10 Best One Time Only Characters In Batman: The Animated Series
3. Grant Walker
Other than Ferris Boyle, another malevolent industrialist helped to shape Mr. Freeze's character arc in the series: Grant Walker.
An ageing theme park tycoon, Walker closely recalls classic Bond villains and even resides in a futuristic city named Oceana, which is housed beneath a great glass dome in Gotham Harbour. He also relies upon automated henchmen to do his bidding and, as Batman notes, he is not prepared to "let little things like the law" stop him.
In Deep Freeze, Walker abducts Dr. Victor Fries from Arkham Asylum and brings him to Oceana so that he may replicate the accident that created him and grant Walker a form of immortality. Walker also aims to destroy crime and corruption in society by freezing the entire planet and creating a brand new world to replace it (not unlike a typical Bond villain's plot). Although Freeze objects, Grant reveals that he has discovered Nora Fries alive, ready and waiting for a cure.
Dan O'Herlihy, whom many will remember from Halloween III: Season of the Witch, RoboCop and RoboCop 2, portrayed Grant Walker as an outwardly kind father figure who appears to have been modelled on Walt Disney...