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WARNING: This post contains spoilers from the finale of The Penguin!
One of the main characters of The Penguin met their fate on Sunday night (November 10)!
The DCEU (DC Extended Universe) limited series, which serves as a bridge between The Batman and The Batman II, had a big death in the final episode.
In the conclusion to the eight episodes, Colin Farrell‘s Oz Cobb fully comes into his villainous persona, The Penguin, and that also comes at the hand of losing someone from his inner circle.
Keep reading to find out more…
Spoilers below…
Rhenzy Feliz‘s Victor Aguilar was killed by Oz!
Throughout the show, Oz took Victor under his wing and the two became close. However, after Victor admitted Oz was like family to him, he had to go.
“None of our characters are particularly great people,” series creator Lauren LeFranc tells The Wrap. “I think Victor is the most innocent and the one that we can more emotionally connect with without being worried for our own selves. I always knew he needed to die and I always knew he needed to die by Oz’s hand. That’s because, really, this is an examination of Oz Cobb, and for you to understand him — and to sort of understand the darkness within him — it felt necessary that he take Victor’s life. I say that meaning that Oz didn’t need to do that like it wasn’t actually necessary. In that moment, Victor did not betray him. He did nothing wrong. In fact, the thing that he did ‘wrong’ in Oz’s eyes is that he loves him and that he cares about him and Oz actually cares about Victor.”
“I think by the end Oz sees that as a really big problem because he loves his mother so deeply and Sofia took advantage of that love, and then it became sort of a weakness in his eyes. Victor saw him at his most vulnerable and for Oz to achieve the power that he thinks he needs, he can’t have that level of humanity. He can’t have that heart with him anymore. So he stifles his own heart. He kills it,” she continued.
Lauren added about the death scene, “I knew it needed to be an intimate death. I also wanted it to be a long death. It was really important for me that it felt like the audience could be shouting at their screen “just let go! “stop, let up,” and that we have maybe inklings of hope that Oz will stop doing this and he doesn’t, and that is made more painful.”
“I wanted it to be reflective of buddies and the premiere when the two guys are scrappy outside and have been through a lot of hell together, and to have this sort of mirror that moment. So I hoped that it would feel emblematic of that and you’d feel like Victor’s kind of make it only to have that ripped out from you.”
