She just never wanted to settle and enjoyed the suffering and adventures

He would certainly made a better president then the currently guy running the US. For one he is a super genius and has forward thinking.

Guys, before Trump even took office, he had Russia claiming the West is not the enemy, something Biden couldn't for years. He's a true hero. The media won't brainwash me into thinking he's bad; his results speak for themselves.

Good video

this was a great episode! also I'm glad we've got a new podcast episode, I needed to listen to your positivity because I've been in a bad state of depression at the moment and I had a bit of a breakdown today, but I'm okay now, and your podcast really helps me, have a great week, you two! Also it's my little nephew's second birthday next week, so a shout out would be appreciated Edit: if Oswald’s brothers drowned in the sewer tunnels and got wet, that means they’re completely useless now! *HEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!* (if anyone’s a Phelous fan they’ll get the reference lol)

Hey guys, didn't mean last time to give the impression that there was some sort of feud between me and you know who, but please if you can ask him to stop responding. I would greatly appreciate it. Bit unfortunate to hear about Creature Commandos, but on the positive side the show will debut with the first two two episodes. So with the Penguin now coming to an end, I really love the show and how it reinforced that Penguin is not at all a misunderstood character. He's a vile monster, which I just really appreciate for villains. It's a common complaint but in more modern years there's more attempts to make a lot of established villains into reluctant anti-heroes that doesn't really come off the most natural. That includes some Batman villains. I also much preferred how the show handled Penguin having certain sympathetic elements while still making it clear he is the true villain, compared to how BTAS handled Penguin in "Bird's of a Feather". I don't want to spend too much time talking about it so I'll just say about Theo Rossi's character that it feels like they wrote the scene of Penguin's mother in the beginning of the last episode first and then came up with the doctor character later. He just felt poorly incorporated into the show for me. Then at the end, I think this might be a me thing, but I personally was hoping that Sofia would actually die in the end. That's because I'm honestly extremely exhausted of the Falcone family constantly being adapted in Batman media as opposed to actual Batman characters. Said this before, but to me they are just placeholders for the real villains. Poor Vic. He was really living on borrowed time ever since he met Penguin. Oswald shedding what little emotional tethers he might have had was the last straw which culminates in him getting the classic tuxedo. It really looks specifically like that iconic Brian Bolland image of Penguin. And something I want to bring up, since you did a video about Maxie Zeus, is a massive problem I've had for years with media that isn't exclusive to BTAS or comics, but just how fictional media adapts Greek culture. As a Greek person, I find it so frustrating that whenever writers want to introduce a character that is either of Greek descent or has to do with anything Greek, they always have to connect them somehow to the gods of Olympus. It's like they don't know that there's more to our culture than just the stories about the Greek Pantheon. The most famous example is Wonder Woman but because she has was created so early compared to other superheroes and also the fact that she is not directly based on a specific character, it doesn't attract from the character for me but after that almost every other great character is somehow connected to Greek gods. My favourite comic book character who is Greek is Elektra from Marvel because she is just Greek and her personality isn't solely dependant on that. Although the name Elektra isn't really that common in Greece and kind of sounds more like someone's idea of a Greek name. If anything it sounds more like a stripper name, but then you remember "Oh right, she's a Frank Miller creation".

he will consume the entire world with his hunger for power and greed and nothing will ever be enough for him

Ah, nice to meet ya, Juan Sanchez Lobo Ramirez. Me designated Mikey! By the way, the original Highlander and The Search for Vengeance anime are tough acts to follow. Would need a miracle for another newer Highlander to equal or top them. Of course the absence of Batman is quite an easy complaint. Would have expected an offscreen world tour somewhat akin to what Batman and Jason Todd/Robin II during Under the Red Hood's flashbacks. Or perhaps doing a Matches Malone undercover op. If Gotham Central is gonna be adapted, make sure it's a standalone away from certain other adaptations... unless it's already proven itself, so it can be tied in well with either The Batman 2004, the Arkhamverse, or even the Batman Beyond era of the DCAU. The story you're asking about, Smears? "The Green Ribbon". There's a Catwoman moment? Brings into mind that When in Rome reference in a Batcave call from Arkham Shadow. Seems Doc Rush is no figment of Sofia's subconscious. ...I wonder if Francis will be an exception to Batman's no-killing rule. That ending sure sounds Gainax-y. The word waistcoat can be substituted with veskit, as called by fave Dickensian Cockney Sam Weller. Expected Victor to have the last name of Sage. As in "The Question". Guy also appears in radio form in Arkham Shadow. Off-note, the diversity angles here is not much, but it is worthwhile and not anvillicious (sorry again, SL; almost rhymes with delicious, BTW). Same goes for Arkham Shadow (particularly with the characters Leslie Thompkins and the Ratcatcher, despite said changes being retcons away from certain Arkhamverse tie-in comics), but the same can't be said with Dragon Age: Veilguard. Poor Francis, Victor, Sofia, and several others more, but it can't be helped, the same way how events went with Arkham Shadow. Anyone who's played it or watched real good playthroughs of it will deffo understand... ooh, boy, mentioned that game a buncha times. Dunno, there may be better competition on the Emmys. Just make sure the "victor" ain't another Green Book or Game of Thrones. A new miniseries better not be about the Joker. Meantime, that idea of Jason Todd being the first Robin for this universe is quite novel. Pass on The Sims. 36:29: Good news, he didn't! Bad news, he ded! 37:03: Timestamping. 37:46: I see. Thanks for the trivia. 39:09: Guess the miniseries didn't. *Believe me, the election results will also influence the world in a bad way. If, say, the good Ukrainians lose their brave war, Taiwan becomes a Red province after a struggle, and Iran gets a sudden second wind, we know who to blame, and who to prefer pacifying.* Wonder if Pain and Prejudice is a standalone and not connected to any mainline long running plots? In Phantasm's defense, set photos aren't easy to denounce as spoilers. Sure is in a strange place, Creature Commandoes, what with being an animated series set in the same universe as live actions like that upcoming Superman movie and Peacemaker. Reminds me of Mamoru Oshii's Kerberos Panzer Cop trilogy, with its most well known installment being the animated third film, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, which is also the first chronologically. 41:17: Told ya, Phantasm. 47:51: Alas, mine own prediction didn't occur, it seems. Phantasm wins the round. Also prefer the name eclair over Long John. Think baumkuchens and crepes are better though. I've seen lots of outlandish anime and magical works out there, but Agatha All Along feels like it's trying too hard on doing the weird and wonderful Wiccan stuff and the GL/yuri stuff, and again, its connections to the flawed post-Endgame portion of the MCU has alienated lots when it comes to lore, storytelling, action, and humor. Overall, despite not seeing much of it just yet (seriously, binging lotsa animated works for now) I think The Penguin is neat, and it sure seems a better spin-off than whatever Dune is having, according to current reviews. However, it may be overshadowed by, again, fellow DC Comics work Batman: Arkham Shadow and also competition like the second season of Arcane for the feels, chills, and thrills. Fave Christmas special... for me, there's that PowerPuff Girls 1998 special. Hope to see y'all there. Addendum: Oh, and if anyone wants to play a game set on it, there's Batman: Arkham Origins. For movies, either Tokyo Godfathers or Scrooged.

Hey today, its Totally Schway! Penguin squawking on a literal Hump Day! Oh i say!😂 Thank you both for the Penguin coverage! Despite Ozwald becoming a petty little a-hole, we can all take comfort he's getting his flippers handed to him by a rich guy in Bat pajamas! * Also. Im shocked my comment wasn't read? Im sad...😢 Unless the Almighty KZbin Algorithm didnt inform me about your video and i missed it...but i do routinely check! *That being said, thank you both for the answome! Now, Big Mikey P and the rest.... c'mon! You dont wanna make Mary sad! Shes gonna charge at yah faster than Rogue needing answers from Thunderbolt Ross! 😅 Til then. Glaze Donuts for life!! Look forward to the Christmas Specials video! Im just gonna throw my hat in for The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by Rankin Bass!!!

I think this show handled the 'sympathetic Penguin' storyline better than the god awful trainwreck of a BTAS episode 'Birds of a Feather', it portrays The Penguin as somewhat sympathetic to an extent, but still portrays Oswald as an actual villain, this show doesn't let you forget that at the end of the day, The Penguin is still a bad dude (Sony, take notes)! Things get even creepier when we see how needy for his mum Oswald is, to a point where he creepily keeps her in a vegetative state and hires a lady of the night to dress as his mother and tell him out proud she is of him. I hope that the next time we see him, Penguin wears the top hat and monicle since he'd.already worn the suit from BTAS by the end of the show. Edit: you forgot to read my comment from the last episode! 😂🤣

Hi Mary & Luke Well I Was Really Hoping That Wasn't Going To Happen To Victor. But Unfortunately It Had To Happen. Hope It Wins Awards. They Were Going To Do An Arkham Asylum Show. WB Please Give Us A Arkham Asylum Show. Have A Good Week Both Of You.

Certainly better than our current leadership

In batman the animated series renee had a husband but he died , so she was a widow. But in the comics she's a lesbian

Do a video on Jim Gordon being president next

Sword fight - Adventures of Robin Hood. Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone.

This is chronologically the DCAU finale. And an amazing finale it is.

So we are just going to forget this happened in the comics? You must be like 25 years old.

He just isn’t orange enough to be a good president.

Bruce Wayne would be better, because he's a billionaire. And he seems to have a clean legal record, somehow.

Well he'll definitely make a better one than the next one we're getting.....

…not to mention his whole reason for running was to piss superman off

he also says he cant be in same palce as his other savages.

i wonder if he fade away in the future but his present self still exist., either implies he somhow is killed in the present at some point. how? idk

To quote one of the great American philosophers, George Carlin: “I don’t vote ’cause I believe if you vote, you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around. I know, they say: ‘well if you don’t vote you have no right to complain’ But where’s the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent people, and they get into office and screw everything up, well you are responsible for what they have done. YOU caused the problem, YOU voted them in, YOU have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote, who in fact did not even leave the house on election day, am in no way responsible for what these people have done, and have every RIGHT to complain as loud as I want, about the mess YOU created, that I had nothing to do with.”

I really liked how you brought up Lex has a vision for long term schemes and that Superman's ability to solve immediate problems through his power and kindness annoys Luthor . Like when you consider his rise to the presidency...it all started way back when he agreed to help the justice league defeat their evil counterparts. Luthor actually doesn't even appear that much (or at all) until the Cadmus arc begins. He shows that he genuinely thinks long term, he may want more power but he certainly is willing to wait. Even when he comes obsessed with reuniting with Brainiac, lex does act out impulsively and with emotion he rarely showed before, but then he understood he needed to wait out before taking over the legion of doom. He doesn't even become leader until the end of the season. To luthor this shows why he is superior to superman. He created the ultimate plan, he thought in the grand scheme, he accomplished what msot inferior humans could only dream of, and yet this alien is beloved by everyone-WHY?! I do like your questions on his micromanaging and how that would translate to running a country like the USA which has a large civil service. We see that luthor is so smart that he is able to pick out employees who will do his bidding and he himself probably already knows what needs to get done. He manipulates or bullies his employees to follow him or at the very least surrounds himself with people who share his values. Luthor knows what buttons to push. There is a president who actually fits this trait of luthor-LBJ. LBJ did as much as possible to get both his employees and opponents to vote for him whether that was actually becoming like a son to them, openly humiliating them, or by more or less saying "Your president says your gonna do it and i already put out a statement-you sure as hell wouldn't want to reject this." LBJ knew exactly who controlled what committee, who was an expert in what field, and understood that every vote counted. This is what made LBJ the greatest legislative president. And i can see luthor as being similar. Now would this micromanaging backfire? Well i think luthor would certainly be able to juggle so much news and updates. As a CEO of multinational company (and criminal enterprise) luthor has kept tabs on so much of the world, so him being president wouldn't be that much different. The problem is as you said, his arrogance and jealousy. He may believe that x department is not needed so he may order it to be shut down, but he may be wrong in that x department is actually needed or its shutdown so quickly causes more problems. We see this in which luthor gets over his head so many times whether that's metallo or brainiac because he cannot control their every action. His jealousy/narcissism may actually cause him to flat ignore alternatives. Using LBJ, towards the end of his presidency, LBJ became more angry that his allies were criticizing his programs. The Kerner commission, actually was damming report on poverty and race in America. Johnnson had wanted the report to promote his policies, which were helpful. When the Commission reported that not only was social inequality deepening but that the current system had not solved poverty or racism and that more money was needed, Johnson REFUSED to acknowledge the report.

#Wayne2024

Depends on which version of Lex we’re talking…because red son’s Lex Luthor was probably the greatest president, his universe United States ever had.

Lex Luthor is an Analogy of Donald Trump!

I’d rather have Luthor than who we’re getting

That line about micromanagement makes me think Luthor would be a Nixon-like President.

Thank Goodness You're Here! You know, I open my comments like that kind of as a jokey reminder to try the game by that name. I am always glad to hear you, but on a dreary (it is dark and rainy here) morning after Election Day I really am glad to have something else to listen to. I am writing this before I listen to second. I imagine you will have encouraged folks to vote. We watched last week's and this week's episode of Penguin last night instead of election coverage. I listened to your video for last week on the drive-in and listening to this one now. Much better for my mental health than the news Three quick comments from last week. Mary, you are fine for not liking blueberries. You and I agree in the best. And I tend to be a picky eater, so no shame from me. Two, my wife's parents and her older brother and his wife were in Ireland the last two weeks. My brother-in-law sent a text about how smooth and quiet the 100 mile per hour train they were taking one day was. I commented about funny how that happens when you spend money on infrastructure. Three, and I may make an edit to this after you get to the scenes from this week, but the female only scenes in this show have been fantastic. Last week, Sofia and Eve, this week Sofia and Francis and Sofia and Gia. I assume you haven't gotten to Agatha yet, but one of the things that comes up is the Wiccan/neopagan concept of the Triple Goddes, the Maiden, Mother, Crone. That struck me as an interesting framing device for Gia, Sofia, and Francis. Gia is clearly the maiden, and at first glance, Francis, while a mother, being the older one, would maybe seem to be the crone. Sofia definitely has some maternal like responses to Gia, but I wonder if it actually should be flipped. Or maybe Eva is the mother, though not in this episode, and Sofia and Francis are both, in their ways, the crone. My philosophizing aside, the female interactions in this series are fantastic. Sofia's reactions to both Gia and Francis definitely made her an even more compelling character. 1:50 Top Hat was the name of the movie, same as the episode. NVM, you figured it out. They did leave it ambiguous if Oz knew what he was doing. He was clearly jealous of his brothera. He was upset she wouldn't stop work for him, but would for his brothers. I think his responsibility will be revealed to Francis next week. I assume she does not know, though I wonder if she has always suspected. It was a D.A.R.E. poster mybson rewound to look at it. I don't know how the explosion in Crown Point could not attract Batman. I still think we won't see him, but as Mary said, I think we will get something like a batarang. I think Vic is gathering the army which will arrive to save Penguin. As I said, I think Sofia has somehow figured out Oz killed his brothers. What better revenge on Oz than to have Oz lose his mother, not by being killed, but by disowning him for what he did. The twist may be that Francis knew and this won't work as Sofia expects. Or the Chekov's gun of her wanting Oz to kill her goes off. By the time you comment on this we will know. I wonder if this is the Great or Lttle Thing in the title. Much like how Top Hat is implied to inspire the future Penguin costume. I do wonder if they got rid of the Bliss so it isn't there for the next Batman movie. Speaking of Top Hat. Great film, seen it a few times on the big screen at the CAPA Summer Movie Series at the Ohio Theater. I really like Swing Time, but much like Holiday Inn, it suffers from a Blackface number. Cheek To Cheek in Top Hat is great, but I prefer Swing Time's The Way You Look Tonight. They are great escapist fun, even with the flaws of their time. I like a good unfilled Long John, but they are hard to find. Apple Fritter is up there, too. But can't go wrong with a simple glazed. I would like an Agatha Flip Side. You could just do a series reveiw, not an episode by episode. Or maybe eps 1-2, 3-7, and 8-9. After you watch, you may see why I split it that way. But if you don't get to it, I understand, you are quite busy.

I mean we could do worse than Led Luthor. Could? Heh heh heh.

It's over. I can't do this any more

Thank goodness you're here! Very late, I will add comments for this one in the next one. Worked out well, personally though, because I watched this and the most recent Penguin episode last night instead of elections overage and listening to this and then the next this morning instead of election news.

Sophia didn’t hand her over to the orphanage. Sophia is still “The Hangman” & is (on paper) criminally insane, so she wouldn’t be a suitable candidate to take custody of her.

Lex is a criminal, so yep he would fit right in has a president.

Of all versions of Vandal Savage both in the comics and in tv series this version of him was the only one to see the error of his villainous ways and be genuinely redeemed. All other versions of him have remained evil. This is what makes this version of Vandal Savage very interesting.

I think Luthor would be a lot like Richard Nixon. He would have good policies and be a competent president he was just be super shady and do a bunch of messed up things in the background

In batman superman: public enemies lex did manage to save the American economy and got most of the super heroes to work for him. Of course that was part of his plan to frame superman and let the earth be destroyed by a kryptonite asteroid. Still it was an impressive accomplishment considering the state of that universe's version of America at the beginning of the movie.

Ironically, Lex Luthor is the quintessential Nietzschean Superman.

Lex Luthor is a villain… up until Superman gets possessed by magic or gets slipped the wrong stone. Then he is a prophet.

Lex Luthor is a greedy, corrupt megalomaniac, a corporate shill, a warmonger. He would not make a good US president but he would be a pretty typical one.

I've been calling Donald Trump the wanna-be Lex Luthor since he won the 2016 election. I was convinced that Trump was inspired by the comic book story. The big difference is that the fictional Lex Luthor is written as an articulate genius and the real life Donald Trump is the opposite of that.

Sorry, my votes for President Puddin'! He's been in and out of Arkham to know who is and isn't crazy, great with animals ( have you seen his rabid Hyenas?!),and would sooner bomb the mayor than leave his loved ones behind! My votes for you Puddin', and your sexy squeeze for Vice President, Harleen Quinzel!A vote for them is putting a smile on everyone's faces!🎉😘❤️❤😂 Ps love the video Mary! ❤ Way too awesome!!!