>>91437447Victor Friese is a cryogenics super scientist working on cryogenic freezing of humans and high atmosphere snow cloud seeding to block light over the poles to geoengineer a way out of global warming.
Nora Friese, his wife, is dieing of a rare degenerative condition, but is happy with her lot in life, content with their loving marriage and Victor's "good work", which she helps him in, also being a cryogenics scientist, though she thinks Cryogenics is a crapshoot as it damages the body past repair making safe defrosting impossible
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Victor however thinks "that can be handled later" and science will always find a way to fix problems.
Against her wishes, Victor drugs her, breaks into their lab out of hours and freezes her alive to "preserve" her with a chemical and biological cockail designed to adjust the bodies chemistry to better survive freezing. However he is discovered by a supervisor/his boss who attempts to intervene, causing a chain reaction that snap freezes Nora without the preservation cocktail, dumping it onto Victor, and collapsing the room ontop of them.
The now PROPERLY MENTAL Victor Friese renames himself Mister Freeze and attempts a series of crimes to gather the resources needed for his research to safely defrost his wife, while kidnapping medical experts to research a cure for her condition. His research includes a lot of freezing people badly and attempting to defrost them safely.
Meanwhile he begins to lose faith in himself and so in humanity and the solutions science can offer and construct an improved version of his cloud seeding weather control device to plunge earth into an ice age and reset civilization, killing of the weak decadent society that is poisoning the planet to human life before it is understood well enough to save.
"Humankind has survived Ice Ages before Batman. Myself and Nora will remain frozen till a new society grows, one capable of safely reviving us both, of repairing all my mistakes"
Batman investigates.
