企鹅证明阿卡姆就是问题所在

《企鹅》的最新一集根本不是关于主角奥兹·科布（科林·法瑞尔饰）的。相反，第四集“Cent'anni”完全聚焦于该剧的突破明星和角色克里斯汀·米利奥蒂（Cristin Milioti）饰演索菲亚·法尔科内（Sofia Falcone）。虽然这一集的现在时事件规模巨大，包括令人震惊的结局，但这一集的闪回会让长期粉丝不仅思考索菲亚的背景故事，而且思考蝙蝠侠的道德。

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.

《企鹅》的最新一集根本不是关于主角奥兹·科布（科林·法瑞尔饰）的。相反，第四集“Cent'anni”完全聚焦于该剧的突破明星和角色克里斯汀·米利奥蒂（Cristin Milioti）饰演索菲亚·法尔科内（Sofia Falcone）。虽然这一集的现在时事件规模巨大，包括令人震惊的结局，但这一集的闪回会让长期粉丝不仅思考索菲亚的背景故事，而且思考蝙蝠侠的道德。

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《企鹅》中，著名的阿卡姆疯人院再次以其原来的名字“阿卡姆州立医院”而闻名，即使是普通漫画迷也知道这个地方充满了恐怖和疯狂。而且，随着索菲亚恐怖的背景故事在《企鹅》中得到了清晰的阐述，是时候问一个蝙蝠迷们已经思考了很长时间的问题了。蝙蝠侠和哥谭的“好人”真的把人们扔进阿卡姆吗？他们所有的问题不都是从这里来的吗？前方剧透。

A brief history of Arkham

阿卡姆简史

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

1974 年的《阿卡姆医院》和 1997 年的《蝙蝠侠与罗宾》中的阿卡姆疯人院。

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.

尽管蝙蝠侠有着从 1939 年开始的漫长而曲折的历史，但阿卡姆医院直到 1974 年 10 月才出现在常规蝙蝠侠系列的第 258 期中。故事情节被称为“双头硬币的威胁！”并涉及“双面人”被一名流氓美国军官带出阿卡姆。由于《企鹅人》第 4 集也在 10 月播出，因此您可以将这一集视为阿卡姆 50 岁生日的庆祝活动。进一步挖掘 DC 的传说，这一集为我们呈现了蝙蝠侠反派喜鹊（玛丽·波塔饰）的新版本，实际上他第一次出现并不是在蝙蝠侠漫画中，而是在约翰·伯恩于 1986 年创作的《超人：钢铁之躯》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.

尽管阿卡姆是由作家丹尼斯·奥尼尔于 1974 年发明的，并由艺术家 Irv Novick 和 Dick Giordano 描绘，但直到 20 世纪 80 年代，更加疯狂的疯人院版本才出现。为此，我们主要归功于编剧伦·韦恩（Len Wein），他也曾与艾伦·摩尔（Alan Moore）合作制作了原版《守望者》。

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.

《企鹅人》中的阿卡姆疯人院版本比 20 世纪 70 年代的任何版本都更接近韦恩的版本，这也是它如此可怕的原因。索菲亚从阿卡姆出来后，并没有比以前更好，反而更糟。这带来了蝙蝠宇宙中更大的道德难题。

The Penguin proves Arkham is the problem

企鹅证明阿卡姆就是问题所在

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

索菲亚（克里斯汀·米利奥蒂饰）与病人喜鹊（玛丽·博塔饰）一起回忆起她在阿卡姆的时光。

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，我们得知索菲亚被不公正地投入阿卡姆。她的父亲卡米恩（马克·斯特朗饰）只是想把他的各种谋杀案归咎于她，将索菲亚塑造成一个精神错乱的连环杀手，并给她起了一个令人毛骨悚然的绰号“绞刑吏”。

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.

这是《蝙蝠侠》反派起源 101：某人与邪恶或犯罪分子相邻，被扔进疯人院，被赋予一个活泼的绰号，然后，轰隆隆，他们成为超级反派。正如索菲亚在《企鹅》第一集中提到的那样，“这是一种耻辱……被变成了一个东西……问题不在于警卫，而在于对病人的广泛对待。”她的闪回情节基本上加倍了这个前提，并阐明了所有版本的蝙蝠侠的中心矛盾之一：斗篷十字军并没有杀死这些恶棍中的任何一个，而是将他们放入高压锅中，在那里他们可以变得不那么有害像索菲亚这样的人陷入了残酷的谋杀。

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.

现在，蝙蝠侠实际上并没有阿卡姆的钥匙，但他有责任把很多人放进去。当前的马特·里夫斯宇宙似乎高度意识到了这一点； 《蝙蝠侠》（2022 年）的最后时刻将谜语人（保罗·达诺饰）关在新版小丑（巴里·基奥根饰）旁边的牢房里。所有这些人都与本剧中的企鹅，以及现在的索菲亚·法尔科内存在于完全相同的宇宙中。

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.

索菲亚是阿卡姆监狱/病人不道德待遇的产物，这一事实并不直接是蝙蝠侠的错。但是，间接地，确实如此。蝙蝠侠无法在哥谭市发挥作用，除非他有疯狂的宿敌需要对抗。而且，正如《企鹅》刚刚证明的那样，阿卡姆可以在一夜之间将受害者变成恶棍。

The Penguin streams on Max.

企鹅在 Max 上直播。