Edward Nashton

## The Riddler

**Edward E.** "**Eddie**" **Nashton**, also known as the "**Riddler**", is both a fictional character and antagonist of the *MDC's* *Captain Batman* series created by Joe Simon and Bob Kane. He is a man who uses riddles and puzzles to commit crimes.

He is a deranged genius who has spent a vast amount of his life studying, exploring and memorizing all the knowledge he possibly could. Being raised by abusive and neglectful parents, he strived to be the most intelligent man alive.

His parents (primarily his father, Edgar) refused to believe he could ever become smarter than them, often accusing him of cheating whenever he succeeded in school academics or trivial games.

super-villain who uses riddles and puzzles to commit his crimes.

is a supervillain with a penchant for charades and riddles. Despite not being taken seriously by other criminals, he is an agent of and strategist for the Light.

He is a deranged genius who feels a psychological compulsion to demonstrate his intellectual superiority.
Determined to be the cleverest of Gotham City's criminals, he constructed elaborate crimes while delivering clues daring law enforcement to catch him.

This may have been what caused his inferiority complex to become so deep that he feels compelled to always leave cryptic clues to anyone worthy of his games in an attempt to prove both his honesty and his intellect, initially taking on the moniker of "**Enigma**".

"*I am the SMARTEST! I am the BEST! I AM THE RIDDLER!*"

—Riddler, to Batman and Captain America.

## Appearance & Biography

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### Biography

With an obsessive need for attention, Edward Nygma is determined to be the most outlandish of Gotham City's criminals, concocting elaborate series of clues and riddles around his crimes. Batman has proven a worthy opponent, capable of deducing the Riddler's plans, but Eddie is dedicated to creating a mystery the Dark Knight will not be able to solve in time.

### Appearance

#### As Eddie Nygma

Edward Nygma has brown hair with glasses. He

#### As The Riddler

Riddler

* Hair Color: Brown
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Green
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: July 7th
* Height: 6'1"
* Weight: 183 lbs.

### Attributes:

* Genius intellect.
* Driven by a need to test his wits against law enforcement by leaving clues to his planned crimes.
* Compulsive need for attention.

## Personality

Edward Nygma is an insane and egocentric genius. Due to his troubled childhood where his parents abused him and robbed him of recognition for his intellect and accomplishments, he had an inferiority complex and grew believing himself the smartest man in the world. To prove this, Eddie would go to incredible, almost psychotic lengths such as selecting his victims and implicating them within death traps to prove their intellect, and clarify his honesty and intelligence, and anyone which he deemed as stupid would be killed.

However, he was willing to cheat to succeed and even those who did win Eddie would ignore entirely and come up with illogical, and quite frankly lame excuses for their victory. He constantly persists that Batman is a cheating fraud no matter how many times he won fairly; Eddie's ego cannot bend to believe that there is someone in the world as smart as him.

His anti-social behavior, childlike characteristics such as a rash temper, recklessness, sullenness and an arrogant self-desire to always be the best leaves him a virtual emotionally crippled child at heart. It's also implied that he had a patricidal hatred of his father, presumably due to suffering from abuse from him. Since childhood, Eddie has had a penchant for riddles until it became the motif of his criminal nature and background.

He carries himself in a quizzical manner, always repeating his favorite riddles and scribbling them in his cell at Arkham Asylum. Due to his obsessive-compulsive tendencies, he will leave clues and riddles even when he knows he should not which occasionally has caused his defeat. He also has a fondness for the color green, dressing himself in the color throughout his costume incarnations and manufacturing most of his weapons, robots and trophies in the drab.

Unlike other criminals who would kill their victims simply or over periods of excessive torture, Eddie would go to highly complicated lengths before doing such an act, including extremely intricate death traps, designed to test the victim mentally and physically until it either ended in their survival or execution.

Unlike the rest of Gotham's super-criminals, Eddie's main weapon was his IQ and as such did not need to arm himself with weapons or henchman, however throughout Gotham and Arkham City Eddie has single-handedly amassed the largest web of informants, spies and traitors within rival crime gangs, GCPD and even parts of the government, implicated to feed him updated knowledge to know everything that is occurring inside and out of Gotham.

If his back is against the wall, though Eddie will take violent action such as attacking Batman and Catwoman in the orphanage in a mechanical suit. Over the continuation of the series as he kept getting defeated by Batman, Eddie grew more and more obsessed, and his mental health deteriorates further. It's also implied that another reason he wanted to best Batman was ultimately because he projected his father onto Batman, as during their final confrontation, Riddler yelled "Die Father... I mean, Batman!"

Though he originally focused on submitting blackmail data to the public to cause a social upheaval, after encountering and subsequently being humiliated by the Dark Knight, Eddie finally founded someone whom he could consider his intellectual equal and the more he was beaten the more this became intense. Eventually assuring intellectual dominance over Batman became his one and only goal and was willing to place innocent civilians and later his allies to draw him out.

Since this and very similar to the Joker, another criminal fixated on Batman, Eddie is not simply satisfied with killing Batman but humiliating him in every way the Caped Crusader did to him and later crushing him underfoot after unmasking his identity and admitting that he was his intellectual Eddie superior all along.

Although killing Batman would also prove he is inferior to him, especially if it was because of his own creations. Eddie considers himself to be Batman's greatest enemy, putting himself before Joker, Bane and Scarecrow.

## Relationships

### Family

* Sarah Nashton (Mother)
* Edgar Nashton (Father)

## Abilities and Powers

### Abilities

* **Genius Level Intellect**
	+ **Gifted inventor**: Riddler can build his challenges and death traps without much trouble, so long as he has the right places to set them up and the materials.
	+ **Computer Operation**
		- **Computer Hacking**: Riddler can hack into radio frequencies, even Batman's. He can even keep track of Detective Mode.
	+ **Robotic Engineering**: Riddler built himself a robot army.
	+ **Architecture**
	+ **Electrical Engineering**

### Other

* **Mental Disorder**: According to Batman, Edward's mental illness comprises of "fanatic narcissism, egocentrism, and megalomania, crossed with severe obsessive compulsion."
	+ **Obsession**:

## External links

* Riddler *Wikipedia*
* Riddler *Batman Wiki*
* Riddler *DC Database*
* Riddler *DC Universe Online Wiki*