How do you make Mister Freeze grounded?

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Don't give him a freeze gun probably. Instead only have him freeze people as part of his experiments to help his wife.

Mook with a tank of liquid nitrogen

Freeze is one of the most grounded baddies in all of Bat's related baddies. He's generally just a doctor who wants to save his wife and will do anything to do it. He's not even really necessarily evil.

I assume they mean boring and edgy when they say grounded so, he's a serial killer referenced as the modern Jack the Ripper, dubbed Mr. Freeze by the news because he leaves his victims in tubs of ice with parts harvested, which he's secretly using to frankenstein a dead woman back to life, which of course doesn't work because he's crazy.. That woman could be his wife, a random woman in a cryogenics tube he's obsessed with that he refers to as his wife, or his mother, whichever is creepier.

>The Boy in the Snowglobe
>Victor Fries was always a cold man, or so it was said. A rare genetic disorder - one in a billion, the doctors said. His own cells could not survive above 0 degrees, Celsius. It was an incredible challenge to keep him alive, let alone permit him to live a functional life.
>He had never felt true warmth on his skin, experienced the piping hot home cooking of his mother, or even known the caress of the sun on his skin. Only able to step outside in a bulky, even freakish containment suit to regulate his temperature, "Mr. Freeze" was kept at arm's length by society. And, he told himself, he preferred it that way. It let him focus on his studies, learning more and more about his own genetic condition and the applications of cryogenics. Not just how to control his own condition, but how it could selectively be applied to the world around him, for the preservation of the sick - those who might survive if they had but a little more time to wait for an organ donation, for example.
>It was not as if he cared much for other people, but it was work he could do, and work he was good at.
>Until he met Nora. The light of his life. The woman who looked past the suit, and the frigid ice he'd let form around himself, to see the man beneath. She was the one warm spot in his existence, in his own words "the only flower to ever bloom in the garden of my frozen heart." She was everything to him, more than his work, more than himself. His work soared to new heights with her encouragement, developing even a "cold gun" for use by paramedics to sustain critical patients in cryostasis. Such a frosty, cold man finally knew happiness.
>So what, one wonders, could happen to a man who'd known such cold, such frigid despair, if that one touch of warmth was sucked away? What might change in him if one Oswald Cobblepot, rising star of the Gotham Underworld, were to gun newlywed Nora Fries down in a fit of rage?
>What could Mr. Freeze become?

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Make him a serial killer/mafia boss who dumps his bodies into different freezers he breaks into

That's really the only way I can think of; Mr. Freeze is pretty fuckin goofy

The same way you make The Batman grounded, pic related.

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he is lawful evil

Just plagiarize Timm's work.

You make him a grungy serial killer.
Just like every other cunting movie bat villain these days.

Just provide some sci-fi explanation for his ice powers. Dude made two great movies about talking apes, cold man shouldn't be too hard

Spray some type of chemical coolant instead of a big cartoon beam. Instant freezing chemicals certainly exist and it’s not unbelievable to imagine one being equipped into some sort of gun with a big tank. As far as his disease goes, it could be some sort of fever that overheats his body like in Batman Beyond, or if you want it topical you can make it a breathing disease that requires a respiratory helmet of some kind. He probably could have every recognizable trapping of the character, he just wouldn’t have frozen blue skin.

It's a bad idea

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>He's not even really necessarily evil.
His motivation is sympathetic but he kills indiscriminately to get it. How many innocent families were robbed of their fathers, mothers and children just so he could get back his wife?

Adam Warrens Titans?

Genetic condition that causes congenital hypothermia or an inability to produce body heat, his organs are always risking shutting down because his body is never warm

>His motivation is sympathetic but he kills indiscriminately to get it. How many innocent families were robbed of their fathers, mothers and children just so he could get back his wife?
I love that they bring this up in Batman Beyond, and Victor genuinely atone for this.

Can Freeze really carry a movie entire on his own, or would he need another villain to balance things out?

He was the only worthwhile thing to watch in Batman and Robin

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I can think of at least one more thing.

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I don't want a 'grounded' Mr Freeze. I want to see Batman vs a giant mud monster version of Clayface, Poison Ivy with a giant venus fly trap monster eating people, Ras Al Ghuls Lazarus pit protected by an army of Sexy ninja women. A Joker with skin dyed white by a bath at an ace chemical plant.

But no. It looks like Clayface and Mr Freeze are going to be guys with a rare medical condition, Poison Ivy is going to be an Eco terrorist who's obsessed with plants but not actually controlling them. Joker is going to have face paint again. Maybe if we're lucky Ras Al Ghul will have some ninja henchmen, but he definitely wont have a lazarus put.

This obsession with Realism is what ruined DC movies to begin with, and both the Netflix MCU shows and the Arkham video games have proven people are willing to accept fantastic science fiction things with their grim gritty superhero stories. But DC management firmly refuses to remove it's head from it's butt.

>tfw we will never have a grounded batman because he has no parents to ground him.

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>you WILL accept your ice truck killer version of Mr Freeze
>you WILL accept your prosthetic/putty using master of disguise clayface
>you WILL accept bio terrorist ivy who uses plant based poison to murder people

Making him grounded would suck all the cool (heh) out of the character and take his identity away.

If you make him realistic, like some dude with a skin condition and without the suit, it would be boring.

Take away the puns, boom you got edgy Freeze.