The Riddler shares a creative parent with the Joker, with writer Bill Finger responsible for both. The mixture of the eye-catching visual — although the bright green bodysuit covered with question marks would be adapted throughout the years, most memorably becoming a three-piece suit in a similar hue and pattern, complete with a bowler hat — and the memorable gimmick ensured that the Riddler made multiple appearances following his debut in Detective Comics No.
Despite this, the actual character feels surprisingly overshadowed by others. The thing is, the Riddler is missing one thing that the Joker has in abundance: the one storyline that everyone remembers. You know, his Killing Joke. Imagine a David Fincher-inspired tale where the Caped Crusader is pushed to the limit and needs to solve an unsolvable mystery to win? In fact, what if the Riddler stops playing by the rules and starts feeding false information altogether?
View Results Watch the trailer. Your email address will not be published. Nothing he does is out of a desire for actual material gain, but more out of a desire for power and showing off his intellect. That is more dangerous than most Batman foes that usually commit atrocities out of necessity, impatience, blind greed, or desperation. It doesn't matter if it's his collaboration with nearly every member of Batman's rogues' gallery in Hush or other times he's teamed up with other Bat-Baddies; the Riddler knows how to work with others for his schemes.
Whether it's appealing to another colleague's ego, offering payment for their services, or outright manipulation, the Riddler is able to corral, convince, and cajole others into working with him, including foes with such uncooperative personalities as the Joker. Even more impressively, the Riddler usually ends up having his co-conspirators do most of the hands-on work and lets them get victimized by Batman if things go bad. This means that Nigma is usually the last person to get punched in the jaw for his troubles.
Batman usually has to get through one or more other foes before he squares off with the Riddler. Who do you consider your greatest rival: your equal or the one that forces you to become better? Time and again, the Riddler keeps Batman on his toes mentally and forces him to deduce the most complex mysteries, figure out the most maddening puzzles, and use abstract thinking to solve complex riddles.
Many other villains give the Dark Knight challenges, but the Riddler is the only one that truly forces Batman to continually grow mentally. Sometimes, Batman is smart enough to know when he's not smart enough. There were a handful times when he had little choice but to team up with the Riddler to solve a case or two. A great foe and rival isn't just one you continually fight, but one that you would welcome to have as an ally if there wasn't conflict between you.
This type of dynamic is rare compared to Batman's relationship with other villains. If you look at the Riddler throughout the comics, you will see that each time he gets more determined, more knowledgeable, and more intelligent after every conflict with Batman. That is because Nigma values intelligence above all else.
Introduced in Detective Comics , by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang , the Riddler was conceived as a criminal mastermind; obsessed with riddles and puzzles, and proving his intellectual superiority to Batman. A persistent thorn in the Dark Knight's side, he would adapt with the times, ultimately evolving from a smart but silly megalomaniac into something akin to a Saw villain. No longer content with bank robberies and silly heists, the Riddler was now kidnapping babies, brutally murdering security guards and committing terrorist acts across the city.
The story saw the Riddler attempting to complete an ancient occult ritual, with the hope of unleashing a demon known as 'Barbathos. In tracking down Riddler, Batman was manipulated into participating in a series of horrifying preparation rituals. The six steps of the ritual are: 1 kiss the lips of a dead man 2 bathe in human blood 3 dance with the dead 4 slay a wild dog 5 cut a newborn baby's throat 6 dance for the devil.
In order to trick Batman into completing the steps, Riddler incorporated them into his physical and mental riddles - forcing Batman to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a hanged security guard, making him perform a tracheotomy on a choking baby, and blowing up a blood bank to cover him in gore.
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