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CHARACTERS - THE RIDDLER
The Riddler
Voiced By: Robert Enguld
First Appearance: "Riddled"
Position: Villain; In Arkham
Biography: A genius, Riddler is able to stump
and confound almost everyone in Gotham--everyone except The Batman.
Knowing that he would be helping Detective Ellen Yin to discover his
riddles, Riddler moved them across the city, stopping his containers
of "explosives." The explosives, in reality, turned out to be
nothing more than gelatin desert. Upon discovering this, The Batman
and Ellen discovered that inside Riddler's clues he left other
riddles to his real plans. Chasing Riddler down, they found him at
the site of where the original clue was given.
Though brilliant, Riddler is also sick and twisted. With his
inability to not give riddles about everything he does, he always
leaves that as a weak spot for The Batman to exploit.
Later during an attempt on another mans life, Riddler and Batman got
caught inside a shipping container that was pushed under the sea and
trapped by debris. While in the container, Riddler revealed that
Batman was at the beginning and (soon to be) end of his career as
the Riddler. Riddler went on to explain his childhood (a father who
wanted him to grow up to be a baseball playing man, as opposed to a
book worm/nerd), his increasing interests in puzzles and riddles and
his eventual exploits in thievery.
Eventually Edward grew tired of this life and got a job at a
university. Together with another scientist, Julie, they created a
memory module device that enabled the user to remember things they
may otherwise forget. When enabled, the device would allow the
wearer to read books at superspeed and not forget a single bit of
information--when they needed to recall what it was they read, a
remote could enable the device to recall what the user had just
read.
The demonstration to the dean of the University was a rousing
success, but was sabotaged by Gorman, or so Edward thought. Edward
attempted to take Gorman's life in his own home, but after Gorman
dialed 911, The Batman intercepted the call an helped save Gorman
from his death. It was in this encounter with The Batman that Edward
knew he needed more of a challenge and he found it in The Batman.
Donning The Riddler persona, Edward eventually tried killing Gorman
years later when Gorman was attempting to ship out thousands of the
memory modules that Edward and Julie created. Riddler's attempt on
Gorman's life failed once again due to The Batman and the two were
trapped in the explosion of Gorman's shipping boat.
Gorman escaped the boat in time before setting off the charges
himself with Riddler's
stolen cane. It is unknown if Gorman survived afterwards, however,
as when Riddler's henchmen come to pick Riddler up from his location
in Gotham Harbor, they give Riddler his cane--whether this is the
same one that Gorman took is unknown. If it is, however, it seems
Riddler's henchmen may have exacted his revenge for him.
Riddler later found out, with the help of Batman, that the real
saboteur the day of the demonstration with the memory module was
really Julie and not Gorman. Riddler's own desire to be with Julie
had clouded his judgment on this matter and he attempted to kill
Julie as well before Batman and Robin intervened.
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