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• The Taped Halloween by DragonsSecretFicHoard

  Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, The Batman (Movie 2022)  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Other
  • Work in Progress

  31 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Edward Nygma
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Pre-Canon Fix It
  • Takes place directly before the events of The Batman 2022
  • Edward Nygma has major self-esteem issues
  • Nygma is Nigma is Nashton for plot reasons
  • Trans Edward Nygma
  • more tags as they become relevant
  • beta'd by the voices in the author's head
  • and about 3000 years of this fic tormenting the author

  Summary

  In order to make a grand scale change, one must first start with oneself.

  Before that fateful Halloween, before The Batman had heard even a whisper of The Riddler, there was one lonely little Edward with a plan. A plan that would shake every foundation. But first, a question.

  Who Is The Riddler?

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,146

  Chapters:

  1/3

  Kudos:

  1

  Hits:

  24

• The Puzzler's a Quack / The Riddler Strikes Back by DragonsSecretFicHoard

  Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (1966)  

  • General Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  16 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Oswald Cobblepot & Edward Nygma
  • Riddler (Batman 1966)
  • Bookworm (Batman 1966)
  • Oswald Cobblepot
  • Edward Nygma
  • Diedre Vance
  • Nina Damfino
  • Batman 1966 Week 2025
  • 7 Day Prompt Combination
  • The Puzzles Are Coming/The Duo Is Slumming AU
  • Canon Timeline interference
  • All our friends hate the Puzzler
  • Frank Gorshin Riddler & Burgess Meredith Penguin
  • Canon Divergence
  • Canon Typical Death Traps
  • so much banter too much bickering this is the dynamic you all live for

  Summary

  Ever wonder why the Riddler was mysteriously absent from the second series? He was simply working on the submersible from the Batman film. That is, until his feathery friend tells him of a new rogue in town, taking up a suspiciously similar mantle.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,349

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Kudos:

  6

  Hits:

  73

• Special Menu: Pyg (A Skin Hunger gift fic) by DragonsSecretFicHoard for slingbees

  Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Gotham (TV)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  31 Jul 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Oswald Cobblepot
  • Lazlo Valentin
  • Cannibalism
  • Mutilation
  • Alternate Ending-Penguin makes good on his threat from chapter 8
  • author is firmly convinced Penguin has been writing oneliners since his kidnapping for just this occasion

  Summary

  Or Pygmalion meets Titus Andronicus

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  500

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  7

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  35

• A Walk In The Park by DragonsSecretFicHoard

  Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  28 Dec 2024

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Oswald Cobblepot/Edward Nygma
  • Oswald Cobblepot
  • Edward Nygma
  • Established Relationship
  • valentines date: being public menaces to society
  • Park date
  • 'date' being used loosely
  • lets face it their flirting is being menaces
  • this batman has that blue costume that isnt technically blue but they cant print black
  • beta'd by the voices in the author's head
  • Riddlebird week: Cliché

  Summary

  Gothamites celebrate a romantic date in the park...
  Until a pair of Rogues spoil the party.

  Series

  • Part 6 of Riddlebird Week 2024

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  800

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  5

  Kudos:

  28

  Bookmarks:

  3

  Hits:

  223

• What Do You Never Appreciate Until You Lose It? by DragonsSecretFicHoard

  Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: The Animated Series  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  18 Dec 2024

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Oswald Cobblepot/Edward Nygma
  • Oswald Cobblepot
  • Edward Nygma
  • Riddlebird Week: Bereft
  • author's headcanons for penguin balding patterns: an observational documentary
  • Balddler
  • there should be a bald riddler tag
  • beta'd by the voices in the author's head
  • you can blame everyone who did the slap riddler's bald head movement for this one folks
  • balding
  • if I have to singlehandedly-2 hands I have2-doublehandedly create the balddler tag then I will
  • some negative self thoughts about aging by everyones beloved murder bird
  • an extreme karmic backhand because if riddlers not on stage then hes going in pathetic soup

  Summary

  When the Penguin has a plumage-related panick, the Riddler tries to help... It goes about as well as you'd think.

  Series

  • Part 5 of Riddlebird Week 2024

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  819

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Kudos:

  11

  Bookmarks:

  2

  Hits:

  164