever it takes to complete his research, spending the rest of his days doing everything he can to leave a good Legacy on the world

For Nora.

TLDR: When he fails to save Nora, Mr Freeze is given a chance by Batman to honour her legacy. He turns his life around and is reborn an anti-hero with his sights set on reclaiming his stolen research from GothCorp so that he can finish his cure for the disease that plauged Nora.

And now some additional ideas:

Victor enlists the help of a desperate Gotham University student to drive his mobile laboratory and do some of the less dangerous work that he cannot do due to his inability to blend in. In trade he compensates them and helps with their degree.

Victor and Red Hood get along splendidly - and they both operate under Batman's rules that they're allowed to operate in Gotham as long as they do not kill.

The other villains didn't respect Victor as a threat until he reminds them how dangerous he can really be. He makes sure they know to stay out of his way upon his return.

GothCorp want to use Victor's cryo-tech to permentantly suspend patients of 'incurable' diseases as a way to wring money out of the families of the patients. The joys of American Healthcare.

[d-field22-blog]

First appearance: Batman #121(February, 1959)

Story: So many of Batman's foes are either mob bosses, psychopaths, or downright evil men. However, that does not mean that misunderstood and sympathetic foes do not exist. Victor Fries is one of those foes. A cryongenist whose talent of cryogenics had taken him far in the many fields of science, Victor Fries was hired by GothCorp CEO Ferris Boyle. In secret, Victor created a cryogenic chamber and placed his terminally ill wife Nora Fries and placed her inside in hopes to one day find a cure to her Huntington's Chorea. However, Ferris, who had no interest on Victor's research, and running low on funding to supply Victor's research, pulled the plug and threatened Victor. During an inevitable struggle between Ferris and Victor Fries, the latter was knocked into a vat of cryogenic chemicals, lying defeated at Boyle carted Nora away. With the chemicals altering his metabolism in which one cannot survive out of Sub-Zero temperature, Fries swears revenge on Boyle and becomes Mr. Freeze. Blinded by his devotion and anger, Mr. Freeze is a poor tortured soul that we cannot help but feel sorry for and love. Not directly evil, but his views on what must be done will not be tolerated by the law, or Batman especially. Now as long as we don't make Mr. Freeze into a horrible actor who only talks in ice puns, we'll be just fine. SERIOUSLY NEVER AGAIN!!!!

Bio: Real name: Dr. Victor Fries Occupation: Cryongenist (formerly) Professional Criminal Base of Operation: Gotham City Eyes: Icy Blue Hair: Brown (formerly) White Height: 6ft (regular) 6ft 4in (Armored) Weight: 168lbs

Attributes: Master Scientist Altered Biology Armored Suit Strong in hand-to-hand combat Enormous variety of cryogenic weapons (Mainly the use of his cryo-gun) Driven devotion to cure his wife Nora.

Dream voice actor: Maurice LaMarche. I would have picked Michael Ansara, but unfortunately he has passed away. So I have decided to go with the second best voice actor. I absolutely love LaMarche's voice and with his experience, he is able to play Victor so well more than the many voice actors who played Freeze.

Featured Song: Cold as Ice by Foreigner. I think the title is enough to explain why this song was chosen. Also the chorus is literally written for Mr. Freeze.

Notes:

Here we have it. The rogue that has taken me so far the longest to do. It was mainly the suit that required the most time to design. I wanted to give Victor's suit far more detail than anything I have given before.

Once again I have given Victor hair. We've seen the bald headed Freeze so many times that I kind of like him with hair a bit more. It's not as messy as the original design was, however it is still a tad uneven.

[sionisassistant]

"So, we know you said you're off tonight..." Don't mind the alarm ringing in the back. It's fine. Well, maybe it's not so fine, that's why they called, "How far are you from the Gothcorp building? And hypothetically, could you be here in under 10 minutes?"

@queryxecho are lucky she likes them

It really wouldn't be a night off if someone didn't end up calling her with a problem. Usually it was one of the boys in Janus, not her fellow henchgirls. Troublemakers who shouldn't even need her help she would add! Pursing her lips a moment, Li let the silence settle for a second over the car's bluetooth speaker. They're lucky she was already out driving.

"I can do it in five," she muttered, already making a hard turn. "What the fuck did you do? I thought Nygma was in Arkham!"

[king-crane]

//Heart of Ice will always, always, ALWAYS destroy me. Fantastic episode from a fantastic series. Single-handedly rewrote one of the more obscure members of the Rogues Gallery into one of the most memorable and tragic. There’s also so much depth to the episode, not only in how it completely changed perception of Mister Freeze, but in how subtly it portrays the wrongness of men like Boyle, and the differences between him and Bruce.

In one scene early on, after the news reporter (I don’t think it’s Vicki) is talking about how Gothcorp is described as a “people’s company”, you can see a bunch of kids playing in the snow and just having a good time. Then, a Gothcorp Security Officer marches over (likely on Boyle’s orders, since the police themselves didn’t seem too bothered) and shoos the kids away. When Bruce meets with Boyle, Boyle doesn’t hesitate to call his employees ‘wage slaves’, assuming Bruce feels the same. And later, when Bruce is presented with one of these ‘wage slaves’, the bored ass security guard, what does he do? Does he knock him out? Does he threaten him? Nope. He disguises himself as another guard and tells the guy to go have some fun. Bruce going the extra mile and never resorting to violence until it’s too late is what makes him an all-star.

[landboundstar]

Sample of next section of Of Ghoulies And Ghosties

I stumbled out of bed.

Not my bed, but someone's bed.

It was only one person, so apparently the idea of a menage had been struck down. Pity.

It hardly mattered if the pretty brunette from Lexcorp or the buttoned up Gothcorp suit had won the flirty little competition we had been having over drinks to see who I left with.

And the bloody soulless wall art and white paint didn't help illuminate that now that our bit of fun was over.

I put my clothes on and grabbed my things, leaving tonight's hookup sleeping off their own hangover that they were bound to have when they woke up.

It had started to rain since I had left the club, in a way that almost reminded me of London as I walked. Fog was starting to rise from wet pavement as I made my way through the buildings. And around me, skyscrapers rose with lights lighting their windows like pearls and diamonds set in the black velvet of the night sky.

The oddly lyrical path of my thoughts paused me. And I was bloody sure I hadn't had any mead of poetry in my highball tonight. But I sensed the otherness building around me even before I saw the limo parked on the street.

[polymysteryinciscanon]

Me watching Batman the Animated Series for the first time as the 3rd piece of batman media I've ever consumed: Damn this Mr. Freeze is pretty smart he could have done some real good if the Gothcorp guy wasn't an a**hole- ooooooh.

[nintendouniverse2023]

The following progressive of My Batman AU resembles some new origin stories and new accomplishments between the DC Universe.

Bio: The man with many faces. Before he became what he is today, Basil Karlo was not just a married man but a famous movie actor who worked at Gotham Studios, whose vanity over his youthful good looks had earned him quite the reputation among his fellow actors. This would lead to his wife into a head of jealousy because all the fame he was getting yet she sign to pay no attention.

One Day Karlo was then approached by two men who worked for GothCorp, representing its CEO, Ronald Dagget, who wanted to make an offer to the mutilated actor. In exchange for a high sum of money, Karlo would become a test subject for a new compound, known as "Skin Putty" It was supposed to be sudes as a new effects to the face but warns him that the side effects were toxic.

One day when Basil decided to go near the vat just to check it out for himself, She was confronted by his own wife. They argue for while until she decided to push him into the deadly Puddy themed Vat. She manage to get away and set off as an opportunity. The formula seem to help him survive but costed him his sanity leading him to go on a murderous rampage as ClayFace. Karlo then put his new powers into action and started to murder the actors and actresses in the film. Clayface was about to kill the now ex-wife for revenge for what she had done but was thwarted by Batman and Robin.

Clayface was in Arkham as whole year until one day a miracle happened when Clayface escapes. He grown a liking to mimicked the powers of heroes or villains that he copied and uses the powers to become an actual villain in real life. The role he desire.

Appearance: A Very melty yet stable Clay Monster with Sharp teeth.

Voice Actor: Brain Krane

Age: ???

Height: 8.2 ft

Weight: 410lbs

Personality: Native, Mischievous, Aggressive, Short Temper

Favorite Foods: None

Family: Not anymore.

Allies: Whatever he trust will do, except for Mr Freeze and Firefly

Enemies: The Bat Team

Likes: Shapshifting, Movies, Acting, Robberies and Framing People

Dislikes: Being Called a freak, Frozen, Burned to a statue and Being outsmarted

[proxylynn]

Thoughts on mr freeze? I always thought he was a tragic villain ever sense I got to know a bit more about him the arkham games, funny that my introduction to him was in the movie where the actor of the terminator played him.

[As bad as that movie was, you can tell Arnold Schwarzenegger had fun every second he was Mr. Freeze, the man had a blast. I grew up the B:TAS, so my Mr. Freeze was the first to begin the tragic retelling of his character. Because before that, Mr. Freeze was just a joke, see any of the old Adam West Batman show to know that. RIP Adam West. RIP Kevin Conroy.

As a child, Victor Fries was fascinated by freezing animals as a hobby he developed to escape the pressures of his brutal, control-freak father. His parents, horrified by his 'hobby', sent him to a strict boarding school, where he was miserable, feeling detached from humanity. That winter, when the other children went home for the holidays, Victor discovered that his parents had disowned him. He was thought of as an embarrassment, a mistake to be filed away and forgotten, and he never saw them again. In college, he felt that he may never feel a warm touch, but then came Nora, a beautiful athlete, with whom he fell deeply in love with and ultimately married. He later got a job teaching cryogenics at the local college.

Nora later fell terminally ill with a rare cancer. Fries left teaching and took on a job working for a large drug company called GothCorp, run by the ruthless Ferris Boyle, so he could find a cure. Using his great intellect and passion for cryogenics, Fries discovered a way to put Nora into cryo-stasis using company equipment, hoping to sustain her until a cure could be found. Boyle found out about the experiment and canceled the funding, but Fries continued with the project, leaving Boyle in huge debt. Boyle attempted to have Nora brought out of stasis and overruled Fries's frantic objections, during which a struggle ensued. As a result, Fries became engulfed in his own cryogenic coolants and was left for dead. Fries survived, but the chemicals had altered his body chemistry and his body temperature was lowered dramatically; he could now only survive at sub-zero temperatures. Fries escaped, unnoticed with the frozen Nora. In hiding, he invented a special refrigeration suit to stay alive, and used cryonic technology to create a powerful gun which fired a beam that froze any target within its range.

With this technology, he became a criminal called Mr. Freeze with a taste for diamonds and revenge.]

[coolhearted]

I wonder if it is a bad thing I do not wish to be the person I was before the incident at GothCorp.