Mr Freeze is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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32 Facts About Mr Freeze
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Mr Freeze was renamed "Mr Freeze" and, years later, received a revamped origin story based on the one conceived by writer Paul Dini for Batman: The Animated Series.
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Dini's depiction of the character as a tragic villain popularized Mr Freeze into becoming one of Batman's most enduring enemies belonging to the collective of adversaries that make up his rogues gallery.
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Mr Freeze is the alter ego of Dr Victor Fries, a cryogenics expert in Gotham City who was caught in a laboratory mishap whilst attempting to cure his terminally ill wife, Nora.
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Mr Freeze suffers an unfortunate accident that changes his physiology, forcing him to live in environments below zero temperature.
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Long after this, Mr Freeze becomes part of a mock criminal trial, after which he changes his cryo-suit for one that allows him more mobility.
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Mr Freeze eventually falls in love with a woman called Hildy.
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Mr Freeze's parents are horrified by his "hobby" and send him to a strict boarding school, where he is miserable and feels detached from humanity.
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Mr Freeze swears revenge on those responsible for the death of his wife and becomes Mr Freeze, the first superpowered villain whom Batman faces in this continuity.
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Mr Freeze's crimes tend to involve freezing everyone and everything that he encounters so he never forges alliances with the other criminals in Gotham, preferring to work alone.
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Mr Freeze was among them and he started working on a project called Ice-X Protocol when the GCPD tried to capture him.
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Mr Freeze stunned them with his gun and captured Gordon, taking him to his secret lair.
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Mr Freeze blames her husband for her plight, and she estranges herself from him.
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Mr Freeze's name was Nora Fields, a woman born in 1934.
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Mr Freeze survives but is captured by the Red Hood and sent to Arkham Asylum.
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Mr Freeze decides to kill Bruce Wayne and takes Nora, whom he believes to be his wife so that they can leave Gotham City behind forever.
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Batman defeats Mr Freeze by injecting his suit with the thawing formula, which he had intended to use to revive Nora from suspended animation.
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The Scarecrow later visits Mr Freeze to let him know of the war going on at Blackgate Penitentiary.
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Mr Freeze tells Mirror Master II he is not interested in capitalizing on the bounty on their heads, only to use Weather Wizard to create optimal conditions for him to freeze Gotham.
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When Comedian crashes the meeting, Mr Freeze's helmet is punctured by a bullet shot by an unseen combatant.
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Mr Freeze had to kidnap several women who matched his late wife's characteristics, in both mental and physical states, going as far as modifying their DNA to hers in order to experiment with the vial before reviving his wife.
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An accident caused Mr Freeze to become genetically altered with a bizarre condition that has irreversibly frozen him to the bone, transforming him into a cold-blooded mutant whose body temperature must always be kept below zero.
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Mr Freeze's altered biology caused his skin cells to become storage units for the cold to help his body chemistry to be comfortably chilled, allowing him to become both entirely immune and adapted to sub-freezing temperatures.
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Mr Freeze has one weapon that is more powerful than his gun, suit, and other cryotechnology: his mind.
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Mr Freeze is a remarkable medical scientist in his research on the pathology and neuroscience of Nora's neurological illness.
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Character of Mr Freeze has been analyzed as a stereotypical depiction of a villainous European in fiction.
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In Blackhawk, Mr Freeze appears as a robot created and controlled by Professor Thurman to pose as a villain so that Thurman could use his "Instant Freeze Icing Machine" invention to commit crimes without incriminating himself, but the plan is eventually foiled by the Blackhawks and Thurman is arrested.
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Prankster reveals that Mr Freeze is brainwashed by him and attacking the citizens of Metropolis.
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