It was his portrayal in the animated series, that made Mr. Freeze become my favorite Batman villain. The late Michael Ansara was damn amazing in his voice role.
Really agreed and thanks to Batman the animated series Mr. freeze became one of my all-time favourite villains I would love to see him in another live action Batman movie only time will tail
Out of all the Batman villains, I view Mr. Freeze as a really tragic character. I mean this guy deserves deep sympathy. He's the only one that is actually not evil or a bad person; just a man with very bad luck on his side. I hope I'm not the only one who always felt bad for Freeze.
Mr. Freeze is propably my favorite Batman villain. 1:47 pretty much sums up why. Of all of Batman's villains he was one of the most human characters and that made his character alot deeper.
1:06 ok this wasn't really wasn't necessary mr freeze should've retired after subzero I know he's a complex interesting and sympathetic character but this new motivation took that sympathy away and he came off as a complete and total jackass I mean mr freeze fulfilled his wish by curing his wife there was nothing left for him to do
Mr. Freeze's appearance in Batman: The Animated Series was my introduction to the character. And he is just like everybody else who experienced a great tragedy in their lives, but with an 'icy' containment suit as well as a freeze-gun. Michael Ansara (RIP) really brought the character to life during his time behind the mic.
So I get it. They did a revamp on "The New Batman Adventures." But there's still not an explanation as to how he lost the red goggles and got red eyes. They weren't red in the 1st place.
Michael Ansara is terrific as Freeze's voice. The voices for the Warner cartoons were so brilliantly chosen. Personally, I prefer the visual design of the first series to the revamped versions.
Batman Beyond had the best death for Freeze. I still remember the last exchange where Batman says, "You'll die." And Freeze says, "Believe me, you're the only one who cares." Great way to end what was essentially a tragic villain.
I love the end of his story, in Batman Beyond. It's so beautiful how he die, after shooting Blight (and the music at this moment, "Farewell", it's wonderfull) !
they did they made him a cool great character and then destroyed all in the last season but for me mr freeze story in the aniamted universe ends with the end of subzero
Of all the villains in the Batman series, you can't help but feel so sorry for Victor Freeze. He didn't do anything to deserve what had happened to him.
"Search your hearts for the thing you value most. Then despair, for I have come to take it from you." - Mr. Freeze "Hey, that's a cool line. Can I borrow that?" - Sephiroth
The likes of Patrick Stewart, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bryan Cranston and also Ben Kingsley would be great casting options for Mr Freeze in a live action movie. To hell with Arnies terminator Mr Freeze 😒
Mr Freeze's one of my favourite villains, he’s not a mad psychopath like the Joker or bloodthirsty like Killer Croc but all he really wanted to is to find a cure to save his wife
mr freeze from a "what motivates him" point of view is really simple. revenge over pain caused, his being an ice man makes him bad ass but also near impossible to show on the big screen. i think of the franchise hadnt of shifted so much, he could have been done in a penguin like way, in which he has some cold suit elements and is dark and twsited and surreal like batman returns, hes my fave bad guy ever!
Its good to see how in Batman beyond they returned him to a more tragic character than he was in TNBA. In TNBA, he was just a sociopath torn from how hi life was now devoid of meaning and he was a monster. in Batman Beyond, he is revived, a new body is cloned for him, and he tries his bet to make up for what he did as a criminal, now that he had supposedly been rid of his sub zero biology. and when he reverted back to it , He was just really sad again...
Mr Freeze's One Of My Favorite Sympathetic Villains Cause Of The Tragedy Of Losing His Wife Due To Her Illness And He's Extremely Desperate To Find A Cure To Get Her Back
poor Mr.Freeze... The only villian who only had one thing, and that was the Love of his wife... the love was the only thing keeping him warm from the cold heart of his...
His frozen state rapidly deteriorated his body; the only part of his body that could be saves was his head, so he decapiated himself. Even though Nora was revived and Freeze yearns to be with her, he can't because, essentially, he is 'impotent'. Poor, poor Victor.
@Deadeye287 yeah. it was from his accident that forces him to live in the suit. the same chemicals making him basically immortal was destroying his body. he got together a team of scientists to try to reverse it but all they could save was his head; that's all the disease hadnt claimed. so they mounted it on the robot
First fave Batman character is joker cause Mark Hamil just made him so likable but Mr. Freeze takes the cake if you want a character with a deep story.
They basically gave the animated Mr Freeze origin to Dr Octopus in Spiderman 2. Dr Octopus also was made more sympathetic by giving him the tragic wife story which pushed him over the edge into super villainy.
@CheesyGranola True, but it was sad again. He was genuinely sorry for all the harm he caused and was prepared to donate large sums of money to everyone he ever hurt. All he wanted was to be normal again. But in "CC", I think it called for a dramatic death scene.
@Deader87 i heard it was like the condition he had was so severe that it spread into his entire body thus rendering it useless. Something along those lines. So while his head was still safe, they amputated it. Somehow he survived the surgery and they attached his head to a weird robot.
Got a good idea for a new Mr. Freeze now! Similar to the comics origin, with his wife being cryonically frozen. He himself gets frozen and survives, but cannot survive without a suit he developed to regulate body temperature in any weather. He becomes a serial killer, and injects his victims with liquid nitrogen, kind of like how the Dark Knight had the Joker scar his victims and use makeup instead of Joker Venom.
@FiswaT I know that. I'm saying the origin given to Dr Freeze from the Batman animated series was so effective, it was ripped off when the Dr Octopus character was written to make him more sympathetic in Spiderman 2.
In The New Batman Adventures, his appearance represents his dark, colder personality. Because of the loss of his wife, he makes everyone feel the same pain he suffered by taking away the things they value most.
@agtfjhdk The moment his wife Nora died, Fries lost whatever humanity he still had underneath that armor. Everything he had done trying to cure her from her illness had been for nothing. With nothing worth living for anymore, he just set out to make sure the rest of the world would feel the same sorrow he did, in a way, losing all humanity, hence the red eyes.
that's a man you don't want to get on the bad side of, defaintly a great character, i still don't see him as a bad guy because he's not truly evil, he just dose evil thing, from time to time, he's just mad as hell, and he aint gunna take it anymore!!1!
He has a frozen cell in Arkham Asylum. When I saw it, and he wasn't free, I just assumed the Joker didn't unfreeze him because he would have been problematic to his overall goals. Such in a way he didn't plan on releasing Poison Ivy... it just sort of happened, and he ran with it when an opportunity presented itself. The only reason Freeze is in Arkham is because they possess the faculties to restrain him. He isn't insane... well, at least I don't consider him insane.
I just thought of a great reason why Mr. Freeze has no emotions. The reason isn't because of an affect of crygenic mutation, but because he HAS to have no emotions. In the aftermath of the incedint with his CEO, Freeze, beliving that his wife was dead, started to cry. Even though Freezes blood is now cold, his tears are still hot and when they ran down his face, they reacted harshly with his skin, burning his eyes and face. In order to stay alive, Freeze used hypnotic suggestion on himself.
It's disappointing they didn't do a redesign video for the Mad hatter. I never liked his new look for the show but am interested to see why they would wanna alter his design so drastically.
@Mikeanglo I prefer to think that the incarnation of Mr Freeze after Subzero (aka the redesigned 'robot' one) never happened. Mr Freeze's story was done when Nora was cured. He was a moral man driven by unfortunate circumstances, but his ultimate objective was achieved, and he had no more reason to commit crime. His turning into a misanthrope was a cheap motivation which was against his character and was only implemented as an excuse to have more characters for the revamped show.
@Apollomasque I think it was a strength of the revamp that they upped his dickishness while still keeping him sympathetic. He definitely redeemed himself in Meltdown though. Well, sorta.
the first Mr. Freeze was beautiful, epic, and badass, the others were just rediculas, and these people who made those changes to it must have had some kind of illusion that the teens want shiny dark pointy guys that are just there to make some explosions... If they bring back Mr. Freeze, they'll need to make him as close to the original as they FUCKING CAN. that's my two cents on this subject.
@baldgenius01 *Spoiler* It's not that she just walked away from him, she actually waited for quite a while then marrierd her doctor and moved away from Gotham. Due to the events of Sub-Zero, Mr. Freeze's condition worsened and he couldn't bring himself to see her. He didn't blame her, even in Batman Beyond he started the Nora foundation for other people with terminal illnesses with the fortune he saved up, due to him being still alive.
you don't have to be crazy to be a good villain. freeze is more like a lost soul with misplaced anger. plus he has a tragic backstory which makes you feel bad for him(maybe)
I say put Mr.Freeze in the next movie anyway. As more of a minor villain. He is one of my favorite villains in the DC universe. Batgirl was foolish to use his own gun against him in that episode of the animated series.
Batman The Animated Series turned Mr. Freeze into a legend and then Batman & Robin completely destroyed the character. Warner Bros need not be afraid to bring Freeze back for the reboot.
It was his portrayal in the animated series, that made Mr. Freeze become my favorite Batman villain. The late Michael Ansara was damn amazing in his voice role.
Really agreed and thanks to Batman the animated series Mr. freeze became one of my all-time favourite villains I would love to see him in another live action Batman movie only time will tail
R.I.P. Michael Ansara
Nnnooooo! Really?
:(
Amen. First Klingon.
Mr Freeze is my favorite villain because he's not really a bad person like The Joker and the other criminals just mixed up.
MagicianMovies1992 true
Michael Ansara's voice work as Freeze was excellent. Very chilling, very haunting. He does it as angry, but also feeling deeply hurt.
Michael Ansara used to be married to Barbara Eden.
This reimagining of Mr. Freeze is incredible. Makes people feel really sympathetic toward him...
Out of all the Batman villains, I view Mr. Freeze as a really tragic character. I mean this guy deserves deep sympathy. He's the only one that is actually not evil or a bad person; just a man with very bad luck on his side. I hope I'm not the only one who always felt bad for Freeze.
You ain't.
My fav batman villain
Mr. Freeze is propably my favorite Batman villain.
1:47 pretty much sums up why. Of all of Batman's villains he was one of the most human characters and that made his character alot deeper.
1:06 ok this wasn't really wasn't necessary mr freeze should've retired after subzero I know he's a complex interesting and sympathetic character but this new motivation took that sympathy away and he came off as a complete and total jackass I mean mr freeze fulfilled his wish by curing his wife there was nothing left for him to do
No matter what they do, Victor Fries will never be the same without the voice of Michael Ansara.
Well, in the 2004 version of the Batman series, Clancy Brown (Mr Krabs) was the voice actor for Mr Freeze.
Mr. Freeze's appearance in Batman: The Animated Series was my introduction to the character. And he is just like everybody else who experienced a great tragedy in their lives, but with an 'icy' containment suit as well as a freeze-gun. Michael Ansara (RIP) really brought the character to life during his time behind the mic.
So I get it. They did a revamp on "The New Batman Adventures." But there's still not an explanation as to how he lost the red goggles and got red eyes. They weren't red in the 1st place.
could be due to the mutation that changed him.
Everyone's heart melts for the story of Mr. Freeze.
Michael Ansara is terrific as Freeze's voice. The voices for the Warner cartoons were so brilliantly chosen.
Personally, I prefer the visual design of the first series to the revamped versions.
Freeze is my favorite villian. the original design is awesome. but the revamp is insane. he truely became an immortal. MAN I really pity Mr.Freeze
Batman Beyond had the best death for Freeze. I still remember the last exchange where Batman says, "You'll die." And Freeze says, "Believe me, you're the only one who cares." Great way to end what was essentially a tragic villain.
I love the end of his story, in Batman Beyond. It's so beautiful how he die, after shooting Blight (and the music at this moment, "Farewell", it's wonderfull) !
Did they just admit to without a doubt permanently screwing over a good character
they did they made him a cool great character and then destroyed all in the last season but for me mr freeze story in the aniamted universe ends with the end of subzero
@@felixleidig8307 You didn't like the episode he was in Batman Beyond?
@@felixleidig8307 what about meltdown the Batman beyond episode
@@Feras_Ahmed661 thats not anymore the freeze that i liked
@@felixleidig8307 it's the same person
Of all the villains in the Batman series, you can't help but feel so sorry for Victor Freeze. He didn't do anything to deserve what had happened to him.
Mr Freeze is another one of my favorite villains! Like Two Face, he’s just another sympathetic villain
I remember as a kid every time my sister would be home from college and wanted to watch BTAS with me it'd be the same damn mr freeze episode!
"Search your hearts for the thing you value most. Then despair, for I have come to take it from you." - Mr. Freeze
"Hey, that's a cool line. Can I borrow that?" - Sephiroth
sorry the revampo was stupid guys. Batrman beyond gave him better motivation than season 4.
I Like his last lines in Batman Beyond. Just showcases how truly alone he is in the world.
Bryan Cranston would be an amazing mr freeze
Brett Jones thank you! I started saying the same thing!
Brett Jones I thought Patrick Stuart would be awesome
Benedict Cumberbatch would be cool
The likes of Patrick Stewart, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bryan Cranston and also Ben Kingsley would be great casting options for Mr Freeze in a live action movie. To hell with Arnies terminator Mr Freeze 😒
I always imagined Patrick Stewart but I think he’s probably too old now
His wife was saved in Batman & Mr. Freeze: Sub-Zero. But being what he currently is, he can't see his wife anymore.
JonLuTube his wife thought he does and remarried that woth what you just said made him hate humanity
i love the fact that mr freeze is batmans longest living enemies, EVER!
"we kind of decided to..cut off his head and made him a robot" XD
Mr Freeze's one of my favourite villains, he’s not a mad psychopath like the Joker or bloodthirsty like Killer Croc but all he really wanted to is to find a cure to save his wife
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I love when Mortal Kombat shows its influence.
I remember watching this feature and finding out that Mike Mignola designed Mr. Freeze, and thinking to myself, "It all makes sense."
i really like the voice, it brings out something in the character that sad and scary at the same time... and really adds to his cold persona
This show basically MADE Mr. Freeze. That's an accomplishment they can really be proud of!
I'm afraid my condition has left me COLD to your pleas
Mr. Freeze is still my favorite, next to Two Face & The Joker.
They did a good job with Mr. Freeze. His original in the animated series was so popular that DC comics actually decided to change him to match it.
I loved the Mr. Freeze fight in arkham city
There’s no hope for me or you or your city everyone’s going to feel my loss
mr freeze from a "what motivates him" point of view is really simple. revenge over pain caused, his being an ice man makes him bad ass but also near impossible to show on the big screen. i think of the franchise hadnt of shifted so much, he could have been done in a penguin like way, in which he has some cold suit elements and is dark and twsited and surreal like batman returns, hes my fave bad guy ever!
Its good to see how in Batman beyond they returned him to a more tragic character than he was in TNBA. In TNBA, he was just a sociopath torn from how hi life was now devoid of meaning and he was a monster. in Batman Beyond, he is revived, a new body is cloned for him, and he tries his bet to make up for what he did as a criminal, now that he had supposedly been rid of his sub zero biology. and when he reverted back to it , He was just really sad again...
Mr Freeze's One Of My Favorite Sympathetic Villains Cause Of The Tragedy Of Losing His Wife Due To Her Illness And He's Extremely Desperate To Find A Cure To Get Her Back
poor Mr.Freeze... The only villian who only had one thing, and that was the Love of his wife... the love was the only thing keeping him warm from the cold heart of his...
mr. freeze is one of my fav. along with two face an the joker. hope to see him in a batman movie soon.
His frozen state rapidly deteriorated his body; the only part of his body that could be saves was his head, so he decapiated himself. Even though Nora was revived and Freeze yearns to be with her, he can't because, essentially, he is 'impotent'. Poor, poor Victor.
It was a rhetorical question. But it was polite of you to answer the question.
I always had a lot of sympathy for Freeze. Did they ever explain how he ended up a cyborg again though?
Micheal Ansara well always be remembered as Mr-Freeze.
Mr. Freeze is my #1 villain of Batman because of his background and his costume!
Haha weird I had exactly the same idea!
That's definitely a way he could work in Nolan's realistic universe.
@Deadeye287 yeah. it was from his accident that forces him to live in the suit. the same chemicals making him basically immortal was destroying his body. he got together a team of scientists to try to reverse it but all they could save was his head; that's all the disease hadnt claimed. so they mounted it on the robot
It was probably during Freeze’s cold comfort phase, that he killed that guy’s family. That guy who tried to kill him in Meltdown.
He sounds like Zoidberg!
"Everyone is going to feel my loss!"
First fave Batman character is joker cause Mark Hamil just made him so likable but Mr. Freeze takes the cake if you want a character with a deep story.
They basically gave the animated Mr Freeze origin to Dr Octopus in Spiderman 2. Dr Octopus also was made more sympathetic by giving him the tragic wife story which pushed him over the edge into super villainy.
@CheesyGranola True, but it was sad again. He was genuinely sorry for all the harm he caused and was prepared to donate large sums of money to everyone he ever hurt. All he wanted was to be normal again.
But in "CC", I think it called for a dramatic death scene.
@Deader87 i heard it was like the condition he had was so severe that it spread into his entire body thus rendering it useless. Something along those lines. So while his head was still safe, they amputated it. Somehow he survived the surgery and they attached his head to a weird robot.
Got a good idea for a new Mr. Freeze now!
Similar to the comics origin, with his wife being cryonically frozen. He himself gets frozen and survives, but cannot survive without a suit he developed to regulate body temperature in any weather.
He becomes a serial killer, and injects his victims with liquid nitrogen, kind of like how the Dark Knight had the Joker scar his victims and use makeup instead of Joker Venom.
@FiswaT
I know that. I'm saying the origin given to Dr Freeze from the Batman animated series was so effective, it was ripped off when the Dr Octopus character was written to make him more sympathetic in Spiderman 2.
In The New Batman Adventures, his appearance represents his dark, colder personality. Because of the loss of his wife, he makes everyone feel the same pain he suffered by taking away the things they value most.
Or at least made a movie instead of just another episode! Mr.Freeze's character deserves more than an episode!
Revenge is a dish
Best served cold...
#DeepTruth
@agtfjhdk The moment his wife Nora died, Fries lost whatever humanity he still had underneath that armor. Everything he had done trying to cure her from her illness had been for nothing. With nothing worth living for anymore, he just set out to make sure the rest of the world would feel the same sorrow he did, in a way, losing all humanity, hence the red eyes.
Out of all the roles he's played I only know Michael Ansara as the voice of Mr Freeze
Mr.Freeze and Captain Cold would make best buds
I would have to say, Mr. Freeze is like the only batman villain that is a truly tragic villain! I feel bad for poor victor!
The episodes used were 'Cold Comfort' and 'Heart of Ice.'
his voice in this series is just badass!
that's a man you don't want to get on the bad side of, defaintly a great character, i still don't see him as a bad guy because he's not truly evil, he just dose evil thing, from time to time, he's just mad as hell, and he aint gunna take it anymore!!1!
He has a frozen cell in Arkham Asylum. When I saw it, and he wasn't free, I just assumed the Joker didn't unfreeze him because he would have been problematic to his overall goals. Such in a way he didn't plan on releasing Poison Ivy... it just sort of happened, and he ran with it when an opportunity presented itself.
The only reason Freeze is in Arkham is because they possess the faculties to restrain him. He isn't insane... well, at least I don't consider him insane.
DR. freeze is the coolest batman villian.
I just thought of a great reason why Mr. Freeze has no emotions. The reason isn't because of an affect of crygenic mutation, but because he HAS to have no emotions. In the aftermath of the incedint with his CEO, Freeze, beliving that his wife was dead, started to cry. Even though Freezes blood is now cold, his tears are still hot and when they ran down his face, they reacted harshly with his skin, burning his eyes and face. In order to stay alive, Freeze used hypnotic suggestion on himself.
Mr Freeze and Two Face were the only foes of Batman that u still had to have sympathy for.
My favorite Batman Villain
It's disappointing they didn't do a redesign video for the Mad hatter. I never liked his new look for the show but am interested to see why they would wanna alter his design so drastically.
exactly, he became a supervillian in the process of doing anything he can whether it was moral or no(like killing people) then she...leaves
Mr. Freeze is just a head? How does he live? No heart, no blood flow, no lungs to breath, no blood, no stomach, no vocal chords.
I am guessing his organs is in his neck collar thingy
It's a comic book. Relax.
He became a robot
Yeah, but, c’mon…
@Mikeanglo I prefer to think that the incarnation of Mr Freeze after Subzero (aka the redesigned 'robot' one) never happened. Mr Freeze's story was done when Nora was cured. He was a moral man driven by unfortunate circumstances, but his ultimate objective was achieved, and he had no more reason to commit crime. His turning into a misanthrope was a cheap motivation which was against his character and was only implemented as an excuse to have more characters for the revamped show.
Quite honestly I liked their first version of Mr.Freeze more than the second version
Mr Freeze isn’t really a villain he’s just a man who lost everything lost his love and only wants her back
In the Schumacher films, the only thing good to keep was the songs...
"Hello Freeze, I'm Batman!" *djingle*
Yeks!
Being a huge hellboy fan, I couldnt help but feel like Mr Freeze looked like a Mike Mignola creation. And indeed, I was right!
@Apollomasque I think it was a strength of the revamp that they upped his dickishness while still keeping him sympathetic.
He definitely redeemed himself in Meltdown though. Well, sorta.
the first Mr. Freeze was beautiful, epic, and badass, the others were just rediculas, and these people who made those changes to it must have had some kind of illusion that the teens want shiny dark pointy guys that are just there to make some explosions... If they bring back Mr. Freeze, they'll need to make him as close to the original as they FUCKING CAN. that's my two cents on this subject.
The revised Mr. Freeze looked terrible.
It beats Arnold's Mr. Freeze.
I’d have to disagree. Aesthetically, anyway.
Agreed. I dig the retrofuturistic look the first one had.
all of the revamps sucked
yeah in cold comfort barb said nora gave up on victor and left gotham for good when i heard that i was like curse the writers
dont let arnold cloud your mind, freeze is actually one of the darkest villains of all
Mr. Freeze is a tragic villain because he is no longer in control of his feelings and actions.
I like the new looks in "new adventures" but "Animated Series" is still the best :)
So, apparently the voice actor of Mr. Freeze recently died. :-(
Im sure if nolan wanted to he could totally re-vamp this villian from what joel shumacker earlier portrayed him as
His name is Victor Fries
@baldgenius01 *Spoiler* It's not that she just walked away from him, she actually waited for quite a while then marrierd her doctor and moved away from Gotham. Due to the events of Sub-Zero, Mr. Freeze's condition worsened and he couldn't bring himself to see her. He didn't blame her, even in Batman Beyond he started the Nora foundation for other people with terminal illnesses with the fortune he saved up, due to him being still alive.
you don't have to be crazy to be a good villain. freeze is more like a lost soul with misplaced anger. plus he has a tragic backstory which makes you feel bad for him(maybe)
Always been my fave Batman villain.
If you have the Collector's Edition, Penny Young's notebook lists him as "Escaped."
Poor, poor, Mr. Freeze... T_T Wouldn't been saved but he wasted that.
I say put Mr.Freeze in the next movie anyway. As more of a minor villain. He is one of my favorite villains in the DC universe. Batgirl was foolish to use his own gun against him in that episode of the animated series.
Batman The Animated Series turned Mr. Freeze into a legend and then Batman & Robin completely destroyed the character. Warner Bros need not be afraid to bring Freeze back for the reboot.
Freeze turning into a cyborg is nothing to loose your head over....errr wait maybe thats a poor choice of words...
It can't be THAT obscure.