Last year, The Dark Knight Rises and “Bane” started trending on Twitter during the Super Bowl, as a power outage delayed play and reminded fans of the scene in the film during which Tom Hardy’s villain unleashes an earthquake machine on a stunned audience.Perhaps that makes sense, given that there had been Bane-related football shenanigans already during last year’s playoffs, with Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis wearing a facemask reminiscent of Bane’s bizarre medical device (the NFL later banned those masks).In any event, when the major narrative driving a lot of discussion of the Super Bowl over the last couple of weeks was the frigid weather driving its way through much of the U.S., we started wondering which supervillains might take the heat this time. As it turned out, there’s really no need as the weather currently looks clear and warm…but you never know what these sneaky baddies are up to.
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Along with Killer Frost, Captain Cold and others, Mr. Freeze (a classic Batman villain most notoriously known as the hammy character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Batman and Robin) was a member of a team called the Cold Warriors that battled the Justice League in the DC Animated Universe. Could he do something like this?Well, he’s been known to create elaborate winter wonderlands before, but usually he likes to work away from large crowds. With all those people in one place, their body heat could raise the temperature and make it very unsafe for him.
