It's one of those moments where he's fairly sure he looks like a relatively unremarkable if awkward guy. Not a super villian out of costume, or the kind of person that has several weapons on them and is technically evading the law at the moment, or that he would take this clever woman hostage again without blinking. But he supposes he never really looks like that outside of his green suits. When he's not the Riddler, he's just Eddie Nygma, and Eddie Nygma isn't all that impressive.

With the exception of his impressively awful puns. "That's not as bad as theoptical scientist who stole his colleague's bifocals was sentenced to three years in a state prism."