Guess we're not gonna see Mr Freeze anytime soon....

I wouldn't care if they borrowed from that version of Freeze, so long as it's good. I think a live action Victor Fries would be awesome if handled seriously.

It really is a shame, isn't it?

I think Mr. Freeze and Nora Fries is the greatest comic love story. I might be the only one who cares about this on here, but it would be cool to have a romance in one of these movies that doesn't suck. It's the one area in these movies where I. Don't. Care. At all about that aspect of these character's lives. Seriously, minus Cap/Peggy and maybe even Diana/Steve, the love stories don't make me feel anything at all. It's just boring filler.

Maybe we can.

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I wouldn't want to see a Mr Freeze that's rationalized beyond recognition. What I don't understand is why everything has to be grounded in our world? These movies clearly do not take place in our reality, simply for the fact there is no city of Gotham, there's no Wayne Enterprise. These names are etched in our minds as being part of a fictional world. That's why it was impossible for me to take Joker '19 seriously. I can't sit there thinking I'm watching an "important film about mental illness and society" when they're talking about Gotham and Thomas Wayne. Why can't a grounded and gritty Batman movie take place in a world where characters like Mr Freeze, Poison Ivy, Clayface, Manbat etc as we know them from the comics and cartoons also exist? Even going back to The Dark Knight, it's grounded and gritty and Jokers not allowed to have bleached skin, but we're expected to believe Harvey Dent suffered those burns and got up and walked away? Didn't suffer infection? Was able to take a shot of liquor without screaming in agony? Walked away from a high speed car crash without what was left of his face peeling off? How was he even capable of doing anything at all? It's all nonsense, so why can't fantastical nonsense occur? 

Just brainstorming here....

In a grittier, more stripped down BATMAN universe, Mr.Freeze could be more of a Nikola Tesla figure. A scientist who is ahead of his time, and perhaps gets taken advantage of (I'm looking at you, Thomas Edison) so he ends up in dire straights financially, but also at the same time that is happening, his wife becomes very ill. Perhaps, ONE of the things Victor (I'm also thinking he'd need a name that isn't Victor Freeze, since it'd be too on the nose in this grittier world) had been working on was a cryogenic project that was meant to help with a more NASA-ish agency that did space travel. However, he ends up fridging his wife to prolong the amount of time he had to either save her or get the money to send his wife somewhere she could be saved.

Unfortunately, while Victor is out of his office/lab, the guy he owes money to shows up and collects everything as he's called the loan. (alternately, a different Bat-villain torches the place) Victor comes back to find everything gone, including his research and his WIFE, still in her cryogenic tube. He tracks down where she is, breaks in with the intent of getting her and possibly also getting his research notes if he can, and get out. He goes in and, of course, things go badly. He falls into one of the chemicals and gets chemical burns on his skin, but it also damages his airways/lungs, so he has to wear something to help him breath (maybe not the full fishtank helmet of the cartoons, perhaps something more akin to the mask on a CPAP machine one might use for sleep apnea) and he's bald, and scarred from this chemical burn. 

After this happens, he wakes up in the hospital. His research is now being used by the guy who stole Victor's lab, and when he is alone, a messenger arrives from the bad guy explaining, "If you file suit, if you tell the cops what really happened, etc., your wife's plug will be pulled. Comply, and we will keep her tank turned on." Because he can't go at them legally, and he doesn't want them to see his face/know it was him, he uses a different name, wears a bit of a costume/disguise, and goes about strategically causing problems for the people connected to the real villain (The guy who has Mrs.Freeze under lock and key) in order to put a stranglehold on the bad guy's finances. He's hoping to get the bad guy to the point that he'll need Victor, in order to keep being wealthy enough to support his preferred lifestyle, and that Victor can bargain from there.

Bruce/Batman finds out about it- almost too late. He agrees to help Victor get his wife out (Afterall, she is completely innocent in all this, she's been on death's doorstep, on ice, this whole time) and take down the bad guy, but No Killing. One could even use this to introduce the Robin, as perhaps the same bad guy Victor Freeze is dealing with, is the same bad guy who Robin has a score to settle with, and Bruce/Batman is basically trying to keep both his young ward AND Victor Freeze from killing this guy before Bruce/Batman can get the guy in jail/restitution made to appropriate parties. And, for the 3rd film --- Joker/Death in the Family (if Pattinson gets his way).