Eddie Nashton (Arkhamverse)

* Origins
* City
* Knight

***Eddie Nashton** has character files in Arkham Origins, Arkham Asylum, Arkham City and Arkham Knight.*
**Eddie Nashton** is a master hacker who seems able to defeat almost all forms of network security, determined to be the cleverest of Gotham City's criminals.

## Arkham Origins

### Notes

* Incredible intellect, but also highly insecure
* Compulsive need to prove his superiority
* Master hacker

### Profile

Enigma seems able to defeat almost all forms of network security. Batman’s own network is under threat of attack and steps must be taken to ensure no future incursions. If he was able to access the Batcomputer, there’s no telling how much damage he could do. Fortunately, his insecurities cause him to act out. The more he draws attention to himself, the easier he becomes to track down and take out.

## Arkham Asylum

### Attributes

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

### Story

With an obsessive-compulsive need for attention, Edward Nigma 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 Nigma is dedicated to creating a mystery the Dark Knight will not be able to solve in time.

### Patient interview #21, May 27th

**Doctor Young:** Patient interview 21. Patient’s name is Edward Nigma, also known as the Riddler. So, Edward, Warden Sharp tells me you’ve been leaving threatening riddles scrawled on the asylum walls, again.
**Edward Nigma:** One would have to be severely paranoid to read threats into harmless riddles, Doctor Young. May I test you with one?
**Doctor Young:** Very well.
**Edward Nigma:** What is it that walks on four legs, then two legs and finally three legs?
**Doctor Young:** A human being. As a baby it crawls on four legs, as an adult it walks on two and in later years it uses a cane.
**Edward Nigma:** Good try, but the answer to all three is a baby. True, it crawls on all fours, but cut off its legs and it can only wiggle on two limbs. Give it a crutch, it can hobble around on three. You see?
**Doctor Young:** That’s horrible. How can you even joke about that?
**Edward Nigma:** Easily, Doctor. It’s not my baby.

### Patient interview #39, July 29th

**Doctor Young:** Taped interview 39. Patient’s name is Edward Nigma. At this point in time I have yet to decide if Mr. Nigma is a suitable candidate for the Titan process. I’d like to talk about your childhood.
**Edward Nigma:** Miserable. Next?
**Doctor Young:** By all accounts that is where your fascination with riddles began. I believe discussing those early years could explain your compulsive behaviour.
**Edward Nigma:** Very well… My father hated me. Always called me a moron.
**Doctor Young:** I see.
**Edward Nigma:** I was determined to prove him wrong, so I entered a contest at school. A twenty dollar prize to the kid who could figure out an almost impossible logic problem. I won, of course.
**Doctor Young:** And that pleased your father?
**Edward Nigma:** Hardly. He was convinced I had cheated. He kept yelling, “You must have cheated! Admit it, you moron! You cheated!” I swore I didn’t and he hit me for lying.
**Doctor Young:** I’m sorry to hear that, Edward.
**Edward Nigma:** Don’t be. He was right.

### Patient interview #44, August 21st

**Doctor Young:** Patient interview 44. This is yet another interview with Edward Nigma. I have yet to make up my mind whether he is a genius or just deluded. Whichever one he is, just being in his company is both irritating and exhausting.
**Edward Nigma:** Hello, Miss Young. You look tired. Anything you need my help with?
**Doctor Young:** No thank you, Edward. I am here to help you. We all are.
**Edward Nigma:** Forgive my arrogance, Doctor, but if you think I need your help, well, you’re in the right place.
**Doctor Young:** Let’s look at it in a different way. Throughout your career, you have specialised in bizarre traps and convoluted clues that, more often than not, result in the death of the unfortunate participants.
**Edward Nigma:** And if the citizens of Gotham were smarter, my games would be merely an amusing diversion.
**Doctor Young:** Instead of deathtraps.
**Edward Nigma:** You really should be thanking me. Weeding out the ignorant, the stupid, the useless. But don’t worry, I’m sure you would survive. What a lovely photo on your desk, Doctor. Your family? Mother, perhaps?
**Doctor Young:** Put that down! Get out! Guards!

### Patient interview #55, October 4th

**Doctor Young:** Let’s discuss your obsession with Batman.
**Edward Nigma:** Hardly an obsession, Miss Young. I simply feel an obligation to expose him.
**Doctor Young:** You know who he is?
**Edward Nigma:** More important, I know what he is.
**Doctor Young:** What do you mean?
**Edward Nigma:** It’s obvious. The mask, the weapons, the scare tactics, he’s a criminal. No different than Joker, Two-Face or myself.
**Doctor Young:** Most people consider him a hero.
**Edward Nigma:** Most people are idiots. They can’t see Batman for the villain he is. Riddle me this. How did he get his car and his gadgets?
**Doctor Young:** I don’t…
**Edward Nigma:** With money stolen from the criminals he “defeats”. Why does Gordon turn a blind eye to his antics? Batman bribes him! The answers are right in front of your stupid, gawking face!
**Doctor Young:** Edward! Please, calm down…
**Edward Nigma:** Wake up, Gotham! No sane, law-abiding man does those things! No one’s that selfless! Batman is as vile as they come!
**Doctor Young:** Security! Security!

### Patient interview #76, January 16th

**Doctor Young:** This is my final interview with Edward. I have gone as far as I can. I can no longer tolerate his mood swings and tantrums. I have more important work to be getting on with. He will be transferred to Doctor Whistler’s care as of next week.
**Edward Nigma:** Good morning, Doctor. How are you today?
**Doctor Young:** I’m fine, thank you, Edward. You’re in a good mood.
**Edward Nigma:** I’m always in rare spirits when I’m about to be released.
**Doctor Young:** Edward, you know you don’t come up for parole for another three years.
**Edward Nigma:** First thing I’ll do is have dinner at that Italian place on 19th Street…
**Doctor Young:** Seriously, Edward…
**Edward Nigma:** I only hope Joker hasn’t completely trashed the city. Ah well, I’m sure I’ll find out soon enough.
**Doctor Young:** Wait, have you been in contact with The Joker? He escaped Arkham weeks ago!
**Edward Nigma:** And yet, one hears things…
**Doctor Young:** What things? What have you heard?
**Edward Nigma:** Oh, something about a surprise party for Batman, I forget the rest. You know Joker, yak, yak, yak.
**Doctor Young:** Edward, if you know anything, you’ve got to tell me! Lives could be at stake! What did Joker say?
**Edward Nigma:** You forget, Doctor. I’m the one who asks the riddles.

## Arkham City

### Bio

With an obsessive-compulsive need for attention, Edward Nigma is determined to be the cleverest of Gotham City’s criminals, plotting elaborate trails of clues and riddles around his crimes.
Batman has proven a worthy opponent, capable of unravelling the Riddler’s most intricate plans, but Nigma is dedicated to creating a mystery that will slump the Dark Knight, even if he has to kill someone to do it.
Humiliated by Batman on Arkham Island, Nigma is more determined than ever to bring the Caped Crusader to his knees.

### Attributes

* Genius intellect
* Driven to test others by leaving clues to his crimes
* Compulsive need for attention

### Tape 1

**Hugo Strange**: Do not fret, Mr. Mayor. Everything is under control. I promise you.
**Mayor Quincy Sharp**: it’s not that I don’t trust you, Hugo, it’s just… it’s just that the headaches, the pain. They come all the time now.
**Hugo Strange**: Continue to take the medication.
**Mayor Quincy Sharp**: But…
**Hugo Strange**: It is late, Mr. Mayor. You are tired. You need your sleep.
**Mayor Quincy Sharp**: Of course. I need my sleep.
**Hugo Strange**: You will hang up now.
**Mayor Quincy Sharp**: I will hang up now –
**Hugo Strange**: Imbecile.
**The Riddler**: I couldn’t have put it better myself.
**Hugo Strange**: What! How dare you enter my office?
**The Riddler**: Oh, I’m not in your office, and please, don’t insult me by attempting to trace this broadcast. You will fail.
**Hugo Strange**: I take it I am talking to Mr. Edward Nigma?
**The Riddler**: Do you know any other inmate in your twisted little penitentiary who is ingenious enough to arrange this little chat?
**Hugo Strange**: Narcissism. A compulsive desire to prove his intellect and a predilection for riddles.
**The Riddler**: You’ve read my file.
**Hugo Strange**: Of course.
**The Riddler**: Good. Then let’s get started. How do you attempt to understand what is going on in Arkham City when all of the answers are STRANGE?

### Tape 2

**The Riddler**: Good evening, Hugo. I believe it is time for our one-on-one.
**Hugo Strange**: No. It is time for you to stop this and give up. My TYGER guards will find you and when that happens, I will perform the procedure on you myself.
**The Riddler**: Procedure? Oh, you mean what you did to all those poor fools back at the Asylum. To be honest, I think you did them a favour.
**Hugo Strange**: How do you…?
**The Riddler**: How do I know that you requested access to all the most… forgettable patients and proceeded to melt their brains with the help of that confused milliner? Or did you mean, how do I know that you have been providing the ex-warden with your own special medication, no doubt intended to render his synapses more malleable to your suggestions. Or maybe you are currently wondering if I know about the secret panel in your closet. How it slides back to reveal what you want most. How you sit, wearing that suit, crying into your hands as you question whether you are really worthy.
**Hugo Strange**: What do you want, Mister Nigma?
**The Riddler**: Oh, that’s easy. I want exactly what you want.
**Hugo Strange**: And What’s that?
**The Riddler**: Batman. Dead. Humiliated. But dead.

### Tape 3

**The Riddler**: Knock, knock, Professor. Guess who?
**Hugo Strange**: I grow tired of these insipid games, Mr. Nigma. If you wish to speak to me, my guards will escort you safely to my tower.
**The Riddler**: Please, Hugo. If you’re going to set a trap, at least pretend to try harder than that.
**Hugo Strange**: No traps, Edward. I simply wish to grant you safe passage through Arkham City. I think the time has come for us to meet as equals.
**The Riddler**: You, Strange? My equal? I am the man whose cunning will soon have Batman lying at my feet, bloodied and broken.
**Hugo Strange**: Really?
**The Riddler**: Then I will pull off his mask and look into his dull, dying eyes. In that last instant he will know that I have finally beaten him and I will finally know who he really is.
**Hugo Strange**: My apologies, Edward. I see now we are nowhere near equals.
**The Riddler**: Finally.
**Hugo Strange**: You see, like me, you are obsessed with the Batman, but unlike me, you don’t know who he really is. Do you?
**The Riddler**: What?

### Tape 4

**The Riddler**: I know you are lying, Strange. There is no way that you could have figured it out. It’s some kind of trick. It must be.
**Hugo Strange**: Oh, I used no tricks, no childish puzzles. I simply created a psychological profile of the man most likely to be the Batman, and then matched it against the most logical candidate. I was right, of course.
**The Riddler**: Well, who is he?
**Hugo Strange**: Ah, but that would spoil the game for you, wouldn’t it?
**The Riddler**: You must tell me! I implore you, Strange! I…
**Hugo Strange**: Really, Edward. If I could figure it out, it must be child’s play for you.
**The Riddler**: But I… I…
**Hugo Strange**: Interesting. Tell me, Edward. How is the Riddler like a blank dictionary? You’re both at a loss for words.

## Arkham Knight

### Bio

With an obsessive compulsive need for attention, Edward Nigma is determined to be the cleverest of Gotham City’s criminals, plotting elaborate trails of clues and riddles around his crimes.
Batman has proven a worthy opponent, capable of unravelling the Riddler’s most intricate plans, but Nigma is dedicated to creating a mystery that will confound the Dark Knight, even if he has to kill someone to do it.
Humiliated by Batman on Arkham Island, and again in Arkham City, Nigma is more determined than ever to make the Caped Crusader bow before his superior intellect.

### Attributes

* Genius intellect
* Driven to test other by leaving clues to his crimes
* Compulsive need for attention and validation

### Audio File 1

**Scarecrow**: I thought it best we meet alone Edward.
**Riddler**: I know what you’re doing Crane, talking to me away from Cobblepot and the others. You’re appealing to my ego.
**Scarecrow**: Is it working?
**Riddler**: HA! I don’t HAVE an ego, Crane. I’m far too brilliant. Especially for the likes of you.
**Scarecrow**: Of course, Edward. But nonetheless, we have a mutual foe.
**Riddler**: A foe I could vanquish with but one of my cerebral lobes intact! Yet here you are, proposing an alliance that would let you bask in my luminescent glory.
**Scarecrow**: But what if you failed, Edward? What if, by some underhand means, of course, the Batman were to humiliate you again.**Riddler**: Absurd!
**Scarecrow**: I know, Edward, it’s a frightening thought. How many failures can even your enviable reputation withstand? But if the Bat were distracted, tugged in too many directions by too many threats, why, then you would be assured of the upper hand.
**Riddler**: I have… I- I- don’t know how to respond to your ridiculous insinuations. So all I will say is this. Tell me which day you plan to attack Gotham and maybe, just maybe, if you’re lucky, I will coincidently put my entirely separate and superior masterplan into effect.
**Scarecrow**: How kind, Edward. I will keep my fingers crossed.

### Audio File 2

**Catwoman**: Who is this?
**Riddler**: Ah. Ms. Kyle. You have the privilege of conversing with me, The Riddler. Gotham’s premier super-villain and intellectual colossus.
**Catwoman**: And I’m honoured, Eddie. Really. Bye!
**Riddler**: Wait! Wait! I’ll get to the point. I find myself in need of your unique skillset. Your “street smarts” as you intellectually challenged kind adorably calls them.
**Catwoman**: I'm going to adorably hang up on you, Eddie…
**Riddler**: No! No! Listen, I need… something acquired. Something valuable.
**Catwoman**: Sorry Eddie, it’s just I have all these clients who aren’t insecure little power-mad man children.
**Riddler**: Fine. You may name your fee.
**Catwoman**: …Information.
**Riddler**: Ah, the most valuable commodity of all.
**Catwoman**: Scarecrow’s planning something. Involving Batman.
**Riddler**: I might be furnished with the absurd particulars of his ridiculous scheme.
**Catwoman**: I’ll get you what you want, Eddie, if you tell me what I need to know.

### Audio File 3

**Riddler**: Right. OK. Riddlerbot memory formatted, adaptive AI algorithms uploaded. Joints oiled. Now give my creation life! Damn it! Useless hunk of dead metal! Do you want to become a semi-automated theme park mannequin?! Because that’s the fate in store for you!
**Catwoman**: Problem, Eddie?
**Riddler**: Ah. Ms. Kyle. You’re here.
**Catwoman**: And you already have company. Almost, anyway. Did you lose your friend’s batteries?
**Riddler**: Why yo… es. In a manner of speaking, anyway. I’m depleted.
**Catwoman**: And always compensating for it too.
**Riddler**: Oh Catwoman. Your wit never ceases to… occur. Now, I need you to procure a set of rechargeable energy cells for me. Stagg Enterprises’ nimbus tech will work. I’m sure Wayne Enterprises has an equivalent.
**Catwoman**: Got it. It’s been a pleasure as always, Eddie. Except for the talking to you part.
**Riddler**: Wait! At least take a glimpse at what it is you’re supposed to be stealing! There. In the robot’s chest cavity. Go on. It won’t bite.
**Catwoman**: Eddie, there’s noth- WHAT THE HELL? Eddie, make this thing let me go!
**Riddler**: BATTERIES? You think I needed batteries?! Oh Ms. Kyle, you underestimated my bespoke power supply innovations. And that was your downfall.
**Catwoman**: What is this, Eddie?
**Riddler**: This is - you are - bait. You see, I’ve identified what I believe to be some sort of… attachment between you and Batman. The base nature of this attachment quite frankly disgusts me. But it will bring him here.
**Catwoman**: You’ll regret this.
**Riddler**: The World’s Greatest Detective does not frighten me.
**Catwoman**: He’s not the reason you’ll regret it.