Victor Fries

Dr. **Victor Fries** (ヴィクター・フリーズ, *Vikutā Furīzu*), also known as "**Mister Freeze**" (ミスター・フリーズ, *Misutā Furīzu*), is both a fictional character and deuteragonist of the *Marvelous DC's* *Justice Avengers* series created by Gardner Fox and Jack Kirby.

He was once a respected and brilliant cryogenicist of Gotham City, but turned to a life of crime after his wife, Nora, cryogenically frozen for enough time to create a cure for her rare illness, was stolen away from him by his corrupt CEO of GothCorp, Ferris Boyle.

In the confusion, he was caught in a cryogenic accident, which changed his metabolism and lowered his body temperature. Not only it rendered him unable to survive in temperatures higher than sub-zero, but granted him the ability to freeze things through a touch.

The result was be became a cold-blooded scientist who was motivated by the desire to save and cure his wife through crime and kill anyone who would stand in his way. Continuing in his work over the years, he rarely worked with other villains unless it helps his research.

"*Have you ever seen a flower die? Watched something that was once so beautiful, so full of life, collapse and rot from within?*"

—Mr. Freeze, to Hugo Strange.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Maurice LaMarche (English), Not Known (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

### Biography

Victor Fries was a brilliant cryogenicist whose beloved wife Nora was stricken with a fatal degenerative disease. He placed her in suspended animation while obsessively searching for a way to cure her, but the corporation that funded his research - and Nora's life - pulled the plug, triggering an accident that transformed Fries' body into a cold-blooded form that must always be kept below zero; at normal room temperature he will die. Wielding a number of freezing weapons, he wears protective armor in his quest to somehow bring back his lovely wife and avenge her fate - which he partly holds the Batman responsible for.

### Appearance

#### As Mr. Freeze

As Mr. Freeze, he appeared as his skin was altered into a cold blooded form that was caused by the tank that exploded. He wears a super cooled and sleeker survival suit, that keeps his body at a subzero temperature to survive and powered up with super coolant in his suit. The suit itself resembles a hazmat suit with far less bulk, and had a GothCorp logo on his suit. However, the most unique feature of Freeze's suit with technology and weaponized cryo equipment and held a newer and advanced cryogenic freeze ray.

It can also feature his gauntlets, which contained his freeze weapon technology that enabled him to fire beams of ice from his wrists. These new Freeze Rays appeared to be incredibly powerful, and were able to destroy Militia tanks and freeze stronger ones. Freeze wears high-tech red lens thermal goggles that he uses to scan for targets. They resembled a pair of heavily-modified welding goggles, the lenses flipped down and activated when Freeze was in danger rather than having him wear them all the time, and they flipped up and deactivated once he was out of danger.

* Hair Color: White (formerly Black)
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Blue
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 6' 3"
* Weight: 190 lbs. (86 kg)

### Attributes:

* Scientific genius, with a specialty in cryogenics.
* Employs an extensive array of cryo-weaponry.
* His body has been permanently altered to survive at a sub-freezing state.
* Wears protective, freezing armor whenever he's out in an above-zero climate.
* Motivated by his grief and anger over the fate of his wife Nora.

## Personality

Victor's love for his wife was so great that he would do literally everything to find a cure for her illness. He committed company espionage, robbery, murder, extortion and even became a career criminal because he didn't want to lose her. Largely because of Victor feeling he has absolutely nothing left to lose in his quest to save Nora, he was initially immune to Batman's terror-based approach at dealing with crime, explicitly telling him that, as he had "lost everything", his threats had absolutely no effect on him.

Ironically Victor's ruthlessness in attempting to cure Nora by placing her in cryo-stasis created a gap between the two of them. As she was conscious of her surroundings while frozen she knew what her husband had become to save her. After dealing with Arkham Knight's unit she even begged of Victor to "let her live" with whatever days she had left with him instead of an eternity separated in cryo-stasis. He may also suffer from some kind of attachment disorder as Victor appears incapable of letting anyone go.

It's revealed in the Patient Files from Arkham City that he froze his family pets in an attempt to save them until he discovered a cure and was disgusted that his parents were prepared to put them down so easily. This is a similar situation with Nora. She was perfectly accepting towards her death but Victor, unable to lose her, began a decade-long obsession and amoral hunt to save her, no matter how many lives it would cost. Victor projects his blame or guilt for his own losses rather than accept the blame himself or come to terms with his own losses.

His hatred towards Batman was that he prevented him for killing Ferris Boyle as he was partly responsible for his inability to save his wife. Victor did show gratitude however towards the vigilante but initially blamed Batman for the Militia kidnapping Nora as he refused to join Scarecrow's Army and she was used as a trump card to force him otherwise. Though the root of his illegal actions are to discover a cure, Victor also has a sense of vengeance. After surviving his lab accident, his first action was to kill Ferris Boyle for refusing to follow through on his deal.

He may have developed sadistic tendencies. He crushed Penguin's hand, which was broken, out of retribution for locking him up in his display case with apathetic satisfaction. Victor also gave a graphic and detailed threat on what he would do to Hugo Strange when he imprisoned him in Arkham City. Victor lost most of his aggressive personality years later. However, needless to say, his ruthless protection over Nora remained intact as he was able to freeze the Militia soldiers that attacked his ship without so much a second thought.

He was also prepared to attack Batman to deliver him to the Militia in exchange for his wife. As Victor did not trust them, he instead forms an alliance with Batman to rescue Nora. In the end, Victor was able to do one last heroic deed: put aside his endless hunt and detonated Noras Cryo-chamber which was able to destroy the Militia's tanks. After that, Nora (who finally woke up from cryo-stasis), and Victor left Gotham to spend their final days together.

## Relationships

### Family

* Nora Fries (Wife)
* Dora Smithy (sister-in-law)

### Neutral

* Batman
* Hugo Strange

### Enemies

* GothCorp
	+ Ferris Boyle
* Two-Face
* Riddler
* Falcone Crime Family
	+ Carmine Falcone
* Joker's Thugs
	+ Joker
	+ Bud and Lou
	+ Harley Quinn
* Penguin
* Bane
	+ Razor
* Victor Zsasz
* Scarecrow
* Mad Hatter
* Killer Moth
* Maxie Zeus
* Killer Croc
* False Facers
	+ Black Mask
* Hush
* Calendar Man

## Abilities and Powers

### Powers

* **Unique Physiology**:
	+ **Self-Sustenance**: Victor can survive sub-zero temperatures and actually cannot survive without them.
	+ **Immortality**: Life has frozen over for Victor and has halted his age indefinitely.
	+ **Cryokinesis**: Mr. Freeze is able to fire ice blasts directly from his hands.
	+ **Weather Manipulation**: Upon becoming Mr. Freeze, Victor is able to make it snow so hard, that Gotham went through an ice age at one point.

### Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect**: Victor is a genius capable of much, although Hugo Strange noted that he made many wrong choices in his life and thus became who he was: Mr. Freeze. Despite the monomania in trying to cure his wife's illness, Victor has shown his intelligence hadn't been affected by the numerous things he's invented.
	+ **Science**: Victor is a brilliant cryogenicist, capable of freezing a living being in a state where they can be revived rather than be killed by being frozen.
		- **Cryogenics**: Victor Fries is a remarkable scientist and is Gotham's premier mind on Cryogenics.
		- **Medical Science**:
	+ **Multilingualism**: Victor is fluent with both German and English.
	+ **Chemistry**: Upon becoming Mr. Freeze, Victor developed a serum of sorts to keep his body in a subzero temperature if his suit was ever damaged and ceased to keep him cool. He was also able to come up with the cure to the Titan disease, but noted that it was incomplete without the blood of someone who used the Lazarus Pit. He also managed to create a cure for his wife, but was forced to sacrifice the generator that made it to save her and Batman.
	+ **Gadgetry**: Victor created his Mr. Freeze suit and his freeze gun. He even augmented his body with a holder for a vial of his freezing agent for when he's out of the suit.
	+ **Computer Operation**:
	+ **Mechanical Engineering**:
	+ **Electrical Engineering**:
* **Athletics**: Victor is a two-time Olympic decathlon.
* **Leadership**:
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat** (Basic):
* **Intimidation**:
* **Artistry**:
* **Swimming**:
* **Firearms**: Mister Freeze has become skilled in the use of his Freeze Gun even when it is adapted for different purposes such as a giant freeze ray or firing it while it malfunctioned.
* **Animal Training**:
* **Photography**:
* **Driving**:

### Weaknesses

* **Technological Reliability**: Must be kept at temperatures below the freezing point of water. As such he lives on a cold storage facility, and can only roam outdoors in his cryo-suit.
* **Vulnerability to Heat**: Fries cannot survive normal human temperatures and his body temp as dropped to inhuman levels. Temperatures above freezing are both extremely harmful and painful to him.
	+ **Antifreeze**:
* **Electricity/Electromagnetic Pulses**: Electricity can short circuit the equipment in the armor.
* **Stealth**: The bulkiness of the Freeze suit limits the mobility of Mr. Freeze significantly, allowing Batman the opportunity to use stealth attacks against him. However after each attack he adapts his suit so the same attack can't be used again.

### Equipment

* **Cryo-Suit**: A protective suit that keeps his body temperature below freezing and enhances his strength and protects him from most physical attacks.
	+ **Enhanced Strength**:
	+ **Toxic Immunity**:
	+ **Enhanced Durability**:

### Weapons

* **Mr. Freeze's Cold Gun**: He freezes areas around him using special weapons and equipment.

### Transportation

* **Freezemobile**: Victor drives a tank-like van with spikes on the bumper, icicle missiles, and a freezing cannon

## External links

* Mr. Freeze *Wikipedia*
* Mr. Freeze *Batman Wiki*
* Mr. Freeze *DC Database*

## Notes & Trivia

* Mister Freeze first appeared in Batman #121 (February 1959).
* Freeze's minions resemble his appearance in the 1960's TV series "*Batman*".