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| “ | Death is cold, Batman. | „ |
| ~ Mr. Freeze's most famous quote, and one of his possible lines in his game-over screen. |
| “ | Threats are meaningless to a man who has lost everything! | „ |
| ~ Freeze upon being confronted by Batman for the first time. |
| “ | Mr. Freeze: My work, my equipment, it's all gone. I can't save you. Maybe there's another way... Nora: Victor, this isn't you. I won't let you destroy yourself anymore. I wish I could have told you sooner. Mr. Freeze: I don't want you to die, Nora. Nora: Then let me live. Mr. Freeze: We won't have much time... Days... Nora: Time has never been on our side, Victor. |
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| ~ Mr. Freeze's redemption, choosing to give up his villainy in favor of spending his remaining days alive with his wife, Nora. |
Dr. Victor Fries, better known as Mr. Freeze, is a major character in the Batman: Arkham video game franchise.
He was voiced by Maurice LaMarche, who also voiced Calendar Man in the same series, as well as Mr. Big in Zootopia, Brain in Animaniacs, Big Bob Pataki in Hey Arnold!, Mortimer Mouse in the Mickey Mouse franchise, Yosemite Sam in Looney Tunes, Dr. Nitrus Brio in Crash Bandicoot, Koto in All Hail King Julien, Father in Codename: Kids Next Door, Alec Baldwin in Team America: World Police, Joseph Stalin in Histeria!, and Lrrr, Leonardo da Vinci, Walt, The Big Brain, Fishy Joe, Schlump and Fleb, Francis X. Clampazzo, the Donbot, and Melllvar in Futurama.
Biography[]
Past[]
As a child, Victor was fascinated in cryopreservation and began trying to freeze animals. His behavior worried his parents, who sent him away to boarding school. Several years later, he fell in love with a woman named Nora, and they married. However, Nora was stricken with a terminal neurodegenerative illness, Huntington's Chorea. To save her, Victor preserved her in cryostasis until he could find a cure. He then agreed to work with Ferris Boyle in exchange for helping him with his experimental cryogenic weapons and for research on the cure. Fries later realized that Boyle had no intention of keeping his side of the bargain, however, and began to do the work himself.
Angered by this, Boyle confronted him in the lab and had two security men assault him while taking Nora. Victor fought back and, in the confusion, caused Fries' prototype cryo-cannon to fire at a guard, freezing and killing him. Also, the beam hit the cryogenic chamber, which set off the experimental chemicals to be released in a shockwave. Boyle escaped before he could be engulfed in the smoke, but this mutated Fries and the remaining guard's body. The guard knocked Victor aside and attempted to escape, as a dazed Victor made his way to the window and witnessed the guard's death. This told Victor, that if he was outside subzero temperatures he would die like the guard. In the lab, he built himself his suit from various projects and then pursued vengeance against Boyle. Freeze made a deal with the Penguin, offering him the experimental weapons in exchange for his men's assistance.
Arkham Origins[]
On New Year's Eve, a few days after Batman defeated the Joker on Christmas Eve, Bruce Wayne is hosting a humanitarian's award ceremony at Wayne Manor for Ferris Boyle, a Gotham based scientist. As the guests begin to countdown to midnight for New Year's Day, the house begins to become freezing cold and a strange man along with the Penguin's men come in and take Boyle hostage.
Bruce, having suited up as Batman, attempts to rescue Ferris, but is frozen solid by Freeze, although only with enough cryo-fluid to simply stun him, as Freeze had no quarrel against the Caped Crusader.
Freeze kidnaps Ferris and escapes, forcing Batman to interrogate Penguin's henchman, who explains that Penguin's dealer may know his location. Batman finds many people in the city frozen. Scanning one, he manages to track down the dealer via the leaking cryogenic gun he was armed with. Batman interrogates the dealer, who reveals that Freeze made a deal with the Penguin to steal cryogenic weapons from GothCorp, in exchange for Penguin's help in kidnapping Boyle. Batman is confused, since GothCorp doesn't produce weapons. Using the entry codes from the dealer, Batman enters the building. Upon finding Freeze, Batman sees that Penguin has taken Boyle hostage and has betrayed Freeze, wanting the weapons he was promised. Batman intervenes, giving Freeze the chance to recapture Ferris and freeze everyone, including Penguin, although not before telling Batman that his threats mean nothing to a man who has lost everything. After obtaining a Cryo Drill from one of Penguin's hidouts, he discovers that the device requires a supercooled fluid, which is only found in Victor Fries' lab at GothCorp.
Mr. Freeze engages in a fight with Batman.
Returning to GothCorp, Batman finds Fries' lab a frozen mess and a dead guard who apparently died of heatstroke. Setting up a crime scene, he determines that Fries was trying to help his wife Nora, who was put into cryostasis as she contracted Huntington's Chorea. Fries agreed to secretly develop weapons for Gothcorp, in exchange for Boyle devoting his company's resources to finding a cure. But when Fries learned that Boyle never intended to uphold his end of the deal, Fries attempted to find the cure himself. Furious, Boyle had Nora removed from the lab to another section of the facility. He then assaulted Victor but an accident caused the discharge of Freeze's weapon, causing an explosion of supercooled fluids, which affected Fries and a remaining guard, altering their metabolism. When the guard attempted to escape the lab and died, Fries realized that he can only survive in a sub-zero environment and thus cobbled together a suit so he could step outside the lab. Realizing that Freeze was only intending to free his wife, Batman instructs Alfred to tip the GCPD about Boyle's crimes.
Freeze is attempting to force Boyle into releasing Nora, to which the man stubbornly refuses. Batman breaks in and attempts to reason with Freeze, informing him that the GCPD now know of Boyle's crimes, but the latter refuses to care, as he shoves Boyle into a cryo tube, claiming that it won't matter what Nora feels about his crimes, as the accident had destroyed any chance of him feeling any emotions. As he summons Penguin's men to attack, Batman goes around the lab and overloads the three cryotanks before using smart tactics to fight Freeze, their battle causing Nora's container to fail. But just as he downs Freeze, Boyle unleashes cryo gases, freezing Batman in ice. Believing the Dark Knight to be dead, Boyle believes that he can make up any story he wants to the police and begins to assault a helpless Freeze while he watches his wife die. However, Batman manages to break free of the ice, and manages to subdue Boyle. He then saves both Freeze and Nora's lives.
Arkham Asylum[]
After Freeze was defeated, he was placed in a special cell in Arkham Asylum. Sometime before the Joker took control over Arkham, Freeze managed to escape. How he managed to escape is unclear, but it's likely that he continued to find a cure for Nora or at the very least, moved to an area where he wouldn't be monitored. His cell can be found covered in giant icicles.
Arkham City[]
Bruce and Freeze shortly before their fight.
In the dawn of a snowy night, Fries was kidnapped by The Penguin and put up for display in his museum. Meanwhile, Batman discovered that both he, Joker and most patients of Gotham City's hospital were poisoned via a side effect of the TITAN drug and would perish if not treated to a cure. Joker stated that Fries almost had the cure prepared, but was postponed after the Penguin locked him up. As such, Batman headed out to the Penguin's museum to stop him and save Fries.
Batman was successful in defeating the Penguin, recovering Fries, and retrieving his suit, and watched as the doctor researched the disease. Fries discovered that the main ingredient to the cure was nearly impossible to get, but fortunately, the compound in said ingredient was grafted into Ra's Al Ghul's blood. After hours of tracking and fighting, Batman recovered the blood, much to Freeze's surprise, and the latter used it to form the cure.
However, after Freeze finished processing it, he locked the vial of curing liquid in his safe and demanded that Batman were to retrieve Nora's frozen body, as it was stolen by the Joker's men and placed in a warehouse near Gotham's docks. Batman, impatient and possibly under the effects of the drug, instead battled Freeze and defeated him only to find out that, during their showdown, Harley Quinn stole the cure for the Joker when they weren't paying attention. On a side-mission, the player can link the coordinates of Nora's location to Freeze after beating the Joker henchmen residing there. Freeze will then travel over the warehouse and rest near Nora's frozen body, admitting that he gave up his life of crime.
Arkham Knight[]
| “ | They wanted me to join them. Help fight you. I refused, so they took her. They took Nora BECAUSE! OF! YOU! | „ |
| ~ Freeze upon meeting Batman |
Though having given up on crime, Batman's and Freeze's paths cross again when the Arkham Knight's Militia take Nora. When Batman is told that a freighter is frozen near Gotham City and goes to investigate, he finds that the ship is called Nora and is taken over by the Arkham Knight's forces. After defeating them, Batman ventures inside the ship, where he sees Freeze desperately trying to fix the machinery. He then turns to Batman, telling him that the Arkham Knight initially wanted Freeze to assist him in taking down Batman. When Freeze refused, they took Nora from him and told him that she would be returned to him if he would kill Batman. He then aims a weapon at Batman, claiming that they took Nora because of him. Batman tells him to pull the trigger if he thinks the Knight will be true to his word. Freeze then holsters the weapon and begs Batman for help.
Freeze aims his weapon at Batman.
Since Freeze can't leave the ship because he has to prepare his Cryogenerator for Nora's return. Batman promises that he will find her and tells Victor to get the ship under control. Before Batman can leave, Victor tells him to hurry, as her Cryopod won't last long.
Batman tracks Nora's trace to a rooftop in Otisburg. There, he defeats the militia guarding the cryopod. As the cryopod has lost its energy, Nora de-freezes and Batman takes her out of the Cryopod before she suffocates. Victor calls Batman to find out whether he found Nora. Batman tells him that Nora is awake and he is alarmed, telling Batman that he needs to bring her back. Nora then asks Batman to let her speak to Victor. Victor states that he will save her and is close to finding a cure, but Nora replies that she doesn't want saving anymore. The transmission is then interrupted and a giant explosion is heard from the bay, as Victor wasn't able to fix the generator because he was talking to Nora. Batman then calls Victor, who is alive but doesn't want to leave the ship as he is determined to fix the cryogenerator for Nora. Driving to the ship with his Batmobile, Batman has to defeat a small army of the Arkham Knight's tanks while Freeze is fixing the generator.
As more and more drones arrive, Batman tells Freeze to take them all out by overloading the generator but Freeze refuses, stating that he needs it for Nora. However, when the situation turns dire, Victor gives in and detonates the reactor, sacrificing his equipment in the process. After the drones are destroyed, Batman and Nora meet with Victor on the deck of the ship, where Nora and Victor decide to use the small amount of time they have together to live. Batman then leaves the scene. He is later told by Alfred that the ship has set course and is leaving Gotham and asks if he should track them. Batman, knowing well what would happen to them and wanting what's best for Victor, refuses, simply stating that they won't see the pair again.
Victims[]
| Victims killed by Mr. Freeze |
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Relationships[]
Allies[]
- Nora Fries
- Batman
- Penguin (formerly)
- Ferris Boyle (formerly)
Enemies[]
- Batman (formerly)
- The GCPD
- James Gordon
- Nightwing
- Robin
- Batgirl
- Aaron Cash
- Harvey Bullock
- Poison Ivy
- Killer Croc
- The Joker
- Harley Quinn
- Bane
- Penguin
- Two-Face
- Mad Hatter
- Black Mask
- Deathstroke
- Clayface
- Scarecrow
- Riddler
- Deadshot
- Firefly
- Calendar Man
- Quincy Sharp
- Victor Zsasz
- Catwoman
- The League of Assassins
- Hugo Strange
- Blackgate staff
- Arkham Asylum staff
- Arkham City staff
- TYGER guards
- Maroni Family
- Falcone Family
Quotes[]
| “ | The thought of killing a man should turn my stomach, but as I look at you now... I feel nothing. | „ |
| ~ Mr. Freeze |
| “ | And now your blood runs as cold as mine. | „ |
| ~ Mr. Freeze |
| “ | I will turn your blood to ice. | „ |
| ~ Mr. Freeze |
| “ | I will avenge you, Batman. You would do the same for me. | „ |
| ~ Mr. Freeze |
| “ | Your death won't be for nothing, Batman. | „ |
| ~ Mr. Freeze |
Trivia[]
- Mr. Freeze's boss battle is regarded as the best fight in the Arkham series, and even at times one of the best in gaming history due to its creative layout and how it differentiates from the repetitive TITAN bosses from Arkham Asylum.
- His tragic background story was based on the Mr. Freeze of the DC Animated Universe, though it differs due to Ferris Boyle using him before the incident.
External Links[]
- Mr. Freeze on the DC Wiki
