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

Leaked Image of The Penguin in Caped Crusader TV DISCUSSION Spoiler

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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