I'm back with another question! As I'm sure you can tell from my penguin costume you saw with the secret six at mcm expo, I love the character, and in my mind I have a way I imagine Oswald is in terms of personality etc. To me, he regards himself as the to
I LOVE writing the Penguin, far more than the Joker or those guys. The Penguin to me is incredibly smart, and while not a fighter, I think he's tough, inconquerable. I hate when they make him a pushover. I like him to have an amusing, but disturbing cadence to his speech. I think of him a little bit like a cross between Jack Nicholson and Popeye, in his speech, to be honest…loquacious, but with his own rhythm and a pattern that says, basically, says, "F*** YOU, WORLD, I AM OSWALD F***ING COBBLEPOT."
I like him to be scary. I've only gotten to write him twice, really, and both times I wanted him scary. Not mutated, I hate all that stuff, just determined, like the worst crime boss ever. If you saw him in the Secret Six story, the entire Six torture him for an hour and he not only doesn't break, he MOCKS them while they do it.
Bane's great and all, I love Bane. But he's facing the PENGUIN.
Different thing entirely, a different kind of strength!
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