Discover details about the creation and origin of the persona in front of Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot who stars in the eponymous series by Max: Penguin!
Featured in “The Batman”, a film starring Robert Pattinson (Twilight), the villain Penguin, played by Colin Farrell(The Lobster), got its own series on MAX!
The title that bears the character’s name debuted in the streaming platform’s catalog last Thursday, the 19th, and follows the persona of Oswald Cobblepot shortly after the events of the Caped Crusader feature film, directed by Matt Reevespromising to follow Penguin’s rise to the underworld of Gotham City. Relive the trailer!
If you are new to the universe created by DC Comics and want to understand more details about one of the main antagonists in Batman’s vast gallery of villains, don’t worry, RECREIO has gathered the main details of the character’s history below; check it out!
Meeting Oswald Cobblepot, the Penguin
Introduced in the pages of Detective Comics #58, released in 1941, Penguin was created by Bob Kane and Bill Fingerthe same creators of Batman. Presented as a thief who used his genius for petty crimes at first, as the issues went by, he expanded his criminal skills as he understood more about how Gotham works, becoming a true crime tycoon.
In the more than eighty years of creation, Penguin has gained some origin stories, but certain plots ended up being repeated, one of them being the one that states that Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot was a strange-looking boy, whose nose resembled a bird’s beak and had an awkward walk, characteristics that made him suffer bullying in childhood.
Coincidence or not, his mother had a bird shop, and this contact with birds made him have a great interest in winged animals, leading him to study ornithology – knowledge that would be advantageous to him when he joined the villainy, since two of his skills used whenever necessary are the control and command of birds.
After the death of the woman who gave birth to him, Oswald had to sell the family business to pay some debts and, without any prospect of a better life, he turned to crime, causing him, some time later, to adopt the codename that is so connected to his knowledge and unique appearance: Penguin.
Fueled by pathological rage and gifted with a great capacity for manipulation, Penguin also stands out for having a valuable power: information! This is because, knowing everything that happens in Gotham’s underworld, he can use his knowledge to blackmail, intimidate and corrupt anyone he can and thus get where he wants, this being one of the talents that allowed him to build his untouchable illegal empire.
Still, when Penguin encounters someone who makes things difficult, he has a quick solution, since he is surrounded by violent henchmen. More than that, when necessary, he doesn’t let his elegant clothes used to compensate for his unpleasant appearance stop him from risking getting his hands dirty with blood, as he uses several ingenious devices, such as weapons disguised as umbrellas, to end the problem.
It is worth remembering that Oswald’s journey to become the criminal feared by good and bad citizens of Gotham is long and full of setbacks that must be addressed in “Penguin” in the eight episodes that will be released weekly, every Sunday, at 10 pm, on Max until November 10, the date that marks the final chapter of the season.
Source: Recreio
