Board Thread:Characters/@comment-27677459-20160525193216/@comment-28461341-20161218060835

The following is pretty much speculation and its very possible I'm wrong:

I'm just going to drop it here that Riddler wasn't always his powerful New 52 force to be reckoned with. Calculator was created in 1976 and revamped in 2004 during Identity Crisis as an evil counterpart to Oracle. If anything, New 52 Riddler copied on Calculator.

Post-Crisis Riddler would have been pretty lame in a Arkham game so they had to beef him up, which in turn was the basis for New 52 Riddler.