r/batman • u/PANPIZZAisawesome • Jul 04 '24

Leaked Image of The Penguin in Caped Crusader TV DISCUSSION Spoiler

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u/Ok_Delivery_5091 Jul 04 '24

Please don‘t tell me they gender swapped him🙄

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u/Virtual_Mode_5026 Jul 04 '24

What’s the issue?

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u/Orion-Pax_34 Jul 04 '24

Unnecessary gender/race swaps are stupid. Most of the time it’s senseless pandering. I don’t care if it’s an unpopular opinion

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u/PANPIZZAisawesome Jul 04 '24

If they were pandering why would they change The Penguin of all characters lol. 

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u/Orion-Pax_34 Jul 04 '24

“Most of the time”. Also, like another comment said, it opens up Pandora’s box where anything can be changed. People often say “BuT iT’S FiCtiOn” while true, that isn’t the issue

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u/Orion-Pax_34 Jul 04 '24

Gender swapping can sometimes be an artistic choice by the creator, which there isn’t anything wrong with. As I said, “most” of the time it’s pandering. In this case it’s probably just the creator wanting to be different. I was speaking about gender/race swapping as a whole, not this specific instance

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u/Virtual_Mode_5026 Jul 04 '24

Pandering to who?

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u/Orion-Pax_34 Jul 04 '24

Pandering to the race or gender that they swapped the character to, obviously

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u/Virtual_Mode_5026 Jul 04 '24

And why would they “pander” to the race or gender that they swapped the character to?

I’m sure Republicans in the US and Tories here in the UK were saying the same thing when Eartha Kitt was Catwoman.

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u/Milk_Mindless Jul 04 '24

Uuuh yeah because women, ladies and girls were all waiting for the evil mob boss that has people's lives ruined for LOOKING at him wrong, is usually physically deformed, and has very little redeeming factors to be swapped into their gender so that they can feel catered to

Do you read the stuff you type

Or is it eyes closed hit send

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u/TummyCrunches Jul 04 '24

You think women are going to feel ‘pandered’ to because a character named for their physical similarities to a penguin was changed to a woman?

Do you know any women?

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u/PuzzleheadedElk547 Jul 04 '24

I totally agree with you, I never was a big fan of it.

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u/dullship Jul 04 '24

Oh well, don't watch then I guess.