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Alright, from the IMDB Phantasm FAQ (Link): "
What is the meaning of The Tall Man's reaction to cold when he walks past Reggie's truck?
As it is depicted in the movie, this scene can be interpreted in two opposite ways:

  • The Tall Man likes cold and enjoys the feeling of it. That is why he pauses in apparent ecstasy. After experiencing this momentaneous pleasure, he keeps on walking through Main Street.

  • The Tall Man hates cold. He is deterred by it, stunned, even like causing him a measure of pain. His hands come up in a warding off gesture. There is a pained slowness to his motions, as though the mist is literally freezing his limbs. That he breaths it in only makes things that much worse for him. Only as the mist dissipates can the Tall Man break free of its effect and continue on his way. His priority at that point seems to be to get away from the truck.

However, an alternate ending where Mike kills the Tall Man with a fire extinguisher proves this second theory to be the correct one. This deleted scene can be found in the Anchor Bay Region 2 Special Edition of Phantasm. The Tall Man's unnatural sensitivity to cold can be explained due to the fact that he comes from a very hot planet with extremely high temperatures.

Also, in Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead, we learn through Mike that The Tall Man does in fact hate cold, it is harmful for him and can even destroy him.

Anyway, the idea of The Tall Man disliking the cold was not a concept developed for the sequels, but created for the first movie. Because the ice cream truck scene remained in the film and the fire extinguisher death was removed, the concept was never completed and what we, as an audience, are left with is a very ambiguous scene, one where you can draw your own conclusion."

You can see his reaction to the cold here.

Also, at the end of the final film, the characters say they are going to travel north because of his weakness to the cold, meaning that he cannot even follow people to the northern parts of the world due to his weakness to cold. Also keep in mind that a fire extinguisher, the mist from an ice cream truck, and the northern parts of the world are nothing compared to the low temperatures Mr Freeze can put out.
 
I mean, I'm against using anything that was left on the cutting room floor like that, but if it's stated in the sequels, it should be fine.
 
I take the silence as a yes. Anyway, like I said several times before, this is NOT a vs "battle", this is a vs WAR. On one side we have the evil alien entity which stole the body of Jebediah Morningside and created a mass produced army of clones of him numbering in the tens of thousands (though only one version of him can be present in our world at a time), along with his army of zombie dwarves armed with chainsaws, insect monsters, and flying spheres. On the other side, we have Mr. Freeze and his Polar Bears. Freeze can probably hold off the Tall Man's forces long enough for the city to be evacuated, after which he can safely freeze it over to the point the army (with the exception of the sentinel spheres, which being mechanical in nature should not be affected by the cold unless Freeze produces ice storms powerful enough to interfere with their circuitry) can't even continue to enter Gotham, which would make it a safe haven for Freeze where he can return to and use while he plans his next moves during the war (provided he continues to use ice storms). He can try to create more weaponry there to combat the army. The zombies and insect monsters shouldn't give him and his Polar Bears much trouble. The silver Sentinels are likely to pose a strong threat to the bears but only a moderate threat to Freeze himself. The Tall Man himself isn't really a physical threat to Freeze but can use shapeshifting power to appear to Freeze as Nora to try and trick him and attack him off guard. The Polar Bears might be able to see through the trick given their sense of smell, and Freeze might be smart enough to not fall for it with their help. The biggest problems Freeze would have here with winning the war are the giant Sentinels that can destroy skyscrapers in one blast, and the fragility of his helmet. If his helmet is broken, he only has one hour to get back to Gotham before his own sickness kills him. He would also be left with his head as a big fat target for any of the Tall Man's minions to attack. Also, if Tall Man unleashes his virus and this happens, Freeze will be left a dead man walking, since there is no way to cure the virus once it gets into your system.
 
I take the silence as a yes. Anyway, like I said several times before, this is NOT a vs "battle", this is a vs WAR. On one side we have the evil alien entity which stole the body of Jebediah Morningside and created a mass produced army of clones of him numbering in the tens of thousands (though only one version of him can be present in our world at a time), along with his army of zombie dwarves armed with chainsaws, insect monsters, and flying spheres. On the other side, we have Mr. Freeze and his Polar Bears. Freeze can probably hold off the Tall Man's forces long enough for the city to be evacuated, after which he can safely freeze it over to the point the army (with the exception of the sentinel spheres, which being mechanical in nature should not be affected by the cold unless Freeze produces ice storms powerful enough to interfere with their circuitry) can't even continue to enter Gotham, which would make it a safe haven for Freeze where he can return to and use while he plans his next moves during the war (provided he continues to use ice storms). He can try to create more weaponry there to combat the army. The zombies and insect monsters shouldn't give him and his Polar Bears much trouble. The silver Sentinels are likely to pose a strong threat to the bears but only a moderate threat to Freeze himself. The Tall Man himself isn't really a physical threat to Freeze but can use shapeshifting power to appear to Freeze as Nora to try and trick him and attack him off guard. The Polar Bears might be able to see through the trick given their sense of smell, and Freeze might be smart enough to not fall for it with their help. The biggest problems Freeze would have here with winning the war are the giant Sentinels that can destroy skyscrapers in one blast, and the fragility of his helmet. If his helmet is broken, he only has one hour to get back to Gotham before his own sickness kills him. He would also be left with his head as a big fat target for any of the Tall Man's minions to attack. Also, if Tall Man unleashes his virus and this happens, Freeze will be left a dead man walking, since there is no way to cure the virus once it gets into your system.
What stops Freeze from you know, freezing him.
 
What stops Freeze from you know, freezing him.
Freeze could freeze him, but every time he is killed, one of his tens of thousands of copies will pop up to replace him. Considering his weakness to cold, I don't believe it is possible to freeze him without killing his current body. Freeze would have to do that tens of thousands of times over. Either that or travel to the Red Planet and somehow either locate and kill his true self, if he can even find it in the first place, or freeze over the entire realm. The only other possible ways to permanently stop the Tall Man would be to either travel around the world and destroy all the Dimension Forks to stop him from accessing Earth, or find a way to use the Dimension Forks to travel back in time to stop Morningside from using the original Dimensional Fork in the first place, thereby altering history so the Tall Man never gained access to Earth in the first place. And how the Forks work is completely random. Also, unless Freeze or Batman have learned of the Dimension Forks during Tall Man's time in Gotham, Freeze shouldn't even know they exist. Even if he does find out about them and access the Red Planet (not unreasonable to assume given his considerable genius intelligence), it would be pretty hard to freeze an ENTIRE REALM over. His greatest feat is freezing a city. His best options for winning the war are to either literally kill TM tens of thousands of times over (in fairness, Freeze can certainly oneshot any one of the tens of thousands of Tall Men given their AP gap and the fact that TM is so incredibly weak to cold) or find a way to build a souped up version of the city freezing machine that can freeze the entire realm and somehow transport it through the Dimension Forks.
 
Freeze could freeze him, but every time he is killed, one of his tens of thousands of copies will pop up to replace him. Considering his weakness to cold, I don't believe it is possible to freeze him without killing his current body. Freeze would have to do that tens of thousands of times over. Either that or travel to the Red Planet and somehow either locate and kill his true self, if he can even find it in the first place, or freeze over the entire realm. The only other possible ways to permanently stop the Tall Man would be to either travel around the world and destroy all the Dimension Forks to stop him from accessing Earth, or find a way to use the Dimension Forks to travel back in time to stop Morningside from using the original Dimensional Fork in the first place, thereby altering history so the Tall Man never gained access to Earth in the first place. And how the Forks work is completely random. Also, unless Freeze or Batman have learned of the Dimension Forks during Tall Man's time in Gotham, Freeze shouldn't even know they exist. Even if he does find out about them and access the Red Planet (not unreasonable to assume given his considerable genius intelligence), it would be pretty hard to freeze an ENTIRE REALM over. His greatest feat is freezing a city. His best options for winning the war are to either literally kill TM tens of thousands of times over (in fairness, Freeze can certainly oneshot any one of the tens of thousands of Tall Men given their AP gap and the fact that TM is so incredibly weak to cold) or find a way to build a souped up version of the city freezing machine that can freeze the entire realm and somehow transport it through the Dimension Forks.
What if he, you know, freezes them all. He's frozen Gotham over multiple times.
 
What if he, you know, freezes them all. He's frozen Gotham over multiple times.
That could work, but again he would have to do it one at a time thousands of times over. Only one Tall Man can be present in our world at a time. He would have to blast him at least 20000 times on end. That would take 10 days if he killed one Tall Man every minute. They don't pop up instantly after the previous is killed. It takes at least a minute or so. Fortunately, Freeze can use an ice storm to drive the army away during times when he needs food/sleep or to recharge his weapons. Like I said, this is a war, not a battle. After he is ready to continue, he can dispatch his ice storm and resume the process. The question is if he can really do this all the way through without being killed.
 
That could work, but again he would have to do it one at a time thousands of times over. Only one Tall Man can be present in our world at a time. He would have to blast him at least 20000 times on end. That would take 10 days if he killed one Tall Man every minute. They don't pop up instantly after the previous is killed. It takes at least a minute or so. Fortunately, Freeze can use an ice storm to drive the army away during times when he needs food/sleep or to recharge his weapons. Like I said, this is a war, not a battle. After he is ready to continue, he can dispatch his ice storm and resume the process. The question is if he can really do this all the way through without being killed.
Multi-city block level freezing is enough.
 
Can I change my vote to incon?I feel like Mr.Freeze’s AP advantage is to much for The Tall man but that the Tall Man’s haxes are to much for Freeze.
 
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