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' You're just jealous because I'm a genuine freak and you have to wear a mask!' ―The Penguin to BatmanThe Penguin was the alias of Oswald Cobblepot, a deformed man who was abandoned in the sewers as a baby.
Raised with animals in a, he traveled as a circus freak as he came of age. Cobblepot's horrible past turned him into a bitter and ruthless sociopath, though he displayed uncontrollable aggression from infancy.As an adult he had a odd fascination with, creating a wide collection with concealed weaponry and gadgets. Penguin became a notable crimeboss, using his as a barbaric gang. He later became one of Batman's greatest foes when he gained political status and funding from, a corrupt business mogul. ' My name is not Oswald! It's Penguin!
I am not a human being! I am an animal! Cold blooded!' ―The Penguin to the Red Triangle GangThe box that the Penguin was kept in as a baby.Oswald was born to privilege, his father, was a prominent District Attorney and his mother, was active in the. Esther gave birth to Oswald in the halls of on a snowy December night. Oswald's parents and the doctor reacted in shock and horror at the monstrously deformed baby boy. In the following days, Oswald displayed unusual strength, coordination, and aggression for a newborn.
Because Oswald was uncontrollable, Tucker and Esther locked him in a iron box, where he showed his first sign of homicidal tendencies when he grabbed and attacked the family cat from behind the bars. Ashamed and frightened, Tucker and Esther ventured out on Christmas Eve into the Central Park, near the Old Zoo. At a small bridge, they dumped Oswald's carriage in a drainage stream. Eventually, Oswald washed up onto the shore at where he was discovered by a group of large Emperor Penguins.Not much was known of Penguin's early life from then on, except that he basically ran off to join the Red Triangle Circus. His parents died at a relatively young age, under mysterious circumstances.
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Batman: You're not the Mayor. The Penguin: Things change. Also, Oswald’s canon birthday is July 26th, but here he seems to be a bit younger. According to the script, months have passed since his birth and his abandonment, but it’s not noticeable at all in the film. Hell, even Oswald’s own. Reeves practically gushes over Burton’s sequel, Batman Returns, especially over plot points like the Penguin’s origins and the casting choice of Michelle Pfieffer as Selina Kyle/Catwoman. “This is the beautiful thing about Tim Burton at his best in that way that he’s got that connection into the fantastical that feels very, very.
What became of their mansion and fortune was unknown. Eventually, the circus returned to town for two weeks and featured newly added attractions to their freak-show:, the, and an Aquatic Bird Boy.
The circus's two week stay was put to an end early because while guests were at the circus, their children went missing. One of the freak-show performers vanished before he could be questioned, and some said that it was the Aquatic Bird Boy. By that time, Oswald was nicknamed 'Penguin' by his fellow freaks due to having flipper like hands and a beak-like nose.The Penguin with his deadly trick umbrellas.The Penguin then retreated to the abandoned Old Zoo, in order to hide from the. That was where his nickname was put to use rather literally.
He then went back to Arctic World. Penguin was able to track down fellow members of the Red Triangle Circus and swayed them to crime after they were disgraced and were out of work. After he occupied society's lowest level, Penguin became obsessed with spying on the upper class by sorting through their waste and learning their secrets.
Penguin used a from a sky ride at the Old Zoo to get around the massive labyrinth of Gotham's sewers easily. Batman and brought a new level of lunacy to criminality of the city, and in the midst of their battle, the mob control of the city crumbled following the deaths of,. After he was likely influenced by their recent deeds, Penguin began to fashion his own theatrical gadgets and frightening masks for his gang at the age of 30.At 33, Penguin started to put his plan for revenge on society into motion.Revenge on Gotham City. ' Just relax, I'll take care of the squealing wretched pinhead puppets of Gotham. You gotta admit, I played this stinking city like a harp from Hell!' ―The Penguin to BatmanPenguin convincing Max to help himOswald set his sights on a multimillionaire named Max Shreck, who, after the fall of the Mob, had become the most powerful man in city, but by seemingly 'legitimate' means. To arrange Shreck's kidnapping, Oswald had the Red Triangle Gang attack.
Penguin observed the onslaught from the safety of a sewer grate, where he watched Max flee from his henchmen. Oswald then ran to another area where Max stood above one of the gang's secret sewer vent doors.
Penguin caught Shreck, knocked him unconscious. And brought him to his lair. Oswald then told Shreck that had he desired to 'reemerge' in society and went on a disingenuous spiel: Oswald claimed that he wanted to learn his name and find his parents. Although Max seemed to form a slight empathetic expression, he bluntly asked exactly why he should help him. Penguin then blackmailed Shreck with incriminating evidence of his more dubious activities, such as the toxic waste from his 'clean' textile plant, documents that proved that Shreck had owned half the firetraps in Gotham (which Shreck had shredded, but with a little patience, the Penguin had carefully taped them back together), and his ex-partner, ' hand (Max told everyone that Fred was on paid vacation). That then prompted Shreck to agree in helping Penguin gain acceptance from the public.The Kidnapping of the Mayor's SonShreck arranged for the Penguin to 'rescue' Mayor ' from. The plan worked, and Penguin became a hero to all, with the exception of a suspicious Bruce Wayne.
After he found out his original birth name of Oswald Cobblepot (as well as the names of Gotham's first born sons), Penguin eventually won the approval of Gotham's citizens and, after he was persuaded by Shreck to do so, intended to run for Mayor.Penguin and Catwoman: a deadly alliance.After he encountered Batman and while he took a walk around his future constituency at night, Penguin was contacted by Catwoman the following day, who noted that she and Penguin shared a hatred for Batman. Although Penguin stated that he already planned to sabotage the, Catwoman noted that Batman would have more power as a martyr, and that the only way to truly destroy him was to frame him and turn him into one of the criminals that he despised.Relighting of the Tree CeremonyThe Penguin and the Red Triangle Gang kidnapping the Ice Princess and framing Batman.When the subsequent plan was put into action, Batman was framed for kidnapping and murder of and found himself trapped in the Batmobile under Penguin's remote control. However, Catwoman and Penguin's alliance fell apart when she rebuffed a sexual advance from him, and Penguin tried to kill her himself with the use of his umbrella-copter, which locked her in a choke hold far above the city.
Unknown to Penguin, Catwoman eventually ripped free directly above a greenhouse, and, once again, narrowly escaped certain death.Disastrous Campaign SpeechAn astonished Penguin having his speech spoiled by BatmanThe Penguin's campaign to oust the Mayor was quickly destroyed when Bruce played selected comments that Penguin made that insulted the people of Gotham when he controlled the Batmobile at one of Penguin's speeches, the most prominent phrase: ' You gotta to admit, I played this stinking city like a harp from hell!' The people of Gotham got angry and threw eggs and produce at Oswald. When Oswald looked back at Max, Max simply shrugged and abandoned him on stage. Penguin then reacted with rage, opened fire on the crowd with his machine gun umbrella, and the GCPD chased after him. Oswald made his way to Gotham Central Park and exchanged gunfire with the GCPD all the while. As fate would have it, Oswald came upon the same old bridge and stream that his parents had dumped him and dove in. After he used his arcane diving and swimming skill, Penguin swiftly escaped the GCPD's gunfire and found the Duck Car where he had left it in the sewer.
Penguin then traveled back into the Old Zoo, and revealed his original plan: kidnap and kill the first born children of Gotham's most prominent families in revenge (comparable to the Pharaoh killing the first-born Hebrew babies in the beginning of the Book of Exodus in the Bible) and drown them in the waters of his lair, which he poisoned with the toxic waste that was taken from Shreck's textile plant for the occasion. Penguin then sent his best henchman, to drive the while the rest his troops fanned out across town, in order to place the children in the cages.Crashing the Maxquerade BallPenguin then stormed the that was hosted by Shreck with a shout of: ' You didn't invite me, so I crashed!'
And tried to take Max's son,. Shreck then successfully plead with Penguin to take him instead. Penguin held Shreck in cage that overlooked the poisoned water, told him his plan, and remarked: ' And you get to watch them sink. Into a deep puddle of your industrial by-products. Then you join them.' Batman attacked the Red Triangle Circus Gang members and put a stop to the kidnappings. Returned to Penguin's lair shortly after and delivered a note from Batman.
Upon reading it, Penguin then let out a primal scream of unbridled rage. Penguin then dispatched an army of to completely annihilate the inhabitants of downtown Gotham. Batman managed to jam the birds' control signals and turned them around, then homed in on the signal's origin through the sewers.Destruction of the Old ZooAfter he realized that Batman was closing in on him, and, after he saw the rest of the Red Triangle Gang flee, Penguin rushed over to his duck boat. He grabbed one of his umbrellas along the way, on his vehicle he activated its surprise amphibious capability, as a set of dix off-road tires took the duck vehicle directly up a staircase. As he turned the corner of the Arctic World entrance, the colossal burst through the wall and destroyed his duck.The Penguin fighting Batman outside his lair.Penguin then quickly scuttled out and hid under the Batskiboat. Batman emerged and surveyed the wreckage, but Penguin managed to elude the Dark Knight briefly and attacked him from behind. After he choked Batman with his umbrella, Penguin unsheathed a blade from the tip.
Batman then took out a remote control from his, revealing that the penguin army had now regathered at the zoo grounds. Furious and horrified at the same time, Penguin viciously swiped his umbrella at Batman.
Cobblepot fell for Batman's simple tactics after he became enraged, breaking his blade against his duck wreckage after side stepping and guiding Penguin toward it. After Penguin gawked at his broken weapon he knocked the remote from Batman's hand, not noticing that he was now holding completely still, allowing him do so.
Batman followed up by quickly taking the umbrella from Penguin, knocking him toward the remote with it.DeathPenguin picked up the remote with triumphant glee, pressing the blinking red button which caused the Penguin Commandos' missiles to fire. Then, the Batskiboat released a flock of bats which surrounded Penguin. While he tried to avoid them, Penguin fell backwards through the large window of his lair and into the poisoned water below.
Batman was unable to save him, much like the Ice Princess. Meanwhile, the Penguin Commandos continued to fire their missiles, which destroyed most of the zoo surface.Penguin drawing his last breath.Later, following the final confrontation between Catwoman, and Shreck, which culminated in Catwoman killing Shreck with an and a high-powered electric cable from Penguin's generator, the unmasked Batman desperately looked through the debris for Catwoman. In a vulnerable state, when he had just awoken from a daze, a mortally wounded Penguin emerged from the water and was eager to kill Batman. Penguin then lumbered toward his umbrella barrel and struggled to breathe.
By the time that Bruce sensed Penguin's presence, it was too late and rose to face him.Although he was seriously injured and horribly intoxicated by his fall into the poisoned water, Penguin drew an umbrella from his collection and only found that it was a harmless toy (' a Cute One'), and dropped it. After he complained of the heat (due to the air conditioner being out with the generator), Penguin mentioned to Batman that he ' will murder him momentarily', just as soon as he ' can get a cold drink of ice water', which ultimately turned out to be his last words. Penguin then collapsed on the concrete and died from the poisoning, as well as his injuries.The Penguin's Burial.At that moment, six Emperor Penguins emerged from the shadows behind Penguin's body and solemnly dragged it back into the water.
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As a result, Penguin slowly sunk to his final resting place in a black cloud of his own drool.Gallery. See:Behind the Scenes. Danny DeVito as Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin: Abandoned at birth due to his hideous appearance by his aristocratic parents, he spends his life living in the sewers of Gotham City. He eventually rises and thickens a plot to take over Gotham as its new Mayor. However, his real intentions are to dispose of every first born son in Gotham City out of vengeance against his parents for abandoning him as a child.
Director, inspired by in, had re-imagined the character not as an eloquent gentleman of crime, but as a physically deformed lunatic with a childhood trauma. While that Penguin retained a number of trademarks, particularly the variety of trick umbrellas and the use of a monocle, he was given a huge visual makeover: His hands were flippers, with a thumb and index finger, and the remaining three fingers were fused together.
Where the comic version varied between a full head of hair and varying degrees of thinning, that Penguin was bald, with his remaining length of hair long and stringy. Instead of a tuxedo, he wore a more Gothic, Victorian-style outfit, with a jabot as opposed to a bow tie. Other instances showed Penguin in black boots, a bib-like cloth around his neck, and something akin to a child's blanket sleeper, or the old long john-style underwear of the 1800's. Combined with his long dark coat, the full white front of the bodysuit gave Penguin an even more penguin-like appearance. One visual aspect that remained fairly intact in that re-imagining was the familiar top hat. Another new touch was his large yellow Duck Car, which had the triple functionality of being a boat, a car, and an elevator-like lift.
was primarily brought in to come up with a solution with ' Penguin's lack of a master plan' and 'normalize' the dialogue. Strick claimed that he was presented with ' the usual boring ideas to do with warming the city, or freezing the city' (the latter ended up in Batman & Robin). Strick pitched an alternative approach, that was inspired by the Moses parallels of Waters' prologue, in which the infant Oswald Cobblepot was bundled in a basket and thrown in the river where he floated helplessly until he's saved (and subsequently raised) by Gotham's sewer denizens.
He then came up with Penguin's 'master plan' to kill the firstborn sons of Gotham. Both the studio and Burton were impressed with the idea, though Strick claimed that the toy manufacturers were worried. Universal's Stage 12 housed the Penguin's underground lair, an enormous tank that was filled with half-a-million gallons of water and a simulated ice floe island. In order to create Penguin's bird army, a combination of techniques were utilized including men in suits, computer-generated imagery, robotic creatures and real life penguins.
Everyone involved was required to sign a document guaranteeing that they would not specifically hold interviews with news sources. About midway through filming, however, a few test shots of DeVito in costume found their way into an American entertainment magazine. Warner Brothers then hired a group of private investigators to track down the source, though the ploy ultimately failed.Trivia. In 's script of, that featured the Penguin, he was described as ' a tall, proper-looking, thin man'.
Recent comic adaptations gave Penguin born as a July baby. In the unmade sequel of, named, the Penguin would have reappeared as a hallucination by 's.
In, the opera that was attended by and his parents featured characters who were similar to Tim Burton's Penguin that tugged at the ropes.References. chapter 12, page 67.Links.
(Voice)(Voice)(Voice)(Voice)(Voice)(Voice)(Voice)(Voice)(Voice)(Voice)(Voice)The Penguin ( Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot) is a supervillain and an enemy of. He was introduced by artist and writer, he first appeared in (December 1941).The Penguin, one of Batman's oldest foes, is an eccentric criminal mastermind, known as much for his love of ornithology and trick umbrellas as for his already shady business dealings. 's popular serves as Penguin's front for a number of illegal financial stature; the Penguin is a wily foe whose umbrellas conceal a variety of deadly weapons and gadgets.In most incarnations, the Penguin is a short, chubby (though he wasn't really fat in the original series) man who wears a tuxedo, top hat, monocle, white gloves (black in ), and spats.
A mobster-type criminal, he fancies himself a 'gentleman of crime'. Unlike most Batman villains, he is sane and doesn't theme his crimes around a psychotic obsession; his intelligence and aristocratic personality starkly contrast against demented Batman villains, such as. As a result, his relationship with Batman is often somewhat less tense than it is with other villains. The Penguin recently became a mobster and nightclub owner who engages in more quiet criminal activity whom Batman tolerates as a source of criminal underworld information. Whenever he is apprehended for a crime, he is sent to an ordinary prison instead of Arkham Asylum, although some versions of the character (particularly the less sane interpretations) are sent to Arkham.The Penguin does, however, possess a few eccentricities.
He is known for his love of birds and his high-tech umbrellas that serve some specialized function, such as hang-gliding and weaponry. He also keeps beautiful women around him, perhaps to remind others of his monetary power or to compensate for his own grotesqueness.Although a second-string villain for many years, popularized the Penguin in the 1960s Batman TV show, partially because of his signature squawking laughter. Played a much darker and older version of the Penguin in Batman Returns. This version was not just an unattractive criminal, but a physically deformed, sadistic, megalomaniacal monster. Subsequent Batman animated series have alternately featured the deformed Penguin and a more traditional version.The deformed version of the character has also appeared in comics, most notably in the miniseries and its sequel. He only appears for a minor cameo at the end of the Long Halloween, and has no lines.
He plays a slightly more notable role in Dark Victory, when Batman goes to him for information. This incarnation also added elements of the 1966 TV series character, as he shouted the well-known 'Waugh waugh' while talking. Contents History OriginBorn Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot, the Penguin was teased very much in his childhood due to his short stature, obesity, and bird-like nose. These traits made him an outcast in his rich, debutante family. Their rejection drove him to become evil. These are contrasted against the more aggressive and specific wealth gathering origins of the Batman graphic novel Batman: Penguin Triumphant, which specifically states that Oswald Cobblepot neither is nor ever was insane and merely used his astute mind and scientific skills in developing weapons to intimidate and control others, and the largely attributed Earth-One incarnation origin of the Penguin in (1977).The Penguin with his trademark umbrella.The Penguin's weapons of choice are the trick-umbrellas he uses to execute his crooked schemes. Several versions of the Penguin's origins say that he was forced as a child to always carry an umbrella around by his over-protective mother due to the fact that his father died of pneumonia after being drenched in a downpour.
In keeping with his pretensions of being a refined gentleman, he also prefers to wear formal wear, such as a top hat, tuxedo, and spats during his jobs. The Penguin received his alter-ego from a childhood taunt, bestowed by his peers, who teased him because of his grotesque appearance and love of birds (some re-tellings of his origin suggest he also suffered from some sort of hip ailment, which caused him to waddle when he walked; the Penguin shows no signs of suffering from this affliction today). Some comics suggest that he tried to abandon the title (which he hates), but it has been permanently brought into popularity by Batman.Post-Crisis Slimming Down and Gaining Mental 'Weight'After the destruction of the previous primary reality of Earth-One had been removed due to the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths, the new Penguin who emerged native to New Earth had far less girth in his belly and far more mental prowess and focus than any of his previous incarnations. Much of the New Earth Penguin's adventures shows Oswald far more concentrated on developing and refining his mental skills to overwhelm all of his many foes, not merely Batman and far, far less attention in his personal indulgences and consumption. In that focus, Penguin began exploring the potential of going straight as a successful means to his own long-term ambition of personal power and accomplishment.But try as he might, Cobblepot could not overcome the prejudice of being a convicted criminal to gain profitable work nor gain the wealth that he personally desired.
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