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. Due to this he wins the contest and is given a book of riddles as a prize. He breaks into the school at night to practice the puzzle until he is able to solve it in under a minute. 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. The character's origin story recounts Edward Nigma's fascination with puzzles from a young age. (note the Riddler Puzzle trap in this drawing was actually used in an episode of Batman when John Astin guest starred as the Riddler) John Glover, Robert Englund, Wally Wingert, and others have provided the character's voice ranging from animation to video games.Ĭover of Detective Comics #140 (October 1948), the first appearance of the Riddler. The Riddler has been adapted into numerous forms of media, having been portrayed in live action by Frank Gorshin and John Astin on the 1960s television series Batman, Jim Carrey in the 1995 film Batman Forever, Cory Michael Smith on the 2014 Fox series Gotham, and Paul Dano in the 2022 film The Batman. A black, green, or purple question mark serves as his visual motif.
The character commonly wears a domino mask and either a green unitard decorated with question mark prints or a green suit and bowler hat. With this self-conscious use of an elaborate gimmick, the Riddler's crimes are often theatrical and ostentatious. His real name–Edward Nigma–is a pun itself an "enigma" is a person or thing that is difficult to understand.
He has an obsessive compulsion to incorporate riddles, puzzles, and death traps in his schemes to prove his intellectual superiority over Batman and the police. In his comic book appearances, the Riddler is depicted as a criminal mastermind in Gotham City. He has become one of the most enduring enemies of the superhero Batman and belongs to the collective of adversaries that make up his rogues gallery.
The character was created by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang, and debuted in Detective Comics #140 in October 1948. The Riddler ( Edward Nigma, later Edward Nygma or Edward Nashton) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Utilizes complex riddles, puzzles, and lethal contraptions.Skilled inventor, engineer, and escape artist.
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