For his, he allowed the Agency to track him down and bring their operatives to Gotham, including Waller. Though arms dealer Rumi Mori , he gained access to radio signal guided homing missiles.
After creating a targeting signal, Riddler planned to hack into the agents' phones and install it onto them, guiding the missiles to their location. After Mori bowed out after learning his scheme, Riddler set up plans to murder the arms dealer in retribution and prevent him from leaking the plans early.
Days before the Pact's attacks, Riddler and his men confronted Mori at the Virago casino. After murdering security guard, he locked the building down and took the patrons hostages. Placing Mori into one of his " death traps , Riddler forced him to answer a riddle, removing two of his fingers when he answered incorrectly. During this, Batman appeared, incapacitated a number of his men and, having gained Riddler's attention, ordered Commissioner Gordon to raid the casino.
Stunned at the turn of events, Riddler fought with Batman, but was easily overpowered by the vigilante. Activating the death trap to murder Mori, he fled to the top of the casino's statue, though the vigilante disabled the trap and confronted him. After another fight, Riddler detonated a bomb to open his escape route and destroyed the statue's supports to distract Batman.
Leaving a puzzle box behind, he challenged the vigilante to solve it and made his escape. Batman was able to solve Riddler's puzzle and the radio wave signal emitter inside. Due to the Batcave having a scrambler installed, the missile was unable to receive the signal, thus not locate the Batcave or fire the missile. Batman ultimately brought the box into Wayne Enterprises to receive help, resulting in the signal being detected. This resulted in minor destruction of Wayne Tower and the death of Lucius Fox.
After hearing reports of it, Riddler ultimately deduced that Batman was connected to Wayne Enterprises and that Fox had been his ally. During the next week, Riddler set up another death trap within his lair as part of a puzzle for the Agency, leaving one of his missiles as a clue to his plans. He also set up a supercomputer capable of breaching SANCTUS's security underneath the living space, along with another trap to guard it.
Riddler tracked down and captured Special Agent Mario Fernandez , forcing him to solve it his puzzle. The agent failed to get enough clues and was ultimately unsuccessful, leading to his death.
After Batman and Gordon discovered and solved the trap, Riddler contacted them from the Lady of Dublin. Noticing they had allied with the Agency, he revealed his past with the organization, alluding to their responsibility in his connection, and warned them about Waller. Riddler also mocked Batman not saving Lucius' life and alluded their connection to Gordon. Calling an end to the challenge, he challenged the vigilante to find and stop him.
Later that night, four agents, including Iman Avesta and Vernon Blake , tracked Riddler to the Lady of Dublin , but he was able to capture them. Holding them within death traps, he and his men tortured them for their amusement. As they prepared to fire the missiles, Batman arrived, having retrieved his location from either Mori or Knable, and subdued his men. Riddler was apparently also knocked out with a Bat-Stunner , though he had prepared by wearing protective materials under his suit.
As Batman released Avesta from her trap, Riddler activated a trap, capturing them, and revealed his status to them. Revealing his knowledge of how he gained his location, Riddler unveiled the missile launcher.
Though he was planning to wait for the Pact, he decided to test Batman's code and how well he stuck to it. Fortunately, Catwoman decided to help Batman and Batgirl retrieve the journal after being double crossed by the Russians for stealing it in the first place. The Riddler hosts an underground television broadcast called "The Riddle Factory. However, there is a method to Riddler's madness.
Riddler held each of his broadcasts at an establishment that once belonged to "Scarface" Scarelli. Don Scarelli ruled Gotham's criminal underworld until the Falcones came into power.
Scarelli was eventually convicted for his crimes and sentenced to death. Scarelli was later hung on the Gallows Tree at Blackgate Penitentiary. Scarelli's remaining lieutenants had heard a rumor that Scarelli had hid his entire fortune somewhere in Gotham but he never passed on the location of his secret safe. It wasn't until later that the Riddler heard about Scarelli's fabled fortune and took it upon himself to find Scarelli's legendary vault which supposedly housed millions.
Riddler tracked down all of Scarelli's former holdings in real estate and orchestrated the Riddle Factory game show as a distraction while his men searched each area for the vault. Unfortunately, Riddler came no closer to finding Scarelli's vault like so many others before him because Batman and Gordon managed to outsmart him. Later on, the Riddler engineers what could possibly be called 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 traps design and develop a route of escape. The Riddler had a working relationship with The Cluemaster , although he initially resented the villain for seemingly copying his modus operandi.
In their first encounter, he set his fellow rogue up with a bomb and sent 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 baseball merchandise. The two teamed up on a few occasions afterward, and were working together on a big scheme shortly before Cluemaster's apparent death in the pages of The Suicide Squad.
After Gotham City is ravaged by an earthquake and Arkham Asylum frees its inmates, the Riddler elects to flee Gotham rather than stay behind in the lawless chaos that ensues. It is during this period that he makes the poor choice of attacking Black Canary and Green Arrow in Star City , where he is easily defeated.
This event helps lay the foundations for Riddler's future confrontations with Green Arrow. The Riddler played a tremendously vital part in the " Hush " crisis. Riddler, aware that he was dying of cancer, cleverly and secretly found one of Ra's Al Ghul's Lazarus Pits and used it unbeknown to its owner, curing himself of the fatal affliction.
Doctor Tommy Elliot whose vengeance and greed would later transform him into the criminal Hush happened upon Riddler as the latter was suffering through brain cancer Edward was, at the time, using the name Arthur Wynne--a tribute to the inventor of the crossword puzzle. Upon approaching Riddler about the villain's miraculous recovery from cancer, Riddler offered the location of a Lazarus Pit to heal Tommy's wealthy and dying mother--for a price, naturally.
However, Tommy had other things in mind Guided by Riddler's complex plan, he and Hush manipulated a variety of Batman's rogues to destroy Batman, piece by piece. Additionally, the clarity of mind that Riddler regained after his recovery resulted in him solving the greatest riddle of his lifetime: that Bruce Wayne is Batman. He used this information to hurt Batman with emotional agony; namely, using the memory of the deceased Jason Todd , the second Robin.
Upon Riddler's insistence, Clayface impersonated Todd to make this horrifying memory a reality again. Eventually Batman caught up to Riddler's plot and parried wits with the rogue who knew his identity, ensuring Riddler's silence--after all, what worth is a riddle whose answer everyone knows? Later, Hush reappeared and beat Riddler senseless. Riddler sought refuge with the Joker, which did not work out, and then Poison Ivy, who expressed her discontent about his earlier manipulation in a very harmful, humiliating way.
Spiraling into a depth of doubt and darker insanity, Edward lived among the homeless until an ex-NASA decoder discovered him, and helped him recover his wits and self. He had trouble with Green Arrow, Arsenal and the Outsiders. During the Infinite Crisis arc, Nigma is struck in the head by Shining Knight 's mace which results in him falling. Nigma came out of his coma one year later. While seemingly having overcome his compulsion for riddles, Riddler's intelligence, personality, and over-inflated ego remained.
Now rejecting the title 'The Riddler' and instead going by his real name, Nigma reclaimed his life in a new hue; amassing a fortune legally as a private detective. Nigma is on the right side of the law, even if he is still yearning for that insatiable thrill of crime that his intellect demands.
Riddler has since worked alongside Batman in solving a number of crimes, although Batman does so reluctantly and suspicion as to his true motives. Later, Nigma was hired by Nightwing to investigate museum robberies. Riddler also helped a darker Mary Marvel defeat Clayface and in witnessing her actions suggested that she seek help.
Riddler at one time saved a badly injured Dick Grayson, after he was attacked during a gang war between Whale and the Penguin. During this event, he managed to deduce the identity of Nightwing. Nigma was later seen being kept in a vegetative state by Poison Ivy in his penthouse, which she had claimed as her hideout. After his home was damaged by a new villain hoping make a name for himself by killing Catwoman, Riddler breaks out of his trance via the new villain's elbow knocking him in the jaw.
Upon seeing the damage done to his home, he proceeded to attack the assailant, who had caused the damage while tussling with Catwoman, Ivy, and Harley, who had also been using his penthouse for refuge. Not long after, during a case, Eddie discovered that murders were being carried out by a gang looking to replace Riddler in the crime world, due to his reformation.
With the help of Dick Grayson as Batman, the group was thwarted. Having recently had a bomb go off near his face, scarring him, Nigma had begun using his old Riddler mask again. Nigma also seemed to be acting suspiciously, suggesting that he may very well be returning back to a life of crime.
This is also hinted out later when Nigma helped his neutral associates Catwoman, Poison Ivy, and Harley solve a murder, only to find out the girls only used him as bait for Dr.
Aesop , who the girls suspected of trying to run them out of their home. Leaving feeling betrayed Nigma brushed off the sirens attempts to get back on good terms, contemplating whether he should return to his villainous roots. Edward Nigma reappears as a shady detective during a series of bizarre copycat murders to assist Dick Grayson. The murders resemble the MO of several different villains in Batman's rogues gallery including Zsasz, Mr. Freeze, and Penguin. Nigma later presents Grayson photographic evidence of a person present at several of the murder scenes and it's revealed to be Sebastian Blackspell.
Grayson goes to track him only to find another mutilated body and a picture of what looks like a dead Nigma. Grayson spots Blackspell and chases him down only to lose him and finds evidence hinting that the Blackspell he confronted was someone else in disguise. Nigma was later found by Dick Grayson in his office in a catatonic state. It seemed as though he had been poisoned by Joker Venom. Dick assumes that this was the Joker's handy work but it turns out that Sebastian Blackspell made a derivative of Joker Venom and used it on Nigma.
Dick Grayson learns from an incarcerated Garfield Lynns that Riddler was once affiliated in a criminal organization led by Sebastian Blackspell and that Blackspell is most likely unhappy with the results of Riddler's reformation as a PI and is seeking revenge.
While being treated at Gotham Hospital, Nigma was attacked by Sebastian Blackspell, who intended to inject him with a mutating compound that can transform its recipients into plant hybrids as revenge for stealing his money and his life. Fortunately, Dick intercedes and Blackspell is injected with the dangerous compound in an accident that Nigma may have purposely caused because Dick Grayson was starting to suspect that Nigma injected himself with Joker Venom and was behind everything.
Blackspell transforms into a crazed wooden monster and is defeated by Dick Grayson which allows Riddler time to suspiciously escape to avoid further interrogation. He also suspects Nigma was responsible for the copycat murders and framed Blackspell so Dick would be tricked into helping Nigma escape Blackspell's intended revenge.
Dick notes that Riddler has a lot to answer for. Riddler is later seen with his daughter Enigma while they beat Batman Dick Grayson to a bloody pulp.
Fortunately, Damian intervenes and Riddler along with Enigma escape. Later on, Riddler and Enigma are discussing another business proposition with a mysterious woman who resembles two-face. They talk as if they have worked together before, but because of The Riddler's amnesia he can't remember it. She gives him money, his criminal records, and other files from the district attorney's office.
Riddler is seen to be helping Gilda Dent the woman discussed in the previous paragraph escape from Mario Falcone through a complex plot involving Two-Face. Two-Face seems to have lost his coin, and it is mailed to him with a note saying "answer the phone". Two-Face goes to a public pay phone and is confronted by a man sitting in it, saying "Drawwww, cowboy! Two-Face shoots quickly, but soon discovers that it was a recording and puppet. Knockout gas then fills the phone booth.
He wakes up tied up in front of Mario Falcone. He is beaten, and finally shot by his former wife, Gilda. He is seen to be coming out of a grave, and immediately being knocked out again. He wakes up in Riddler's lair, and starts beating him up, and quickly realizes that Riddler set up the recording in the phone booth.
Riddler shows Harvey a bulletproof vest that Gilda or Riddler must have put on him when he was being brought to Falcone so he would survive to act out Gilda's plan.
He joins forces with Two-face on his fight against the Falcone family. He is next seen shooting several people to get to a library, where he finds his file from the district attorney's office. He finds three different pages. One from his early years as a villain with skin tight costume , another with his suit jacket and bowler and then another from his time as a reformed detective. With his life and memories collected, a new arc begins in Riddler's character. And it begins with the death of Enigma!
The End? In Batman's New 52 origin story, it is revealed that Riddler had risen to prominence in Wayne Enterprises, which was at the time under the control of Bruce Wayne's uncle, Philip Kane.
When Philip finds out that he had sent the Red Hood gang to kill Bruce, Riddler kills him, activating the magnetic plate in his head. Leaving Wayne Enterprises, Riddler causes a massive blackout in Gotham City, taking out all the power in the city, just as a massive hurricane is about to hit the coast. The city is divided up into various parts by the Penguin , and Riddler situates himself within the Gotham Public Library.
When a war breaks out between the former Arkham Asylum inmates, led by Scarecrow , and the former Blackgate Inmates, led by Bane , Riddler decides to remain neutral.
Joker approaches Riddler in Arkham Asylum when laying preparations for his later encounter with Batman. Wanting Riddler to involved in his grand scheme, Joker places Joker Gas in Nygma's cell, wanting him to escape and "Performing at his best" for the planned scheme. As Joker expected, Riddler breaks out of the cell before the gas can kill him. Joker then reveals his plan to Riddler, much to his confusion Despite Riddler normally understanding his plans. Joker however claims that he should just be along for the ride.
Riddler later appears with Two-Face and Penguin in Joker's "throne-room" set. Riddler acts as Batman's strategist "Sir Edward" and forces one of Joker's hostages Dressed like Superman to touch an electrocuted chainsaw. Later, Joker traps Two-Face, Penguin and Riddler in the throne-room to ensure that they don't interfere with his plans with Batman. Penguin offers Nygma twenty-thousand-dollars if he finds a way to escape but Riddler falls unconscious as Joker had placed tranquillisers in his suit.
Riddler has a vast fortune that he has acquired over years of crime. By the end of the issue, the grand reveal of who died is shown to be Edward Nygma - the Riddler. This villain is known for his puzzles, tricks, and riddles, which mostly are designed to trap and trick Batman. This time, the Riddler could be playing a much bigger game considering how much has yet to be revealed about this murder.
The story that Joker tells is suspicious and untrustworthy - as would be expected, but one of the most interesting things he says is that the Riddler isn't dead. If this is actually true and the body is a fake, then where IS the Riddler? Considering the villain's modus operandi, it wouldn't be farfetched for him to fake his own death in order to have a bit of fun.
Putting not just Batman , but also most of Gotham's top criminals, through peculiar circumstances seems exactly like the kind of thing he would enjoy being the mastermind of. Some of the biggest names in crime are locked up at GCPD as suspects for his murder, while he could sit back and watch what happens.
Should the Riddler be behind this mystery, it would only be natural for there to be lots of clues and confusing twists.
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