Honestly, who would you rather have grateful to you for the life save?

I had to look up the name on IMdB, though.

I’m being extremely unfair; I haven’t read it yet.

I recall the original Mr Zero stories. I recall recently when Ed Brubaker wrote an issue of Batman: Turning Points that acknowledge Mr. Zero as part of the Mister Freeze-Batman continuity. I recall Batman: Mister Freeze as Paul Dini officially makes the animated Freeze origin the DC Mister Freeze origin but adapts the subsequent events so that the reasons for Freeze hating Batman and that CEO actually form, and the impetus for those reasons, occur after the initial Batman-Freeze encounters. Nora Fries dies indirectly because of Batman, directly becauseo of Mr. Freeze, and it occurs well after Batman got the yellow oval, so I assume it was a deliberate move to allow the older Mr Freeze stories, even some of the vintage ones, to remain canon and not be simply bulldozed by Dini’s work.

I hope something similar is done here. I would dislike having Brubaker’s, Dini’s, and more than a few other guys’ work trampeled just for a likely padded five-parter.

By the by, the idea of Batman assembling a “strike force”…. ew. 1) Batman instituted and abandoned the notion when Ra’s Al Guhl first asserted himself to the Dark Knight, and when Batman’s first recruit accidentily killed himself. 2) Batman doesn’t really need a cabinet of experts and is pretty much an expert of nearly everything. That’s important (only) because when Moon Knight set himself up during his third series, one of things the writer(s) recalled and used to differentiate the dude from Batman, especially since he was embarrassingly similar to Batman, was to recall that Marc Spector is not an expert in so many things. Spector is not a detective. Spector is not an authority in many things, and possibly not in anything. Marc Spector assembled his “Shadow Cabinet” to make up for that, and the writers did it to remind the readers how different than Batman the character really was.

Honestly Moon Knight only superficially resembles the Dark Knight. It’s the same archetype, but if we held that against characters then only Shadow comics would be published today.

So Batman assembling a cabinet of authorities…. bores me somehow. Ah, well. I may someday give the story a chance.

Loren, how the heck did you recall a PLOTpoint or a name from Batman and Robin? Wow.

You’re right, I had forgotten Batman & Robin had given her “MacGregor’s” — I think I was just trying to forgot the movie in general.

It even played a role in my birth, since I was the firstborn in my family. My parents were cautious about having kids, not knowing whether my granddad (and then my dad) had inherited it. My granddad was 54 and healthy when I was born, so my parents felt pretty certain we’d all lucked out.

Also, I think it’s worth mentioning that the movie gave Nora a disease, albeit a fictional one. They called it MacGregor’s Syndrome, and I suppose just made up all the symptoms and stages.