Heart of Ice - A Beautiful B:TAS Tragedy
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- Why the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Heart of Ice" remains a beautiful tragedy that has defined the character of Mr. Freeze and B:TAS as a whole for 25 years.
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"Batman: The Animated Series" OST by Shirley Walker
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It's amazing how this episode rewrote the origins of Mr. Freeze that has been adapted to comics and movies
Oh. You. Interesting. I've been following these videos and I appreciate how you all communicate with each other. It would warm my heart if that was possible.
A live-action movie with Patrick Stewart as Mr. Freeze is my greatest dream.
This is one of my all time favorite episode, second to the episode Almost Got Him, when five of Batman's Enemies, The Joker (who is voiced by the Legendary and Esteemed Actor Mark Hamill (and as the late, great, Legendary Actor Phil Hartman (R.I.P) who did the voice acting of Troy McClure in the Animated Series "The Simpsons" (Off-Topic, I'm still outraged that Pokemon didn't make the kids choice for favorite animated series again, You might Know Him (Mark Hamill) in other movies as Luke Skywalker In the star Wars Movies, and The Killer Doll Chucky In The 2019 Remake of Child's Play), The Penguin (In My Opinion Danny Devito was Amazing Portraying The Penguin In The 1992 Warner Bros Movie Batman Returns), Two-Face (also In My Opinion I think that Tommy Lee Jones Was Amazing Portraying Two-Face In The 1995 Warner Bros Movie Batman Forever), Poison Ivy, and Killer Croc, was playing a game of cards and talking about their Foe Batman, Second to another episode The Cat and The Caw, When Batman encounters a new Cat Burglar calling herself Catwoman (all right I have a tie between two women, One is Michelle Pfeiffer (who played the Catwoman in the 1992 Warner Brothers Movie Batman Returns), and the second one is Anne Hathaway (she was Catwoman in the 2012 Warner Brothers Movie The Dark Knight Rises), But When He's (Batman) Bruce Wayne, He meets a woman named Selina Kyle, This episode was a two parter, Third To Another Episode Perchance To Dream, etc. etc.
@kassandra odessa apparently Matt Reeves wants to adapt Heart of Ice for the sequel to The Batman. He also suggests Robin too and Robert apparently wants a 10 year old Dick so they can go full comic.
The sequel sounds interesting and I'm excited for a less chromed out and muscle bound Freeze. My picks are Bryan Cranston, Mark Strong and Giancarlo Esposito, I know that fits the right age for a brilliant scientist accomplished in the world of cryogenics being turned into this ice cold villian.
Plus they've got the looks and acting chops to fit the Battisonverse. I'm so excited to see a more Arkham or Animated Series inspire suit. I think they nailed that realistic but also cinematic suit in Knight.
And the Arkham games.
_It would move me to tears..._
_If I had anymore tears to shed._
That line is very ironic, yet very brilliant. Because in the end of the episode, he shed tears.
@@krome431 the whole episode is iconic. It’s one of the best episodes of the best Batman animated series
"To never again walk on a summer's day with a hot wind in your face, and a warm hand to hold. Oh yes. I'd kill for that."
I showed my wife this episode not only did she cry at the end she gasped after that line. She completely understood Mr. Freezes pain and motivation
@@savievere9759 I also cry at the end.
"Old and infirm as you are, I'd trade a thousand of my frozen years for your worst day."
It’s almost Shakespearean
This is one of the reasons why I believe 90's cartoons were the best and were good for kids it was cool and fun but so well written that it had a strong message and taught kids something as well as being interesting for adults to watch so you can watch it together with your parents.
0:02 - "This is how I'll 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." - Mr. Freeze
Alden R. Davis Delivered in Michael Ansara's voice, it was like listening to someone speaking through an old telephone or early 20th Century radio
"To never again walk upon a summers day with a hot wind in your face, and a warm hand to hold. Oh yes, I'd kill for that." Another great line, at least in my opinion.
Love that line
"I failed you. I wish there were another way for me to say it. I cannot. I can only beg your forgiveness and pray that you hear me somehow. Someplace. Someplace where a warm hand waits for mine."
Absolutely eviscerating closing line. Those last 2 lines are worth more then entire scripts.
@@Theomite Me whenever I drop a chip on the dirty dirty floor.... *sniff*
Interesting thing about Mr Freeze is that he is the only villain that Batman calls by his real name. I think that is because Bruce realises that he actually is a good person at heart.
True I never realized
Face Off I believe he called clayface by his real name when clayface “dies”
I’m sure he did the same with Two-Face.
Less often than calling two-face Harvey
Nope. Two-Face and Clayface also, have Batman reffering to them by their names.
This episode made me really appreciate Mr. Freeze. A villian who is actually sympathetic. He claims to be dead to emotions, but is sad, and loving at heart.
Yes. It's clear he DOES feel emotions. The desire for revenge is almost always driven completely by emotion, and in addition to Freeze having this, we can also feel the sadness and longing he still has within him.
@@Adamguy2003 can you imagine the existential crisis you'd be facing if you could never feel warmth again? Or the warm touch of another person?
I can feel for Freeze and I relate through living in Canada. It's stupid cold sometimes in the winter and I can only image having to experience that for every living hour of your life, adapting from feeling warmth for decades to nothing and wearing a space suit on-top basically.
When you think that all you'll ever feel is loss, pain, sorrow, wouldn't you prefer to instead act like you feel nothing.
One thing to add on. The animation team added the frosted appearance on Freeze's helmet without being asked to.
Awesome
The name of the studio was Spectrum. I honestly thought it was the best studio that animated Batman TAS. Telecom was good but their character acting wasn't as refined as the latter studio.
Now that's dedication to the craft.
For someone who claims to feel no emotions, Mr. Freeze sure feels a lot of love for Nora.
I think he tried to convince himself he was emotionally dead but he actually wasn't.
He just buries his emotions and wants to make Ferris Boyle suffer by his Cryo gun, Instead Ferris was Apprehended For murder, Freeze was in arkham because he cannot survive warm temperatures And needs Cold temperature to survive.
Mr. Freeze says that to hide his pain, which isn't different from real life. People numb their pain to hide the hurt they go through or have been through.
"Yes, it would move me to tears. If I still have tears to shed." Best line ever.
God I love how this is Mr. Freeze's origin now he's a sympathetic villain and I disregard what the New 52 did to Mr. Freeze that was stupid
I think the title itself ''Heart Of Ice'' is extremely ironic, because Freeze is perhaps the least cold person in the entire batman universe.
His weakness isn't that he doesn't feel anything; it's that he feels too much.
Captain Jakemerica Scott Snyder himself, who wrote the new origin in the first place (possibly influenced by the editorial), retconned that new origin away.
Thankfully in rebirth they made it more like this version
@@Wyck1349 Good
@@rcbmmines4579 Scott Snyder is an overrated hack he made Batman too graphic and like Tom The Hack King didn't get Batman and had a reign of terror writing for Batman
Just realized the naming used in that episode, specifically between Mr. Freeze and his former boss, Boyle
Hah, Boyle to Boil, I just got it.
Is it weird I dont get it
@@The8B1tWarrior Temperature. Fries (freeze) became a monster of Ice, because of Boyle's (boil) hot impatient temper.
"Leave him. He should have been more careful. Now he's paid the price for his incompetence."
"But he's one of us."
"Then perhaps you'd like to share his fate."
Yes, apparently those coolant chemicals can turn a timid scientist into a pessimistic poet, not quite sure how it works though.
This series is the single best Batman thing that ever existed. This episode is a classic and earned a well-deserved Emmy. I miss this time when we didn't talk down to children and still allowed them to see some darkness or scariness because, unfortunately, it's part of the world they live in. Thank you for bringing attention to this amazing piece of art.
One tidbit I really loved in this episode was this moment at the very, very end when Batman is looking at Victor in his cell lamenting his failed attempt to avenge his wife. As Batman starts to walk away, there's a very brief moment where he stops and looks over his shoulder at him (which you can actually see right here 9:48). That was probably the first time we see Batman truly feel the pain of one of his enemies. And it makes complete sense that this moment happens with Mr. Freeze because who else knows the pain of losing a loved one more than Batman
I am in my 30s now and I still remember how sad the end of this episode made me feel when I was in elementary school.
AJ Pappas Me too, although it became truly heartbreaking when I saw it again as a college student.
Let's never forget how pivotal and integral Shirley Walker's simple, Elfmanesque theme is to Ansara's haunting delivery and the episode's piercing emotion.
Baby Doll, Heart of Ice, Mad Love etc. SO GOOD. SUCH CONSISTENT QUALITY AND AWESOME
Just as compelling a line: "...My God" - Batman.
Yes, it would move me to tears
If I still had tears to shed
My favorite freeze line in this episode is when he’s in arkham at the end and says “I hope you can hear me somehow, someplace…someplace where a warm hand waits for mine” really cements Freeze as a tragic villain who only wants to avenge the loss of his wife. Such a great villain and probably one of the series best episodes
Holy crap, I had no idea Mike Mignola designed Freeze's suit! That's awesome!
Holy shit, now that you mention it... Good Lord, it really IS Mignola's aesthetic, isn't it?
Freeze always reminds me of what my old philosophy teacher in undergrad once told me. Most pessimist used to be optimist.
RIP Kevin Conroy 🌹
Matt, another great video! HUGE fan of B:TAS and Heart of Ice. Conroy is the definitive voice of the Bat and has no equal. For some reason Mr. Freeze always reminded me (Andy) of Dr. No. The robotic and emotionless demeanor and of course Dr. No's radiation suit. Great work!
Burger Fiction Thank you very much! I never thought of that, but I can definitely see the connection now. Great observation!
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I remember watching this on FOX after school with my dad as a kid and we both were in awe with this episode and thought this series was even better than the live action movies.
Heart of ice is definitely my favorite episode from Batman: The Animated Series. Along with Joker fish and the Two-Face episodes.
Feat Of Clay is up there for me
Frozen Out from Static Shock gave us a similar episode,a homeless little girl who was shunned out by people with her wielding the very element that embodies the feeling that people gave her, cold tragedy struck her and lost the warmth love of her mother because her stepfather didn't care about them and even abandoned her instead of taking care of her since he was the reason her mother died because of him
If only Mr. Freeze and Permafrost met they would have been able to give each other the one thing they needed "Hope"
WHY WOULD Batman Beyond Killed HIM JUST WHY😭😭😭😭
Actually, this series debuted after the success of the first Michael Keaton Batman movies, not before.
Andy Randall I think he's saying some people saw the show before they saw those films.
I personally don't consider him a villain. I consider him a victim
Hopefully the next Batman animated movie that is set in the continuity of The Animated Series, will have both Bruce Timm and Paul Dini involved in some capacity. Batman and Mr. Freeze: Sub Zero is ten times better than Batman and Harley Quinn if you ask me.
JB0071051982 sub zero is arguably the best Batman film period
@@unclepalo lmao no.It s ok.Not the worst animated batman film set in the dcau but not the best
After seeing batman and Harley Quinn I wonder where all this magic went and why it is a joke compared to stories like these.
I have no idea, but that movie was definitely not a return to form like I was hoping.
Matt Draper i wish they would just leave the animated series behind and put their efforts into something new.
I think everyone wants to recapture the B:TAS magic. But if Timm can't with the new movie, then no one can and they really should move on.
corbenfan84 I think he really did make a huge difference
To be a comeback for an older audience, I was let down.
You beat me to it! I absolutely love Heart of Ice haha, great video!
Thanks, Owen! Welllll, there's always another episode of B:TAS! Maybe "On Leather Wings" or "Almost Got 'Im?"
Definitely, I've been waiting for a reason to talk about B:TAS haha!
whoever wrote mister freeze surely knows how to touch all the aspect of feelings going on inside a human. it's incredible i keep watching this over and over again it just gives me the chills . thumbs up for that voice actor !
Easily my favorite of Batman's rogues gallery.
Next to probably Matt Hagan, aka Clayface. Who is equally tragic, and another utterly rubbish villain from the comics the TAS team pulled out of the trash and repaired to full villainous functionality.
Out of all the animated Batman episodes, this is the one that always touched me the most when I was a kid. And it still does.
"I'm beyond emotions, they've been frozen dead in me"
If The Batman(2022) gets a sequel, they gotta have Mr. Freeze as the Villain.
Definitely captured what was best about Batman: TaS and this episode in particular. Your work is getting better and better, man!
Core Ideas Thanks, buddy!
After a recent rewatch, while I still hold the 2 part Two Face episodes as the underrated superior to this, this is definitely one of the greatest episodes of the series and one of the most important episodes to the series’ contribution to the mythos.
Splendid documentary. Very insightfully presents the depth of the show, and the great achievement the Batman animated series is to this day, still surpassing many shows that have aired since. Once again, the amount of careful planning and effort you put into this vid shows how much of an impression the series had, very well done.
Good night..
Humanitarian! Love that line from Batman!
So good it was referenced in the Arkham Origins DLC: Cold, Cold Heart:
"Take a seat, humanitarian."
I think this one and the first appearance of the Mad Hatter were 2 of the best of TAS. The sad obsession of Tetch, just a lonely man ignored by women is such a great story
Dude, it's extremely strange to compare the Mad Hatter and Mr. Freeze. These are literally two opposites - two kinds of love, one sincere, when Frieze, being a kind person, goes to evil deeds for the sake of the recovery of a loved one. There is literally a tragedy behind Mr. Freeze - the love of his life is at death's door, and his body literally cannot survive without a special suit. Thatch is literally an incel who invented love in his head himself, he was offended that Alice chose another person and literally all this is motivation to enslave the mind of the girl he loves and force her to love herself, and then say that he would rather kill her than she got to someone.
@@ОлексійУманський-е2б Sigh. I'm not comparing them. I said I thought they "were 2 of the best TAS episodes". There's no need for a diatribe and break down of either. Nowhere in my statement did I remotely 'compare' the two. I just said I thought they were really good. Don't be that guy. Clearly we both loved TAS. Just because I might think something of an episode doesn't negate what you might think of that one or another. Be better. Revel that we both enjoy and appreciate what Timm and Dini did.
I identified with Mr Freeze as I have Aspergers syndrome and don't express emotions much and the first girl I had feelings for was when I was at school but moved away with her family and I never saw her again.
So I understood his pain in knowing that I may never be with her again and I have not seen her in 20 years and I don't even know what happened to her she most likely moved on.
I remember sitting in my living room watching this episode when it premiered in nineties and thinking to myself what a great time it was to be a comic book fan!
God Paul Dini wrote the bet episodes of Batman The Animated Series
Even as a child when I first saw this, I was severely conflicted and some part of me wanted Freeze to win. I guess primal emotions like sadness, loss and revenge are ever lasting
thanks for telling me the name of the episode, I had to admit between this and the one with baby dolls ending, it did truly put tears in my eyes, great writing and great stories.
Watching this show as a kid, Mr. Freeze was the only villain to actually unsettle me. With that distorted voice and glowing red eyes, he just had this ominous, deadly-serious *presence* to him. He seemed desolate, cold (well duh), unnatural, and inhuman. While I was too young to pick up on the nuances of the character, I could tell he was sad and broken, which made him all the more threatening, as he was this uncanny combination of humanity and inhumanity. As I grew up I came to appreciate the backstory, but my fear stays.
Amazing episode. I cry at the end. He has such devotion and loyalty to his deceased wife. My favorite episode of the series.
I don't go back to watch the cartoons of my childhood very often, but every couple of years I will go back and rewatch this episode...to me it is the absolute best written single episode of a cartoon ever made I think.
One of the greatest things about this ep is how it managed to incorporate sillier aspects like Bruce catching a cold and Mr Freeze being defeated by a jar of chicken soup and yet still maintained its serious tone all the way through. Goes to show that if the story is written and executed well, people will overlook those minor aspects which would otherwise be brought up more often in inferior stories only to be turned into a point of flaw
This was my childhood, im going to buy the dvd's and show this to my kids one day
Mark Strong would make a Beautiful Live-Action Mr.Freeze
Interestingly, in Batman issue #308, There'll be a Cold Time in the Old Time Tonight (1979) presents a very sympathetic take on Mr. Freeze. In it, Freeze concocts a scheme were he is offered payment by old millionaires who want to achieve his "immortality" via a cryogenic encasement. But the process backfires and renders them zombies. His motivation is that he's fallen for a blonde named Hildy, who possing as his secretary in the scheme, desires his immortality and is going to great lengths to recreate the accidents that turned him into a living snowman. That and we get insight in how he feels aloneness; that he is trapped in a body of ice with no one he can relate to and so he seeks companionship. Meanwhile, Hildy has plans of her own once Freeze completes his research and obtains her immortality...
This pre-Crisis Mr. Freeze in the comics comes close to the Batman: TAS version and may have inspired Bruce Timm and Paul Dini.
I love all your videos. Never stop
5-Star JMar Thank you! I promise to never die!
This was amazing, keep up the great work
Collin Wimbish Thank you very much!
As I rewatch the end of heart of ice I Closely look at the snow in the Cell of Mr.Freeze. I thought that is an engineering miracle.
As someone who lost their beloved…I empathize with Freeze more than ever. When you lose someone you love more than life itself and who brings out the best in you, many people (including myself) emotionally shut down just so the pain will stop. But you have to feel something. What usually bubbles up is anger. Anger at them for leaving you all alone. Anger at the doctors for not doing all they could. Anger at yourself for not being able to stop it…
Deep, profound grief like what Victor endures is probably the most painful thing anyone can go through. You’ll do anything to get it to stop.
I remember reading somewhere that Heart of Ice is what actually got WB interested in making an animated Batman movie.
We can't forget the chicken soup joke in this episode even though it breaks the serious tone at the end (just a little bit)
My favorite episode of Batman the Animated Series
He may be numb, but he can still feel emotions through that icy cold heart of his.
Best Batman show ever I loved it as a kid and still do.
Great retrospective, but then putting The Midnight at the end! I had to subscribe
I love batman the animated series. It made me a life time fan of the bat. Though it was the episode "feat of clay". I remember as a kid watching that episode and I was struck I couldn't believe there was a cartoon like this.
One of the best episodes of BTAS
The hand of Mignola still influencing greatness, directly snd indirectly.
I can't believe they tried to retcon this in the comics by making Freeze a schizophrenic who only imagined that Nora, a random test subject, was his wife.
It destroys the tragic complexity of the character and makes him just another psycho. Thank God they changed the backstory back to the Heart of Ice version.
Heart of Ice was Directed by Bruce Timm... That's why it's so good.
I love your vide. This has always been my favorite episode due to the emotions (funny considering it's about a villain supposedly without emotion). My only suggestion for the video is that you get the volume of the show clips equal to your voice's volume. I've been slightly adjusting the volume back and forth.
This episode is One of the best half hours of television and is a must watch!
At 35 years old myself, husband of a woman I’ve been with for 15 years, I understand and sympathize with Mr. Freeze for I too would feel ice cold inside if I ever come to lose her like that.
This was and still is one of my favorite episodes throughout the series
Freeze deserves his own movie made in the same way of storytelling and character study as joker
This channel is dope. I like the emphasis on animated shows and comics!
...you freeze a boil to get rid of it! That's GOLD.
This will be very good in The Batman universe. Specially for the focus in vengeance. It will be another Villian that follows the ill steps of early Batman that Matt Reeves has introduced us
Omh how are you still not at 1000 subs imma share this video
Thanks! It's slowly getting there and sharing will always help the channel, so it's greatly appreciated.
We need to seriously start pumping out some mindless shite, with O-faces in the thumbnails, numerical rating systems and Minecraft let's play segments. That'll net us some easy subs...
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Agreed let's get this out there.
Glad you enjoyed it. So awesome of iamthatroby to give me a shoutout on his channel. He's awesome!
Glad I got to watch this. Great as always Matt.
"I would change 1000 my ice year for one of your worst days"
That's hit me because I have uncurable illness also and I have said that to some people
Wonderful video for a timeless episode of BTAS
In my own opinion, I think this episode of Batman was the best episode of anything I'd ever seen in any medium and EVERY time I watch it, it sinks my heart like a beautiful tragedy should.
the line about him not wanting other people to enjoy love and warmth to make it so no one would feel it ever again in the same way he cannot is so powerful when miserable one longs to make others miserable to be less alone
At 5 years of age born 1990 i was a batman, fan but this episode really blew my mind all over the floor and made me really wish as a boy!!That batman would lose .Go joker woooo
This my good man, is my favorite video you have done so far I’ve watched it way to many times lol.
"Ice to see you."
I loved George Sanders' performance of Mr. Freeze, his background story would've been nice to add on the 60's show
Still one of my favorite episodes and villain\hero type done with tradgic origin and the way Mr Freeze should be done in live action movie. 👍🏻I have and will always love the voice of Freeze by Ansara as beautiful and one of the best and a simple but best suit done.
so good they gave mr. freeze a followup standalone film, and schumacker thought he could do him in batman & robin (too bad Schwarzenegger turned down Bane to do Freeze and no one could tell him no).
PLEASE make a Batman movie with Mr Freeze
"To never again walk on a summer's day with a hot wind in your face, and a warm hand to hold. Oh yes. I'd kill for that."
This line is..uhh pun aside chilling. The change from a bad guy to a guy in deep sorrow, to such a strong commited conviction in what hes doing. MMM so good!
Love your channel, man. Already read, watched, and loved all shits you featured.
John Ivan Pasquil Thank you!
Okay I was born in 91, and I remember watching this series and it was my favorite however cause of my autism spectrum I had no idea how to work or understand what a schedule WAS. But getting off topic of all the Batman villains, Mr. Victor Freeze WAS AND IS MY FAVORITE. Yes I did like the Joker mostly cause of the great voice actor he has, But it is mostly because he is in the quote in the 2000’s version of ‘The Batman’ Batman asked a riddle: Tell me something Robin when is a Villain NOT THE VILLAIN?
Someone commented that the answer is: He is the victim
I always saw Victor as that. An innocent, kind hearted man. Who had so much love and some much to give. And all he wanted was to save and help victims like Nora. Until a selfish man, who only cared about profit and greed took that all away. And going down the road, from Batman, to Batman Beyond, you keep yelling at the screen shaking it.
“Stop torturing this poor man!?”
What gets me all the time is his last words in the first episode we saw this poor man, is this:
“I failed you....I wish there was another way for me to say it....but I can not....I can BEG your forgiveness....and pray....that someday....someplace their is a warm hand waits for mine....”
RIP Victor Freeze Voice actor, *up in the cloud of heaven a thousand warm hands reach for him*
“....I heard you. Here Victor you don’t have to be in the cold anymore....you’ve been buried in the snow long enough....”
Mr. Freeze - best comic book villain.
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I'm addicted to these videos....
Excellent review and analysis!
2:02 Mister Zero - literaly.
Not only “Heart of ice” was amazing, “Meltdown” from batman beyond was also a masterpiece.
“Believe me…you’re the only one who cares”
The final acceptance
Batman TAS is a masterpiece. I also wished they could have continued Batman Beyond. 😢
Mr Freeze always looked terrifying with his best quote “Revenge is a dish best served cold”
Hey don't throw embezzlement like that , he just extended the experiment