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Char Aznable has declared Penguin (Batman Returns) is to be renamed to
Penguin (Burton/Schumacherverse)

for the following reason(s): These four movies are within this timeline.
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A penguin is a bird that cannot fly! I am a man! I have a name! Oswald Cobblepot!
~ The Penguin revealing his true name.
You don't really think you'll win, do you?
~ The Penguin taunting Batman.

Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot, also known as The Penguin, is the main antagonist of Tim Burton's 1992 superhero film Batman Returns, the second instalment of the Burton/Schumacher Batman quadrilogy.

This version of the Penguin is depicted to be much more tragic yet more malevolent than his comic counterpart. He was a deformed man who was abandoned and raised in the sewers as a baby. He carried trick umbrellas and his horrible past turned him into a bitter and ruthless psychopath who despises humanity. He was also the nefarious leader of the Red Triangle Circus Gang.

He was portrayed by Danny DeVito in his second villainous role, who also played Sam Stone in Ruthless People, Bobby Ciaro in Hoffa, Harry Wormwood in Matilda, Mr. Swackhammer in Space Jam, Burke Bennett in Death to Smoochy, Frank Reynolds in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Satan in Little Demon.

Appearance[]

Tim Burton says that this version of the Penguin was inspired by "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". The film departs from the traditional portrayal of the character as an eloquent gentleman of crime, instead depicting him as a physically deformed psychopath with a homicidal grudge against Gotham City's social elite. While this Penguin retained a number of trademarks, particularly his top hat, the variety of trick umbrellas and the use of a monocle, he was given a huge visual makeover. His hands were now flippers, with a thumb and index finger, and the remaining three fingers fused together.

Where the comic version had varied between a full head of hair and varying degrees of thinning, this Penguin was bald, with his remaining length of hair long and stringy. Instead of a tuxedo, he wore a more Gothic, Victorian-style outfit, with a jabot as opposed to a bowtie. Other instances show him in black boots, a dickey, and something akin to a child's blanket sleeper, or the old long john-style underwear of the 1800s. Combined with his long dark coat/robe, the full white front of the bodysuit gave him an even more penguin-like appearance.

Another new touch was his large yellow duck vehicle, which had the triple functionality of being a boat, a car, and an elevator-like lift.

Personality[]

In stark contrast to his comic book incarnation who prides in being a gentleman, this version of Penguin is a tragic but mentally unstable, petty, vindictive, murderous, depraved, bitter, hate-driven, and somewhat animalistic sociopath who even developed signs of homicidal tendencies as a baby. He is also shown to have man-child-like qualities such as flying into a terrible rage when things didn't go his way due to the lack of actual parental figures in his early life, given that those who raised him are his penguin pets and his handlers in Red Triangle Circus. He further showcases this by flying into a rage whenever he feels like taking his anger out on someone else and acting like his past entitles him to make everyone suffer as much as possible.

Through his schemes to get his revenge on the entire Gotham City for his sad upbringing, Penguin is shown to be intelligent enough to manipulate others to get what he wanted; he successfully conspired with Max Shreck to stage his act of heroism in saving a mayor's infant child from his own gang members and later, using his own feeling of loneliness to make his speeches about being abandoned by his parents more convincing in order to gain the citizens' sympathy. The only one who is not convinced by his ruse is Bruce Wayne aka. Batman, who correctly deduced that Penguin is actually up to no good, which was later confirmed through him ordering his gang to hack his Batmobile and staging the death of the city's celebrity Ice Princess to frame the Dark Knight.

After Batman exposed his true colors through botching his speech when he's about to become the city's new mayor, the humiliated Penguin ultimately snapped, and is forced to advance his original plans against the citizens of Gotham. To add an insult to his injury, Batman foiled his plans time and time again, and visibly devastated upon seeing that the Dark Knight has Alfred turn his army of missile-armed penguins (whom he treated as his family) against him. As depraved as he had become, Penguin is a tragic monster at the core, as he likely would have become a better person had he raised by genuinely loving parents despite his deformities. Therefore, he remains sympathetic despite his unforgivable crimes and how he took his past out on everyone around him.

Biography[]

Past[]

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Penguin as a baby in a box.

Hi. I believe the word you're looking for is… "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
~ The Penguin when first meeting Max Shreck.

Around Christmas time in Gotham City, the aristocratic Cobblepots gave birth to a baby boy. Because the child was hideously deformed, they locked him in a black box, where he showed his first sign of homicidal tendencies when he attacked and killed the family cat. Unable to deal with this atrocious behaving baby, they dropped him over the bridge where the water lead to the sewers. Eventually the Cobblepot baby washes up onto the shore of the Arctic World exhibit show at the Gotham City Zoo.

Not much was known of his early life from then on, 30 years later, except that he ran off to join the Red Triangle Circus and, when the circus returned to a town for two weeks which featured newly added to their freak-show: The Poodle Lady, The World's Fattest Man, and an Aquatic Bird Boy. The circus's two-week stay was put to an end early because, while guests were at the circus, their children went missing. One of the freak-show performers vanished before he could be questioned, some say that it was the Aquatic Bird Boy who would have by this time have been nicknamed The Penguin by his fellow freaks.

The Penguin then retreated to the now abandoned Gotham City Zoo, in order to hide from the police. This is where his nickname is put to use rather literally. He went back to the arctic World exhibit where he was somehow able to track down fellow members of the circus and they formed the Red Triangle Gang. The Penguin ran around the Gotham City sewers because there was an access way from the arctic world exhibit (the same way he floated in when he was a year old). He used a duck vehicle from a sky ride at the zoo to get around the sewers easily until he was 33 years of age.

Batman Returns[]

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The Penguin with his deadly trick umbrellas.

After the Joker's death, millionaire businessman Maximillian Shreck is kidnapped by the Red Triangle Circus Gang and is brought to their leader, a short, deformed man known as "The Penguin" at his secret hideout. Penguin blackmails Shreck with incriminating evidence of his many crimes, such as the toxic waste from his clean textile plant, documents that proved that Shreck owns a few firetraps in Gotham, and his murdered partner Fred Atkins' hand. This prompted Shreck to agree in helping Penguin find out his true identity and his parents.

Shreck arranges for the Penguin to rescue the mayor's infant child from his own gang members. The plan works, and Penguin becomes a hero to all, with the exception of a suspicious Bruce Wayne (Batman's alter-ego). After finding out his original birth name of Oswald Cobblepot (as well as the names of Gotham's first born sons), Penguin eventually wins the approval of citizens of Gotham and, after being persuaded by Shreck to do so, intends to run for Mayor.

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Penguin and Catwoman form an alliance.

After he encounters Batman and Catwoman while taking a walk around his future constituency at night, Penguin is contacted by Catwoman the following day, who notes that she and Penguin share a hatred for Batman. Although Penguin states that he is already planning to sabotage the Batmobile, Catwoman notes that Batman would have more power as a martyr, and the only way to truly destroy him would be to frame him and turn him into one of the villains that he despises. Catwoman thought that the Penguin was there to help her, but all he cared about was returning to Gotham and revenge.

When the subsequent plan is put into action, Batman is framed for kidnapping and murder and finds himself trapped in the Batmobile under Penguin's remote control. However, Catwoman and Penguin's alliance falls apart when she rebuffs a sexual advance from him, and Penguin tries to kill Catwoman himself by hooking the handle of his helicopter umbrella around her neck and sending her flying off uncontrollably, but she managed to unhook herself and fell into a greenhouse, but she once again miraculously survives the attempt, counting as her third of nine lives. The Penguin's campaign to oust the current mayor is quickly destroyed when Bruce Wayne plays selected comments he made insulting the people of Gotham while controlling the Batmobile at one of Penguin's speeches, the most prominent phrase being, "You've got to admit, I played this stinking city like a harp from hell!" The people of Gotham get angry, forcing Penguin to defend himself with his gun umbrella, and the police chase after him. But Penguin flees into the sewers, and reveals his original plan: to kidnap and drown the first-born children of Gotham's most prominent families, in the poisonous waters of his lair, for revenge (comparable to the Pharaoh killing the first-born Hebrew babies in the beginning of the Book of Exodus in the Bible).

Bruce meets Selina at a ball hosted by Shreck, where she reveals to him her intentions to kill Shreck. While dancing, the two subsequently discover the other's secret identity, but before they can leave to discuss this development, Penguin storms the hall with a shout of "You didn't invite me, so I crashed!" and tries to take Max's beloved son, Chip. Max successfully pleads with Penguin to take him instead. Batman attacks Penguin's Red Triangle Circus goons and puts a stop to the kidnappings. Penguin then dispatches an army of Missile-armed Penguins to completely annihilate Gotham. Batman manages to jam the birds' control signals and turn them around. The Dark Knight then tracks the villain down through the sewers.

Knowing that Batman is closing in on him and after seeing the rest of the Circus Gang flee, the villain rushes over to his Duck Mobile, grabs one of his umbrellas along the way and drives to the surface, Batman follows him by flying up to the surface going straight through the walls at the top and destroying the vehicle. Batman gets out and surveys the wreckage, but the Penguin pounces on him and they begin to fight with the villain unsheathing a sharp blade from the tip of his umbrella. The Dark Knight responds by taking out a remote control from his utility belt, which causes all the Penguins to appear in the zoo.

The Penguin is furious and viciously swipes his umbrella at Batman, however he breaks the blade when he accidentally hits the duck wreckage, but he manages to knock the control out of Batman's hand but the Bat grabs Cobblepot's umbrella and smacks him across the face with it. Grinning with triumph, he picks it up and presses the glowing red button which causes the Penguins to fire their missiles. A huge flock of bats suddenly surround the villain and attack as he falls through the main glass window of his lair into the water below. Meanwhile the penguins continue to fire the missiles destroying the outside of the Penguin's lair and everything around it including killing the remaining members of the Red Triangle gang.

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The Penguin's death.

Following the dramatic final confrontation between Batman, Catwoman and Shreck, culminating in Catwoman killing Shreck with a damaged stun gun and a high-powered electric cable, the now-unmasked Batman is left to confront a gravely injured Penguin emerging from the water, ready to kill him. Although heavily drooling from his mouth, and very weak from the fall, The Penguin draws an umbrella from his collection, only to find it's a harmless toy, and proceeds to drop it. Complaining of the heat, Penguin mentions to Batman that he "will murder him momentarily", just as soon as he "can get a cold drink of iced water", which ultimately turn out to be his last words. He then collapses to the concrete and dies from the poisoning and his injuries. At that moment, the six oldest emperor penguins under Oswald's command emerge from the shadows and solemnly drag his remains back into the toxic water to give it as close to a funeral as possible. As a result, the Penguin slowly sinks to his final resting place in a cloud of his own slime, while the penguins watch.

Quotes[]

Oh, but you can. Oh, but you will.
~ The Penguin when hearing Max Shreck's speech.
You gotta admit, I played this stinking city like a harp from Hell!
~ The Penguin to Batman.
Why is there always someone who brings eggs and tomatoes to a speech?!
~ Penguin being pelted by vegetables after his crimes are exposed.
My name is not Oswald! It's Penguin! I am not a human being. I am an animal! Cold-blooded!
~ The Penguin accepting his identity.
You didn't invite me... so I crashed!
~ The Penguin to the party guests.
Right now, my troops are fanning out across town, for your children! (Party-goers gasp) Yes — for your first-born sons! The ones you left defenseless at home, so you could get juiced, dress up like jerks, and dance... badly!
~ The Penguin to the party guests.
Goodbye, my unintended. Go to heaven.
~ Penguin after betraying Catwoman.
You're just jealous because I'm a genuine freak and you have to wear a mask!
~ The Penguin to Batman.
Ohhh... s***! I picked the cute one! The heat's getting to me. I'll murder you momentarily. Acck.... but first, I need a cool drink... of ice water.
~ The Penguin's last words.

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Trivia[]

  • The Penguin is the only one of the main villains of Batman Returns not to discover Batman's identity. Although he did see him unmasked, he didn't recognize him as Bruce Wayne. However, Catwoman faithfully kept the secret due her love to Batman, while Max Shreck took the secret to the grave when Catwoman killed him.
  • Tom Mankiewicz's original script for the first Batman film included the Penguin along with The Joker, with the Penguin described as a thin man unlike the comics. Mankiewicz wanted the late Peter O'Toole for the role, but the Penguin was removed along with Dick Grayson from the film's script after Steve Englehard was brought onto the project and felt that the film was overstuffed.
  • Danny DeVito remained in-character between takes.
  • Danny DeVito had previously worked with Keaton in a previous movie and later played another in 2019, which is also directed by Burton. DeVito and Burton also worked together with other movies.
  • Despite the critical and box-office success of Batman Returns, Danny DeVito's portrayal of the Penguin was polarized by some critics, which mostly found him as inferior to The Joker from the first film. DeVito was even nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor for the role ( only to loose to Tom Selleck ) for Christoper Columbus : the discovery ) . The Penguin's dark nature was criticized too for being one of the factors which led McDonald's to shut down their Happy Meal promotion for the film.
    • Conversely, along with the film's version of Catwoman, this version of the Penguin was nominated in the AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains list in 2003.
  • Danny DeVito was advised by his friend Jack Nicholson aware of his own financial success with Batman, to take the role of The Penguin.
  • Danny DeVito refused a stand-in for the scene where the Penguin gets pelted with rotten food by an angry mob.
  • Originally, the Penguin was set to make a comeback in Batman Unchained, the unproduced fifth film in the series which was cancelled after the disaster of Batman & Robin. In the film, the Penguin was going to reappear to Batman as a hallucination caused by the Scarecrow's fear gas with Danny DeVito reprising the role. However, the film was scrapped due to the critical and financial failure of Batman and Robin.
  • Despite being the main antagonist and his plot to drown all firstborns of Gotham City's wealthiest, an increasing group of Batman fans sympathize with the Penguin due his portrayal as a tragic villain. Indeed, some felt that the fact that his penguins gave him a "burial" on the zoo after his death symbolizes that while his family, the city and even his circus henchpeople all left him during his life, his beloved penguins were the only ones who remained with him until the very end, giving the Penguin a fitting ending for his miserable life.
    • Even in the film proper, Bruce Wayne shared such sentiment despite his suspicion toward Penguin and ultimately obliged to stop his evil plans in the end; he found the latter's parental abandonment no better than Mr. and Mrs. Wayne's tragic end which motivated him to become Batman to begin with and visibly depressed by disturbing results of his investigation on the Penguin's background and ties with Red Triangle Circus.
  • Danny DeVito spent two hours a day in make-up but he was forbidden to describe The Penguin's make-up to anyone, including his family.
  • DeVito's incarnation of the Penguin later became the basis of Penguin's The Batman incarnation.
  • Originally, it was intended for the Penguin and Max Shreck to be brothers. If that were to occur, it would've made Penguin the uncle of Chip Schreck, Max's son.

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Theatrical Movies
Batman (1966): Penguin | Catwoman | Joker | Riddler
Batman (1989): Joker | Joker Goons (Bob Hawkins) | Alicia Hunt | Carl Grissom | Max Eckhardt | Antoine Rotelli | Vinnie Ricorso | Joe Chill | Harvey Dent
Batman Returns: Penguin | Red Triangle Circus Gang (Organ Grinder, Poodle Lady, Tattooed Strongman, Stungun Clown, Thin Clown, Fat Clown, Sword Swallower, Knifethrower Dame & Fire Breather) | Max Shreck | Catwoman
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm: Phantasm | Joker | Salvatore Valestra | Arthur Reeves | Chuckie Sol | Buzz Bronski
Batman Forever: Riddler | Two-Face | Sugar | Spice | NygmaTech (Frogmen) | Neon Gang (Neon Gang Leader) | Salvatore Maroni
Batman & Robin: Poison Ivy | Mr. Freeze | Bane | Snowy Cones Thugs | Golums | Jason Woodrue
Batman Begins: League of Shadows (Ra's al Ghul & Ra's Decoy) | Scarecrow | Falcone Crime Family (Carmine Falcone, Victor Zsasz & Arnold Flass) | Joe Chill
The Dark Knight: Joker | Joker's Thugs (Thomas Schiff, Chuckles, Kilson, Happy, Dopey, Grumpy & Bus Driver) | Two-Face | Sal Maroni | The Chechen | Gambol | Lau | Bank Manager | Michael Wuertz | Anna Ramirez | Burmese Bandit
The Dark Knight Rises: League of Shadows (Bane, Talia al Ghul & Barsad) | Catwoman | John Daggett | Phillip Stryver | Ra's al Ghul | Scarecrow
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Lex Luthor | Anatoli Knyazev | Doomsday | Mercy Graves | Cesar Santos | Amajagh | Joe Chill | Zod | Joker | Steppenwolf
Suicide Squad: Eyes of the Adversary (Enchantress & Incubus) | Suicide Squad (Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, El Diablo, Killer Croc, Slipknot & Amanda Waller) | Joker's Gang (Joker, Jonny Frost, Panda Man & Monster T) | Griggs
The Lego Batman Movie: Joker | Harley Quinn | Phantom Zone Criminals (Zod, Sauron, Kraken, Lord Voldemort, Agent Smith, Jaws, Gremlins, Medusa, Lord Vampyre, Wicked Witch of the West, Flying Monkeys, The Swamp Creature & Daleks) | Catwoman | Poison Ivy | Two-Face | Bane | Riddler | Salvatore Maroni
Joker: Clowns (Joker, Clown & Ambulance Clown) | Penny Fleck | Wall Street Three | The Unnamed Vandals | Penny Fleck's Boyfriend
The Batman (2022): Riddler | Falcone Crime Syndicate (Carmine Falcone, Penguin, William Kenzie, The Twins & Vinnie) | Catwoman | Salvatore Maroni | Riddler's Cult | Pete Savage | Gil Colson | Don Mitchell Jr. | Train Gang | Joker

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Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero: Mr. Freeze | Dr. Gregory Belson
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker: Joker | The Jokerz (Chucko, Dee-Dee, Ghoul, Bonk & Woof) | Harley Quinn | Jordan Pryce
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman: Penguin | Bane | Rupert Thorne | Carlton Duquesne
The Batman vs. Dracula: Dracula | Penguin | Joker
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Superman/Batman: Apocalypse: Darkseid | Female Furies (Granny Goodness, Gilotina, Mad Harriet, Lashina & Stompa) | Doomsday
Batman: Year One: Batman | Gotham City Police Department (Commissioner Loeb, Arnold John Flass & Howard Branden) | Falcone Crime Family (Carmine Falcone & Johnny Viti) | Catwoman | Joker
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns: Batman | Joker | Mutant Leader | Harvey Dent | Selina Kyle | Bruno
Son of Batman: Deathstroke | League of Assassins (Ra's al Ghul & Talia al Ghul) | Ubu | Killer Croc | Man-Bats
Batman: Assault on Arkham: Suicide Squad (Amanda Waller, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, Killer Frost, King Shark, Black Spider & KGBeast) | Joker | Riddler | Penguin | Scarecrow | Victor Zsasz | Bane | Two-Face | Poison Ivy
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Batman vs. Robin: Court of Owls (Samantha Vanaver, Talon, Owls Lieutenant & Talon Warriors) | Dollmaker
Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts: Animalitia (Penguin, Killer Croc, Man-Bat, Cheetah & Silverback)
Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem: Joker | Scarecrow | Clayface | Silver Banshee | Solomon Gruny
Batman: Bad Blood: League of Assassins (Talia al Ghul, The Heretic, Onyx, Firefly, Tusk, Mad Hatter, Electrocutioner, Hellhound, Calculator & Killer Moth) | Black Mask
Batman: The Killing Joke: Joker | Vinnie & Joe | Paris Franz
Batman Unlimited: Mechs vs. Mutants: Penguin | Mr. Freeze | Cheetah | Hush | Mad Hatter | Two-Face | Bane | Chemo | Killer Croc | Clayface | Joker | Dr. Kirk Langstrom
Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders: Joker | Penguin | Riddler | Catwoman | Archer | Black Widow | Bookworm | Clock King | Egghead | False Face | King Tut | Louie the Lilac | Mad Hatter | Minstrel | Mr. Freeze | Sandman | Shame | Siren
Batman and Harley Quinn: Harley Quinn | Poison Ivy | Floronic Man
Batman vs. Two-Face: Two-Face | Hugo Strange | Catwoman | King Tut | Bookworm | Joker | Penguin | Riddler | Clock King | Egghead | Mr. Freeze | Shame | Harley Quinn
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Riddler | Clayface | Joker | Mr. Freeze | Catwoman | Penguin | Harley Quinn | Poison Ivy
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight: Jack the Ripper | Barbara-Eileen Gordon | Selina Kyle | Harvey Dent | Hugo Strange
Batman Ninja: Joker | Harley Quinn | Catwoman | Gorilla Grodd | Bane | Penguin | Poison Ivy | Deathstroke | Two-Face
Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Foot Clan (Shredder & Baxter Stockman) | League of Assassins (Ra's al Ghul & Ubu) | Joker | Penguin | Harley Quinn | Mr. Freeze | Scarecrow | Two-Face | Poison Ivy | Bane
Batman: Hush: Riddler/Hush | Catwoman | Poison Ivy | Bane | Joker | Harley Quinn | Clayface | Scarecrow | Lex Luthor | Lady Shiva | Two-Face | Penguin | Mr. Freeze | Thomas Elliot
Batman: Death in the Family: Jason Todd | Joker | Black Mask | Ra's al Ghul | Riddler | Talia al Ghul | Cheetah | Two-Face
Batman: Soul of the Dragon: Nāga | Kobra (Jeffery Burr, Schlangenfaust, Lady Eve, King Snake & Rip Jagger) | Ben Turner | Shiva | Richard Dragon | Jade
Batman: The Long Halloween: Holiday | Falcone Crime Family (Carmine Falcone, Milos Grapa, Alberto Falcone, Johnny Viti & Sofia Falcone) | Two-Face | Joker | Solomon Grundy | Salvatore Maroni | Poison Ivy | Penguin | Scarecrow | Mad Hatter | San Ho Hui (Mickey Chen) | Calendar Man | Catwoman
Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons: Starro | Lex Luthor | Penguin
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham: Iog-Sotha | League of Assassins (Ra's al Ghul, Talia al Ghul, Killer Croc and Poison Ivy)
Merry Little Batman: Joker | Poison Ivy | Bane | Penguin | Mr. Freeze | Riddler | Scarecrow | Francine and Terry

Television
Batman (1943)
Prince Daka

Batman and Robin (1949)
The Wizard | Wizards Henchmen

Batman 60s show
Joker | Penguin | Catwoman | Riddler | Mr. Freeze | The Archer | Black Widow | Bookworm | Egghead | Clock King | Queenie Goldstein | Sandman | Dr. Cassandra Spellcraft | Cabala | Minstrel | Shame | False Face | The Siren | Undine | Chandell & Harry | King Tut | Louie the Lilac | Mad Hatter | Cornelia | Baby Jane Towser | Lydia Limpet | Zelda the Great | The Puzzler | Olga, Queen of Cossacks | Marsha, Queen of Diamonds | Lord Marmaduke Ffogg | Lady Penelope Peasoup | Ma Parker | Freddy the Fence | Lola Lasagne | Nora Clavicle | Colonel Gumm | Minerva | Killer Moth | Calamity Jan

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Joker | Catwoman | Penguin | Riddler | Clayface | Mr Freese | Sweet Tooth

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Joker | Harley Quinn | Poison Ivy | Ra's al Ghul | Talia al Ghul | Two-Face | Penguin | Catwoman | Riddler | Scarecrow | Killer Croc | Clayface | Mr. Freeze | Bane | Mad Hatter | Man-Bat | Ventriloquist and Scarface | Phantasm | Firefly | Clock King | Baby Doll | Rupert Thorne | Boxy Bennett | Buzz Bronski | Carlton Duquesne | Chuckie Sol | Salvatore Valestra | Sidney Debris | Tony Zucco | Cameron Kaiser | Daniel Mockridge | Grant Walker | Maxie Zeus | Roland Daggett | Hugo Strange | Lloyd Ventrix | Kyodai Ken | Emile Dorian | Red Claw | Boss Biggis | Sewer King | Professor Milo | Arkady Duvall | Count Vertigo | Ferris Boyle | Arnold Stromwell | Condiment King | Calendar Girl | Farmer Brown | Lock-Up | Montague Kane | Roxy Rocket | King Barlowe | Barlowe's bodyguard | Klarion | Arthur Reeves | Gil Mason | J. Carrol Corcoran | Mad Bomber | Dr. Gregory Belson | Bud and Lou | Captain Clown | Mo, Lar, and Cur | Murphy | Rocco and Henshaw | H.A.R.D.A.C. | Randa Duane | Batman Clone | Susan Maguire | Michael Vreeland | Crocker | Nitro | Raymond Bell | Candice

The Batman (2004)
Joker | Penguin | Bane | Catwoman | Mr. Freeze | Ethan Bennett | Killer Croc | Man-Bat | Firefly | Riddler | Punch & Judy | Kabuki Twins | Hugo Strange | Cluemaster | Cluemaster's Henchmen | Ragdoll | Temblor | Poison Ivy | Tony Zucco | Count Vertigo | Harley Quinn | Maxie Zeus | Basil Karlo | Gearhead | Francis Grey | Killer Moth | D.A.V.E. | Dracula | Rumor | Toyman | Mirror Master | Lex Luthor | Black Mask | Sinestro | Joker 2.0 | Prank | Killgore Steed | Team Penguin | Julie | Spellbinder | Blaze | The Joining | Cosmo Krank | Marty Slacker | Nolan | Scorn | Wrath | Metallo | Shadow-Thief | Mercy Graves

Batman: The Brave and The Bold
Joker | Music Meister | Catwoman | Penguin | Mr. Freeze | Clayface | Riddler | Poison Ivy | Lex Luthor | Flower Children | Fun Haus | Harley Quinn | Morgaine Le Fey | Sweet Tooth | Queenie Goldstein | Bane | Kite Man | Black Manta | Ocean Master | Gentleman Ghost | Major Force | Mirror Master | Metallo | Brainiac | Flamingo | Mr. Mxyzptlk | Star Sapphire | Toyman | Thinker | Doctor Sivana | Mister Mind | Black Adam | Baby Face | Dee Dee Twins

Beware the Batman
Anarky | Ra's al Ghul | Deathstroke | Harvey Dent | Killer Croc | Simon Stagg | Professor Pyg and Mr. Toad | Man-Bat | Cypher | Magpie | Lady Shiva | Tobias Whale | Phosphorus Rex | Lunkhead | Humpty Dumpty | Silver Monkey | Key | Bethany Ravencroft | Daedalus Boch | Junkyard Dog | Sapphire Stagg | Matatoa | Anatol Mykros

Harley Quinn
Harley Quinn | Poison Ivy | Joker | Scarecrow | Queen of Fables | Darkseid | Parademons | Penguin | Mr. Freeze | Bane | Lex Luthor | Killer Croc | Man-Bat | Riddler | Deadshot | Calendar Man | Condiment King | Solomon Grundy | Kite Man | Doctor Psycho | Clayface | King Shark | Nora Fries | Sy Borgman | Doctor Trap | Frank the Plant | Felix Faust | Toyman | Metallo | Livewire | Parasite | Black Adam | Captain Cold | Gorilla Grodd | Black Manta | Cheetah | Giganta | Sinestro | Maxie Zeus | Eris | KGBeast | Two-Face | Catwoman | Nick Quinzel | Sharon Quinzel | Suicide Squad (Amanda Waller) | Clock King | Firefly | Court of Owls

Batwheels
Joker | Harley Quinn | Catwoman | Penguin | Mr. Freeze | Riddler | Toyman | Poison Ivy | Kitka | The Legion of Zoom (The Badcomputer, Crash, Prank, Ducky, Jestah, Quizz, & Snowy)

Gotham Knights
Court of Owls (Rebecca March, Lincoln March, Cressida Clarke, Hamilton Hill, & Talon) | Mutants (Vernon Wagner) | Two-Face | Gotham City Police Department (Detective Ford) | Dylan McKillen | Arthur Brown | Crystal Brown

Video Games
Gotham Knights
Court of Owls (Jacob Kane, Constance Cobblepot & Talons) | League of Shadows (Ra's al Ghul, Talia al Ghul & Man-Bat Commandos) | Gotham City Police Department (Catherine Kane) | Penguin | Harley Quinn | Mr. Freeze | Clayface

See Also
Arkhamverse Villains | Batgirl Villains | Batman Beyond Villains | Batwoman Villains | Birds of Prey Villains | Catwoman Villains | Gotham Villains | Harley Quinn Villains | Injustice Villains | LEGO DC Villains | LEGO Dimensions Villains | Nightwing Villains | Outsiders Villains | Red Hood Villains | Robin Villains | Telltale Batman Villains | The LEGO Movie Villains

           Batman 1989 Film Series Villains

Batman (1989)
Gotham Mob
Joker | Bob Hawkins | Alicia Hunt | Carl Grissom | Max Eckhardt | Antoine Rotelli | Vinnie Ricorso | Harvey Dent | Joker Goons

Batman Returns
Red Triangle Circus Gang
Penguin | Organ Grinder | Poodle Lady | Tattooed Strongman | Stungun Clown | Thin Clown | Fat Clown | Sword Swallower | Knifethrower Dame | Fire Breather

Others
Max Shreck | Catwoman

Batman Forever
NygmaTech
Riddler | Two-Face | Sugar | Spice | Frogmen

Neon Gang
Neon Gang Leader

Batman & Robin
Poison Ivy | Mr. Freeze | Bane | Snowy Cones Thugs | Golums | Jason Woodrue

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