Mr. Freeze
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Mr. Freeze (Doctor Victor Fries) is a DC Comics supervillain enemy of Batman, created by Bob Kane for Batman #121 in February 1959. He is characterized by having to live in a special suit that keep his temperature below 0 °C.
He is commonly despicted as a bald pale blue skinned man wearing a containment suit that uses an ice gun to freeze his victims. In recent versions he also wears red goggles and an armored version of his cryogenic suit. His costume has varied with time almost as much as Catwoman.
Most of his plots are crimes around ice and cold, like trying to freeze the entire city, acting like a mad scientist. However, recent portrayals beginning with Paul Dini's version for Batman: The Animated Series have him reinvented as a tragic figure who commits cruel crimes without emotion, grief stricken by his crippling condition and the loss of his wife, Nora.
His degree of insanity has also varied with time, from being an emotion wreck and shell of a man to a psychotic bent on freezing the world. Freeze's justification is that if he cannot be happy, no one else should be allowed to.
