A research submarine accidentally disrupts the hideout where Mr. Freeze (Michael Ansara) is keeping his cryogenically frozen wife, Nora, moving her from stable to critical condition. Desperate, Mr. Freeze coerces his old research colleague, Dr. Belson (George Dzundza), into helping Nora with an organ transplant. (They don't specify which organ, but Belson mentions that the donor will not survive without it so I'm assuming it's a heart.) A search of potential matches turns up the name Barbara Gordon (Mary Kay Bergman) and Freeze immediately sets out to kidnap her, having apparently forgotten what the name "Gordon" is famous for in Gotham. Unfortunately for him, Barbara is not only the police commissioner's daughter, but also Batgirl, meaning there are a whole bunch of highly motivated people out looking the minute she gets shoved in a van.
This ret-cons the episode where Freeze is revealed to just be a head-in-a-jar with some spider legs, but I guess you could argue it comes before that point in the timeline. It's not a bad movie but it really does seem like just an episode of the show. There's nothing substantially different between the two as far as I could tell. SubZero is probably just for the Batman completionists out there. It's currently streaming on HBO Max.
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