Chapter 2537: Battle for the Cloak (Sixty-Seven)

Chapter 2511: The Battle for the Cape (Sixty-Seven)

When talking about his experience in this play, the Riddler also shed a few bitter tears. Bruce brought Superman in and left him alone, expecting him to disappear during the long time of the main plot. It can only be said that the Joker virus really burned Batman's brain.

Superman lost his superpowers, not his memories. His personality has not changed. He is still Clark Kent. How could he do nothing?

In order to prevent Superman from interfering with the main plot, the Riddler's task is to hold him back. Theoretically, it should not be a problem for the Riddler to deal with a Superman who has been weakened to the extreme. In fact, the Riddler did hold Superman back.

But this process is too torturous.

Although Batman and Superman have similarities, it is their differences from personality to philosophy that cause them to frequently conflict and always produce confrontation and conflict.

As a human being, Batman believes that he is a supplement to the legal system of human society. Those criminals that cannot be punished or cannot be completely punished by the law are his targets.

As a non-human, Superman believes that he is another system of human society. This system is called Superman's justice. He uses his own three views to judge whether this matter needs to be corrected. If it needs to be corrected, he will do it.

Somewhat counterintuitively, Batman assumes that the world is orderly and he is just a supplement to the order, while Superman assumes that the world is chaotic and he is the savior.

So the two of them can never reach a complete consensus. As long as such concepts conflict, conflicts are bound to occur.

In action, Batman focuses on establishing a supplementary order, which is the so-called deterrent power of the Dark Knight, to deter and punish those super criminals who want to be outside the normal order. Superman takes himself as the order. He praises everything he thinks is right and punishes everything he thinks is wrong.

Therefore, Batman's psychological activity in fighting crime is "you are a criminal", while Superman's psychological activity in fighting crime is "you did it wrong". One is materialism based on social standards, and the other is idealism based on his own moral conscience.

So in terms of the criminal behavior of the Riddler, the two have completely different ways of dealing with it.

Most of the crimes of the Riddler are like this. He first creates a continuous crime, such as kidnapping someone, planting explosives, or threatening to commit a crime.

Then he will leave a riddle. The answer to the riddle is the key to his crime, such as where the hostages and explosives are placed, what are the important steps of the crime, where he hides, and how Batman will catch him.

The Riddler will definitely let Batman see the riddle, and when Batman sees the riddle, he will know that the Riddler is committing a crime, so he will solve the riddle and catch the Riddler.

Because Batman will regard the Riddler's riddle as part of the crime, which is a clue for the preliminary investigation, so he will solve the riddle to stop the crime.

But Superman is not like that. He looks at these two things separately.

You are hurting others when you kidnap or plant explosives, so you are wrong, but you are not hurting anyone when you make riddles, so you can make them if you want. You have not made any mistakes in this matter. Why should I hold you responsible for this matter?

If your riddle affects the appearance of the city, or brings trouble to others, then you should simply pay the price for this mistake, regardless of whether you are secretly doing a bigger case.

If I catch you scribbling, I will give you verbal education, labor reform, or at most send you to the police station, and then I will catch you kidnapping, bombing and attack, and then punish you with justice.

If it were in the normal world, the Riddler would at most think that this game is boring because it is not fun to play, but in the dream world, he has a mission, he has to hold Superman back.

He must make Superman follow the clues of the case according to his riddles like Batman, otherwise Superman will only warn him a few words when he sees the scribbling, so how can he hold him back?

If you ask the Riddler what good method he has, he actually has none. Unlike the Penguin and Two-Face, the Riddler does not have sufficient real resume and is mostly an unemployed vagrant. Unlike the Scarecrow, he does not have professional skills in practical subjects such as chemistry, and can do scientific research and academics when necessary.

He is probably the only one among all the Arkham criminals who was a pure liberal arts student who fast-forwarded to study journalism.

This made him very passive in the face of this situation. He did not have enough social experience to use social rules, nor did he have enough professional skills to do something behind the scenes.

What's more tragic is that the Riddler is a real mental patient. His behavior of drawing riddles is completely a manifestation of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Severe obsessive-compulsive disorder will make it impossible for him to change his behavior pattern and have no room for flexibility.

So the thing becomes that the Riddler draws a riddle on the road that Superman must pass. If this road is not a very important main road, or someone specifically complains to Superman, then Superman will pretend not to see it.

Assuming that the riddle is indeed too abrupt and affects the cleanliness of the wall, Superman will choose to find a way to erase it or cover it, doing the work of a city cleaning volunteer.

But this obviously can't delay him for long, so the Riddler has to show up and explain the game rules to Superman, saying that the answer to this riddle can affect a major case. Superman asked him to fetch a bucket of water and wipe the paint off the ground.

The Riddler had no choice but to do a kidnapping case first, then leave a riddle, put the hostage behind the riddle, and then tell Superman that as long as you solve the riddle, you can open the lock on the hostage's hand, and then you can save the hostage. This is how the game should be played.

Superman said, "Are you taking me for a fool? You kidnapped the hostage, and you are right in front of me now. What riddle do I need to solve?"

The Riddler was beaten.

That's right, even though Superman has been weakened to this extent, his body is still considered strong among ordinary people. After all, the size of his skeleton is there. How could the Riddler, who is considered thin among ordinary people, be the opponent of such a strong man? Even at the end, when Superman was as thin as a bamboo pole, he was still a circle bigger than him, and the Riddler couldn't beat him at all.

Finding that this didn't work, the Riddler finally decided to separate the crime scene and the riddle, and then leave a big speaker, so that he could guide Superman to track him down. After all, Superman couldn't just hear someone commit a crime and not do anything, right?

Superman did intend to do something, but before doing anything, he still had to erase the riddle first.

After all, it was said that these were two mistakes. No matter how big a crime you committed, it was not the reason why you affected the appearance of the city. It's impossible that I saw you affecting the appearance of the city and didn't do anything, right?

If the criminal was a normal person, then you can just erase it. Anyway, in the end, you still have to come to me based on the clues of the riddle you remembered, right?

But the Riddler is not a normal person, he is a mental patient, he has extremely severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, the process of this whole thing is not like you holding a mop and wiping the riddle, so you can't wipe it, and then the Riddler appears again, and then the Riddler is beaten again.

I have said before that Superman, who can become a close friend of Batman, is not a normal person either. A stubborn person will only be surrounded by stubborn people, so this matter has become a confrontation between two stubborn people.

After the Riddler draws Superman, he wipes it. During the process of Superman wiping, the Riddler does not let him wipe it. Superman insists on wiping it, and the Riddler insists on not letting him.

In the end, the arm is no match for the thigh, and the Riddler is beaten. After that, he can't commit the next crime, so he can only redesign the crime process and draw the riddle again. After the Riddler draws Superman, he wipes it. During the process of Superman wiping, the Riddler does not let him wipe it...

Then the question is, is it more tiring to draw riddles or guess riddles?

Judging from the behavior of the street graffiti boy, it should be more tiring to erase riddles, because drawing graffiti is a hobby, while erasing graffiti is a job. Although it is not easy to draw so many patterns, it is also difficult to erase or cover them.

But it is not the case with the Riddler and Superman. In the real world, the Riddler weaves riddles as a hobby, but in the dream world, he comes with a mission, and he can only draw riddles repeatedly because Superman is not smart, which is a job for him.

After Superman lost all his power, he really had no more effective means to fight crime, but his sense of justice was not erased. Now there happened to be a crime that he had a way to stop, which just allowed him to express his sense of justice and relieve the pressure in his heart. This is a hobby for him.

Moreover, the patterns designed by the graffiti boys have some visual aesthetic value at most, without any deep connotation, but the Riddler is different. Each of his riddles is carefully created and designed, and it must be thought of.

In the past, when he played games with Batman, he could spend two months designing a wonderful riddle, matching a mystery case, and enjoying watching Batman solve the mystery and investigate.

But when it came to Superman, he could only spend two hours at most to think of a new one after being beaten, otherwise Superman would have to touch the main line. He couldn't draw too slowly, otherwise Superman would come over, and if he got beaten again in a short time, he wouldn't be able to draw the next riddle, and he couldn't delay at all.

The difference in the quality of output between two months and two hours is conceivable. The Riddler is not a pig in the production team. You asked him to create original riddles, think about matching cases, and draw them on the wall within two hours. Even students in the Academy of Fine Arts didn't use this method. He was almost exhausted to death.

And this is not the most terrible thing. The most terrible thing is that the Riddler's personality is more like an artist than a writer. He is abstract, neurotic, and eats aesthetics.

But such a tight creative time makes the Riddler more like mass production of shit than creating works of art.

He himself knew how bad the riddles he created in such a short time were, and he also knew that the patterns he drew were full of flaws and shoddy.

Artists can get happiness from the process of their own creation, and feel the process of their works being completed and perfected day by day, which can give them a strong driving force and even reach a state of heaven and man where they are not concerned with external things and are happy with themselves. This is also the reason why outsiders think many artists are crazy.

The most devastating blow to this kind of personality is to make them mass-produce low-quality, flawed, ugly and useless assembly line products. The inability to meet their own aesthetic and aesthetic creation needs will make them suffer and become depressed.

The Riddler is really going to be depressed.