Hey, there! We're back with the first batch of redesigns for this month's Batman Movie Villains contest!
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| Warren Newsom's Nolanized Riddler |
"I've chosen the Riddler as he might be interpreted by Christopher Nolan. Edward Nashton is a clerk who has worked for many years crunching numbers for a financial firm in Gotham. He’s an under-educated genius who has an instinct for investments and knack for coming up with creative ways to manipulate markets. The only thing that holds him back from moving up in the firm is the fact that he only has a two-year degree. The higher-ups come to him for his opinions, which he freely gives, and over the years he’s helped make them very rich men. When the firm gets caught up in a scandal, Nashton is the only person to serve prison time. He later finds out that his bosses had all actually received bonuses after the firm was bought out by a subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises.
"Nashton escapes prison and begins a crime spree. Wearing a bandana mask printed with a large question mark and using burglary and robbery as a fake motive, he hunts down all of the execs from his old firm and kills them (and any family member or witness who might be present). Before he pulls the trigger he gives them one last hope. He says, “You think you’re so smart? I’ll tell you what – answer this and I’ll let you live…” Then he asks them a riddle, worded so ambiguously that an answer is indeterminable. His victims can never answer, thus proving – in his mind at least – that they are intellectually inferior to him, so he feels justified in killing them.
"And since we’re designing villains for an imagined movie, then who better to play this narcissistic bad guy in a Christopher Nolan film than Justified’s Walton Goggins?"
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| Joker Little's Nolanized Penguin |
"Still a short, dumpy older criminal, but in the real world that's pretty easy to make scary. No tux, just a leather coat over a t-shirt, and since no one has worn a monocle in about 70 years ago, he has a glassy, discolored blind eye."
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| Joker Little's Nolanized Riddler |
"The real world equivalent of the Riddler would be something like Gotham's version of the Zodiac. I wouldn't even think he would be in the story very much, more like you would see headlines about him as characters walk by newsstands. When they do catch him it wouldn't be like, "Great Caesars ghost, it was the deputy mayor all along!" It would be some nobody."
What do you think? Let us know in the comments below, and stay tuned for more Batman Movie Villains as we approach the release of
The Dark Knight Rises! As always, be aware of the contest deadline --
Tuesday, July 24 -- and be sure to check out the
Official Contest Announcement for details and special rules for this contest. Also, remember our
Stephanie Brown Fan Art Special, for which submissions need to be received by
July 28!
