The headline on this article was amended on 1 December 2021 to refer to the Penguin, not the Joker. In a special-needs animation workshop in 1978 a young adult had made a figure out. The Penguin’s real name is Oswald Cobblepot, while Catwoman’s is Selina Kyle. Oswald, I’m talking about, and Selina.’ She was very excited to hear about it,” he said. I said ‘Look, it’s like my fantasy and it’s my dream come true to have an incredible romance with such a beautiful woman. “I did call Michelle and tell her that I was doing it. The thing mutates, and if we don’t give the vaccine to people all over the world, it’s going to keep mutating.”ĭeVito told Forbes that he had checked with Pfeiffer, who played Catwoman in the 1992 film, that she was happy with him writing the romance between their two characters. “That’s what Oswald wants: Get everybody vaccinated and give science a chance to get ahead of this. I thought it would be good if Penguin had a little bit of Robin Hood in him,” he told Entertainment Weekly. Directors: Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt Stars: Mel Blanc, Daws Butler, Tom Holland. So I figured I’d put those two together, and then it was also in the middle of the pandemic, which we’re still fighting with. Speedy Gonzales lethargic cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez, comes to visit Speedys hacienda, to the delight of Sylvester Cat, who is confident he will be able to catch Slowpoke for dinner. “At first I was a little bit hesitant about doing the comic, but then I got into the fact that I’ve always been a big fan of Michelle Pfeiffer’s, and the Penguin obviously lusts after Catwoman. “Since they’ve inoculated the planet and put an end to the pandemic, they’ve been awfully quiet,” muses Batman. The story, which also focuses on the romance between the Penguin and Catwoman, his crush from Batman Returns, ends with Batman and his allies reading a newspaper headlined “Bird and Cat Vanquish Virus”. Rather than depicting the Penguin up to his usual tricks, however, DeVito has him stealing all the world’s vaccines from the pharmaceutical companies who are hoarding them, according to an early report from comics site Bleeding Cool News – and then forcibly vaccinating everyone on the planet. Working with artist Dan Mora, DeVito has written the story Bird Cat Love for an anthology celebrating Batman’s enemies, Gotham City Villains, published on Tuesday by DC Comics to celebrate the 80th anniversary year of the character’s creation. The feathered supervillain’s latest storyline was dreamed up by the actor Danny DeVito, who played the character in the 1992 film Batman Returns. Danny DeVito as the Penguin in Batman Returns.