The Riddler

Jared Harris as The Riddler.

Appears: 1st, 2nd Films.

Ideally, The Riddler would make his first appearance in the 1st film, and possibly carry over into the second. In the first film, Harris would serve as the primary nemesis of Batman, with only the storylines tying the character to "Hush," bringing him into the 2nd. Perhaps this can be done through a flashback.

The overwhelming risk I see in carrying too many characters over to the next successive film is the more that are transferred the less of a climax the first movie would have. Think in terms of what made the better trilogies in history like, "Star Wars," and "The Godfather." Both regarded as possibly the best trilogies, and both have a major destructive force and death at the end of the films. I guess it goes to say that I think the direction that should be taken for this project would be to view it as one long film with intermissions, but we need excitement before the intermissions.