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Absolute Mr. Freeze almost already debuted in Absolute Batman, but Scott Snyder had a better idea
Scott Snyder considered making Mr. Freeze one of Bruce Wayne’s childhood friends in Absolute Batman (but realized he needed to save some villains for later)
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What makes Absolute Batman different from his mainstream continuity counterpart? His lack of generational wealth and the fact that he grew up with a mother are both major factors. Another is that Bruce Wayne had a tightknit group of friends during his childhood. Not only did these friends give him a strong support system as he navigated growing up in Gotham, but they also grounded Bruce, reminding him of what matters.
And incidentally, these childhood friends are some Absolute versions of some of his greatest enemies. There’s Waylon Jones, Harvey Dent, Selina Kyle, Oswald Cobblepot, and Edward Nygma. According to Absolute Batman writer Scott Snyder, a few other familiar faces like Victor Fries were almost part of the group as well.
“I did think about a lot of others, but I had to keep it tight,” Scott Snyder says during a panel at MegaCon 2026. “I thought about Freeze and other ones. But then it just became he’s not going to have any villains if I keep pulling them in. I grew up in New York City, and I’m still friends with people that I knew as a kid, and we’ve all gone different ways, some of them very different ways. But you know, I just saw them for my birthday a couple of months ago.”
“It’s those friendships, the people that know you when you’re a raw bundle of yourself and nerves, and there’s no hiding anything, you haven’t developed any of those defenses or those layers. They know inside and out. Even if you change a lot, they still saw the beginning of you. I wanted to pick people that really feel like that.”
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