#mr. zero

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365 DC Comics Heroes & Villains Paper Cut-Outs

Mister Freeze

In his earlier appearances. The villainous mr. Freeze was known as Mr. Zero, a criminal scientist who had perfected a freezing gun.  An accident in the weapon’s construction resulted in his being drenched with cryogenic chemicals, changing his physiology and forcing him to wear a sub-zero bodysuit in order to survive.  Calling himself ‘Mister Zero,’ he embarked on numerous ice-based crimes and was routinely defeated by Batman and Robin.

The villain appeared in the 1966 Batman television series where his alias was changed too ‘Mister Freeze’ (with his comic book counterpart doing the same).  He updated his cryogenic suit providing him bionic powers and subsequent redesigns incorporate his ice gun into his suit.  He additionally discovered that the accident that required him to exist in freezing temperatures had also stopped his aging process.  The villain had subsequent encounters with Batman as well as with Superman.

Mr. Freeze’s look, backstory and motivations were altered in his appearance in Batman The Animated Series and much of these changes were soon incorporated into the comic book universe.  Herein, the villain began as ingenious scientist named Victor Fries. When his beloved wife Nora was diagnosed with a terminal illness, he began experimenting with cryogenics.  He found a means of sustaining Nora in cryogenic stasis where she could remain until a cure for her disease could be found.  All of this work was done at GothCorp, using huge amounts of the company’s funds.  When Ferris Boyle, the chief executive officer at GothCorp, discovered what Fries had been up to, he went to Fries’ laboratory with his men to shut the whole matter down.

Fries begged for his wife's life, but an irate Boyle had his men destroy the equipment.  Fries himself was kicked into a batch of chemicals, causing a terrible explosion that consumed the entire lab.  

Fries managed to survive this ordeal but the cryogenic chemicals had caused a dramatic and irreversible change to his physiology.  His body could no longer survive in temperatures above zero degrees celsius.  He created for himself a specialized cryo-suit that kept his body at low temperatures.  This suit also tripled his normal strength. He then devised a freeze gun that could fire torrents of ice that flash-froze anything it came into contact with.  

Devastated by the loss of his life and now seeing himself as a cold and unfeeling entity, Fries re-dubbed himself ‘Mister Freeze’ and set about on gaining cold-blooded vengeance against Farris Boyle.  His efforts to bring down GothCorp attracted the attention of The Batman and the Dark Knight barely survived his first encounter with the villain.  After further investigation, Batman was able to determine Freeze’s true identity as well as Boyle’s culpability in the accident that had created him.  

Batman was ultimately able to defeat Freeze while also exposing Boyle’s murderous actions.  Boyle was sentenced to prison whereas Freeze was remanded to Arkham Asylum.  It would prove the first of many battles between Batman and Mr. Freeze.

Nora was later revealed as alive and still maintain in cryogenic stasis; many of Freeze’s subsequent villainous endeavors were in the service of finding cure or altering the world into an environment she could survive in.  To this end Freeze battled Batman on many more occasions and he would also become a member of her Legion of Doom, the Injustice Society as well as the Secret Society of Super Villains.  

Some time later Freeze is finally able to cure his wife with the aid of Lex Luthor.  Although the ‘cure’ causes Nora to become a being similar to Freeze himself, forced to live in frigid temperatures.  She would go on to become the villainess known as Mrs. Freeze.  

The villain has appeared in a number of live-action productions where he has been portrayed by actors George Sanders, Otto Preminger, Eli Wallach, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Nathan Darrow.  Freeze has also appeared in numerous animated shows and features, voiced by actors Michael Ansara, Ted Knight, Lennie Weinrib, Clancy Brown, John DiMaggio, Peter Stormare, Keith Szarabajka, Dolph Adomian, John De Lance, Regi Davis and Alfred Molina.

As Mr. Zero, the villain debuted the pages of Batman Vol. 1 #121 (1959); his first appearance as Mr. Freeze was in the pages of Detective Comics #373 (1978).  

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Mistigram: this fauvist portrait of #MrZero, the announcer from the #FZero racing games, was drawn by @teletextart and won 1st place in the Nova 2024 demoparty's #Teletext compo. It was also included a year ago in the MIST-30 30th anniversary celebration artpack collection.