History Recap / HarleyQuinn2019S2E4ThawingHearts

** Dr. Psycho also initially assumes that Mr.Freeze might sacrifice one of them instead, before Freeze explains why he would choose himself anyway.

* CasualDangerDialog: Harley's crew chats about Ivy's wedding while skating around the courtyard of Freeze's lair beating up his mooks.

** The [[NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine dining table scene]] recalls a Mr Freeze episode from the [[Series/Batman1966 1966 series]].

** Kite Man is half-hopefully that his choice to leave the tour of the Old Gotham Corn Factory to help his fiance would have impressed the proprietor with his ActOfTrueLove enough to choose him and Poison Ivy over Condiment Man and his fiance. As it turns out, it wasn't. Condiment Man was already impressing the proprietor more than them before they left, and leaving in the middle of the tour just sealed the deal.

* BlatantLies: Kite-Man insists he didn't touch the paralytic flowers he just touched when Ivy mentions that he's grabbed the wrong ones. They kick in just as he arrives as Freeze's lair, causing him to crash land through the window.

* CurbStompBattle: Harley's crew demolishes Mr Freeze's henchmen while having some CasualDangerDialogue. In return, Freeze effortlessly defeats Harley's crew with his freeze ray.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Harley, having suffered years of DomesticAbuse at the hands of the Joker, struggles with the concept that Mr. Freeze genuinely loves his wife, instead believing that Nora was imprisoned against her will like Harley was with Joker. It's only when Mr. Freeze sacrificed his life to save Nora in an ActOfTrueLove that Harley undergo a HeelRealization.

* FriendOrIdolDecision: Kite Man is forced to choose between leaving in the middle of touring a venue at an old corn factory that he ''really'' wants to book a wedding at (Idol), or help Poison Ivy get a flower from her apartment to help Nora Freeze (Friend), and he chooses the latter. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome He winds up losing the venue]].

* GilliganCut: Harley makes a plan that she and the crew ambush Freeze, take his gun, and freeze him to a chair. Next cut has Harley and crew all frozen to chairs.

* HeroicSuicide: Mr. Freeze dying for his wife has shades of this. He admits right before injecting himself that he finds living in his suit hellish and that he only tolerates it so he can live long enough to cure his wife. It is entirely possible he finds the fact the cure will kill him as a positive.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Mr. Freeze cures Nora from her terminal disease, even if it means he has to die.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: Nora is not dead, merely a HumanPopsicle, but the way Freeze props her body up at the table, spoon feeds her through a hole in the ice, and pretends she's conscious makes it hardly any different. Combined with the horrified expression Nora is frozen in, it's all played for BlackComedy.

*** Mr Freeze's synth-heavy leitmotif in this episode is [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong very reminiscent]] of Freeze's theme in that film.
*** Freeze and Ivy had allied in the film, but not in a good way and nearly fatal for Nora.

* NervousWreck: Kite-Man is a mess in anticipation of booking the Old Gotham Corn Factory for his wedding to Ivy, because he always imagined having his wedding there and knows the owner to be picky about who is allowed to use it.

* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: As Mr. Freeze points throughout the series, he's not really a supervillain since he's not interested in harming Gotham, but just desperate to find a cure for his terminally ill wife. Nevertheless, Harley believes he's a creepy, controlling misogynist who "gets his jollies off freezing women" due to Nora being frozen with a seemingly horrified look on her face, and Mr. Freeze himself having already frozen Harley in a block of ice for months. It's only after Nora is unfrozen and reveals that Mr. Freeze was telling the truth about them being in love but her dying of a rare blood condition, and him having only frozen Harley to keep the Injustice League from killing her (by playing their misogyny against them) that his name is cleared for Harley.

-->'''Dr. Psycho''': I'm feeling feelings!

* SweetAndSourGrapes: Subverted. Kite Man ''really'' wants to book a venue at the Old Gotham Corn Factory because it's where all the classy celebrity couples get married, but his SitcomArchNemesis, Condiment Man, keeps showing him up. After Poison Ivy has to leave to help Harley, she texts Kite Man asking him to pick up a flower at her apartment to help Nora Freeze. Kite Man is then forced to choose between helping his fiance and impressing the proprietor, but chooses the latter, and seemingly impresses the proprietor with his ActOfTrueLove. When he gets a call from said proprietor at the end of the episode, it ''seems'' he got the venue after all... only for it to turn out to be Condiment Man to [[UnsportsmanlikeGloating rub it in]] that he got the venue instead.

* TakingYouWithMe: Mr. Freeze threatens to blow up his lair and Harley's crew with it when they unfreeze Nora and break his freeze ray, unless they can get Ivy to find a cure.

** What's more, Freeze dying just after curing Nora and both of them reaffirming their love, becomes his happy ending instead of subjecting him to [[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE3ColdComfort suffering terrible losses after Nora is restored]] and eventually a [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond grim distant future]], or Nora even turning against him like in the comics ''twice''.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Harley wholeheartedly believes that Mr. Freeze is a psychopathic abuser similar to the Joker, a delusion not helped by Freeze clearly being loose a few screws and Nora's unique situation, and she ignores all evidence to the contrary. It's only after she breaks Nora out of the ice that she learns that Nora's freezing was keeping a terminal illness at bay and that Harley's own freezing was to protect her from the rest of the Injustice League. While Nora's life does get saved, it comes at the cost of Mr. Freeze's own, a tragedy that leaves everyone devastated and Harley heavily reconsidering what love really is.

* WhatTheHellHero: King Shark calls out Harley for falsely accusing "[[OverlyNarrowSuperlative the most woke ice-themed villain]]" in New New Gotham when Freeze reveals that he froze her to keep the Injustice League from killing her.

* TakeThat: Harley's mistaken assumption of Mr. Freeze being a clingy psycho who froze Nora against her will could be seen as a jab at the New 52's unpopular retcon of Mr. Freeze's modern backstory, in which Nora was actually frozen decades before Freeze was born and the latter is just a random scientist who became obsessed with Nora and deluded himself into believe she is his wife.

* TakeThat: Harley's mistaken assumption of Mr. Freeze being a clingy psycho who froze Nora against her will could be seen as a jab at the New 52's unpopular retcon of Mr. Freeze's modern backstory, in which Nora was actually frozen decades before Victor was born and the latter became obsessed with her and deluded himself into believing she's his wife.

* TakeThat: Harley's mistaken assumption of Mr. Freeze being a clingy psycho who froze Nora against her will could be seen as a jab at the New 52's unpopular retcon of Mr. Freeze's modern backstory, in which he was just that (or at least the clingy psycho part; she had been frozen since before he was around).

** After Harley realizes about how skewed her views on love is when Freeze sacrifices himself to cure Nora. King Shark comforts her by saying how we all had toxic relationships corrupted their perspective of love while also reminiscing on his past lover named Leslie.

* ShoutOut: Mr. Freeze refers to Harley's crew as her [[Music/InsaneClownPosse "Insane Clown... Group"]]

* IncrediblyLamePun: Condiment King delivers a series of these to Kite-Man after booking the Old Gotham Corn Factory ahead of him.

* TakeThat: Harley's mistaken assumption of Mr. Freeze being a clingy psycho who froze Nora against her will could be seen as a jab at the New 52's unpopular retcon of Mr. Freeze's modern backstory, in which he was just that.