He gets this from having no power as a child, being bullied and overpowered all his life developed this need for power. He’s narcissistic for wanting to own Gotham he believes he has a right to own the city. He’s manipulative, this is easy to tell throughout the series he starts as an umbrella holder for Fish Mooney and ends up owning Gotham. He does this by spying, he spies on one crime boss for another. This is most noticeable when he starts a gang war in Gotham. He sets up an assassination no one asked for but he told the assassinators it was one of the main two crime bosses. He purposely breaks the guns and has the assassinators killed, the crime boss they were trying to kill know they’re the other bosses people. This starts a war and gives Oswald the perfect way to take over. He’s a psychopath because he ruthlessly kills people. He kills Fish Mooney, and after she comes back, he gets Butch, someone who loves Fish to kill her. Due to Penguin making strong connections with people easily he didn’t care for Fish since she tried to kill him and wanted to hurt her by using someone she thought of as a son kill
He gets this from having no power as a child, being bullied and overpowered all his life developed this need for power. He’s narcissistic for wanting to own Gotham he believes he has a right to own the city. He’s manipulative, this is easy to tell throughout the series he starts as an umbrella holder for Fish Mooney and ends up owning Gotham. He does this by spying, he spies on one crime boss for another. This is most noticeable when he starts a gang war in Gotham. He sets up an assassination no one asked for but he told the assassinators it was one of the main two crime bosses. He purposely breaks the guns and has the assassinators killed, the crime boss they were trying to kill know they’re the other bosses people. This starts a war and gives Oswald the perfect way to take over. He’s a psychopath because he ruthlessly kills people. He kills Fish Mooney, and after she comes back, he gets Butch, someone who loves Fish to kill her. Due to Penguin making strong connections with people easily he didn’t care for Fish since she tried to kill him and wanted to hurt her by using someone she thought of as a son kill