- "The tree lights up and I push the button... no, no, wait, wait. I press the button, and then the tree lights up!"
- ―The Ice Princess rehearsing for the relighting of the Christmas Tree Ceremony in her tent.[src]
Biography
The Ice Princess was a Christmas-themed beauty queen who was honored with the role of switching on Gotham City's Christmas lights during the annual Tree Lighting Ceremony. Unfortunately, that happy occasion was interrupted by the Red Triangle Circuis Gang's rampage on Gotham Plaza.
Later, The Penguin, challenged the Mayor of Gotham to authorize a new tree-lighting ceremony, apparently as a means of testing his competency, but in effect, was part of his plan to frame Batman, discredit the Mayor, and thereby enhance his own Mayoral bid. Consequently, the Ice Princess was called again to preside over the tree-lighting honors.
The Ice Princess was rehearsing the ceremony when Bruce Wayne invited Selina Kyle to Wayne Manor to watch the ceremony on television.
The Ice Princess visited by The Penguin.
Later that evening, the Ice Princess was in her dressing room mentally struggling to go over the simple instructions for lighting the tree when the Penguin and The Poodle Lady burst in. Although the Ice Princess was initially alarmed, since she had no clue who the Penguin was, despite his various appearances in the news over the previous few days, she was instantly reassured once the Penguin had introduced himself as a talent scout. After she mistook Batman's Batarang, that was retrieved by The Poodle Lady's Poodle during the Red Triangle Gang's fight with Batman, for a camera, the Ice Princess gladly posed for a picture at the Penguin's request. The Penguin then threw the Batarang into the Ice Princess's dressing table mirror, and thus, framed Batman for her kidnapping.
Bruce and Selina shared a moment of intimacy at Wayne Manor when a news report appeared on television that informed the public of the Ice Princess's kidnapping. Although, an at-the-scene, Commissioner James Gordon was hesitant to blame Batman, a bloodied Batarang seemed to point to his part in the kidnapping.
Catwoman preventing Batman from saving The Ice Princess.
Bruce had to prematurely end his date with Selina in order to rescue the Ice Princess. Selina also left abruptly shortly afterwards.
Batman soon spotted the Ice Princess, gagged and bound to a chair in an abandoned building, and raced to her rescue. Before Batman had finished untying the Ice Princess, Catwoman swung in and kicked Batman away from her. Catwoman cut the binds that held the Ice Princess to the chair, wrapped her whip around the Ice Princess' throat, and choked her.
- "Gotta go, girl talk!"
- ―Catwoman to Batman about the Ice Princess[src]
The Ice Princess falling to her death.
Catwoman then fled to the roof with the gagging Ice Princess, who was barely able to breathe. Batman followed, but when he got to the roof, Catwoman was nowhere to be seen. The Ice Princess was alone standing on a ledge, but before Batman had a chance to help her down off the edge of the roof, the Penguin appeared and threw an umbrella that burst open and released a swarm of bats. The Ice Princess panicked and tried to swat them away. However, the Ice Princess lost her balance, fell off the roof, plunged to her death, and crashed onto the very button that she would have pressed to light up the Christmas Tree, had she lived. Yet, instead of activating the tree lights, the impact of the Ice Princess's body that landed on the control box released several hundred bats that were hidden inside the tree, which created little doubt in Gotham's citizens minds that Batman had pushed her off the building moments earlier.
Personality
The Ice Princess was not exactly the brightest bulb on the tree. She was rather gullible at times. She foolishly believed that the Penguin was a talent scout and that a stolen Batarang was a camera. However, apart from being rather naive, she was also extremely beautiful, curvaceous, bubbly, and sexy.
Appearance
Appearance wise, the Ice Princess's costume consisted of a shiny, silver white-fox-fur-lined corset, fur-lined silver and black gloves and black boots, and she possessed the golden blonde hair, blue eyes, and buxom figure of a typical 1950's beauty queen.
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Behind the Scenes
- In the original screenplay and novelization of the film, the Ice Princess was depicted as shoving an elderly woman to the ground during the Red Triangle Gang's attack on Gotham Plaza, contrary to the seemingly charming and sweet image that she presented during the lighting of the Christmas Tree. Cristi Conaway, the actress who played the Ice Princess, confirmed as much in a 1992 interview with Entertainment Weekly when she described her Batman Returns character as the type "to push an old lady down and try to fix her nail at the same time".