>>5976818>Art: Rocksteady Studios ( https://www.igdb.com/games/batman-arkham-city/credits )>Alt-Text: The Riddler standing in front of a wall of computer screens. He wears a jacket with many question marks on it.>Dialogue Samples: David S. Goyer & Justin Marks. Tom King.Batman: Whatever we’re facing, we’ll face it together. Riddler won't be able to take the three of us no matter how much prep time he has.
Superman: I love the chutzpah, but unless you have another one of your batsatchels, how will we bring Ivy?
She raises her hands and a network of vines crisscross forming a massive basket.
Ivy: Will this do?
Clark flashes a smile that could bring sunrise at midnight.
Superman: Team, let’s solve this Riddle.
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Abattoir: So you see Mr Riddler, because the coca plant was magically created from human flesh, nasal absorption of its extract gives you access to supernatural abilities. Therefore, it's only logical to conclude…
Riddler(sarcastically): Eating people gives you superpowers! Of course. It's so obvious. How didn't I see it before? Next you’ll tell me the world is flat.
Abbatoir: Oh, It's actually hollow! Twenty years ago, Professor Rival’s polar expedition…
The bunker doors burst open. The woman who imagines herself your boss bursts in with a horde of familiar goons.
Waller: EDWARD!
Riddler: Oh thank Nigma you came. Another minute of his ridiculous speeches and I would have <span class="mu-s">asked</span> him to eat my brain.
Abbatoir: Awww.
You step toward the government stooge and offer an obviously sarcastic handshake. Not that she could figure that out.
Riddler: I must say, you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel for Task Force X recruits. Isn’t there a fire-breathing mushroom man or something you could-
Agent Carpenter aims their firearm at you. With shockingly poor form you may add. For that caliber, the optimal-
Waller: You nuked the planet!
Riddler: Oh no, no, no.
You click your remote, and your computer screen lights up with newscasts from the peabrains in the media.
Riddler: <span class="mu-s">Superman</span> nuked the planet. And Gotham is currently the post-apocalyptic hellhole it was always meant to be. The alien is Earth’s biggest villain and your teacher’s pet is buried under fallout both legal and nuclear. Your two biggest problems. Answered. You’re welcome.
Waller: And you don’t think people are gonna wonder <span class="mu-s">how</span> Superman dropped those bombs? Why a machine that could launch all the world’s nukes existed in the first place? If the Diehard Device becomes public knowledge, the President…
Riddler: Will do nothing. I’ve hacked so much dirt on him he’d do the State of the Union in a tutu if I asked. I could even have your job if I wanted, but I like you handling the paperwork for me.
Waller: You can talk all the smack you want in Supermax. Take him away.
Riddler: Fatima Haby Li. Lori Jane Krupcheck. Tanya Hope Carpenter.
