Warning: SPOILERS for Batman: Caped Crusader are ahead! Use your Amazon Prime Video subscription to stream the series if you haven’t already. Batman: Caped Crusader is here, and while not a continuation of Batman: The Animated Series like had been speculated years earlier, it does take the noir tone of one of the best animated TV shows of all time and ratchets it up for a more mature audience. But that’s certainly not the only way Caped Crusader stands out from past Batman TV shows.
Many members of his rogues gallery have also been altered in some major ways, though still manage to stay true to the spirit of the character. This includes a female variation of The Penguin named Oswalda Cobblepot, voiced by Minnie Driver. Penguin is the first supervillain that Hamish Linklater’s Bruce Wayne faces off against, and there’s been a lot of chatter surrounding the only gender-swapped character in Batman: Caped Crusader since her existence was revealed shortly before the show dropped on the 2024 TV schedule .
Well, I’m here to say that I enjoyed this version of Penguin a lot, chiefly for the following reasons. She’s Just As Diabolical As Her Male Predecessors It’s one thing to gender swap Penguin, but then if she’d had a drastically different personality compared to the original Oswald Cobblepot, then the Batman: Caped Crusader writers would have been better off just making her a new character. Fortunately, there was nothing to worry about on that front, because Oswalda.