Penguin Character Review
The Penguin is a fictional Character, a supervillain who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. He is known as one of Batman's oldest and most persistent enemies. Artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger introduced him in Detective Comics (December 1941). The Penguin is a short, rotund man known for his love of birds and his specialized high-tech umbrellas. A mobster
and thief, he fancies himself a "gentleman of crime;" his nightclub
business provides a cover for low-level criminal activity, which Batman
(reluctantly) tolerates as a source of criminal underworld information.
According to Kane the character was inspired from the then advertising
mascot of Kool cigarettes – a penguin with a top hat and cane. Finger thought the image of high-society gentlemen in tuxedos was reminiscent of emperor penguins - More about Penguin Character Review..keep reading !!
Burgess Meredith portrayed the Penguin in the 1960s Batman television series, perhaps the character's most well-known incarnation. Danny DeVito played a darker, more grotesque version in the 1992 film Batman Returns. Subsequent Batman animated series
featured him in depictions that alternated between deformed outcast and
high-profile aristocrat. The former interpretation appeared in comics,
most notably in the miniseries Batman: The Long Halloween and its sequel Dark Victory. He made a cameo appearance at the end of the Long Halloween with no lines. He had a slightly more notable role in Dark Victory –
this incarnation included elements of Meredith's interpretation.
Paradoxically, the Penguin has repeatedly been named among the worst and best of Batman villains.
Unlike most of Batman's rogues gallery, the Penguin is in control of his actions and perfectly sane,
features that help him maintain a unique relationship with the
crime-fighter. His latest characterization has him running a nightclub
that is popular with the underworld. Batman comes to tolerate his
operations so long as the Penguin remains one of his informants. The
entrepreneurial Penguin often fences stolen property or arranges early prison furloughs – for a hefty fee, of course.
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Powers and Abilities (Penguin)
The Penguin is a master criminal strategist and uses his intellect to gain wealth and power through criminal means. Driven entirely by self-interest, the Penguin relies on cunning, wit, and intimidation to exploit his surroundings for profit. He usually plans crimes, but does not often commit them himself. Although fighting and hard work are mostly delegated to his henchmen, he is not above taking aggressive and lethal actions on his own, especially when provoked. In spite of his appearance, he is a dangerous hand-to-hand combatant with enough self-taught skills in judo and fisticuffs to overwhelm attackers many times his size and physical bearing. However, unlike The Joker's (in certain continuities), his fighting skills are not good enough to make him a serious threat to Batman.
The Penguin always carries an umbrella due to his mother's obsessive
demands. The umbrellas usually contain weapons such as machine guns,
sword tips, missiles, lasers, flame-throwers, and acid spraying devices.
He usually carries an umbrella that can transform its top into a series
of spinning blades. This can be used as a mini helicopter or as an
offensive weapon; he often uses this to escape a threatening situation.
Another umbrella has a spiral pattern on the top with which he can
hypnotize enemies.
In Other Media (Film/Movie)
- In Batman Returns, the Penguin (played by Danny DeVito) is the main antagonist, alongside Catwoman. Director Tim Burton, inspired by the film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, re-imagined the character not as an eloquent gentleman of crime, but a former freak show performer with a homicidal grudge against the aristocrats of Gotham City. While this Penguin retained many trademarks, such as a variety of trick umbrellas and the use of a monocle, he was given a dramatic visual makeover. Where the comic version had varied between a balding head of short cropped hair and varying degrees of thinning, this Penguin was still bald at the top but with his remaining length of hair long and stringy. His hands were now flippers with a thumb and index finger, and the remaining three fingers fused. An unidentified thick, dark green bile-like liquid or blood sometimes trickles from his nose and mouth. Instead of a tuxedo, he wore a more gothic, Victorian-style outfit with a jabot as opposed to a bow tie. In certain scenes, he also wears black boots, a dickey, and a union suit. However, Burton's design maintained the top hat seen in the comics along with a monocle and a cigarette in some scenes. He also has penguin-like appetites, as shown in a scene where supporting villain Max Shreck (Christopher Walken) lures him out of his room with what appears to be a raw fish (though Shreck's dialogue in the previous scene implies that it was a fried fish).
- He appears in Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman as the primary antagonist, this time voiced by David Ogden Stiers. The plot involves the Penguin, Rupert Thorne and Carlton Duquesne in an illegal arms deal with the President of Kasnia. Of the three Batwomen, the Penguin shares a personal history with Dr. Roxanne Ballantine, as he was the one who framed her fiancée Kevin years ago, which led him into prison in order to find evidence that would get his sentence commuted.
- Tom Kenny reprised his role of Penguin in the animated movie The Batman vs. Dracula. In the movie, after escaping from Arkham, he accidentally resurrects Count Dracula with his blood in the Gotham cemetery (while in search of buried treasure). Dracula then hypnotizes the Penguin to work for him. He is later released from the spell upon Dracula's death and accused of the vampire's crimes, and is thus returned to Arkham Asylum.
- Burgess Meredith reprised his role as the Penguin in the 1966 film Batman alongside several other villains from the television show.
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