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''wish you to see,
''this haunting be-riddle
''answer you'll me!''
When [[Only Smart People May Pass]], a challenge is often given in the form of a riddle. The solution to said riddle is often, in itself, the means by which the characters may continue.
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* This is the standard MO of The Riddler in the ''[[Batman]]'' comics. [[Depending on the Writer]], it could be a game he plays, or it could be an outright psychotic compulsion he feels he ''has'' to play.
** Cluemaster, also from the Bat family comics, started out with pretty much the same MO, leaving little clues at his crime scenes, until he was caught and sent to Arkham. The doctors there were actually able to ''cure'' him...of his compulsion to leave clues. It figures the one time the shrinks there can do their job, it makes a criminal ''tougher'' to catch.
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== [[Film]] - Live-Action ==
* The Director's cut of ''[[Legend (film)|Legend]]'' has Gump ask Jack this riddle: What is a bell that never rings, yet its knell makes the angels sing? Answer:{{spoiler|A bluebell. To hear it ring means that your life is at an end.}}
* Parodied in ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' with the old man from scene 24 and the Bridge of Death. He poses his "questions three" to every knight who seeks to cross, and failure to answer correctly plunges the knight into the Gorge of Eternal Peril. The first two questions are always the same -- the knight's name and quest ("to find the Grail", of course). The third... well, that alternates between incredibly easy ("What is your favorite color?") and terribly obscure ("What is the capital of Assyria?"). ([[Too Dumb to Live|Sir Robin flubs his own favorite color]].)
== [[Literature]] ==
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