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Amazon Prime's new Batman cartoon has gender-swapped the villain named the Penguin to a woman, with the creator saying the change was inspired by a drag queen and numerous musicals.
"Batman: Caped Crusader" is an animated series produced by Bruce Timm, co-creator of the highly-successful "Batman: The Animated Series" that ran from 1992 to 1995.
Timm and executive producer James Tucker told the Emmys that they felt there was a lack of "good villains" in the show and, more specifically, not enough female antagonists.
'The idea that Batman lacks female villains is preposterous and insulting. ... It's clear this was just a cheap gender swap meant to demoralize Batman fans with in-your-face feminism.'
"James and I were talking about the overview of the show, and we said, 'One of the problems with Batman, as he is, is there's a lack of good villains. You've got Catwoman, you've got Poison Ivy, you've got Harley Quinn. But it would be really good to have more female villains,'" Timm said.
Timm continued, "Off the top of my head, I said, 'We never really could figure out exactly what to do with the Penguin, what the gimmick for the Penguin would be. What if we gender-flip the Penguin?'" he asked.
Tucker said he found the notion instantly inspiring. "I was thinking of Marlene Dietrich in her tuxedo and 'Cabaret' the musical and the art form of cabaret, and I just started drawing. I instantly got a flood of ideas. Also, I was thinking a little bit of Harvey Fierstein and 'Hairspray' and Divine."
Pop culture news site Bounding into Comics posted photos of the new Penguin — essentially the same as the 1990s character but with added makeup and lipstick.
That Park Place editor in chief John F. Trent called the character change a "cheap" swap that lacks originality.
"Bruce Timm created Harley Quinn with Paul Dini in the '90s. He could have created a brand-new character if he wanted," Trent scoffed.
"The idea that Batman lacks female villains is preposterous and insulting. There are plenty, such as Poison Ivy, Talia al'Ghul, Lady Shiva, and more. It's clear this was just a cheap gender swap meant to demoralize Batman fans with in-your-face feminism," he added.
Strangely, producer Tucker said that the idea for the new series was essentially a recreation of the 1990s production, but inverted.
"The mission statement for the show in general: to do something that harkened back to the original, but flip it," Tucker said.
The isn't the first time a significant change in the Batman universe faced widespread criticism.
In 2023, a DC Comics insider revealed that the company had planned to replace the Dark Knight with an all-new, black Batman. Plans for the permanent switch were allegedly scrapped when retailers predicted the change could decrease sales by as much as 75%.
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DC Comics wanted to permanently replace the Batman character with a different, black Batman, but was told by retailers that the company should expect a sharp drop in sales, an industry insider reported.
The source spoke to Bounding into Comics under the condition of anonymity and alleged that a contingent of DC Comics made the bold suggestion at the 5G Initiative summit in 2021. The summit was a forum where the company discusses the future of its fifth generation of characters.
This was the same rollout that included a bisexual Superman and a black, female Green Lantern.
The group's alleged idea was to take Lucious Fox, Bruce Wayne's business manager, and permanently have the ongoing Batman titles feature the new, black Batman as the lead.
A portion of the company reportedly thought the character would add an extra layer of diversity to future Batman book lines.
However, Dan DiDio, the co-publisher, allegedly looked visibly stressed and felt like the changes in the new generation of characters were being forced on him.
The source claimed that retailers at the meeting were unimpressed, with one outright stating that publishers should expect an immediate drop in sales, to the tune of one-third their current levels. The explanation was that when comic book readers see a Batman title, they expect to see the character of Bruce Wayne.
DC Comics indeed went on to release "Future State: The Next Batman" book. While it cannot be confirmed that it was a direct result of the meeting, the new plotline was essentially the same, save for the new Batman being the allegedly proposed character's son.
"Tim Fox, son of Lucius Fox is taking the Bat-mantle in DC comics. Tim's Batman will be revealed in Future State: The Next Batman #2 comic on Jan 26, 2021," a DC fan page wrote in 2020.
Introducing the next #Batman - TIM FOX\n\nTim Fox, son of Lucius Fox is taking the Bat-mantle in DC comics. Tim's Batman will be revealed in\u00a0Future State: The Next Batman\u00a0#2 comic on Jan 26, 2021.\n\nIdhi other mediums like games, movies etc ni ela impact chestundo chudali \n#DCComics— DC World Telugu (@DC World Telugu) 1608210452
The comic received average reviews and reportedly quickly changed directions.
"You have a lot of bad American comic book content. It's terrible," comic publisher Eric July told TheBlaze last year. "Between changing all of these characters, and you have this ridiculous kind of push for social justice, insulting the audience," he added.
July successfully published his own woke-free series, starting with "Isom #1" in 2022, which raised over $3.7 million dollars in a preorder after a stated goal of $100,000. Then "Isom #2" raked in nearly $1 million in preorders within the first 24 hours of its release.
There has yet to be a woke comic book remake that has been as successful as the traditional characters. Even the woke comic genre's most known character, Marvel's Miles Morales, the black teen Spiderman, does not sell nearly as well as the "Amazing Spider-Man." The latter routinely performs at the top of monthly comic book sales in the United States.
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