Batman denies it and leaves. The blow Riddler receives to his head, followed by his subsequent questioning of Batman's relationship with the deceased has led some to speculate that he may be regaining his memories. In Detective Comics the Riddler is hired by Bruce Wayne to track down an experimental drug developed by Wayne Enterprises currently being tested for muscle stamina and cellular regeneration which has been stolen by a lab assistant named Lisa Newman.
With Harley's help he defeats Newman and returns the drug to Wayne Enterprises. In Countdown 42, Riddler tells Mary Marvel that he has gone straight and is now a detective. The two join forces to defeat Clayface, 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 anger management. After a grisly serial killer surfaces on the streets of Gotham City, the Riddler hones in on closing the case, only to find that the killer is actually an old victim of his out for revenge.
The young man, whose girlfriend years earlier had gotten caught in the crossfire of a gunfight between The Riddler's gang and security guards, captured Nigma and attempted to kill him, but Batman intervened just in time and saved his former enemy's life.
Most recently, in Gotham City Sirens 1, Poison Ivy is controlling the Riddler, keeping him in a nearly vegetative state so she and Harley Quinn can move into his townhouse and use it as a hideout. When a villain named Boneblaster decides to make a name for himself by killing Catwoman, he takes the battle to the Riddler's townhouse. The townhouse is severely damaged in the following chaos, but the Riddler is freed from Ivy's control in the process.
Dismayed at seeing his house in shambles, he takes his old brass question mark cane off of the wall and begins to vent his frustration on the already downed Boneblaster.
Shortly after, the Riddler is attempting to solve a duo 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 uncovers 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 as Batman. Almost instantly, Riddler deduces that the Batman before him is a new one. Nevertheless, Riddler reveals that the next victim will be the sister of the second victim, a young romance writer, something that Dick needed Alfred and the Batcave computer to figure out.
In the end, Batman goes off to confront the killer, whereas Riddler agrees to look after the intended victim. After a brief, but expected misunderstanding about Riddler's intentions with the young woman, Batman phones in to announce that he has apprehended and questioned not one, but three killers about their intentions, but gets no answers. Riddler almost leaves the woman to her life, when the lights go out unexpectedly.
Riddler immediately concludes that Batman has not captured all of the killers, and pulls the woman out of harms 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 Conundrum, and their costumes sport black and green color schemes along with disturbingly similar question mark emblazoned on their outfits.
As Riddler stealthily disposes of the two grunts via use of his cane, Conundrum manages to take the writer hostage at gunpoint. At which point, 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 even 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 GPS that alerts Batman to his location whenever the question mark is twisted. Still unbelieving of his claim, Riddler calmly asks Conundrum with a smirk "Why is this man smiling? 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 Batmobile's window.
After the ordeal is over, the young writer hugs the Riddler, thanking him for saving her life. After which, she and the reformed villain go out to dinner at a fancy restaurant, with Batman looking over them. 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 circuit television, showcasing a plainclothes Harley getting into a car with Hush disguised as Bruce Wayne.
He then calls Selina Kyle and tells her to turn on her television. Afterwards, the Riddler goes to attend Arkham Asylum's reopening gala to keep an eye on Kitrina Falcone. Also at the party are Dr. Arkham, Mario Falcone and Dr. Singh from Gene-Core, a company going into partnership with the Asylum. Oracle, angry at Huntress for kissing Dick, makes her go after Kitrina.
Unbeknownst to her, the Riddler trailed both women. Kitrina Falcone breaks into Gene-Core's lab, then sets off a bomb, destroying the lab and much of the building. Having had the bomb go off near his face, Edward has began using his old Riddler eye mask again. He has also been seen to be acting suspiciously lately, suggesting that he may very well be returning back to a life of crime.
Some time later, Riddler arrives at his office to find his secretary bound and gagged at her desk, with Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman waiting in his office. The women tell him that they're being framed for the murder of a young woman who's 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 comes to the conclusion that the trio were telling the truth, only to be attacked by Dr. He agrees to help his neutral associates solve the murder, only to find out the trio only used him as bait for Dr. Aesop, whom the women suspected of trying to run them out of their home. Feeling betrayed, the Riddler begins contemplating whether he should return to his villainous roots. Meanwhile, Dick Grayson deduces that the Riddler must have been hired by someone to attend Arkham Asylum's reopening gala, and decides to look into the matter further.
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 " Death of the Family ".
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. Although the Riddler is able to quickly decipher an escape he unfortunately succumbs to a tranquilizer the Joker had previously given him to neutralize his ability as an escape artist. The Riddler later appears as the primary antagonist for both the second and third chapters of the "Zero Year" storyline.
He was broken down to nothing and left wandering the streets with the rest of the homeless people in Gotham City. After he is given an opportunity to work as a codebreaker with the NSA, Riddler thinks back to his childhood and realizes that he hadn't cheated in a school contest as had been suggested in his origin. He had actually used his considerable intellect to win fairly.
His father had beat him for cheating, which in part made him turn to a life of crime. While the Riddler might be considered one of Batman's most enduring and famous villains these days, back when he was created, he wasn't all that popular. In fact, he was so disliked that after his first appearance in , he wasn't featured in a Batman story again until People just didn't seem to connect with the Riddler, and it wasn't until he became a character on the classic Adam West Batman that the character was reinvigorated.
Played by Frank Gorshin, the Riddler quickly became one of the Dark Knight's most well-known and recognizable villains. It's hard to imagine that the Riddler could ever fade into obscurity considering what a popular villain he is now. In fact, he was so popular, that Warner Bros. Goyer to write him into the script for The Dark Knight Rises as the main villain. Not only that, but they wanted Christopher Nolan to cast Leonardo DiCaprio in the role since they had just successfully collaborated on Inception.
It was not to be, but there had been plenty of speculation over whether the Riddler would ever be included in the Nolanverse or not. The Riddler has carried out some truly insane plans in his time as a villain, but one of the most elaborate schemes he ever came up with involved trapping Gotham's police commissioner in a virtual reality world that was so realistic, it could cause him to have a fatal heart attack in the real world.
In order to save Gordon, Batman enters into the virtual world as well, with the Riddler on the outside controlling the entire world, it was a dangerous mission to undertake, as there was no telling just what the Riddler could program to face off against Gordon and Batman. Riddler's rivalry with Batman is more than just a criminal grudge match at this point, it's a matter of pride.
A former employee of Wayne Enterprises, Eddie Nygma rose through the ranks at the company despite a persistent frustration with the world around him, both inside his office and out in the city. To Eddie, Gotham just wasn't intelligent enough to understand or appreciate his brilliance -- and the ignorance of the population at large was more than just annoying, it was potentially deadly.
With a childhood obsession with puzzles and riddles keeping him preoccupied, Eddie began concocting a scheme that would plunge all of Gotham into a survival-of-the-fittest scenario of his own design, only in his world, it would be the smartest who would survive.
Using a disastrous hurricane as cover, Eddie sprung his trap with the Wayne Enterprises power grid, sending the city into a devastating blackout. During this time, called the Zero Year, Eddie began crafting his persona as the Riddler for the first time where he began ruling over the post-apocalyptic Gotham with an iron fist, demanding that people solve his puzzles and answer his riddles if they wished to live.
Although Batman was successful in defeating him and reversing the effects of the Zero Year, Eddie had realized that his identity as the Riddler wasn't something he could easily leave behind. He maintained his new gimmick through multiple incarcerations in Arkham Asylum to become one of Batman's most persistent foes. Eddie has no metahuman abilities, enhanced strength or healing factor. His technical skills are also of note, allowing him to invent and construct complicated mechanisms and devices to help execute his plans, from puzzles to weapons.
His IQ and skills of deduction are so high, in fact, that he has been called in on more than one occasion to act as a frequently unwilling assist for both Batman and the police when they find themselves up against a mystery they're having no luck solving.
This is usually a last resort, however -- Eddie is as duplicitous as he is smart. Despite his ego, Eddie is not above working with teams. He frequently utilizes a gang of henchmen to assist in his schemes, even if they do just wind up acting as cannon fodder when the Batman inevitably swings in. The Riddler isn't a marquee villain , so he frequently works with other criminals and rogues. He's enlisted the services of just about everyone in Gotham's seedy underbelly, from Harley Quinn to Catwoman.
He occasionally worked with the late Cluemaster, even though their gimmicks were close enough to give Nygma agita. Most famously, he teamed up with the villain Hush for the beloved comics arc of the same name. After a city-wide crime spree involving just about all of Batman's biggest villains, the Dark Knight realizes that the mysterious mastermind behind it all is his childhood friend Dr.
Thomas Elliott. The doctor blames the Wayne family for keeping his own parents alive and holding up his inheritance of their wealth, and he orchestrates a plot to get revenge on the last living Wayne. After everything is revealed, it's almost entirely the work of the Riddler behind the scenes. He raises the possibility of using the pits to help his doctor, Thomas Elliott, whose mother is also suffering from cancer. He offers the use of the pit at a steep fee, only to find that Elliott wants his mother dead and blames the Waynes for her long life.
Intrigued, he nudges the enraged doctor into pulling off the massive plot that very nearly kills the Caped Crusader. The Riddler's life frequently turns on traumatic brain injury, and a good example of this principle in action is the arc that begins when another knock to the head pushes Edward Nygma back onto the straight and narrow.
He loses his desire to commit crimes after Shining Knight puts him in a coma. Even as an ordinary citizen, he still has a love of solving puzzles as well as a need to be praised for his massive intellect. He starts working as a private eye, solving crimes alongside his longtime nemesis Batman.
He's good at it, too — he frequently comes to conclusions and susses out crimes a step or two before Batman. At one point, he figures out the identity of a serial killer's upcoming victim even though Batman needs the help of his supercomputer just to get there slower. As Batman's sidekick Dick Grayson grinds toward unearthing the real killer, the Riddler's cunning frequently allows him to save the lives of would-be victims.
The reason that the Riddler was so good at predicting the moves of the killer becomes clear as the story goes on: The culprit, the murderous Conundrum, grew up idolizing the Riddler, and has been working to fill the void left by his retirement from villainy. Nygma is able to stay on the right side of the law until yet another brain injury awakens his desire to commit crime.
The Riddler returns after trying to thwart Catwoman as she robs one of Gotham's endless fancy galas.
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