Paul Dano is Edward Nashton aka "The Riddler"

[Eddie Dean]

Very likely. But they where probably useful to protect his eyes as well!

 

[Mindreaper21]

Probably.

Other than his glasses, I’m more fascinated about his ideology.

 

[Art Vandelay]

The reason I think the Riddler is wearing glasses is because it undoes the menace of his costume, wearing glasses over his mask. It's such an uncool detail for a villain to have. And I don't believe it's to hide his eyes, if that were the case he'd wear sunglasses.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Why would he want to undo the menace? This Riddler seems like a scary guy

 

[Art Vandelay]

He...wouldn't? I thought I was clear on that.

I'm not saying it's intentional on his part. I'm saying, Edward Nashton actually needs to wear glasses, and this doesn't change when he's The Riddler. It's not part of his disguise, he has to work into his disguise because he can't see without them.

 

[Eddie Dean]

The way you worded it made it sound like it was a decision The Riddler made for his costume to undo the menace. I disagree about it undoing the menace, it ads an uneasy quality to it. Something not quite right. Even if he actually needs to wear glasses, he could wear contacts or something more sensible. The large chunky glasses add to the air of theatrically, something we see with his body language in the trailer, especially in how he unrolls the duct tape. It's part of his persona in the same way Bruce's bat costume is.

 

[Mindreaper21]

Funny. I was watching Se7en last night and noticed that John Doe used glasses in his disguise, yet he could see perfectly fine without them. His glasses surely didn’t make him any less menacing to his victims.

 

[Art Vandelay]

The way you worded it made it sound like it was a decision The Riddler made for his costume to undo the menace.

Yeah, I misworded it. And oh, look, Shauner removed his like.

 

[Art Vandelay]

Funny. I was watching Se7en last night and noticed that John Doe used glasses in his disguise, yet he could see perfectly fine without them. His glasses surely didn’t make him any less menacing to his victims.

John Doe wore glasses as the reporter, along with a wig. We don't know if this was his disguise when it came to killing his victims, though. If anything, wearing glasses would likely be used to not make himself look menacing when first approaching these people.

I find it funny you guys are so against the idea the Riddler might actually need to wear prescription lenses. You think he looked at himself in his costume and thought "You know what would really pull this together? Glasses."?

If the glasses are part of his persona, then they're part of his persona the way an inhaler is for an asthmatic.

 

[Eddie Dean]

I think Edward Ngyma will most likely wear glasses!

But... they are also clearly part of his costumes for more than practical reasons.

 

[Mindreaper21]

John Doe wore glasses as the reporter, along with a wig. We don't know if this was his disguise when it came to killing his victims, though. If anything, wearing glasses would likely be used to not make himself look menacing when first approaching these people.

I find it funny you guys are so against the idea the Riddler might actually need to wear prescription lenses. You think he looked at himself in his costume and thought "You know what would really pull this together? Glasses."?

If the glasses are part of his persona, then they're part of his persona the way an inhaler is for an asthmatic.

I honestly find the entire glasses debate hilarious as a whole, but at least there’s conversation in this thread.

 

[Art Vandelay]

And just think, we get to do this for another year!

 

[Mindreaper21]

Yeah. A long agonizing year.

 

[Art Vandelay]

 

[Mr. E Nygma]

Thinking of all the speculation, fan theories, and inevitable small arguments leading up to the film where maybe half of which was correct:

 

[emielaen]

Do we think we'll actually see the Nygma name come up? He goes by Nashton here.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Maybe when Riddler is going into Arkham Asylum at the end of the film the intake nurse will be like "You should go by your real name, I like it... Nygma."

 

[Mindreaper21]

I’d like it if he does something similar to what he did in the animated series. Hack into the FBI database then delete all of his files and rename himself Edward Nymga.

I do wonder if he will have other aliases. Like The Conundrum Killer. Even though it’s not unusual to have multiple aliases, I doubt it, but it would be interesting.

 

[Jekecy]

I gotta say, I feel like Dano is gonna give us one of the best Villain performances in a long time! at least since Bane in TDKR.

I was going to make a joke about how short of a time frame it was, and then I realized when we see Dano it'll be TEN YEARS since Hardy's performance. Where the hell did time go?!

 

[Schlosser85]

Tbh I thought Hardy's Bane was too goofy, so he's not a high water mark to me for CBM villains (which was disappointing as a big Hardy fan, though he definitely goes overboard sometimes and IMO that was one of the times).

 

[shauner111]

He goes back and forth between menacing and evil AF to the over the top cartoony villain. It’s always entertaining IMO and he always looks great so I do hold him high. The goofy parts come from the ADR scenes.

 

[TheSmoothKnight]

 

[terry78]

He will be the dad of young spielberg or him in his younger days.

 

[Captain Tired]

Tbh I thought Hardy's Bane was too goofy, so he's not a high water mark to me for CBM villains (which was disappointing as a big Hardy fan, though he definitely goes overboard sometimes and IMO that was one of the times).

I just thought it was weird to act as though we hadn't already had a landmark comic book movie villain performance since Hardy, in the form of Joaquin Phoenix.

 

[The Lazarus Pit]

I feel like this fits his M.O. and the overall gothic vibes I've been getting from the trailer

That’s my favorite song on that record! So evil