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Name/Code Name: The Penguin
Real Name/Alter Ego: Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot
Notable Aliases:
Team Affiliations: Freelance ally to Hellfire Club
Abilities/Powers/Skills: The Penguin is a master criminal and occasional engineer who uses his genius-level intellect to gain money and power through criminal means. Penguin's wealth gives him access to better resources than most other Batman villains and his life as a millionaire gives him superior knowledge of the backgrounds of celebrities and politicians, especially those he plans to target in his future crimes. He is also capable of returning to his luxurious lifestyle very easily despite his violent criminal history and prison record. He has even attempted multiple times to enter the political world, even launching expensive election campaigns. The Penguin also has strong connections with other criminal kingpins across Gotham, allowing him to hire their assassins and workers or to spy on them easily. The Penguin relies on cunning, wit, and intimidation to exploit his surroundings for profit. Penguin is normally depicted as being more rational and sane than other Batman villains, at least relatively speaking.
Although he often delegates the dirty work 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 bare-knuckle boxing to overwhelm attackers many times his size and physical bearing. The Penguin is usually portrayed as a capable physical combatant when he feels the situation calls for it, but his level of skill varies widely depending on the author; the character has been written both as a physical match for Batman and as someone the masked vigilante is capable of defeating with a solid punch. His crimes often revolve around stealing valuable bird-related items, and his car and other vehicles often have an avian theme.
Weapons[if any]: The Penguin utilizes an assortment of novelty umbrellas, particularly the Bulgarian umbrella. These usually contain weapons such as machine guns, sword tips, missiles, lasers, flamethrowers, and acid or poison gas spraying devices fired from the ferrule (however Penguin is able to weaponize his umbrellas in an almost unlimited variety of ways). Depending on the writer, some of his umbrellas can carry multiple weapons at once. He often carries an umbrella that can transform its canopy into a series of spinning blades: this can be used as a miniature helicopter or as an offensive weapon; he often uses this to escape a threatening situation. The canopy of the umbrella is sometimes depicted as being a bullet resistance shield, and some are patterned in different ways from a spiral capable of hypnotizing opponents to flashy signs.
Personality: He is a genius, and is both capable and willing to play both sides of the fence, having often worked as an information broker for Batman, as well as the Hellfire Club, envisioning it as a giant strategy game that he intends to win in the end. He has an enormous ego that has to constantly be held in check. He has a close friendship with Joker. His obsession with ornithology causes him to focus more on crimes with an avian element or theme to them, often finding crimes that include both themes and birds themselves almost irresistible. It has served on many occasions to be his Achilles heel, as Batman or law enforcement can easily spot his pattern if they know of it.
Appearance[of both alter ego and self] Note- either link image or imbed it:
History/Backround: Born Oswald Cobblepot, the Penguin was bullied as a child for his short stature, weight, and beak-like nose. He was forced as a child to always carry an umbrella by his overprotective mother due to his father's death from pneumonia after a drenching. His mother owns pet birds that Cobblepot lavishes with attention, and served as his only friends growing up. His love for birds would eventually lead him to obtaining an Ornithology major in college. Cobblepot is an outcast in his high society family and their rejection drives him to become a criminal. In keeping with his origins, the Penguin pursues his criminal career with class: He prefers formal wear such as a top hat, monocle, and tuxedo.
Real Name/Alter Ego: Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot
Notable Aliases:
Team Affiliations: Freelance ally to Hellfire Club
Abilities/Powers/Skills: The Penguin is a master criminal and occasional engineer who uses his genius-level intellect to gain money and power through criminal means. Penguin's wealth gives him access to better resources than most other Batman villains and his life as a millionaire gives him superior knowledge of the backgrounds of celebrities and politicians, especially those he plans to target in his future crimes. He is also capable of returning to his luxurious lifestyle very easily despite his violent criminal history and prison record. He has even attempted multiple times to enter the political world, even launching expensive election campaigns. The Penguin also has strong connections with other criminal kingpins across Gotham, allowing him to hire their assassins and workers or to spy on them easily. The Penguin relies on cunning, wit, and intimidation to exploit his surroundings for profit. Penguin is normally depicted as being more rational and sane than other Batman villains, at least relatively speaking.
Although he often delegates the dirty work 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 bare-knuckle boxing to overwhelm attackers many times his size and physical bearing. The Penguin is usually portrayed as a capable physical combatant when he feels the situation calls for it, but his level of skill varies widely depending on the author; the character has been written both as a physical match for Batman and as someone the masked vigilante is capable of defeating with a solid punch. His crimes often revolve around stealing valuable bird-related items, and his car and other vehicles often have an avian theme.
Weapons[if any]: The Penguin utilizes an assortment of novelty umbrellas, particularly the Bulgarian umbrella. These usually contain weapons such as machine guns, sword tips, missiles, lasers, flamethrowers, and acid or poison gas spraying devices fired from the ferrule (however Penguin is able to weaponize his umbrellas in an almost unlimited variety of ways). Depending on the writer, some of his umbrellas can carry multiple weapons at once. He often carries an umbrella that can transform its canopy into a series of spinning blades: this can be used as a miniature helicopter or as an offensive weapon; he often uses this to escape a threatening situation. The canopy of the umbrella is sometimes depicted as being a bullet resistance shield, and some are patterned in different ways from a spiral capable of hypnotizing opponents to flashy signs.
Personality: He is a genius, and is both capable and willing to play both sides of the fence, having often worked as an information broker for Batman, as well as the Hellfire Club, envisioning it as a giant strategy game that he intends to win in the end. He has an enormous ego that has to constantly be held in check. He has a close friendship with Joker. His obsession with ornithology causes him to focus more on crimes with an avian element or theme to them, often finding crimes that include both themes and birds themselves almost irresistible. It has served on many occasions to be his Achilles heel, as Batman or law enforcement can easily spot his pattern if they know of it.
Appearance[of both alter ego and self] Note- either link image or imbed it:
History/Backround: Born Oswald Cobblepot, the Penguin was bullied as a child for his short stature, weight, and beak-like nose. He was forced as a child to always carry an umbrella by his overprotective mother due to his father's death from pneumonia after a drenching. His mother owns pet birds that Cobblepot lavishes with attention, and served as his only friends growing up. His love for birds would eventually lead him to obtaining an Ornithology major in college. Cobblepot is an outcast in his high society family and their rejection drives him to become a criminal. In keeping with his origins, the Penguin pursues his criminal career with class: He prefers formal wear such as a top hat, monocle, and tuxedo.