He soon retreated to a night club and played cards with Joker, Two-Face, Poison Ivy, and Killer Croc (who was really Batman in disguise). The Penguin was traumatized, flew away on his umbrella, and escaped the Dark Knight. Unfortunately, Batman took one of Penguin's poison-tipped hummingbirds and poisoned the Cassowary. After Batman foiled the hummingbirds, Penguin sent his Cassowary to rend him apart. The Penguin sprayed pollen on Batman (that he claimed was the "wrong umbrella" but turned out it attracted his hummingbirds in which he doused their beaks with poison). As he was about to break in, Batman showed up and knocked Penguin to the ground. The Penguin later attempted to steal a pair of breeding condors from the Gotham Zoo. The GCPD Blimp was at the ready overhead and Penguin, Joker, Two-Face, and Strange were taken into custody. Batman tampered with the engine and the plane crashed. Penguin's own umbrella pistol destroyed the tape and the trio went after Strange in a high speed chase, but caught up with him at Gotham International Airport and took him off in his own plane to dispose of him. So, the trio pitched money in to see Batman's identity.Īs Batman switched tapes, Penguin and the other two watched in anger as they watched a recording of Strange trying to cheat them out of money by making a fake tape (the truth was that Batman had used Strange's machine to imagine Strange admitting to the scam, recorded it on a tape, and intercepted the signal to broadcast that instead of Bruce Wayne's Tape). Penguin's initial bid was a million dollars, but after he saw Two-Face and the Joker bickering, he had the idea to not fight but share the bidding. When the auction finally took place, it was revealed that the item was proof of Batman's secret identity. Penguin (along with Two-Face and The Joker) arrived by plane to find a limo that awaited them to take them to Gotham Springs.
Hugo Strange to attend a mysterious auction. He hired two street thugs: Jay and Raven, to steal a beautiful and priceless Egg. The Penguin was introduced in I've Got Batman In My Basement as a criminal who was overweight with a monocle and used an umbrella as a weapon most of the time. Unlike most of Batman's Rogues' Gallery, the Penguin was deemed sane and therefore was sent to Stonegate Penitentiary if he was found guilty of a certain crime, instead of Arkham Asylum where his "fellow rogues" went for rehabilitation. He was also one of Batman's top foes in his prime. Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot was a well educated and ingenious man who wanted to be refined and respected in the elite.