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[[caption-width-right:346:[-''"Rest well, my love. The monster who took you from me will soon learn that {{revenge}} is a dish... [[BestServedCold best served cold]]."''-] ]]
->'''Franchise/{{Batman}}:''' My God.\\
->'''Franchise/{{Batman}}:''' My God.\\
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Cut to a newscast by Summer Gleeson, reporting the latest in a series of cold-related crimes on Goth Corp facilities during the hottest August in Gotham history. Witnesses said that the attacker used a freezing gun. Goth Corp CEO Ferris Boyle says that his company is willing to listen to what the attacker wants. Batman was just watching this newscast while analyzing these crimes. He had gotten information from the police earlier about what was stolen from each facility, and his computer has determined that each device stolen can be put together to create a weapon that generates intense cold. There is just one component missing, and only one Goth Corp facility makes it.
At this facility, a truck with the same figure and henchmen drives through security, with the Batmobile in close pursuit. The villain then uses his freezing gun to freeze the road so that the Batmobile skids, so Batman, with quick maneuvering, grapples on to a pole and stops the car. At the factory's warehouse, he and his henchmen steal certain canisters. Batman then drops in and takes out the henchmen and commands the villain to freeze, at which point he reveals his name: Mr. Freeze. Batman then engages Mr. Freeze in combat. One of the henchmen accidentally gets hit in the legs, and he is able to freeze a bridge under Batman and causes him to fall and get incapacitated. Mr. Freeze then makes a quick getaway, telling his henchmen to leave the one whose legs got frozen. Batman then recovers and takes the unlucky henchman to the Batcave.
As Batman gets back to the Batcave, he takes the henchman to a hot chemical bath where his legs can recover. He is able to heal, but it's revealed that Batman caught a cold in the fight. He says that he can't worry about a cold right now, since Bruce Wayne has an appointment with Ferris Boyle. Bruce goes to the meeting and asks Ferris Boyle who would make attacks on Goth Corp. Ferris Boyle then describes one man who could possibly hate the company, if he were alive, of course. One employee, a scientist, was using Goth Corp equipment for personal reasons, so Boyle called company guards to arrest him, but there was an explosion and they lost the employee. Boyle then says that he can't have "wage slaves" acting like they own the place. Boyle then gets a call that the humanitarian committee has arrived, saying that Goth Corp is hosting a ceremony for the Gotham Humanitarian Industrialist of the Year Award, since Boyle won. Bruce silently expresses his disbelief at him winning the award.
Next scene, Mr. Freeze watches the ceremony, then shoots the TV, saying that "she" needed compassion and charity, but didn't get any. He then directs his henchmen to build his freezing cannon.
Back to the Batcave, Batman remembers a newspaper headline that described an explosion at a Goth Corp facility, but the headline describes the explosion as caused by a leak, and Batman deduces that it was just a cover up. Batman then arrives, in disguise, to investigate Goth Corp's secret files for further information. He finds a file on a woman named Nora Fries, which has a videotape of her husband, Dr. Victor Fries describing a cryogenic chamber of his own design that he created to save people from terminal illness. However, in the tape, some Goth Corp guards and Ferris Boyle, who demanded that the project be shut down because it was putting him in debt, interrupted Fries. Fries then tried to pull a policeman's gun on Boyle, but Boyle kicked him back into several chemicals that froze him. The tape ended there, and Mr. Freeze suddenly appeared behind Batman, shooting him with his freeze gun.
Batman is later seen in a frozen cave with snow falling, with Mr. Freeze talking about how beautiful the snow is, and how vengeance is cold. Batman then deduces that Mr. Freeze's suit is the result of having been bathed in the coolants, and he says that he can no longer survive outside of sub-zero temperatures. Mr. Freeze then describes how he is going to take revenge on the man who ruined his life: Ferris Boyle, with Batman objecting to the fact that he will also kill everyone else in the building.
Mr. Freeze then proceeds to enact his plan to take revenge on Boyle. He blasts the Goth Corp building using his giant freezing cannon. Batman is able to escape and goes to stop him. After he stops the freeze cannon, Mr. Freeze simply goes into the party in order to personally settle his vendetta with Boyle. He reminds Boyle of who he is, and after Boyle begs him to stop, he reminds Boyle that in his dreams, he sees Nora begging to be saved. Batman then goes to fight Mr. Freeze in hand-to-hand combat, but initially has a hard time because Freeze's suit enhances his strength. Batman defeats Mr. Freeze by breaking open his helmet and pouring some hot chicken soup that Alfred gave him earlier. He then gives the tape of Boyle ruining Victor Fries's life to Summer Gleeson so that the world may know that Ferris Boyle is not the humanitarian the Gotham Humanitarian Committee makes him out to be.
Freeze is then incarcerated in Arkham Asylum in a special cell that keeps him at sub-zero temperatures, holding his snow globe with a skater in it. He cries to himself, saying that he failed Nora, and begs her forgiveness. Batman watches him from atop an adjacent building, and walks away.
At this facility, a truck with the same figure and henchmen drives through security, with the Batmobile in close pursuit. The villain then uses his freezing gun to freeze the road so that the Batmobile skids, so Batman, with quick maneuvering, grapples on to a pole and stops the car. At the factory's warehouse, he and his henchmen steal certain canisters. Batman then drops in and takes out the henchmen and commands the villain to freeze, at which point he reveals his name: Mr. Freeze. Batman then engages Mr. Freeze in combat. One of the henchmen accidentally gets hit in the legs, and he is able to freeze a bridge under Batman and causes him to fall and get incapacitated. Mr. Freeze then makes a quick getaway, telling his henchmen to leave the one whose legs got frozen. Batman then recovers and takes the unlucky henchman to the Batcave.
As Batman gets back to the Batcave, he takes the henchman to a hot chemical bath where his legs can recover. He is able to heal, but it's revealed that Batman caught a cold in the fight. He says that he can't worry about a cold right now, since Bruce Wayne has an appointment with Ferris Boyle. Bruce goes to the meeting and asks Ferris Boyle who would make attacks on Goth Corp. Ferris Boyle then describes one man who could possibly hate the company, if he were alive, of course. One employee, a scientist, was using Goth Corp equipment for personal reasons, so Boyle called company guards to arrest him, but there was an explosion and they lost the employee. Boyle then says that he can't have "wage slaves" acting like they own the place. Boyle then gets a call that the humanitarian committee has arrived, saying that Goth Corp is hosting a ceremony for the Gotham Humanitarian Industrialist of the Year Award, since Boyle won. Bruce silently expresses his disbelief at him winning the award.
Next scene, Mr. Freeze watches the ceremony, then shoots the TV, saying that "she" needed compassion and charity, but didn't get any. He then directs his henchmen to build his freezing cannon.
Back to the Batcave, Batman remembers a newspaper headline that described an explosion at a Goth Corp facility, but the headline describes the explosion as caused by a leak, and Batman deduces that it was just a cover up. Batman then arrives, in disguise, to investigate Goth Corp's secret files for further information. He finds a file on a woman named Nora Fries, which has a videotape of her husband, Dr. Victor Fries describing a cryogenic chamber of his own design that he created to save people from terminal illness. However, in the tape, some Goth Corp guards and Ferris Boyle, who demanded that the project be shut down because it was putting him in debt, interrupted Fries. Fries then tried to pull a policeman's gun on Boyle, but Boyle kicked him back into several chemicals that froze him. The tape ended there, and Mr. Freeze suddenly appeared behind Batman, shooting him with his freeze gun.
Batman is later seen in a frozen cave with snow falling, with Mr. Freeze talking about how beautiful the snow is, and how vengeance is cold. Batman then deduces that Mr. Freeze's suit is the result of having been bathed in the coolants, and he says that he can no longer survive outside of sub-zero temperatures. Mr. Freeze then describes how he is going to take revenge on the man who ruined his life: Ferris Boyle, with Batman objecting to the fact that he will also kill everyone else in the building.
Mr. Freeze then proceeds to enact his plan to take revenge on Boyle. He blasts the Goth Corp building using his giant freezing cannon. Batman is able to escape and goes to stop him. After he stops the freeze cannon, Mr. Freeze simply goes into the party in order to personally settle his vendetta with Boyle. He reminds Boyle of who he is, and after Boyle begs him to stop, he reminds Boyle that in his dreams, he sees Nora begging to be saved. Batman then goes to fight Mr. Freeze in hand-to-hand combat, but initially has a hard time because Freeze's suit enhances his strength. Batman defeats Mr. Freeze by breaking open his helmet and pouring some hot chicken soup that Alfred gave him earlier. He then gives the tape of Boyle ruining Victor Fries's life to Summer Gleeson so that the world may know that Ferris Boyle is not the humanitarian the Gotham Humanitarian Committee makes him out to be.
Freeze is then incarcerated in Arkham Asylum in a special cell that keeps him at sub-zero temperatures, holding his snow globe with a skater in it. He cries to himself, saying that he failed Nora, and begs her forgiveness. Batman watches him from atop an adjacent building, and walks away.
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Cut to a newscast by Summer Gleeson, reporting the latest in a series of cold-related crimes on Goth Corp facilities during the hottest August in Gotham history. Witnesses said that the attacker used a freezing gun. Goth Corp CEO Ferris Boyle says that his company is willing to listen to what the attacker wants. Batman was just watching this watches the newscast while analyzing these crimes. He had gotten information from the police earlier about what was stolen from each facility, and his computer has determined that each device stolen can be put together to create a weapon that generates intense cold. There is just one component missing, and only one Goth Corp facility makes it.
At this facility, a truck with the same figure and henchmen drives through security, with the Batmobile in close pursuit. The villain then uses his freezing gun to freeze the road so that the Batmobile skids, so Batman, with quick maneuvering, grapples on to a pole and stops the car. At the factory's warehouse,he the figure and his henchmen steal certain canisters. Batman then drops in and takes out the henchmen and commands the villain to freeze, at which point he reveals his name: Mr. Freeze. Batman then engages Mr. Freeze in combat. One of the henchmen accidentally gets hit in the legs, legs by the freeze ray, and he Freeze is able to freeze use the cold gun to shatter a bridge under Batman and causes catwalk underneath Batman, causing him to fall and get become incapacitated. Mr. Freeze then makes a quick getaway, telling his henchmen to leave the one whose legs got frozen. Batman then recovers and takes the unlucky henchman to the Batcave.
As Batman gets back to In the Batcave, he takes Batman places the henchman to in a hot chemical bath where his legs can recover. He is able to heal, but it's revealed that Batman isn't feeling so good himself; he caught a cold in during the fight. He says that he can't worry about a cold right now, since Bruce Wayne has an appointment with Ferris Boyle. Bruce goes to the meeting and asks Ferris Boyle who would make attacks on Goth Corp. Ferris Boyle then describes one man who could possibly hate the company, if company--if he were was still alive, of course. One employee, a scientist, was using Goth Corp equipment for personal reasons, so Boyle called company guards to arrest him, but there was an explosion and they lost the employee. Boyle then doesn't seem too heartbroken over this; he says that he can't have "wage slaves" acting like they own the place. Boyle then gets a call that the humanitarian committee has arrived, saying that Goth Corp is hosting a ceremony for the Gotham Humanitarian Industrialist of the Year Award, since which Boyle won. Bruce silently expresses his disbelief at him Boyle winning the award.
Next scene, From his sub-zero lair, Mr. Freeze watches the ceremony, then shoots the TV, saying that "she" needed compassion and charity, but didn't get any. He then directs his henchmen to build his freezing cannon.
Backto in the Batcave, Batman remembers a newspaper headline that described an explosion at a Goth Corp facility, but the headline describes the explosion as caused by a leak, and Batman deduces that it was just a cover up. Batman then arrives, heads to Goth Corp, in disguise, to investigate Goth Corp's their secret files for further information. He finds a file on a woman named Nora Fries, which has a videotape of her husband, Dr. Victor Fries Fries, describing a cryogenic chamber of his own design that he created to save people from terminal illness. illness--including Nora herself. However, in the tape, tape shows Ferris Boyle barging in with some Goth Corp guards and Ferris Boyle, who guards. Boyle demanded that the project be shut down because it was putting him in debt, interrupted Fries. heedless of the frozen woman in the chamber, who would die if the power was cut off. A protesting Fries then tried to pull a policeman's guard's gun on Boyle, but Boyle kicked him back into several chemicals that froze him. The tape ended ends there, and Mr. Freeze suddenly appeared appears behind Batman, shooting him with his freeze gun.
Batman is later seenin a frozen to the ceiling in a cave with snow falling, with as Mr. Freeze talking talks about how beautiful the snow is, and how vengeance is cold. Batman then deduces that Mr. Freeze's suit is the result of having been bathed in the coolants, and he says Freeze confirms it, saying that he can no longer survive outside of sub-zero temperatures. Mr. Freeze then describes how he is going to take revenge on the man who ruined his life: Ferris Boyle, with Batman objecting to the fact ignoring Batman's objections that he the giant freezing cannon will also kill everyone else in the building.
Leaving Batman hanging in his lair, Mr. Freezethen proceeds to enact his plan to take revenge on Boyle. He blasts the Goth Corp building using his giant freezing cannon. Batman is able to escape and goes to stop him. After he stops the freeze cannon, Mr. Freeze simply goes into the party in order to personally settle his vendetta with Boyle. He reminds Boyle of who he is, and after Boyle begs him to stop, he reminds Boyle that in his dreams, he sees Nora begging to be saved. Batman then goes to fight Mr. Freeze in hand-to-hand combat, but initially has a hard time because Freeze's suit enhances his strength. Batman defeats Mr. Freeze by breaking open his helmet and pouring some a thermos of hot chicken soup that (which Alfred gave had given him earlier. He then earlier to help with his cold) over Freeze's helmet, cracking it and exposing him to the warm August air. Freeze falls to his knees, gasping for breath, his strength gone. Batman gives the tape of Boyle ruining Victor Fries's life to Summer Gleeson Gleeson, so that the world may know that Ferris Boyle is not the humanitarian the Gotham Humanitarian Committee makes him out to be.
Freeze isthen incarcerated in Arkham Asylum in a special cell that keeps him at sub-zero temperatures, holding his snow globe with a skater in it. He cries to himself, saying that he failed Nora, and begs her forgiveness. Batman watches him from atop an adjacent building, and walks away.
At this facility, a truck with the same figure and henchmen drives through security, with the Batmobile in close pursuit. The villain then uses his freezing gun to freeze the road so that the Batmobile skids, so Batman, with quick maneuvering, grapples on to a pole and stops the car. At the factory's warehouse,
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* AntiVillain: This episode was considered a turning point for the character of Mr. Freeze, who was previously a silly and unremarkable one-shot villain from the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]. He was revamped in this series as a heart-breakingly TragicVillain who only wanted revenge on the person who ruined his life.
* ApocalypticLog: The videotape inside Victor Fries's case file.
* ApocalypticLog: The videotape inside Victor Fries's case file.
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* AntiVillain: This episode was considered a turning point for the character of Mr. Freeze, who was previously a silly and unremarkable one-shot villain from the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age]].Age|OfComicBooks}}. He was revamped in this series as a heart-breakingly TragicVillain who only wanted revenge on the person who ruined his life.
* ApocalypticLog: The videotape inside Victor Fries's case file. It starts out as a normal video log, with Fries describing his invention, before Boyle interrupts him, eventually causing the accident that turns him into Mr. Freeze.
* ApocalypticLog: The videotape inside Victor Fries's case file. It starts out as a normal video log, with Fries describing his invention, before Boyle interrupts him, eventually causing the accident that turns him into Mr. Freeze.
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* BadBoss: Mr. Freeze, who lacks regard for an unlucky henchman who got hit with his freeze gun.
** ''[[MurderIsTheBestSolution Ferris]] [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Boyle.]]''
** ''[[MurderIsTheBestSolution Ferris]] [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Boyle.]]''
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* BadBoss: BadBoss:
** Mr. Freeze, who lacks regard for an unlucky henchman who got hit with his freeze gun.
**''[[MurderIsTheBestSolution Ferris]] [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Boyle.]]''Ferris Boyle, who cheerfully accepts humanitarian awards in public while calling his employees "wage slaves" to fellow one-percenter Bruce Wayne, and who thinks MurderIsTheBestSolution because ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
** Mr. Freeze, who lacks regard for an unlucky henchman who got hit with his freeze gun.
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* CryForTheDevil: One of the few enemies Batman has any sympathies to.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The other henchmen object to Freeze leaving a man behind, saying that he's "one of us" -- at least, until Freeze threatens them with the same fate. They still don't seem comfortable about it when the guy pleads with them and clutches at their legs in desperation.
* FreezeRay: Mr. Freeze's weapon of choice.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: As Summer Gleeson is finishing up on Mr. Freeze's latest crime, you can see several kids run up to the snow and start playing with it. A policeman chases them off, as this is a crime scene. However just as he shoos them away the kids pelt him with snowballs.
* HarmlessFreezing: Averted by Mr. Freeze's guns. The henchman who was hit needed a hot chemical bath to return him to normal. Even Batman has to cope with the after effects.
* {{Irony}}: Earlier, Mr. Freeze says that he can't shed tears anymore because his emotions were frozen in the accident, but he does so in his special cell in Arkham.
** [[FridgeBrilliance He's so scarred by what has happened to him that he believed he's dead emotionally]].
* FreezeRay: Mr. Freeze's weapon of choice.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: As Summer Gleeson is finishing up on Mr. Freeze's latest crime, you can see several kids run up to the snow and start playing with it. A policeman chases them off, as this is a crime scene. However just as he shoos them away the kids pelt him with snowballs.
* HarmlessFreezing: Averted by Mr. Freeze's guns. The henchman who was hit needed a hot chemical bath to return him to normal. Even Batman has to cope with the after effects.
* {{Irony}}: Earlier, Mr. Freeze says that he can't shed tears anymore because his emotions were frozen in the accident, but he does so in his special cell in Arkham.
** [[FridgeBrilliance He's so scarred by what has happened to him that he believed he's dead emotionally]].
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The other henchmen object to Freeze leaving a man behind, saying that he's "one of us" -- at us"--at least, until Freeze threatens them with the same fate. They still don't seem comfortable about it when the guy pleads with them and clutches at their legs in desperation.
* FreezeRay: Mr. Freeze's weapon ofchoice.
choice. His objective is to build an enormous one with which he can freeze Boyle's entire building with him inside.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: As Summer Gleeson is finishing up on Mr. Freeze's latest crime, you can see several kids run up to the snow and start playing with it. A policeman chases them off, as this is a crime scene.However However, just as he shoos them away away, the kids pelt him with snowballs.
* HarmlessFreezing: Averted by Mr. Freeze's guns. The henchman whowas is hit needed needs a hot chemical bath to return him to normal. Even Batman has to cope with the after effects.
aftereffects.
* {{Irony}}: Earlier, Mr. Freeze says that he can't shed tears anymore because his emotions were frozen in the accident, but he does so in his special cell inArkham.
**Arkham. [[FridgeBrilliance He's so scarred by what has happened to him that he believed he's dead emotionally]].emotionally.]]
* FreezeRay: Mr. Freeze's weapon of
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: As Summer Gleeson is finishing up on Mr. Freeze's latest crime, you can see several kids run up to the snow and start playing with it. A policeman chases them off, as this is a crime scene.
* HarmlessFreezing: Averted by Mr. Freeze's guns. The henchman who
* {{Irony}}: Earlier, Mr. Freeze says that he can't shed tears anymore because his emotions were frozen in the accident, but he does so in his special cell in
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** Ferris Boyle, good god.
** Also Fries after his accident, most noted by the scene early on where he accidentally freezes a henchman's leg, abandons him, and has the gall to say it was the man's fault for not being careful.
* MagicalSecurityCamera: Batman watches security videos of Mr. Freeze's origin, which for some reason includes close ups and camera cuts, as though someone not only used a film camera but edited it as well.
** Presumably the security tape is only a framing device, and that Batman is only seeing a normal security video while we in the audience get a much clearer picture of what's going on.
** Also Fries after his accident, most noted by the scene early on where he accidentally freezes a henchman's leg, abandons him, and has the gall to say it was the man's fault for not being careful.
* MagicalSecurityCamera: Batman watches security videos of Mr. Freeze's origin, which for some reason includes close ups and camera cuts, as though someone not only used a film camera but edited it as well.
** Presumably the security tape is only a framing device, and that Batman is only seeing a normal security video while we in the audience get a much clearer picture of what's going on.
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** Ferris Boyle, good god.
Boyle cares not one whit for any of his employees, and is all set to pull the plug on a machine keeping a woman alive because of how expensive it is to run.
** Also Fries after his accident, most noted by the scene early on where he accidentally freezes a henchman'sleg, legs, abandons him, and has the gall to say it was the man's fault for not being careful.
* MagicalSecurityCamera: Batman watches security videos of Mr. Freeze's origin, which for some reason includes close ups and camera cuts, as though someone not only used a film camera but edited it as well. \n** Presumably the security tape is only a framing device, and that Batman is only seeing a normal security video while we in the audience get a much clearer picture of what's going on.
** Also Fries after his accident, most noted by the scene early on where he accidentally freezes a henchman's
* MagicalSecurityCamera: Batman watches security videos of Mr. Freeze's origin, which for some reason includes close ups and camera cuts, as though someone not only used a film camera but edited it as well.
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-->'''Freeze:''' 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!
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* NotSoStoic: Despite claiming his emotions have been frozen dead, Freeze cries at the end of the episode after failing to avenge her.
* OffhandBackhand: Batman to a henchman just after putting back on his utility belt.
* PetTheDog: During the Mr. Freeze's break in, during the opening, instead of trying to kill the guards, he simply freezes the door so they can't get in his way. A little later, he tells Batman he doesn't want to fight and warns him to stay out of his way instead of immediately attacking him like other villains would.
* RejectedApology: Mr. Freeze to Batman who expresses condolences about what happened to his wife.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Even with a broken helmet, gasping for breath and struggling to even crawl on the floor, Victor was still crying out for vengeance and trying to reach Boyle.
* OffhandBackhand: Batman to a henchman just after putting back on his utility belt.
* PetTheDog: During the Mr. Freeze's break in, during the opening, instead of trying to kill the guards, he simply freezes the door so they can't get in his way. A little later, he tells Batman he doesn't want to fight and warns him to stay out of his way instead of immediately attacking him like other villains would.
* RejectedApology: Mr. Freeze to Batman who expresses condolences about what happened to his wife.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Even with a broken helmet, gasping for breath and struggling to even crawl on the floor, Victor was still crying out for vengeance and trying to reach Boyle.
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* NotSoStoic: Despite claiming his emotions have been frozen dead, Freeze cries at the end of the episode after failing to avenge her.his wife.
* OffhandBackhand: Batman to a henchman just afterputting back on donning his utility belt.
* PetTheDog: Duringthe Mr. Freeze's break in, during the opening, initial break-in, instead of trying to kill the guards, he simply freezes the door so they can't get in his way. A little later, he tells Batman he doesn't want to fight and warns him to stay out of his way instead of immediately attacking him like other villains would.
* RejectedApology: Mr. Freeze toBatman Batman, who expresses condolences about what happened to his wife.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Even with a broken helmet, gasping for breath and struggling to even crawl on the floor, Victorwas is still crying out for vengeance and trying to reach Boyle.
* OffhandBackhand: Batman to a henchman just after
* PetTheDog: During
* RejectedApology: Mr. Freeze to
* RevengeBeforeReason: Even with a broken helmet, gasping for breath and struggling to even crawl on the floor, Victor
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** Batman rescues one of Freeze's {{Mook}}s who was unfortunate enough to get hit by ice, and thaws him with a chemical bath.
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** Batman rescues one of Freeze's {{Mook}}s {{Mooks}} who was unfortunate enough to get hit by ice, the FreezeRay, and thaws him with a chemical bath.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Ferris Boyle, again.
* WeCare: Goth Corp's Slogan was "The People Company".
* WeCare: Goth Corp's Slogan was "The People Company".
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Ferris Boyle, again.
again; a BadBoss who's nevertheless receiving a humanitarian award.
* WeCare: Goth Corp's Sloganwas is "The People Company".
* WeCare: Goth Corp's Slogan
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* WorkingThroughTheCold: Batman comes down with a cold after being exposed to Mr. Freeze's ice ray. Still he has to go out and stop the villain. Alfred makes him take a thermos of chicken soup with him -- which ultimately saves the day as Batman defeats Freeze by using the thermos to smash his containment suit's helmet.
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* WorkingThroughTheCold: Batman comes down with a cold after being exposed to Mr. Freeze's ice ray. Still he has to go out and stop the villain. Alfred makes him take a thermos of chicken soup with him -- which him--which ultimately saves the day day, as Batman defeats Freeze by using the thermos to smash his containment suit's helmet.
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Freeze is then incarcerated in Arkham Asylum in a special cell that keeps him at sub-zero temperatures, holding his snow globe with a skater in it. He cries to himself, saying that he failed Nora, and begs her forgiveness. Batman watches him from atop a cliff, and walks away.
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Freeze is then incarcerated in Arkham Asylum in a special cell that keeps him at sub-zero temperatures, holding his snow globe with a skater in it. He cries to himself, saying that he failed Nora, and begs her forgiveness. Batman watches him from atop a cliff, an adjacent building, and walks away.
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* BreakoutVillain: Mr. Freeze.
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* BreakoutVillain: Mr. Freeze. He was meant to be a OneShotCharacter, but he was so popular they kept bringing him back.
* NotSoStoic: Despite claiming his emotions have been frozen dead, Freeze cries at the end of the episode after failing to avenge her.
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* SympathyForTheDevil: Bruce while frozen to a ceiling says he's sorry that Freeze lost his wife.
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* SympathyForTheDevil: Bruce while frozen to a ceiling says sympathizes with Freeze when he finds out the latter lost his wife (and even tells him he's sorry that Freeze lost his wife.sorry), but still won't let him commit murder or harm innocent bystanders.
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* AntiClimax: While Mr. Freeze is more than a match for Batman throughout the episode, after a brief fight during the climax, Batman quickly defeats him by spilling a thermos of hot chicken soup (which Alfred had given him to aid his cold) over Freeze's containment suit helmet, which cracks it open and leaves him powerless, struggling and gasping for breath on the floor.
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* BreakoutVillain: Mr. Freeze.
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* PetTheDog: During the Mr. Freeze's break in, during the opening, instead of trying to kill the guards, he simply freezes the door so they can't get in his way. A little later, he warns to stay out of his way, instead of just trying to fight him immediately, like other villains would of.
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* PetTheDog: During the Mr. Freeze's break in, during the opening, instead of trying to kill the guards, he simply freezes the door so they can't get in his way. A little later, he tells Batman he doesn't want to fight and warns him to stay out of his way, way instead of just trying to fight immediately attacking him immediately, like other villains would of.would.
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* PetTheDog: During the Mr. Freeze's break in, during the opening, instead of trying to kill the guards, he simply freezes the door so they can't get in his way. A little later, he warns to stay out of his way, instead of just trying to fight him immediately, like other villains would of.
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[[caption-width-right:346:[-''"Rest well, my love. The monster who took you from me will soon learn that {{revenge}} is a dish... [[BestServedCold best served cold.cold]]."''-] ]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Alfred gives Batman some chicken soup to help his cold. Batman then uses it to defeat Mr. Freeze.
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* ChekhovsGun: Alfred gives Batman some chicken soup in a thermos to help his cold. Batman then uses it to defeat It proves useful against Mr. Freeze.Freeze at the end.
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* AssholeVictim: Ferris Boyle, the target of Freeze's plan. Batman still feels compelled to save Boyle, but he also sympathizes with Freeze and outs Boyle for who he really is right after subduing Freeze.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Ferris Boyle, again.
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Mr. Freeze then proceeds to enact his plan to take revenge on Boyle. He blasts the Goth Corp building using his giant freezing cannon. Batman is able to escape and goes to stop him. After he stops the freeze cannon, Mr. Freeze simply goes into the party in order to personally settle his vendetta with Boyle. He reminds Boyle of who he is, and after Boyle begs him to stop, he reminds Boyle that in his dreams, he sees Nora begging to be saved. Batman then goes to fight Mr. Freeze in hand-to-hand combat, but initially has a hard time because Freeze's suit enhances his strength. Batman defeats Mr. Freeze by breaking open his helmet and pouring some chicken soup that Alfred gave him earlier. He then gives the tape of Boyle ruining Victor Fries's life to Summer Gleeson so that the world may know that Ferris Boyle is not the humanitarian the Gotham Humanitarian Committee makes him out to be.
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Mr. Freeze then proceeds to enact his plan to take revenge on Boyle. He blasts the Goth Corp building using his giant freezing cannon. Batman is able to escape and goes to stop him. After he stops the freeze cannon, Mr. Freeze simply goes into the party in order to personally settle his vendetta with Boyle. He reminds Boyle of who he is, and after Boyle begs him to stop, he reminds Boyle that in his dreams, he sees Nora begging to be saved. Batman then goes to fight Mr. Freeze in hand-to-hand combat, but initially has a hard time because Freeze's suit enhances his strength. Batman defeats Mr. Freeze by breaking open his helmet and pouring some hot chicken soup that Alfred gave him earlier. He then gives the tape of Boyle ruining Victor Fries's life to Summer Gleeson so that the world may know that Ferris Boyle is not the humanitarian the Gotham Humanitarian Committee makes him out to be.
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* ActorAllusion: In his introduction, Mr. Freeze says "Revenge is a dish best served cold", often referred to as [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan a Klingon proverb]] in pop culture. Creator/MichaelAnsara had played the Klingon Captain Kang in ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Due to being pushed into chemicals that froze him, Victor Fries needs his suit to stay cold, otherwise he will die. This is how Batman incapacitates him, using a thermos of chicken soup.
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* BrokenTears: Mr. Freeze at the end of the episode.
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* MoralityChain: Nora for Mr. Freeze. Freeze put down a gun while she was still "alive" in a cryogenic chamber, but now he is willing to get his revenge and kill anyone who gets in his way.
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* RejectedApology: Mr. Freeze to Batman who expresses condolences about what happened to his wife.
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* SaveTheVillain:
** Batman rescues one of Freeze's {{Mook}}s who was unfortunate enough to get hit by ice, and thaws him with a chemical bath.
** ZigZagged with Ferris Boyle. Batman ''does'' save him from getting murdered, but gives the tape evidence of what Boyle did to Victor and Nora to Summer Gleason and does not offer to unfreeze Boyle.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Bruce while frozen to a ceiling says he's sorry that Freeze lost his wife.
** Batman rescues one of Freeze's {{Mook}}s who was unfortunate enough to get hit by ice, and thaws him with a chemical bath.
** ZigZagged with Ferris Boyle. Batman ''does'' save him from getting murdered, but gives the tape evidence of what Boyle did to Victor and Nora to Summer Gleason and does not offer to unfreeze Boyle.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Bruce while frozen to a ceiling says he's sorry that Freeze lost his wife.
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* WhatMeasureIsAMook: For Mr. Freeze, none, but for Batman, plenty. He rescues a mook that got caught in ice, and thaws him out to the best of his ability.
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* CryForTheDevil: One of the enemies Batman has any sympathy to.
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* AntiVillain: This episode was considered a turning point for the character of Mr. Freeze, who was previously a silly and unremarkable one-shot villain from the [[TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]. He was revamped in this series as a heart-breakingly TragicVillain who only wanted revenge on the person who ruined his life.
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* AntiVillain: This episode was considered a turning point for the character of Mr. Freeze, who was previously a silly and unremarkable one-shot villain from the [[TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]. He was revamped in this series as a heart-breakingly TragicVillain who only wanted revenge on the person who ruined his life.
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As Batman gets back to the Batcave, he takes the henchman to a hot chemical bath where his legs can recover. He is able to heal, but it's revealed that Batman caught a cold in the fight. He says that he can't worry about a cold right now, since Bruce Wayne has an appointment with Ferris Boyle. Bruce goes to the meeting and asks Ferris Boyle who would make attacks on Goth Corp. Ferris Boyle then describes one man who could possibly hate the company, if here were alive, of course. One employee, a scientist, was using Goth Corp equipment for personal reasons, so Boyle called company guards to arrest him, but there was an explosion and they lost the employee. Boyle then says that he can't have "wage slaves" acting like they own the place. Boyle then gets a call that the humanitarian committee has arrived, saying that Goth Corp is hosting a ceremony for the Gotham Humanitarian Industrialist of the Year Award, since Boyle won. Bruce silently expresses his disbelief at him winning the award.
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As Batman gets back to the Batcave, he takes the henchman to a hot chemical bath where his legs can recover. He is able to heal, but it's revealed that Batman caught a cold in the fight. He says that he can't worry about a cold right now, since Bruce Wayne has an appointment with Ferris Boyle. Bruce goes to the meeting and asks Ferris Boyle who would make attacks on Goth Corp. Ferris Boyle then describes one man who could possibly hate the company, if here he were alive, of course. One employee, a scientist, was using Goth Corp equipment for personal reasons, so Boyle called company guards to arrest him, but there was an explosion and they lost the employee. Boyle then says that he can't have "wage slaves" acting like they own the place. Boyle then gets a call that the humanitarian committee has arrived, saying that Goth Corp is hosting a ceremony for the Gotham Humanitarian Industrialist of the Year Award, since Boyle won. Bruce silently expresses his disbelief at him winning the award.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevengeRoaringRampageOfRevenge: Freeze's vendetta against Boyle and his company.
* StealthInsult: As Boyle reveals his true [[JerkAss contempt for his employees]], Bruce remarks, "I feel ill." Boyle shows no sign of understanding that it's anything but Bruce commenting on his cold.
* StealthInsult: As Boyle reveals his true [[JerkAss contempt for his employees]], Bruce remarks, "I feel ill." Boyle shows no sign of understanding that it's anything but Bruce commenting on his cold.
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* BittersweetEnding: Yeah, Nora's (presumed to be) dead, Victor's still frozen and doesn't get his revenge, ''but'' Boyle is exposed, and likely sent to prison.
-->'''Mr. Freeze:''' I have failed you. I wish there was another way I could say it. I cannot... I can only beg your forgiveness, and hope that you can hear me somehow... someplace... where a warm hand waits for mine...
-->'''Mr. Freeze:''' I have failed you. I wish there was another way I could say it. I cannot... I can only beg your forgiveness, and hope that you can hear me somehow... someplace... where a warm hand waits for mine...
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* BittersweetEnding: Yeah, Boyle is exposed and likely sent to prison, but Nora's (presumed to be) dead, Victor's still frozen and doesn't get believes he failed his revenge, ''but'' Boyle is exposed, and likely sent to prison.wife.
-->'''Mr. Freeze:''' Ihave failed you. I wish there was another way I could say it. I cannot... I can only beg your forgiveness, and hope that pray you can hear me somehow... someplace... someplace… someplace where a warm hand waits for mine...
-->'''Mr. Freeze:''' I
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Not only taking a joke villain like Freeze and turning him into a legitimate threat, but for a cartoon show to delve into themes [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge such as vengeance]] and that characters could ''die''...
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* CreateYourOwnVillain: Ferris Boyle thought Victor Fries was pathetic and harmless. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Oops]].
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** ''[[MurderIsTheBestSolution Ferris]] [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Boyle.]]''
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** Presumably the security tape is only a framing device, and that Batman is only seeing a normal security video while we in the audience get a much clearer picture of what's going on.
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The episode opens in a snow globe with a spinning ice skater in the middle. A red-goggled figure in a strange suit laments that the ice skater in a snow globe is how he remembers a certain "her", and that he plots to get revenge on the monster that took her away from him.
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The episode opens in a snow globe with a spinning ice skater in the middle. A red-goggled figure in a strange suit laments that the ice skater in a snow globe this is how he remembers a certain "her", and that he plots to get revenge on the monster that took her away from him.
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Freeze is then incarcerated in Arkham Asylum in a special cell that keeps him at sub-zero temperatures, holding his snow globe with a skater in it. He cries to himself, saying that he failed Nora, and begging her forgiveness. Batman watches him from atop a cliff, and walks away.
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Freeze is then incarcerated in Arkham Asylum in a special cell that keeps him at sub-zero temperatures, holding his snow globe with a skater in it. He cries to himself, saying that he failed Nora, and begging begs her forgiveness. Batman watches him from atop a cliff, and walks away.
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* ActorAllusion: In his introduction, Mr. Freeze says "Revenge is a dish best served cold", often referred to as a Klingon proverb in pop culture. Creator/MichaelAnsara had played the Klingon Captain Kang on ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
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* ActorAllusion: In his introduction, Mr. Freeze says "Revenge is a dish best served cold", often referred to as [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan a Klingon proverb proverb]] in pop culture. Creator/MichaelAnsara had played the Klingon Captain Kang on in ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
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** [[FridgeBrilliance He's so scarred by what has happened to him that he believed he's dead emotionally]].
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* ActorAllusion: In his introduction, Mr. Freeze says "Revenge is a dish best served cold", often referred to as a Klingon proverb in pop culture. Creator/MichaelAnsara had played the Klingon Captain Kang on ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
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* MagicalSecurityCamera: Batman watches security videos of Mr. Freeze's origin, which for some reason includes close ups and camera cuts, as though someone not only used a film camera but edited it as well.
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* HumiliationConga: Ferris Boyle was about to receive the Humanitarian award when Mr. Freeze attacks. Mr. Freeze froze him halfway. He learns Mr. Freeze is Victor Fries. He begs him to spare him. Batman arrive to stop him, and then given Summer Gleeson evidence of Boyle responsible for Freeze's condition and the presumed death of Nora. Batman leaves him to suffer. Everyone in the room now sees him as a murderer. Boyle lost the award, respect from the public, and his company. And likely arrested as well.
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[[caption-width-right:346:[-''"Rest well, my love. The monster who took you from me will soon learn that {{revenge}} is a dish... best served cold."''-] ]]
->'''Franchise/{{Batman}}:''' My God.\\
'''Mr. Freeze:''' Yes, it would move me to tears if I still had tears to shed.
The episode opens in a snow globe with a spinning ice skater in the middle. A red-goggled figure in a strange suit laments that the ice skater in a snow globe is how he remembers a certain "her", and that he plots to get revenge on the monster that took her away from him.
Cut to a newscast by Summer Gleeson, reporting the latest in a series of cold-related crimes on Goth Corp facilities during the hottest August in Gotham history. Witnesses said that the attacker used a freezing gun. Goth Corp CEO Ferris Boyle says that his company is willing to listen to what the attacker wants. Batman was just watching this newscast while analyzing these crimes. He had gotten information from the police earlier about what was stolen from each facility, and his computer has determined that each device stolen can be put together to create a weapon that generates intense cold. There is just one component missing, and only one Goth Corp facility makes it.
At this facility, a truck with the same figure and henchmen drives through security, with the Batmobile in close pursuit. The villain then uses his freezing gun to freeze the road so that the Batmobile skids, so Batman, with quick maneuvering, grapples on to a pole and stops the car. At the factory's warehouse, he and his henchmen steal certain canisters. Batman then drops in and takes out the henchmen and commands the villain to freeze, at which point he reveals his name: Mr. Freeze. Batman then engages Mr. Freeze in combat. One of the henchmen accidentally gets hit in the legs, and he is able to freeze a bridge under Batman and causes him to fall and get incapacitated. Mr. Freeze then makes a quick getaway, telling his henchmen to leave the one whose legs got frozen. Batman then recovers and takes the unlucky henchman to the Batcave.
As Batman gets back to the Batcave, he takes the henchman to a hot chemical bath where his legs can recover. He is able to heal, but it's revealed that Batman caught a cold in the fight. He says that he can't worry about a cold right now, since Bruce Wayne has an appointment with Ferris Boyle. Bruce goes to the meeting and asks Ferris Boyle who would make attacks on Goth Corp. Ferris Boyle then describes one man who could possibly hate the company, if here were alive, of course. One employee, a scientist, was using Goth Corp equipment for personal reasons, so Boyle called company guards to arrest him, but there was an explosion and they lost the employee. Boyle then says that he can't have "wage slaves" acting like they own the place. Boyle then gets a call that the humanitarian committee has arrived, saying that Goth Corp is hosting a ceremony for the Gotham Humanitarian Industrialist of the Year Award, since Boyle won. Bruce silently expresses his disbelief at him winning the award.
Next scene, Mr. Freeze watches the ceremony, then shoots the TV, saying that "she" needed compassion and charity, but didn't get any. He then directs his henchmen to build his freezing cannon.
Back to the Batcave, Batman remembers a newspaper headline that described an explosion at a Goth Corp facility, but the headline describes the explosion as caused by a leak, and Batman deduces that it was just a cover up. Batman then arrives, in disguise, to investigate Goth Corp's secret files for further information. He finds a file on a woman named Nora Fries, which has a videotape of her husband, Dr. Victor Fries describing a cryogenic chamber of his own design that he created to save people from terminal illness. However, in the tape, some Goth Corp guards and Ferris Boyle, who demanded that the project be shut down because it was putting him in debt, interrupted Fries. Fries then tried to pull a policeman's gun on Boyle, but Boyle kicked him back into several chemicals that froze him. The tape ended there, and Mr. Freeze suddenly appeared behind Batman, shooting him with his freeze gun.
Batman is later seen in a frozen cave with snow falling, with Mr. Freeze talking about how beautiful the snow is, and how vengeance is cold. Batman then deduces that Mr. Freeze's suit is the result of having been bathed in the coolants, and he says that he can no longer survive outside of sub-zero temperatures. Mr. Freeze then describes how he is going to take revenge on the man who ruined his life: Ferris Boyle, with Batman objecting to the fact that he will also kill everyone else in the building.
Mr. Freeze then proceeds to enact his plan to take revenge on Boyle. He blasts the Goth Corp building using his giant freezing cannon. Batman is able to escape and goes to stop him. After he stops the freeze cannon, Mr. Freeze simply goes into the party in order to personally settle his vendetta with Boyle. He reminds Boyle of who he is, and after Boyle begs him to stop, he reminds Boyle that in his dreams, he sees Nora begging to be saved. Batman then goes to fight Mr. Freeze in hand-to-hand combat, but initially has a hard time because Freeze's suit enhances his strength. Batman defeats Mr. Freeze by breaking open his helmet and pouring some chicken soup that Alfred gave him earlier. He then gives the tape of Boyle ruining Victor Fries's life to Summer Gleeson so that the world may know that Ferris Boyle is not the humanitarian the Gotham Humanitarian Committee makes him out to be.
Freeze is then incarcerated in Arkham Asylum in a special cell that keeps him at sub-zero temperatures, holding his snow globe with a skater in it. He cries to himself, saying that he failed Nora, and begging her forgiveness. Batman watches him from atop a cliff, and walks away.
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* AntiVillain: This episode was considered a turning point for the character of Mr. Freeze, who was previously a silly and unremarkable one-shot villain from the [[TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]. He was revamped in this series as a heart-breakingly TragicVillain who only wanted revenge on the person who ruined his life.
* ApocalypticLog: The videotape inside Victor Fries's case file.
* BadBoss: Mr. Freeze, who lacks regard for an unlucky henchman who got hit with his freeze gun.
* BestServedCold: Mr. Freeze says it word-for-word.
* BigOMG: Batman himself when he discovers Freeze's motives. The production team is still shocked that they got away with it.
* BittersweetEnding: Yeah, Nora's still frozen, and Freeze doesn't get his revenge, ''but'' Boyle is exposed, and likely sent to prison.
-->'''Mr. Freeze:''' I have failed you. I wish there was another way I could say it. I cannot... I can only beg your forgiveness, and hope that you can hear me somehow... someplace... where a warm hand waits for mine...
* BookEnds: The episode begins and ends with Mr. Freeze gazing at his snowglobe with a skater inside.
* CatchYourDeathOfCold: Fighting Mr. Freeze is enough to give Bruce a cold. Justified: it's stated there's an exceptional heat wave occurring; the temperature shift would weaken his immune system.
* ChekhovsGun: Alfred gives Batman some chicken soup to help his cold. Batman then uses it to defeat Mr. Freeze.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Ferris Boyle, under the guise of saying that his company is "the people's company."
* CryForTheDevil
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The other henchmen object to Freeze leaving a man behind, saying that he's "one of us" -- at least, until Freeze threatens them with the same fate. They still don't seem comfortable about it when the guy pleads with them and clutches at their legs in desperation.
* FreezeRay: Mr. Freeze's weapon of choice.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: As Summer Gleeson is finishing up on Mr. Freeze's latest crime, you can see several kids run up to the snow and start playing with it. A policeman chases them off, as this is a crime scene. However just as he shoos them away the kids pelt him with snowballs.
* HarmlessFreezing: Averted by Mr. Freeze's guns. The henchman who was hit needed a hot chemical bath to return him to normal. Even Batman has to cope with the after effects.
* HumiliationConga: Ferris Boyle was about to receive the Humanitarian award when Mr. Freeze attacks. Mr. Freeze froze him halfway. He learns Mr. Freeze is Victor Fries. He begs him to spare him. Batman arrive to stop him, and then given Summer Gleeson evidence of Boyle responsible for Freeze's condition and the presumed death of Nora. Batman leaves him to suffer. Everyone in the room now sees him as a murderer. Boyle lost the award, respect from the public, and his company. And likely arrested as well.
* {{Irony}}: Earlier, Mr. Freeze says that he can't shed tears anymore because his emotions were frozen in the accident, but he does so in his special cell in Arkham.
* LackOfEmpathy:
** Ferris Boyle, good god.
** Also Fries after his accident, most noted by the scene early on where he accidentally freezes a henchman's leg, abandons him, and has the gall to say it was the man's fault for not being careful.
* MotiveRant:
-->'''Freeze:''' 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!
* NeverSayDie: Averted during Freeze's MotiveRant.
* OffhandBackhand: Batman to a henchman just after putting back on his utility belt.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Even with a broken helmet, gasping for breath and struggling to even crawl on the floor, Victor was still crying out for vengeance and trying to reach Boyle.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge
* SinisterSurveillance: Batman watches security videos of Mr. Freeze's origin, which for some reason includes close ups and camera cuts, as though someone not only used a film camera but edited it as well.
* TragicVillain: Mr. Freeze
* WeCare: Goth Corp's Slogan was "The People Company".
* WorkingThroughTheCold: Batman comes down with a cold after being exposed to Mr. Freeze's ice ray. Still he has to go out and stop the villain. Alfred makes him take a thermos of chicken soup with him -- which ultimately saves the day as Batman defeats Freeze by using the thermos to smash his containment suit's helmet.
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->'''Franchise/{{Batman}}:''' My God.\\
'''Mr. Freeze:''' Yes, it would move me to tears if I still had tears to shed.
The episode opens in a snow globe with a spinning ice skater in the middle. A red-goggled figure in a strange suit laments that the ice skater in a snow globe is how he remembers a certain "her", and that he plots to get revenge on the monster that took her away from him.
Cut to a newscast by Summer Gleeson, reporting the latest in a series of cold-related crimes on Goth Corp facilities during the hottest August in Gotham history. Witnesses said that the attacker used a freezing gun. Goth Corp CEO Ferris Boyle says that his company is willing to listen to what the attacker wants. Batman was just watching this newscast while analyzing these crimes. He had gotten information from the police earlier about what was stolen from each facility, and his computer has determined that each device stolen can be put together to create a weapon that generates intense cold. There is just one component missing, and only one Goth Corp facility makes it.
At this facility, a truck with the same figure and henchmen drives through security, with the Batmobile in close pursuit. The villain then uses his freezing gun to freeze the road so that the Batmobile skids, so Batman, with quick maneuvering, grapples on to a pole and stops the car. At the factory's warehouse, he and his henchmen steal certain canisters. Batman then drops in and takes out the henchmen and commands the villain to freeze, at which point he reveals his name: Mr. Freeze. Batman then engages Mr. Freeze in combat. One of the henchmen accidentally gets hit in the legs, and he is able to freeze a bridge under Batman and causes him to fall and get incapacitated. Mr. Freeze then makes a quick getaway, telling his henchmen to leave the one whose legs got frozen. Batman then recovers and takes the unlucky henchman to the Batcave.
As Batman gets back to the Batcave, he takes the henchman to a hot chemical bath where his legs can recover. He is able to heal, but it's revealed that Batman caught a cold in the fight. He says that he can't worry about a cold right now, since Bruce Wayne has an appointment with Ferris Boyle. Bruce goes to the meeting and asks Ferris Boyle who would make attacks on Goth Corp. Ferris Boyle then describes one man who could possibly hate the company, if here were alive, of course. One employee, a scientist, was using Goth Corp equipment for personal reasons, so Boyle called company guards to arrest him, but there was an explosion and they lost the employee. Boyle then says that he can't have "wage slaves" acting like they own the place. Boyle then gets a call that the humanitarian committee has arrived, saying that Goth Corp is hosting a ceremony for the Gotham Humanitarian Industrialist of the Year Award, since Boyle won. Bruce silently expresses his disbelief at him winning the award.
Next scene, Mr. Freeze watches the ceremony, then shoots the TV, saying that "she" needed compassion and charity, but didn't get any. He then directs his henchmen to build his freezing cannon.
Back to the Batcave, Batman remembers a newspaper headline that described an explosion at a Goth Corp facility, but the headline describes the explosion as caused by a leak, and Batman deduces that it was just a cover up. Batman then arrives, in disguise, to investigate Goth Corp's secret files for further information. He finds a file on a woman named Nora Fries, which has a videotape of her husband, Dr. Victor Fries describing a cryogenic chamber of his own design that he created to save people from terminal illness. However, in the tape, some Goth Corp guards and Ferris Boyle, who demanded that the project be shut down because it was putting him in debt, interrupted Fries. Fries then tried to pull a policeman's gun on Boyle, but Boyle kicked him back into several chemicals that froze him. The tape ended there, and Mr. Freeze suddenly appeared behind Batman, shooting him with his freeze gun.
Batman is later seen in a frozen cave with snow falling, with Mr. Freeze talking about how beautiful the snow is, and how vengeance is cold. Batman then deduces that Mr. Freeze's suit is the result of having been bathed in the coolants, and he says that he can no longer survive outside of sub-zero temperatures. Mr. Freeze then describes how he is going to take revenge on the man who ruined his life: Ferris Boyle, with Batman objecting to the fact that he will also kill everyone else in the building.
Mr. Freeze then proceeds to enact his plan to take revenge on Boyle. He blasts the Goth Corp building using his giant freezing cannon. Batman is able to escape and goes to stop him. After he stops the freeze cannon, Mr. Freeze simply goes into the party in order to personally settle his vendetta with Boyle. He reminds Boyle of who he is, and after Boyle begs him to stop, he reminds Boyle that in his dreams, he sees Nora begging to be saved. Batman then goes to fight Mr. Freeze in hand-to-hand combat, but initially has a hard time because Freeze's suit enhances his strength. Batman defeats Mr. Freeze by breaking open his helmet and pouring some chicken soup that Alfred gave him earlier. He then gives the tape of Boyle ruining Victor Fries's life to Summer Gleeson so that the world may know that Ferris Boyle is not the humanitarian the Gotham Humanitarian Committee makes him out to be.
Freeze is then incarcerated in Arkham Asylum in a special cell that keeps him at sub-zero temperatures, holding his snow globe with a skater in it. He cries to himself, saying that he failed Nora, and begging her forgiveness. Batman watches him from atop a cliff, and walks away.
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!!Tropes:
* AntiVillain: This episode was considered a turning point for the character of Mr. Freeze, who was previously a silly and unremarkable one-shot villain from the [[TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]. He was revamped in this series as a heart-breakingly TragicVillain who only wanted revenge on the person who ruined his life.
* ApocalypticLog: The videotape inside Victor Fries's case file.
* BadBoss: Mr. Freeze, who lacks regard for an unlucky henchman who got hit with his freeze gun.
* BestServedCold: Mr. Freeze says it word-for-word.
* BigOMG: Batman himself when he discovers Freeze's motives. The production team is still shocked that they got away with it.
* BittersweetEnding: Yeah, Nora's still frozen, and Freeze doesn't get his revenge, ''but'' Boyle is exposed, and likely sent to prison.
-->'''Mr. Freeze:''' I have failed you. I wish there was another way I could say it. I cannot... I can only beg your forgiveness, and hope that you can hear me somehow... someplace... where a warm hand waits for mine...
* BookEnds: The episode begins and ends with Mr. Freeze gazing at his snowglobe with a skater inside.
* CatchYourDeathOfCold: Fighting Mr. Freeze is enough to give Bruce a cold. Justified: it's stated there's an exceptional heat wave occurring; the temperature shift would weaken his immune system.
* ChekhovsGun: Alfred gives Batman some chicken soup to help his cold. Batman then uses it to defeat Mr. Freeze.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Ferris Boyle, under the guise of saying that his company is "the people's company."
* CryForTheDevil
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The other henchmen object to Freeze leaving a man behind, saying that he's "one of us" -- at least, until Freeze threatens them with the same fate. They still don't seem comfortable about it when the guy pleads with them and clutches at their legs in desperation.
* FreezeRay: Mr. Freeze's weapon of choice.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: As Summer Gleeson is finishing up on Mr. Freeze's latest crime, you can see several kids run up to the snow and start playing with it. A policeman chases them off, as this is a crime scene. However just as he shoos them away the kids pelt him with snowballs.
* HarmlessFreezing: Averted by Mr. Freeze's guns. The henchman who was hit needed a hot chemical bath to return him to normal. Even Batman has to cope with the after effects.
* HumiliationConga: Ferris Boyle was about to receive the Humanitarian award when Mr. Freeze attacks. Mr. Freeze froze him halfway. He learns Mr. Freeze is Victor Fries. He begs him to spare him. Batman arrive to stop him, and then given Summer Gleeson evidence of Boyle responsible for Freeze's condition and the presumed death of Nora. Batman leaves him to suffer. Everyone in the room now sees him as a murderer. Boyle lost the award, respect from the public, and his company. And likely arrested as well.
* {{Irony}}: Earlier, Mr. Freeze says that he can't shed tears anymore because his emotions were frozen in the accident, but he does so in his special cell in Arkham.
* LackOfEmpathy:
** Ferris Boyle, good god.
** Also Fries after his accident, most noted by the scene early on where he accidentally freezes a henchman's leg, abandons him, and has the gall to say it was the man's fault for not being careful.
* MotiveRant:
-->'''Freeze:''' 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!
* NeverSayDie: Averted during Freeze's MotiveRant.
* OffhandBackhand: Batman to a henchman just after putting back on his utility belt.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Even with a broken helmet, gasping for breath and struggling to even crawl on the floor, Victor was still crying out for vengeance and trying to reach Boyle.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge
* SinisterSurveillance: Batman watches security videos of Mr. Freeze's origin, which for some reason includes close ups and camera cuts, as though someone not only used a film camera but edited it as well.
* TragicVillain: Mr. Freeze
* WeCare: Goth Corp's Slogan was "The People Company".
* WorkingThroughTheCold: Batman comes down with a cold after being exposed to Mr. Freeze's ice ray. Still he has to go out and stop the villain. Alfred makes him take a thermos of chicken soup with him -- which ultimately saves the day as Batman defeats Freeze by using the thermos to smash his containment suit's helmet.
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