Plummeters: Gotham City

Plummeters: Gotham City

I think The Penguin has the potential to be such a cool Batman villain. I think he looks kind of cool in Batman Returns, but it's a bit too Tim Burtony (fun designs over narrative/character logic). He's too much of a snarling animal there. The character wears a tuxedo with a top hat and has umbrella weapons: he should have panache. Would have loved to see him get the Chris Nolan treatment but you don't have to get ultra grounded to make him work.

You begin to see some potential in the Penguin reinvention on the tv show GOTHAM — but the writing and underlying ideas on that show are so bad, I had to stop watching.

I don't have a lot of faith in the DC Cinematic Murderverse with its current scorecard. I think they've got a lot of course-corrections to do beyond figuring out how to make a cool Penguin.

Happy Humpday! Two more of these umbrella gifs to close out the week! What's it going to be??