Chapter 2500: The Battle for the Cape (Part 67)

Mentioning his experience in this play, Riddler also wants to shed a bitter tear. Bruce put Superman in and didn't care. Expecting him to disappear during the long time of the main plot, it can only be said that the Joker virus really burned the brain belonging to Batman.

Superman lost his super power, not his memory. His personality didn't change. He is still Clark Kent. How could he do nothing?

In order not to let Superman interfere with the main plot, Riddler's task is to drag him. Theoretically, it shouldn't be a problem for Riddler to deal with a Superman who has been weakened to the extreme. In fact, Riddler did drag Superman.

But this process is too torturous.

Although Batman and Superman have similarities, what makes them have frequent contradictions and always produce confrontation and conflict is their differences from personality to philosophy.

As a human, Batman believes that he is a supplement to the legal system of human society. Those criminals who cannot be sanctioned by law or cannot be fully sanctioned are his goals.

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

Somewhat counter-intuitively, Batman assumes that this world is orderly, and he is just a supplement to order. Superman assumes that this world is chaotic, and he is the savior.

So the two of them can never reach a complete consensus. As long as there is such a conflict of philosophy, contradiction will inevitably occur.

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

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

Therefore, in dealing with Riddler's criminal behavior, the two handle it completely differently.

Most of Riddler's crime processes are like this: he first creates a continuous crime, such as kidnapping someone, placing explosives, or threatening how he will commit a crime.

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

Riddler will definitely let Batman see this riddle. And seeing the riddle, Batman will know that Riddler is committing a crime, so he will crack the riddle and catch Riddler.

Because Batman will count Riddler's behavior of making riddles for him to see as a part of the crime, belonging to the clues of the early investigation work, so he will solve the riddle to stop the crime.

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

You kidnapping or placing explosives is you hurting others, so it's you who are wrong. But you making riddles didn't hurt anyone, so if you want to make them, you can make them. You didn't make a mistake in this matter. Why should I hold you accountable in this matter?

If your riddle affects the city's appearance or brings trouble to others, then you simply should pay the price for this mistake, which has nothing to do with whether you are secretly engaging in a bigger case now.

I catch you scribbling, I will conduct oral education, labor reform, at most send you to the police station. Wait until I catch you engaging in kidnapping, engaging in explosive attacks, and then conduct justice sanctions.

If it were in a normal world, Riddler would at most feel that this game is boring if it can't be played. But in the Dream World, he has a task, he has to drag Superman.

He must let Superman be like Batman, investigating the clues of the case according to his riddles. Otherwise, Superman warns him twice when he sees scribbling, then how to drag him?

If you ask Riddler what good way he has, he actually doesn't have one. Unlike Penguin and Two-Face, Riddler doesn't have a sufficient real-life resume. Most of the time, he is an unemployed vagrant, and he doesn't have professional skills in practical subjects like chemistry like Scarecrow, so he can engage in scientific research and roll academics when necessary.

He is probably the only pure liberal arts player among all Arkham criminals who fast-forwards to studying journalism.

This led to him being very passive in the face of this situation, without enough rich social experience to use social rules to start, and without enough superb professional skills to play dark hands behind the scenes.

Even more tragic is that Riddler is a real mental patient. His behavior of outlining riddles is completely a manifestation of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and severe obsessive-compulsive disorder will lead to him having no way to change his behavior mode, and he doesn't have any room for flexibility.

So things turned into Riddler drawing a riddle on Superman's way. If this way is not a very important main road, or someone specifically complains to Superman, 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 drag him for long. Riddler had to appear himself to explain the game play to Superman, saying that the answer to this riddle can affect a big case. Superman told him to go and fetch a bucket of water when he was free, and rub off the paint on the ground.

Riddler had no choice. He could only commit a kidnapping case first, then leave a riddle, then put the hostage behind the riddle, and appear himself to explain, telling Superman that as long as you crack the riddle, you can open the lock on the hostage's hand, and then you can save the hostage. The game should be played like this.

Superman said, do you think I'm stupid? You kidnapped the hostage. You are in front of me now. Do I still need to crack any riddle?

Riddler was beaten up.

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

Finding that this wouldn't work, Riddler finally decided to separate the crime scene and the riddle, and then leave a big loudspeaker, so that he could guide Superman to investigate himself. After all, Superman couldn't hear someone committing a crime but ignore it, right?

Superman did intend to manage it, but before managing it, he still had to erase the riddle first.

After all, it was said that these are two mistakes. No matter how big a case you commit, it is not the reason why you affect the city's appearance. It is impossible that I see you affecting the city's appearance and ignore it, right?

If the criminal is a normal person, then you can erase it. Anyway, in the end, don't you still have to find me according to the clues of the riddle you remember?

But Riddler is not a normal person. He is a mental patient. He has extremely severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. There is no process in this whole thing where you carry a mop and rub the riddle there, so you can't erase it. Then Riddler appeared again, and then Riddler was beaten up again.

It was said before that Superman, who can become a best friend with Batman, is not a normal person. There will only be stubborn people around stubborn people. So this matter turned into a confrontation between two big stubborn people.

Riddler finished drawing and Superman erased. During the process of Superman erasing, Riddler didn't let him erase. Superman insisted on erasing, and Riddler insisted on not letting him.

Finally, the arm couldn't twist the thigh. Riddler was beaten up. After being beaten, he couldn't carry out subsequent crimes, so he had to redesign the crime process, redraw the riddle, Riddler finished drawing and Superman erased. During the process of Superman erasing, Riddler didn't let him erase...

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

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

But it is not like this for Riddler and Superman. In the real world, Riddler weaving riddles is a hobby, but in the Dream World, he came with a task, and it was because Superman didn't open his mind that he could only draw riddles repeatedly. For him, this is a job.

And Superman, after losing all his power, really didn't have any more effective means to fight crime, but his sense of justice in his heart was not worn away. Now a violation of law and crime that he has a way to stop has just come out, which just happens to allow him to express the sense of justice in his heart and reduce the pressure in his heart. For him, this is a hobby.

And the patterns designed by graffiti boys at most have some visual aesthetic value and no deep connotation, but Riddler is different. Every riddle of his is carefully created and designed, and it is bound to use his brain.

Before playing games with Batman, he could spend two months designing a wonderful riddle, cooperating with a riddle-solving case, and enjoying the process of watching Batman solve the riddle and investigate.

It's good to come to Superman. After being beaten, he can spend at most two hours to think of a new one. Otherwise, Superman will touch the main plot. He can't be too slow when drawing, otherwise Superman will come over. If he is beaten up again in a short time, he can't draw the next riddle, and he can't drag it anymore.

The difference in quality between two months and two hours can be imagined. Riddler is not the pig of the production team. You let him create original riddles, think about cooperating cases, and draw them on the wall in two hours. Even students in the Academy of Fine Arts are not used like this, almost tiring Riddler to death.

And this is not the most terrible thing. The most terrible thing is that Riddler's personality is more inclined to artist traits than writers, abstract, neurotic, and treats aesthetics as food.

But such a tight creation time leads to Riddler being more like mass-producing shit than creating art.

He knows how bad these riddles he created in such a short time are, and he knows even more that the patterns he drew are also full of flaws and crudely made.

Artist personalities can get happiness from the process of their own creation, feel the process of their works constantly being completed and becoming perfect, which can give them extremely strong driving force, and even reach a state of self-entertainment regardless of external things. This is also the reason why laymen think many artists are crazy.

And the most devastating blow to this type of personality is to let them mass-produce low-quality, full of loopholes, ugly and useless assembly line products. Unable to meet their own aesthetic and aesthetic creation needs will make them suffer blows and become depressed.

Riddler is really fast becoming depressed.