Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24520051-20161120235846/@comment-1257201-20161230102446

I don't have my Animal Man TPB handy, but I wasn't aware that Scarecrow appeared in the Forgotten Characters world. He isn't mentioned in on the page here, or on the dcuguide page for that issue. If he does appear, that would simply be bizarre. I have no idea whether the Batman TV show was popular in Scotland, so I can accept that Morrison considered Mr. Freeze forgotten. But Morrison (for all his quirks) is very familiar with DC Comics' history, and so I can't for the life of me imagine that in 1990, Morrison considered Scarecrow a "forgotten" character. Dcuguide lists twenty-six appearances of Scarecrow between 1974 and 1989 -- including one in a story written by Morrison himself!

In any event, I agree that Mr. Freeze is the best answer, not merely because Wally is the judge, but because "forgotten" is not a precise concept and therefore we have to accept that in Morrison's mind, he believed that everyone in the Forgotten Characters World was indeed forgotten, but subsequently B:TAS and quite a few comic appearances (including a 1997 one-shot) reminded everyone who Mr. Freeze was.