In 2017, the great Back Issue magazine devoted an issue to Batman (1992)'s 25th anniversary. The topic of this film was discussed, and Bruce Timm, one of the chief creative minds behind the DC Animated Universe, presents an interesting point of view. Since he was already busy with producing Le avventure di Superman (1996), Timm wasn't available to also work on Sub-Zero. He doesn't trash the film but indicates a fundamental disagreement with one plot element. Says Timm: "The one story point that always kind of sticks in my craw is that they brought Mr. Freeze's wife back to life. That's something that I never would have done, because in my head, she was dead. She wasn't just like, preserved and on ice... she was dead! So to me bringing her back to life, even though they did it for poignant reasons...it kind of made sense in the story they were telling, but it was - well, that's kind of like Mr. Freeze's whole thing, is that his wife is dead. He froze emotionally because of it and everything. Well, now, if she's back to life, it's like "Well, now what is he?" So that was weird." Timm also notes the movie created a problem when adapting the Batman Adventures' famous 1994 Holiday Special comic. Most of the issue became Batman - Cavaliere della notte: Holiday Knights (1997), but the piece entitled "White Christmas" is noticeably missing. The story draws parallels between Batman's own loss and the one that motivates Freeze's actions to this day. Murakami's art is also an impressive homage to both Timm, designer of the show's Batman, and Mike Mignola, creator of Mr. Freeze's animated design. As Timm told Back Issue: "For instance, in the "Holiday Knights" episode, we really wanted to do that Mr. Freeze story that we had done in the comics. And we couldn't, because the whole point of that story was that Nora Fries was dead, you know, and, well, no, she's not dead anymore, so that story is no longer canon." And while Timm is correct that SubZero is the first time Nora is explicitly referred to as alive, there is an episode of the show predating SubZero that needs to be addressed. The 1994 episode Batman: Deep Freeze (1994) has Mr. Freeze released from Arkham by crazed, aging Walt Disney-esque billionaire Grant Walker, who seeks to freeze the world and recreate it according to his own design. Batman and Robin infiltrate the Walker's underwater city of Oceania and confront Mr. Freeze, who has sided with Walker. And why is Freeze willing to serve Walker? Because the billionaire has obtained the cryogenic chamber that houses Nora Fries. Though the earth will be destroyed, Freeze believes the price will be worth it. At least he'll be with his precious Nora again. Some viewers were taken aback by the revelation that Nora's still around, but Batman: Heart of Ice (1992) never explicitly stated she was dead, so there's wiggle room.

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