#E. Nigma

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"SOMETIMES MY INTELLIGENCE SURPRISES EVEN MYSELF."

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1074x1650 -- Spotlight on the Riddler hacking into Bruce Wayne's computer files, as well as being his introductory page to the maxi-series, from "Justice" Vol. 1 #2. December, 2005. DC Comics.

"How do you find a computer powerful enough and quick enough to hack into Batman's digital information system? Find the richest man in town and use his."

-- RIDDLER on hacking Batman's files via Bruce Wayne's technology

Script by Jim Krueger & Alex Ross. Artwork by Doug Braithwaite & Alex Ross.

Source: www.zipcomic.com/justice-2005-issue-2.

[wemlygust]

In the earliest few Riddler comics at least, he's just a chronic cheater. He cheats his way into being thought of as a genius as puzzles, and he starts believing it himself, at least to some degree. Then he starts designing "puzzles", except the puzzles he makes have ambiguous answers/more than one possible valid answer, so Batman and Robin basically just have to guess the meaning and can get it wrong by pure random chance. And Riddler tries to guess which answer is the one that Batman and Robin will decide is correct, so that he can make a different interpretation the "right" solution. And Batman and Robin try to predict what Riddler will predict they will do lol. It's like Riddler weaponizes shitty game design. Entirely unfair questions that cannot truly be solved. Which, to be fair, is the kind of thing that feels diabolical and maddening when you're playing a badly designed puzzle video game. Also, Riddler locks them in a bulletproof glass maze and tells them to find the exit, but he designed the maze to have no exit. Then Batman and Robin manage to break out (iirc I think they take out one of the supports/joins between the glass panels instead of attacking the glass? hard to remember), thereby solving a puzzle Riddler intended to be unsolvable by finding a solution he could not imagine. Because he is just a cheater and is bad at puzzles. Honestly it's a fantastic and fun idea for a villain imo. A lot more fun than I imagined him before I went and read some of those very early Batman comics. P.S. Two-Face is WAAAAY more fun as originally imagined than in the Dark Knight movies, too. Like oh my god, they murdered that character's entire concept. Unless I'm misremembering those movies, I guess. But if I'm misremembering those movies, then the very unmemorableness of their interpretation of this character is in and of itself a damning feat. /ramble ramble ramble I imagine the characters may have changed a lot in later iterations however. I haven't gotten there yet though so idk.

Starting to think we told children that The Fair Folk were out there to trap you in twisted words and doublespeak and clever traps that take what you say and turn it against you for cruel and mischievous purposes just to drive home the importance of critical thinking and analytical skills

If we don’t start putting funding back into the education system I’m gonna invent a creepy pasta that steals your face if you can’t recognize media bias

[hecatia666]

Finishing hit animations! 2 more left from these! one normal and the uppercut The Electrode one I had the idea in mind, but the amount of frams for it probs didn't let me put it in full so i had to make some quick shortcuts...

[cuchuffli]

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[skell3]

Finally trying to design a Riddler to go along with my Crane?

60's style?

More likely than you think.

Pose Ref. under the bar.

[dsturbedstudios]

𝐄𝐃𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐄. 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐀 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐒 ; 𝟎𝟏.

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[aslightaddity]

Dappy!verse Riddler lore

Born Eduardo Enigmar to Franklin Enigmar and Julia Osorio, in a small city in the east coast. Together they were a happy enough family.

He was a quiet kid and often was left to manage himself and often was used to console and comfort his parents. He was terrified of disobeying the rules as his mother would refuse to talk to him or look after him for days at a time when he would misbehave.

At school, He was always talented, well behaved, and was placed in advanced courses or pushed up by a few grades. He didn’t have many friends as he was seen as weird and creepy by the other kids.

He loved detectives, his favorite books as a child being Sherlock Holmes. He’d often investigate small mundane things for fun, find out what keeps getting into the trash, whose moving in next-door, and one day he decided to investigate where his father went for his frequent business trips.

He followed Franklin to another town and watched as he rejoined a family. A mother and son he hadn’t seen before but Franklin seemed to know. Before he was caught he rushed himself home and told his mother.

His mother was angry with him for running off and coming back with a crazy story. She refused to believe him.

Shortly after the birth of his younger sister, Malory who was almost 15 years younger than him, his parent’s marriage became rocky and the truth finally came out that Franklin had a second family.

Throughout the divorce proceedings Ed tried his best to be supportive and helpful to his mother but was only met with anger, she blamed him for it all. He had dropped out of his senior year in high school to take care of his mother and Malory. His mother would always shout and treat him with distain as she only saw Franklin when she looked at him, to the point where she tried to get Malory to never look at him.

After a few years, when Malory began school, one petty fight between Ed and his mother boiled over into him leaving without a way for them to contact him.

He traveled around, couch surfing, and never being able to hold a steady job. It was slim as to which stores would hire him due to his lack of a diploma. After awhile he ended up in Gotham, where he not only got forged documents but he also changed his name. From Eduardo Enigmar to Edward Nygma to finally distance himself from his family and the man that ruined his childhood.

In Gotham he became a PI, unable to be employed by the GCPD due to his lack of proper training, a rather successful one at that, due to his affordability mainly. Despite being an upstanding investigator the GCPD officers he worked with never liked him, often poking fun at him or messing with evidence.

He was hired to investigate a murder one day, the problem however being that, the murder wasn’t reported to the police before the case was given to him. So when the police were tipped off there was no other possible suspect but him, there was a jarring lack of evidence to prove his innocence.

What ‘incriminating’ evidence was found was his forged documents, a name change, and a manic denial. After a psychological evaluation he was deemed criminally insane and sentenced to Arkham.

The brutal treatment in Arkham (electroshock therapy and misperscribed medicine) and the trauma of being framed finally culminated with his anger and left him catatonic for months and prone to hallucinations. However, In an outburst he attacked and seriously injured a guard and himself causing him to need a mobility aid once it healed. After the attack he was resigned to solitary.

There his hallucinations only got worse and He realized people were always going to blame him for things gone wrong and only see evil in him. So he decided to let go on trying to be the good person he had been trying to be for so many years. He realized that no one but himself cared about his justice.

As he was used to investigation and puzzle solving, escaping from the asylum was rather easy. (He was quite proud that he was able to switch his place and his aloof guard’s)

However once he was out it was trickier, he couldn’t return to his apartment or office as the leases had broken during his incarceration. After wandering through the labyrinth that were the Gotham streets he sunk into the iceberg lounge for a place to sleep.

He managed to lay low and go unnoticed, thanks to the help of two of the women who worked there (Nina and Diedre) for a few days before Oswald took notice of him.

Their first interaction included Oswald blackmailing Ed with his estranged family and Ed threatening Oswald’s life. Despite the rocky start Ed soon proved himself to Oswald to be usefully and trustworthy (through many heists and investigations to rivals) and Oswald proved himself to be caring to Ed, something he had not been accustomed, and they became closer. Both have confided in the other about their pasts and trust no one more than the other.

With Oswald’s influence and the help and support of Nina and Diedre he became more and more bold with his crimes and eventually became The riddler we know and love

[steelwingrowlet]

E-nigma / Iono finally debuted in the anime! I really love drawing her

I will always love the contrast between these two drawings because the one in the left is when I drew her for the first time, without knowing about her personality

Then the one in the right, my most recent one of her, captures her gremlin aura perfectly lmao

[brokentoys]

❝ the wonderful thing about the lazarus pit is that it also cures any & every potential STDs, too ! ❞

[enigmaproductions]

New release from Goddess Fall: More Than a Weapon EP

Goddess Fall had this to say about the new release:

NOTICE OF EP RELEASE:

To coincide with the one year anniversary of Goddess of Victory: Nikke's global release, Goddess Fall has released their debut EP, "MORE THAN A WEAPON" for the occasion!

Goddess Fall deploys a small, five track squad of symphonic/industrial melodeath, consisting of three original songs that were inspired by the story, characters, and lore of Nikke; as well as two cover songs that we felt were befitting of the game's themes.

A full length album is also currently in the works, so stay alert for more Nikke-inspired melodeath that will be deploying in the near future!

FFO: In Flames, Soilwork, Blood Stain Child, The Design Abstract, Into Eternity, Children of Bodom, Skyfire, Deadlock, Mercenary, Scar Symmetry, MyGrain, Solution .45, Shade Empire, Neurotech, Fear of Domination, Turmion Kätilöt, Projekt Technophage, Sonic Syndicate, Fear Factory, Celldweller, Mechina, Goddess of Victory: Nikke

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

TARGET: WAYNE INDUSTRIES -- MOTIVE: HACK THE BATCOMPUTER.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 610x1650 -- Spotlight on a close-up panel of Edward E. Nygma as the Riddler, whilst demonstrating his superior hacking capabilities, from the pages of "Justice" Vol. 1 #2. December, 2005. DC Comics.

Script by Jim Krueger & Alex Ross. Artwork by Doug Braithwaite (pencils) & Alex Ross.

Source: www.zipcomic.com/justice-2005-issue-2.

[sagiriti]

Who has been your favorite Gym leader?❤️✨

[hecatia666]

i haven't drew her or made progress for the mod in months most likely...

so i made her do the dragon smash from street fighter 3 as the uppercut animation!

[en-busca-de-mi-ikigai-blog]

I had to make studying more bearable. Iono (e-Nigma) calls her audience "electrolitos" (electrolytes) in spanish.

[timelyenigma]

do you think there would be meat inside an anime girl if you cut her open. would she have tendons. would she have bones and marrow. or would you bring your meat cleaver to her skin and find a chitinous exterior. you look to her face. its your old eternal foe, gregor samsa. you can never escape him. you look to your own arm and you find chitin. you look to the mirror. you are a bug. we are all bugs

burma shave

[dsturbedstudios]

𝐄. 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐀 ; 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐑.

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