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The Penguin: Is Oz's Name Change a Big Deal?

Written by Joshua Kristian McCoy
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The man at the center of the new Batman spinoff goes by Oz Cobb instead of Oz Cobblepot. Does it make a difference?

The Penguin feels like a new frontier for the comic book movie craze. While the fervor has certainly died down, great entries like The Batman still stick out. The Penguin represents a shift in genre, completely excising the whole superhero conceit in favor of a deeper exploration of Gotham's organized underworld. While it's not as far from some of the comics as it could be, there's one notable change that fans seem up in arms about. The Penguin's government name has been changed from Oswald Cobblepot to Oswald Cobb.

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