Victor Fries (New Earth-Forty Three)

Origin X
Victor Fries was a talented young man who excelled in cryogenics and robotics and study at Gotham University, where he received the Wayne Enterprise science grant. During his time at the University he met Nora Fields, another student and began relationship with her.

The two would marry shortly after graduating and Victor would take a job at Wayne Enterprises. Victor's happy life would come to an end however, when Nora became terminally ill. Victor would do his best to try to find a cure for her disease, before it was to late, but was unable to do it. With out any other options Victor was forced to secretly use one of Wayne Enterprise's cryogenic chambers to freeze his wife stop the disease from advancing and to buy himself more time. Victor's plan would be discovered however by other scientists, who revealed it to the Lucius Fox and Bruce Wayne. Upon learning of the discovery, Victor becomes paranoid and begins to believe that they will take his wife out of the chamber to die. Victor would lock himself up in the lab he kept his wife and threaten to set off a chemical bomb if anyone tried to come in. His actions would bring the attention of the vigilante Batman, who attempted to subdue him, but Victor ended up cover in cryogenic chemicals that changed his body chemistry to the point where he could not survive outside of sub-zero temperatures.