Rocksteady's Arkham games are seminal for a whole host of reasons, but Nolan North's Penguin probably isn't one of them. The Penguin of this series boasts a tragic attempt at a cockney accent, and while yes, his museum sequence in Arkham City was certainly memorable, the feathered fiend was not a reason why.
For fans of Batman: The Animated Series however, the character may have actually taken on a whole new level of notoriety. With Joker and Harley having fostered a formidable rivalry with Penguin in the wake of Arkham City's construction, things got... pretty heated, to say the least. Dozens of lives were lost in the ensuing gang war, but two of the most notable ones turned out to be Harley's famous pet hyenas, Bud and Lou.
Killed and then stuffed on display in Penguin's garish museum, Harley's favourite pets ended up being two of the biggest casualties following Joker's feud with Penguin. BTAS fans are yet to recover.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
