You could unironically clean up Batman and Robin into something far more interesting today.
Imagine Mr. Freeze as somebody who masquerades as a Silicon Valley Tech billionaire, even going toe-to-toe with Bruce Wayne, but is secretly funding massive global cooling geoengineering including eco-terrorism for re-wilding and carbon capture. Why does he do all of this? Instead of saving his wife, maybe he wants to guarantee a future for his kids. One of his kids is a gen-z Poison Ivy.
Captain Planet is the eco hero we need. Pain Ivy is the eco hero we deserve.
Young me: Where do bad guys recruit all their henchmen?
Middling me: You know these bad guys have a point.
Late-Stage Me: ...oh
Yeah its like express that you wont tolerate people hating on queer people and boom they call you a radical ! Worse than a nazi ! Ask for medicare for all and you are a radical . The list goes on .....
