| abstract | - A brutal and sadistic crime lord, Oswald Cobblepot was known in the Gotham City Underworld as The Penguin and funded much of its criminal operations as one of its biggest black market manufactures. Directing his affairs from predominately the Iceberg Lounge, Oswald was seen as a reputable business man to the people of Gotham, but was a sadistic, and mass murdering gang leader in reality. Initially operating out of a dilapidated ship, the Final Offer, as he recently began to accumulate his power within Gotham's criminal underworld, Cobblepot began to build up his own forces and carved up a piece of the black market for his own profits and purposes. After he formed an alliance with Black Mask, the most powerful and sadistic crime lord in the entire city, who put a $50 million bounty on Batman himself, the Penguin sought to crumble his competition, particularly the Falcone Crime Family, and aid in killing the Dark Knight in order to consolidate his own power over the city. Eventually captured by Batman and incarcerated within Blackgate Prison, Penguin bribed his way out of prison and established his new base of operations within the Cyrus Pinkney Museum, construced the Iceberg Lounge on the other side, and continued his criminal activities. Years later, after he refused to leave his base of operations when Arkham City was constructed around it, Oswald stayed within the prison compound, built up his forces, became one of the ruling elites on the streets, and was determined to keep anyone from taking over his turf and claim the rest of Arkham City for his own purposes. After he was humiliated and defeated by Batman once again, Penguin joined in an alliance of other villains, that was orchestrated by Scarecrow and the Arkham Knight. Using his new front company, North Refrigeration, to smuggle weapons out of Blüdhaven and into Gotham to be sold to the other villains, Penguin hoped to help destroy Batman on Halloween Night and conquer Gotham once and for all.
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