Batman's Most Worthless Supervillain
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ม.ค. 2023
- The Penny Plunderer only has a handful of appearances in the Batman comics, but each time he shows up is a laughably dated affair. Let's look at each one of his appearances and giggle and stuff because it's funny.
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Dude never even kidnapped Alfred PENNYworth
Funny seeing you here... Gooner
Alfred would beat his ass
I could see him trying to pay Alfred a penny just because pun
If he attempted to do so the beating he would receive would be so brutal, Batman would be cleaning up Alfred’s mess for a change
@@davankrueger1725 and it would be awesome
No other villain is even a quarter as despicable as the Penny Plunderer. If I had a nickel for every dime he pulls off a scheme outmatching anything the Joker can pull off, I’d have 4 nickels because he hasn’t appeared enough.
I love you /j
Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened 4 times.
@Don't Read Profile Picture did I ask
To late
You wouldn't have a nickel because he'd have already plundered it.
childhood is when you idolize batman
adulthood is when you realize the penny plunderer makes more cents.
*rimshot that turns into drum solo*
Oh that was good
That was vile.
Give me another.
You mean sense
@@michaelmyers3808 dear God that joke went over your head
Its surprising that the Penny Plunderer gets the electric chair simply because he killed ONE guy and steal a bunch of pennies whereas The Joker, Scarecrow, and Mr. Freeze gets away with committing thousands of murders.
But Mr. Freeze did it for love!
Because nobody cares about him, at least the others have a dedicated fan base to keep them alive.
This was Golden Age comics where consequences actually existed for villains sometimes. Joker was supposed to be killed in his first appearance too, but got retconned back to life.
@@yoursonisold8743 You mean Second Appearance.
@@jaggerguth4391 No, actually. He was supposed to be killed off in the first comic he appeared in. Things turned out differently in the end, but you can read up on it yourself.
I think its funny that the writers ran out of penny themed scenarios so the penny plunderer just locks batman and robin in a room and fills it with carbon monoxide
Couldn't even go with a copper-based poison gas.
He could have flooded the room with pennies
burn them in molten penny lava
@@tjenadonn6158 it was CO-pper based though!
@@SwarfBando reminds me of a scene in alex rider, a guy gets locked in a tube and is crushed to death by two million dollars worth of pennies.
The fact that the dude was hiding a tear gas bomb in a Penny means we were one step away from a dude hiding white phosphorous in an egg salad sandwich
When are we getting the sandwich swindler?
Egghead, the real villain made for the 1960’s Batman show: *write that down write that down!!*
@@dan_the_swag_man6937 The hairbrained hoagie handler!
Always has been
Spec Ops: The Line moment
Okay, this is worth sharing here.
My dad went to a private school when he grew up. And the school policy is that if you had enough church attendances, the school was connected to a church, you didn't have to pay tuition. Well, due to family circumstances, the church attendances had been to OTHER churches and not the church the school was attached to. So they had to pay tuition. Keep in mind they went to church every Sunday, just not THAT church. As such, they were rather pissed. So, they paid the tuition, in pennies. Grandpa brought in a full wheelbarrow of pennies, said "Here's the tuition, have fun counting" and left.
They never asked for tuition again.
Fucking. Legend.
That's the coolest grandpa ever
Gangster!
Chad
Hahahahahahahahaha
This guy legitimately said “I SMELL PENNIES” and became a Batman villain
I feel like not enough people are talking about how the Penny Plunderer won both his fistfights with Batman. Like straight up, concussed him with a roll of pennies and scampered. Imagine that happening nowadays.
Batman stans: Batman is invincible, he can beat Darkseid, Broly and the one above all with prep time
Batman: damn this penny plunderer guy is too strong
@@ironmaster6496 This was back then when heroes were given some reasonable weaknesses and strengths (when it's plot convenient). Nowadays, all the DC heroes are so OP that Superman can jump through half a galaxy without any yellow sunlight nearby, Batman could survive getting spinal column getting broken and easily rearranging it on the same day, and Wonder Woman could probably destroy all of New York by herself, blindfolded with one arm tied behind her back.
@@ironmaster6496 He didn't have any prep time against penny plunderer obviously
Silver age batman was kinda of a wuss though
@@electricfeverx976 remember when Hal’s powers just did NOT work near the color yellow?
Penny Plunderer kills one guy and does like five robberies for literal pocket change and gets a death sentence once Batman catches him, meanwhile The Joker gets sent to a poorly secured asylum for the umpteenth time after gassing an orphanage, bombing a church, and shooting up a hospital for shits and giggles.
The Penny Plunderer is also more believably insane than the Joker has ever been. The Joker clearly understands what he's doing and that he's wrong, but I feel genuinely concerned for the Penny Plunderer's wellbeing.
@@firetarrasque4667 Joker's not wrong tho, in his own opinion at least.
@@Fuck_handleshe does things because it’s illegal or immoral for laughs, regardless of what other justification he knows he’s doing something bad and that he shouldn’t. By his own standards he is evil.
Forget Batman. How has NO ONE outside of an Elseworld's tale snapped the Joker's neck already?
@@robo-nidai4236 I mean, the last time Batman tried that we got the Batman Who Laughs, and DC's already milked that bastard to death
Fun fact, when the half Penny was removed from circulation, it was worth about a dime when inflation is taken into account
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I *DESPISE* how beautiful the redesign of Joe Coyne is from his Chronicles appearance. That wispy hair and dainty mustache, and just that *pose* of him sitting on the stool like that just hit me like a fucking BUS; And now ill have to cry myself to sleep knowing that I've caught feelings for possibly one of the most obscure fictional losers modern media has to offer us.
Just looked him up. Goddamn.
SERIOUSLY it makes me so mad that he's so pretty
You guys gotta stop simping for the penny fucking plunderer
if its any consolation, i wanna kiss him too
YEESSS he's sooo precious!!
I adore that Batman's grand escape plan from the villains death trap is literally just calling the police.
"Hey guys, remember how I told you I didn't need your help? Well-"
@@plantain.1739 When did Batman tell the police that he didn't need their help?
@@plantain.1739 Ironically enough Batman in the early days worked much more with the police and was nearly a private detective of sorts
It's nice that he gave the police something to do, but nowadays they're all too corrupt or inept to do their jobs besides Gordon and few others.
you have 2 top comments on the same video
Guy: "Finally, I can keep these pennies to myself."
_Penny Plunderer appears_
Penny Plunderer: "I SMELL PENNIES!"
Any bots under this comment are getting their pennies pinched
thats it. youve cracked the code. that guy was a goddamn time traveler
The Penny Plunderer was really ahead of his time, eh?
@@trollerpilotxiv3079holy shit he really did crack the code
The Penny Plundered is just a Wordgirl villain before Wordgirl was even a thing, before Dr. Two Brains was threatening to destroy the whole city for 20$ worth of cheese, The Penny Plundered was gasing people via penny word play.
The Penny Plunderer's greatest scheme to date is going to supermarkets with no self checkout and only 1 checkout lane open at the time and paying in pennies. Effectively holding the entire store ransom and torturing poor retail workers in the process.
🤣🤣🤣
"Betrayed by pennies!" says the character whose motivation was that he thought pennies ruined his life and wanted revenge on pennies. Why did he suddenly think the pennies were on his side to begin with?
Penny Plunderer is such a forgettable villain that he forgot his own origin story within his debut appearance.
That's the origin of most Batman villains.
Victor becomes dependent on cold temperature to survive. So he makes nothing but ice based technology instead of focusing on medicine for his wife.
well you see, its safe to assume that throughout all of his criminal activities, Coyne just about forgot about his past, forgot who he once was. he became so enthrawled with the penny-crimes to the point that's all he cared about. he lost himself.
Coyne thinking that the pennies were on his side is merely a clever way of showing this.
its all very poetic, ya know. don't fucking diss penny plunder. he's a deep character
@@omegawilliam95s36
That was kind of like batman himself. Wasnt one of the reason he modeled himself off a bat was that he had a phobia pf bats as a kid or am I misremembering?
In defense of The Penny Plunderer:
Using a roll of pennies as weighted knuckles work _really_ well.
And
Disguising a small yeild tear gas/pepper spray bomb as a roll of coins is pretty dang cool.
Even cooler than making bat-shaped ninja stars if i do say so myself.
"Using a roll of pennies as weighted knuckles work really well." Are you speaking from experience?
@@Sewblon on the recieving end of said pennies, yes.
@@DH-xw6jp gotta get your licks in by lincoln
@@DH-xw6jp sounds like a fun story
@@thew00dsman79 not really, pretty boring.
A local bar had a coin pusher arcade game that you would feed pennies to play (it's cheap to play and keep the drunks inside so they buy more, not a bad business model) and I "disrespected" someone by not moving fast enough when he wanted a turn at the game.
Words were had, possible insinuations make about his sister and then _[POW!]_ right in the face.
I can see the Penny Plunderer be a legit villian in Batman's world. The comics gave me some good ideas for him. Let me entertain the idea for a second. Let's make him a bit different, a contrast in Batman's dark world.
Just about every Batman Villian has a tragic backstory. Let's give this guy a normal background, and have him turn into a small time robber when he couldnt provided for himself in Gotham. One day, he became a bit ambitious and made a plan to rob an armored bank truck, not a small feat. He noticed that the men handling the money bags werent very observant when making transfers, and managed to snatch a bag and make a getaway. When he opened the bag, he found not wads of hundred dollar bills, but pennies, not even worth $50. He was later caught by investigators, and news broke out of his 'heist'. He became the laughing stock of the police department, the media, and his cellmates, and was dubbed the Penny Plunderer.
His attributes? He has a reputation among the prison for being creative and cunning. Not Joker levels, but if he's given enough time; he can make some elaborate plots to accomplish almost anything, and has determination to back it up. He catches small details and bits of information anyone can overlook, and can take just the smallest weaknesses and exploit them.
He also earned loyalty and respect among his crew. Gotham villians disregards their mentchmen and seemingly throw away their lives. Unlike the other villians, he cares about his crew because he was as vunerable and broke as they were, almost seeing them as friends. When a 'lowly hentchman' was captured by police, he and his gang went out of their way to rescue him.
His weakness? He's a goofball prone to mistakes. His oversite of stealing a bag full of pennies? That's just one of many screwups he makes. Have this elaborate plan to rob a national bank... guess who forgot to bring ammo for their shiny new weapons, and have to pull the heist all on a bluff.
Crap, you can give hin a bit of a legacy of being the guy who almost killed batman. The batman underestimated him and thought he was investigating another 'thug'. This wounded up with him trapped in a vault. The only reason he escaped was that he forgot to lock the door before leaving.
Just a fun concept to explore with him. I say he's overlooked.
Make him sorta like Batman on a budget. He uses gadgets but it's all stuff cobbled together from the plumbing department at Home Depot.
love these ideas
Certainly fun
I see a fan made comic brewing… I’m not making it I can’t make it don’t know how
Maybe give him a shotgun where the shells use pennies instead of pellets.
After Across the Spiderverse made the Spot of all villains a real villain and The Suicide Squad legitimized Pokadot Man, I'm convinced that any villain can work if someone tries hard enough, even the Penny Plunderer.
I can just imagine him having a scheme to destroy digital money transactions, dramatically increasing the value of a penny and destroying the economy or some kind of complicated widespread economic scheme that would be especially topical in the age of inflation, debt, and consumer madness.
They executed Coyne, but they let the Joker run rampant.
Joker clearly had the better lawyer XD !
jokers got some god tier plot
Coyne was mentally sound enough to stand trial, Joker isn't.
@@Jionunez7 I mean call me a neanderthal but (IN A REALISTIC SETTING I'M NOT CRITICISING COMICS) but if some completely clinically insane person killed more than a hundred people and broke out of the best prisons on earth more than once, death sentence is kinda logical ey?
@@Jionunez7 He sorta is though, right? I know being insane is his aesthetic but he doesn’t really act that insane. He leads an organized gang, commits crimes way above street level, and commonly outwits Batman. It sorta almost seems like he’s just pretending to be insane.
If Kite Man can have a reboot from a complete joke to one of the most popular non-mainstream villians Batman has, complete with actually good backstory, Penny Pincher probably can too.
Kite Man. Hell yeah.
You watched the video but still got his name wrong
Nah. He has come back a few times. To be killed instantly. With the world moving towards cards and phones, the penny plunderer is out of a career.
@@minato_arisato3751 i'm also drunk and watching at 2x speed
@@TacoTownUSA ☕
For some reason "call the reverse police" is what broke me. I can't stop laughing
I honestly love the idea of a super villain that torments the city just from committing petty crimes and generally being a public nuisance but on a mass scale to the point the police can’t do anything to stop it, being forced to call in Batman and what’s expected to be a simple and easy case it’s actually a massive giga-brain scheme that puts anything the Joker and Riddler did to shame.
Penny Plunderer is potentially the most dangerous superhero if he was real. If he can somehow hide tear gas in a penny roll there’s probably even more extreme things he could do
He's more dubious than the Joker. If he was given an actual appearance, we could've seen just how insanely smart he was. Smarter than Joker, smarter than Batman.
I mean, just give him a weapon that fires a thousand pennies a second at hypersonic speeds. Instantly more of a physical threat than a good portion of the rogue's gallery.
@@ryanjones6384 Good idea!
@@ryanjones6384 make it mathematically check out to cost $400,000 to fire the weapon for twelve seconds
@@unfadingtoast1 and have him gain a lot of weight and move to russia
Batman has The Penny Plunderer, Spider-Man has The Wall.. would be cool to get a full worst villain list and ranking/tier.
What’s next there’s one called The Floor or The Celling or the Dime Despoiler?
@@ultimapower6950 Together The Wall, The Floor, and The Ceiling form a team called The Legion of Room.
@Tjena Donn I feel like the wall would become a henchman for them because for every floor and celling there are 4 walls.
@@tjenadonn6158 lmao
@tjenadonn6158 you are a fucking genius
The only thing I can imagine Joker's "Bad Penny Crimes", is him introducing millions of pennies with his face on it into Gotham's economy.
I suggest we introduce his son, the Dollar Desperado, a villain who is obsessed with 1 dollar bills and commits crimes only involving single bucks.
Joker: *Kills multiple people and shows multiple attempts at global destruction*
Batman: I sleep.
Coyne: *Kills only 1 guy while stealing pennies, and pennies only.*
Batman: Your free trial of life has expired.
Batman didn't kill Coyne. The government killed Coyne.
@@Sewblon still, the government can choose to execute Joker
@@kingvideogames True.
@@Sewblon unless you're talking about the reboot where Batman does indirectly kills him. Doesn't even feel any remorse about it either..
I think it would be really fun to bring back the penny plunderer as a serious villain, like make him an anticapitalist who sees pennies as a metaphor for the working class. Give him a harsh backstory like:
"His mother worked as a housekeeper for one of gotham's elite and never paid her enough to live off of but was willing to give bonuses for going "above an beyond" implying that penny plunderer might be the illegitimate son of this billionaire, but she got sick and the hospital charged out the nose for her to be treated and even then she died, and penny plunderer couldn't even get to her in time because when he took a cab to the hospital he was stopped by the cab driver and ended up one penny short, so the cab driver took him around back and beat him to a pulp over a single penny, so by the time he finally came to and stumbled into the hospital his mother was already dead, then combined with all the medical debt and other debts she had in her life everything she owned was sold off to pay the debters until finally he goes to close his mother's bank account and the teller hands over the last of his mother's material wealth, his inheritance you might say, a single penny, thus driving him over the edge and using that penny as his symbol"
Dont have him commit strictly crimes that are inherently penny themed, but just have penny elements, so he'll steal a priceless painting but replace it with a copy that is made out of pennies, have him rob the elites at high class functions with his gun that shoots pennies and "pay" the elites with a single penny for their generous "donations", have him kidnap the mayor's daughter and have the glass cell she's in slowly be filled with pennies so if they don't give him what he wants by midnight she'll be crushed under the weight, that kinda thing.
That is legitimately amazing! It also makes him an interesting parallel to Bruce too.
Whilst Bruce's parents died because he wanted to take the long way home, Coyne's mother died because someone refused to let a kid get a ride all over a single penny.
Maybe his first target is the billionaire his mother worked for, and unlike later crimes, he'd deliberately set it up so that it would take someone with insane strength and skill to open up a welded shut door to a chamber that's got a class pane above the billionaire with pennies being dropped onto it, with the general theme of
"You never gave a single penny to the people who worked for you. Every single cent that could have saved someone will crush YOU!"
Now that is on par with DCAU's Mr Freeze backstory. This would make the giant penny that Bruce keep in his Batcave more relevant.
Also, have Coyne kidnap the taxi driver that beat him up over a single penny, and he wants to torture and kill both the billionaire and the taxi driver at the same time by drowning both of them in incredibly large volume of pennies.
I also wish for this version of the Penny Plunderer to not be a one-off villain and not killed after fighting against Batman.
This... is freaking phenomenal
for the love of god, go write for dc!!! i wanna read this now
I'm interested to hear you convert other lame forgotten villains into cool ones!
The funny thing about this is, the Penny Plunderer got closer to killing Batman than most others. Not just that, HE gets the death panalty, NOT the Joker killing hundreds a week, not Death Stroke who gets paid to murder people, the guy obsessed with Pennies!
His joke is that he dies 4 times in the silliest ways and somehow convinces the devil to let him live every time
I think this villain could really work in our day and age imagine: The penny plunderer has stayed dormant for the past 40 years meanwhile us Americans have begun to neglect the penny like Huggbees said “when’s the last time you used a penny?” The penny plunderer collects all the neglected Pennies and creates some big copper super weapon or another even bigger penny that rolls around and crushes everything in its path.
Giant copper greatsword with melted president heads screeching from its blade.
Big wheel 2.0
"even bigger penny that rolls around and crushes everything in its path." you need to be a writer, sir.
And of course, he is crushed by it at the end.
@@at-rexontheinternet1388ah, poetic justice
Fun fact: in Gotham knights (The game) the penny can be found later in the campaign when returning to the batcave, the tip credits the penny to mainly twoface but also mentions the penny plunderer. Pretty interesting for so many years later to return Coyne to the giant penny lore for absolutely no reason.
The giant penny is used a lot... A lot more than Joe Coyne has ever appeared.
@@Gatorade69 The giant penny is probably one of the most iconic features of the Batcave, like the Batcomputer, the giant Joker playing card, or Batman's giant robot T-Rex. Penny Plunderer is so outdated that even one of his GIMMICKS is more iconic than him.
So Coyne got cucked on his only remarkable legacy to slowly being erased from to history, unit HugBees decided to give this man his rightful testament
i seriously cant understand the writer's fascination with the giant penny, its like the only Batman object that is always there (along with the giant dinosaur)
@@ironmaster6496 It's iconic
Reminds me of a Stripperella villain named Cheapo whose gimmick was that everything he did had to be inexpensive, from his tools to his henchmen and even the targets of his heists. He's purely a comedic parody of janky DC villains and maybe even of Penny Plunderer in particular but even then he's still so much more compelling and the writing for him was pretty creative.
You know, the very second I heard this guy's name, it immediately clicked that the giant penny almost universally in the Batcave probably involved him. Funny to think that such an unknown villain left such an iconic piece of the Batcave's design.
This man single handedly got me into Batman graphic novels and for that I am grateful
What Huggbees or the Penny Plunderer?
@@Cacowninja why not both?
"Graphic novels" you're not fooling anyone. Call them what they really are, manga
@@himanbam I’m pretty sure you mean dojin
@@himanbam sorry man
In fact, the SOS signal was designed to be the most recognizable Morse code signal. It's three short, three long, then three short. So it's plausible that an operator would recognize it. Also telephone companies used to also be telegraph companies, so they would also be more likely to be familiar with Morse code.
Even in the 2020s I'd be willing to bet that the SOS signal is well known enough that it'd be recognizable eben to people who knew no other Morse code. My sample size is likely biased due to the sort of people I surround myself with, but I'd say 90% of the people I know personally would recognize it without question or hesitation.
I know SOS and SMS, that are somehow the only ones that keep coming up
I know the morse for SOS from memorizing Cyanide by Metallica
I think pretty much everyone knows SOS, so I definitely believe that
I think it'd be funny if his gimmick was that he only stole pennies.
Due to their worthlessness, not many people would care enough to report it, making it low risk.
Maybe he could be a very cautious villain, not wanting to steal anything too valuable and risk being caught.
Aside from the dated plot,
props to that woman for recognizing the morsecode!!!
I imagine that was a cool skill even after the war
Here's an idea for a Penny Plunderer rebirth, he focuses entirely on pre-1983 pennies, hoarding them so he can ILLEGALLY melt them down to sell the copper as scrap. Batman thwarts his dastardly deed, and in the process the penny plunderer punches Robin in the face and then gets crushed when his kiln full of molten pennies falls on him for some reason.
Please don't give the writers ideas well I would say that but all these horrible writers are probably dead😂
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Nice terraria reference
@@ryanbui2046 I knew I'd find an ultrakill reference somewhere in there!
And here I was asking my self if I've found that gun in the Gungeon
The fact that he was considered a genuine treat in this comic shows that during this time, the writers must have been strapped with good ideas for super villains
Kinda respect how he looks out for his gang. he even looks after their health.
22:00 I love the idea that Superman kills the Penny Plunderer by smashing him with a giant penny the way someone would kill a spider with an old textbook.
Plot twist, it was Santa Claus who killed Penny Plunderer. DC Santa can go mano a mano with Lobo!
What's funny is that, during the second WW, pennies became impractical even then. That's why they had to make steel pennies for a while. Also, those coins were made specifically of low-grade steel, which probably wouldn't have the conductivity required for what Batman did.
They could update the Penny Plunderer backstory to be finance related, perhaps involving some hacking skill. For example, he could work in a Stock Exchange, where he made mad money by tweaking the exchange rate by a penny, and save the difference for himself. He quickly become wealthy, but became a "Nouveau Riche" at the eyes of the aristocratic life of Gotham. He couldn't stand being seen not as equal as them.
Perhaps its first crime would be to change the wealth of people to pennies, but find out billionaire ending up as millionnaire ($1000M → $10M) changed nothing: he doesn't belong to their class. But this is too cartoony if he just removed two 00 at their bank account. Perhaps it would be more realist that he manages to bankrupt them or buy their companies. Yet, even with his efforts, it would still be a "Nouveau Riche" and a laughing stock for the high society of Gotham.
This is where he snaps and engage a personal vendetta against the "Bourgeoisie" of Gotham. Not only he is willing to kill the rich of Gotham, but their family as well to make sure nothing could be inherited. This is where it takes its "Penny Plunderer" vilain arc. Either it manages to kill people with Pennies, or sign the crime with Pennies as a way to tell: _"Even the rich are not worth a penny, and once they are dead they will be forgotten as pennies on the ground"_ or something like that.
He would quickly have a hatred toward Bruce Wayne, as he is "the child who inherited everything and didn't work for it". Not Batman (which he could admire), but Bruche Wayne (which he hates), even if Bruce Wayne is the only humble rich guy in town to acknowledge his wealth and introduce him to the high society of Gotham.
Penny Plunderer could really work as a symbol for thenworking class with lots of Charisma. Someone who views the world as being too money hungry to the point where if you were off by a single penny you would be refused vital life services. He could be a message on empathy and the cost of living, the pennies being a metaphor for how his gang is useless alone but together they can form into something as valuable as a dime, a quarter, and even a dollar. Together they are strong enough to change the world. But him getting thwarted because he didnt have a nickel is also pretty dang funny
I would very much like to hear you talk about Snowflame, the cocaine powered super villain
I can't think of a better video topic than Snowflame, the cocaine powered super villain
@@coolgreenbug7551
Look up Linkara! Dude let’s you know who this dude is :D
Or Reefer King.
I would certainly be interested in a video about Snowflame, the cocaine powered super villain.
@@tjarkschweizer ah yes, snow flame, the cocaine powered super villain.. what drug is he powered by again?
"Oh My God! They killed Penny..."
"...Plunderer"
Just imagine if the Penny Plunderer had an actual penny related superpower like... penny magnetism to be a penny themed Magneto, or pennymancy to magically conjure pennies to use in imaginative ways, or something.
He can stick pennies to himself to act as low level armor. Doesn't stop bullets but it's enough to survive a couple hits from Batman.
"Your lungs are now filled with pennies!" Sounds like a strong power to have.
This guy took "throw money at your problems" literally.
We’ll akshualy… wouldn’t Batman’s throwing stars technically count as him throwing his money at his problems?
@@Bro1212_ 🤓
@@ultimapower6950 wow you understood the joke. Well done.
@@Bro1212_ i like it when Batman runs over villains with his money
*DO NOT* forget to talk about Snowflame, the cocaine powered supervillain. I _really_ want you to talk about Snowflame, the cocaine powered supervillain.
I cant wait to hear about Snowflame, the cocaine powered supervillain!
@@hannahbrown2728 Is that a real thing? lord i want to hear from Snowflame, the cocaine powered supervillain.
@@Aldenfenris Mr. Bees wouldnt lie to us like that (Yeah I googled him and Im stoked to see what he has to say)
He should also talk about Hemogoblin. A mutant vampire who gives people AIDS
What’s he powered on again?
Honesty this villain’s existence makes no Cents. Obviously he’d be wanted by the Coppers but not much is gonna Change overtime. If I were to a Coin an insult, he’s neither Pennywise nor Poundfoolish, because he’d never figure out what to do with a pound in the first place. I still find it absurdly hilarious he was Centenced to death over this.
I love how the most widely used function of pennies, is using them to avoid getting pennies.
This fact has actually led to a problem for my dad, since he tends to tell fast food employees to keep the change we end up not having enough change to use to make exact payments, which is kind of a problem since my dad only ever seems to carry 1's and 20's.
The easiest way to adapt the Penny Plunderer is to make him a hitman whose MO is to take a penny as a trophy. That way he gets to keep his eccentric obsession with pennies, but he doesn't get treated like a joke for it.
Know what they say:
"Find a Penny Heads Up..."
Honestly I kinda thought the same thing. Like he doesn't NEED to be a campy villain. Plenty of unpopular characters get significantly reimagined for the better(see mr. Freeze, the entire cast of watchmen etc.) I kinda went the direction of the penny being more of a calling card like pennies left on eyes or something... I'm sure he wouldn't be a big fan favorite but still good for like a handful of really well done stories and still kind of a nod for fans that know the original version
So yet another one of Batman's villains "reimagined" as another flavor of the week murderer/serial killer?
I mean, it's certainly more interesting than his original, but still. That's what they do with like, all of the campy villains in Batman's rogue gallery.
I already explained what I would half-ironically do to update Penny Plunderer in another comment, I regret to say that this sounded better (well, simpler at least) until I realized that this requires every person he takes out to have pennies in their posession. In addition to the fact that it would be really hard to recognize, and even harder to prove that someone took a penny, of all things, from a murder scene - leaving a penny, as Brom suggests is the opposite of plundering - I happen to have met more than one person with such an aversion to pennies that they will literally throw them into the garbage rather than expend any energy on them, and have even heard the ridiculous claim that if you deal in cash of any kind at this point you have to be some kind of criminal.
So a penny is not a great trophy for a killer.
Frankly, and in contrast to my own aforementioned suggestion the easiest and simplest way to update Penny Plunderer is obviously to have a thief who steals valuable items of any exorbitant value and _leaves_ a penny in its place as a calling card, as if mocking the idea that they paid for it. Bonus points if he's changed to a woman named Penelope, although then it starts to have _super_ Silver Age energy about it.
@@bromsherwood7739 as long as he still gets crushed to death by a giant penny every time he makes an appearance I welcome his return.
I think the Batman villain with the saddest fate was the second Mad Hatter. Dude went from being one of Batman’s main rogues during the 50s-70s, even appearing on the Adam West show, to total obscurity because one writer in the early 80s decided to bring back the first Mad Hatter, who’d before than had only appeared once. To rub salt into the wound even more Hatter 1 claimed his name was Jarvis Tetch and that Hatter 2 was an imposter despite the Tetch name originating with Hatter 2.
Then again, his current appearances changed his name to Hatman.
7:24 Joe Coyne: "You’re wrong, -sulphuric acid- tear gas bomb!"
I love how he just like kept pausing every time he dropped a roll of pennies
My brother-in-law is a die-hard Batman fan who asserts that every member of the Rogue’s Gallery is a negative reflection of Bruce Wayne’s psyche. I like to bring up the weird ones and watch him try to rationalize characters like Calendar Man within his theory. Thank you for giving me one more with which to annoy him 😂
Edit: I predict he’ll say something about money or the Wayne fortune or something.
Have you ever asked him about the Colonel Blimp?
Can anyone even rationalize the existence of Colonel Blimp?
@@davidhong1934 Uhhh, something something he also has dead parents?
Idk, tbh until I added "DC" to my search I was wondering why you were talking about an unrelated political cartoon character.
@@Rad-Dude63andathird
Basically, it's some guy who's really mad at modern militaries for not using blimps
@@davidhong1934 but what use would blimps have in combat. Well unless we plan on making our own mini-Hindenburgs then in that case that’s very useful
@@davidhong1934 Colonel's Bruce's feelings of self-doubt. He thinks he's not doing enough, just as the Colonel thinks the military not doing enough (by not using blimps). He's also wondering if there are better ways to stop crime, just as Blimp thinks there is a better way to make warships (blimps).
If Penny Plunderer were written today, he could've been a good villain. He could've been a radical socialist using pennies as a symbol of revolution, and he could've had a rivalry with The Penguin due to his well-off upbringing compared to Penny Plunderer's life of poverty. I want this to be real.
Yes, it's time to reboot the PP again! Penny Plunderer versus Penguin!
This actually sounds lit
@Elisha Follet Penny Plunderer eventually finds out Batmans' true identity but doesn't tell anyone because he doesn't want Gotham's symbol to become a rich, white guy.
Actually sounds pretty awesome
So make him actually coherent flag smasher
(I say coherent because the writers keep tucking up flag smashers politics and constantly switch between anarchist and ancap despite them being opposing philosophies
3:52 had to comment again for this. Superman with pym particles would be op af for one reason: shrinking a sun. Think about this for a minute. If Superman had a bracelet with a shrunk yellow sun inside, he’d have an ongoing power source that’d keep charging him up outside of the boundaries of earth’s sun. However, to really get the most out of this, he’d need a bracelet with 3 shrunk suns: yellow, blue and red. Yellow for the usual powers, blue for more power at once and red sunlight to dampen his powers to better sell his Clark Kent persona and be able to experience humanity more in depth at a similar level to them. When in red sunlight, Supes would have more potential to train himself up, so when he charges back up, he’s far tougher and has a better grip of himself outside of his powers. Him being able to train under Batman on a human level would be insane with a bracelet to pretty much turn his powers on and off.
6:48 Question, I have many. Most involving pennies.
A few on Mr.Coyne's sudden mental state deterioration.
"Proving that, even in America, you can still choose a wrong place to live."
Yup, best quote I've heard in a long time.
I remember reading the first one as a child in school, it was actually pretty good. It was in a collection of World's Finest Comics, which had some other fairly stupid villains, like Lucky Starr, whose whole thing was literally that he thought he was invincible but in reality was just lucky. And then he died.
You know, for comics made for and directed at children, the villains horrifically died quite a lot.
@@apenasmaisumdiogo.7115 Yeah, aside from the Scarecrow and the Joker, I don't remember a single one who didn't get sent to the chair
Coyne had a chance to learn in prison, but decided not to change. And when it came down to it, he came up short.
Sometimes I want to see a Batman series that focuses on his worse villains.
No I don't mean the most dangerous or the ones who suck. But the ones who actually are completely forgotten. Like imagine them banding together and deciding to make it big through sheer cunning.
16:30 I swear to god I paused here and honestly pondered this for a few moments. I'm not usually good at this stuff and the possibilities in this scenario seemed limitless. Then it actually hit me. "That phone is gonna be a pay phone, and that's gonna fuck him up somehow cause he used all his pennies fighting Batman or something." I can't believe I was even remotely close.
I just expected Batman to kick down the door before Coyne's guys could show up. Which, y'know, also kinda happened.
I think that that being the only time he didn't have any pennies with him because he wasted all of them fighting Batman instead of him just not having any nickels would've actually been more poetic, since the reason he chose that gimmick was because he was angry with how pennies were a reminder of everytime his life went wrong. The one time the pennies would've been actually useful, he would've thrown all of them away.
“But wait ‘till I grow up!” says the 60-year-old disguised as a child
8:08 I've watched this video four times and I only _just_ got the joke about fighting a war over a "one penny black". Huggbees wit never ceases to amaze me
4:37 Real ones know the proper use for pennies is scratching the foil off of lottery tickets
Real ones know not to use lottery tickets
Y'know, they made Polkadot Man a really cool character. Hell, they even made Kiteman a moderately interesting to even compelling character. Its not improbable that Penny Pluderer could also get this treatment. At least I hope, because I wanna see what a serious or badass take would be on him.
He could be like a budget batman, fighting against the rich and powerful with cheaply made gadgets (that are penny themed). Could also throw in that he gets stronger as he gets more tech and more knowledge to further his penny themed rampage.
Maybe a revolutionary who sees pennies as a symbol for the working class
Maybe he could be an hacker. I could image making fraud and alterate bank's accounts Changing all the dollars in pennies.
It's the villain we do not deserve, and not want
True
I'll do it
@Don't Read Profile Picture I'ma do it
@Don't Read Profile Picture you can't stop me
and can't afford
The roll of pennies tear gas gives me the vibe of "Wrong. Sulfuric Acid"
You could make him more of an underboss to Penguin. Not really obsessed with pennies just infamous for his use of penny rolls as fist stuffers. Keeps a roll in each pocket and enthusiastic when using them. Backstory can be relatively the same just dont make him as goofy. Just a gangster with some pennies.
Now I hope he shows up in the Penguin show in this manner. That'd be cool.
This video actually gives some insight into how you could make the Penny Pincher a viable villain again, in a similar light to Kite Man. Make him themed around inflation, and the absurdity that it costs 2 cents to make 1 cent in currency. He's got a lot of old world values that make him dated as an individual, and he despises that we are going in the direction of digital currency.
Wouldn't be too original, but I think it could be done with the right writer, and actually be interesting to get Batman's take on economics, especially in Gotham.
I would like a reboot of some kind of the Penny Plunderer, something maybe to do with inflation and the futility of money, a man who went insane because his family starved to death during a depression but someone was selling food for a penny he could not afford, and as Coyne cries over his parents, he finds a single penny on the ground, which sparks his madness. Then he basically becomes the new Bane, fighting against the corruption and uselessness of currency. Of course I always try to come up with an interesting new adaptation for every video like this I watch
Interesting concept, although I would like to talk about the fact you have the anarcho-capitalism flag over the flag of Ukraine. Why do so many people have the anarcho-capitalism flag (or a variation) for their profile picture? I am not trying to attack your beliefs, I am simply curious.
@@ryandoucette5388 I mean, the "Don't Tread on Me" snake traces moreso back to the non-Metal Gear Sons of Liberty. It's kinda lame that the symbol has been co-opted to mean completely different shit these days. It's kinda like seeing a cop with a Punisher skull. Like, they do know that character represents their own systemic failure, right?
Anywho, before this gets derailed I'd just like to say I dig OP's idea. It ties back into his original origin story and makes Coyne more sympathetic since he wasn't born an ungrateful dickhead.
@@Rad-Dude63andathird yeah as soon as I saw the pfp I knew exactly where the comments were headed lmao
@@Rad-Dude63andathird Seethe harder.
3:23 He's just a bit tired of running everywhere, it gets mundane after a while, he's trying to spice up his life and get out of the routine schtick.
Watched your video on Snowflame the cocane powered super villain & it was worth the wait. Well done sir
Ok, I'll be honest, Batman making an improvised battery out of zinc, copper and salt water to send an S.O.S. message was pretty cool, even if we have to assume there just happened to be a saltshaker and a glass of water in the room and that the police managed to decode all of the message and arrive there before Batman and Robin passed out. Considering the amount of absurdities Batman has always come up with to single-handedly escape life-or-death situations in the comics, him relying on sending a message to the authorities through a relatively mundane solution to survive instead of escaping completely by himself is actually a bit refreshing, as it reminds us he's still human. Like, if he just sent S.O.S. instead of explaining his whole location and if the comic said they got the water and the salt from the lunch some crook forgot there or whatever, I could see it as a creative, if pretty convoluted solution.
Tbh, I don't think the writers put too much thought into it. The whole thing just sounds like a way to incorporate some educational experiments into the story. Maybe I just feel this way because I've seen children's books do the same thing numerous times.
@@goosegas2087 that takes way more thought than just using the situation to insert a joke about the bat belt having some device.
@@lasskinn474 I wouldn't be surprised if the villain was invented solely to showcase this experiment.
I think it would've worked if they found some way to get batman and Robin in a kitchen
Funny thing is, that’s not a working battery. You need an acidic liquid to dissolve metal ions in solution in order for it to actually do anything, and salt doesn’t cut it
Huggbees is so funny I can literally feel his comedic energy coming inside of me
huggbees is coming inside of you
Ha
Just like the Big Mint Candy Tube!
No it's superman
@@mckstellar1005 Lets hope this isn't like that one scene in the Boys...
Here’s how they could make the penny thing work nowadays. Instead of stealing pennies for The coins themselves, he could steal only coins with some significance, like coins that are no longer made or coins connected to historic events. This would increase their value somewhat but more importantly if he is obsessed with pennies they would be far more valuable to him than any old coin you could find at the bank
0:38 Spider-Man’s villain line up is also called his rouge gallery
I think there's a lot you could do with the character.
What if you reimagined him as a common burglar whose calling card is leaving a single penny at the scene of the crime.
Things begin to escalate as suddenly people start showing up dead in increasingly brutal ways with pennies over their cold, lifeless eyes and eventually Batman gets called in to try and work out if these are just random acts of violence or if there's a predictable pattern to the killings.
I think that it would be interesting to see something gradually escalate from petty crime to supervillainy as the Plunderer gets the attention of the media and develops a taste for murder, making cryptic phonecalls to newspapers and revelling in the attention.
For the story to work it really needs to take its time building suspense and it should present the situation from the perspective of a regular cop getting dragged into something far beyond what they're capable of handling, with Batman probably only getting involved after showing explicitly how the department fails to contain things and only ever being presented from an external perspective. The Killer only ever being shown in shadow as evidence of the department's failure to perform adequate policework and follow up on leads, kind of like happens with real serial killers.
This doesnt have much to do with pennies tho. Its just a regular calling card killer.
@@golemgolden4670 what if he kills them….with PENNYS!
@@asrielgaming57 Listen, what if, PENNY GUN!
Oh damn, now I wanna write a fanfic about this. Would you mind?
Why not use dollar coins or whatever the same coin used to cover the eyes of corpses was? It feels more thematic when your talking an escalation to serial murder. Maybe the really old, British gilling coins from the 1800s something completely out of circulation.
It'd be a more noticeable calling card actually. In the first example where he was robbing banks, a cop might assume the pennies were left by accident by either the robber or the tellers.
I’d like to think if any of these incredibly stupid Batman villains were to get an actual modern adaptation I think they’d be presented as so paradoxically insane that their heinous acts of insanity would exceed the tone of whatever adaptation they appeared in.
The good news is that, if you cross your eyes, the word "pennies" starts to look like "penises", and then the comic becomes a whole lot funnier.
I wouldn't mind a super-league of Penny Plunderer, Nickel and Dime, and Jeremy from TheQuartering
It boggles my mind how freakin’ Striperella was able to do more with a penny-pinching villain that Batman could
El Cheapo AKA one of Striperella Two recurring villains.
Penny pinching, not penny themed.
I mean as long as Penny Plunderer uses pennies to COMMIT crimes and doesn't actually steal pennies, his gimmick could still work.
The penny plunderer would be a great name for a villian who robs people who are already poor.
You get a thumbs up good sir just for adding in an always sunny clip in your video, also your satire is pretty spot on too.
Penny Plunderer was one of those dime a dozen (pun intended) villains who you weren't supposed to remember a week after reading the story, unlike characters like the Joker or the Penguin. The only reason we remember him over the dozen's, nay, hundreds of other non-costumed menaces Batman fought in the '40s is a total and complete mystery. Oh wait, no, it's because of the big honking penny that is in the Batcave. Source: I have read way, way too many golden age Batman comics.
Not a good example, Bob Kane didn't want anyone remembering The Joker who was meant to die in his first appearance. It was the editor who ordered a last minute addition of a final panel showing The Joker survived.
@@igrim4777 I think they meant for him to be memorable, they just weren't sure they wanted the villains to be constantly coming back at this point. And while it was his first appearance issue wise, he had two stories in that issue, with him (almost) dying at the end of the second.
I haven't read any Dick Tracy, but I know the villains in that were meant to be really memorable, like Pruneface, but that didn't stop them from a lot of them killing off.
@@igrim4777Wish they would’ve let The Joker die, but I’m sure some reboot would’ve eventually resurrected him.
Just to think: Batman first recurring villains were Hugo Strange, Dr. Death and Mad Monk.
@@jaggerguth4391 I wonder if Dr. Death and the Mad Monk would have each had two issues if Batman had more pages per story at that point. I think he didn't have the 14 pages yet when those two made their appearances. They might have been one and dones if the writers had the room. Then again Two-Face appeared in three 14 page stories then they were done with him for the most part until the '70s (partially due to censorship.)
I have an idea for a modern Penny Plunderer. After his successful start with many his infamous penny based robberies the Penny Plunderer is out of prison to plan his next dastardly scheme, but he can't come up with anything. He can't think of any more penny-based crimes to commit. He begins to question his whole supervillain identity as he navigates a world where no one remembers when he was top of the world.
3:57 So THAT's where that ridiculous giant penny from the cartoons came from? I always wondered about that.
I could see a modern Penny Plunderer leaning in to his death theme. Make him the ghost of a robber who died in the 40s or something.
its a small thing, but the way he drops a roll of pennies at 28:01, looks at it for a split second, then moves on completely unbothered cracked me up
Oh shit, this man just used a killing joke tie in as a throw away.
Seriously this man's a legend.
The penny plunderer is the villain version of the I smell Pennies meme.
I absolutely love how Joe’s “younger” self says “But wait till I grow up…“ while being drawn like a grown man in his mid 40s
You’re 100% right about the Rogue’s Gallery claim, I literally never knew it was an actual criminal term until you just told me. I think most people are the same way.
You were also right about the 18+ Google search fact.