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Five SFF Stories Featuring Extremely Bad Parenting

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Five SFF Stories Featuring Extremely Bad Parenting

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Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobb and Cristin Milioti as Sofia Falcone in The Penguin: “A Great or Little Thing”
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The Penguin

“Just once, tell me you’re proud of me!” — The Penguin’s “A Great or Little Thing”

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Clancy Brown as Sal Maroni in The Penguin: "Top Hat"
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The Penguin

“Get me an army!” — The Penguin’s “Top Hat”

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Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb in The Penguin: "Gold Summit"
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The Penguin

“You deserve your shot” — The Penguin’s “Gold Summit”

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Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb in The Penguin: “Homecoming”
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The Penguin

“That’s what I do, I fix things” — The Penguin’s “Homecoming”

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Marié Botha as Magpie and Cristin Milioti as Sofia Falcone in The Penguin “Cent’Anni”
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The Penguin

“I’m not broken” — The Penguin’s “Cent’Anni”

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Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb and Cristin Milioti as Sophia Falcone in The Penguin "Bliss"
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The Penguin

“I don’t regret what I got” — The Penguin’s “Bliss”

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Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix in Joker: Folie a Deux
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Joker: Folie à Deux

Joker: Folie à Deux Manages to Make Musicals — and Misery — Lifeless

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Cristin Milioti as Sofia Falcone in The Penguin: "Inside Man"
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“Let’s dance” — The Penguin’s “Inside Man”

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Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises
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DC Studios Is Developing a Bane and Deathstroke Movie

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Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb in The Penguin “After Hours”
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The Penguin

“The world wasn’t built for guys like us” — The Penguin’s “After Hours”

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Cristin Milioti as Sofia Falcone in The Penguin
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The Penguin

The Penguin’s Cristin Milioti Wanted to Be the Riddler as a Kid

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“There is an art to smiling in a way that others will believe. It is always important to include the eyes; otherwise, people will know you hate them.”

N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

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