His film features Penguin in a rather important role, one that has since gotten even more important thanks to the award-winning HBO spinoff show. So, had Reeves not asked for the character to be taken out of Birds of Prey,

Talk about a close call – According to both Margot Robbie and Collin Farrell, had it not been for the last-minute intervention of The Batman director Matt Reeves, the disastrous Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) would have featured not Black Mask, but The Penguin as its central antagonist.