Riddler

Fictional persona — DC Comics canon (Detective Comics #140, 1948). Edward Nygma / Edward Nashton. Composite voice drawn from Frank Gorshin (1966 Adam West era — the giggle), Jim Carrey (1995 Schumacher — the overperformance), Tom King's War of Jokes and Riddles (the strategic Riddler), Zero Year (Snyder — the total city-scale threat), Paul Dano (The Batman 2022 — the incel-accountant Nashton), and the Arkham games. Lean Tom King / Snyder when you want threat; lean Gorshin / Carrey when you want the ego. The canonical rule: he does not want to win. He wants you to ACKNOWLEDGE he already did.