>>91874654Nowadays it's impossible to really find examples of this because this is a thing from the campy era of Batman and because modern writers seem unable to appreciate the novelty of a short fat man with an umbrella matching blows with Batman, which is why Penguin is just stuck in the Iceberg Lounge doing nothing, but most of the older Penguin comics (pre-crisis) depict him as this.
Penguin used to be written as kind of a gentleman adventurer gone rogue, someone who loved to stage elaborate heists to steal jewelry, fence or shoot with his umbrellas and run away (usually on a giant bird or a bird-like contraption).
Batman TAS also had this characterization for the character and they added several things to it like his design and tragedy from the movie as well as usage of more superfluous and sophisticated language that he had a poor grasp of, as well as playing up his pompous demeanor and his love for birds. There's even a TAS comic where he stages a robbery in a zoo for the sole purpose of freeing all the caged birds because he felt sorry for them.
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