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The Penguin (Comic Book)

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The Penguin (Comic Book)	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Penguin, real name Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot, is a comic book supervillain who appears in comic books published by DC Comics, and is one of the most iconic members of Batman's Rogues Gallery.Oswald Cobblepot was born to wealth and status, much like Bruce Wayne. His father died of pneumonia at a young age. Believing her husband had caught the disease from walking unprotected in the rain, Oswald's mother insisted that her son carry an umbrella at all times. Oswald spent the majority of his life miserable, being bullied due to his short stature, obesity, and beak-like nose, he was an outcast to all. His only companions were his beloved mother and his pet birds.Eventually his frustration built up to a point where he finally decided to release it by becoming a criminal. Due to his upbringing, he always tries to look his best in a tail-coat, top hat, and monocle. All of that, in addition to his notable love for birds and the lessons in cruelty he was taught in childhood, inspired him to take the moniker "The Penguin". What began as a malicious childhood nickname has become one of the most feared monikers in Gotham's criminal underworld.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The Penguin is one of Batman's most persistent and implacable foes. Classy, refined, flamboyant, cruel, savage and ruthless… sometimes all at the same time. A master criminal who specializes in committing crimes beneath a façade of legitimacy or weakness, often exploiting people's tendency to underestimate him. The Penguin is motivated by greed and a desire for superiority, his trademarks being birds, his obsession and the imagery he surrounds himself with, and his use of umbrellas, which like himself, conceal deadly weaponry on a benign and comical appearence. Over the years, he gradually moved away from thievery and assault to arms-dealing and operating as a legitimate business man as a cover-up for his criminal actions, more of a mob kingpin.Whereas most of the Bat-Villains are insane to a degree, Penguin is usually portrayed as sane, and operates the "Iceberg Lounge" nightclub as equal parts legitimate business and front for his OTHER business. Penguin, like Catwoman, skirts the line between being criminal and being on the up-and-up, to the point Batman will even be willing to give him some leeway as long as he doesn't get too dirty, although unlike Catwoman this isn't because he is an Anti-Villain but mostly just a case of Pragmatic Villainy. Batman's even used him as an information source on underworld info, since the Penguin knows everybody. They're enemies, but they're willing to let each other be as long as their paths don't cross.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })The character is one of the most prominently featured Batman villains, having appearances in virtually every Batman-related media, his most iconic depictions being in the 1960s Batman (1966) television series, portrayed by Burgess Meredith, and in the 1992 film Batman Returns, where he was portrayed by Danny Devito. Robin Lord Taylor portrays a younger version of Oswald Cobblepot in the television show Gotham. Tom Kenny has voiced him several times. Paul Williams voiced the character in Batman: The Animated Series. He is currently voiced by Dana Snyder in Justice League Action. He is set to appear, played by Colin Farrell, in 2022's The Batman.In 2009, the Penguin was ranked as IGN's 51st Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_171ef47c	type	Not-So-Harmless Villain
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_171ef47c	comment	Not-So-Harmless Villain: You wouldn't think a short, chubby guy dressed in evening wear who deliberately models himself after a goofy, nonthreatening flightless bird would be at all threatening. But you'd be very, very wrong; he's one of Batman's most intelligent and dangerous foes.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son!" Guy: Oswald tried his hardest to gain the approval of his mother. In Once Upon a Midnight Dreary, it was revealed that he feared that his mom never truly loved him as much as his brothers and father and pretended to love him because no one would, sadly there may be some truth into that because even those we see her treat him with fondness in the flashbacks, we also never truly see her defend him either.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: Relentlessly exploits this trope.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_1c5599e4	type	Reformed, but Rejected
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_1c5599e4	comment	Reformed, but Rejected: How most of his genuine attempts to turn over a new leaf turn out.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Faithful to his origins, the Penguin maintained a classy attitude even in criminality, and kept wearing formally, with a tuxedo, a top hat and a monocle.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_1dfd19f9	type	PapaWolf
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Do not harm his birds. It may take time, but he will find a way to suitably destroy you.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_20af79d3	type	Oral Fixation
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_20af79d3	comment	Oral Fixation: The Penguin is almost never seen without his trademark cigarette holder. However, some more kid-friendly versions removed this for obvious reason. He's quite the wine and tea fan, too.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_20d965e	type	Gentleman Thief
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_20d965e	comment	Gentleman Thief: Started out this way before evolving into more of a mob boss.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: One of the few recurring Batman villains who is generally considered sane and as such rarely gets sent to Arkham. He usually goes to Blackgate Penitentiary instead. He is extremely eccentric (eating raw fish, his fixation on birds, his bizarre dress) but none of these get in the way of his functioning normally when he has to or effect his judgement. However, the "Gotham" and "The Batman" versions are far crazier.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: His short stature and beak-like nose are a more subtle version of this. In Batman Returns, Tim Burton decided to enhance Penguin's physical resemblance by giving him deformed hands, where the three lower fingers fuse together into ugly flipper-like paddles (syndactyly). This has enjoyed some vogue in animationnote Batman: The Animated Series made use of this flipper-hand design before the art-change for The New Adventures of Batman, and The Batman also retained the sharp, vicious teeth of Tim Burton's Penguin, but has never been accepted in the comics.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_27c09b00	type	Camp Straight
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_27c09b00	comment	Camp Straight: Has his moments, but has been engaged at least twice. He has proposed to wealthy socialite Veronica Vreeland, Catwoman, a blind woman named Cassandra, and trafficking victim Violet. Although in Gotham, he is bisexual. In Batman Returns and The Batman, he was quite the pervert. He was also shown staring at a woman's breasts in a comic.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_29aecb56	type	Parasol Parachute
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_29aecb56	comment	Parasol Parachute: Not only parachutes, but pogo sticks, mini-helicopters, and jetpacks have been equipped into his umbrellas.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_30a0067b	type	Supervillain Lair
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_30a0067b	comment	Supervillain Lair: Comes with the job description. Whether it's the Iceberg Lounge, his family's mansion, or an Absurdly Spacious Sewer, he makes it work.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_31fcc258	type	Training Montage
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_31fcc258	comment	Training Montage: Briefly shown during Secret Origins Special #1, where he was shown lifting weights and practicing with a punching bag as a kid. Result? He knocks out a bully's teeth with a single punch.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_339b3062	type	Quintessential British Gentleman
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_339b3062	comment	Quintessential British Gentleman: At least, he tries to be. Apparently "Stuffy English gentlemen" reminded creator Bill Finger of emperor penguins. While he usually speaks in a posh American accent, Oswald is at least of British descent. Defied in Batman: Arkham City. Penguin's backstory in this (and subsequent) games is that he was sent to a private school in England to study, but preferred the company of the criminal element in the East End and came back with a rough disposition and cockney accent. In The Batman, his family is from Newcastle, England.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: He's a gifted engineer who usually makes his umbrellas and other mechanisms himself when not delegating the job to his employees to save time and uses his devices in his schemes.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: In Gotham Underground, the Penguin finds himself on the losing side of a war against Intergang, with his government contact dead, his dragon having deserted him, and all his Mooks scared off. He's got the chance to flee the city, but instead readies his umbrella, dismisses his employees with generous severance packages, and wills the Iceberg Lounge to the Riddler before settling down with a bottle of wine to await his killers. He survives, but he had no way of knowing he would.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: Has been in both positions.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Shows signs of this in Penguin: Pain and Prejudice and Batman Returns. In "The Batman", he's a 20-something spoiled brat who's not afraid to publicly throw a fit if something pisses him off.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Went from another from-the-mold Batman villain whose gimmick happened to be birds and umbrellas, to a nightclub owner and the major player in Gotham's black market dealings. His backstory varies, depending on the writer. In one comic, he has an elderly aunt who is unaware of his criminal history, but she’s quite skilled with his umbrellas when she was about to be mugged.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Despite being overall much more sane and composed than the other Batman rogues, some versions of him will not hesitate to brutally murder and abuse his minions at the slightest transgression. Particularly if he thinks they are mocking his appearance.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_3cf44d4b	type	High-Class Glass
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_3cf44d4b	comment	High-Class Glass: His trademark monocle, almost always over his right eye. Some works decide to play with it: In the Arkham games, it's actually the stump of a broken bottle that got shoved into his eye during a bar brawl, to emphasize that he's a thug with delusions of classiness. Removing it would cause him to die from brain damage. In Telltale it's a smartglass he uses to jam Batman's communications and interface with military drones he's swiped. In Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts, it's a Terminator-esque scope, which comes in handy to observe people's intentions.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_41d50d81	type	Big Brother Bully
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_41d50d81	comment	Big Brother Bully: Oswald's brothers brutally abused him, physically and emotionally and got away with it. He was willing to tolerate their maliciousness right up until they started killing his birds. One drowned in ice and the other choked on his own vomit as a result.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_437820dc	type	Villainous Crush
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_437820dc	comment	Villainous Crush: Seemed to have a thing for Dawn Granger (Dove II) for a while. He did creepily stare at her boobs, though.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_43e36f2f	type	Acrofatic
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_43e36f2f	comment	Acrofatic: While he is usually portrayed as a capable physical combatant when he feels the situation calls for it, his level of skill varies widely Depending on the Writer and he has been written both as a physical match for Batman and as a character the masked vigilante can floor with a solid punch (even if it takes him a while to actually land one) and anywhere in between. For a fat guy, he's quite the fighter. Confusing things further is his propensity towards intentionally throwing fights as part of a scheme or to avoid exposing his respectable businessman persona as a sham.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: If he has just cause to be angry and is instead calm, understanding, and cheerful instead of dryly sarcastic and snide... be afraid.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_44e06bb6	type	Boisterous Weakling
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_44e06bb6	comment	How adept at hand-to-hand combat is he? A Boisterous Weakling who needs to rely on his craftiness? Not a bad fighter but prefers to stick to ranged weapons? A capable street brawler? A talented martial artist? Granted, even if it is the latter, up against Batman he'd still come off looking like a sick duck.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Heavy emphasis on the jerk. Between hiring ex-cons to his authentically legitimate business who had been having trouble getting steady work because no one else would give them a chance in Love Bird, and saving the lives of a doctor, a cop and a group of children they are trying to get out of Gotham in The Underground Railroad. Cobblepot has been shown to be capable of compassion and not just for his mother or his pet birds, both of whom he couldn't be more protective of if he tried.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: When investigating the Red Triangle Gang in Batman Returns, Batman notes that the Red Triangle Circus was shut down, shortly after announcing an "aquatic bird-boy" in the freak show, due to an alarming number of children disappearing or turning up dead in the wake of the circus' visits, with "one freak" evading capture and interrogating. Combined with the fact that Penguin's plan is ultimately to murder every first-born child in Gotham City, it's quite obvious Penguin has been a child murderer since he was fairly young himself. Averted in the DC Animated Universe by Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond creator Paul Dini. When interviewed about The Penguin's fate in the Batman Beyond future, as other Batman villains (such as The Joker and Mr. Freeze) had made appearances, Dini replied that in his senior years, Cobblepot gave up crime and the nightclub business and opened a daycare center, where he was affectionately known as "Uncle Pengy" by the children there, before finally dying of old age.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_483152c4	type	The Resenter
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_483152c4	comment	The Resenter: Of just about everyone.note The Penguin self-identifies as a "freak" in The Penguin Affair, predating his memorable line in Batman Returns when he says: "You're just jealous because I'm a genuine freak and you have to wear a mask." Like most people's problems, his have their origins in childhood, but Cobblepot's anger and resentment stem from more than being peeved at the people who bullied him as a kid, but something more immediate that's still happening to him as an adult, from his own self-loathing and the undeniable fact of his physical deformity, something he has to live with on a daily basis and confronts every time he looks in the mirror. Not only do others to find him repulsive, but he despises it himself. Every time he sees his appearance it reminds him of the very things he can never acquire, no matter how much wealth and power he gets, and consequently feels the frustration, jealousy of a man who believes himself fated to always be on the outside looking in. But Bruce Wayne is at the top of the list. Cobblepot blames the Waynes and Thomas in particular for his family's fall from grace and this feeling put a bitter enmity between him and Thomas' heir, Bruce, who he sees as spoiled and immature.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_48414e75	type	The Beastmaster
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_48414e75	comment	The Beastmaster: Especially in his pre-Iceberg Lounge days, he would often employ one or more trained birds in his crimes. In one comic, a former mook of his even noted that he'd never seen his boss pecked by a bird, even by accident.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Almost all versions of his backstory incorporate this.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_4f23ab52	type	Friend in the Black Market
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_4f23ab52	comment	Friend in the Black Market: He's this to all the criminals in Gotham City. When Gotham loses all outside contact and public utilities in No Man's Land, Penguin remains powerful thanks to his ability to get people whatever they want... for the right price.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: As a villain with a reputation to uphold this is usually toyed with but ultimately either Downplayed or Subverted, however... His story in the comic book Joker's Asylum has him doing everything he could to ruin the life of a chef who he thought was laughing when he went on a date with a beautiful woman. Less than two months later, he had ruined the chef's life so thoroughly that the guy hung himself, and it wasn't even certain that the guy was laughing at him - for all Penguin knew the chef may have just happened to be looking in his direction while laughing. This happens again in Penguin: Pain and Prejudice. At a party, a guy bumps into him and starts to call him a fatass before he sees who it is and begs for forgiveness. Penguin responds by having him fired from his job, burning down his apartment, cutting the brakes on his parent's car and having his girlfriend infected with an unknown substance.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: He's usually portrayed as fairly portly. The degree of obesity depends on the artist/actor.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Penguin conducts himself in a gentlemanly fashion, is almost always very polite (except when he's stuffing his face with fish), civil, and refined, prefers negotiation to bloodshed, can be very charming when he wants to be, has a (twisted) sense of honor, still has a heart and when he cares does so genuinely, is willing to work with Batman, and has helped pull said hero's ass out of the fire more than once. He's also a ruthless mob boss, responsible for much of the illegal trade in Gotham as well as a greedy, often amoral cold-blooded killer and if you happen to offend him, he will slit your throat with a razor sharp ferrule, and, as you lie on the floor choking on your own blood, the last thing you'll hear is him calling the florist to send condolence flowers to your widow. If you're lucky. Bruce has recently reluctantly admitted that a united criminal underworld in Cobblepot's control tends to be less dangerous for ordinary civilians. He's still scum (such as when he sold drugs to CHILDREN in the guise of popsicles) but there's worse people out there who would be more than happy to take his place if the situation to do so arose.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_55c0b038	type	Everything's Better with Penguins
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_55c0b038	comment	Everything's Better with Penguins: He loves all birds, but identifies most with Penguins.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Rarely fights, but has been shown to be a very effective combatant. Anyone who can beat up SUPERMAN is definitely a threat.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_5bc36262	type	Backwards-Firing Gun
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_5bc36262	comment	Backwards-Firing Gun: In "Crime on the Wing" in Batman #33, the Penguin drops one of his gimmicked umbrellas while fighting Batman. Batman picks it up and fires it at the Penguin, only to discover that umbrella is booby-trapped, and fires a dose of gas back in the firer's face.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_5c9503db	type	Classy Cane
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_5c9503db	comment	Classy Cane: Or Classy Umbrella in any case. He's rarely seen without one. He will use his umbrella as a cane to help him walk sometimes. In his debut episode in "The Batman", he held TWO umbrellas behind his back. In Batman Returns, he keeps his entire umbrella stash in his sewer lair.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: He's a Villain with Good Publicity and would like to keep it that way. He acts as classy as possible with his victims, particularly in "Birds of a Feather".
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_61b132a5	type	Sinister Schnoz
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_61b132a5	comment	Sinister Schnoz: Regardless of the existence of his deformities across his various incarnations, he typically has a very prominent nose. Although it's ridiculously long in most versions, it looks like an average Roman nose in Gotham and Telltale.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: Sadly, yes. Let's see here, in addition to the traditional pastimes of beatings and name calling: They would hang Cobblepot from the monkey bars with his hands and legs roped to the bars with his own suspenders so he would look like a bird in mid flight, children would burst in on him while he was using the restroom to make egg laying puns, his brothers and some kids from school tore down every nest in the aviary forcing him to watch the eggs crack on the floor, his brothers killed Speck (a sick bird he was nursing back to health), had a group of teens knock over a portable temporary toilet while he was still inside it, soaking his hair and clothing with the waste material inside, was made to remove his clothing in public, and a gang killed all his birds after he stood up to their leader who had been picking on him. His early life was not kind.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_63b12059	type	Villainous Friendship
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_63b12059	comment	Villainous Friendship: With The Riddler and sometimes The Joker and Catwoman.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_63f9d3d2	type	Falsely Reformed Villain
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_63f9d3d2	comment	Falsely Reformed Villain: Even before his "official" reformation, he's gone through supposed reformations countless times. He went back to villainy over relatively minor incidents, such as possibly false accusations of ridicule.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Has no powers and still managed to battle Firestorm (who has powers of molecular reorganization) to a standstill armed only with an umbrella. He also beat up the Joker in "The Batman". It's pretty impressive for a man with a hip problem to perform a full split in midair.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_671a3e1	type	Too Kinky to Torture
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_671a3e1	comment	Too Kinky to Torture: During Secret Six, when Bane starts whaling on him, he asks Bane to be replaced by a female member so he could enjoy it more and he develops a crush on Dove after she knocks him out in Birds of Prey.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: In the comics, this used to be an effeminate "Hee-hee", but he's since picked up the hoarse "Waugh, waugh!" from the 60s TV show. In the 70s, he had an owl-like “Hoo hoo” laugh. In Gotham, he has a normal laugh. In Batman Returns and the Arkham games, he has a deep, husky cackle. The Lenny Weinrib version had a quiet "wenk wenk" laugh.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_6a2ae11f	type	Improbable Weapon User
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_6a2ae11f	comment	Improbable Weapon User: Umbrellas. It also serves as a metaphor for the Penguin's character and nature. Like his umbrellas, the Penguin appears completely harmless, perhaps even mundane, but also like his umbrellas he conceals a darker nature. Averted in "Batman Returns": "Shit! I picked a cute one!"
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_6d332aea	comment	His story in the comic book Joker's Asylum has him doing everything he could to ruin the life of a chef who he thought was laughing when he went on a date with a beautiful woman. Less than two months later, he had ruined the chef's life so thoroughly that the guy hung himself, and it wasn't even certain that the guy was laughing at him - for all Penguin knew the chef may have just happened to be looking in his direction while laughing.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_703b2f20	type	Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_703b2f20	comment	Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Well, it's the other way around; in the earliest version of his story, he got his nickname from a combination of squatness, pudginess, beaky nose, and outdated mannerisms and sense of dress. Some writers (especially after Batman Returns) go even further and make him outright deformed, with flipper like hands and inhuman proportions, while others downplay it to the point of Informed Deformity. The Batman: The Telltale Series version actually looks quite handsome and has a prominent but not large nose. In "The Batman", he has a wide grin with very sharp teeth for some reason.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_707193f6	type	Aloof Big Brother
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_707193f6	comment	Aloof Big Brother: When they weren't joining in on it, his more accepted, physically attractive brothers turned an uncaring eye as their brother was harassed by other children.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_71a223fc	type	Up to Eleven
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_71a223fc	comment	Gotham takes it Up to Eleven - Bruce and Oswald are both orphans whose parents were murdered in front of them and are traumatized by it, but Bruce shows mercy while Oswald swears revenge (and gets it, brutally). They have the same goal of bringing the city to heel, and they both work outside the law to do so; their only difference is the selfish streak that Penguin indulges. Bruce relies on physical prowess and intimidation tactics to subdue criminals, while Penguin's weaker stature ensures his reliance on negotiation and compromise, but they are both equally pragmatic and tolerate each other's existence because of it. Oswald was the son of a poor Hungarian immigrant, and Bruce was raised in extreme wealth, but they both understand isolation all too well, and people tend to underestimate them. Oswald puts on a servile mask to hide his proud and ambitious nature, while Bruce puts on a cocky demeanor to disguise his kind and humble nature. Oswald even seems to have his own Alfred in Arthur Penn, whom he, in contrast to the close relationship between Bruce and Alfred, belittles and mistreats. Both of them are somewhat lonely, but have a select few people they care about deeply. By the end of the series, they've both overcome the odds and risen to power.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: In most versions his father dies of bronchial pneumonia, but in Penguin: Pain and Prejudice, his father's behavior and commentary eventually pushed him too far, and he murdered Tucker Cobblepot, leaving him alone with his mother. The only one that showed any signs of loving him. In Gotham, his father, Elijah Van Dahl, (played by Pee Wee Herman, who played Mr. Cobblepot in Batman Returns) was poisoned by Oswald's stepfamily and after he found out he came around by killing them.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: The Cobblepots would eventually fall on hard times due to some poor business deals made by Oswald's father, leading to his motive to restoring his family's former wealth and status, thus "proving" his own worth as a Cobblepot (and defeating his father's despising ghost). His portrayal in The Batman revolves around him "restoring the Cobblepot name to its former glory".
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Although varying based on the interpretation, his modern self appears to exhibit many symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. He's always been a sociopath, however.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Intelligent, rich and sophisticated; Oswald Cobblepot puts up a friendly gentlemanly front, but behind closed doors he is a power hungry criminal with quite a few easily pressed Berserk Buttons. He has flashes of compassion, but he is dominated by a desire to be respected and to control those around him. The Penguin combines Types C and A with Obfuscating Stupidity to hide just how dangerous he is.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_86bb7d97	type	Cultured Badass
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_86bb7d97	comment	Cultured Badass: Cobblepot is a polished Sharp-Dressed Man who loves tea (one action figure even came with a teacup), is a wine connoisseur, can play the violin, studied Shakespeare, has an appreciation for opera, poetry, literature, art, and world history, and is capable of utterly wrecking your shit if given a reason. Although some of the flippered versions don't have these, he almost always wears gloves like a little gentleman. He also uses an old-timey cigarette holder.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television, as Burgess Meredith stood 5'6'' (perfectly average, but next to six-three Cesar Romero, he looked like the short half of Mutt and Jeff in Hell, and Danny DeVito, at an even five feet.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: As of now in the mainstream DCU continuity, he is a successful businessman and mob boss. In the DCAU and Gotham, he had a tenure as Gotham's mayor.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_8f350291	type	Secret-Identity Identity
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_8f350291	comment	Secret Identity Identity: Does he truly fancy himself a refined gentleman who longs for the acceptance of his peers or does he think of the Penguin, his darkest, most vicious animalistic criminal nature as his true self and the gentleman criminal as a necessary Halloween costume? Or are they both aspects of a more complex personality? It's hard to say as the opinions of comic writers seem to vary widely on the subject. In the live-action 1960s series, he sometimes wore paper-thin disguises that hardly fooled anyone.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_9080e641	type	Diabolical Mastermind
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_9080e641	comment	Diabolical Mastermind: Penguin is Gotham's main crimelord, being a middleground between the more ordinary gangsters (The Falcones, Rupert Thorne) and the costumed freaks (Joker, Two-Face) that Batman fights. Ever since his shift into becoming more of a mob kingpin, he's had to fight for territory multiple times and while usually he has to share ground with the likes of Black Mask or Great White Shark (or whatever new villain is being pushed at the moment), in the end, he tends to nonetheless have the last word.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: When he's either in a bad mood, or when writers choose to focus on the more unstable aspects of his personality. His goals usually involve robbery or arms-dealing, but on a handful of occasions he's made attempts to murder thousands and wreak havoc on Gotham. The Penguin is a gentleman. A vindictive, dangerous, murderous monster of a man, but a gentleman nonetheless. He'll slaughter everyone you know and hold dear and leave you to live the remainder of your life alone, but he'll do it with a polite smile and civil tone. He's not afraid to kill a baby, however.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_96e01893	type	Bodyguard Babes
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_96e01893	comment	Bodyguard Babes: Usually employs at least two of these in most incarnations, often with bird-themed names. In The Batman, after a trip to Japan, he picks up two ninja women named The Kabuki Twins. The Twins were seen again in The LEGO Batman Movie.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: Cares deeply for his mother. Almost to Norman Bates' levels in Penguin: Pain and Prejudice.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Not to Batman himself, but rather to his alter ego, Bruce Wayne, with both of them being aristocrats and having various gadgets...but only one of them actually uses those gadgets for evil. Gotham takes it Up to Eleven - Bruce and Oswald are both orphans whose parents were murdered in front of them and are traumatized by it, but Bruce shows mercy while Oswald swears revenge (and gets it, brutally). They have the same goal of bringing the city to heel, and they both work outside the law to do so; their only difference is the selfish streak that Penguin indulges. Bruce relies on physical prowess and intimidation tactics to subdue criminals, while Penguin's weaker stature ensures his reliance on negotiation and compromise, but they are both equally pragmatic and tolerate each other's existence because of it. Oswald was the son of a poor Hungarian immigrant, and Bruce was raised in extreme wealth, but they both understand isolation all too well, and people tend to underestimate them. Oswald puts on a servile mask to hide his proud and ambitious nature, while Bruce puts on a cocky demeanor to disguise his kind and humble nature. Oswald even seems to have his own Alfred in Arthur Penn, whom he, in contrast to the close relationship between Bruce and Alfred, belittles and mistreats. Both of them are somewhat lonely, but have a select few people they care about deeply. By the end of the series, they've both overcome the odds and risen to power.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He had a loving, albeit bordering on smothering, relationship with his mother, Esther, in most of his backstories, but that is dependant on her portrayal. She was abusive in some versions, and a sweetheart in others.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: On the other hand, other depictions have shown him to be somewhat respectful and decent to his underlings (his sizeable paychecks help). When he prepares to face death in Gotham Underground and sends his employees off, they remark on what a great boss he was and seem genuinely sad about his incoming fate. In general, there are much worse people to work for in Gotham than The Penguin.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Subverted. Big tipper. Exemplary etiquette. Unquestionably evil bastard. However, he has rather disgusting table manners. We don't blame Veronica for being disgusted: he ate those fish WHOLE and barely used that napkin. See above for the shrimp puff incident.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Absolutely loves this trope. He is well aware that he appears non-threatening, even silly, and uses the assumption to his advantage. note So good it even fools some writers. Penguin was the first villain to actually escape from Batman and outsmart him, and it was a running theme in all of Penguin's first stories that he always somehow managed to find a way to escape. Truth is, people too often forget that the Penguin's shtick is that you're SUPPOSED to underestimate him. People are SUPPOSED to be thrown off by the ridiculous quirks and mannerisms of a funny little man in evening wear that they never see the scheme coming before they've fallen victim to it. Quote from Bruce Wayne/Batman to Tim Drake/Robin in Penguin Triumphant: "Everyone seems to consistently underestimate the Penguin — myself included. In point of fact, Cobblepot is ruthless, vindictive, calculating, inventive — and perhaps the most brilliant man I've ever fought. He's smarter than I am."
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: The Penguin with any one of his friendsnote Joker, Mad Hatter, and the Riddler, really. Gotham portrays the Riddler as a potential love interest, interestingly enough.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_aa96059e	type	Disabled in the Adaptation
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_aa96059e	comment	Disabled in the Adaptation: Batman Returns, Batman: The Animated Series, The Batman and the Batman Unlimited movies, Justice League Action depict Oswald as suffering from syndactyly. That said, the transition from B: TAS to The New Batman Adventures would see Oswald with normal hands, suggesting either the earlier design was an artistic choice or that in the interim, the Oswald of that universe got corrective surgery. In the choronogically later installments of the Batman: Arkham Series, Oswald is shown with the bottom of a beer bottle jabbed into his left eye in place of his monocle and a vent from years of smoking. Gotham sees its version of Oswald with a limp, and lose his right eye and replace it with a fake one.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Despite his physical deformity, Oswald Cobblepot is capable of finding the love and acceptance that has evaded him all his life. But because he can't let go of his anger and his vindictiveness, he unintentionally sabotages those opportunities whenever they arise. In the end, his greatest enemy isn't Batman, or any of the people who have shunned him for being different. The Penguin is Cobblepot's own undoing, and the cause of Oswald's own misery. And he'll never be able to change that until he realizes the elements that helped him to survive his childhood now prevent him from welcoming decent people into his world and are now a part of who he is. Unlike many of the other members of Batman's Rogues Gallery, he's usually not written to suffer from any specific mental illness (sociopathy at most); he's simply a man who can't allow himself any long-term peace or happiness. That said, do not hurt a bird in his presence.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_abe4d7b	type	Blue Blood
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_abe4d7b	comment	Blue Blood: The Cobblepots were one of Gotham City's oldest and most prestigious families, second only to the Waynes. The Pennyworths used to work for them in some continuities, such as in The Batman.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_acf43080	type	Wicked Pretentious
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_acf43080	comment	Wicked Pretentious: The Penguin is from an upper class family but is also a brutal gangster. Several stories show that he just doesn't fit in among Gotham's social elite despite his best attempts, particularly in "Birds of a Feather" and "Call of the Cobblepot".
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: He prefers to dine on seafood, especially incarnations who embrace his penguin theme. Sardines, shrimps, oysters — as long as there's a table's worth of it, Oswald will enjoy himself.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Frequently. The Penguin's commentary towards his fellow rogues, the heroes, and life in general has a tendency towards being rather dry and sarcastic. Can overlap with Stepford Snarker.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: In "Pain and Prejudice", Mr. Cobblepot was one nasty piece of work who neglected and abused his son physically, emotionally, and sexually. His father had his clearly traumatized his child making Oswald watch him and his wife engage in sexual activities (Although Baby Oswald fortunately fell asleep). Mrs. Cobblepot, meanwhile, was certainly not up for any parenting awards herself. Any time Mr. Cobblepot said or did something to their son she would either downplay it or take his side. She would become even worse after the untimely death of her husband, as she, convinced Oswald might catch pneumonia and die like his father, made her son carry an umbrella whenever he went outside, and beat him with it whenever he refused. Some comics, such as The Penguin Returns, make it clear she saw her son as a tool for social gain and the violence enacted against him was her way of controlling him and keeping him in line. In Batman Returns, they didn't do this. They did, however, bundle him up in an enclosed baby carriage and throw him into a river when he was about a year old due to his appearance and violent mannerisms. This is how he wound up in the Red Triangle Circus freak show. 33 years later, he corrupted Gotham by running for mayor during Christmas time. Averted, however, in Gotham. His single mother Gertrud Kapelput, a poor European immigrant in this continuity, adored him, and when he finally met his father, they hit it off so quickly that he pushed his stepchildren aside to make Oswald his heir. While none of this ended well regardless, Oswald was even able to throw it in Sofia Falcone's face that his parents loved him unconditionally when hers did not. In the 1950s comic that introduced Penguin's backstory, Esther Cobblepot was a sweet, frail old woman who owned a bird shop. After she dies from old age and her birds are taken away, Oswald is devastated. In The Batman, he says, "Well, Mama Cobblepot always said I was a handsome one".
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_b5b4bd37	type	The Don
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_b5b4bd37	comment	The Don: After retiring from committing crimes personally and setting himself up as proprietor of the Iceberg Lounge, he runs all organized crime in Gotham.; Batman tolerates this (more or less) because you never know the information he might "overhear", and be willing to share, "off the record".
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_b5b4f019	type	The Rat
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_b5b4f019	comment	The Rat: Sometimes. To what degree he will sell out his fellow rogues and his motive for doing so is Depending on the Writer.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_b5e63cc4	type	Shadow Archetype
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_b5e63cc4	comment	Shadow Archetype: His public persona represents a dark, corrupted version of Bruce Wayne's Rich Idiot With No Day Job identity.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: He may exert a good amount self control over it but when he feels that circumstances are such that he can allow himself a proper smack down he expresses a good deal of enjoyment in mutilating his opponents.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Do not hurt a bird in his presence. Although he has murdered his pets in a fit of rage as a child after one bit him, he immediately broke down in tears afterwards. In another instance, when Batman informed him that a group of thugs broke the necks of his doves, Oswald was downright inconsolable.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_bf110089	type	Break Them by Talking
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_bf110089	comment	Break Them by Talking: Like any true master, The Penguin can effect others with hardly a sign that he had ever done anything at all. Cobblepot, through expert use of his massive network of connections, piles on the mental misery in a steady, methodical monologue, until the victim, without having ever once been touched, curls in a fetal position on the floor, head in hands, as good as dead. He once framed a chef who he thought was laughing at him and made the chef's life a living hell until said chef eventually hung himself.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_c2d5b652	type	Playing Both Sides
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_c2d5b652	comment	Playing Both Sides: While he manages to successfully manipulate both sides to his benefit, it's a fragile balance always on the verge of collapsing.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_c33a8cc4	type	Cuddle Bug
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_c33a8cc4	comment	Cuddle Bug: Zigzagged. It's a little off-putting at times but on a good day the man is remarkably affectionate with those he considers his friends. Yes, even towards The Joker. On an off day, however...
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: He's a portly, middle-aged (he's usually portrayed anywhere between 27 to a senior citizen) businessman who majored in Ornithology. In the United States, undergraduate programs do not award a specific degree in ornithology (they offer coursework in avian biology instead), so to pursue studies in ornithology he would have needed to obtain either a Master's degree or a PhD, and most of these programs would require the Graduate Record Examination in biology, which would test his knowledge of (1) cellular and molecular biology, (2) organism biology and (3) ecology, evolution and population biology. His additional required courses would include chemistry, mathematics (especially calculus), statistics, computer science (although the Internet did not exist in 1941) with GIS and English. Yup, Oswald Cobblepot is indeed highly educated, and has been drawn wearing glasses when not using his trademark monocle. One book even had him wearing a pince-nez. Though he's more apt in using range weapons against his foes (which he often makes himself), the Penguin is a black belt in Judo and no slouch in melee combat. He is also skilled in ninjutsu and bare-knuckle boxing. He also attended college in England in some versions.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_c3c91506	type	Depraved Dwarf
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_c3c91506	comment	Depraved Dwarf: Depending on the Writer. He's always short (except in Gotham and Telltale) and usually fairly chubby, but how depraved he is depends on who's telling a story with him.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_c3fbac64	type	Bestiality Is Depraved
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_c3fbac64	comment	Bestiality Is Depraved: The Rebirth version would go on about missing his deceased wife, with her "beautiful black feather" and "sun-drenched beak".
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Teased and bullied by other children and rejected both at school and his family's wealthy circle for his appearance, lonely socially-awkward little Oswald, despite yearning for human company, turned to his mother's pet birds as his only friends because they wouldn't judge the strange-looking misfit. His overbearing mother, the only one to show him affection, suffers a stroke and became invalid (and in some stories dies), leaving him with a great deal of debt that sent their holdings into foreclosure and he loses everything he had clung to for security, the prosperity, the pets, even the birds get repossessed. Cobblepot, strapped for cash, went to a known criminal and his confederates, and offered his services, only to be kicked out and mocked for his appearance. This final rejection spurred Oswald to become the cold, callous criminal he'd later become, and obsessed with proving his nay-sayers wrong, he'd return later to kill the head of the group and ensure the late criminal's accomplices were arrested as revenge for their ridicule. Having always ached to fit in among the social elite, he still seeks validation and acceptance, but uses illicit means to buy his way back into high society, as his mind had been far too twisted from his life experiences and his raging inferiority complex to believe he can successfully attain his goals through purely legal means.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_d171a8c1	type	Evil Debt Collector
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_d171a8c1	comment	Evil Debt Collector: More Apathetic than evil. Not long after graduating college and prior to officially becoming a criminal, Cobblepot is unable to make a required payment because his mother's long illness had run up enormous debts, and everything in his store including the birds who were Oswald's only companions were seized by creditors.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: It's been demonstrated time and time again that the Penguin's worst enemy is his own bitterness and ego.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Is quite talented at the actual game as well.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_d83f3588	type	Depending on the Artist
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_d83f3588	comment	Depending on the Artist: His appearance can vary wildly from issue to issue. How obese and grotesquely deformed he is can never be made consistent. Sometimes he is a squat spherical creature with a two foot nose and sharp piranha teeth, and sometimes he just looks like a perfectly ordinary mildly chubby man with a Bob Hope face in a suit. In Gotham and Telltale he is quite thin. His height varies from a little over 4 feet to 5 foot 2. He has also been shown as a noirette, a redhead, a brunette, graying, or completely bald. In Gotham, he experiments with his bangs and highlights a lot.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_dab2f3ee	type	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_dab2f3ee	comment	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: He has a cigarette holder, signifying his status as a villain. Although the less-classy versions sometimes have cigars.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_e069fae8	type	Bad Guy Bar
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_e069fae8	comment	Bad-Guy Bar: The Iceberg Lounge counts, but not all of it: there is typically a back room where the super-villains and criminals hang out, deal illegal weapons, drink and shoot the breeze / threaten to kill one another. It's kept very separate from the main area, because most of Gotham's villains aren't exactly good with people and Cobblepot has a reputation to uphold. However, while the main area of the Lounge does not, itself, count, being a Bad-Guy Bar is still the theme of it - Penguin himself cites the touristy appeal of hobnob with famous "gangsters" and "supervillains" as the main draw to the establishment.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_e3c70df1	type	Mister Big
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_e3c70df1	comment	Mister Big: Has always been depicted as a man of below standard height, sometimes comically so. The Batman: Arkham Series stats places his height at "4, 10" which is average... if you happen to be a 10 year old. In most books, he is 5 foot 2. His incarnation on The Batman is one of his shortest. Truth in Television, as Burgess Meredith stood 5'6'' (perfectly average, but next to six-three Cesar Romero, he looked like the short half of Mutt and Jeff in Hell, and Danny DeVito, at an even five feet.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: In Batman Returns, his character is fused with Killer Croc, where he's a deformed misfit who lives in the sewers after being abandoned by his parents.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_e4bb68b8	type	The Charmer
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_e4bb68b8	comment	The Charmer: Strangely enough for someone who considers himself The Grotesque, Oswald really has charm: if you can charm the Joker, then you can charm anyone else. He has often been shown kissing women's hands, which they didn't seem to mind. Although he once said "penguin party in my pants" while sleep-Frenching. It's hilarious and disturbing all at the same time.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_e542d80a	type	Gonk
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_e542d80a	comment	Gonk: Depending on the Artist he may be deformed in some way, from flipper hands and a slight hunchback to piranha teeth.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: "You see strength isn't about size, or muscle, or looks. It's about strategy, delay of gratification, the long term plan. It's about determination, perseverance, about getting up every single damned time they kick you down."
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_e6775fbe	type	Old Money
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_e6775fbe	comment	Old Money: The Cobblepots have long been one of Gotham's elite families. However, thanks to some questionable business decisions made by Oswald's father, their fortunes have waned considerably; the Penguin's desire to reverse this is one of his primary motivations for crime.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_e7fc5c61	type	Family Honor
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_e7fc5c61	comment	Family Honor: Part of his motive as a villain. He plans to restore the Cobblepot family name to its former glory but has a very skewed idea of how this should be accomplished, especially during his rather bratty appearances in The Batman.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_eaf83237	type	The Grotesque
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_eaf83237	comment	The Grotesque: Oswald's deformities usually are not that hideous, but he certainly considers himself one of these. Except in Batman Returns, where he's so unhealthy that he drools bile.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_eba4a0e7	type	Chronic Villainy
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_eba4a0e7	comment	Chronic Villainy: He's tried to go straight a few times, but eventually he always returns to his bad habits. He does manage to keep a low profile and stay out of prison most of the time. Although given the teasing situation in "Birds of a Feather", his anger was justified.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_ec02c97e	type	Defied Trope
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_ec02c97e	comment	Defied in Batman: Arkham City. Penguin's backstory in this (and subsequent) games is that he was sent to a private school in England to study, but preferred the company of the criminal element in the East End and came back with a rough disposition and cockney accent.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: This is a prominent gimmick of The Penguin in almost all of his incarnations, particularly the Paul Williams Paul Williams version. While it still comes out, especially during moments of stress where he'll go from comparatively straightforward to suddenly sounding as if he'd swallowed a thesaurus, he's been shying away from it lately to avoid communication error. He does not know what arteriosclerosis is and mistook it for a legal term. He was far less articulate in "The Batman". Also he hates repeating himself.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_f2d29e14	type	Evil Brit
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_f2d29e14	comment	Evil Brit: Sometimes. Otherwise, this is an affectation, if something implied at all. In some video games, he speaks with a British accent, while in "The Batman", he simply had relatives from Newcastle. However, in "Gotham", his mother is Hungarian or German.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Initially an idealistic, sweet, and generally nice kid, he eventually becomes one in the Penguin: Pain and Prejudice backstory after being put through a few rounds of Break the Cutie (familial abuse, bullying, being rejected by a girl, etc.). In one story, even the gangsters he attempted to work for rejected him.
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The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_fdbd6162	type	With Friends Like These...
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_fdbd6162	comment	With Friends Like These...: Sums up his on-again/off-again relationship with the Joker. Despite their fundamental differences in personalities, frequent power struggles, and having practically made a hobby out of their multiple betrayals, numerous murder attempts, and constant verbal sparring, they've been friends for years.
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_fdbd6162	featureApplicability	1.0
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_fdbd6162	featureConfidence	1.0
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_fdbd6162
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_fdc4fab4	type	Depending on the Writer
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Depending on the Writer: How adept at hand-to-hand combat is he? A Boisterous Weakling who needs to rely on his craftiness? Not a bad fighter but prefers to stick to ranged weapons? A capable street brawler? A talented martial artist? Granted, even if it is the latter, up against Batman he'd still come off looking like a sick duck. Is he genuinely Wicked Cultured or merely Wicked Pretentious? The latter is more common in adaptations outside the comics.
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_fdc4fab4	featureApplicability	1.0
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_fdc4fab4	featureConfidence	1.0
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_fdc4fab4
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Make sure you mind your manners around the guy. If you do anything that pisses him off, he will ensure you pay dearly for it.
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_fe64d5a1	featureApplicability	1.0
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_fe64d5a1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_fe64d5a1
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_name	type	ItemName
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_name	comment
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_name
The Penguin (Comic Book) / int_name	itemName	The Penguin (Comic Book)

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ThePenguin	sameAs	The Penguin (Comic Book)
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Adaptational Ugliness / int_6f0b3497
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Affectionate Nickname / int_6f0b3497
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_6f0b3497
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Bald of Evil / int_6f0b3497
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Benevolent Boss / int_6f0b3497
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Blue Blood / int_6f0b3497
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Business Is Business / int_6f0b3497
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Can't Un-Hear It / int_6f0b3497
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Evil Sounds Raspy / int_6f0b3497
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Extremely Protective Child / int_6f0b3497
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Fashion-Victim Villain / int_6f0b3497
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Friend to All Living Things / int_6f0b3497
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	I Kiss Your Hand / int_6f0b3497
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Mister Big / int_6f0b3497
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Money! / int_6f0b3497
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Secret Identity Apathy / int_6f0b3497
The Penguin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	You Are Fat / int_6f0b3497

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