Feathered Fiend
Tuxedoed Troublemaker
Criminal
Nightclub Owner
Umbrellas designed with a vast array of offensive and defensive capabilities including: ballistics, flame thrower, bacterial and poison sprays, acid, bullet-proof shielding, concealed swords, radios and methods of flight including parachutes, helicopters and rockets.
Batman
Detective Comics
Cobblepot's appearance and ever-present umbrella made him the target of childhood torments and his only friends were the birds of his mother's pet shop.
After graduating from college, his mother past away from a longtime illness leaving Cobblepot destitute, resulting in the foreclosure of the pet shop, and seizure of his only friends, the birds. Angry at the law he decided to go into crime and offered his services as a thief to a local crime boss.
Laughed at and rejected by the mobster, who taunted as a penguin, Cobblepot decided to make his new moniker, a name to be feared. Returning to confront the mobster, dressed in a tuxedo and armed with a .45 caliber umbrella, he killed him in self defense. Impressed by his ingenuity the dead mobster's accomplices agreed to make Cobblepot their leader. Fulfilling his desire to be feared and respected he adopted the name of Penguin.