10 Things DC Wants You To Forget About The Riddler

4. Jim Carrey

The Batman films took a weird turn somewhere. At first they were dark but still pretty noticeably comic book-like, as Tim Burton turned his twisted and hyperreal filmmaking style to the Caped Crusader with brilliant results. Then Joel Schumacher took over the franchise with Batman Forever and, well...there's a reason people were so thankful when Christopher Nolan took over the movie Dark Knight and made them less of a sugar-fuelled pop art nightmare that nobody asked for.

As rightfully reviled as Batman & Robin is, things went way of course before that, thanks principally to Tommy Lee Jones's scenery-chewing turn as Two-Face but perhaps worse, Jim Carrey's OTT rendition of The Riddler. In the comics The Riddler is a bit Joker-like. There's the similar gimmicks, dress sense and the like, but when it comes to how they act they're pretty different. The Riddler is a lot more grounded in his insanity, spending last time running around giggling like a maniac and more time being quietly confident in his fiendish deathtraps.

Apparently Jim Carrey didn't get the memo, or got the two characters confused as so many have before and since, and when playing Edward Nigma in Schumacher's film decided to go full Ace Ventura on the character. We can blame the costume designer for his bizarre ginger bonce and skin-tight green suit covered in question marks, but we're pretty sure the rest is totally Carrey's fault.

His Riddler is a gurning, manic lunatic who leaps around the art deco sets and seems to have no control over the volume of his voice - but not in a fun Ron Burgundy way - and it's terrible. And really annoying.

Thankfully this version of The Riddler was never seen anywhere else ever again. Of that we should be thankful. And some of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr Freeze jokes in the next film were kinda funny in a "dad joke" way.