The Penguin: Who is Sofia Falcone and why is she known as the Hangman in the new show?

With The Penguin streaming now all eyes are on Colin Farrell's scheming Oz Cobb. While the new series is not a part of James Gunn's relaunched DC Universe , it is a spin-off of Matt Reeves' 2022 film The Batman, centred on the infamous supervillain and criminal mastermind – you can read our The Penguin review here. But as anyone who has seen the first episode will tell you, there's another character in this series who is arguably even more pivotal to this dark tale.

.. Cristin Milioti plays Sofia Falcone, the daughter of deceased criminal overlord Carmine Falcone.

When her world is rocked by a murder in the first episode, she sets out to get revenge. But there's another shadow hanging over Sofia – her fearsome reputation as the Hangman, a notorious serial killer, who has already served time in Arkham Asylum. Like the Penguin himself, Sofia/Hangman is a character from the DC comics .

Her history on the show, however, is quite different to her previous origin. We'll get into both after the jump, but first a warning: this feature includes spoilers for both The Penguin episode one, and particularly for the Batman: The Long Halloween and Dark Victory comic books, which we'll be getting into in detail. Capeesh? The Hangman in Batman comics Both The Batman and The Penguin owe a considerable debt to two specific Batman stories: The Long Halloween and its sequel, Dark Victory.

Published between 1996 and 1997, The Long Halloween, by writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale, is rightly c.