Riddlebat

Riddlebat is the slash ship between Edward Nygma and Bruce Wayne from the DC Comics fandom.

Behind the Scenes
"It’s a love story. That’s what this is. He [The Riddler] loves him [The Batman]."

- Matt Reeves (Director of The Batman 2022)

Fanon
Although there were Riddlebat fans before the release of The Batman (2022), a large portion of them came from that movie. Showing that The Batman and The Riddler aren't all that different showed many fans that they could bond over that.

Bruce and Edward are typically written as enemies to lovers (as they would be if the ship was entirely canon), sometimes writers have AU's where they were never enemies and or where Edward wasn't a murderer to make the relationship a bit sweeter.

Fanfictions typically tend to keep the personalities of Bruce and Edward, and both of their alter egos (The Batman and The Riddler), making it so Edward is in love since the beginning and Bruce is the last one to realize his feelings.

Also, fans tend to make Edward and/or Bruce transgender and/or autistic. Edward being the one that is mostly depicted at transgender, and both of them (pretty equally) being depicted as autistic.

Fandom
FAN FICTION