Penguin in other media

Television

Live-action

• The Penguin appears in Batman, portrayed by Burgess Meredith. This version possesses a "quacking" laugh, which covered a cough caused by cigarette usage.
• A young Oswald Cobblepot appears in Gotham, portrayed by Robin Lord Taylor. The series follows his journey to power, starting as a ruthless small-time criminal working for mobster Fish Mooney and his love–hate relationship with fellow criminal Edward Nygma.
• The Batman incarnation of Oswald Cobb / Penguin appears in a self-titled spin-off series, portrayed again by Colin Farrell. This series expands on his portrayal, depicting him as suffering from a clubfoot, displaying an Oedipal dynamic with his senile mother Francis, and having history with the Falcone crime family and Rex Calabrese.

  Animation

• The Penguin appears in The Adventures of Batman, voiced by Ted Knight.
• The Penguin appears in The New Scooby-Doo Movies, voiced again by Ted Knight.
• The Penguin was set to appear in Challenge of the Superfriends as a member of the Legion of Doom. However, due to the development of The New Adventures of Batman, the Penguin was removed.
• The Penguin appears in The New Adventures of Batman, voiced by Lennie Weinrib.
• The Penguin appears in The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians episode "The Case of the Stolen Powers", voiced by Robert Morse.
• The Penguin appears in television series set in the DC Animated Universe, voiced by Paul Williams. This version's initial design is visually inspired by the Batman Returns incarnation before he was redesigned to more resemble his comic counterpart.
• * The Penguin first appears in Batman: The Animated Series, where he is served by several henchmen - Jay, Raven, Eagleton, Falcone, and Sheldrake - as well as trained birds.
• * The Penguin appears in The New Batman Adventures, in which he has founded the Iceberg Lounge and seemingly reformed while secretly continuing his criminal activities.
• * The Penguin appears in the Superman: The Animated Series episode "Knight Time".
• The Penguin appears in The Batman, voiced by Tom Kenny. This version turned to crime to rebuild his wealth and re-establish his family name. Additionally, he is aided by two silent henchmen, the Kabuki Twins, whom he recruited during a trip to China, and has history with Alfred Pennyworth's family.
• The Penguin appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by Stephen Root.
• The Penguin appears in the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special, Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 2: Villains in Paradise, and Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship, voiced by Seth Green. This version is a member of the Legion of Doom.
• The Penguin makes a cameo appearance in the Beware the Batman episode "Animal" via a wanted poster.
• The Penguin appears in DC Super Friends, voiced by Dana Snyder.
• The Penguin appears in Justice League Action, voiced again by Dana Snyder.
• The Penguin appears in the first two seasons of Harley Quinn, voiced by Wayne Knight. This version is Jewish, has a nephew named Joshua, and appears as a member of the Legion of Doom in the first season and the Injustice League in the second season. In the latter season, he and the League take over Gotham City after the Joker destroys it before Harley Quinn kills him in retaliation for being excluded from the League.
• * A young Penguin appears in the Kite Man: Hell Yeah! episode "Portal Potty, Hell Yeah!", voiced by James Adomian.
• The Penguin appears in the DC Super Hero Girls episode "#EmperorPenguin", voiced by Alexander Polinsky.
• The Penguin appears in Batwheels, voiced by Jess Harnell.
• Oswalda Cobblepot, a gender-flipped incarnation of the Penguin, appears in the Batman: Caped Crusader episode "In Treacherous Waters", voiced by Minnie Driver. She is the mother of Aaron and Ronald Cobblepot and a rival of Rupert Thorne.

  Film

Live-action

• The Batman incarnation of the Penguin appears in the series' film adaptation, portrayed again by Burgess Meredith.
• Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin appears in Batman Returns, portrayed by Danny DeVito. As an infant, this version was left for dead by his family due to birth defects before he is found by penguins from a condemned Gotham City zoo. As a child, he joined the Red Triangle Circus Gang as part of their freak show before eventually taking over. DeVito's portrayal as the Penguin was largely praised, though some considered him inferior to Jack Nicholson's Joker in Batman. Additionally, DeVito was suggested for the role by his friend Nicholson following Batman 's success. According to DeVito, "It was four-and-a-half hours of makeup and getting into the costume. We got it down to three hours by the end of the shoot". Uncredited script doctor, Wesley Strick, recalled, "When I was hired to write , the big problem of the script was the Penguin's lack of a 'master plan'." He took inspiration from a Moses parallel that had the Penguin killing the firstborn sons of Gotham. A similar notion was used when the Penguin's parents threw him into a river as a baby. While this Penguin retained many trademarks, such as his top hat, a variety of trick umbrellas and the use of a monocle, he was given a dramatic visual makeover. Where the comic version varies between having a balding head of short cropped hair and varying degrees of thinning, this Penguin is still bald at the top but with his remaining length of hair long and stringy. His hands are flippers with a thumb and index finger, and the remaining three fingers fused together. An unidentified thick, dark green bile-like liquid sometimes trickles from his nose and mouth. Instead of a tuxedo, he wears a more gothic, Victorian-style outfit with a jabot as opposed to a bow tie. In certain scenes, he also wears black boots, a dickey, and a union suit. He also has a penguin-like appetite, as shown in a scene where he devours a raw fish, and uses a vehicle shaped like a giant rubber duck to move around the sewers and the city. Janet Maslin in The New York Times described DeVito as "conveying verve". Peter Travers in Rolling Stone wrote that "DeVito's mutant Penguin — a balloon-bellied Richard III with a kingdom of sewer freaks — is as hilariously warped as Jack Nicholson's Joker and even quicker with the quips." Desson Howe in The Washington Post wrote that the Penguin holds court in a penguin-crowded, Phantom of the Opera-like sewer home. He also described DeVito as "exquisite". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times compared the Penguin negatively with the Joker of the first film, writing that "the Penguin is a curiously meager and depressing creature; I pitied him, but did not fear him or find him funny. The genius of Danny DeVito is all but swallowed up in the paraphernalia of the role." Jonathan Rosenbaum called DeVito "a pale substitute for Jack Nicholson from the first film" and felt that "there's no suspense in Batman Returns whatsoever".
• Oswald "Oz" Cobb / The Penguin appears in The Batman, portrayed by Colin Farrell, who received DeVito's blessing for the role. This version acts as the right-hand man of crime lord Carmine Falcone and resents his "Penguin" nickname, given to him in mockery of his clubfoot.

  Animation

• The DCAU incarnation of the Penguin appears in Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman, voiced by David Ogden Stiers.
• The Batman incarnation of the Penguin appears in The Batman vs. Dracula, voiced again by Tom Kenny.
• The Penguin appears in Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite, voiced by Steve Blum.
• The Penguin appears in Batman: Assault on Arkham, voiced by Nolan North.
• The Penguins appears in Lego DC Comics: Batman Be-Leaguered, voiced again by Tom Kenny.
• The Penguin appears in Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League, voiced again by Tom Kenny.
• The Penguin appears in the Batman Unlimited series of films, voiced again by Dana Snyder. This version is the leader of the Animilitia who possesses a robotic monocle.
• The Penguin appears in Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Attack of the Legion of Doom, voiced again by Tom Kenny. This version is a member of the Legion of Doom.
• The Penguin makes a cameo appearance in Batman: Bad Blood.
• The Penguin appears in Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Gotham City Breakout, voiced again by Tom Kenny.
• The Batman incarnation of the Penguin appears in Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders and Batman vs. Two-Face, voiced by William Salyers.
• The Penguin appears in The Lego Batman Movie, voiced by an uncredited John Venzon.
• The Penguin appears in DC Super Heroes vs. Eagle Talon, voiced by Mitsuo Iwata.
• The Penguin appears in Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced again by Tom Kenny.
• The Penguin appears in Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash, voiced again by Tom Kenny.
• A Feudal Japan-inspired incarnation of the Penguin appears in Batman Ninja, voiced by Chō in the Japanese dub and again by Tom Kenny in the English dub.
• The Penguin appears in Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, voiced again by Tom Kenny.
• The Penguin appears in Lego DC Batman: Family Matters, voiced again by Tom Kenny.
• The Penguin appears in Lego DC Shazam! Magic and Monsters, voiced again by Tom Kenny.
• The Penguin appears in Batman: The Long Halloween, voiced by David Dastmalchian.
• The Penguin appears in Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons, voiced again by Tom Kenny.
• The Penguin appears in Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham, voiced again by William Salyers. This version is a professor and explorer who helped found Gotham City in the 1600s and gained longevity through dark magic. In the 1920s, he embarks on an expedition to Antarctica, coming to live with its penguin population after the deaths of his crewmates and his mutation caused by Iog-Sotha.
• The Penguin appears in Merry Little Batman, voiced by Brian George. This version is elderly and confined to a mobility scooter.
• The Penguin appears as a plague doctor in Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires.