Oswald Cobblepot

## The Penguin

**Oswald C.** "**Ozzy**" **Cobblepot**, also known as the "**Penguin**", is both a fictional character and antagonist of the *MDC's* *Captain Batman* series created by Joe Simon and Bob Kane. He is a crime boss operating in Gotham City.

He, like Bruce Wayne, was an ostensible billionaire - but the similarities stopped there. Ozzy is a rude, selfish, arrogant, and homely crime lord with a short, grotesque and deformed penguin-bodied physical appearance.

While other Gotham City's villains may have it out for the likes of Batman and Captain America, he is unique in that his scorn was often directed at Bruce Wayne, who served as a constant reminder of everything that he was not.

Despite the penguin-like appearance that led to his nickname, he is a criminal genius known in the Gotham's Criminal Underworld and have funded much of its criminal operations as one of its biggest black-market manufactures.

Directing and operating his affairs from out of his nightclub, Oswald was seen publicly as a reputable businessman to the people of Gotham, but is a brutal, cunning, sadistic, and ruthlessly mass murdering gang leader in reality.

Having dealt with mockery of his stature from an early age, he has dedicated himself to inspiring respect and fear through his exploits. His standard weapon is an umbrella with different gadgets lethal and otherwise hidden inside of it.

Employing the use of highly trained birds and an arsenal of deadly umbrellas, as well as his faithful Kabuki Twins, Penguin was determined to rebuild the Cobblepot fortune by criminal means.

Initially operating out of a dilapidated ship, the Final Offer, as he recently began to accumulate his power within Gotham's criminal underworld, Oswald began to build up his own forces and carved up a piece of the black market for his own profits and purposes. Forming an alliance with Black Mask, the most powerful and sadistic crime lord in the entire city, who put a $50 million bounty on Batman himself, the Penguin sought to crumble his competition, particularly the Falcone Crime Family, and aid in killing the Dark Knight in order to consolidate his own power over the city.

Eventually captured by Batman and incarcerated within Blackgate Prison, Penguin bribed his way out of prison and established his new base of operations within the Cyrus Pinkney Museum, alongside the attached restaurant and bar, the Iceberg Lounge, and continued his criminal activities. Years later, after he refused to leave his base of operations when Arkham City was constructed around it, Oswald stayed within the prison compound, built up his forces, became one of the ruling elites on the streets, and was determined to keep anyone from taking over his turf and claim the rest of Arkham City for his own purposes.

After he was humiliated and defeated by Batman once again, Penguin joined in an alliance of other villains, that was orchestrated by Scarecrow and the Arkham Knight. Using his new front company, North Refrigeration, to smuggle weapons out of Blüdhaven and into Gotham to be sold to the other villains, Penguin hoped to help destroy Batman on Halloween Night and conquer Gotham once and for all.

Oswald Cobblepot is a short, paunchy man whose schoolmates nicknamed "The Penguin". This, coupled with his mother's insistence that he carry an umbrella, made him the target of widespread ridicule, which lead to Oswald becoming obsessed with proving his worth and got his own back by becoming a force to be reckoned with in Gotham City's underworld.

As befitting his pedigree, Oswald conducts himself in a gentlemanly fashion and is almost always very polite, civil, and refined, preferring negotiation to bloodshed. However, he is also a ruthless mob boss and is responsible for much of the illegal trade in Gotham.

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 shady business dealings.

"*Listen, I'm of what you might call... a collector. If someone wants it, I like to think I've got it. And if I don't have it... then I'll get it.*"

—Penguin, to Batman and Captain America.

## Appearance & Biography

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### Biography

Oswald Cobblepot was born into one of London's wealthiest families; a dynasty of generals, mayors, and industrialists. The Cobblepots were among the founding fathers of the city, however,

### Appearance

#### As The Penguin

* Hair Color: Black
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Blue
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 5'0
* Weight: 220lbs

### Attributes:

* Criminal and financial mastermind
* Driven by a need to prove himself in spite of his comical appearance
* Employs various weapons, many based on umbrellas and birds
* Possesses an enormous amount of power and influence over the Gotham Underworld, granting him access to impressive amounts of technology and thugs that rivals even that of the Joker.

## Personality

Penguin was known for his extravagance and brutality, and his brilliant and unorthodox mind naturally lead him to positions of power and respect. He demanded things done *his* way, and had an intense love of money. In his own words, he 'takes only the best' -- that went for weapons, equipment, assassins, and the like. That said, he felt the need to overcompensate for his shortcomings and comical stature through material wealth and violent outbursts.

Penguin also takes pride in his aristocratic status and the influence and power on his family name in Gotham, speaking about it as if it were still happening despite the Cobblepots having lost most if not all of their influence. This also shows why he enjoys the very best; having lived a life of privilege, luxury and entitlement, it was simply a thing he got used to in his childhood and seeks to regain the power and wealth he lost through his crime empire.

Though this makes his personality slightly sophisticated it does not hide who he is; a person who enjoys the suffering of others. His hedonistic desire for self-pleasure was displayed by how throughout the series he makes sexual advances on female characters, such as both of his female assistants Candy and Tracey Buxton, and an imprisoned League of Assassins Ninja in his display case. Aside from his sexual hedonism, he was also a glutton, as evidenced by his meeting with the Suicide Squad where he was "finishing up" a huge plate of seafood.

The one thing Penguin craves above all else was the subjugation of everyone and power over everything, something which he could only achieve through fear and total control as to overcompensate his insecurities regarding his stature. This can be attributed due to his megalomania and *Napoleon Complex* and, being helpless for most of his life towards his father's abuse has caused his one and only desire to dominate over others, forcing them to be helpless so he can feel powerful.

This can cause him to act extremely aggressive, over dominative and ruthless towards everyone which leads him to flippantly shout out or even kill his own men over betrayal or irritations. He controlled his empire and men with fear, either intimidating them with an exaggerated cockney accent or brutal torture. His overly ruthless ways were such that at least one thug even called Penguin an "animal" when discussing Penguin and Joker's attempts at running Gotham, the implication being that he's even more brutal than the Clown Prince of Crime.

On one similar note, it's implied he eats an extremely unhealthy diet due to preferring to consume raw, unprepared fish and octopi. Owing to this, he also tended to be very unforgiving regarding any failures as noted by his tendency to kill his own men for failure.

Though he appears menacing and powerful, when faced with a truly powerful opponent, such as Catwoman or Batman, Penguin reveals that which he is, a groveling coward. Despite this he has at times been defiant. A notable example is right when his final weapons cache had been destroyed, although he was being pinned down by Batman, he managed to find the courage to angrily threaten to kill him and even provoked Batman to kill Penguin himself, or he would kill the Dark Knight, though it's unknown if he was serious regarding this.

It should be noted however, that he reverted to his more cowardly mannerisms shortly thereafter, when Batman, while under the influence of the Joker infection, threatened to kill him out of irritation (though this only occurred if Batman still had traces of the Joker in him; otherwise, Penguin will remain defiant in large part due to his now knowing that Batman and Bruce Wayne were one and the same due to Scarecrow's news reveal and Batman being cured of the infection).

Riddler when interacting with Penguin in jail even refers to the latter as among other things a bully, referring to his need to feel powerful yet a coward at heart. Similarly, he chose to confront Batman in person after the latter defeated Solomon Grundy, even though he could have easily fled. Although well-known for his brutal and merciless disposition, he is capable of either being merciful to an extent or otherwise grudgingly adhering to an alliance with enemies if it benefits him and his criminal empire in the long run.

Although massively sadistic in his own right, he apparently has some limits, as he was noticeably disturbed at the carnage inflicted at Lacey Towers after the murder that occurred there, and in a recording for what was intended to be Joker's "exhibit", he admitted he didn't find the Joker's antics at all funny.

This is demonstrated during the Assault on Arkham incident, where despite wanting revenge on Harley Quinn for her role in the Joker destroying contraband-selling trucks for a laugh, he was talked out of killing her by Deadshot by reminding him that it would also be "bad for business" if he double-crossed his clients during that time, as well as the Arkham Knight incident, where he agreed to an uneasy alliance with Two-Face, Harley Quinn, and Scarecrow to take out Batman, both to get rid of the caped crusader, and also because the sales from the illegal gunrunning would ultimately benefit him and his group in the long run.

This was also implied where he admits he was too hasty to kill Batman due to realizing he was actually worth more alive than dead.

Living a troubled childhood has seemed to have an effect on him. Behind his intimidating demeanor, Penguin is actually terrified of the dark, as apparently, he lived inside of a closet when he was a boy and was extremely uneasy when while breaking out of GCPD, became trapped in an elevator which brought back "bad memories.'

This fear of the dark was severe enough that when forced to endure an elevator with no lights late into the GCPD Lockdown incident, Penguin even considered being locked back up in GCPD a preferable alternative to being stuck in the dark. He is also shown to be very coarse, often using various curse words of British origin.

He also is shown to be misogynistic and potentially homophobic (and also overall very offensive to various groups), as evidenced by his repeatedly referring to Catwoman and Harley Quinn by various terms as 'bitch' and 'harlot,' and also refers to his own forces as 'ponces' and also referred to Nightwing derogatorily as a 'fairy' twice, he also refers to the Arkham Lunatics as 'dribbling monkeys' in a discussion with Hugo Strange relating to his using them as target practice.

Penguin was also demonstrated to have a somewhat sarcastic demeanor, especially during the time of Scarecrow's attack. His sarcasm had been demonstrated twice: The first time was around the time where Batman is pursuing the third North Refrigeration truck and coaxing them into going to the third weapons cache, where Penguin when being called and apologized to by his minions as they're trying to flee Batman, he proceeded to "forgive" them just for saying sorry.

The second time was while escaping from the GCPD, as, when his thugs are inquiring about his status inside the blacked-out elevator, Penguin claimed that he was "having the time of his life" being trapped in the elevator. Both times, the thugs asked him if he meant it with a puzzled tone, only for him to scream what he actually meant (that he lost two weapons caches already and threatening to castrate them if it goes up to three; and declaring that being locked in the elevator brings back very bad memories, respectively).

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Animalitia
	+ Cheetah - Ally.
	+ Silverback
* Clayface

### Family

* Henry Cobblepot (Ancestor; Deceased)
* Theodore Cobblepot (Ancestor; Deceased)
* Miranda Cobblepot (Great Grandmother; Deceased)
* Edmund Cobblepot (Great Grandfather; Deceased)
* Esther Cobblepot (née Sixsmith) (Mother; Deceased)
* Tucker Cobblepot (Father; Deceased)
* Elizabeth Wedgewood (Aunt)
* Modesty Kinkaid (Aunt; Deceased)
* Jason Cobblepot (Brother)
* William Cobblepot (Brother)
* Robert Cobblepot (Brother)
* Millie Cobblepot (Sister; Deceased)
* Unity Kinkaid, (Maternal Cousin)

### Neutral

* Suicide Squad
	+ Rick Flag - Team leader.
	+ Deadshot - Teammate.
	+ Harley Quinn - Teammate.
	+ Captain Boomerang - Teammate; deceased.
	+ El Diablo - Teammate; deceased.
	+ Slipknot - Teammate; deceased.
* Man-Bat

### Enemies

* Batman and America's Faction
	+ Batman
	+ Captain America
	+ Katana
	+ Nightwing
	+ Red Robin
	+ Robin
* Cardinal O'Fallon
* James Gordon
* Justice Avengers
	+ Green Arrow
	+ Flash
* Static
* Gear
* Spider-Man
* League of Assassins
	+ Talia al Ghūl
* Enchantress

## Abilities and Powers

### Abilities

* **Aviation**:
* **Animal Training**:
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat** (Advanced):
	+ **Martial Arts**: The Penguin spent an indeterminate amount of time in the Orient and developed a mastery of the martial arts, mainly judo and ninjutsu. His combat skills are proficient enough that he can hold his own in a fight against Batman.
* **Gadgetry**:
* **Weaponry**:
	+ **Swordsmanship**: The Penguin spent an indeterminate amount of time in the Orient and developed a mastery of swordsmanship. The exact style that he uses is unknown, but his mastery is great enough that he can slice completely through a massive tree branch with a single slice and with very little effort. Unlike most swordsmen, Penguin uses an umbrella in place of a sword.
	+ **Firearms**: Penguin is a crack shot with his umbrella gun. He can even fire it one-handed short distances. A hidden blade is in the handle of the umbrella.
* **Genius-Level Intellect**: Penguin is a genius in the fact his able to hide his illegal actions for years after appearing as a reformed criminal. According to Batman's file, cunning and paranoia has allowed Penguin to avoid being seen conducting his illegal business deals. Upon first opening his black-market deals, Penguin sold guns on his ship *The Final Offer* because selling the firearms on U.S. soil is illegal; off U.S. soil, it's 100% legal. To allows make sure he's on top, Penguin goes by the motto "I only take the best", and that goes for everything for thugs, weapons, and even assassins.
* **Business Management**: Even when his business is trapped in the super prison Arkham City, Penguin still finds a way to make it thrive.
* **Leadership**:
	+ **Intimidation**
* **Thievery**:

### Weapons

* **Chains**
* **Mister Freeze's Cold Gun** (Formerly)

## External links

* Penguin *Wikipedia*
* Penguin *Batman Wiki*
* Penguin *DC Database*
* Penguin *DC Universe Online Wiki*
* Penguin *Gotham Knights Wiki*
* Penguin *Villains Wiki*