Adaptations of Mr. Freeze in other media | |
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Created by | Dave Wood Sheldon Moldoff Bob Kane |
Original source | Comics published by DC Comics |
First appearance | Batman #121 (February 1959) |
Films and television | |
Film(s) | Batman & Robin (1997) Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (1998) Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009) Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015) Batman Unlimited: Mechs vs. Mutants (2016) Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016) The Lego Batman Movie (2017) Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2019) |
Television show(s) | Batman (1966) The Batman/Superman Hour (1968) The New Adventures of Batman (1977) Batman: The Animated Series (1992) The New Batman Adventures (1997) Batman Beyond (1999) The Batman (2004) Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2008) Young Justice (2010) Gotham (2014) Justice League Action (2016) DC Super Hero Girls (2019) Harley Quinn (2020) Batwheels (2022) |
Mr. Freeze, a supervillain in DC Comics and an adversary of the superhero Batman, has been adapted in various forms of media, including films, television series, and video games. The character has been portrayed in film by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Batman & Robin (1997), and in television by George Sanders, Otto Preminger, and Eli Wallach in the 1966 Batman series, and Nathan Darrow in Gotham. Michael Ansara, Clancy Brown, Maurice LaMarche, and others have provided the character's voice in animation and video games.
While early adaptations of the character were primarily based on his initial depiction in the comics as the mad scientist "Mr. Zero", almost every incarnation of Mr. Freeze following his reinvention in Batman: The Animated Series in 1992 portray him as Dr. Victor Fries, a tragic villain seeking to revive his cryogenically frozen, terminally ill wife, Nora.