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That is an awesome Victor Frieze right there, in post-accident cooling exoskeleton and all.
Mr. Freeze was always my favourite Batman villain, mostly because he was almost a vigilante or anti-hero by nature, not someone who killed or hurt for hurt's sake, but because it was sometimes a means to an end, not because he was a villain at heart. The accident that plunged him into the chemical bath, diffused gas or low-temperature conditions (depending on whether you go by one of the two comic origins, or Batman: The Animated Series...and yes, it was included in Arnold Schwarzenegger's playing the part of Dr. Victor Frieze in 'Batman & Robin', even though the movie was shite, they stuck to both his origin, and Victor not being a thoroughly awful person) was the result of fighting off the corporate thugs in his lab, while defending the body of his stricken wife, in deep-cold suspended animation, because his employer was about to shut down the cooling mechanisms for her body.
And in almost every circumstance, once Batman (or Bruce Wayne) was able to reason with Frieze or had him in a physical spot where Victor found himself able to listen to reason, sympathized deeply with the man in the cold-suit: in Batman & Robin, he even got to drop the bombshell that Frieze's wife had not in fact been taken out of her deep-freeze (in the comics and TAS, she already had been, and was beyond the reach of help), and he could continue his work to heal her while serving his prison sentence. And in return, Batman pleaded himself with Frieze, knowing he also had the specialties in treating MacGregor's Syndrome, the disease that was quickly killing Alfred Pennyworth.
How many villains would do something like that, would listen to reason and the weight of human sympathy and empathy? Frieze was a good person, terribly hurt and stuck in a shitty situation with nothing or little to lose, and needing something to do about it. That is not uncommon in today's world.
-2Paw.
Mr. Freeze was always my favourite Batman villain, mostly because he was almost a vigilante or anti-hero by nature, not someone who killed or hurt for hurt's sake, but because it was sometimes a means to an end, not because he was a villain at heart. The accident that plunged him into the chemical bath, diffused gas or low-temperature conditions (depending on whether you go by one of the two comic origins, or Batman: The Animated Series...and yes, it was included in Arnold Schwarzenegger's playing the part of Dr. Victor Frieze in 'Batman & Robin', even though the movie was shite, they stuck to both his origin, and Victor not being a thoroughly awful person) was the result of fighting off the corporate thugs in his lab, while defending the body of his stricken wife, in deep-cold suspended animation, because his employer was about to shut down the cooling mechanisms for her body.
And in almost every circumstance, once Batman (or Bruce Wayne) was able to reason with Frieze or had him in a physical spot where Victor found himself able to listen to reason, sympathized deeply with the man in the cold-suit: in Batman & Robin, he even got to drop the bombshell that Frieze's wife had not in fact been taken out of her deep-freeze (in the comics and TAS, she already had been, and was beyond the reach of help), and he could continue his work to heal her while serving his prison sentence. And in return, Batman pleaded himself with Frieze, knowing he also had the specialties in treating MacGregor's Syndrome, the disease that was quickly killing Alfred Pennyworth.
How many villains would do something like that, would listen to reason and the weight of human sympathy and empathy? Frieze was a good person, terribly hurt and stuck in a shitty situation with nothing or little to lose, and needing something to do about it. That is not uncommon in today's world.
-2Paw.
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