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Arthur loves her before he goes off the deep end (upon learning that she abused and neglected him), and his murder of her marks the point where he goes from being an Anti-Villain to being a Villain Protagonist.

Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Inverted.

Create Your Own Villain: Discovering through her old Arkham files that she had abused and neglected him in his youth, an infuriated Arthur smothers her to death with a pillow, before becoming the biggest menace of Gotham.

However, it's also theoretically possible that this was all a fake cover story by Thomas Wayne to discredit her. She also refuses to believe she abused her son or let him be beaten.

Changeling Fantasy: Believes she and Thomas Wayne were lovers and Arthur is their love child.

Canon Foreigner: She doesn't exist, along with the Fleck family name, in any previous DC comics or related media.

"Don't you have to be funny to be a comedian?"

Brutal Honesty: Flat out tells her son on multiple occasions that his dreams of becoming a comedian will amount to nothing because he simply doesn't have what it takes.

While it's vague if she changed by the time of the film (as she appeared to have mellowed), what appears to be her aforementioned flaws directly lead to Arthur's Sanity Slippage into the Joker.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: If Arthur's understanding of events is correct, Penny was a crazy, ill-fitted mother in her youth.

Abusing and letting your boyfriend abuse your adopted son is repugnant, but she seems to have also been a victim of abuse, and by the time Arthur kills her, she's a feeble old woman who can't hurt him anymore.

Asshole Victim: Downplayed like Randall.

Muddying the waters further, Arthur later picks up an photo of her with a note complimenting her smile scrawled on the back, signed by "T.W."

Whether Penny truly was the mentally unwell abusive mother the records say and her subsequent, more subdued state is a result of her treatment at Arkham or whether Thomas Wayne used his wealth and influence to falsify the records in order to bury the affair and discredit Penny is left ambiguous. Arthur doesn't seem to have any memory of the abuse purported to have been inflicted upon him (although he was supposedly very young when it occurred) and no effort appears to have been made in removing him from her and placing him with a more supportive family. she never shows any signs of poor mental health outside of a single Imagine Spot from Arthur, as he reads those same records. Ambiguously Evil: The records at Arkham Asylum say that she's delusional and narcissistic, that she adopted Arthur, who was actually an abandoned child, abused him, and eventually claimed that he was the result of a tryst between herself and her employer, Thomas Wayne.Affectionate Nickname: Calls her son "Happy".However, as listed under Ambiguously Evil, there are more than enough holes in this narrative to put this into question. She handcuffed him to a radiator and let her boyfriend abuse him as well. Abusive Parents: As it turns out, she physically abused Arthur during his childhood to the point she was incarcerated in Arkham Mental Hospital decades ago."I mean, don't you have to be funny to be a comedian?" Played by: Frances Conroy, Hannah Gross (young) Dubbed by: Anne Rochant (European French), Roko Takizawa (Japanese)Īrthur's physically (and mentally) weak mother who used to work for Thomas Wayne.