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You know, there’s so many supervillains with a “Doctor” in their names of which I question the validity. Does Dr. Destiny actually have a doctorate? Dr. Doom? Dr. Light? No idea.
But I’m pretty sure Dr. Victor Fries has a doctorate, and yet he calls himself Mr. Freeze. Mister. He’s the only supervillain I can think of offhand that purposefully undoctorates himself.
Mr. Freeze is one of the only Batman villains that had a “recent” six-inch toy that I hadn’t picked up. The best version of the original DC Superheroes Mr. Freeze was a NYCC exclusive, so I hear, and that isn’t cheap. And as I understand it, the original version didn’t have modern-style articulation. As I understand it. It’s hard to glean this information off images and Internet reviews. But this version from the new “Batman Legacy” line does! It’s got the modern-style DCUC hips, with the hinging outwards coupled with the rotating forwards. And there’s universal-joint, ratcheted shoulders. Those aren’t things I’d expect a mold of its alleged age to have. But I could be wrong, easily.
My punching Batman is packed away still, so Artemis will have to do.
One thing that is definitely different are the hoses. According to images, they used to run from the detachable backpack back into itself. Now they run from the detachable backpack into the forearms. This means you can detach the backpack still, but it’s attached via the hoses. This also means the water squirter doesn’t work, because the holes where the hoses plugged in before are now open, so if you submerge the backpack in water, water goes in, but if you take the backpack out, everything just pours back out the holes. Otherwise, the water squirter gimmickry appears to still be intact. This causes me sadness, because water squirter.
A gimmick that remains is the way his neck is connected to the direction of his hips and legs. Rotate him at the hips, and his head turns. Otherwise you can’t turn his head. It’s under the dome, which you can’t remove, so that’s a fun solution.
His colors are based on the DC Superpowers Mr. Freeze. Loosely. Is that why he’s labeled “Silver Age” Mr. Freeze on the box? If it is, I’m pretty sure that wasn’t the Silver Age. It’s kind of confusing to me. (And wasn’t he called Dr. Zero back then?) Regardless, it’s an interesting Mr. Freeze color scheme, if not the traditional one.
Fries isn’t the only one playing fast and loose with his doctorate! Dr. Reed Richards goes by Mr. Fantastic while Mr. Victor von Doom never finished school and goes by Dr. Doom.
Guy rules a country. I’m sure he gave himself what…six doctorates?
Correct. Doom has not graduated, thanks to the meddling of the accursed Reed Richards.
He was Mister Zero and his outfit was green if I remember right. Green and red, very Christmas-y.
Here:
http://comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/27306/MR_FREEZE_mr_zero.jpg
You probably don’t care that much, but if there’s one thing the internet can be relied on for it’s providing too much information on tangents.
Neat toy, if deceptively labelled.
Doctor Doom quit school after he’d figured out how to make killer robots and working time machines, so any doctorate is probably honorary (and, more probably, from Latveria University).
I think Mr. Fantastic might have one, though.
Dr. Light and the original Dr Destiny are doctors (animated universe Destiny wasn’t). Same for Doctor Octopus and a surprisingly number of non-Doctor titled super-villains like Poison Ivy and the Scarecrow.
mr. zero is adorable. i want to go to the old folks shelter right away and adopt him.
Does Pamela Isley have her doctorate? IIRC she was a grad student under the Fluoronic Man when he mutated her.
Michael Holt, the current Mr. Terrific, holds 14 Ph.D.s. At least, before the reboot.
According to “Fantastic Four: Books of Doom” by Ed Brubaker and Pablo Raimondi, Victor Von Doom saw on television that Reed Richards had been awarded a doctorate, and was being called “Dr. Richards.” Von Doom, being the humble guy that he is, proclaimed something along the lines of, “Well I’m *smarter* than that simpleton, Richards, so I deserve to be a doctor, as well!” And thus, he began calling himself “Doctor Doom.”
He has, to my knowledge, not even awarded himself an honorary degree. He just decided that he was as smart as someone with a Ph.D is, and changed his name. Although, since, according to Marvel, Von Doom is one of the ten smartest men on Earth, it’s kind of hard to argue with his title, even if it isn’t wholly accurate.
Yeah Freeze is interesting.. Because of course his original incarnations weren’t doctors, but his revised and awesome origin made him a doctor.. but ‘mister freeze’ just sounds better, so they left it.. Then it has the nice side-effect of that whole “(civilian name) is dead, (villain name) is the only one here” , adding clarification since the two are homonyms in this case.
His original name was Mr. Zero, but only for the first few years. He was called Mr. Freeze when he first appeared on the Adam West TV series in the 1960s, a change that was carried over into the comic books pretty much immediately, so he had that name for a good chunk of the Silver Age.
Am I the only one who thinks his head looks like Vin Deisel’s character from Pitch Black? He’d certainly make a more convincing Mr. Freeze than Arnold…
Then again, it’s Arnold we’re talking here – Oprah could out-Freeze Arnold.
I still have my old Mr. Freeze with his detachable head on spider legs. Creepy.
Mattel took most of the color scheme from this custom: http://www.itsalltrue.net/?p=2380
…or from the old DC Superpowers line like every other figure that isn’t the current comic version?
http://www.cooltoyreview.com/Kenner_SP_MisterFreeze.asp
Doesn’t the first line on the page say that the customizer got the colors from Super Powers Mr. Freeze?
Yes, but look at all the specific color choices the customizer did that Mattel ALSO did. The figure isn’t an exact translation of the original SP figure, so some artistic license was required. Plus, Mattel actually used that site’s pictures in their promotional materials to retailers.
Dr. Destiny does actually hold a doctorate. Not that it matters much after he went completely insane because of Morpheus’s ruby.