A feisty new bombshell has entered The Batman extended universe, and her name is Sofia Falcone: the crazy-sexy accused serial murderer who becomes an unlikely protagonist in HBO's The Penguin. Skillfully played by breakout star Cristin Milioti, Sofia's story reads like a ripped-from-the-headlines tale of a good girl gone bad. Born into an affluent but deeply troubled household as the daughter of Carmine Falcone—the city's reigning crime boss—Sofia spends her life chasing the passive feminine ideal her father wants her to be: a beautiful, charity luncheon-attending distraction from her family's darker dealings.
All that do-gooding ends up going to waste, though, when Sofia finds herself framed for strangling several women. The killings were actually committed by her father, by the way. And when Sofia gets wise to the truth, Carmine decides to make her his patsy instead of his heir. After a traumatizing ten-year stint at Arkham psychiatric hospital, Sofia remerges scarred (literally) and thirsty for revenge.
