No villian is worth his weight in gold if he doesn't pose a challenge to any superhero with his smarts. If Riddler is just a complete nut with a low IQ it's hard to get drawn into it because he won't be much of a threat. Just because the Joker was devious in a brilliant way doesn't mean that every villian after him has to be an idiot. Why would anybody compare the Riddler to the Joker if he's brilliant and a genious. The 2 villians in Begins were evil geniouses as well.
Obviuosly the Joker and Riddler will be compared just like they would be compared to any other good villians. If the Riddler acts like Ledger's Joker then we have a problem but his personality has always been pretty distinct from the Joker and it's pretty easy to make him psychotic in a different vein.

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