Why Is Penguin a Woman in Batman: Caped Crusader?

This new interpretation is turning heads as the character has long been a beastly cooked-nosed man, Oswald Cobblepot.

Batman: Caped Crusader Penguin Oswalda Cobblepot

The way that this person is drawn, I feel like that’s kind of what we went into.

I was like, ‘Wow!’

It is outside of that like male/female binary.

The female Penguin in Batman: Caped Crusader in a top hat and monocle

It is the essence of The Penguin."

This is hardly the first time a comic character has been reinterpreted into a new gender.

Some popular examples includeTaskmasterin theBlack Widowmovie,The Mighty Thor, and Spider-Woman.

The female Penguin thrusting her umbrella at Batman in Batman: Caped Crusader

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