10 Things DC Wants You To Forget About The Penguin
8. He Tried To Kill All Women And Children In Gotham
You'll want some neck braces ready for the mood whiplash because now we're going to look at the time Penguin threatened to commit genocide.
The Penguin has always considered himself to be the Gentleman of Crime. While someone like the Joker may come up with a crazy scheme to gas the entire city of Gotham, Penguin prefers to focus on the business side of crime. He may commit some pretty terrible acts, but Oswald's pretensions of sophistication mean that he's always unwilling to step over the line and do anything too heinous.
That is except for the time he came up with a crazy scheme to gas the entire city of Gotham. During the storyline The Penguin Affair, Oswald got his hands on a deadly new toxin and threatened to release it. The kicker was that the toxin only worked on people without a large amount of testosterone in their body, it was literally designed to only kill women and children. And all of this was just so that Penguin could extort money from the mayor.
While the extortion angle certainly fits with the Penguin, the methods seem way too cruel for him. It's a plan that would work far better with one of Batman's more maniacal villains.