List of fictional penguins

= Penguins in animated fiction =

*Bad Tsunko - a younger sister of Badtz Maru.
*Bad Twins. Younger siblings of Badtz Maru.
*Badtz-Maru
*Cody Maverick, a fictional young surfing Rockhopper penguin, voiced by Shia LaBeouf, in the film "Surf's Up".
*Cozy Heart Penguin, a Care Bears cousin.
*Chilly Willy - A penguin who does not enjoy being cold, from the classic Walter Lantz cartoons.
*Cletus - A minor character in "Happy Feet". Voice by Robin Williams.
*Edna Maverick, long-suffering mother to Cody and Glen, in "Surf's Up".
*Ezekial "Big Z" Topanga - Veteran surfer penguin, friend and mentor to Cody, in "Surf's Up". Voiced by Jeff Bridges.
*Fabio Coolio - a Penguin who doesn't care for the ways of the Penguins, and prefers that they all die out having a good time rather than dying trying to bring to life a penguin chick that's soon to die anyway. from the cartoon 'Stupid, Stupid Penguins' [http://zacjam.com/uploads/SSP.swf] on zacjam.com [http://www.zacjam.com] .
*Feathers McGraw - don't let his appearance deceive you, he's actually a malevolent penguin in disguise! Famous from Wallace and Gromit's "The Wrong Trousers".
*Frobisher (aka Avan Tarklu), an alien shapeshifter from the Dr. Who comic strip who preferred the form of a penguin.
*Glen Maverick, Cody's abusive big brother, In "Surf's Up".
*Gloria - Mumble's girlfriend in "Happy Feet". Voice by Brittany Murphy.
*Hubie - Main character in The Pebble and the Penguin
*James (penguin) - a penguin in "Surf's Up".
*Lani Aliikai - sexy female penguin, Cody's love interest in "Surf's Up". Voiced by Zooey Deschanel.
* Lombardo, Nestor, Raul and Rinaldo. Hispanic Adelie Penguins, friends of Ramon and Mumble in "Happy Feet".
* Lolo - "See "Scamper".
* Lovelace - a Rockhopper penguin, friend of Mumble, in "Happy Feet". Voiced by Robin Williams.
* Memphis - father of Mumble in "Happy Feet". Voiced by Hugh Jackman. Appears to be Elvis Presley reincarnated as an Emperor Penguin.
* Mr. Flibble - a puppet penguin used by Arnold Rimmer in the episode "Quarantine" of "Red Dwarf".
* Mumble - the hero of "Happy Feet". Voice by Elijah Wood. E. G. Daily voices baby Mumble.
*Nate, Nathan, Nathaniel, in "My Gym Partner's a Monkey".
* Noah the Elder - a reactionary old penguin who leads the opposition to Mumble and to dancing in "Happy Feet".
* Norma Jean - Mumble's mother in "Happy Feet". Voice by Nicole Kidman.
*Overbite- The main character of the Sega game, Penguin Land.
* Pablo the Penguin - the main character from the film segment "The Cold-Blooded Penguin" which was featured in Disney's "The Three Caballeros". Like Chilly Willy, he is not fond of the cold, and he migrates from Antarctica to the Galapagos Islands.
* Pablo the Penguin - The protagonist in the video game .
* Penguin in "The Chipmunk Adventure"
* Pablo from "The Backyardigans".
* "Pecola".
* Peter and Polly Penguin from Disney's Peculiar Penguins
* Pororo the Little Penguin
* Penguinmon, Muchomon, in "Digimon".
* Pudge from Cats Don't Dance
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* The penguins in "Madagascar".
* The penguin waiters from "Mary Poppins".
* The penguin waiters in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?". They look just like those in "Mary Poppins". They may be the same penguins, or their siblings or cousins.
* Pingu - the main character in the Swiss animated series "Pingu".
* Pen², the penguin from "Neon Genesis Evangelion".
* Ramon - Mumble's good friend in "Happy Feet". A Hispanic Adelie Penguin. Voiced by Robin Williams.
* Luna's Adventures.
* Rocko in -The Pebble and the Penguin
* Scamper - The main protagonist in "The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin" (otherwise known as "The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin" in some countries), an animated 1988 film for very young children.
* Tank Evans, champion surfer penguin in "Surf's Up", rival of Cody.
* Tennessee Tuxedo of "Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales".
* Wheezy - a new character in "Toy Story 2".

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 1950s.
* 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.
* Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot (Penguin) one of the DC Comics supervillain and an enemy of Batman.

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. Pin, a penguin detective, born in Antarctica but now living and working in Chicago, in the children's novel "The Mysterious Cases of Mr. Pin", by Mary Elise Monsell, illustrated by Eileen Christelow. Mr. Pin is a Rockhopper Penguin.
* "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.

lightly 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.

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. [http://www.diegotartanarmy.com link title]
* Pete and Penny Penguin - The primary and secondary (respectively) mascots of Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio.

Penguins in video games and Computers

*Tux, Linux 's mascot.
*Penguins can be found in the PC game "Zoo Tycoon".
*Pentarou in Parodius series, Yume Penguin Monogatari, Antarctic Adventure.
*Delibird, Piplup, Prinplup, and Empoleon are penguin-like Pokémon.
*Penta Penguin - "Crash Team Racing".
*Ninja Penguins - "Crash Tag Team Racing".
*Prinny - a fictional penguin-like creature in Nippon Ichi Software games.
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* Penguins egg in - "Hermie Hopperhead"
* Bumpty, a penguin-like species from the Super Mario series.
* Chill Penguin - "Mega Man X".
* Monster Penguin a in "Bomberman"
* King Dedede - the main antagonist in the Kirby Universe.
* Sgt. James Byrd in the "Spyro the Dragon" series, beginning with "".
* Aunt Arctic, G, Rockhopper, and other various penguins from Club Penguin.

Other media

* Ty Waddle
* Tux the Penguin, Linux's mascot
* Michelle Penguin in "Juuken Sentai Gekiranger"

Penguins in Yu Gi Oh

* Winged Penguin
* Warrior Penguin
* Bolt Penguin
* Penguin Knight
* Nightmare Penguin
* Penguin Soldier

See also

* List of fictional birds