Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

"Tonight's forecast; a freeze is coming."

- Mr. Freeze

Mr. Freeze was a arch-nemesis of Batman & Robin.

Dr. Fries
Victor Fries was trying to cure his wife Nora (who he was deeply devoted to) from a illness called Macgregor syndrome that would eventually kill her. He kept her in cyrogenetic slumber untill he could find a way to help her. During an experiment, he fell into a vat of liquid nitrogen that was below fifty degrees and lived.

His only hope of survival was to design a special cryosuit that used special diamond enhanced lasers to keep him at zero degrees.

In an continued effort to cure his wife, he began robbing museums of large diamonds, planning to use them to create a large scale freeze gun to freeze Gotham, holding it ransom for billions, allowing him to compete his research for her cure. He was stopped by Batman and Robin, but escaped.

At a jewelery auction, Freeze returned and robbed a large diamond necklace. Batman and Robin followed and captured him, imprisoning Freeze in Arkham Asylum.

While in Arkham, Mr. Freeze carves an ice statue of his wife in order to have some solace.

Freeze was then broken out of the asylum by Poison Ivy and Bane. Back at Freeze's hideout, Poison Ivy disconnects the cable in the cyro chamber that is keeping Freeze's wife alive. Upon showing Freeze his wifes necklace, and claiming Batman killed her, Freeze vowed revenge on him and at Ivy's urging, humanity itself. He thus continued his plan to freeze Gotham and kill the population.

While fighting Batman for control of the Gotham telescope he converted to a freeze gun, Freeze is thrown fifteen feet off of a platform, breaks his helmet, and is exposed to warm light, weakening him. After Batman revealed Ivy's deception, he comforted Freeze, assuring him that his wife wasn't dead. She had her systems restored and would be moved to Arkham labs, where Freeze could continue his research. Appealing to Freeze's healing nature as a doctor and a good man, Batman asked him for a cure for the first stages of his wife's illness to save Bruce Wayne's dying friend, Alfred Pennyworth. The tearful Freeze complies and is sent to Arkham, with Poison Ivy as his cell mate, whose life he promises to make a living hell for what she did to his wife.

Behind the scenes
This version of Mr. Freeze was a campy one, who had endlessly used one-liner puns related to low temperatures and cold weather, such as "The Iceman Cometh", "Freeze-well", and "Let's kick some ice".

See

 * Mr. Freeze
 * Mr. Freeze (George Sanders)
 * Mr. Freeze (Otto Preminger)
 * Mr. Freeze (Eli Wallach)
 * Mr. Freeze (BTAS)
 * Mr. Freeze (The Batman)