Source: dccomics.com

5. Mr. Freeze

Cold, bitter, calculating, tragic. These are all words that have been used to describe one of the best Batman villains of all time.

The Batman: The Animated Series reinvention of Mister Freeze was so good that the comics almost immediately adopted him as-was. Also, the episode that spawned him, Season One’s “Heart of Ice”, won an Emmy. Sadly, when he was brought to the big screen in Batman and Robin, he was turned into an angry, overly emotional psycho who spurted out ice puns. Look, I love puns, but they just don’t work for certain characters.

If modernized, Mr. Freeze could easily become a tragic figure, a villain driven by loss. Freeze is what Batman would have become if he’d lost himself in the sadness of his parents’ death. He’s cut off from all emotion, and ruled by his inhumanity.

A Freeze-centric Batman film would be really built around the character’s psychology, which is something we’ve sort of gotten in the past, but not very much.