After the release of The BatmanThe first trailer over the weekend, one of fan seems to be decoding a mysterious message from the Riddler (Paul Dano).
At first glance, the Matt Reeves-directed DC movie received first glimpses of Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne / Batman, alongside Zoe Kravitz’s Catwoman and Dano’s Riddler.
At one point in the clip, however, a message for Batman is left to a victim, who asks, “What does a liar do when he dies?”, Followed by a series of symbols.
One fan seems to crack it, discovers that the answer translates as the clever pun: “He lies still”.
His statement of his methodology, Andrew Lane revealed in a Twitter thread that he looked through the symbols to identify recurring, with a process of elimination by first trying Batman.
“This did not work because the symbols I put in the first sentence with letters were not replaced with the same symbols in the second sentence,” he wrote. ‘So I went to my next thought process, replacing the appropriate symbols in the first sentence with’ E ‘, as it is the most used letter in the English language.
‘Then replace the corresponding consecutive letters in the second sentence with a double’ L ‘, because it is the most used consecutive letters in the English language. Then I used the riddle to the right of the card and the replacement letters to figure out the rest. “
So hyped for Matt Reeve’s Batman Movie, I decided to solve The Riddler’s code. #TheBatman pic.twitter.com/vsxVxucedv
– Andrew Lane (@ TheMasterD101) August 23, 2020
The BatmanThe trailer was unveiled at DC’s FanDome event, revealing a much darker and more grim interpretation of the DC hero.
Elsewhere at the virtual event, Warner Bros. Games Montreal officially unveiled them Gotham Knights game, which is set in the Batman universe. The game takes place after the death of Bruce Wayne, with the titular Gotham Knights – Robin, Batgirl, Nightwing and Red Hood – continuing with his legacy.
