Nygma • Edward 'Eddie' Nashton • Eddie Nash Abilities • Genius-level intellect • Criminal mastermind • Utilizes complex puzzles and riddles The Riddler ( Edward Nigma) is a appearing in published by, commonly as an adversary of the. The character made his first appearance in #140 (October, 1948) and was created by and. Depicted as a criminal mastermind, the Riddler takes delight in incorporating and into his plots, and leaves them as clues for the authorities and Batman to solve. The character is one of Batman's most enduring enemies and belongs to the collective of adversaries that make up Batman's. The character has been featured in various media adaptations, such as, and.

Nov 22, 2014. And no one, not even Grant Morrison, Allan Moore or Brian Azzarello have dared a peek inside the Joker's head. That's the abyss I mentioned earlier. Each Joker portrayal is a view from the outside, where the artist, as well as the reader, is left to decipher the Clown by his actions, his words and not by his.

For example, the Riddler has been voiced by in the, in, and in the and. His live-action portrayals include and in the 1960s television series, in the 1995 film, and in the television show. In 2009, The Riddler was ranked as 's 59th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Fictional character biography [ ] The Riddler has an obsession with,, and. The character frequently delights in over-stating his 'intellectual superiority' and on forewarning both Batman and the police of his capers by sending them complex clues. With this self-conscious use of a, Riddler's crimes are flamboyant and ostentatious. The character is depicted as wearing a either with a green suit and, or a green with question mark prints. A black, green, or purple serves as his visual motif.

Cover of #140 (October 1948), the first appearance of the Riddler. The character's origin story recounts that the Riddler, whose real name is Edward Nigma (Edward Nashton per later writers), becomes fascinated with puzzles at a young age. After a teacher announces that a contest will be held over who can solve a puzzle the fastest, Nigma sets his sights on winning this, craving the glory and satisfaction that will come with the victory. He sneaks into the school one night, takes the puzzle out of the teacher's desk, and practices it until he is able to solve it in under a minute. As predicted, he wins the contest and is given a book about riddles as a prize. His cheating rewarded, Edward embraced the mastery of puzzles of all kinds, eventually becoming a carnival employee who excelled at cheating his customers out of their money with his bizarre puzzles and mind games. He soon finds himself longing for greater challenges and thrills, and dons the disguise of the 'Riddler' to challenge, believing him to be a worthy adversary.

In his first encounter with the Dynamic Duo, Riddler first tried to confound the crimefighters with his infamous double-entry Riddle Clues and then tried to kill them both in a booby-trapped glass maze on a pier-only for Batman and Robin to escape and the Riddler 'vanishing' leaving only his trademark '?' In, the Riddler appears as an informant. He first appears when hires him to figure out who the is. Falcone eventually loses his patience with Riddler, however, and orders his daughter Sophia to force him to leave. Upon exiting Falcone's office, Holiday attacks Riddler, but for some reason leaves him alive.

The attack was planned to coincide with the holiday of, and several items pertaining to it were left at the scene. This may be why Riddler was left alive, as matters are traditionally reversed on the holiday. He appeared again in the same chapter of the story in which Harvey Dent is disfigured, when Batman comes to him for information about the attack. He plays a slightly larger role in the story's sequel, in which Batman turns to him to figure out the significance of the lost games of hangman that are left at the scenes of the killer's crimes. He later showed up as a member of 's jury during the Hangman's trial.

In, he joins on a trip to in search of his fellow rogue's origins. It is there that he manipulates her into believing that some of Batman's most dangerous foes are after her. He has his henchmen employ several gimmicks and weapons used by the, and the to achieve this.

He hopes to extract Batman's real identity from her, but to his dismay, she actually doesn't know or care. The Riddler appears in series, being convinced to become a 'big-time villain' by a he meets on a bus. He hijacks the bus and begins asking riddles, killing and robbing anyone that gets them wrong. Quickly subdues him by asking him in return. He is outwitted and has a before being set free as a reward for getting one last riddle right.

In the one-shot 'Riddler: The Riddle Factory', the Riddler becomes the host of an underground game show that focuses on digging up dirt on celebrities. Many of the famous people that he humiliates end up committing suicide shortly afterwards, suggesting that perhaps Riddler did more than just inspire their deaths. In the end, his actions turn out to be a front for his attempts to find the hidden treasures of 'Scarface' Scarelli, a gangster who lived long before Batman's reign of crimefighting. In the three-part storyline 'The Primal Riddle', written by, the Riddler engineers one of his greatest deathtraps: Batman is thrown into a narrow pit that is slowly filling up with water. The walls are electrically wired, and a set of bumpers are the only thing that prevents the water from touching the walls and causing Batman to die by electrocution.

The only options Batman appears to have are death by electrocution and death by drowning, but as always, Batman manages to tamper with the trap's design and develop a route of escape. The Riddler has a working relationship with the, although he initially resents the villain for seemingly copying his modus operandi. In their first encounter, he sets his fellow rogue up with a bomb and sends Batman off chasing riddles that would lead to its defusing, as well as away from his real plan: to steal a vast amount of priceless merchandise. The two team up on a few occasions afterwards, and work together on a big scheme shortly before Cluemaster's apparent death in the pages of. After briefly breaks free of her devotion to the Joker, she attempts to hold up a large party at, only to find that the Riddler is targeting the building also. The two gangs engage in a firefight, but Harley gains the upper hand when (who was secretly allied with her at the time) interrupts the conflict and captures the Riddler and his men.

During the storyline, Riddler makes constant allusions to a 'mystery' that is hidden within the mansion, and after his apprehension, damage done to the building causes the entrance to the Batcave to open. Riddler sees this, and then declares that he has 'solved the riddle of Wayne Manor'. During this period, he attacks and in, and he is easily defeated. This event helps lay the foundations for Riddler's future confrontations with Green Arrow. During a crisis caused when 's was broken, resulting in the laws of truth breaking down and causing reality to be shaped by the perceptions of individuals, one of the symptoms was when Batman found himself unable to solve any of the Riddler's riddles, but was nevertheless still able to defeat Riddler as Riddler himself could not solve the riddles either – most likely reflecting the public idea of Riddler's puzzles being insoluble – claiming that he managed to 'improvise' to defeat Riddler. His low reputation among heroes and villains was reflected when the noted that Batman having trouble with Riddler was a clear sign that the world was ending.

Sonicwall Registration Code Keygen For Mac. Riddler masterminding his assault against Batman in the Hush story arc. Cover of #619 (Nov. In the 12-part storyline ', it is revealed that Riddler suffers from, which also afflicted the mother of Dr. Thomas Elliot. Riddler uses one of 's to rid himself of the disease, and offers Elliot the chance to cure his mother as well, provided he pays a large sum of money.

However, Elliott is in fact eager for his mother to die in order to inherit her fortune. Elliott, who goes on to secretly become the masked criminal Hush, explains he wants to get revenge on his childhood friend Bruce Wayne. The two of them agree to work together and Riddler sets,,,, and out to destroy Batman, with Ra's and and being temporarily drawn into the scheme as well. During the break that follows exposure to the Lazarus Pit, the Riddler deduces Batman's and that the late was once Robin; he then reveals his knowledge to Hush. He has Clayface into the form of Todd in order to torment Batman haunted by the former Robin's death.

Batman first thinks that Riddler had stolen Todd's corpse and hid it outside of Gotham Cemetery, but it was later in a later storyline,, that Todd was alive the whole time and had personally played a role in Riddler and Hush's scheme. When the Riddler threatens to expose Batman's secret identity, the Caped Crusader mockingly labels it an empty threat, pointing out that if Riddler revealed the answer to the riddle 'who is Batman?' , it would become worthless, something Riddler would not be able to stand.

In addition, Batman warns him that if he reveals the secret, it would give Ra's al Ghul a vital clue that he used a Lazarus Pit without his permission, and the would subsequently retaliate against him. Aftermath [ ] The fallout from the Riddler's failed scheme is played out in #50-53.

In the story 'Pushback', reappears and beats Riddler senseless across a rooftop. Seeking refuge, Riddler goes to the Joker and the. He offers to tell the Joker who had killed his wife Jeannie if the Clown Prince of Crime would protect him from Hush. Joker immediately agrees, but eventually Hush, with the help of the impostor, defeats him, forcing Riddler to flee for his life.

In Detective Comics #797-799, the Riddler seeks shelter from only to be humiliated. Riddler and Poison Ivy then face off in a physical duel, which Ivy wins easily. As revealed in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #185-189, the Riddler is stripped of his deductive powers and left to rot as a member of 's vast and invisible population. A chance encounter with an ex- codebreaker gives him a positive environment in which to recover his mind. During that stay, he experiences an induced that leads him to realize that his father had abused him many years ago. Envious of his son's academic achievements in school, and unable to understand his brilliance, his father believed he had cheated in his accomplishments, and beat him out of jealousy.

Once Riddler discovers this, he also realizes that his compulsion is born out of a strong desire to tell the truth to prove his innocence of deception. Having made this connection, the Riddler spends some of his vast fortune, acquired over many years of crime, to get minor and extensive, covering most of his torso with his trademark question insignia. He returns and kills the codebreaker – who had pieced together his identity but couldn't act on it – then promptly steals a priceless scroll out from under Batman's nose. Since then, Riddler has spent most of his time either legally amassing a huge fortune or attacking various heroes in order to prove his new-found power.

After orchestrating a brutal series of assaults on, as revenge against his defeat at his hands during the ' era, Riddler gravely injures and almost kills both Green Arrow and. He once again escapes before the arrive to save them. Sometime between this incident and the events of Hush, Riddler was hired to steal artifacts imbued with mystical powers from one of Star City's museums, and then distract the authorities so that the related rituals could be commenced. He sends Team Arrow on a wild goose chase around the City, and then reveals that he has an atomic bomb housed in the stadium where the Star City Rockets play. However, as a side effect of the ritual performed with the artifacts, the city is plunged into complete darkness, and Green Arrow uses this to his advantage, moving in and apprehending the Riddler.

Riddler later shows up in #1, with a group of villains, which includes the and, attacking the. He is next seen escaping during the worldwide supervillain breakout engineered by the in: Infinite Crisis Special #1, which takes place only days after the prior supernatural disaster. Riddler reappears as part of the Society's 'Phase Three' attack on.

He is defeated by the and is struck in the head by the Knight's mace. Riddler reformed [ ] In Detective Comics #822, the first of a series of issues written by veteran Batman writer, the Riddler returns, having spent much of the in a due to brain damage after being struck in the head. When he awakes, he is cured of his and of his obsession with riddles, while retaining both his intellect and his mammoth ego. He has seemingly reformed, and becomes a private consultant and taking on the murder case of a wealthy socialite. Hired by the socialite's father, he proves that a photo of Bruce Wayne apparently implicating him in the crime depicts an impostor and briefly works with Batman to investigate the crime. He has suffered severe memory loss from the coma, and he barely remembers his own name. He does not appear to remember that Wayne and Batman are one and the same, although he does harbor some suspicions of once knowing something amazing about Wayne.

In Detective Comics #828, the Riddler is a guest along with Bruce Wayne on board a ship during a party. During the party, an old friend of Bruce's falls overboard and is mauled to death by sharks. Riddler appears to solve the case with the of the apparent murderer, and quickly takes the credit. However, Batman finds evidence that the suicide was a setup to divert attention away from the real killer. Bruce suspects foul play, and eventually tracks down the killer, whom Riddler is also close to catching before Nigma is bludgeoned over the head by a. The killer pushes Batman out the window, and is about to drop him to his death, when Nigma wraps his tie around an arrow, lights it on fire, and shoots it into the killer's back. As the assailant rolls around screaming, Nigma taunts him, refusing to douse the flames.

Batman extinguishes the flame and responds to Nigma's assertion that they are now allies with hostile dismissal. In Detective Comics #837, Riddler is hired by Bruce Wayne to track down an experimental drug developed by, currently being tested for muscle stamina and cellular regeneration, which has been stolen by the lab assistant Lisa Newman. He discovers that Newman is staying at the same Athenian Women's Help Shelter as. With Harley's help, he defeats Newman and returns the drug to Wayne Enterprises, earning Batman's trust for the time being. In #42, Riddler claims to that he has gone straight and is now a detective. The two join forces to defeat, and after witnessing Mary's new malicious approach to crime fighting, suggests that she consider finding a mentor to help her control her powers or at the very least get some counseling.

After a surfaces on the streets of Gotham City, the Riddler homes in on closing the case, only to find that the killer is actually one of his former victims out for revenge. The young man, whose girlfriend was caught in the crossfire of a gunfight between Nigma's gang and security guards, captures Riddler and attempts to kill him, but Batman intervenes just in time and saves his former foe's life. In the 2008 mini-series, Riddler investigates the 's involvement with the events of. He saves working undercover during the Gotham Gang War between Penguin and and deduces that Grayson is dust. He appears in, where he is hired by The Penguin to find.

To that end, he tracks down Selina Kyle, meeting up with Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy in the process. In the storyline, Poison Ivy is controlling the Riddler, keeping him in a nearly vegetative state so she can move into his house. When a villain named Boneblaster decides to make a name for himself by killing, the fight ends up there.

The house is severely damaged, but Riddler is freed from Ivy's control in the process. Seeing his house in shambles, he takes his question mark cane off the wall and begins to savagely beat the already downed Boneblaster.

In the third issue, Riddler attempts to solve a pair of unlikely suicides, the first being the second best female tennis player in the world, the second an ace race car driver. During his re-enactment of one of the deaths, he is visited by both Catwoman and Poison Ivy, seeking his help for locating Harley after her abduction. Due to the events of the first issue, and Harley's mental state, he quickly declines, and brushes off Poison Ivy's threats. In his efforts, he discovers that these deaths are in fact homicides orchestrated by a serial killer who leaves subtle clues to the next victim within the body and time of death of the current victim. While attempting to alert the media, he provokes Dick Grayson now acting as Batman. Almost instantly, Riddler deduces that the Batman before him is a new one.

Additionally, Riddler reveals that the next victim will be the sister of the second victim, a young romance writer, something that Dick needed and the computer to figure out. In the end, Dick goes off to confront the killer, while Riddler agrees to look after the intended victim. After a brief, but expected misunderstanding about Riddler's intentions with the young woman, Dick phones in to announce that he has apprehended and questioned not one, but three killers about their intentions, but got no answers. Riddler almost leaves the woman to her life, when the lights go out unexpectedly.

Riddler immediately concludes that Dick has not captured all of the killers, and pulls the woman out of harm's way when a bomb goes off in front of her bookstore. While Riddler and the writer hide as the smoke clears, three costumed assailants enter the wreckage, looking for their victim to mark with their next riddle. The two men are led by a woman going by the moniker Conundrum, and their costumes sport black and green color schemes along with disturbingly familiar question marks emblazoned on their outfits. As Riddler stealthily disposes of the two grunts with his cane, Conundrum takes the writer hostage at gunpoint. Riddler deduces that Conundrum and her men are all college students who specialize in police sciences. Due to his famous rehabilitation, Conundrum's group decided to fill the void with their debut murders.

Conundrum admits that Riddler was her idol, and that it would be a shame to kill him. At this point, Riddler announces that Batman is en route to their very location, something both Conundrum and the writer have difficulty believing. Riddler claims that since his reform, he and Batman have become close, and that his cane now has its own that alerts Batman to his location whenever the question mark is twisted. Noting her disbelief, Riddler calmly asks Conundrum with a smirk, 'Why is this man smiling?' Just as the Riddler finishes his question, Dick shows up and knocks Conundrum out.

Riddler then admits that he is completely baffled that Batman is indeed there, since he was only stalling for time until he thought of something, leading him to wonder if there truly is a Batsignal in his cane (a panel during Riddler's 'bluff' shows that there is indeed a Batsignal in his cane, as a green question mark alongside a map shows up inside the 's window). After the ordeal is over, the young writer hugs Riddler, thanking him for saving her life. Afterwards, she and Riddler go out to dinner at a fancy restaurant, under Dick's covert surveillance. Dick admits that Riddler is indeed on a path of recovery, but must still be watched. After washing up in the men's room, Riddler sees a gossip show on a closed circuit television, showcasing a plainclothes Harley getting into a car with Hush disguised as Bruce Wayne. He then calls Selina and tells her to turn on her television. Some time later, Riddler arrives at his office to find his secretary bound and gagged at her desk, with Harley, Ivy, and Selina waiting in his office.

The women tell him that they are being framed for the murder of a young woman whose body was dropped into their pool, and they need his help to prove that they had no part in it. After examining the woman's body, he finds that the women were telling the truth, only to be attacked by Dr. Return to villainy [ ]. The Riddler as he appears on the cover of Batman #699, the conclusion of 'Riddle Me This'. In 's 'Life After Death', Riddler appears early in the story at a gala party attended by Arkham, Dick Grayson,, and, hired by Penguin to find the Black Mask.

As he chases away from her robbery of the venue, the Riddler is rocked by a bomb detonation, the trauma re-awakening his psychosis. Cackling, rambling and insane, he terminates his contract with Cobblepot and disappears. In 'Riddle Me This', the Riddler still 'acts' as private eye and teams with Batman to solve the murders of a mysterious sorcerer named Sebastian Rothschild (aka Sebastian Blackspell). Blackspell is apprehended, but only after Batman suspects Riddler went to great lengths to orchestrate the ordeal, including poisoning himself with a nearly lethal dose of Joker gas to skirt suspicion and act on a grudge between him and Blackspell. Riddler's return to villainy is cemented in 'Eye of the Beholder'. Investigating the 's attack on the Jade Society, Batman (Dick Grayson) is ambushed by Riddler and a young woman introduced as, Riddler's daughter.

Riddler and Enigma escape, delivering the Jade Society member list to Gilda Dent. Riddler is paid, but is more interested in another reward, which Gilda promises after one more job. This occurs in 'Pieces', where Gilda reveals herself to her estranged husband Harvey, who is now the disfigured criminal. She hires Riddler and Enigma to help Two-Face best and reclaim his coin. The plan works; Riddler and Enigma defeat Batman and reunite the Dents.

The Riddler is rewarded with multiple dossiers of himself. When Enigma calls him a has-been, Riddler retorts with a new riddle: 'What's green and purple and bleeds profusely?' Enigma's response is cut short by her scream, implying that the Riddler has murdered his own daughter. The New 52 [ ] In DC's 2011 relaunch of all of its monthly titles,, Riddler appears as an inmate at Arkham Asylum in Batman #1. Redesigned in the style of the new titles, he sports a green mohawk in the shape of a question mark.

Riddler appears in more traditional form in the short that concludes Batman #15 'And Here's the Kicker', the third part of '. After it is revealed that Joker has secretly hijacked Arkham Asylum, Riddler is depicted as a current inmate, calmly biding his time and taunting guards. But when Joker appears and reveals his great respect for Riddler (as the villain whose dangerous intellect has kept Batman 'sharp'), he uses Joker-gas to force Riddler to prove he could have escaped his cell anytime he wanted. To his chagrin, Riddler does, and becomes quite alarmed when Joker shares a write-up of his plan to ambush Batman.

Joker admits Riddler will have little part in his designs, but should stick around for the 'show' anyway. The Riddler made an appearance in Batman, vol. 2, #21, the opening book of the ' arc, where his surname is changed from Edward Nigma or Nashton to Nygma. The Riddler later appears in both the second and third chapters of the 'Zero Year' storyline. In the canon, the Riddler is Batman's first masked supervillain, and is not only able to best Batman twice, but also takes control of Gotham, causing it to become a flooded wasteland where only the intelligent are meant to survive. Although the Riddler continues to be steps ahead of the Dark Knight, he is eventually defeated by the combined efforts of Batman, and SEO. He is later moved to Arkham Asylum.

Riddler appeared one more time in New 52 in the last three issues of Flash. Holding a presumed dead hostage, it is revealed that the Riddler designed a range of deadly drones around Central City, drones that he had out-sourced to the CCPD. Alongside the (whose arm Edward had placed a bomb in), Riddler begins ruthlessly punching and beating the before the speedster is quickly rescued by the. Riddler then threatens to have his drones open fire on the citizens of Central City once more.

However he is eventually defeated and imprisoned by a uniformed effort between the Flash and the. DC Rebirth [ ] The Riddler makes his first true appearance in the new DC continuity relaunch,, in Batman #19. An inmate of Arkham once again, he rather cooperatively assists in unlocking a high tech door, allowing Bane access to confront Batman. In the eight-part story-arc 'War of Jokes and Riddles', commencing with Batman #25, flashbacks to a year after the events of ' have Batman recounting the details of a war between Riddler and. He is first seen in custody at the GCPD, assisting them in solving a variety of crimes, including locating Joker's whereabouts, before stabbing a police officer to death 26 times. Blackmailing the approaching guards with details of their children and families, Riddler walks out freely before intruding into Joker's office.

Riddler seemingly offers the Joker a partnership, acknowledging that if either of the two men individually kill Batman, the other will be left forever unsatisfied. However the Joker shoots Riddler in the stomach and quickly departs, Batman appearing through the window and giving chase. Left in a pool of his own blood, Riddler rose to his feet and limped out of the office, seemingly unfazed. Edward quickly healed from the wound, carving a question marked shaped scar over the wound, before murdering Dr. Jaime Knowles. Riddler is then seen meeting with, discussing the Joker's need to rid anyone who could potentially kill Batman before him.

The duo are then ambushed by gunmen working for under the orders of the Joker to kill Riddler within the hour. However Poison Ivy attacks the gunmen with her vines, allowing Edward and herself to leave. Riddler eventually formed his team, consisting on himself, Poison Ivy,,,,,,, and. Waging war on Joker's team across Gotham, Riddler is responsible for poisoning Charles Brown's son, resulting in his transformation into.

The war continues, with Riddler and Joker claiming territories across Gotham, before Riddler, who'd convinced Batman to side with him during the conflict, blackmails and interrogates Kite Man into giving up Joker's location. However Batman, after a brief fight between him, Riddler and Joker, becomes disgusted by Riddler's actions and quickly grabs a blade, breaking his one rule of No Killing in order to stab Riddler. However Joker, who finally begins to laugh again, prevents Batman from doing so. The present day Riddler shows up next in 'Deathstroke #25' as a member of who have placed on trial for appearing to have reformed.

Riddler, using 's abilities, convinces the Society that Deathstroke is indeed evil by showcasing a simulation of Deathstroke killing them all right before Deathstroke himself is kidnapped. Powers and abilities [ ]. This section does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged and. (April 2016) () The Riddler is a criminal genius who possesses extreme originality in decoding and formulating puzzles of all kinds. His deductive ability was seen throughout his career as a private detective when he was reformed, during which he was shown to have investigative skills that rival those of the Dark Knight.

Like most of Batman's enemies (and Batman himself) the Riddler has no superhuman abilities, but is a highly cunning criminal strategist. He is not especially talented in fisticuffs (although his endurance has grown from having to engage in them over the years), but sometimes employs weaponry that exploits his gimmick, such as exploding jigsaw pieces, his infamous question mark cane, known to house a wide variety of technological devices and weapons, and question mark-shaped pistols. He is shown to be skilled with engineering and technology, confronting Batman and Robin with unique and elaborate deathtraps.

He is also well known for being Batman's most intelligent adversary. Other versions [ ] As one of 's most famed and popular adversaries, the Riddler has been featured in several comics which are not part of the official DC continuity. Edward as he appears in.

A radically different interpretation of the Riddler is featured in and 's. In this version, he wears a solid green jacket with question marks on the very back of it and a spiral of question mark tattoos around his abdomen. His cane serves the purpose of helping to prop him up, due to a disabled leg. In the story, he sells an unknown substance to the, who identifies him as 'Edward'. Thrillkiller [ ] In the miniseries Thrillkiller, Nygma is a who counsels.

Doctor Edward Nygma, author of Riddle Me This — What Do We Really Mean?, keeps Barbara dosed with increasing amounts of and encourages her to mix with people she actually loathes. Edward wears a green suit and the cushions of his couch bear the pattern of the Riddler's outfit., Barbara's butler, takes the drugs away from her at the request of her father who regards Edward as a quack. Batman: Earth One [ ] The Riddler makes an appearance at the end of. He is the main antagonist of the sequel, who attempts to stage a coup to take over 's criminal empire after his death, and sees Batman as a threat to his plan.

The Ultimate Riddle [ ] In the Batman/ crossover The Ultimate Riddle, the Riddler uses a reality-manipulating wand-like device he acquired during to pull Batman, Dredd, and six alien warriors together, intending to pit Batman against the other warriors and get him killed. However, Batman and Dredd are able to work together to overcome their opponents, culminating in Dredd shooting Riddler in the shoulder and Batman claiming the device, subsequently using it to return the survivors home. Justice [ ] The Riddler's appearance in ' 12 issue series suggests a new motivation, that, as a child, he had been beaten by his father whenever he told a lie, to the extent that he was now psychologically incapable of telling a lie. His riddles are his method of subverting his condition, so that he is still technically telling the truth, but always in as cryptic a manner as possible.

Antimatter Universe [ ] The Riddler has a heroic counterpart in the called the Quizmaster, who is a member of 's (that Earth's version of the ) which opposes the evil. He first appeared in JLA Secret Files 2004 #1. He later has the right half of his face burned by, leading him to don a half-face and temporarily take on the name 'Enigma'. He last appeared in the. As the New Earth Riddler slowly became a lighter, less criminal figure, Enigma became a darker figure in this series. Similarly, on, the Riddler's heroic counterpart (simply Riddler) is married to and is the stepfather to the 's daughter,. Emperor Joker [ ] In the ' storyline, the all-powerful Joker creates an alternate Riddler, known as 'Enigma', to be a member of the Joker's League of Anarchy along with alternate versions of and.

After learning of the Joker's plans to destroy the universe, he leads the League in an uprising against him. The Joker's vast and amazing powers cause the plan to fail, and the entire League is destroyed as a result. Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again [ ] The Riddler can be heard saying 'ruh-riddle me this' in. Kingdom Come [ ] The Riddler appears in the miniseries, having been invited to a meeting of the Mankind Liberation Front by Lex Luthor. In this alternate future, the Riddler has become an old, bald man wearing glasses with question mark-shaped rims. He still indulges in his habitual riddling, asking 'Who is the Riddler?'

When Luthor referred to him by his real name. He appears to have been invited to the meeting only upon the insistence of, as Luthor does not appear enthused by his presence. Batman: Crimson Mist [ ] In the third issue of the Batman vampire series, the Riddler appears in a morgue where he shoots the mortician who was about to start an autopsy on a corpse where the Riddler had stored a large quantity of drugs. The Riddler in that appearance has a big question mark-shaped scar on his face and another one on his chest with his navel being the dot. While shooting he cites what would be his final riddle: 'When Genius becomes dope plus 'E' how does she redeem herself? Answer: By turning 'Heroine' which minus the E is 'Heroin', lots of it and redeemable for lots of cash,' at which vampire Batman appears and scolds the Riddler for graduating from robbery and extortion to drug trafficking and murder.

In a panic the Riddler begins to fire at Batman only to find that his bullets have no effect on him. Stunned, the Riddler asks Batman what he is, to which Batman replies: 'The answer to life's every riddle: death and hungry darkness.' With that, Batman proceeds to drain the Riddler of his blood. The Batman Adventures [ ] In #2, the Riddler makes yet another attempt to go straight. While reformed in issue ##11, the Riddler struggles to avoid the temptation of crime as well as planting riddles.

To remedy that, Batman recruits the Riddler to answer a great riddle: 'How did the Penguin succeed in becoming mayor of Gotham City?' In the process, he is heavily injured by the, which ends up with him in a coma in issue #12. The series was canceled before the Riddler's fate could be resolved. The story planned for the Riddler would have him emerging from his coma stricken with amnesia, allowing him to solve the greatest riddle: 'Who Am I?' The character was featured in several issues of.

In his first appearance, he holds an entire Christmas party hostage, convinced that Batman and Robin are among the crowd. This issue is also the debut of his two assistants,, in the continuity.

In a later issue, he kidnaps Commissioner Gordon and threatens Gotham City with a deadly nerve gas. Since Batman and Robin fail to show up, Batgirl is forced to take on the Riddler alone and save her father.

The Riddler is featured prominently in, a spin-off of Batman: The Animated Series. Injustice: Gods Among Us [ ] In 's prequel comic, when the come to remove the patients of Arkham, only to be resisted by Batman and, the Riddler watches the argument between the heroes in silence. He was about to make a riddle but orders him to be silent. Cyborg next plans to remove him but is stopped by Batman when he activates a virus he had uploaded into Cyborg years ago.

Riddler is freed by alongside all the other inmates to attack the heroes. The Riddler is seen about to crush Batman's head with a large rock but hesitates as he tries to think of a riddle to say before committing the act, allowing the to knock him out with a boxing glove arrow, before being beaten down. Teen Titans Go! [ ] In the tie-in comic to the animated series, one issue focused on a villain named 'Kwiz Kid', whose plan was to stump Robin with riddles in an attempt to get a date with 's daughter,.

Kwiz Kid is possibly a younger version of the Riddler as he bears a number of similarities to the Riddler in both style and physicality, even down to wearing a green suit with a question mark as his symbol. In other media [ ] Television [ ] Live-action [ ]. As the Riddler, from the 1960s TV series. • The Riddler appears in the 1960s television series and as one of the villains in the. Portrayed Riddler in the first and third season of the series and the film, and portrayed Riddler in the second season. He made four appearances in season 1 (more than any other villain) but was reduced to only one appearance per season afterwards.

The popular television series was inspired by the first appearance of the Riddler, with the premiere episode being an adaptation of Batman #171. Frank Gorshin also portrayed the Riddler in in 1979.

As The Riddler on the TV series. • Edward Nygma is featured in the TV series, where he is portrayed. This version is a working for the Gotham City Police Department who has a fondness for expressing findings in the form of riddles. He eventually turns to crime, however, and terrorizes Gotham as The Riddler. The series traces his evolution into a master criminal, as well as his complicated, with fellow criminal. • In the fourth episode of the first season of the series, the Riddler sends his henchmen to to steal a weapon from that would allow him to attack. One of the Riddler's henchmen () dates Emily Locke, who worked for the firm, in an attempt to get close to the weapon.

Their plot is foiled when Van Wayne enters the office in a costume, and Riddler's henchmen all scatter, thinking that must be nearby. Animation [ ] • The Riddler made his first appearance in animated form in the Batman installments first seen on CBS Saturday Morning in 1968 as part of, with providing his voice. • The Riddler did not appear in the 1977 episodes. However, he did appear in the show's opening wearing a red version of his outfit.

He was also mentioned on the news as being arrested for a crime. The Riddler as he appears in. • The Riddler appeared in 's, voiced.

He appears as a member of the; he usually gives riddles to the Super Friends to delay them from meddling with the Legion's plans. In 'Monolith of Evil', he uses a riddle to trick the Super Friends into getting a Monolith of enormous power guarded by a Lava Monster for the Legion after they fooled the Super Friends into abducting the United Nations and disguising the Monolith as the United Nations. • Riddler made his only solo appearance in the 1980s series, again voiced by Michael Bell. In the short episode 'Around the World in 80 Riddles', he uses his new Stupid Spray (which slowly causes the intelligence of those sprayed upon to be reduced to the intelligence of 2 year-olds) on,, and, where different riddles will provide clues where the antidote can be found. The first one quotes 'As your I.Q. Drops to below 22, you'll need mya help to tya your shoes'.

The answer to the riddle led Super Friends to the, where they ended up in one of Riddler's deathtraps. After barely escaping the deathtrap, Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and Robin find what appeared to be the antidote only to be a container for another riddle.

The riddle reads 'You're probably so dumb now, you need a simple clue. So find the tallest mountain and climb until you're blue'.

Due to the group's dwindling intelligence, Batman had to use the Batcomputer on his Batplane to decipher the riddle, with the answer being. Upon arriving at Mount Everest, Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and Robin encounter Riddler's blimp, where the Stupid Spray is at its final part on them. The Super Friends managed to claim the Stupid Spray Antidote and defeat Riddler.

In 'Revenge of Doom', Riddler was with the Legion of Doom when they got back together. The Riddler as he appears in. • In 2005, a new interpretation of the Riddler debuted in episode 'Riddled', voiced. This version exhibits a, and is served by henchmen called Riddlemen. The episode 'Riddler's Revenge' reveals that Nygma and his partner Julie worked at a university on a device to enhance the human brain.

Nygma was approached by a man named Gorman who offered to buy the rights to the invention, but Nygma refused. After the device malfunctioned at a demonstration, Nygma accused Gorman of sabotage. Years later, Nygma tried to kill Gorman, but Batman stopped him, and Nygma realized it was not Gorman who sabotaged him but his own partner Julie, who betrayed Nygma out of greed, which broke Nygma's heart. By the episode 'Riddled', Nygma has adopted his Riddler persona. • The Riddler is featured in, voiced. He is mentioned but not seen during Batman's call to Commissioner Gordon in 'Deep Cover For Batman!' In the teaser for 'A Bat Divided!'

, Riddler has a game show 'Riddle Me This' where fails to solve the riddles, harming Batman. Batman eventually frees himself and the two fight Riddler and his henchmen. In the main story of 'The Criss Cross Conspiracy!' , he was the target of revenge by, whom he had humiliated ten years earlier by unmasking her in public. • The Riddler appears in the cartoon series, voiced.

In 'Terrors', he is an inmate of who escapes. In 'Misplaced', a spell cast by,,, and splits the Earth into two dimensions as a diversion to enable Riddler and to steal from. In 'Usual Suspect', Riddler joins, and in ambushing the Young Justice Team at a crashed airplane. Riddler is incapacitated by Zatanna and reveals as a member of the Light. • The Riddler appears in the, voiced by in the 'Riddle Me This!'

Here he asks the viewers different questions while Batman gets out of the traps answering the questions. • The Riddler makes a cameo appearance in episode 'The Titans Show', where the Control Freak brings him, along with various other supervillains, to take on the. • The Riddler appears in the episode 'E. Nigma, Consulting Detective,' voiced. This version doesn't wear a mask and has a shaved head. After being released from Arkham Asylum, Riddler helps Wonder Woman and Green Arrow find Batman after he was captured by Joker and due to the fact that Joker is stealing his riddle motif.

The riddles that Riddler deciphers takes them to Solomon Grundy's cell where Riddler distracts him with a finger trap puzzle, the Iceberg Lounge where the riddle was under Penguin's trick umbrella, and the Gotham Art Museum where Joker gets Wonder Woman trapped. Upon Green Arrow freeing himself from the ribbon trap, he and Wonder Woman save Batman from being cut by the Lady of Justice statue when Joker tempts Riddler to use the voice-activated trap upon solving the Mississippi riddle. Upon Joker being apprehended, it was revealed that Joker did this because Riddler ate his doughnut.

As Riddler walked off, he quotes to Gotham City that he is still a master of riddles. DC Animated Universe [ ]. The Riddler as he appeared in (left) and (right). • The Riddler appears in the, voiced. For this version, the producers decided to play against the popular Frank Gorshin image of a cackling trickster to avoid confusion with the Joker, instead portraying the character as a smooth intellectual who presents genuinely challenging puzzles.

The series's creators admit they did not use him often because his character often made story plots too long, too complex or too bizarre, and the creators also found it very hard to devise the villain's riddles. • Riddler appears in.

The character's design consists of a green suit and purple mask. In his debut episode 'If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?' , Edward Nygma becomes the Riddler after being unjustly fired by his greedy employer, Dan Mockridge, and tries to kill him. Despite Batman solving his riddles, he evades capture, and later appears in 'What Is Reality?' , where he locks Commissioner Gordon into a virtual reality world.

Batman outsmarts him, however, and finally apprehends the villain by solving his riddle. Unlike the other villains that escaped, Riddler is actually released due to good behavior. He returns in the episode 'Riddler's Reform', where he works at a toy company and uses his Riddler persona to advertise them and make millions.

However, Riddler finds that he cannot control his need to commit riddle-based crimes, and eventually makes a seemingly inescapable deathtrap for Batman. The Dark Knight manages to survive, however, and apprehends him. When Batman refuses to tell him how he escaped, Riddler is returned to Arkham, plagued continuously by Batman's survival. • Riddler makes in.

The character's design is completely different: lacking the hair and mask and dressed in a unitard with a large question mark. In the episode 'Over the Edge', Riddler was seen on a talk show with the other Batman villains in 's nightmare induced by 's fear gas. In the episode 'Judgement Day', Riddler was among the victims of the vigilante known as at the time he was crashing a banquet, being crushed by The Judge, apparently killing him. • Riddler appears in.

In the episode 'Knight Time', he is in league with and the to take advantage of 's recent disappearance. However, Riddler is quickly captured by (dressed as Batman) and, being the latter the one who handcuffs him to the cage where he had locked him. • Riddler makes a silent cameo appearance on. In the episode 'Black Out', one of Riddler's costumes is seen on display at the Batcave. In the episode, Terry's Friend Dates a Robot', an android drone in the guise of the Riddler fights the new (Terry McGinnis). Mannequins of the Riddler were also seen on display at the in the episodes 'Disappearing Inque', 'Splicers' and 'Sneak Peek', while an android replica of the villain was seen in the episode 'Terry's Friend Dates a Robot'. Albeit the character doesn't physically appeared, when asked about Riddler's fate, show's creator stated that the Riddler retired from a crime life and started running a men's clothing store with the as his partner.

• Riddler was originally planned to appear in the third season of, as a member of the. [ ] Due to the Bat-embargo [ ], this was not possible. This would have been a tribute to the fact that he was one of the original 13 members of the Legion of Doom in Challenge of the Super Friends. Film [ ] Live-action [ ] • reprised his role as the Riddler in the 1966 theatrical film, alongside three other villains from the television series. As in the series, Gorshin's Riddler is calm and calculating at one moment, then wild and unstable the next. He compulsively sends Batman and Robin clues, which in the film leads to some minor tension with his fellow criminals. As the Riddler, from (1995).

• The Riddler was in mind of 's second sequel to. His appearance was said to include his hair shaved into a question mark (this element was later used in the New 52 Batman comics). This is evidenced by 's May 1991 draft where in reference is made to The Riddler. • portrays The Riddler in the 1995 film. In this version, Edward Nygma is an employee of who invents a device called 'The Box', that transmits images directly into the user's mind. Nygma sees it as the next generation of television, but Bruce Wayne rejects the idea, as mental manipulation raises 'too many questions'.

Nygma ultimately discovers that his device can drain people of their intellect to increase his own intelligence. After killing his supervisor, he dons the 'Riddler' identity, allies himself with and steals vast amounts of money and jewels to fund his own company, Nygmatech, and mass-produce his invention. The devices transfer the stolen information to a gigantic Mother Box on Claw Island, where it is planted in the Riddler's mind.

In the process, he learns that Wayne is Batman. He and Two-Face raid, destroy the, and kidnap 's love interest, Dr. Chase Meridian, and his new crimefighting partner. In the film's climactic scene, Batman destroys the Mother Box causing the intelligence Riddler stole and even the intelligence he originally had to be siphoned back out of his mind driving him insane. Riddler is locked up in where he believes that he himself is Batman when visited by Dr. • The Riddler was originally going to have a cameo in the unmade film Green Arrow: Escape from Super Max, as one of the prisoners locked at Super Max. • In, director stated that the Riddler was originally set to be the main antagonist in the film, after the 's success in., who collaborated with Nolan in, was selected for the role, although was previously considered for the role.

• The Riddler was originally set to appear in, but he was cut from the film along with Joker.. However, in a scene where Batman gets ready to challenge Superman inside a burnt and dilapidated Wayne Manor, Riddler's signature symbol (his iconic question mark) can be seen, hinting the fact that he may be present in the same universe. Animation [ ] • The Riddler makes a cameo appearance in the animated film, with his vocal effects provided.

In a flashback scene, he attempts to rob a museum but he is defeated by Batman and. • The Riddler appears in the animated film, an adaptation of the video game, with reprising his role. • The Riddler appears in the animated movie, voiced. Batman rescues Riddler from a black ops assassination led by and has him incarcerated at Arkham Asylum. Waller forms the to infiltrate Arkham Asylum in order to retrieve a memory stick containing information of all Suicide Squad members in Riddler's cane, though her real motive is to kill the Riddler, as he is the only person who knows how to deactivate the bombs that are surgically attached to the spines of the Suicide Squad members. He reveals this knowledge to when she is sent to kill him on Waller's instruction.

The Suicide Squad then agree to spare the Riddler in exchange for his help, and most are able to deactivate their bombs with the use of a device intended for. Only (who had been separated from the group) and (whose skin is too thick) are killed by Waller when she realizes what has happened. When everyone notices that the man wearing the 'Black Spider' costume is still alive, Riddler deduces that he is in fact Batman.

He is quickly subdued after trying to shoot Batman, but escapes after the freed Joker sets all the patients of Arkham loose. • The Riddler appears in and its sequel, voiced by, reprising his role from the Arkham video games. • The Riddler appears in, voiced. He was one of the villains invading the Gotham Energy facility. While he was on the road, he placed a giant question mark in front of an unsuspecting driver. After the driver stopped his car, Riddler tears his left arm off with his cane, leaving the car to be hit by a truck that Captain Boomerang and Two-Face has stolen. He later invades Commissioner Gordon's retirement party with the other villains, but Joker has them all surrender to the police.

Confused, Riddler asks what just happened. He later breaks out of Arkham Asylum and teams up with Batman to save the city from the inmates that Joker released and keep Gotham City from coming apart over the void.

Video games [ ] The Riddler has appeared in several video games based on Batman. • He is a boss in for the, for the, for the and various. The SNES game had Riddler reusing the Riddle of the Minotaur Maze from 'If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?' And the chess board from 'What Is Reality?' In the Sega CD game, which had fully animated cutscenes, John Glover reprised his role as the Riddler. In the PC game Toxic Chill, Riddler teams up with. • Riddler appears in voiced.

A chain of quests leads the players on the hero campaign to solve one of his riddles in order to talk to him. In the game, Riddler is a detective hiding from the Joker. When Joker sends to kill Riddler, the players help Query and Echo protect him. When Deathstroke is defeated, Riddler mentions that Joker never made the payment transfer.

Before departing to another location, Riddler has the players tell Batman that Joker is working with on a new. • Riddler is referenced in the game. Players are able to unlock a Riddler-inspired pattern for their weapons, depicting the iconic green background with purple questions dotted around it. • Riddler makes a cameo appearance in.

In the Arkham Asylum level, if one of the characters is thrown through the cell door on the right side of the second tier, they will be attacked by Two-Face, Killer Croc, Penguin, and Riddler before being punched by Croc into the next tier of the Arkham arena. • Riddler appears as a boss in the video game, voiced. During the Team's mission in, led by Nightwing, they investigate the disappearance of and the Riddler's securing of a piece of an ancient statue. They track down Sandsmark in Haley's Circus, but Riddler uses a device to use 's psychic powers after the team. When his scheme fails, he traps the heroes in his lair in the sewers, forcing them to participate in a deadly game show full of traps and obstacles.

The Riddler eventually fights off the heroes and is defeated. It is later revealed that Riddler's pieces were a fake, and he willingly served as a distraction to allow to steal the real pieces.

Lego Batman [ ]. Main article: • The Riddler is a character in with his vocal effects provided.

He is one of the three masterminds of the Arkham breakout, along with the Joker and The Penguin. He leads,, and, with the goal of stealing the contents of the Gotham Gold Reserve. Each member manages to steal a specific item before being defeated by Batman & Robin, until only he and Two-Face remain. He breaks into the gold reserve easily, but Batman and Robin defeat and arrest him. In this game, his trademarked question-mark cane grants him the ability to exert over marked targets, or to confuse other characters if they are close enough. • The Riddler appears in voiced by impersonating Jim Carrey's interpretation of the character.

He is one of the five villains to raid Bruce Wayne's Man of the Year award ceremony. He flees with Two-Face, the Joker, and the Penguin when Batman arrives, leaving to cover their flight. He appears as a boss in the level 'Theatrical Pursuits' and is arrested, but he breaks out of prison with multiple other villains after frees them all. He is later an optional boss fight and unlockable character, found on top of Wayne Tower. • The Riddler appears as a playable character in, voiced.

• The Riddler appears in voiced again by Roger Craig Smith. When allied with Lord Vortech, he has taken over from and fights the heroes alongside a. After he is defeated, Riddler is cornered on a cliff where he falls off after accidentally grabs his leg climbing up. Batman: Arkham [ ]. Main article: The Riddler appears in the Batman: Arkham video game series, where he is voiced. In each game, Riddler's presence provides much of the content found in the games, in addition to being another primary supervillain that Batman has to stop and apprehend. • Riddler appears in the series' first entry, 2009's.

While he is never actually physically seen, early on in the story he hacks into Batman's communication system and persistently challenges Batman to solve various riddles located throughout Arkham island and the asylum's facilities. As Batman continues to solve his riddles, Riddler grows increasingly unstable and bewildered over the comm channel. Just as with many of the other game's major foes, you can find and play audio tapes of interview sessions conducted with Arkham psychiatrists. In his interview tapes, Riddler says that he believes Batman affords his high-tech arsenal by stealing from the criminals he defeats, and that is covering it up.

The tapes also reveal the origin of Riddler's obsession with riddles: when he was young, Riddler's abusive father called him a 'moron', so he attempted to prove him wrong by entering a riddle-solving contest in school, which he wound up winning. However, his father accused him of cheating (which Riddler reveals at the end of the interview he had) and proceeded to beat him. The traumatic event caused young Edward Nigma to become obsessed with riddles as a way to prove his intellectual superiority, as well as developing a need to punish those whom he deems to be inferior to his own mind. After solving all of his riddles, Batman is able to glean enough data from the comm transmission to triangulate Riddler's position in Gotham City, and transmits that location data to the Gotham police Department. In the final audio interaction with the Riddler, you can hear the police busting down his door and arresting him.

• The Riddler makes his first physical appearance in the series' second installment,. He kidnaps Arkham guard Aaron Cash's medical protection team, sets up death traps, and threatens to murder them all if Batman does not solve his riddles once more, this time strewn about the walled off prison called 'Arkham City.' To discover the locations of Riddler's various trophies and riddles, Batman must interrogate his henchmen, who are scattered throughout Arkham City and embedded in with gangs working for, and.

At certain intervals, when Batman finds enough 'challenges', the location of a room containing one of the captive medical team hostages is revealed. Batman must then outwit the deadly conditions within the chamber and rescue the hostage. Afterwards, the freed hostage gives Batman a sequence of numbers from Riddler, which correlate to a radio frequency. Once tuned in, Riddler will either give Batman a new location or tell him to find more trophies. He does this four times, and comes to a dead end when the fifth hostage is rescued.

Believing that this final room would end Batman once and for all, the Riddler neglected to create any more leads to his remaining captives. Batman must then continue to find secrets in order to discern where the Riddler is hiding himself and the remaining members of the medical staff. When 400 Riddler challenges are completed, discovers a connection between the death trap rooms through a shared property broker.

She then contacts Batman and tells him where she believes his hideout may be. Once inside the Riddler's base of operations, Batman observes that the remaining hostages are trapped in a prolonged cycle of torture: they must continuously walk along a path or the explosives strapped to their heads will detonate. Batman must then avoid walking in front of each hostage until he reaches a weak point below the Riddler's office and proceeds to pull the Riddler through the floor and incapacitate him. Aaron Cash and the remaining hostages are freed from their traps, and the Riddler is in turn hooked into one of the devices himself. Fearing for his life (and unaware that Batman disarmed the explosives), the Riddler must walk as he forced his captives to do. In Hugo Strange's interview tapes, Riddler had a conversation with Hugo Strange after his call to Mayor where Riddler hacks Hugo Strange's communication system. Riddler mentions Hugo Strange's experiments on Arkham Asylum patients, the special medication that was given to Mayor Quincy Sharp, and how both of them want Batman dead.

Riddler is even surprised that Hugo Strange knows of Batman's true identity. When Riddler demands to know who the identity of Batman is, Hugo Strange doesn't want to spoil it for Riddler and instead taunts him with the riddle 'How is the Riddler like a blank dictionary' with the answer being 'you're both at a loss for words.' The Riddler also plays a major role in the game's challenge mode which is called Riddler's Revenge. Various challenge maps show him having numerous henchmen working for him including TYGER Guards, Ra's al Ghul's ninja assassins, Mr. Hammer and his twin Mr. Sickle, a Titan-empowered henchman, and even. • The Riddler's Enigma identity is featured in the prequel game.

Edward Nashton is described as a police consultant and apparent head of the GCPD's Cybercrime unit. Here, he has yet to take up the mantle of the Riddler and is known only as 'Enigma'. In the game, he has set up a series of signal jammers throughout Gotham City to disrupt the as well as Batman's own hacking transmitter.

He plots to blackmail several of Gotham's most prominent citizens, in the hopes of making Gotham a better place by getting rid of those who are corrupt, although in the process risking the lives of several innocent people. Enigma also has several informants and pieces of extortion recordings scattered throughout Gotham, which Batman must uncover and decode in place of the Riddler trophies of previous games. His encounter with Batman prompts Edward to go into hiding and develop his identity as The Riddler; he hints to this as he calls Batman 'quite the riddle.'

• In, during the chaos caused by the, the Riddler has set up several new challenges for his Riddler Trophies, some of which call on Batman to perform in the. He captures Catwoman at one point to use as a hostage to make Batman play his game- Catwoman trapped in an old orphanage wearing an explosive collar that can only be deactivated by a series of keys that will be provided when certain riddles and challenges are solved- but Batman frees her. After solving all the riddles, Riddler has a final showdown with Batman and Catwoman in his Riddler Mech and using his army of robots, Riddler claiming in the aftermath that Catwoman's aid was cheating and Batman 'should' have been able to hack the robots' complex operating systems rather than just beat them up. In the prison following Scarecrow exposing Batman's true identity, Riddler is the only one that refuses to accept that Bruce Wayne is Batman, incapable of accepting that his past theories are wrong. In the 'Catwoman's Revenge' DLC, Catwoman infiltrates Riddler's headquarters for payback after he kidnapped her, just as he was using his phone call in prison to check his computer. Catwoman defeats Riddler's armed thugs and robots and transfers all his money to her bank account before leaving his factory to self-destruct.

• Riddler appears as a playable character in the mobile game Batman: Arkham Underworld, voiced again by Wally Wingert. He is the first supervillain the player unlocks, wielding a sawed-off shotgun and his cane, which he can use to electrocute enemies, create holograms, and sabotage electronic devices. American Eagle S Fsx Planes. He can also bring in two of his robotic minions for assistance. Telltale's Batman [ ].

The Riddler in. Voices the Riddler in (the sequel to ), an video game series developed and published by and distributed by under its label. This version of the character is never identified by his real name, and is significantly older than Bruce Wayne/Batman. In addition, his personality is much more dark and sadistic, he is a skilled hand-to-hand combatant, and he wears a dark-green hood as opposed to a bowler hat. • In 'Episode 1: The Enigma', Riddler is revealed to be 'Gotham's original costumed criminal', who began his operations when and controlled the city.

In the midst of his crime spree, however, Riddler suddenly disappeared and was presumed dead. He claims that he was driven to a life of crime by a mysterious government organization called the Agency, who have been hunting him since his disappearance.

At some point, Riddler orchestrated a jailbreak at Pena Duro Prison and became the leader of a group of criminals called the Pact (composed of,,, and ). He returns to Gotham City to draw the Agency out by targeting their agents with an array of missiles he acquired from crime lord Rumi Mori. Riddler is ultimately confronted by Batman on a ship in the Gotham river, where he manages to trap Batman and force him into choosing between inadvertently killing two captured Agency operatives or rendering Agent Iman Avesta deaf. Regardless how the player performs, Batman is later able to divert the missiles, escape his confinement and capture Riddler. As Riddler is being interrogated, he is mysteriously shot and killed via poison dart after realizing that 'they broke the pact.' • In 'Episode 2: The Pact', Bruce's initiation into the Pact involves assisting the group in using technology acquired from his own to steal Riddler's corpse during a police escort.

• In Episode 3: Fractured Mask,' The Pact scans Riddler's eye with the device that Catwoman brought them. Spoofs and parodies [ ] • In the episode 'Inside Plucky Duck', a cartoon called 'Bat's All Folks' parodied Riddler as Question Mark (voiced by ). He attacks Bat-Duck by asking 'How can you tell if an elephant's been in your bed?'

Bat-Duck asks ' or ' to which he quotes 'Gee, I don't know' and is defeated by Bat-Duck. Gogo Dodo also dresses as the Riddler (60's TV show variant) after quoting a famous line from in the pilot episode 'The Looney Beginning'. • Frank Gorshin and parodied the 1994 film as their (uncostumed) 1960s Batman characters in a short film for with West portraying 's vampire (or 'bat-man') and Gorshin as 's interviewer.

• Meredith Stepien played The Riddler in production of. • An episode of entitled 'Captain Girl' featured a villain called The Mad Libber, a parody of The Riddler mixed with. • An episode of 'Badman', a parody of 'Batman', features Batman finding a kidnapped held hostage by the Riddler (redesigned to look more like the villains seen in the Nolan films). He gets frustrated with Batman's stupidity over not solving his simple riddle and tries shooting him, but one of the bullets bounces off Batman's armor and hits him. • Riddler appears in the 'Superhero Speed Dating' sketch of, portrayed by Will Carlough.

He was revealed to be at the speed dating establishment posing as Supergirl. • A box with the Riddler's question mark appears in a Garfield comic on December 12, 2010.

Action figures [ ]. Riddler action figure, part of the 'Super Amigos Collection'. • Riddler has made several appearances as an action figure as part of 's, Legends of Batman, and Batman: Knight Force Ninjas lines; 's line; and 's line. He has also been produced as a.

Five different Riddler figures were produced for the 1995 Batman Forever line, including a exclusive and one that says phrases from the film. • The Riddler is one of the rarest of Pacipa's Super Amigos line, the version of 's. [ ] He is a repainted figure that was only released in. He was also part of the line of action figures called the DC Comics SuperHeroes from.

• Three versions of the Riddler have appeared in the DC Direct line, two based on his first appearance and one based on his look in the ' storyline. The toy company Yamato has also produced a figure of him. • has included two versions of the character in its toyline; one in his classic costume, and another in his current costume. • In 1974, the Mego company released two Riddler figures; one was 8' tall with a cloth outfit for the World's Greatest Superheroes line of toys (this figure was in production until 1979), the other was a smaller figure which was molded rubber over wire for the Bend 'n Flex line. In 1975 and 1976, Mego also released the 8' tall Fist Fighting Riddler which was basically the same as the 1974 figure except it had a mechanism which allowed a child move a lever on the figure's back to make the arms swing.

• released a DC Superpowers Riddler which was released at 2013 San Diego ComicCon (July 18–21) by Medicom Toy which was limited to only 1500. • DC Direct has released a Riddler figure in the Batman: Arkham City line. Music [ ] • During his time on the 1960s television series, Frank Gorshin recorded an album with a song titled 'The Riddler', in which he sings of his obsession with puzzles.

He performed a musical parody of the character on 's variety show in 1966. • A 1966 album by titled The Batman Theme featured a instrumental song titled 'The Riddler'. • A song based on the character titled ' was performed by rapper, and was featured on the. • The Riddler makes an appearance in the of the 1984 song '. • The band recorded a song called 'The Riddler' on their album. • Composer wrote a piano suite based on Batman's rogues gallery. The final movement is titled 'The Riddler'.

Attractions [ ] •, the world's tallest and fastest, is themed after the Riddler. It is located in in Valencia, California. •, a pendulum ride, located at in Arlington, TX • is a roller-coaster at outside Atlanta, first built in 1978, that in 1997 was re-themed to match the Riddler, after the park built alongside it. Mind Bender was given a green paint scheme and its trains were painted black and covered with question marks. The coaster had originally been silver, then was later painted brown.

• La Venganza del Enigma (translated to The Riddler's Revenge) at is a painted in Riddler's motif and colors. • 'Riddle Me This' at, is a painted in Riddler's colors, purple and green. See also [ ] • • References [ ].

• Detective Comics #140 (October, 1948) •,. • The Question #26 • Legends of the Dark Knight #109-#111 • Detective Comics #705-#707 • Harley Quinn #6-#7 • JLA #64 (May 2002) • Batman #619 • Green Arrow #50 (July 2005) • Gotham City Sirens #1 (June 2009) • Gotham City Sirens #9 (February 2010) • • Flash #50, #51, #51.

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• Chris Arrant (March 15, 2016).. Star Trek: The Next Generation actor Brent Spiner has revealed that he’s voicing the Riddler in Cartoon Network’s upcoming Justice League Action animated series • Comics Scene #43, published by Starlog • ToyFare issue, 1999 • Waters, Daniel (May 20, 1991).. Retrieved July 26, 2015. • • Jolin, Dan (May 31, 2012). 'It Begins with an Ending'. Bauer Media Group. • Goldberg, Matt (March 20, 2016)..

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