Riddlebat

Riddlebat is the slash ship between Bruce Wayne (The Batman/Vengeance) and Edward Nigma/Nygma/Nashton (The Riddler) from the DC Comics fandom.

Canon
Due to Edward (The Riddler)'s one-sided obsessive love for the Batman, their relationship can be described as semi-canon. "It’s a love story. That’s what this is. He [The Riddler] loves him [The Batman]."

- Matt Reeves (Director of The Batman 2022)

Edward has a peculiar type of love for the Batman. Despite knowing Bruce Wayne and the Batman are the same person, he despises Bruce but worships Batman.

Fanon
Despite most DC villains not having many popular ships, there are 3000+ fanfictions written on Bruce and Edward on AO3 as of right now (4/25/22).

The ship has grown significantly since the release of  The Batman (2022)  released on March 4, 2022. There were fans since before that, but 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.

Fanfiction:

 * Edward Nygma/Bruce Wayne on AO3
 * Bruce Wayne/Edward Nygma on AO3
 * riddlebat on AO3
 * Edward Nashton/Bruce Wayne on AO3

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