It’s no secret that the world of The Batman is different from every other take on the Caped Crusader. The Riddler is now Zodiac, Bruce Wayne wears messy eyeliner and listens to Nirvana, and Alfred bears a passing resemblance to Gollum. But one of the movie’s most drastic shifts was the transformation of The Penguin, as one of Batman’s most ridiculous villains was morphed from an avian dandy to a gruff crime lord, more Tony Soprano than Danny DeVito.
Now The Penguin, the character’s new spinoff series, is teaching us far more about this version of Oswald Cobblepot, including the fact his name isn’t even Oswald Cobblepot; it’s been shortened to Oz Cobb. Is this new name just a byproduct of his gangster transformation, or could it be hiding a far more complicated secret?
