What's his gimmick?

>>92859759
Fucks your mom.

He's a mob boss.

He's the biggest fence in Gotham and pretends to be a neutral party but actually has his fingers in everything. He also likes umbrellas and looks like a penguin.

>>92859759
He's a classical mobster?

Waddles and makes bird noises.

No, seriously, Penguin is a gangster with a bird fetish. He just needs to be successful in crime to be content.

>>92859759
He used to have a bird gimmick.

They should just reintroduce it, The Batman did it well.

>>92859759
Injustice 2 dlc when?

>>92859817
>>92859827

How is he a threat to Batman?

>>92859759
>Joker kills people while saying he's a clown
>Two Face flips a coin and kills people
>Mr. Freeze freezes stuff and kills people with freeze.

Fixed.

Isn't he considered a Gentleman thief?

>>92859903
You mean a physical threat? He's not. Not everyone needs to be a physical threat. Penguin has a ton of money due to all his illegal activities and can hire killers and goons if necessary. Otherwise he tries to keep his head down since getting caught and jailed is bad for business.

>>92859795
First reply best reply.

>>92859903
How is Two Face flipping a coin a threat to Batman?

Gotham Penguin is so much better, and I never thought I'd ever say that

>>92859903
The same way Two-Face is a threat.

>>92860011
Tumblr leave.

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>>92859903
He almost never directly confronts Bats anymore, but he does control 80% of the crime in Gotham. He can put on the hurt if he needs to. Pic related.

So who is Gotham's biggest crime boss? Penguin or Black Mask?

Penguin's about being the man behind the scene. Everyone knows he's a crook, but nobody bothers him because a) he covers his tracks way too well b) Gotham being Gotham, there's too much things going on for a dedicated squad to take him down.

He's a business man who see Gotham's as a financial opportunity. He's Gotham incarnate; a prim and proper appearance, with a few quirks to make it interesting, but who hides far more sinister secrets that no one really wants to know about.

>>92859759
He's British

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I remember one episode of Batman where Batman says Penguin is one of the few criminals he can tolerate or something because Penguin has his own code when it comes to crime. Penguin is a very reliable source of information when it comes to the criminal world.

>>92859903
He has a lot of underlings with guns, and Batman isn't bulletproof

>>92860094
>biggest

>>92860094
Penguin by far. Black mask has a decent gang but it's not near Penguin level.

>>92859903
The US spends about 30 to 40 billion a year on the war on drugs.

Illegal drugs are available in every high school and every prison in the country.

Don't underestimate the power of basic organized crime.

>>92860094
Black Mask is one of the largest ones along with random crime families. Penguin doesn't really bother with being a crime boss anymore. He's more of a facilitator - he gets things people need and want. He grows rich from it and never directly gets involved with anything so people could be dying or getting arrested around him and he remains safe. He's the best at playing all sides.

>>92860094
Black mask before penguin came into the picture but then penguin when he took over

>>92859903
Organized crime is the one thing Batman has the most trouble really dealing with. The other people you listed are all admitted criminals, psychopaths and terrorists but with guys like Cobblepot you put away his goons he just gets new ones, you try to get him taken in for something and suddenly Cops, Judges and Juries disappear or get flaky, you try to threaten him directly and suddenly those other villains you listed are getting curiously more resourced and able to find places to hide.

You can't just punch and pose with people who know how to play dirty while keeping their hands relatively clean.

>>92860253
I thought Penguin was around before Black Mask. Before Bruce became Batman even.

>>92860058
What was his problem?

>>92860343
Can't stand Chef Boyardee looking motherfuckers.

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>>92860094
They warred for that title a lot back in the 90s, then No Man's Land happened and each carved out a niche for himself. They've had their defeats - Black Mask died at Catwoman's hands pre-Flashpoint, and Penguin's Iceberg Lounge was destroyed in Batman Eternal - but "big, influential gang boss" is how most people think of them now, as evidenced by this thread, so they're always back on top sooner or later.

Currently, they seem to be equally powerful and in a three-way truce with The Great White Shark.

>>92860343
The Penguin is both a sociopath with an incredible amount of resources, and incredibly insecure. If he thinks someone has slighted him he makes them pay.

Does he not use his umbrella as a pogo stick in some version? I swear as a kid that's how I thought of him.

>>92860337
He was but only a small time mob boss. I always thought black mask ran Gotham before Bruce became batman and then penguin and his people took over along with Harvey's gang

>>92860399
Yeah, his gimmick was his umbrellas at one point but they seemed to severely tone that down as time went by, probably because seeing Danny DeVito fly off on a helicopter umbrella was just really fucking silly.

Zsasz is literally just a guy with a knife

>>92860498
Zsasz is basically just fodder now. If writers want Batman to beat up a generic psycho killer to open up a story they just use him.

>>92859759
He is spiteful. Penguin takes everything personal. At least in his best incarnations.

Like this.
>>92860058

Offend him once and you get an enemy for life that will never forget that you wronged him, no matter how little, and never rest until your life is ruined.

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Surprise short storytime. "The Killing Peck" by Alan Grant, for my money the definitive Oswald Cobblepot origin story.
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>>92860150
Arkhambabby plz go

>>92859759
Subtlety and money.

>>92861295
Everybody getting swole.

Birds and umbrellas. How is this a question?

>>92861524
>>92861549
Blast, I was hoping he'd fall back into the Tiger pit and lose a limb or something.
I didn't want Batman to fail, but I was sort of hoping the fish paste pay off would be more than just a drop. I didn't see it coming and was hoping it would continue to surprise.

>>92859759
>What's his gimmick?
>Penguin is......he does.....what?

He uses an umbrella.

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>>92861594
Yeah, I can't help but wonder if they didn't redraw the last page because it was too gruesome. The twist feels incomplete otherwise.

Storytimin' more classic Penguin, starting with his first appearance, where he didn't even make the cover.

>>92859759
His gimmick (like many supervillains) is a reflective of the hero in some aspect.

Like Bruce, The Penguin came from a rich family with long Gotham lineage and experienced tragedy at the loss of a parent in a young age.
In those ways it is like Penguin lives the life Batman could have traveled if he had succumbing to rage and revenge.

Beyond that, he is a criminal mastermind and one of the few not insane big name villains in his roster.

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Aww man, that bottom left panel makes it look like Penguin is giving Bruce a lap dance.

>>92861295
/fit/ Penguin looks weird. I don't like it.

>>92862114
I like smug as shit Penguin. Too bad they drop that bit for him as the years went on.

>>92862114
>panel 4

What I wouldn't give for that smug as fuck face in higher resolution.

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It's remarkable how little character's changed really - he's introduced as a shrewd, cynical planner who knew his encounter with Batman was as inevitable as him murdering his boss, and immediately thinks about how to turn it to his advantage - a Shakespeare-reading, Keats-quoting upper-crust type who cares enough to make sure his crimes can't be connected to him.

>>92862364
You would think somebody as educated as Penguin would immediately notice Morse Code.

>>92859903
You sound like a shonen fag who thinks everything is about fights and power levels.

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>>92862523
I'm sure he would if this were the Adam West show, and we'd get a whole dual-deathtrap cliffhanger out of him luring Robin into an ambush, but this is only 12 pages.

It's still noteworthy in that The Penguin decidedly DOESN'T get caught in his first appearance - neither does the Riddler. It's almost as if Bill Finger knew they had staying power from the beginning.

>>92862034
Batman just destroyed a valuable piece of art for a joke.

>>92860274
This.

When it comes to crime, you should never underestimate good ol' fashioned greed.

>>92862523
Even if he didn't, any moron would realize that "Catching up on my dancing" is a terrible lie.

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>>92862354
Best I could do anon.

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I love this cover. Even without actually appearing on it, Penguin's presence is felt all over, driving our heroes batty.

>>92863081
Now is the his second appearance, or just another vintage Penguin?

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>>92863130
Just more vintage Penguin.

With vintage cheesecake.

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I chose this story because the art stood out, and it's the source of that HATERS GONNA HATE meme.

>>92859759
Does he not have the umbrellas and pet birds anymore? I was annoyed he didn't have either in the Arkham games.

>>92859759
His thing is Umbrellas and Birds. Offbeat, but it works.

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>>92859903
In the only REAL Batman cartoon, he could actually fight.

>>92859759
We need more Noir Crime solving Batman and less clown punching family grieving Batman

>>92860388
BDSM black mask was the stupidest thing they've done with the character. And that's saying something.

>>92863302
The penguin reminds me of the Black Spy from Spy vs. Spy in that fourth panel.

>>92860094
Black Mask is currently a drooling vegetable.

>>92859992
>How is Two Face flipping a coin a threat to Batman?

It's not.

It's what he does BASED on the flip of the coin that's the danger. The coin is nothing but a hood ornament.

>>92860159

I would love if an elderly Penguin had been in Batman Beyond and turns out that he is the closest thing Old Bruce has to a friend. Sort of in a "Grumpy Old Men" sense

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>>92859903
Not every villain needs to a musclebound freak or a madman blowing up the city.
Oswald controls the city, and there's not a thing Batman can do about it other than stop him when he goes too far

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Might as well post it before someone asks since this is a Penguin thread

>>92863493
You mean had those two girls bodyguards who could fight small armies. What were they? robot, magic dolls, ... I am not buying that they were just regular highly trained assassins dispte what the internet says about the The Kabuki Twins. Nobody fight that good with just skill and some sharp steel blades.

>>92859759
and of course, you only list the "big" ones, because that's probably all you know
where's:
>killer moth
>Magpie
>Firefly
>Clayface
>Clock king
>condiment king
>great white
>The mad Hatter
>Zsasz
>calender man
>Tweedle Dee/dum
>Humpty dumpty

I'm extra pissed because the Mad Hatter and Calender man are my two biggest favorites, and either they never appear in a story, act as a "hired goon" for the main villain of the story, or they are just there to help "set up" the story.
too few times does the lower-ranking batman villans get time to shine.

>>92861549
I thought the Penguin was going to feed him to a shark

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>>92859759
He is a criminal mastermind with a bird/umbrella gimmick. His character was conceived as a joke, a caricature of rich stuffy gentlemen, which eventually made him the perfect evil counterpart for Bruce Wayne. His expertise is planning meticulous schemes that can't be traced back to him, manipulating public affairs and attacking Batman's weaknesses.
Sometimes he's a petty gentleman thief wannabe with gimmick umbrellas and birds. Other times he's a megalomaniacal madman with tons of robots and contraptions on his side. Most of the time he's a crooked businessman capable of pulling off crimes within the law and who controls the city's criminal element. Sometimes he'll do something as petty and simple as take revenge on a childhood bully or just free the birds from the Gotham Zoo, other times he'll manipulate the stock market and attempt to gain political power, and other times he'll attempt genocide on Gotham using a robotic bird army. It varies.
But that's generally one of the Penguin's appeals as a villain. He is more shrewd and manipulative than characters like Joker or Riddler. He doesn't attack Batman so as much as he cheats and turns the odds in his favor in ways that Batman is not accostumed to deal with, especially since everyone underestimates him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63SRpGXBHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0_eX1rdjNA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVh91TNqGUI

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>>92861394
>I shall weep Anon