Enigma (DC Comics)

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caption=Enigma. Art by Tony Daniel.
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character_name=Enigma
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publisher=DC Comics
debut="Teen Titans" #38
creators=Geoff Johns
Tony Daniel
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alliances=Titans EastTeen Titans
aliases=Riddler's Daughter
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Enigma is a name used by two fictional characters, both supervillains in the DC Universe. The character first appeared in "Teen Titans" #38 and was created by Geoff Johns and Tony Daniel. Her appearance is based on the Riddler's. A villain in "Trinity" has also used the name.

Enigma

Fictional character biography

Not much is known about Enigma, but she briefly joined the Teen Titans after "Infinite Crisis", but like most of the members during that time period she left. During this period, she was known as the Riddler's Daughter, and seemed to be friends with Duela Dent ("The Jokesters"). She is not as talented at riddling as she would like to be (mostly they are just bad jokes), and she wields a question mark-shaped cane as a weapon.

One Year Later, she is a member of Deathstroke's villainous Titans East, now known as Enigma. During a battle, she says to Dent "Wait'll dear old daddy gets a load of us!", implying that they may be sisters, or at least think they are. Enigma and Duela were later psychologically torturing Raven inside a hall of mirrors. There, she revealed that she joined Titans East as a way of getting her father to accept her.

It is revealed that the Joker's daughter is actually the daughter of the Jokester of Earth 3. She was part of the Riddler family. It has not been revealed if the Riddler's Daughter also came from an alternate Earth.

Notes

* A Pre-Crisis Duela Dent used five different daughter disguises to get the attention of Robin, the Boy Wonder. She attempted to rob a Chinese Restaurant dressed up like a female Riddler, and used question mark-shaped guns that fired rubber bullets. This ruse was discovered when Robin unmasked her.

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* Riddler

Second Enigma

In issue one of the Trinity series, a mysterious man, whose face is half-obscured by a metal mask, and wielding a powerful staff, joins forces with Morgaine Le Fey. His true name is unknown, but he takes the moniker "Enigma", from what Le Fey initially called him. Along with Morgaine, he plans the conquer the "Keystone Universe", a.k.a. New Earth, the current mainstream DC Universe, by forcibly integrating the personality of the "Trinity", the group formed by Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman, and collecting artifacts related to their personal origins.

The costume and theme are suggestive of The Riddler, who often goes by the alias Edward Nigma/Edward Nygma (although the half mask is also suggestive of another Batman villain--Two-Face as it appears Enigma's face is scarred in the same way as he is) but Enigma's true is deliberately kept a secret until later in the series.

Approaching to the revelation, several clues are scattered throughout the miniseries: the Riddler claims to recognize the "modus operandi" of Enigma as his own, therefore asking Dick Grayson more time to disculp himself. Morgaine, feeling Edward Nygma life-force while he was at Madame Zodiac's mansion, claims that Riddler and Enigma share the same life-force, or a similar one. Enigma seems to have a personal connection to the antimatter earth, as evidenced by an emotional outburst when Despero suggests conquering it. This is confirmed when Enigma teleports himself to a base orbiting the Anti-Matter Earth. ["Trinity" #14]

Eventually, Enigma is unmaked when he attempts to sap Superman powers by red sunlight radiation, but reversed in wavelenght, so, ineffective over a being of New Earth: this spurs Superman into scanning Enigma's body with his X-ray vision, confirming that he's the Antimatter Enigma. His motivations remains unknown. ["Trinity" #16]

References

*comicbookdb|type=character|id=21907|title=Enigma

External links

* [http://titanstower.com/source/whoswho/OYG/riddlersdaughter.html Riddler's Daughter at TitansTower.com]