The Battle for Gotham City Is On in Mid-Season Penguin Trailer

Days aft dropping one of the champion tv episodes of the year, the stars and creative squad down The Penguin took the signifier astatine New York Comic Con and brought on immoderate goodies. Mainly, a marque caller trailer that looks up astatine what’s to travel arsenic the amusement reaches its conclusion. And it looks similar a full-blown warfare for Gotham City.

As 1 mightiness expect after the events of occurrence four, Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti) has yet decided she’s going to instrumentality the spot of her father, Alberto Falcone (Mark Strong). Standing successful her mode is Oz (Colin Farrell), her erstwhile operator whose actions changed her full life. Oh, and who is that connected the motorcycle astatine the opening of this trailer? Check it out.

Starting astatine the opening here—though it’s probably not him, that archetypal speedy series definite does punctual america of however Matt Reeves changeable Robert Pattinson’s Batman successful The Batman. Dark helmet, accelerated motorcycle, we wonderment if that was the trailer exertion possibly giving america a small hint of the extremity of the amusement astatine the beginning. Or it’s conscionable immoderate random Gotham goon. Food for thought.

Beyond that tease, everything successful present is fundamentally what we are expecting. Sofia is astatine the tallness of her powers. Oz is desperately looking for idiosyncratic to trust. Victor is getting successful implicit his head. It’s going to beryllium highly absorbing to spot however this each plays out, and who ends up connected the throne astatine the extremity of the show.

Watching this trailer though I did person a question. Can Oz lose? He is, aft all, “The Penguin” of the rubric and 1 of Batman’s astir celebrated villains. As unthinkable arsenic Sofia has been connected this show, and volition proceed to be, you surely get the consciousness that successful the end, it’s Oz, and not her, who is going to beryllium the caller transgression brag of Gotham. Especially since we cognize the events of this bid are going to pb straight into The Batman Part II. You can’t bash a full amusement connected the Penguin and past not person him beryllium a cardinal portion going into the large sequel. And that large sequel can’t absorption excessively overmuch connected characters ancillary to Batman, particularly aft 4 years astatine that constituent without Batman.

But possibly we’re wrong. Maybe Colin Farrell isn’t coming backmost for The Batman Part II and Sofia volition triumph the day. I’d astir alternatively spot that happen. Luckily, we lone person a fewer much weeks to find out.

The Penguin is present streaming connected Max with 4 much episodes coming starting Sunday.

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