Bruce Timm is a legendary creator of some of DC's most successful shows, but his most recent iteration was criticized when he changed the gender of the Penguin in Batman: The Caped Crusader.
In the Prime Video series, a very different character was shown from his previous depictions.
The creator behind the show defends his creative stance by stating: “James and I were talking about the general outline of the show and we said, 'One of the problems with Batman, as it is, is that there's a lack of good villains.'”
“You've got Catwoman, you've got Poison Ivy, you've got Harley Quinn. But it would be really cool to have more female villains. And all of a sudden I was like, 'What if we gender-swap The Penguin?'” she said in an interview with Emmy Awards.
That suggestion, said co-executive producer James Tucker, sparked a variety of different ideas.
“When he said, 'Maybe we can change the gender of Penguin,' I got a lot of ideas,” he added.
