He's still my favourite version of the character. For a campy show, the B66 Penguin was quite a balanced portrayal. Believable and likable as a charmer as well as a plotting crook.Burgess was a brilliant scenery chewer. I mean just puffing on that cigarette holder and making those mischievous grins through clenched teeth was awesome.
He's still my favourite version of the character. For a campy show, the B66 Penguin was quite a balanced portrayal. Believable and likable as a charmer as well as a plotting crook.
I've been rewatching the 1966 series with my young brother, and Burgess Meredith's Penguin is easily the strongest villain we've seen in the show so far, and that's no small feat compared to Gorshin's Riddler or Romero's Joker.
I would've liked to see what Beware the Batman would've done with Penguin, considering they teased him several times.
I hate seeing how Penguin has been degraded to being just an informant in some of these comics; it completely destroys his potential when Batman beats him up to simply get news on other criminals. I think hed work better if they could use the idea of making him an occasional outright criminal and other times make him a nightclub owner. Kind of like making him take a few days off to plot a dastardly scheme.
Plus the great bird gimmick he has can be put to use easily. Like in that Englehart story from Detective Comics #473. That was a great crime, and a lot of these older Golden Age Penguin comics have schemes that could be adapted into newer stories but modernized.
Unfortuantely many writers don't seem know what to do with Penguin, or find him interesting in himself
He's quickly becoming an undervalued and underrated villain. He needs a good story and a good movie to bring him back to A-lister status
Heck I think it was Penguin Triumphant where Batman said Penguin was even smarter than the Dark Knight himself...
Funny, i was thinking about this character a lot this week. I REALLY want to see this character on the big screen, in a good sized role, done properly. Now i'm hoping it's not in the DCEU because i don't want them to screw him up to the point where nobody wants to touch him on film for another 20 or 30 years. Please JUST WAIT UNTIL THE REBOOT!
I don't remember what Finger said about the creation of Cobblepot.