The Batman
The answer to The Riddler ’s first riddle inThe Batmanhas been solved . For the first installment of Matt Reeves’Batmanfranchise , he ’s decided to put multiple baddie in the movie to face off against Robert Pattinson ’s Batman . New edition of Catwomanand Penguin will appear inThe Batman , but neither of them will be the principal baddie . As made clear in the first trailer for the new DC movie , Paul Dano ’s Edward Nashton aka The Riddler will be at the nerve center of the crimes Batman tries to lick .
Even though the trailer forThe Batmannever showed Dano ’s expression , Riddler is by all odds the man underneath the mask who is going around Gotham kill multiple the great unwashed , include the metropolis ’s mayor . After shoot down mayor Don Mitchell , The Riddlerleft Batman with his first set of clues to figure out the case . Nashton write " No More Lies " on Mitchell ’s duct - taped treat face and left a placard for Batman that asked,“What does a LIAR do when he is DEAD?“The doubt has left fans searching for the solvent to the riddle , but the card include a secret code that provided the answer .
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The solution to Riddler ’s riddle starts with recognizing the mysterious symbols as an alphabetical switch cipher , meaning that each one correspond to a letter of the alphabet . Repeating symbols are usually a surefire sign of a substitution cypher , since there are only 26 letters in the alphabet and the five vowels are used frequently . Several retell symbol helped crack the codification and let out that the solvent to the enigma is"He lie in still . “Without diving too deep into the summons of deciphering the code , the answer used the substitutes for " tocopherol , " " I , " and " S " twice and " L " three times . That only left " H " and " T " to be solved once the other symbols were place with their proper letter .
The answer toThe Riddler ’s first enigma is quite straight forward . By using a play on words and the dual substance of Lie , Riddler has a clever interrogative sentence and answer for Batman to solve . While the resolution provides a literal explanation of what a liar does when he is numb , it also emphasizes how his lie are still part of him and last beyond his own biography . This could be because there are lies Mitchell previously told that will still be perceive to be true after he is gone . In other words , the corruption Matt Reeves talked up in the DC FanDome dialog box is far more far-flung than could be ended by kill only Mitchell .
In the grand dodging of The Riddler ’s plan , finding the solvent to this first riddle wo n’t just be helpful for thisdetective expectant Batman history , but also fans . There are now six symbols know to be associated with specific missive of the alphabet so that only exit 20 more to go . As the marketing forThe Batmancontinues , more of Riddler ’s coded substance and answers will in all likelihood be let in . Now when the meter comes to solve the rest , we ’ll be one footprint closer to doing so .
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