HBO’s The Penguin only exists because The Batman was wildly successful and audiences really gravitated to Colin Farrell’s against-type rendition of Oswald Cobblepot, or Oz Cobb as he’s known in this universe.

Batman never shows up in The Penguin, just like its creatives claimed. However, he was very nearly added to the show at one point.

The Batman and The Penguin gave clues to the possible next villain in Matt Reeves' upcoming sequel. A scene from The Penguin teased the possibility of introducing Hush as villain in The Batman Part II. The Elliot clan, one of the most powerful families in Gotham City, was also mentioned in Matt Reeves' The Batman.

However, just as Oz celebrates victory, the final shot of the series reveals that he has a new enemy to worry about: none other than Robert Pattinson’s Batman. As Penguin surveys all that he has conquered,

The Batman director Matt Reeves has finally explained why the Caped Crusader doesn't intervene during the events of The Penguin. "This was a time of great turmoil in the city, it's literally the week after what happened,

The Penguin was so good that we didn't even care that Batman himself never showed up. The show is set in the same world as the 2022 film The Batman, where Bruce Wayne is played by Robert Pattinson. That filmed ended with the Riddler (Paul Dano) blowing up a sea wall in Gotham and flooding a poor part of the city,