List of fictional penguins

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[edit] Penguins in animated fiction

[edit] Penguins in Comic Strips and Comic Books

  • Chilly Willy, in addition to his animated cartoons, also had a comic book for a while in the 1950's.
  • Eric The Penguin - the cartoon penguin from Chris Masters' famous greeting cards.
  • Opus. First a minor character in Bloom County, then one of the main characters in Outland, and currently (2008) the principal and eponymous character of Opus. All three comic strips are by Berkeley Breathed.
  • Oscar - a Penguin in the Comic Strip Arctic Circle. He gets peacock feathers implanted on his head in order to be more attractive to females.
  • "Penny and Poppy Penguin," stereotypical penguins misused by Bill in the Cat in his bigoted attacks on penguins in Bloom County.
  • Pokey the Penguin, a penguin living in the Arctic Circle, from the webcomic of the same name.
  • Sparky the Wonder Penguin. One of the main characters in the satirical comic strip This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow.
  • Les indégivrables, a French political cartoon with an all-penguin cast by Xavier Gorce, appearing in the online edition of Le Monde
  • In a 1954 Uncle Scrooge adventure by Carl Barks, a penguin kept trying to hatch a ball of Bombastium, a rare and valuable mineral. This allowed Scrooge and his nephews to find the Bombastium when it would otherwise have been lost. In gratitude, McDuck kept the penguin well-supplied with penguin eggs. One need not assume this penguin is a female. Among the Emperor penguins, it is the male who hatches the eggs. In other species, the genders take turns.
  • Mellville is the Vice Penguin of the country of Pellmellia in the Lookit series of graphic novels by Ray Friesen. He is fond of hats and snacks.

[edit] Penguins in Books (Novels and Children's Books)

  • Bibounde - a baby Emperor Penguin, the title character of a children's book by Michel Gay (French creator of children's books).
  • The Emperor, Bibounde's father.
  • The Empress, Bibounde's mother.
  • Mr. Popper's Penguins.
  • Cuddly Dudley, the protagonist of a picture book by Lord Johann Edvard Spiegelbreeneyer.
  • Misha, the penguin adopted by the protagonist, Viktor Alekseyevich Zolotaryov in the 1996 Andrey Kurkov novel, Death and the Penguin.
  • The Penguins of Penguin Island, a classic novel by Anatole France. They are baptized by a nearsighted old missionary, and then transformed into human beings - thus ending their peace and happiness.
  • Tacky. The hero of a series of children's books written by Helen Lester and illustrated by Lynn Munsinger, including Tacky the Penguin (1988), Three Cheers for Tacky (1994), and Tacky and the Emperor (2000). Tacky is "an odd bird, but a very nice bird to have around." His friends are Goodly, Lovely, Angel, Neatly and Perfect. They love Tacky because he keeps saving the day - not in spite of his eccentricities and oddities, but because of them.

[edit] Slightly Fictionalised Penguins in Books

  • Peris der penguin, the baby penguin from Evert im zoo and Evert besucht Auswitch.
  • Tango, and her adoptive male guardians Roy and Silo, in the book And Tango Makes Three. They are slightly anthropomorphised, slightly fictionalised Chinstrap penguins.
  • Betty and Porkey, Tango's biological parents.

[edit] Other famous penguins

  • The Penguin - One of Batman's most famous adversaries. (Not really a penguin, but a human who has physical penguin-like features. His real name is Oswald Cobblepot.) He dies in the movie Batman Returns. However, in the canon continuity of the comic books, he has reformed (sort of), and he and Batman have progressed from being mortal enemies to a tolerable modus vivendi
  • "The Penguin" is the irreverent but affectionate nickname given by the Blues Brothers to the nun who runs the orphanage where they were raised. It is derived from her black and white habit.
  • Diego the Penguin. Born in Lithuania but adopted by members of the Tartan Army. Now official mascot of the Diego Tartan Army. link title
  • Pete and Penny Penguin - The primary and secondary (respectively) mascots of Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio.

[edit] Penguins in video games and Computers

[edit] Other media

[edit] Penguins in Yu Gi Oh

  • Winged Penguin
  • Warrior Penguin
  • Bolt Penguin
  • Penguin Knight

[edit] See also

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