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Penguins appear semi-frequently as enemies in the PlayStation game Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. A single penguin named Penta appears in the subsequent games in the series, Crash Bandicoot: Warped and Crash Team Racing. The title character of Pengo is a penguin. King Dedede of Kirby is based on a penguin.
This list of fictional penguins is subsidiary to the list of fictional birds and is a collection of various notable penguin characters that appear in various works of fiction. It is limited to well-referenced examples of penguins in literature , film , television , comics , animation , and video games .
Oddball (released as Oddball and the Penguins in some regions) is a 2015 Australian family comedy adventure film directed by Stuart McDonald in his feature directional debut. [2] It stars Shane Jacobson , Sarah Snook , Alan Tudyk , Coco Jack Gillies , Richard Davies and Deborah Mailman .
In SuperTux and SuperTuxKart, there is a different female penguin called "Penny" who is purple and white (SuperTuxKart once had Gown and still has a map called "Gown's Bow"). In the arcade game Tux 2 there is a female penguin called "Trixi", and in FreeCiv the female leader name for the Antarctican civilization is "Tuxette". [citation needed]
Pororo (Korean: 뽀로로, voiced in Korean by Lee Seon) is the titular character, a little penguin or a gentoo penguin. In seasons 1-2, he wears a tan-colored aviator cap, parodying the fact that penguins can't fly. Pororo often gets into various types of mischief with his friends, which includes trying to fly and playing practical jokes.
Magellanic penguin on Argentina's coast Skeleton of a Magellanic penguin. Magellanic penguins are medium-sized penguins which grow to be 61–76 cm (24–30 in) tall and weigh between 2.7 and 6.5 kg (6.0 and 14.3 lb). [3] The males are larger than the females, and the weight of both drops while the parents raise their young.
The name penguin was first used in the late 16th century for the Great Auk (pictured here) and was later applied to Southern Hemisphere birds due to their resemblance, though they are unrelated. [10] The word penguin first appears in literature at the end of the 16th century as a synonym for the great auk. [11]
The Penguin made his first appearance in Detective Comics #58 (December 1941) and was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. [1] The character is set to receive his first solo title as a part of the Dawn of DC initiative, with the book being written by Tom King and drawn by Rafael de Latorre.