
After getting fired, Nygma started to secretly test Bruce by leaving him a long line of riddles throughout the film. Angered by Bruce's rejection, he goes to his supervisor and tests it on him, getting fired in the process.

But Bruce rejects his invention and tells Nygma that it 'raises too many questions'. Nygma wanted to use Wayne to test out his invention which was capable of beaming a TV signal into someone's brain. Who's afraid of the big black Bat?Įdward Nygma later known as The Riddler is the main antagonist of Batman Forever.Įdward Nygma starts out as an employee researcher at Wayne Enterprises who is obsessed with Bruce Wayne. To become Gotham's cleverest carbon-based life-form, Get his revenge on Bruce Wayne, Become rich and famous, Find out the identity of Batman and kill him Perhaps the only great take on Brother Blood was in the animated film Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, which finally brought the Wolfman/Pérez character to life.MTV Movie Award for Best Villain (Jim Carrey)Įvil, psychotic, greedy, comedic, arrogant, vengeful, power-hungry Given the nature of these changes, however, there really wasn't much of the charismatic cult leader to be found. The grounded CW series Arrow for some reason added him as a villain in Season 2, even adding realistic versions of the Church of Blood and his ties to Trigon. The Teen Titans cartoon essentially adapted him in name only, with the show's juvenile nature preventing it from truly using the comics' character.

Sadly, almost none of the character's uses outside the source material have gotten this right, with even his design constantly changing.

He was also connected to Trigon, all the while showing the evil potential of seemingly everyday humanity. The original incarnation of Brother Blood was that of a hypnotic cult leader his macabre surroundings as the leader of Zandia's Church of Blood made him a dark manifestation of the 1980s fear of the occult and the New Age movement. As mentioned, Brother Blood was a major force through the most iconic Teen Titans comic books, and he's continued to vex the team in more modern stories as well.
