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[STEAM] The Batman changed The Penguin's name to the very serious sounding Oz Cobb because Matt Reeves felt it was more "grounded" than Oswald Cobblepot


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real name, Oswald Cobblepot, was just a bit too silly, so he asked
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if he could change it.

The Penguin's civilian name has been the very extra Oswald Cobblepot for a good number of decades now, but in something as serious as 2022's
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, a name like that might seem a little out of place (though we can of course suspend our sense of disbelief at a man dressed up in bat-themed military gear). So, the character's name was changed to Oswald Cobb, or Oz Cobb, which definitely doesn't sound silly at all, and in a recent interview with
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(via
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), producer Dylan Clark offered a bit of context as to why that decision was made.

"They never got around to changing [The Penguin's] name in the comics like they did with the Riddler, going from Edward Nigma to Edward Nashton, from an unreal name to a real name," Clark said. "By doing that they grounded the character.

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