In the wake of Carmine Falcone's death, Oz attempts to legitimize himself among Gotham's criminal underworld.
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In the wake of Carmine Falcone's death, Oz attempts to legitimize himself among Gotham's criminal underworld.
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"We had a lot of conversations with DC Comics and with Jim Lee [President, Publisher and Chief Creative Officer]," he said. "They had thought about changing his name at some point but had never done it. [The Batman director Matt Reeves] asked, 'Can I call our character Oz Cobb?' And Jim said, 'Absolutely!' So we got a blessing from the king himself. That small change of the name allowed us to look at this character in a grounded way."
The Penguin showrunner Lauren LeFranc echoed the note about the new name bringing the character down to earth: "Matt's created new canon in his film, and I'm creating new canon in this show. We have characters you're familiar with but there's a different spin on them," she said. "It felt like in the Gotham City that Matt created in his film, Cobblepott seemed less of a real person in the way that Cobb is a real last name. He's a gangster and it just kind of felt more correct."
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