Riddle Me This #14 - Easy Easy

[Edward Nigma]

This one is easy easy . . .

Riddle me this . . .

My veiled face is my face itself.
Unveiled, I am annulled.
I am hidden and concealed.
Yet, if you discover me, I will disappear before your eyes forever.

What am I?

The Riddler

[Phil B]

Twin Mountains.

[Bob]

A canary with a machine gun !

[elmrgraham]

A woman named The Black Canary.

[clavierankh]

A Dream

[Edward Nigma]

You know this particular riddle thread has gone down the Dada Surrealismus Rabbit Hole when I'm giving the sanest replies!

[Bob]

I am not a clever man, but yes I suppose after 14 riddles this has jumped the shark

[Mr. Deathtrap]

Citizens,

Returning to the spirit of the thread, the answer to the riddle may be a riddle.


Mr. Deathtrap

If I am right, I am baffled about what crime this may indicate.

[60sLover]

A secret.

[Phil B]

Oh great crown prince of conundrums wouldst thou return to riddles of thy past.
You know, ones like:

When is a person like a piece of wood?
When he's a ruler

What has neither nails or bones but has four fingers and a thumb?
A glove

After all, they're meant to be clues for Batman and if he can't answer em, what's the point.

[Edward Nigma]

I am not a clever man, but yes I suppose after 14 riddles this has jumped the shark

Well, if riddles are a metaphor for evil, and the battle between good and evil is eternal, then riddles can no more jump the shark than birds, cats or jokes can.

After all, they're meant to be clues for Batman and if he can't answer em, what's the point.

I would argue that Batman's inability to answer riddles is precisely the point. Batman's failure would be more satisfying than any death trap could ever hope to be because such a lapse would expose Batman as a fraud. Food for thought!

[Mr. Deathtrap]

Citizens,

Baffling Batman with riddles once would would be a triumph for or punctuated puzzler. Moe often would be quickly boring.

Mr. Deathtrap

[Riddlersgurl]

And a bored Edward Nigma is an ineffectual villain.

[Edward Nigma]

Citizens,

Returning to the spirit of the thread, the answer to the riddle may be a riddle.


Mr. Deathtrap

If I am right, I am baffled about what crime this may indicate.

Mr. Deathtrap wins it!

No crime involved -- this is just me being a typical narcissistic villain and referencing my criminal theme.

Citizens,

Baffling Batman with riddles once would would be a triumph for or punctuated puzzler. Moe often would be quickly boring.

Mr. Deathtrap

Since I consider Batman to be the Mount Everest of detective crimefighters (greater than Sherlock Holmes, The Shadow and Dick Tracy), I expect him to solve my riddles -- every time. That wouldn't prevent me from trying endlessly to outwit him as the game is paramount to me.

And a bored Edward Nigma is an ineffectual villain.

An ineffectual Batman would pose an existential crisis for me as I would have no reason to exist. (And, which is why the death traps never made any sense for the Riddler on the show as success would mean "death" for his Riddler identity.)

[Mr. Deathtrap]

Edward Nygma said:

"The death traps never made any sense for the Riddler on the show as success would mean "death" for his Riddler identity."


I think the traps presented additional riddles for Batman. How do I survive this situation?

So, if a trap succeeds, Riddler wins. Of course, he then runs into the problem Alexander the Great came upon after conquering the world.

Mr. Deathtrap