The New Batman Adventures (TV Series)

Cold Comfort (1997)

Michael Ansara: Mr. Freeze

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Quotes 

• Bruce Wayne : You don't have to do this. Wayne Enterprises helped save your wife's life, and we can help you.

  Mr. Freeze : It's too late for that. Much too late.

  Bruce Wayne : Why? I have some people working for me who can...

  [Mr. Freeze smacks Bruce away] 

  Mr. Freeze : You were just a boy when you lost your family. But you keep trying to create a surrogate family for yourself. To destroy you, I need only destroy that. Perhaps your... beloved surrogate son?

  [Points his freeze gun at Tim Drake] 

  Mr. Freeze : No. I think... the surrogate father.

  [points and shoots at Alfred] 

• Ice Maiden #2 : Hey, Freeze, look who dropped in!

  [Mr. Freeze reveals himself. Showing his head walking on robotic spider-like legs] 

  Batgirl : Oh, my God.

  Mr. Freeze : Ah, I was hoping to see you again.

  Batman : What happened?

  Mr. Freeze : The accident that created me finally took its toll. By the time these doctors stopped my deterioration, all that was left undamaged was this.

  Batgirl : That's what you meant when you said it was too late for you.

  Mr. Freeze : Ironic, isn't it? After all I did to keep my wife whole, I end up like this. You understand now why I could not return to my Nora, my treasure. There's no hope for me, or you or your city. Everyone's going to feel my loss.

• Mr. Freeze : Search your hearts for the thing you value most, then despair. For I have come to take it from you.

• Ice Maiden #3 : So, who's next, Freeze?

  Mr. Freeze : Someone important.

  [turns on TV] 

  Mr. Freeze : Someone who feels safe, secure, untouchable.

  [footage of Bruce Wayne presenting a $1 million check to the Gotham City Orphanage] 

  Bruce Wayne : As my father once told me, those who have the most must give the most.

  Mr. Freeze : Those who have the most also have the most to lose, Mr. Wayne.

• Dr. Margaret Madsen : [after Freeze destroys the skeleton]  Why? Why?

  Mr. Freeze : [walks away]  Why not?

  Ice Maiden #2 : Bone-chilling, isn't it?

  [drops Madsen onto the floor] 

• Batgirl : [after Freeze releases the doctors]  Well, I guess we're next.

  [starts to walk away, but she walks right into the path of one of Freeze's henchgirls] 

  Ice Maiden #2 : Cute.

  [forces Batgirl back at gunpoint] 

  Mr. Freeze : Sorry my dear, but the time has come for Batman to learn what it's like to lose the one thing he values most.

• Dr. Margaret Madsen : What's going on here? What do you want?

  Mr. Freeze : It's beautiful. So sad you have to lose it.

  Dr. Margaret Madsen : There isn't an archeological institution in the world that would buy a stolen fossil. This wouldn't be worth anything to you.

  Mr. Freeze : To me, no. But it's worth everything to you, isn't it? I did not come here to steal bones, Dr. Madsen. I came to steal hope.

• Mr. Freeze : Technique is extraordinary. How long did it take you to develop it? Five years? Ten? A lifetime?

  Guiseppe Bianci : No! No, please. I am too old. I can't paint another.

  Mr. Freeze : [freezing the mural]  Yes. It's a pity.

• Batman : [held at bay by Freeze's cold gun]  What are you waiting for?

  Mr. Freeze : Not this time. Not this way.

  [shooting the corner of Batman's cape] 

  Mr. Freeze : Come!

  Ice Maiden #1 : Wait! What about me? I got a crisis here!

  Mr. Freeze : My dear, you don't know the meaning of the word.

• Mr. Freeze : [leading Batman and Batgirl to a helicopter]  You'll notice a bomb inside. A reverse-fusion bomb. When I drop it on Gotham... everything within ten miles will be frozen solid, blanketing the city in white, silent death. You'll be safe here, below ground. Shoot his legs if he moves. I want him alive. I want to see his despair.