企鵝證明阿卡姆就是問題所在

《企鵝》的最新一集根本不是關於主角奧茲·科布（科林·法瑞爾飾）的。相反，第四集“Cent’anni”完全聚焦於該劇的突破明星和角色克里斯汀·米利奧蒂（Cristin Milioti）飾演索菲亞·法爾科內（Sofia Falcone）。雖然這一集的現在時事件規模巨大，包括令人震驚的結局，但這一集的閃回會讓長期粉絲不僅思考索菲亞的背景故事，而且思考蝙蝠俠的道德。

The latest episode of The Penguin isn’t really about the titular character, Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) at all. Instead, the fourth episode, “Cent’anni” is entirely focused on the show’s breakout star and character, Cristin Milioti as Sofia Falcone. And while the present-tense events of this episode are huge — including a startling ending — the flashbacks of this episode will have longtime fans thinking not just about the backstory of Sofia, but also, about the morality of Batman.

《企鵝》的最新一集根本不是關於主角奧茲·科布（科林·法瑞爾飾）的。相反，第四集“Cent’anni”完全聚焦於該劇的突破明星和角色克里斯汀·米利奧蒂（Cristin Milioti）飾演索菲亞·法爾科內（Sofia Falcone）。雖然這一集的現在時事件規模巨大，包括令人震驚的結局，但這一集的閃回會讓長期粉絲不僅思考索菲亞的背景故事，而且思考蝙蝠俠的道德。

In The Penguin, the famous Arkham Asylum is once again going by its original name, “Arkham State Hospital,” a place that even casual comic book fans know holds only terror and madness. And, as Sofia’s horrifying backstory is made clear in The Penguin, it’s time to ask a question Bat-fans have been mulling over for quite a long time. Is Batman, and the “good guys” of Gotham really doing anyone any favors by throwing people into Arkham? Isn’t this where all their problems come from? Spoilers ahead.

在《企鵝》中，著名的阿卡漢瘋人院再次以其原來的名字「阿卡姆州立醫院」而聞名，即使是普通漫畫迷也知道這個地方充滿了恐怖和瘋狂。而且，隨著索菲亞可怕的背景故事在《企鵝》中得到了清晰的闡述，是時候問一個蝙蝠迷們已經思考了很長時間的問題了。蝙蝠俠和高譚的「好人」真的把人們扔進阿卡漢嗎？他們所有的問題不都是從這裡來的嗎？前方劇透。

A brief history of Arkham

阿卡漢簡史

“Arkham Hospital” in 1974 and Arkham Asylum in Batman & Robin in 1997.

1974 年的《阿卡漢醫院》和 1997 年的《蝙蝠俠與羅賓》中的阿卡漢瘋人院。

Although Batman has a long and winding history that started in 1939, Arkham Hospital didn’t appear until October 1974 in issue #258 of the regular ongoing Batman series. The storyline was called “Threat of the Two-Headed Coin!” and involved Two-Face getting taken out of Arkham by a rogue U.S. military official. Because The Penguin Episode 4 is also running during October, you could view this episode as a kind of 50th birthday celebration of Arkham in general. Digging further into DC lore, this episode gives us a new version of the Batman villain Magpie (Marié Botha), who actually first appeared not in a Batman comic, but in Man of Steel #3, written by John Byrne in 1986.

儘管蝙蝠俠有著從 1939 年開始的漫長而曲折的歷史，但阿卡漢醫院直到 1974 年 10 月才出現在常規蝙蝠俠系列的第 258 期中。故事情節被稱為“雙頭硬幣的威脅！”並涉及「雙面人」被一名流氓美國軍官帶出阿卡姆。由於《企鵝人》第 4 集也在 10 月播出，因此您可以將這一集視為阿卡姆 50 歲生日的慶祝活動。進一步挖掘DC 的傳說，這一集為我們呈現了蝙蝠俠反派喜鵲（瑪麗·波塔飾）的新版本，實際上他第一次出現並不是在蝙蝠俠漫畫中，而是在約翰·伯恩於1986 年創作的《超人：鋼鐵之軀》第3 期中。

Though Arkham was invented by writer Dennis O'Neil in 1974, and depicted by artists Irv Novick and Dick Giordano, it wasn’t until the 1980s that the more deranged version of the asylum emerged. For that, we can mostly credit writer Len Wein, who also worked with Alan Moore on the original Watchmen.

儘管阿卡姆是由作家丹尼斯·奧尼爾於 1974 年發明的，並由藝術家 Irv Novick 和 Dick Giordano 描繪，但直到 20 世紀 80 年代，更加瘋狂的瘋人院版本才出現。為此，我們主要歸功於編劇倫韋恩（Len Wein），他也曾與艾倫摩爾（Alan Moore）合作製作了原版《守護者》。

The version of Arkham Asylum in The Penguin is much closer to Wein’s version than anything from the 1970s, which is also why it's so terrifying. Sofia doesn’t emerge from Arkham better off than she was before, but much worse. This brings up a bigger moral conundrum of the Bat-verse.

《企鵝人》中的阿卡漢瘋人院版本比 20 世紀 70 年代的任何版本都更接近韋恩的版本，這也是它如此可怕的原因。索菲亞從阿卡漢出來後，並沒有比以前更好，反而更糟。這帶來了蝙蝠宇宙中更大的道德難題。

The Penguin proves Arkham is the problem

企鵝證明阿卡姆就是問題所在

Sofia (Cristin Milioti) in a flashback to her time Arkham, alongside fellow patient Magpie (Marié Botha).

索菲亞（克莉絲汀·米利歐蒂飾）與病人喜鵲（瑪麗·博塔飾）一起回憶起她在阿卡姆的時光。

In “Cent’anni,” we learn that Sofia was put into Arkham unjustly. Her father, Carmine (Mark Strong), simply wanted to pin his various murders on her, casting Sofia as a deranged serial killer with the creepy moniker “The Hangman.”

在《Cent'anni》中，我們得知索菲亞被不公正地投入阿卡漢。她的父親卡米恩（馬克·斯特朗飾）只是想把他的各種謀殺案歸咎於她，將索菲亞塑造成一個精神錯亂的連環殺手，並給她起了一個令人毛骨悚然的綽號“絞刑吏」。

This is Batman villain origin 101: Someone is adjacent to something evil or criminal, gets thrown in an insane asylum, given a snappy nickname, and then, boom, they become a supervillain. As Sofia mentioned in the first episode of The Penguin, “It was humiliating… being turned into a thing... the issue isn’t the guards, it’s the broad treatment of the patients.” Her flashback episode basically doubles down on this premise and elucidates one of the central contradictions in all versions of Batman: The Caped Crusader doesn’t kill any of these villains, but instead, puts them in a pressure cooker where they can turn otherwise less harmful people, like Sofia, into ruthless murders.

這是《蝙蝠俠》反派起源 101：某人與邪惡或犯罪分子相鄰，被扔進瘋人院，被賦予一個活潑的綽號，然後，轟隆隆，他們成為超級反派。正如索菲亞在《企鵝》第一集中提到的那樣，“這是一種恥辱……被變成了一個東西……問題不在於警衛，而在於對病人的廣泛對待。”她的閃回情節基本上加倍了這個前提，並闡明了所有版本的蝙蝠俠中的核心矛盾之一：斗篷十字軍並沒有殺死這些惡棍中的任何一個，而是將他們放入高壓鍋中，在那裡他們可以變得不那麼有害像索菲亞這樣的人陷入了殘酷的謀殺。

Now, Batman doesn’t literally have the keys to Arkham, but he is responsible for putting a lot of people in there. The current Matt Reeves universe seems hyper-aware of this; the final moments of The Batman (2022) put the Riddler (Paul Dano) in a cell right next to a new version of the Joker (Barry Keoghan). All of these people exist in the exact same universe as the titular Penguin in this show, and now, Sofia Falcone.

現在，蝙蝠俠其實沒有阿卡漢的鑰匙，但他有責任把很多人放進去。當前的馬特·里夫斯宇宙似乎高度意識到了這一點； 《蝙蝠俠》（2022 年）的最後時刻將謎語人（保羅·達諾飾）關在新版小丑（巴里·基奧根飾）旁邊的牢房裡。所有這些人都與本劇中​​的企鵝，以及現在的索菲亞·法爾科內存在於完全相同的宇宙中。

The fact that Sofia is a product of the unethical treatment of prisons/patients at Arkham isn’t directly Batman’s fault. But, indirectly, it certainly is. Batman can’t function in Gotham City unless he has demented arch-enemies to fight against. And, as The Penguin just proved, Arkham can turn a victim into a villain overnight.

索菲亞是阿卡漢監獄/病人不道德待遇的產物，這一事實並不直接是蝙蝠俠的錯。但是，間接地，確實如此。蝙蝠俠無法在高譚市發揮作用，除非他有瘋狂的宿敵需要對抗。而且，正如《企鵝》剛剛證明的那樣，阿卡姆可以在一夜之間將受害者變成惡棍。

The Penguin streams on Max.

企鵝在 Max 上直播。