Louise Lincoln
Louise Lincoln is a female supervillain who features in DC.
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Biography
Louise Lincoln
It was said that during her school days that she was eager to please which was why men tended to love her. During her college days, she became good friends with another woman by the name of Crystal Frost. Crystal later developed ice based superhuman powers as Killer Frost who became a notorious supervillain whilst Louise became a scientist. Frost later approached Lincoln for an analysis on her condition with Louise determining that Crystal was slowly dying as her body was deteriorating beneath her icy sheath. In anger, Killer Frost went on a rampage as she was told that she had only a short time left to live. After Frost had departed, Firestorm had arrived on the scene where Dr. Lincoln informed the hero of the danger posed by Killer Frost. (Firestorm v2 #21)
Following the encounter with Killer Frost, Louise came to be more withdrawn, isolated and even alienated from others. Dr. Lincoln came to be obsessed with replicating the low temperature experiments of Crystal Frost. This led to her going to Exeter Labs which used for private work and managed to successfully recreate the events that made the first Killer Frost. (Firestorm v2 #34) Thus, Louise became the new Killer Frost where she attempted to kill Firestorm who had arrived on the scene to help people. This saw her attempting to crush Firestorm to death under a block of ice and even freeze him to death. However, the nuclear powered hero managed to escape though Lincoln had long left the scene. (Firestorm v2 #35)
Killer Frost prepared a trap for Firestorm who was looking to find the whereabouts of the missing Martin Stein. Upon arriving at a warehouse, he was ambushed by the ice villain who tried to encase him in frost but the hero turned the ground into anti-freeze thus trapping her. Firestorm was then ambushed by the Injustice League consisting of Lex Luthor, the Joker and Cheetah who viciously wounded the superhero leaving him beaten as well as broken on the ground. Killer Frost was then freed where she was recruited into the ranks of the Injustice League Unlimited that was forming among the supervillain community. (Justice League of America Wedding Special v2 #1)
Frost joined Lex Luthor's Society. Luthor wanted to destroy the Secret Six III, a group of dissident villains that refused to join the Society, so he sent Frost and a number of other Society members to confront the Six aboard the Petrovia, a Russia cargo freighter carrying Thanagarian weapons destined for the Society. The Society defeated the Secret Six and brought them back to Lex Luthor. (Villains United v1 #2) Frost was among the Society members assigned to guard the Secret Six while the Crime Doctor tortured them for information about their leader Mockingbird. Frost found the screams of agony from the Crime Doctor’s office to be most relaxing. The Secret Six escaped and defeated Frost and her compatriots, only leaving them alive so they could deliver a message to the leaders of the Society that their days were numbered. (Villains United v1 #3)
Killer Frost had a new scheme to achieve power, and recruited Mr. Freeze to help her after making him fall in love with her. He told her he was still loyal to his deceased wife, and she promised not to push him. Frost’s tenderness was, of course, just another one of her manipulations. She had Freeze design a jet-box that she intended to attach to her nemesis Firestorm so she could reach the sun, and absorb its energy. Killer Frost started slaughtering people in Manhattan’s upper west side to attract Firestorm’s attention, and when he intervened Freeze waylaid him. Frost seized Firestorm, and used him to fly her to the surface of the sun. She rejoiced that she had no worries, and no need of men, because for the first time since becoming Frost she was warm. She rapidly drained the sun’s energy, but couldn’t care less about the consequences. Firestorm defeated her by slowing the molecules around her until they reached absolute zero. He returned to Earth with her, only to find that Batman had arrived and defeated his foe Freeze. The heroes took away their respective villains, and Freeze promised to wait for Frost, and she responded by calling him a loser. (Firestorm v3 #25)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, she was a young woman with short blonde hair and had worn glasses. (Firestorm v2 #21) After gaining powers, she came to claim the identity of Killer Frost for herself. (Firestorm v2 #34)
Louise was said to had been a quiet and reversed woman. (Firestorm v2 #34) It was said that she was eager to please which was why she was loved. (Firestorm v2 #21)
As Killer Frost, she claimed that Louise Lincoln was dead as she was a woman that did not deserve to live. (Firestorm v2 #35)
Her long association with Exeter Labs and the profitability of her previous discoveries led to them allowing her to work in secret at their premises. (Firestorm v2 #34)
Powers and abilities
Lincoln came to replicate the cold temperature experiments of Dr. Crystal Frost thus allowing her to gain the ability to manipulate ice and cold similar to the original Killer Frost. (Firestorm v2 #34)
The intense cold she was able to generate could numb a persons minds preventing them from thinking straight and even casing them to freeze to death. (Firestorm v2 #35)
Notes
- The Louise Lincoln version of Killer Frost was created by Gerry Conway and Al Milgrom where she made her first appearance in Firestorm v2 #21 (March 1984).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, the Louise Lincoln Killer Frost made an appearance in the episode "Darkseid Descending!" where she was voiced by Jennifer Hale. Within this continuity, she was shown as being a vengeful ex-girlfriend of the adult Ronnie Raymond. She would attack his class and attempt to kill him but Batman would interfere in her plan. This would lead to a confrontation with both Firestorm and Batman where she was defeated as well as taken into custody by S.T.A.R. Labs but not before vowing revenge against Firestorm.
- In The Flash, Louse Lincoln was referenced by name in the live-action television series set in the Arrowverse in the episode “The Icicle Cometh”. Thomas Snow stated that he kept in touch with various scientific experts including Louise Lincoln, Victor Fries and Harrison Wells to keep track of his daughter Caitlin Snow’s activities in the twenty years when he was missing.
Films
- In Batman: Assault on Arkham, the Louise Lincoln version of Killer Frost made an appearance where she was voiced by Jennifer Hale. She was shown as a white haired female that had cryogenic powers and no body temperature. Lincoln was shown on the run as a criminal when she was captured by the authorities and secretly transported to Task Force X under Amanda Waller's orders for her new incarnation of the Suicide Squad. The Squad would consist of Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, Harley Quinn, Black Spider and King Shark who was tasked with a secret mission to enter Arkham Asylum to kill the Riddler that had gained access to Task Force X Files. Similar to the rest of the Squad, she was equipped with a tracker and explosive in the neck to force her compliance. During the mission, she forged a friendship with Killer Shark and in Arkham she acquired Mr. Freeze's gun during a brief fight with Batman. Waller would secretly task Frost with the mission of killing Riddler but she would not follow it when she learnt that Nygma knew how to remove the explosives. When the Joker activated his bomb to blow Gotham City, Killer Frost would break with the Squad in order to take the helicopter and tried to reach it in a stolen police car when Bane picked the vehicle up where he threw it at a cliff with Louise Lincoln's fate being unknown.
Video games
- In Injustice: Gods Among Us, the Killer Frost that featured in the game was the Louise Lincoln version who was voiced by Jennifer Hale. The alternate reality of the corrupt Superman's One Earth Regime had their version of Killer Frost named as Louise Lincoln joining them where she had a Mohawk hair style. She alongside Solomon Grundy would attack Green Arrow at Wayne Mansion and later fought with Wonder Woman against Deathstroke at Ferris Aircraft. When her version of Superman was overthrown, Killer Frost was among the Regime members that were rounded up by the Justice League. In her own ending, she defeated the One Earth Superman and became overconfident when she was captured by S.T.A.R. Labs scientists to use her abilities to fortify the polar ice caps. However, they would underestimate her and she would use her abilities to turn against them whereupon she would freeze the entire western hemisphere with the survivors locked in a struggle to defeat the self-proclaimed Ice Queen.
Appearances
- Firestorm v2: (1984)
- Justice League of America Wedding Special v2:
- Firestorm v3:
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