Mr Freeze is Batman's most tragic Villain
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2024
- Batman - One Bad Day: Mr. Freeze Issue 1
▸ Going back to the Dark Knight's early days in Gotham City: Batman and Robin, Dick Grayson, face down the coldest winter Gotham City has ever seen. A winter so cold that Mr. Freeze, Victor Fries, no longer needs his containment suit to survive; he is in an element where he can thrive. Robin empathizes with Mr. Freeze, all Freeze wants to do is save his wife, Nora-but Batman warns Robin not to give his empathy to Victor Fries. He's a man who decided his own fate a long time ago and he deserves none of our warmth. And this winter... he will show his true wickedness and power.
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I like Batman and Victor’s interaction in Arkham Knight. He has respect for Batman and trusts him enough to help his wife.
Just like in previous City and Origins.
dont care THAT FRAUD BETRAYED ME WHEN I HELPEF HOM GET HIS FREEZE SUIT IN ARKHAM CITY
@@dimancor2925 in origins and city, Freeze is willing to take a better offer if it came his way, which is why we fight him. In Arkham Knight he could have fought and frozen batman right in front of him but decides not to take the other available offer. He seems to really respect and trust him even more than in the past games.
I like how Mr. Freeze has nothing personal against Batman, only fighting him when he gets in his way. Which is a breath of fresh air with Batman’s villains typically seeking vengeance against him after each defeat.
Mr Freeze laughing making show angels has made my day
Terry McGinnis: "You got to get out of here, Freeze! This whole place's gonna blow!"
Mr. Freeze: "Believe me... You're the only one who cares."
Saddest moment in that show
Michael Ansara (I Dream of Jeanie) voiced the best version of Mr Freeze in Batman:TAS. That voice is unmatched.
I read all of his lines in that voice.
Yes, his voice was perfect for Victor
Legendary voice
As was Kevin Conroy (RIP) 🙏
Mr. Freeze is absolutely tragic but in my opinion the most tragic Batman villain is Killer Croc and I don't think it gets talked about enough.
Talk about it. Tell me about Killer Croc.
Grundy
@@NoLandGod Grundy isn't a Batman villain.
@@The_PhantasmGrundy is a Batman villain been one since he's been introduced look up Batman rogue gallery
@@JunoCLOUDY Since he's been introduced? What are you talking about? Grundy's introduction had nothing to do with Batman and wasn't in a Batman book. He is a JSA villain and specifically an Alan Scott Green Lantern villain. People just think he is a Batman villain because he appeared in The Long Halloween in the 90's. He is not a Batman villain.
Due to his condition, Mr. Freeze would have a field day wearing nothing but casual beach wear in the Arctic or Antarctica.
This is a story I feel needs to be directly adapted with little to no changes at all. This is the play to create an amazing and sympathetic villain, to have a great and well developed story, and bring some emotional heft to DC movies. Hopefully the Matt Reeves movies can manage to try this story out sometime soon. Mr. Freeze has always deserved a great live action adaptation.
Yeah and have Arnold reprise his role as Mr. Freeze for it
@@juliancamacho3837 That's either a joke or the most warped concept of what a good Mr. Freeze adaptation is. I really hope it's the former lol
I think the imagery of the frozen blue butterfly is beautiful. From my understanding it’s meant to be symbolic of his wife-as you can pretty much draw a deeper meaning from the panels it’s included in, since it’s like the manifestation of his wife’s soul
In an alternate timeline, Arnold Schwarzenegger would have nailed his role as Mr. Freeze, a tragic man who just wanted to cure his wife of her illness and none of the ice puns.
So an inferior timeline lol
To bad the movie is a piece of 💩💩💩💩.
Well Clooney is in some way back. She that makes me wonder about freeze and twoface
Pass
That would have been a cool performance
"Think of it Batman, to never again walk on a Summer's day with the hot wind in your face, and a warm hand to hold. Oh yes, I'd kill for that." - Victor Fries aka Mr. Freeze
Mr freeze laughing at the end means he did have a change of heart,this kinda made me happy about him for once .👍
Batman and Mr. Freeze together... in a car... chillin!!??
Robin is me😂😂😂😂
I don't think I've seen a Freeze story this good since subzero, and I really that this is the best version of Mr. Freeze.
I would say that „Babydoll“ is equally tragic. Kinda. Forced to be in a body that feels like a Prison to her. Exploited by the Media and Society in general. Abandoned by her family. Desperate to be loved, but treated like a total outcast.
Yeah Babydoll has a very strong reason to hold a grudge against the world. Her life is just terrible but her life could be better with a proper support structure.
You dont see Hasbulla kiling people.
In her debut episode, she was planning to kill herself alongside her costars.
This was cathartic and the timing couldn’t be better. I needed to see this.
A short descriptionof his back story is perfect. I like the way they did this.
I remember seeing a video where a couple were discussing this story and they kinda just accentuated how Victor kept Nora all to himself. Not once did they mention when Victor honored her last wish to spread his genius to the world, and I’m glad I revisited this Freeze story through CE. It really is beautiful.
This video actually made me cry, trying to empathize with freeze, pondering how I would react if my own wife passed. Great story, dc. Greater coverage, rob & team.
The beginning of that letter from Nora to Victor needs to be taken to heart by a LOT of people.
BTAS Freeze is still the best story DC pulled off
Dick being the pure optimist when it comes to villains and his views really proves he deserves the title "The Bright Knight".
To be honest, Grundy and Freeze are the two rogues that would perfectly fit an offshoot of a Batman team. Freeze really doesn't want to hurt anyone but is pushed so hard he thinks he has no choice. In White Knight, he joins the Batfamily as the tech/science guy building weaponry for them. Grundy on a good day is basically the Hulk and he works really well one on one with heroes. So Justice League Dark would be perfect for him.
Batman the Animated Series did a lot of heavy lifting making Mr. Freeze a villain with pathos. They gotta just give my man the W and let his wife be cured. In a world where Poison Ivy, Manbat, Clayface, and Harley Quinn can be heroes, I'm just saying.
True, but then you no longer have a villain in Freeze. All that you listed, with probably the exception of Harley, always have the potential of regressing back to villainy. Nora gets cured, no side effects that make her cold blooded like Freeze himself, Freeze no longer has a reason to be a villain anymore. This one shot actually gives the implication that if he is able to cure her, he would be a better husband to her than he was before as he sees the truth of her words in her final journal entry. So if he cures her, the only thing left for him to do is to fix his own condition, which he could likely do since his focus wouldn't be 100% devoted to Nora's condition and Batman would likely help him in reversing his condition.
Even if Nora got cured and ends up leaving him, at that point, he'd be happy with having cured her and given her what doctors couldn't. But I doubt writers would go that route. If Nora is ever cured, it's only being done to close the book on Mr. Freeze for good.
But I do agree. It should happen. Mr. Freeze, as he is now, has only had this backstory for 32 years. Before that, he was a super cheesy Sci-Fi villain that did heists with a freeze raygun. Just a normal dude that was a thief. BTAS completely changed him and gave him this backstory, an episode that I'm pretty sure won an Emmy.
It's not like he's used often. There's only so many stories that can be told with Mr. Freeze. I'd say with his addition to One Bad Day, there's only one story left to tell with him, but I doubt DC will pull that trigger any time soon.
Read the title and immediately knew it was about Mr. Freeze.
Good detective work
I would hope so…
LOOOOOLLLLLL
Rob.... this is one of the best abridged story narrations I've ever heard 😃 Credit to the writers, and credit to you accentuating the real human struggle and tenderness in the story. I didn't know how much I needed to hear Nora's words to Victor 🥲 Again, Thank You 🙏🏼
Beautiful story, and a fascinating look into Victor's psychology. Even if he had the ability to save her, he couldn't go through with it. He's been putting her up on a pedestal for so long... that... saving her means the fantasy would end. Somewhere along the line, he stopped loving her and began loving the idea of her. The second she thaws out, she becomes flawed... normal... real.
I hated it. It was character-assassination, turning one of the most nuanced characters in the Batman mythos into just abusive evil crazy villain number 5243.
I honestly love interpretations of Mr. Freeze where he isn’t possessive, just desperate. Where even if curing Nora means the end of their marriage, it’s worth it.
@@MarsM13 A. A character can't a villain without some combination of evil and crazy. And B. Are you sure you understand what the word "nuanced" means? Psychologically speaking, this is pretty complex. Much more so than the typical "I WANT POWER/MONEY" villains.
@@tysondennis1016 That's totally fair, yeah. I think the part I loved the most about this story was how... regardless of his own inability to actually help her... he still helped Batman by giving him that revelation in medical technology. Showing that he does still love and respect his wife, despite his own fears.
@@CheckersMcGavern He's an abusive husband who wants complete control over his wife. That's not nuanced. The Heart of Ice version does have nuance. He genuinely and truly loves his wife, to the point that he will do anything to save her. His evil is that he doesn't care about the world as a whole at all. She's his world, and everyone else be damned. That's a much more nuanced character than him just being an abusive, controlling husband who loves that his wife can't talk back to him or spend his money anymore. The original is a blend of good and evil. This one is pure evil.
I always felt bad for freeze, even if he got what he was looking for, you can't evict to think some part of that man actually loved his wife and wanted to truly help her 😞
Please continue to do more of these. I wish there were more storylines that flesh out a villains morality or lack there of
I like how far Batman and Robin go to try and help Freeze. I genuinely can’t imagine what more could have been done because even in a world where Freeze’s wife is cured it seems like it could only end in a different tragedy.
I could honestly see a Poison Ivy comic in this vein. The sheer amount of good things Ivy could do if redeemed would be immense.
This story is amazing and beautiful. Absolutely more of these please! Amazing job per usual man
Would love you to do more of these. They mostly were incredible. Couple duds but this and Riddler were so great. I loved these stories.
Matteo Scalera's art is GOATED
Excellent choice to do a video about this story. The writing and character development with Freeze was intriguing. Taking him to a familiar but albeit different place of obsession. Then seeing him not atoneing but giving back to the world. Would be he's asking forgiveness from his Wife? No, perhaps just balancing the scales after Robin saved her. Still a great Story. Thanks Rob!!
Hey Rob just wanted to say it was nice randomly meeting you the other week and chatting for a min. I always loved mr freeze and understood him as a monster of a bad guy that was just a bad guy for reasonable reasons. One step at a time he falls lower and lower as a person then becomes a bad guy.
This was an amazing story. It almost seems to add on to the Batman Animated Series tragic story and finally brings it back around. If the other stories are half as good as this one, then we NEED these stories Rob!
*Mads Mikkelsen* should play Mr. Freeze in the new grounded Batman movie series.
Had this been the 90s, my vote would be Doug Bradley. His performance as Pinhead in Hellraiser is chilling (pun intended. )
Same. I would love it if Batman initially believes him to be just a villain, and then he learns that he’s a desperate man trying to save the only person who was ever kind to her, no matter the personal price he must pay.
This story was incredible! Thank you Rob for another great comic story and I’d love to see more of these kinds of stories from you!
Never thought I’d see Bats & Freeze just cruisin & chillin
Mr. Freeze is by far one of my favorite villans because his story is so relatable.
Freeze has always been my second favorite Batman villain after the Joker.
Definitely cover more! I would love to see the insights behind killer croc, poison ivy, the mad Hatter, and the ventriloquist
4:02 It’s interesting how Batman (Tge Darkest) helped mold Nightwing (The New Beacon).
A play on Batman breaking the Gotham curse or his rewards being passed to his young would be cool.
I didn't know I would start the morning--mourning. This is a new favorite comic. I thank you for this and in the spirt of Mr. Freeze--I loath you for what you've done to me but I respect your ability to tell a story.
Love is jealous,
Overtly blind,
Voracious and deep,
Extraneously bittersweet and kind
I love this channel. This is one of many examples why. Well done guys/team/content worker elves ❤
One of my favorite Batman villains, and definitely a great short story. I truly hope The Batman 2 does him justice, we'll be in for a treat.
Great story bro
Needed this for my morning
I will defiantly watch more videos about Mr. Freeze since he is my favorite character from Batman the animated series
These are the stories that make me love Batman.
Whoever voiced his character did an amazing job 👍🏽
This was an unbelievably great story on soooo many levels….. with many twists…. He faced his own true evil & couldn’t handle it-then when he had no choice but to face it-he did the right thing & accepted his fate
wow i never knew that back story to mr freeze before. that was great story telling, 10/10
The humanity in that story was wonderful
Batman probably has the best roster of villains then any other super hero. Many like the Joker the best but I have always, always liked Mr. Freeze the most thanks to that tragic story from BTAS. This video has brought so many of those memories and feelings I had back then, of how sad Freeze's situation truly is and how much I've always wanted for them to cure Nora...What a great read, great video Rob! I didn't know I needed to see Mr. Freeze riding in the batmobile with Batman and Robin too until this lol!
He’s always been my favorite of Batman rouges gallery
Best part is his voice that comes through a oldtimy speaker box. No emotion just dialogue 😎
Wow!! Tx for that one man! ...
Love you bro appreciate the work you put in
Please do more of these videos of the One bad Day stories.
Especially if they did one on the ventriloquist and ScarcFace
Honestly, I'd LOVE if there was someway for Batman in his Prime to have access to the "Batman Beyond" Suit and him to use it for situations like if he is facing a Opponent far outside his weight class with the Justice League.
Freeze was always my favorite villain in the Batman lore because I just love ice themed things/people. But he is always followed by killer croc and two face.
The art is just so good
Thank you, Victor Freeze.
More please!! Awesome video as usual
Always enjoy ur content, it’s so engaging.
Great story, he’s one of the best villains in his rouges gallery. I loved his version in the Arkham games, especially in Arkham Knight after Nora is thawed and they must enjoy their last days together.
Nice coverage!
Welp that totally made me cry geez thats a really good story
This story really hit my heart😭
This story actually made me sad a little bit. As a married man whom loves his wife dearly, I would do as much as humanly possible to save her if anything like this happened, but I would also respect my wife's wishes and not allow myself to be consumed. I definitely understand you Victor, my favorite Batman villain.
I love how batman is completely armored up and Robin's just chillin in the back with just a cape and hood on 😂
batman has somehow always had such amazing villains and i think thats so crazy .... batman is generally linear but there is so much depth in his villains with few exceptions
Batman one bad day the issue with Mr. freeze to me brought back memories of the first episodes of Batman the animated series.
The depth you put into a story, that most of us miss takes these comics to a whole new level and makes then new and BETTER then they ever were before.
Jesus, I knew the story but hearing it just brings me to tears.
Lots of deep stories, Rob. Best of the best for you, Bruh. Time to listen to Wolverine from your uncanny stories lines. It's all connected.
And then we got Mrs. Freeze in Kill The Justice League.
How Wonderful.
Yeah, but on the upside, PERFECT AIR CONDITIONING.
About damn time we talk about some Freeze on here!!!! My favorite DC villain.
Thank You So Much For The Work You Put Into This Video...I'm Such A Hardcore Fan I Use Victor Freeze As My Avatar...
You upload such random stories.. keep them guessing i suppose but consistency wouldn't go a miss.
Is the Lazarus pit capable of curing Nora? Is there a story where Victor has tried or has it never come up?
Yes, and she gained pyrokinesis and started raising the dead. And she was pissed.
@@tysondennis1016 That sounds awesome
@@marcespinoza6068 It’s an actual comic
Agreed, that was a beautiful story.
Has Nora ever unfroze and replace Freeze? Would make a nice Batman Beyond DCU intor
*intro
The Flash also has that optimistic outlook
Beyond omega level: The Comicstorian
Also: The Divine Creator
Thank you, Rob. I want to add this comic to my collection. Cover one bad Day Riddler. Again, thanks. I now have something else to hunt down. If I can't find Batman Battle For The Cowl or Batman Zero Year, then I want to at least find this.
It's always great when they make a villain multidimensional.
This is so good
Random thought
Is there a storyline where gambit unleashes his full potential/power?
If so a video covering it would be AMAZING 👏
The ending to that story was really good
This comic is perfect
I think this is my new favorite comic
Damn this was a powerful ass story!
The entire Gotham justice system sucks, people like Joker or Meeks would've been given the death penalty. Penguin would've been in prison for 30 life sentences with the sheer amount of RICO charges they would've dropped on him
Excellent. Yes more please
You ever cover lazara? When nora actually wakes up but the chemicals made her into like, a blue monster thing.
When you mentioned Meek, I thought of marvels mojo.
I could totally see Jason Statham playing this Victor's story in a new DC movie, with Christian Bale's Batman.
Rob you should know we want you to cover more.