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underappreciated form of humor: using incorrect long forms of proper names i.e. Craigory, Bobert, Barold, etc.

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Hello! I know i'm a few years late, but I Just saw your Hallucination!Oswald cosplay and wanted to say that you look so amazing!! I was wondering what you did to your suit to give it that oil slick/gross look? Thank you!

Thank you! I had a lot of fun making that costume and it's really nice of you to comment on it 😁

As for how I made it - I got the wet and gross look by basically putting the outfit on a tailors dummy and slathering it with clear mod podge. Once that dried I gave it a spritz with green and brown spray paint for that grubby, slimy look, and a bit of spray glitter to catch the light more. The weed on my shoulder is a plastic fish tank plant from a pet store, sewn on and also spray painted a little. Then it was a case of putting a punch of wet look gel in my hair, black lipstick on the waterline of my lips for that drowned look, and a green tinged eyeshadow as blusher.

Hope that's helpful! It made the jacket pretty stiff to wear (I did the same process to the waistcoat and tie too, and managed to find a shirt that had once been white and had turned grey), but it looked pretty effective up close!

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He has no marketable skills other than being mayor, it's literally the only job he knows how to do

The only person as durable as Oswald Cobblepot is Mayor Aubrey James.

Like. He gets kidnapped, tortured, etc. etc., and then always comes back to be mayor.

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I appreciate the equality in nipple censorship in these panels...

Gotham Fans: We want to see Nygmobblepot - naked and together. Harley Quinn: *snaps fingers*

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Via: Reddit

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You know, I've seen a lot of stuff about how the Gotham writers have been doing the best they can in shit circumstances with season 5, and how they're squeezing three seasons into half of one season and not to be mad at them...

But like, what's the excuse for seasons 3 and 4?

I love this show, for the characters more than anything else, and I feel bad for everyone involved who had their job cut short, but let's not pretend the full length seasons 5, 6 and 7 would have been well written. Not after two seasons of random dropped plots, inconsistent characterisation and motivation, and general wtf-ery

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My theory is that after all these years in Gotham, Oswald was kind of like "Oh no no, I know how blame works in this city, if I don't save Lee, somehow Jim and Ed and everyone else will twist it around in their heads to the point where somehow it's ENTIRELY MY FAULT she's dead, I'm not giving any of you any excuses."

Oswald Cobblepot saved Lee. He found Edward Nygma and Lee Thomkins stabbed, not knowing what happened, and Oswald saved them both.

Boy, If you think Oswald Cobblepot was done with Edwards heterosexual noncence back when he was falling in love with Isabella after just meeting her, and then more recently, watching Riddler letting himself be used by Lee…

Just wait until Edward asks Oswald why he saved Lee, and Oswald has a heartfelt response about how he saved Lee because, dispite everything, he knew Lee ment something to Edward and he wanted him to be happy, even if it was with Lee, not him.

And how Oswald regrets not being able to track down the criminal who stabbed them both.

Just so that Edward has to awkwardly be like:

”YEEEEaaaahh…. thANks… but you sEE…Lee and I kind of stabbed… eAch otHEr?”

Oswald:

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💜A bird and his dog 💜

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What always gets me with Robin saying he doesn't want Oswald to be likable is that, while I don't have any direct quotes to back this up, I've always got the vague impression that Robin has NEVER found Oswald likable himself. Like, he enjoys playing him, and appreciates the fact that so many fans enjoy his performance, but has never, himself, actually thought Oswald had enough good, redeeming qualities for him to like him.

Because of that I'm always a bit reluctant to take Robin that seriously when he talks about Oswald being a monster, because he's ALWAYS been more convinced of that than we are, and something he can't get past isn't necessarily going to be something we as a fandom can't. Like, I feel like I recall him making a really big deal about Oswald betraying Butch at the end of last year? My personal response to that was less shock and horror and more "Eh, figured that was coming, I'm just kinda pleasantly surprised his motivation for it was stronger than Butch outliving his usefulness and being kind of a dick. Not that it would have bugged me if that HAD been the motivation..."

Tldr I think Robin's standards for "human" and "likable" may be way higher than mine and as a result I'm not really worried

Gotham’s Robin Lord Taylor promises that his version of The Penguin will be a ruthless monster by the time the series ends. The assortment of villains who have tormented Batman over the years is incredible. Perhaps no other hero in history has such an impressive gallery of rogues, from The Joker and The Riddler to Catwoman and Mr. Freeze, to relatively recent additions like Hush and Black Mask, Batman’s bad guys are arguably more iconic than the hero himself.

Fox’s Gotham is fueled by this idea. Set in a city before the emergence of Batman, the series deals with Jim Gordon and the GCPD’s futile efforts to combat the over-the-top villains of DC Comics, without the aid of iconic heroes like Batman. Throughout the show’s run, one of Gotham’s many breakout stars has been Robin Lord Taylor, who plays Oswald Cobblepot, better known as the Penguin.

During a recent visit to the New York City set of the series, we spoke with Robin Lord Taylor about his character’s unexpected popularity and how he wants that early audience sympathy to play into Penguin’s arc during this, the final 12 episodes in the series. When we asked him about reflecting on Penguin’s journey over the course of the series, he shared his gratitude toward the creative team of writers and producers who facilitated his role on the show:

I couldn’t have been asked to play a more dynamic, emotionally rich, intellectually complex character than The Penguin. To see where we all have taken the character, it blows my mind. That’s all I’m feeling right now. I’m so grateful and so proud of the work everybody’s done. It’s been amazing.

Even among the esteemed ranks of Batman villains, The Penguin’s fandom, particularly for this incarnation, is palpably strong. We asked the actor about his considerable fandom, why his character is so particularly adored despite his long track record of heinous misdeeds, his face lit up with excitement, surely because of the plans the show has for the character:

It’s so weird! One of the stories that I’ve always tried to tell with this character, and just with the show in general, is that Gotham City is a place that beats people down and either turns them evil or into heroes. It’s a polarizing place. We start Gotham with someone of very low status, and who is just striving and striving. There is something sympathetic with Oswald in the beginning. Something identifiable, and something human inside of him. We see that he makes terrible decisions and does terrible things, but it’s out of necessity to survive. As we go forward in the fifth season, I want to see the culmination of all those years of being in Gotham and making those terrible decisions and watching someone’s humanity get stripped from him. When we end, I don’t want him to be likable. I want him to be a monster. That’s what this city has done to him. That’s what we’re working towards. It’s gonna be really amazing when we get there.

As Taylor explains, his character was able to be developed over the course of many years, from lowly underling to Fish Mooney to ruthless criminal kingpin. In addition to his charismatic performance, this dedication to long-term storytelling is a key factor in the character’s success with fans. Audiences have seen The Penguin’s rise over the course of the show’s lifespan. The apparent goal of season 5 will be to establish The Penguin as an irredeemable villain, a monster with no redeeming qualities who has crossed lines from which he can never return.

Of course, knowing internet fandoms, there are bound to be those who love the actor even more as his character becomes more and more evil. Eager fans won’t have to wait long to find out what happens with Penguin.

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Busting out Hallucination Oswald for Halloween (I miss my contacts...)

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Robin Lord Taylor, Cory Michael Smith are seen on the set of the FOX TV show ‘Gotham.’

Via: Zimbio

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Your secret is safe with me.

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I drew more birb today….

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Your favourite chara from Gotham in D1, maybe? :) And Owen in B2 :)

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Whoever had Jim Gordon appointed captain may actually have saved you.

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