Victor Fries (Arrowverse)

**Victor Fries** (died 2019) was a former cryogenics engineer at GothCorp, the husband of the late Nora Fries, the enemy turned ally and close friend of Bruce Wayne and a former member of the Bat Team.

## Victor Fries (Arrowverse)

* Civilian
* Mr. Freeze

## General Information

### Occupation

Cryogenics Engineer (formerly)Scientist (formerly)

Supervillain (formerly)

Vigilante (formerly)

### Family

Unnamed (mother; deceased)Unnamed (father; deceased)

Nora Fries (wife)

### Alter Ego

Mr. Freeze (formerly)Iceman (formerly)

The Coldman (codename; formerly)

As a child, Victor was obsessed with the science of cryogenics and began freezing animals in order to preserve them so that they wouldn’t die in the future. His odd behavior eventually got him shipped off the boarding school where he was found to be odd by many of peers and was often bullied by some of the kids.

Growing up, Victor began to study cryogenics and dreamed of working at GothCorp someday. One day, while out in Alaska and foraging in the snow, he met a woman named Nora Fries and fell in love with her. The pair eventually married and dreamed of starting a family of their own. However, one day, Nora was diagnosed with MacGregor’s Syndrome and was on the road to death.

In order to support his wife and get money for her medicine, Victor began working in the cryogenics lab at GothCorp, a science and research division in Gotham City. Victor watched in agony as his wife became more and more ill, eventually to the point of being in a state of constant sleep. Unable to see his wife like this, Victor snuck her into the cryogenics lab at GothCorp and preserved her in cryogenic suspension in order to find time to make a cure. However, his actions were found out by GothCorp’s director, Quincy Sharp, and was stormed by Sharp and his men. Desperate to save his wife, Victor attempted to fight them off however was knocked into cryogenic chemicals and cooling liquid. Sharp left and presumed Victor was dead.

However, Victor survived however was mutated by the chemicals, so that he was now only able to survive in a sub-zero environment. Victor fashioned himself a suit to keep his vitals going and also a gun that could fire ice cold blasts at targets and freeze them to death. Victor took on the identity of **Mr. Freeze**, stylized as **“Dr. Freeze”** or **“The Coldman”**, and ventured to get his wife back after discovering Quincy had taken her to sell to a gang. Mr. Freeze found them and killed them all, retrieving his wife. Mr. Freeze stored his wife in an abandoned warehouse which would later become his lair. Mr. Freeze later met Batman, due to the need for him to steal diamonds to power his suit.

Mr. Freeze and Batman would begin to have more frequent encounters, with Batman taking pity on him due to his sad backstory and his wife. Though fighting him, Batman secretly never saw Mr. Freeze as an enemy and he too was working to find a cure for his wife. Mr. Freeze was also hired by numerous members of Batman’s rogues gallery to kill and conquer, due to his insanely powerful weapon. Mr. Freeze was also staged in a criminal plan to take control of Gotham by attempting to cause the same sort of accident in hopes to give Gothamites Mr. Freeze’s powers. However, the plan was foiled by Batman.

Mr. Freeze soon began to fall deeper into darkness and became more and more evil as he attempted to find a cure for his wife. For the next 15 years, Batman and Mr. Freeze would go on to have many deadly encounters until Batman left Gotham City in 2015 after killing The Joker.

During the Anti-Monitor Crisis, Mr. Freeze, along with everyone else in the multiverse apart from the seven Paragons, was killed by an antimatter wave released by the Anti-Monitor on December 10th, 2019, only to be restored a month later after the Paragons and the Spectre created a new universe.

On Earth-Prime, Mr. Freeze’s history was altered, where he initially began as a criminal and one of Batman’s most formidable enemies, however eventually turned good and even joined the Bat Team after his wife was cured. However, she was sent to Arkham Asylum for unknown reasons. Mr. Freeze eventually became the vigilante known as the **Iceman**; code named **The Coldman** by Dick Grayson. Batman and Mr. Freeze worked together for a few months.

It was later mentioned that Mr. Freeze sacrificed himself to save Batman from Bane’s plan to take over Gotham City, being completely beaten and ripped apart by Bane. However, Freeze’s sacrifice was honored by the members of the Bat Team, and a memorial was held for him in Gotham cemetery. His gun is also stored in the Batcave as a memory of him.