10 Worse Things Mr Freeze Has Ever Done

10. Freezing Animals

Freeze developed an interest in the cold long before he met Nora. As a boy, he felt connected to the snow, intrigued by how it could preserve objects so perfectly. To stimulate his interest, he started freezing animals as a hobby. Victor encased whatever small creatures he could find, i.e. butterflies and squirrels.

During his experiments, Victor would start by freezing a small part of the animal to see how it was affected. In his adult life, he admitted to the Penguin that his most vulnerable subjects were birds, noting how even a tiny bit of frostbite could make his subjects helpless.

When his parents found out they were horrified. They sent Freeze to therapy in the hopes that it would fix him. He continued to be interested in cryogenics, so his parents shipped him off to a strict boarding school that discouraged individualism. Miserable and detached from humanity, Victor withdrew into himself.

Animal cruelty is an early warning sign in children who display psychopathic tendencies. Victor grew out of this habit when he met Nora in college, but it still laid the foundation for who he would become. Perhaps if he’d never met his wife, Freeze would have gone down a dark path all the same.