Editing Batman Forever (section)

==Plot==
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In [[Gotham City]], [[Bruce Wayne (1989 film series character)|Batman]] defuses a hostage situation orchestrated by the criminal [[Two-Face]], formerly [[district attorney]] [[Harvey Dent (1989 film series character)|Harvey Dent]], who escapes. Flashbacks reveal that Batman failed to prevent Dent's disfigurement with [[acid]] by mobster [[Sal Maroni]], causing Dent to develop a [[split personality]], make decisions based on the flip of a coin, and swear vengeance against Batman.

[[Edward Nygma (Batman Forever)|Edward Nygma]], an eccentric and egotistical researcher at [[Wayne Enterprises]], approaches his employer, Bruce Wayne, to present an invention that can beam [[television]] signals directly into the brain, demanding immediate approval directly from Bruce. Bruce rejects the device, as he is irritated by Nygma and is concerned that the technology could [[Manipulation (psychology)|manipulate minds]]. After killing his abusive supervisor and staging it as a suicide, Nygma resigns and plots revenge against Bruce, sending him [[riddle]]s. [[Criminal psychology|Criminal psychologist]] [[Chase Meridian]] diagnoses Nygma as [[psychotic]].

Bruce attends a [[Haly's Circus|circus]] with Chase. Two-Face hijacks the event and threatens to detonate a bomb unless Batman reveals his identity. [[Dick Grayson (1989 film series character)|Dick Grayson]], the youngest member of the [[Flying Graysons]] family of acrobats, manages to throw the bomb into a river, but Two-Face kills his family in the process. Bruce invites the now-orphaned Dick to live at [[Wayne Manor]] as his [[Ward (law)|ward]], where he discovers that Bruce is Batman. Seeking to avenge the death of his family, Dick demands to join Batman in [[crime-fighting]], hoping to kill Two-Face, but Bruce declines in order to help Dick move on instead, as he is considering retirement.

Nygma becomes the [[Riddler]] and teams up with Two-Face. They commit a series of [[Robbery|robberies]] to finance Nygma's new company and mass-produce his [[brainwave]] device dubbed the Box, which steals information from minds and transfers it to Nygma's, increasing his intelligence but also slowly causing him to lose his grip on reality. At a party hosted by Nygma, Batman pursues Two-Face and is almost killed until Dick saves him.

Batman visits Chase, who explains that she has fallen in love with Bruce, and Bruce reveals his secret identity to her. Having discovered Bruce's secret through the Box, on [[Halloween]] night, Two-Face and the Riddler destroy the [[Batcave]], shoot Bruce, and abduct Chase. As Bruce recovers, he and his butler, [[Alfred Pennyworth]], deduce that Nygma is the Riddler. Bruce finally accepts Dick as his best friend and partner, [[Robin (character)|Robin]].

At the Riddler's lair, Robin defeats Two-Face but chooses to spare him, allowing Two-Face to capture Robin at gunpoint. The Riddler reveals his final riddle: Chase and Robin, representing the two sides of Batman's personality, are trapped in tubes above a deadly drop, and he only has the time to save one. Batman distracts the Riddler with a riddle himself, before destroying the Riddler's brainwave receiver with a [[Batarang]], damaging the Riddler's mind and enabling Batman to rescue both when he sees the floor is an optical illusion. Two-Face corners them and flips his coin to decide their fate, but Batman throws a handful of identical coins in the air, causing Two-Face to fall to his death.

Committed to [[Arkham Asylum]], Nygma exclaims that he is Batman, having become completely delusional due to his scrambled memories. Bruce resumes his crusade as Batman, with Robin as his partner.