History Recap / TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE19DeepFreeze

* CurbStompBattle: Walker's robots are intimidating and powerful, but the instance Mr. Freeze gets his freeze gun back he wrecks them. The only time he's threatened by them after that point is when one manages to sneak-attack him and almost shatters his glass casing.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: As cold as he claims to be, Freeze doesn’t seem to believe that anyone should go through the same process that turned him into AnIcePerson, not even the CorruptCorporateExecutive who caused his accident in the first place. He even attempts to convince Walker that the transformation isn’t worth the trouble by pointing out the downsides, which unfortunately fall under deaf ears.
* EvilCounterpart: As pointed out by [[http://worldsfinestonline.com/WF/batman/btas/episodes/deepfreeze/ a reviewer]], Walker and Freeze stand in deliberate contrast to each other. Freeze [[TinMan claims to be dead to emotions, but his compassion betrays him several times during the episode]]: he at first refuses to subject Walker to the same confinement as Freeze himself, and Batman eventually convinces him to help stop the deaths of innocent people. By contrast, Walker is an outwardly warm, paternalistic figure, but he is as dead to emotions as Freeze claims to be, coldly planning mass murder just to create his own fantasy of a perfect world. His transformation into "the second Mr. Freeze" is more appropriate to his inner self than Freeze's ever was. He is a rare example of a evil counterpart to a villain.

* KnightTemplar: Grant Walker, to near-Ra's al Ghul levels. He plans to make a crime-free utopia and freeze the world, thinking it's too corrupt to survive. Granted, [[CrapsackWorld in Gotham's case he may have a point there]].

* MrAltDisney: Grant Walker. A pioneer on animatronics and amusement parks owner, his design of an underwater utopia with no crime is loosely based on the original concept for Epcot Center. He also wants to be frozen like Mr. Freeze, a clear gag on the urban legend that Walt Disney is in cryogenic storage.

** The city of Oceana, is one letter short of the fictional country of Oceania from ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', not to mention that Grant Walker appearing on the giant video screen, invokes Big Brother.
* SilenceYouFool: Mr. Freeze snaps at Batman when he [[MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave points out that Nora would hate what he's doing]], but in the end he can't shut out the truth and [[EnemyMine decides to help Batman and Robin stop Walker]].

* SympathyForTheDevil: Before freezing Walker to stop his plan, Freeze has a sad look on his face when he mentions that the latter will “live forever”. Showing that he pities Walker for not being able to understand that the condition he was coerced into putting him into is a fate worse than death.

* WholePlotReference: The episode is essentially ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' [[RecycledInSpace but with Batman instead of James Bond]]. The plot focuses on a wealthy industrialist who plans on destroying the outside world from the safety of his high-tech underwater headquarters and creating a new utopian civilization under the sea. The main difference is that that movie's villain, Karl Stromburg, planned on letting the survivors of his attacks join his new society after he destroyed civilization, while Grant Walker only created his utopia for the benefit of his chosen few and fully intended to [[OmnicidalManiac leave no survivors on the outside]].

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE14HeartOfIce Heart of Ice]]," Victor was a pun-spouting, gloating, cruel villain who only cared about himself, with sympathetic motivations and a sad ending. This is the episode that brought about the characterization fans remember; a stoic and reserved {{Woobie}} who just wants to be left alone with his wife and has more empathy than he'll admit. Justified in that until this episode, Freeze had no reason to believe his wife might still be alive and was living on solely for revenge.

* ContinuityCameo: Rossum has a robot of Bat-Mite. And he is just as comically annoying as the actual character. Interestingly, Creator/PaulDini would later write a Bat-Mite based episode in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''. In the background, you can also see robots of Streaky The Supercat, ComicBook/KryptoTheSuperdog and Mr Mxyzptlk with Silver Age designs.

* CursedWithAwesome: How Walker sees Freeze's condition, be able to potentially live for centuries in his mutated state. Freeze himself sees it as BlessedWithSuck, as while he has many more years than the average person, he's forced to live in a subzero environment and unable to truly interact with the world around him.

* {{Expy}}: Walker being a rich businessman who wants to destroy the world to create his own perfect civilisation brings to mind both Stromberg and Drax from Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe and Film/{{Moonraker}} respectively.

* TheDragon: Freeze briefly becomes one to Grant Walker.

* AndIMustScream: In addition to building a "perfect" society on an island of his creation, Grant Walker convinces Mr. Freeze to give him the same mutations as Freeze himself, allowing him to live forever. However, after Batman convinces Freeze to stop Walker from freezing the rest of the world, Walker ends up trapped in a block of ice, lost at sea, COMPLETELY AWARE OF EVERYTHING AROUND HIM, YET UNABLE TO FREE HIMSELF OR EVEN MOVE FOR THE REST OF HIS IMMORTAL LIFE. As is to be expected, the last we ever see or hear of him is his anguished scream of horror, a scream that no one else can hear.

* CurbStompBattle: Walker's robots are intimidating and powerful, but the instance Mr. Freeze gets his freeze gun back he wrecks them. The only time he's threatened by them after that point is when one manages to sneak-attack him and try to break his glass casing.

* WholePlotReference: The episode is essentially ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' [[RecycledInSpace but with Batman instead of James Bond]]. The plot focuses on a wealthy industrialist who plans on destroying the outside world from the safety of his high-tech underwater headquarters and creating a new utopian civilization under the sea. The main difference is that that movie's villain, Karl Stromburg, planned on letting the survivors of his attacks join his new society after he destroyed civilization, while Grant Walker only created his utopia for the benefit of his chosen few and fully intended to [[KillEmAll leave no survivors on the outside]].

* ContinuityCameo: Rossum has a robot of Bat-Mite. And he is just as annoying as the actual character. Interestingly, Creator/PaulDini would later write a Bat-Mite based episode in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''. In the background, you can also see robots of Streaky The Supercat, ComicBook/KryptoTheSuperdog and Mr Mxyzptlk with Silver Age designs.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE14HeartOfIce Heart of Ice]]," Victor was a pun-spouting, gloating, cruel villain who only cared about himself, with sympathetic motivations and a sad ending. This is the episode that brought about the characterization fans remember; a stoic and reserved {{Woobie}} who just wants to be left alone with his wife and has more empathy than he'll admit.

* NotQuiteDead: This episode reveals that Nora Fries was not killed in the accident that transformed Victor as had been believed in "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE14HeartOfIce Heart of Ice]]" but instead had Victor's experimental cyrogenetic chamber put her in suspended animation before Walker eventually bought it from [=GothCorp=].