Mr. Freeze (Knight of Gotham)

"Everything I do, I do to save my beloved Nora. And if that means I have to leave Gotham in a deep freeze, then so be it." ―Mr. Freeze to Batman, during a conversation at Arkham Asylum.

Dr. Victor Fries, also known as Mr. Freeze is a recurring antagonist on the television series Knight of Gotham. He is a cryogenecist working for Wayne Enterprises as it's liaison to the U.S Government and Military, but later becomes a criminal after an accident where armed thugs attempt to break into his lab leads to his lab imploding, infusing his body with cryogenic chemicals.

He is portrayed by David Strathairn.

Knight of Gotham
Season Three

Season Four

When his wife, Nora, is stricken with a disease leaving her in a catatonic state, he attempts to create a cure. Wayne Enterprises allows Fries to continue working on his research, both for freeze technology and for finding a cure for Nora. Later on, he is promoted to Head of the Research & Development division.

Season Five
Season Six When a mole within Wayne Enterprises alerts Bruce Wayne's business rival, Roland Daggett of Daggett Industries, of Dr. Fries' work, Daggett send a group of thugs to infiltrate Dr. Fries' lab within Wayne Tower. However, Fries happens to be present in the lab himself when Daggett's thugs break in. Demanding that Fries give them all his research, Fries refuses, and the confrontation soon gets physical. When one of the goons threatens the comatomse Nora, Fries becomes angry and charges him. While these two are fighting, another goon grabs an experimental freeze bomb and throws it at Fries. Fries begins to ice over, and in the chaos, he knocks into a computer console, activating an emergency shutdown fail-safe. Most of the experiments in the lab begins imploding. Panicking, the goons flee, and Dr. Fries is supposedly killed.

However, Fries survives, but his body becomes infused with cryogenic chemicals, rendering him only able to survive in subzero climates. Also driven insane by the chemicals, he decides to turn to a life of crime. Salvaging what he could from the ruins of his lab, Fries constructs a special cryogenic bodysuit with an internal subzero temperature and decides to call himself "Mr. Freeze".

Trivia

 * This was the first time the Mr. Freeze character appeared in a live-action work since Arnold Schwarzenegger's disastrous portrayal of him in 1997's Batman & Robin.