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THE "SINGLE-DAD FIT" PENGUIN IS BACK AGAIN!!
I had this lil' skit in my head for a while now. As you could see, Penguin was still in the East (specifically Japan) during this since he found Mavis' egg while he was touring. So this is among many of his days struggling to care for this creature. You can ALSO see that he is, yet again, starting to question his life 馃槀.
They may not look it, but the twins are at least there when needed.
#dc#batman#batman 2004#the batman#the batman 2004#penguin#oswald cobblepot#kabuki twins#batman oc#batman 2004 oc#mavis cobblepot
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#reblog#the penguin#Peri and Gale#kabuki twins#penguin#tom kenny#the batman 2004#penguin 2004#oswald cobblepot#doodle#my art#gif#weed mention
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They do the walk
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I鈥檝e named the Kabuki Twins Kaori and Kaoru because they deserve names
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I started rewatching The Batman animated series recently and was reminded by how much I like the look of Penguin's henchwomen; The Kabuki Twins. Before I knew it I started drawing a few designs and this is end result. I'm quite pleased with how this turned out.
#the batman#kabuki twins#fanart#digital art#pin up#pin up art#pin up girl#illustration#batman#dc comics#tv
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The Kabuki Twins are back ! With a new tale of a valiant and bloodthirsty warrior, aided by a sneaky old man with crooked fingers.. My take on those Penguin henchwomen in the animated show "the Batman". They always had a cool "weird silent assassin" vibe going on.
Made for the Character Design Challenge, themed "Gotham city crime" : P
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Penguin's workers(girls)
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kabuki twins
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#ramen writes#batman#edward nygma#oswald cobblepot#riddlebird#kabuki twins#echo#Query#miss tuesday#Raven#Jay#Lark#too many tags
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Mahou AU Kabuki Twins
The twins met Oswald in Japan where he offers to take them to Gotham to live with him because they were living on the streets before meeting. They now live together helping Oswald save the city from kaijus and the odd magical warrior and run a blog so he can maybe get some notoriety. (This Batman guy can鈥檛 take ALL the credit ya know)
Peri
-She can speak English well but can鈥檛 read it at all
-She wants to be a filmmaker in the future but can鈥檛 afford to go to college for it
-She鈥檚 hoping her vlogs with Oswald will be monetized.
-The cheeriest twin sister of the two usually getting too excited in the middle of fights
-Has studied magic girl anime like it鈥檚 her job and now she gives Oswald pointers
-works at a bookstore part time
-When coming to America she chose the name Peri because it鈥檚 easier for Gail to pronounce (her Japanese name is Ibuki)
Gail
-She can read English but can鈥檛 speak it well
-the quieter twin and is usually the voice of reason
-packs a bunch of umbrellas when going out just in case
-works part time at a museum gift shop
- made the masks for her and her sister to stay anonymous
-works on the writing portion of the blog
-Chose the name Gail because it鈥檚 short. (Her Japanese name is Kagami)
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Teen Titans Go! Kabuki Twins
The Kabuki Twins are two female enemies of Batman, who are both highly skilled martial arts combatants and employ extended steel razor blades at the tips of their fingers.
#mrhowardtheduck2016#dc comics#teen titans go!#warner bros animation#dc cartoons#warner bros#kabuki twins#batman
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What does Mavis(Batman 2004) feel about The Kabuki Twins? Do they get along with you?
((2004 Mavis' egg would've been found by Penguin while he was still traveling around the East, but the Kabuki twins were already hired bodyguards to him. They had the task of sometimes keeping an eye on her while he was off doing who knows what. They never exactly interacted much with Mavis beyond that, but along with Penguin, they were also there in teaching her martial arts early in her life.))
#dc#batman#batman 2004#the batman 2004#batman oc#oswald cobblepot#penguin#batman penguin#kabuki twins#2004 penguin#tortoist answers
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serving absolute cunt like sexiest riddler to this day
#the kabuki twins catwoman and riddler are sitting at a table in arkham and judging u#the batman 2004#the riddler#edward nygma
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#I could draw more dramatic rp scenes but no... drawing nauseatingly cutesy stuff instead (pulls cheek [*gently*])#........ they just terrorized the kid's rural hometown so they stop sacrificing twins to their guardian by pretending to represent it :D#(it worked easily with a Ghost type's illusions kabuki/kumadori makeup masks and talking a big game)#didn't even have to blow anything up or threaten anybody directly despite expecting to!!!#............. Chord looking like the kid's dead dad helped.#my doodle#face pulling#cheek pulling#pda * ???#does it count........ I havd no clue what to tag this#I will throw more adjacent tags for filtering purposes#play fighting#tickling#no tickling involved but it *looks* close enough so tagging in case for easy blocking#character death * mention
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The full set!!
whilst Kei was a chubby kid and the girls were quite lean, it got flipped after they went through puberty, so the twins ended up inheriting their curviness from Azul's side and Kei became quite lean due to rigorous kabuki training! Kei is also the only one of the kids who keeps using glasses instead of contacts, since he's used to wearing them for longer while the girls only started needing glasses later in life
#art stuff#twisted wonderland#fanart#azul ashengrotto#doodles#yuu fujisaki#twst oc#twst azul#twst yuu#azuyuu kids#twst
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do you have any favorite batman henchmen?
I put a lot of stock into how a Batman work tackles the resident henchmen and assistants and organization surrounding any specific Batrogue and how those intersect with each other so yes, absolutely I have Bat-henchman opinions, and favorites per villain. I'm gonna about pick about one or two among my favorites and name a few honorable mentions, with one exception and that's Rhino, Scarface's muscle. I know he's sort of a package deal with Mugsy, and Mugsy's pretty good too, but Rhino's the one I love.
I have a huge amount of fondness for Rhino and Rhino specifically because of his showing in "Read my Lips", as one of my favorite musical pieces for the series is the leitmotif that plays specifically for Rhino's moments in the opening heist and his brawl with Batman in the climax, and frankly he earns a top spot for me solely on the basis that he has his own theme and it's a banger on top of that. Scarface is exactly the kind of Bat-villain you want funny stereotypical cartoon gangsters attached to, and the big dumb grunt archetype is always more fun when paired with a proportionally much smaller partner or boss. And in Rhino's case, not only is he a titanically strong wall of muscle taking orders from a hand-held puppet dressed like a gangster, but cowering in fear when said puppet gets angry at him and relieved when reminded that he's too stupid to betray da boss. They made a lot with very little out of a bit character and it makes me love the episode so much more, and again, he has his own theme song and it opens the episode even, pretty hard to top that.
Penguin: My favorite overall has usually been Lark, specifically the version of her that was introduced in Tony Daniel's run. Like with Rhino and Scarface, the tiny funny-looking Oswald Cobblepot having a tall, intimidating lady chaffeur following him around makes for good contrast, and although I didn't like "Bullies" much at all, I really liked that scene of them being on friendly terms with each other, how much Penguin trusts her with his life and what he does. I like she is not abiding by any kind of formal dress code, like everyone else who tends to work at the Lounge, she's got almost like a punk thing that really contrasts with Oswald's own outfits and I always liked that, her individuality.
A more recent favorite would be Lili Kwan from Penguin: One Bad Day, someone who is far more marginalized than Oswald, and someone who was marginalized and pushed aside BY Oswald, but who joins up with him because he is the best lesser evil she is going to get and because they have enough in common that he can relate to her and respect her and ensure she is respected, but she pointedly does not mince words around him and does not entertain Oswald's delusions and self-loathing. She kinda demands Oswald to be the better class of criminal he paints himself as, to learn from his mistakes and earn having her by his side because "a king can't have illusions", and that's an incredibly interesting dynamic to me, this person with a vision of what Penguin and his empire should be like and in a position to have Penguin listen to her about it, not just muscle by his side but a voice in his ear pushing him to get his head in the game, be someone who deserves the loyalty he has from the underprivileged and the outcasts he claims to be a part of.
Honorable mentions would be the Red Triangle Gang from Batman Returns. I don't think they would really belong in any other version of the Penguin, and I have some very mixed feelings on Returns still, but I like the history they have with this Oswald and I like them in the movie proper, my favorite is the Poodle Lady for no real reason. I would also name the Kabuki Twins from The Batman cartoon, and Mr Decondor from The Batman Audio Adventures.
Joker: I gotta go with Bob the Goon, the Number One Guy. He is not even called Bob the Goon in the movie, he's just become so emblematic a figure for goons everywhere that he earns that name, Bob the Goon. See, I actually don't think the Joker should employ clowns in his gang, I think if you have more than one clown going around doing crimes, then they're not that special individually, I don't see the Joker surrounding himself with people who look or act even half as outlandish as himself, and that鈥檚 part of why Bob works for me, this comically ordinary schlub grunt who nevertheless endears himself to our sympathies for putting up with the Joker, being endlessly loyal to Napier before and after his accident. We like him in no small part because the Joker clearly likes this guy as much as he's capable of liking anyone on the planet, which is why it actually lands when the Joker guns him down just to vent. Rest in peace Bob, an example to low-lives everywhere.
If I had to name another favorite, and one I think works better on a reocurring basis, it would be Charlie Charleyhorse, from The Batman Audio Adventures. Charleyhorse has the mannerisms of a smooth-talking wise guy and is the guy who handles the day-to-day businesses of the Joker, sweet-talking recruits and negotiating deals and convincing rookies to eat poison and even hosting his broadcasts, and in contrast to the other villain sidekicks in the show who provide comedic contrast he is this very efficient, very charming and dangerous man, fully cognizant of the cruelty he's assisting and the man he works for. To me he feels like a very organic way of establishing how much more dangerous the Joker is compared to the other villains, that he runs his disorganized crime with the efficiency of a well-oiled machine, that behind all the chaos and mayhem there is an unfathomably brilliant mind at work and a smart, affable businessman to act as a conduit between that mind and the city, as if the Joker plucked the ghost of Jack Napier from his soul and found a sweet deal that lets them both happily exist.
Honorable mentions would be Prank, from The Batman cartoon. I think Joker gunning for his own Robin is an idea with legs (Harley never really counted in that regard), I really liked his design, a perfect combination of Robin aesthetics with a clown/jester motif, and I thought he had one of the more interesting set-ups for a "Joker corrupts people into extensions of him" story, definitely one of the better Joker episodes in that show. Other honorable mentions would be Jackanapes and Captain Clown from TAS, because the Joker getting unreasonably attached to a horrible giant clown android is a pretty funny concept to me.
Riddler: God, what a perfect character Miss Tuesday is. Pairing up the self-obsessed artist of crime with the harshest critic of all, the disinterested judgemental teenager, is such a perfect combo and it does so much to breathe new life into a very classic take on Riddler. The fact that she regularly stays in touch and coordinates stuff with other villain interns is amazing and part of the incredible worldbuilding The Batman Audio Adventures has in general. Miss Tuesday is this physical embodiment of ennui to deflate his cartwheeling histerics, manifesting every bit of self-awareness that the Riddler completely ignores, annoying him just as much as he annoys everyone else (her included).
It's punctuated by her being casually murderous to an extent that even surprises him, and the fact that she is just as smart as he is, so by the standards he lives his life by, he can't brush her off as another small-minded knuckle-dragging ignoramus like he does with everyone else, no, he can't tell himself that she simply doesn't understand what he is doing. She does understand him, she is just not that impressed by him, and Eddie will simply have to roll with the barbs and work harder if he is to prove himself. She is the closest The Riddler has to a conscience and thus her job is not to push him towards any kind of moral self-improvement or an approach to his work that doesn't involve murder and terrorism, but to dunk cold water on his head and call him cringe when he gets in too deep or for doing this instead of, like, making money off this crap or something.
The other candidate would be the Riddler's Followers from The Batman. They're not a concept I think would work for a more traditional version of The Riddler, but God they work SO well for that movie and that version of him, marking Eddie Nigma's transition from malajusted murderer into not just a supervillain with a city-destroying plot, not just the rise of supervillains as a thing Gotham is gonna have to deal with forever, but as a sickness aimed at the heart of the city, and a sickness that Batman is indirectly responsible for and that he must owe up to. I really like how The Riddler: Year One elaborates on them with "He doesn't trust people. But numbers never lie." His "henchmen" are numbers, numbers on a screen he never has to actually interact with, but can still send on to be proxies of him, embodiments of how much bigger this is than anything Batman could have imagined it being.
Honorable mentions would be the classic duo of Query and Echo, and much like Bob, we gotta bring up his henchgirl Molly from the Batman 66 pilot two-parter, who tragically died by falling into the Batcave's nuclear reactor. "What a way to go-go".
Two-Face: It's common for Two-Face to have twin sets of named thugs but I can't say any of them have ever been particularly memorable to me, but one that does stick out to me is Benny from Long Shadows. I'm of the opinion that if any Batman villain should be establishing a working relationship with a henchman/assistant, if any Batman villain really needs to be depicted putting in the work as far as convincing people to work for him, it should be Two-Face, the former widely-beloved District Attorney/politician turned crimelord who somehow stays a dominant player in the Gotham underworld despite everything stacked against him (his face, his reputation, his past being public record, the coin-based decisions, etc). I think Two-Face needs to be some degree of charismatic and conversational and convincing, he's someone with more tangential history in this world than the other villains and should be willing and able to engage with people at any level, even if, and especially if, he's going to betray or save them at the flip of a coin, and the closest anyone's ever come to capturing that for me has been Benny, this guy who's willing to question Two-Face's decisions and is smart and sensible and generally pleasant enough that Two-Face lets him do it (with some limits, of course) and lets him in on what he's planning. Being drawn by Mark Bagley, who can convey a lot of expression and personality on any character, is definitely a bonus.
Scarecrow: Not so much of a henchmen since this was technically a villain team-up, but Scream Queen as she was featured in that Brave and the Bold segment has literally nothing in common with comics Scream Queen as debuted in Scare Tactics to the point she is a new character in every way. I like comics Scream Queen quite a lot, and I wouldn't want her to be any kind of underling to Scarecrow, but BATB Scream Queen is a very cool design and concept and in general I think Scarecrow could stand to have some cool and inventive henchmen, I wouldn't be opposed to seeing BATB Scream Queen turn up again so long as she had a different name. I'm also extremely partial to the Strawmen and the idea of him employing former students and offering them teaching exercises mid-crime.
Bane: There's really only one form of Bane henchmen that matter and it's Bird, Zombie and Trogg, the Fabulous Five to his Doc Savage (I always felt like there could be two more members to actually make them five, I know it doesn't have to be an exact reference but). I like them as they are in regular canon but my favorite depiction of them so far has been in the Batman 66 comic by Jeff Parker, which retrofits Bane to fit the 66 aesthetic and tone by further emphasizing his lucha motif, and having his Fabulous Three all dress up in distinct masks of their own referencing existing iconic luchadore characters.
Black Mask: I think the False Face Society is one of the more interesting parts of Black Mask's concept and it really doesn't come up enough, and when it does it gets folded into just being a name for his gangster lackeys instead of the weird cult aspect it acquired when it was folded into his character, I'd like to see that stuff get folded back in.
Hugo Strange: Honestly I love all of Hugo's varied forms of henchmen over the years, all of them have their place in the grand tapestry of his designs (I'm not too big on Sanjay from Batman and the Monster Men, there is stuff to like about their dynamic but I don't think the pulp racial manservant is a thing deserving of the charming throwback treatment). The gangsters from his debut, the androids/mannequins, Night Scourge, the TYGER guards/troopers from Arkham City, the mind-controlled villains and inmates from his Deathstroke arc, and of course the Monster Men. I do prefer the horrific body horror kaijus from Night of the Monster Men, but I also like the mutated giants, especially when they dress up in oversized trenchcoats and slouch hats.
There are a few others but I'm lastly gonna say Mr.Freeze and his polar bears Notchka and Shaka, from Batman and Mr.Freeze: Subzero. I'm not opposed to Mr.Freeze having regular henchmen, or even ice-themed henchmen like in Batman and Robin, there are ways to have it make sense, but the polar bears I think have this sort of almost innocent fairytale logic to them that just fits Mr.Freeze and his imagery a lot better, abstract guardians of the concept of the arctic that Mr.Freeze claims dominion over. Even at their most benign, you can't extricate human henchmen from the inherent brutality of their profession, but when it's trained animals defending a master, it's easier to find innocence and sympathy, traits that fit well with Mr.Freeze. If there's anything in that movie I remember, it's the bittersweet ending where they walk off into a blizzard together, his sole two companions into this new life he's cursed with.
Does it really make any sense for Mr.Freeze's established skillset and character for him to have a duo of trained polar bears on call to do crimes with, the way Penguin and Catwoman have their own trained animals? No. Is it corny? Arguably yes. Do I think it's cool? Is it a cool image? Very much so, and when it comes to Batman, that tends to be the final word in things.
#replies tag#batman#comic books#superheroes#dc comics#dc#joker#penguin#the penguin#riddler#miss tuesday#mr freeze#two-face#scarecrow#hugo strange#bane
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