Mister Freeze
Dr. Victor Fries is a specialist in cryogenics. In college, he meets a woman named Nora, whom he falls in love with and ultimately marries. Nora later falls terminally ill. Freeze takes on a job working for a large company run by the ruthless Ferris Boyle. Fries discovers a way to put Nora into cryo-stasis (using company equipment without permission), and places her in that state hoping to sustain her until a cure could be found. Boyle finds out about the experiment and attempts to have her brought out of cryo-stasis, overruling Victor's frantic objections. A struggle ensues, in which Boyle men accidentally injure Victor with liquid nitrogen.
Victor Fries survives but ends up horribly crippled. He has lost his hair and eyebrows, and his lungs and eyes are permanently damaged by the inhalation of cold nitrogen. He end up forever prisoner of two air bottles and his skin began to take a blue shade due to the lack of oxygenation (cyanosis). Victor builds a metal suit (with red glasses to protect his eyes) to allow him to walk freely with his oxygen bottles (in a way that allow him to consume as less oxygen as he can during the "action" because it could probably kill him or incapacitate him due to his ill lungs). Having become Mister Freeze, Victor decides to take revenge against Boyle. He begins to murder Boyle industries employees and shareholder with a crossbow that shoots ice arrows.
After killing his victims, each arrow melts, making proofs (fingerprints...) disappearing. This version of mister Freeze looks very similar to TDK Two Face. So I can only see him working if Nolan needs Bruce Wayne try to redeem himself for not having be able to save Harvey by trying to save Mister Freeze.
Yes, yes, yes, yes. That's the way it should be done. I especially agree with the parts in bold, and the underlined are those I think are essential and required. Great ideas BTW, the cyanosis for the blue skin it's a nice touch, and would be a logic result of the lack of oxygen. I would add that Fries suffers a pre-existent condition, CIPA (
Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis), which means Fries cannot feel anything: neither pain, nor heat, nor cold. He has lived with it all his life, with the care that is necessary in those cases; for example: continually checking his temperature to check he doesn't have a fever. As a direct consequence of this, after the accident, he barely survives, and needs to keep the same temperature level at all times to avoid thermal shock. Being used to working for a very long time in very low temperatures in his lab, he figures out he needs to keep those low temperatures or his body functions will stop stop from hyperthermia, and he will die.
As you can see, there is a minor tweak in the science here, namely the extremely high improbability of Fries surviving to the accident, or the fact that Suspended Animation researches aren't that advances to ensure living body can be maintained in cryo-stasis for more than a few hours. But this tweaking is really minor and no more "sci-fi" than other elements already added in Nolan's franchise. What is important is that it leaves you with a sensation of realism, and that's what matters. VERY well done, Gael.
It seems too out of this world. It's more realistic that a scientist goes on a rampage with liquid nitrogen, because his wife is unable to receive treatment, just strait up "John Q" style.
I can't agree here. I think Fries' health condition is essential to his character and needs to be in any adaptation. To achieve all he achieves under his life-threatening condition shows how resolute he is about his purpose (which should be one and only one: saving his wife's life... NEVER mere revenge).
And then there's the matter of the liquid nitrogen? I amuses how people want to change things like Fries' motives or his condition, but want to keep the freezing weapon. Why would anyone ever use weaponized liquid nitrogen? Is it logic? Why freeze things up if there are many other kinds of regular weapons, more accesible, more effective, cheaper and easier to handle?
I can get behind the idea about him freezing (some of) his victims to preserve their organs, though. And I once thought about him carrying a liquid nitrogen tank for certain specific purposes, like breaking in some facility, and then being confronted and THEN incidentally using it as a weapon... much like Anton Chigurgh in NCFOM, with the compressed air tank. But I really can't see anyone wanting to use a weaponized freezing tool as his main weapon, just because...
