DC Comics Plot BunnyWh

[beatrice_otter]

So, in this time of Global Warming, I have a question for both DC Comics and the people who write DC fic:

Why hasn't Mr. Friez been given a job mitigating climate change?!?

Seriously. This is an important question. I know he's got his revenge thing, but he's very stable, for a supervillain, and he has lots of applicable skills. I bet there are a LOT of climate change groups that would love to hire him to shore up glaciers across the globe.

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[dewline]

I'm not sure if anyone wrote a story where such people tried to hire Victor Fries AKA Mr. Freeze for that. Or Captain Cold/Len Snart. Or any of the Killer Frosts. Or one of the Icicles. The first Killer Frost was seriously interested in large-scale stunts. So was Typhoon.

[beatrice_otter]

Well, someone SHOULD write it, it could be the basis for an EXCELLENT story.

[senmut]

I need this. I do not want to write this. And I want Pammy to be rehabbed enough to start working erosion control, and pulling life back into stripped areas.

[senmut]

And if I didn't already have Freeze as our major medical scientist in SladeVerse, I'd do that with him. And her.

[beatrice_otter]

I, too, desperately want to read this, but don't want to write it.

[ratcreature]

Well that universe also had villains with time travel powers who used that to get a jump on fashion trends to make money (i.e. The Fashioneer), rather than sending themselves some game scores to bet on with their ability to send things into the past. Or rob banks with portable weather control gadgets rather than just, IDK, selling their portable weather control invention... So underutilized powers seem pretty widespread.

[beatrice_otter]

Yeah, I hear you about underutilized powers, but in a lot of those cases you can say it's personal interest (they just REALLY LIKE CLOTHES, okay?) or they just like causing violence or whatever.

But none of those apply to Victor Fries. He's psychologically stable with no interest in supervillainy outside of, you know, figuring out ways to cure his wife. If somebody said "hey, we'll get some of the best medical experts in the world on your wife's case if you would refreeze the polar ice caps" he'd be all "sounds awesome, let's go."

[ratcreature]

There's probably some high level cosmic power in the DCU that prevents people with mid-level powers to use them to solve actual problems, so their world keeps resembling one without superpowers...

[beatrice_otter]

Well, where's the fun in THAT?

[flowersforgraves]

This is possibly the most tempted I've ever been to get into DC canon.

[beatrice_otter]

If you mean to read this, it's never been done to my knowledge. If you mean to *write* it ... it's comics, you don't need much canon knowledge, just pick and choose what you like from the wiki summaries.