diff --git a/news/12842.feature.rst b/news/12842.feature.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..60ebc3245f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/12842.feature.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Ignore ``--require-virtualenv`` for ``pip check`` and ``pip freeze``
diff --git a/src/pip/_internal/commands/check.py b/src/pip/_internal/commands/check.py
index 584df9f55c5..4a0297edd97 100644
--- a/src/pip/_internal/commands/check.py
+++ b/src/pip/_internal/commands/check.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 class CheckCommand(Command):
     """Verify installed packages have compatible dependencies."""
 
+    ignore_require_venv = True
     usage = """
       %prog [options]"""
 
diff --git a/src/pip/_internal/commands/freeze.py b/src/pip/_internal/commands/freeze.py
index fd9d88a8b01..885fdfeb83b 100644
--- a/src/pip/_internal/commands/freeze.py
+++ b/src/pip/_internal/commands/freeze.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ class FreezeCommand(Command):
     packages are listed in a case-insensitive sorted order.
     """
 
+    ignore_require_venv = True
     usage = """
       %prog [options]"""
     log_streams = ("ext://sys.stderr", "ext://sys.stderr")