What does the Riddler suffer from?

Riddler.
Edward Nigma has a form of obsessive compulsive disorder
obsessive compulsive disorder
The Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DOCS) is a 20-item self-report instrument that assesses the severity of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) symptoms along four empirically supported theme-based dimensions: (a) contamination, (b) responsibility for harm and mistakes, (c) incompleteness/symmetry, and (d) ...
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(OCD)
. However much this narcissist sometimes wants to pull a caper without sending a riddle, he cannot. His occasional attempts to fight the compulsion show he knows it can be maladaptive.
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What disability does The Riddler have?

More than your average textbook weirdo, The Riddler is a patient of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Categorized by inappropriate social interactions, severe behavioral disturbances, and obsessive habits, this disorder aptly explicates The Riddler's compulsion to ask riddles as well as his total lack of social skills.
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What mental illness does The Riddler have in Batman?

[Batman Forever's Riddler] appears to have borderline personality disorder, an unstable, incomplete identity characterized by chaos in one's thoughts, moods, actions, and self-concept...
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What is The Riddler's weakness?

Weakness (Phobia/Psychosis): The Riddler has an intense obsessive compulsion for riddles and puzzles. When he commits a crime, he can't refrain from leaving behind a riddle.
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What is Nygma disorder?

However, while autism spectrum disorder might explain some of his social interactions, it offers little in the way of answers about his impending criminal life. Autism isn't associated with violent crime, so something else must have caused Edward Nygma to become The Riddler.
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Why does The Riddler have OCD?

The Riddler's obsession with games stems from an underlying insecurity about his intelligence. While the pursuit of knowledge is a noble virtue, it becomes problematic when that pursuit leads to a sense of personal insecurity.
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Does Nygma have a split personality?

Cory Michael Smith spoke about this idea with Comicbook.com, revealing that Nygma had to split into two personalities in order to take his dark side fully to heart. He accidentally killed two people, when he had good intentions.
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What is Riddler's biggest fear?

He prides himself in his intelligence, and to be out riddled by batman is one of his greatest fears, and ultimate failures.
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Why is The Riddler so obsessed with Batman?

Since childhood, Riddler has been fueled by a compulsive need to prove himself as the smartest person in the room. He craves intellectual validation, and he believes Batman to be his only truly worthy opponent. That's the core of every crime Riddler has committed in Gotham.
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How did Batman beat the Riddler?

While any other Gotham criminal working out his identity would be a problem, the Dark Knight is able to quickly paint Riddler into a corner, neutralizing him with a simple logic puzzle that plays to Edward Nigma's obsession.
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What disorder does Harley Quinn have?

While she does inevitably become his “girlfriend” (although he never treats her with love and respect) and his assistant, Harley doesn't appear to have antisocial personality disorder. Instead, her character is closer to a diagnosis of histrionic personality disorder. Those symptoms are: Being flirtatious or seductive.
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What mental illness does Scarecrow have?

Apparently suffering from an extreme form of dissociative identity disorder, Wesker manipulates the scar-faced dummy and gives him a voice, but believes he is completely separate from — and indeed, totally subservient to — the crass, murderous personality that emerges.
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Does the Riddler have autism the Batman?

The Batman was good. Dano plays The Riddler as an autistic lowbie and the last 30 minutes are just the film overstaying its welcome to beg you not to kill elected officials when the sea levels rise.
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What mental illness does Catwoman have?

Catwoman.

Selina Kyle does not qualify for any enduring mental illness. Despite her saying, “Yeah, well, I'm a regular kleptomaniac,” in one comic book, she really isn't. Kleptomaniacs steal impulsively and nonsensically, not to fence goods for instrumental gain.
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What disorder does Jerome Valeska have?

Valeska became sociopathic, eventually murdered his mother, and then tried to hide the fact.
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What is Riddler's real name?

Created by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang, The Riddler — aka Edward Nygma, or “E. Nigma” — is a supervillain who aims to challenge Batman in a battle of wits, leaving clues and riddles for the world's greatest detective to solve in order to catch him. Since debuting in 1948's Detective Comics No.
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Why did the Riddler become evil?

The Riddler appears in The Question series, being convinced to become a "big-time villain" by a prostitute he meets on a bus. He hijacks the bus and begins asking riddles, killing and robbing anyone that gets them wrong.
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What is Joker's real name?

Jack Napier, also known as the Joker, is a fictional character introduced in the 1989 superhero film Batman, directed by Tim Burton. Primarily portrayed by Jack Nicholson, the character was based on the iconic supervillain the Joker.
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Is the Riddler creepy?

The Batman director Matt Reeves describes the Riddler (Paul Dano) as a scary but also empathetic villain in the upcoming Warner Bros/DC film. Director Matt Reeves says that The Batman's Riddler is both scary and empathetic.
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Is the Riddler brutal?

Shortly after finding what he came for, The Riddler grows angry with Enigma and attacks her with his cane, killing her. This story proved that The Riddler is not only a dangerous and violent person, but he has no problem killing those closest to him.
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Can Scarecrow feel fear?

He was soon elected to be the Sinestro of Sector-2814. Overjoyed at finally being able to feel fear, Scarecrow gleefully and without question follows the commands of Sinestro. For a time, he willingly did his duty, and even assisted against the Black Lanterns, personally attacking Black Hand.
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Does Harvey Dent have schizophrenia?

History. Harvey Dent's childhood consisted of hardship. Growing up under an abusive father, he developed repressed mental-illnesses of his own, such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. His hard work ethic, however, allowed him to rise up to become Gotham City's youngest district attorney at the age of 26.
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What mental illness does Jonathan Crane have?

Mental Illness: After being doused with his father's fear toxin, Jonathan is mentally unstable, unable to shake the hallucination of an animated scarecrow. Phobia: Jonathan suffers from a severe case of chiropteraphobia (fear of bats) and a chronic fear of Batman.
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Is Batman a sociopath?

Batman displays a barrage of psychopathic tendencies, but his genuine need to save the citizens of Gotham keeps him from having an outright case of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), the diagnosable condition most associated with sociopathy.
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What is wrong with Edward nygma in Gotham?

Edward took on the persona of the Riddler and terrorized Gotham until he was frozen in a block of ice by Victor Fries on Oswald's orders, and suffered brain damage as a result.
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