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Oswald Cobblepot or the Penguin seems to be a narcissistic, manipulative, megalomaticitist, psychopath. He was powerless as a child and due to the conservative personality of his mother he rarely talked to other humans or peer preventing him to learn to make emotional connections. He does not have antisocial personality disorder this is easy to tell from the beginning. He is deprived of emotional support and clings to any he gets. He clings to his mother throughout childhood and when she is killed he has an emotional breakdown. After meeting his father after 31 years he automatically connects to him and his step family and even becomes their servant after his father passes until he figures out they killed his father for his fortune. He also develops an …show more content…
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

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