50 Fun Facts About The Riddler
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Take the 50-question quizWho co-created the Riddler with artist Dick Sprang?
Finger, long uncredited, co-created Batman himself and much of the rogues gallery.
In which issue did the Riddler make his debut?
That was October 1948, eight years after the Joker and Catwoman arrived in Batman #1.
In what year did the Riddler first appear in print?
He debuted in October 1948, in the Golden Age, but only became a headline villain after the 1960s TV show.
Which punctuation symbol is the Riddler's visual motif?
It turns up in black, green or purple, on his suit, his staff and in the New 52 even his mohawk.
What headwear does the Riddler commonly pair with his green suit?
The suit-and-bowler look was invented for television and later imported back into the comics.
Which three-word line does the Riddler commonly say before posing a puzzle?
The line became so attached to the character that a 2012 DC Nation short was titled after it.
The Riddler's original surname, Nigma, is a pun on which word?
Later writers respelled it Nygma and, in the New 52, swapped it for Nashton.
In his Golden Age origin, young Edward won what prize for solving a school puzzle contest?
He had broken into the school at night to practise the puzzle, so the prize rewarded cheating.
Before turning to crime, the Golden Age Riddler worked where, cheating customers?
His bizarre puzzles and mind games on the midway were practice for challenging Batman.
In The Long Halloween, the Riddler works as an informant for which crime boss?
Falcone has him thrown out on April 1, and the Holiday killer fires blanks at him as an April Fool's joke.
In Batman: Hush, the Riddler used a Lazarus Pit to cure himself of what?
The same illness afflicted Thomas Elliot's mother, which is how the two villains' schemes became entangled.
In Hush, the Riddler had Clayface impersonate which dead former Robin?
A later story, Under the Hood, revealed Todd was alive and had taken part in the scheme himself.
In Hush, which crossword inventor's name in Elliot's records exposed the Riddler?
Wynne published the first crossword in 1913; only a puzzle obsessive would use him as an alias.
Which hero's mace blow put the Riddler into a year-long coma during Infinite Crisis?
He woke cured of his riddle compulsion but with his ego and genius intact.
After waking from his coma, the reformed Riddler took up which profession?
His first case proved that a photo implicating Bruce Wayne in a murder showed an impostor.
The Riddler's henchwoman Query works alongside a partner named what?
The biker duo tried to rob a customer at gunpoint who turned out to be the Riddler himself, and he hired them.
In the New 52, the Riddler's Arkham redesign gave him a green mohawk shaped like what?
Batman (vol. 2) #1 introduced the look; by Zero Year he was back in a suit and bowler.
In Zero Year, the Riddler's takeover left Gotham as what kind of place?
Only the intelligent were meant to survive, a premise The Batman (2022) borrowed for its finale.
Which villain shot the Riddler in the stomach after he proposed a partnership in 2017?
Riddler healed, carved a question-mark scar over the wound, and went to war across Gotham.
In The War of Jokes and Riddles, whose son did the Riddler poison, creating Kite Man?
Kite Man's real name is a nod to Charlie Brown, the Peanuts kid who could never fly a kite.
On Earth-Three, the Riddler's heroic counterpart is called what?
He belongs to the Justice Underground, that world's mirror of the Crime Syndicate.
Who originated the live-action Riddler on TV in 1966 and earned an Emmy nomination?
His manic turn elevated a second-tier villain into a permanent fixture of the rogues gallery.
Who played the Riddler during the 1966 series' second season?
A pay dispute kept the original Riddler away; he returned for season three's 'Ring Around the Riddler'.
The 1960s TV Riddler's cackle was inspired by Richard Widmark's villain in which film?
Widmark's Tommy Udo famously pushed a wheelchair-bound woman down a flight of stairs.
The 1966 TV Riddler disliked which comic-book costume piece, prompting a suit alternative?
The green suit and question-mark derby created for TV was later adapted by the comics.
On Fox's Gotham, Edward Nygma starts out in what job at the GCPD?
He delivers his findings as riddles long before he adopts the name.
Which actor played Edward Nygma on Gotham?
He prepared by reading a stack of Riddler comics spanning different decades.
On Gotham, Nygma has a complicated love-hate relationship with which fellow criminal?
A decade on, a bat-inspired vigilante captures the pair after they both try to kill Gordon.
Who voiced the Riddler in Batman: The Animated Series?
Producers deliberately avoided a cackling trickster and made him a smooth intellectual.
In Batman: The Animated Series, what was Nygma's job before his boss Daniel Mockridge fired him?
The writers admitted they rarely used him because devising the riddles was so hard.
Which horror icon voiced the Gothic-styled Riddler in The Batman (2004)?
That version's henchmen were called Riddlemen, and Brooke Shields voiced his ex-partner Julie.
Who voiced the Riddler in The Lego Batman Movie?
Eddie Izzard, Zoë Kravitz and Doug Benson filled out the rest of that film's rogues gallery.
In the Harley Quinn animated series, the Riddler gets engaged to which villain?
He proposes in the Valentine's Day special, having earlier been forced to power Harley's mall lair on a treadmill.
Who voices the Riddler across the Batman: Arkham games?
He also voices the 1966-style Riddler in Return of the Caped Crusaders and Batman vs. Two-Face.
In Batman: Arkham Origins, the young future Riddler operates under which alias?
He runs the GCPD's cybercrime unit while blackmailing Gotham's elite from the inside.
In Batman: Arkham Knight, the Riddler coerces Batman by putting an explosive collar on whom?
She gets revenge in DLC by emptying his bank account and leaving his lair to self-destruct.
Who played Edward Nygma in the 1995 film Batman Forever?
He got the part in June 1994 after Robin Williams reportedly walked away from it.
In Batman Forever, what is Nygma's brainwave-stealing device called?
It beamed TV into the brain and siphoned intelligence back to Nygma, who eventually learned Batman's identity from it.
In an early Batman Forever script, the Riddler was a rat-owning character with what real name?
His company would have been HeckTech rather than NygmaTech; a leprechaun fortune-teller supplied his costume.
Which pop star did Joel Schumacher say lobbied hard for the Riddler role in 1995?
Schumacher turned him down; Robin Williams, Kelsey Grammer and Steve Martin were also reportedly considered.
Which Batman Forever co-star told the Riddler actor 'I cannot sanction your buffoonery'?
Schumacher said Jones felt threatened by his co-star, while Carrey behaved like a gentleman.
Paul Dano's Riddler in The Batman (2022) is partly based on which real-life murderer?
Like Zodiac, he mails ciphers to the authorities and was never meant to be charming.
What is the Riddler's day job in The Batman (2022)?
The job let him trace the corruption that drained the orphanage he grew up in.
The Batman's viral site rataalada.com takes its name from Spanish for what?
Solving the site's riddles unlocked a deleted scene of Batman meeting Barry Keoghan's Joker in Arkham.
Who is the Riddler's first victim in The Batman (2022)?
The killing happens on Halloween, and a message for Batman is left at the scene.
In The Batman (2022), how does the Riddler kill the crime boss moments after his arrest?
He surrenders immediately afterwards, which is exactly what he wanted.
In The Batman (2022), the Riddler plans to flood Gotham by bombing what?
His online followers were to massacre the opposing mayoral candidate's rally at the same time.
The Riddler's Revenge roller coaster is found at which Six Flags park?
Texas got The Riddler Revenge and Georgia the Riddler Mindbender, so every answer is a real ride.
Comedian Hasan Minhaj voiced the Riddler in Batman Unburied, a podcast on which platform?
He got his own spin-off, The Riddler: Secrets in the Dark.
In the Batman: Arkham games, what is the Riddler's surname?
The Arkham origin has his father accusing him of cheating in a riddle contest and beating him.
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