Colin Farrell is returning as the penguin in his own HBO series but doing that he was actually a big reason for why the penguin became a woman in 2022 Colin Farrell played the penguin in the movie The Batman which made $772 million in a budget of 200 million he was one of many villains at the movie with one example being a brief appearance of Barry Kon playing a character who is supposed to be the Joker while Barry Keon's character is clearly supposed to be the Joker Warner didn't allow for his character to be called that that's because they were in early development making Joker 2 and they don't want two characters to share the name Joker in two different universes this wasn't even the first time that happened we walk Keen Phoenix's Joker was the reason Cameron Monahan's Joker couldn't be called Joker and also couldn't have long green hair in the show Gotham water is also strict on this with animation which is why Batman and Bruce Wayne could never be said in the show Teen Titans and they put in little references like this now there's a new Batman cartoon where there's a very strange Choice made to make penguin a woman that's actually due to the Colin farell Penguin series where Warner had a bunch of rules on how an animated penguin had to be different making penguin a woman was actually the easiest path for the show Runners to follow those rules weird rules and with that I'm Charles PR subscribed to learn something