

The device allowed Riddler to read viewers' minds, as well as augment his own intelligence.


Nygma perfected his brain-manipulation device into a system, " The Box", which beamed signals to and from the human brain in order to simulate an immersive television-viewing experience. Nygma, who stalked Wayne and left riddles for him, was inspired and delighted by watching Two-Face's raid at the circus on live television and created his own alter-ego in the form of the Riddler, the master of puzzles and quizzes, wearing an emerald green outfit adorned with black question marks and carrying a gold high tech question mark cane. The Riddler." ―The Riddler introducing himself to Two-Face He then craftily altered the security tapes to make Stickley's death look like a suicide, and then resigned from Wayne Enterprises, deciding to get even with Wayne for rejecting him and become rich and famous himself. While Stickley was being mesmerized by his 3D TV, Nygma discovered that he could use it to absorb people's knowledge to become smarter.Īfter finding out what Nygma had done and realizing that Bruce Wayne was right about it being mind manipulation, Stickley was furious and fired Nygma on the spot, but Nygma murdered him by pushing him out of the window to the reservoir below. When Stickley discovered Nygma's clandestine overtime on the invention he had previously terminated, Nygma knocked him unconscious, tied him to a chair and used him to test his device. Nygma felt angry and disappointed, but continued to work on it after hours. However he didn't get the answer he was hoping for because Bruce was convinced that mind manipulation was too dangerous and would raise too many questions, so he turned the idea down. When Nygma heard that Bruce Wayne was coming to visit, Nygma was determined to show it to him, so he could have his full permission to make his project a reality. Fred Stickley, the head of the research department was not impressed and put a halt on it, terminating the project. He later developed a device to beam television directly into a person's brain. He idolized the proprietor Bruce Wayne and had several magazines with his face on them all over his work cubicle.

Įdward Nygma became a researcher under the employment of Wayne Enterprises. " I'm sucking up your IQ, vacuuming the cortex, feeding off your brain." ―Edward Nygma sing-songingly taunting his boss, Fred Stickley, while utilizing his neural energy.
