Mister Freeze

Mister Freeze's History

Victor Fries was born in Lowell, Nebraska. As a boy, he and his mother Lorraine would enter the city's annual snowman contest at the first snow. On one such occasion, they were crossing a frozen lake when his mother fell through the ice. Though she survived the experience, she was never the same. For a year, she was confined to a wheelchair with severe brain damage. When the snowman contest came that next year, she had become such a burden on him that he led her across the same frozen lake, and allowed her to break through the ice again and drown.

Years later, Victor had written his doctoral thesis on the first case of cryogenic stasis; that of Nora Fields. He became so obsessed with her that he believed he was in love with her, and that they were married. Though Batman attempted to disabuse him of the delusion, Fries continued to try to steal the woman's body back, even though he had never actually met her outside of her cryo-tube. In fact, she was old enough to be his grandmother.

It was during one of his obsessive attempts to cure his "wife" that Fries became angry with his employer Bruce Wayne, and threw a chair which ruptured a pipe and exposed him to cryo-fluid. Disfigured and mutated, Dr. Fries was forced to build a protective suit to survive at regular temperatures. Adopting the name "Mr. Freeze", the former scientist went mad and constructed a Freeze Ray to terrorize Gotham and get Nora back.