Having left the mantle of Robin behind him, Dick Grayson moved to Gotham City’s sister city of Bludhaven, unknown to him however, he was followed by one of Batman’s most mentally formidable rogues.
The hero had just finished moving his boxes into his new apartment when he heard a knock at his door, he wrote it off as a new neighbor and opened it, only to be met by a familiar figure clad in a green suit covered in purple question marks.
Dick was too slow to react as The Riddler’s question mark cane swept his legs out from under him, leaving the hero on the ground as The Riddler climbed atop him. Having managed to regain his bearings, Dick managed to shove Riddler off of him and get back to his feet sprinting to grab on of his batons only to feel the question mark of the cane wrap around his ankle and drop him to the floor again, his baton sliding across the room.
This time the villain made sure to use his cane to pin the hero to the ground by his neck. Dick fought until the last second as The Riddler placed a stolen and modified hat from The Mad Hatter atop Dick’s head. The hero’s mind was quickly rewritten, and soon The Riddler would reduce the Batman’s mind to that of a simple plaything as he trained the former sidekick to become the new Riddler.
Riddler loves the wacky costumes absolutely adores the ridiculousness of fashion. Sometimes he gets in the mood to dress like the lovechild of Elton John, lady gaga, Elvis Presley, and a glitterbomb because it’s fun.
Penguin cares very much about his appearance because he’s got a reputation to uphold. So he hates the ridiculously taller top hats ed always gets him. However Oswald has found that they’re a very powerful persuasion, pacifying, and negotiation tool against Edward.
(They almost always wear at least one piece of the other’s gift, Oswald like the penguin cuff-links, occasionally pants, and umbrella handle. Ed likes it all but mostly goes out with the shoes, ocasionally gloves, and belt)
I’ve been thinking of trying for something a little closer to comicbook style? what do you guys think?
Also I did redesigns for some villains
Riddler is up in the air still need to work out his main outfit some more. While I liked the Batman movie, that interpretation of riddler is not my favorite. I like Gotham’s Riddler but the costumes in the last episode timeskip doesn’t do it for me.
I’m happy with scarecrow, I was going for something a bit more safer around his own fear toxin. This scarecrow is kind of neurotic and anxious, this man could be spooked by his own shadow. A coward to the core and hates confrontation. His fear toxin will trigger panic attacks not hallucinations.
Joker is Joker I don’t like this character I don’t find him all that compelling the best joker on screen is Cameron Monaghan and I don’t care for all the crazy for crazy Heath Ledger wannabes.
Selina…I have plans for her later down the line.
I darkened clayface so he’s not weirdly orange brown like a melty turd. I don’t know if I did great but I think he’s decently spooky looking.
I don’t think there’s ever been a real definitive look for two face so here’s another one to all the variants. I did a small comic for him I would like to expand on his relationship with Bruce and his trauma.
I loved the brief look at pink haired ivy from batman ninja and will continue to roll with it. I think it allows for more focus on the parts to make her look more unnatural like maybe her eyes of strangely sharp teeth. This ivy is not really human, talking to her feels like making deals with a devil who takes payment in dead bodies. So I try to convey a bit of that.
Lastly is penguin who I tried to make him more of a reflection of what I imagined an older fox’s Gotham penguin would look like. Half of his face is scarred and shredded from a grenade and the monocle is on the eye that still sees. This penguin is a classy sharpshot with silver and blue color scheme.
I made an original character for Riddler, her name is Peggy Boniface and she’s his therapist. I was thinking it would be quite fun to have a character that is the opposite of Harley Quinn with Riddler. This therapist is very professional and pragmatic. She appeals to Ed’s sense of reason and always plays along with his games. She has far more patience with him than anyone else he’s interacted with, even staying late to try to solve his puzzles. Ed used to mock her for being too dumb to get them but came to be mildly amused to impressed with her persistence to try to solve his games.
I think it would be funny for Riddler to fall in love with her while she’s feels pretty neutral towards him. But when it comes to confronting feelings he’d be a bit dumb at recognizing it and when he does he’s even worse at flirting. His first thought is trying whatever he did to become friends with Penguin.
the answers to those question - He left it in his cell because he hates getting blood on his glasses - Arkham security sucks he could leave whenever he wants he’s only stuck around because Peggy is nice - Regular Arkham breakout, he’d usually follow every else in the riot but he’s been having a good time. - He’d suggest burying the bitch alive but the therapist wouldn’t be happy with that response ( he could not give less of a shit about Harley or Joker) - He sticks them to the ceiling of his prison cell in the arrangement of actual constellation, he’s only ever seen stars in books because the city has so much smog and light pollution
Guess who just watched The Batman!!! I liked the movie because it’s just so different from the typical Batman you see all the time, He actually gets to be a detective! yay. Though my favorite batman villian has always been the Riddler and it’s nice to see him get some attention, even if this isn’t really my favorite interpretation of the character. As a whole the movie is really solid I think it’s quite good. However towards the end and some moments throughout I don’t really like how they pushed Riddler’s character to be like more like Joker. That is really my only complaint, everything else was entertaining.
I drew a small comic for my riddler, I’ve been thinking about him being a former talon would be really cool. I’ll draw more to the concept soon.
“Hey Batman! Let’s live together in the New World!”
(lil riddlebat/devilman crossover thing I had in mind)
[ID: Batman 2022 Riddler standing arms outstretched with an angelic smiling expression. He has 6 wings behind him, question marks around his head, and flowing water under his feet /end ID]
