Penguin - fiction's top eleven feral children

[johnnygobbs]

http://www.tor.com/2015/07/03/top-11-feral-children-in-fiction/

In Tim Burton's origin story of the Penguin, we are told the tale of an infant so ugly that his parents could not bear to look at him, eventually throwing his pram into a freezing river. (I would like to point out that this was a traumatizing thing to watch as a child... but so worth it.) Naturally, that boy was found and raised by penguins. While it might not be quite fair to call the Penguin "feral"—he's fond of top hats and tuxedos, after all—his background provides a cutting remark on so-called evolved people preferring to hide or destroy the things that don't conform to their homogenous expectations of beauty. Offering that background ultimately made the Penguin a much more sympathetic figure, and between him and Catwoman, it was sort of hard to root for the Bat this time around.

[Dagenspear]

http://www.tor.com/2015/07/03/top-11-feral-children-in-fiction/

In Tim Burton's origin story of the Penguin, we are told the tale of an infant so ugly that his parents could not bear to look at him, eventually throwing his pram into a freezing river. (I would like to point out that this was a traumatizing thing to watch as a child... but so worth it.) Naturally, that boy was found and raised by penguins. While it might not be quite fair to call the Penguin "feral"—he's fond of top hats and tuxedos, after all—his background provides a cutting remark on so-called evolved people preferring to hide or destroy the things that don't conform to their homogenous expectations of beauty. Offering that background ultimately made the Penguin a much more sympathetic figure, and between him and Catwoman, it was sort of hard to root for the Bat this time around.

Oswald also was raised at least partially by the circus.