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Batman: The Animated Series :: Heart of Ice (01x03)
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| Title: | Heart of Ice |
| Episode #: | 01x03 |
| Production Number: | 514 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday September 07th, 1992 |
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Brilliant cryogenics expert Dr. Victor Fries was hard at work on a freezing process to save his wife's life when the heartless corporation underwriting the project pulled the plug, literally. The freezing chamber exploded, destroying the doctor's wife and transforming Fries himself permanently into a pathetic creature only able to survive in sub-zero temperatures. He returns a year later as Mr. Freeze, thirsting for revenge against the sleazy CEO who destroyed his life. Batman's sympathy is with Freeze, but first he has to stop him from committing murder by destroying a building filled with innocent people in order to carry out his vendetta.
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This episode marks the debut of the Mr. Freeze.
| This episode was voted the best of the series in an online poll conducted in 2002 to celebrate the show's 10th anniversary.
| According to the DVD commentary, it was Mark Hamill's performance in this episode that earned him the role for the Joker.
| This episode went on to win an Emmy for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program
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Mr. Freeze: This is how I will always remember you. Surrounded by winter. Forever young. Forever beautiful. Rest well my love. The monster who took you from me will soon learn that revenge is a dish best served cold.
| Batman: Freeze!
Mr. Freeze: That's Mr. Freeze to you.
| (Batman sounds under the weather)
Alfred: With all the compartments on your belt, you'd think there'd be one for tissues.
| Ferris Boyle: Look Bruce, that People Company line is great P.R., but when the wage slaves start acting like they own the place it's time to pull the plug. Know what I mean?
| Ferris Boyle: We're hosting a ceremony tonight for Gotham's humanitarian industrialist of the year. Guess who's winning?
Bruce Wayne: I feel ill.
| Alfred: If you're going to go sneaking around a crowded office building you'll need this.
Batman: Knockout gas?
Alfred: Chicken soup - the only way to fight a cold.
| (After watching the tape of the accident that created Mr. Freeze)
Batman: My God!
Mr. Freeze: Yes... It would move me to tears, if I still had tears to shed.
| Mr. Freeze: The snow is beautiful, don't you think? Clean. Uncompromising.
Batman: ...and cold.
Mr. Freeze: Like the swift hand of vengeance.
Batman: I saw what happened to your wife. I'm sorry.
Mr. Freeze: I'm beyond emotions. They've been frozen dead in me.
Batman: That suit you wear... a result of the coolant?
Mr. Freeze: Very good... a detective to the last. I can no longer survive out of a sub-zero environment. Tonight I mean to pay back the man who ruined my life... our lives.
Batman: Even if you have to kill everyone in the building to do it?
Mr. Freeze: Think of it Batman. To never again walk upon a summer's day with a hot wind in your face and a warm hand to hold. Oh yes, I'd kill for that.
| Mr. Freeze: Let the evil that walks inside be cleansed by pure unforgiving ice.
| Mr. Freeze: The cold eyes of vengeance are upon you, Boyle.
| Ferris Boyle: (being frozen) Stop... Please... I beg you!
Mr. Freeze: You beg? In my nightmares I see my Nora behind the glass begging to me with frozen eyes. How I've longed to see that look frozen on you!
| Mr. Freeze: Sooner or later all who stand in my way must feel the icy touch of death!
| Mr. Freeze: I failed you. I wish there were another way for me to say it. I cannot. I can only beg your forgiveness and pray you hear me somehow... someplace. Someplace where a warm hand waits for mine.
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The henchman that Mr. Freeze froze was wearing shoes. However, when Batman melts the ice surrounding his feet and legs, his shoes are gone.
| When Batman is dressed as a security guard, he reaches into his Batbelt to pull out the key card. As he reaches for the card, it is not visible, but then appears out of nowhere.
| The archive footage of the accident that created Mr. Freeze features close-ups and jump cuts, which were impossible considering that it was a security automated tape.
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Batman Returns (1992)
When Batman is trying to stop Mr. Freeze from freezing Ferris Boyle's building, he is attacked by a thug from behind. He knocks the henchman out with a back elbow which bears some resemblance to a scene in Batman Returns (1992).
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