The Giant Penny and the Penny Plunderer: the enduring legacy of a loser villain

[about_faces]

Like many or perhaps even most comics fans, there was a time when I naturally assumed that the giant penny in the Batcave was--alongside the robot T-Rex and the big Joker playing card--a trophy from some previous clash with Two-Face. Well, either that or the time the Joker dressed up as Simple Simon and used a giant penny to try busting open a bank

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[box_in_the_box]

PENELOPE FARTHING WILL BE REVEALED TO BE JOE COYNE'S DAUGHTER, WHO WAS CONCEIVED BY RAPE, AND WHO INHERITED HIS HATRED OF SMALL-DENOMINATION COINS WHEN SHE WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED WITH A ROLL OF THEM

BECAUSE THE NEW 52 IS FOR KIDS

... Okay, so maybe it won't be the Penny Plunderer, but I bet you a million dollars that at least one DCnU villain will be revealed to have DRAMATIC RAPE as part of their motivating backstory.

Right now, my money's on Suicide Girl Harley.