The Gaymer Media Geek

I know this is not something that they would do in the actual Scream movies, because they are trying to remain somewhat grounded with Ghostface as an actually mortal slasher rather than supernatural. But indulge me for a moment, the mask calls out to people... It looks for the next Ghostfaces, it's mass produced by a company that doesn't know what it is... That there is an actual evil presence attached to the symbology of the face... It's not super powerful... it needs you to already be willing to accept it into yourself... It needs you to want to harm someone already; you were just inches from doing something bad, it just gives you a push. It gives you stealth and silence, the more anger and rage you have the more you seem invincible... But there is a price... the moment the mask comes off your face... It no longer protects you... Why do they always fail to get their main target.. Because they can't stop themselves from revealing their secret... Their ego has to tell their main victim that they were the ones who killed them. It's a curse... The mask makes you arrogant; you can pull off insane feats, but your actual goal... your obsession, they are just out of reach.. It would be so easy to just end it...

Thinking about a comic character who is otherwise a normal human being, but every time the universe is rebooted, retconned, or in some way everybody's memories are changed. They always remember what originally happened, but also conflictingly they remember all the new stuff too.

There is no long-form medium that has the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows than comic franchises. As can be gathered from various posts on my blog, I am a huge fan of comics, I prefer DC over Marvel, but that preference is not a hard line more of a if I'm forced to choose one over the other... I know it would be absolutely terrible for the industry, but honestly I'd love it if both universes were smashed together into one big mega universe (No not like Amalgam though that was a fun little what if, I mean just they've always been on the same earth all the characters all the time.) But I'm already digressing... Superboy Prime, if there ever was to be a poster boy for controversial choices for characters, He's definitely heavily in the running. As a fan of the original Crisis on Infinite Earths and 80's DC in general it's not hard for me to say that Infinite Crisis was rough for me.. Bringing back a bunch of Pre-Crisis characters who were all heroes and having them do horrible things in the name of bringing back the good old days was not my favorite storyline to say the least. At the time, the worst thing to happen was what they did to Superboy from Earth Prime... He became this whiny, edgy fan boy who murdered in the name of basically saying that the old days were better (Hard to not feel like that was a dig at old time fans.) Who was also ultra powerful, enough that he could literally just punch reality and cause all sorts of crazy things to happen like random people coming back to life like Jason Todd. After Infinite Crisis, he stuck around as a threat that they would release when they wanted to put a uber powerful plot breaking villain that basically took everybody to even slow him down. Wanna raise the stakes have Prime be involved somehow... A few years back, the annual reality ending event was happening called Dark Nights: Death Metal, and they decided to give the character a quick cheap redemption arc as he saves the universe in that storyline... He also gets shuffled off, supposedly back to his original reality and I thought, well there you go that's the last we will see of him. Imagine to my surprise that recently showed up again... and... I don't hate what they are doing with him... He's not... 100% a good guy... but his whole thing right now is that he's trying to be better. They are really leaning into him coming from a world where all the other characters are from comics so he's capable of breaking the 4th wall and bending reality constantly. (Very Deadpool but on a way different level more disturbing in a lot of ways.) I'm not going to lie, I'm loving the art... His character is... crazy but fun... I don't know for sure what their endgame is with him. I don't see how he could truly ever fully shake his villain arc.. This isn't Hal Jordan, there is no Parallax retcon to absolve him... But I'm interested in taking the ride see where it goes at least... I kind of want him to learn some sort of lesson... I don't want to see him just fall back into Infinite Crisis murder boy.

So a character I thought about using for sure in my P.I. Riddlerverse is a villain that's pretty obscure. He's called Bookworm( His deal is that he commits literary and book based crimes) and his most famous appearance was in the Batman 60's series played by the amazing Roddy McDowall. ( His whole aesthetic where his costume is like a leather bound book with golden gilded edges and a reading lamp built into his hat pure 60's Super villain cheese.)

He hasn't been used much in the comics(Though they did give him a name Alexander Wyvern.) and nothing has really stuck character wise he's ripe for reinvetion. I personally like the idea that he is a retired villain that used to work during Batman's very early career. But got out of the buisness... Eddie crosses paths with him on a case where Lock-Up began kidnapping all of the Bats villains active or not.

Due to shenanigans they both have to help each other escape Bolton. After the incident Bookworm starts working in Eddies P.I. office. He's especially good with file sorting, speed reading, and collating data.

Eddie and him are both intellectuals though focused on different things, I like the idea that they verbally spar a lot.

I know that I want him to be a red head like he has become in more recent years in the comics. I prefer suit and tie rather than the spandex unitard but my Riddler wears a bowler and not a fedora. I feel like the pics above kind of give the feel for what I think he looks like overall... I think if I mashed all these ideas together that's where i'd be with how I think he should look. I feel like he's slightly a bit of a fashion guy at least when it comes to his outfit he trys things out like.. shifting the colors trying a bowtie etc... I'm not a huge fan of the question mark scar from the War of Jokes and Riddles(Probably not gonna use it.) even though I definitely think that storyline happened in some form for my Riddler. Wally Wingert (The voice actor for the Arkham game Riddler) is the voice claim I have in my head. I feel like before he became the Riddler he for a short time worked for the GCPD, I haven't fully hashed out whether it's more like Arkham Origins or Gotham Riddler, but I want that connection.