Cultural depictions of penguins

Mythology

Yellow-eyed, Fiordland and little penguins are prominent in Māori mythology, where they are known as hoiho, tawaki and kororā respectively. The tawaki in particular is associated with a myth in which it walked among humans until it revealed its divinity by wearing lightning, hence the explanation for the bird's yellow crest.^[4]

Logos and mascots

The friendly, slightly comical image of the penguin has often been used by companies and organisations for logos and mascots.

• Theta Phi Alpha fraternity uses a penguin as their mascot.
• Penguins give their name to the Pittsburgh Penguins (mascot's name: "Iceburgh" former mascot: "Penguin Pete") of the National Hockey League, their farm team, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and the sports teams of Youngstown State University (mascot's name: "Pete").
• The school mascot of the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston, MA) is the Fighting Penguin.
• The penguin is an unofficial mascot of Carleton College and its library.
• The mascot of
  Blue penguins
  .
• Diego the penguin is the mascot of Diegos Tartan Army, based in Inverness. Named after soccer player Diego Maradona, he was adopted in Lithuania by members of the Tartan Army, who follow the Scottish football team abroad.^[5]
• The Penguin is the mascot of choice for the British-American Rock Band Fleetwood Mac, and was the name of the first of two albums from 1973. (see Penguin)
• Tencent QQ has a logo featuring a penguin.
• Tux the penguin is used as a symbol of Linux. The original image of Tux was drawn by Larry Ewing. Tux is often depicted, in a variety of different attire, in different Linux distributions and programs that feature him as a mascot. He also features in many video games, along with female counterparts Penny and Gown.
• Victoria, Australia
  , as part of a campaign initiated in 1997.
• Sir
  Royal Norwegian Guard and their titular colonel-in-chief
  .
• Penguin Books, a publisher of paperback books, uses a penguin in its name and logo.
• Penguen (Turkish for penguin), a Turkish satirical magazine, uses a penguin in its logo.

Politics

• Supporters and collaborators of Argentine president Néstor Kirchner are known informally as pingüinos, and pingüino (Spanish for "penguin") is the nickname of Kirchner himself, alluding to his birthplace in the cold southern region of Patagonia.^[6][7]
• In 2009, the vice-chair of
  The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), a pro-Beijing party in Hong Kong, hosted an episode of an opinion talk show, in the opening of which he mistakenly began by describing the North Pole as a place with few people and many penguins. Although this was edited out in reruns of the episode, it had already caught the attention many supporters of democracy, and they ridiculed the vice-chair and the entire DAB for it, saying that it is common knowledge that penguins are native to only the south, and that if the next generation of party leaders should have such poor general knowledge, it would be questionable for them to lead Hong Kong. This was but one in a long series of incidents that drew ridicule and criticism to the DAB.^{[citation needed}
  ]
• Penguins became the symbol of the
  2013 protests in Turkey, after CNN Türk
  broadcast a documentary about penguins during the protests.

• Penguin is a brand of chocolate biscuit manufactured by McVitie's.
• Kid Cuisine uses a penguin named K.C. Penguin as its mascot.
• Penguin Mints is a brand of caffeinated mints.

Penguins and polar bears

Despite what commercials and other popular sources may show, penguins and polar bears are found on opposite hemispheres. Polar bears inhabit the Northern Hemisphere,^[8] while all penguin species live in the Southern Hemisphere.^[9]

Literature

Film and television

Feature films and animation

• In the major animated sequence of the film, Mary Poppins, Mary and Bert are served by a group of overeager penguin waiters. Afterwards, Bert has an extended dance sequence with them, soon lowering his trousers to imitate their stubby legs.
• A 1971
  seals.^[12]
• One of the main
  The Batman vs Dracula: The Animated Movie and Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
  .
• In
  Fight Club, the Narrator's "power animal" is a talking king penguin
  .
• The direct-to-video film The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea features a penguin named Tip.
• In
  Woody
  is stolen from a yard sale when he attempts to rescue Wheezy, Andy's squeaky penguin toy.
• In 50 First Dates, a 2004 romantic comedy, the character portrayed by Adam Sandler has a pet penguin named Willie.
• The movie Billy Madison featured a penguin that was a nemesis of the title character in hallucinations.^{[clarification needed]}
• In the movie Gregory's Girl, there is a background running gag involving a child in a penguin costume wandering around the school and being directed from place to place.
• The 2004 science fiction movie Alien vs. Predator also features Humboldt penguins with one of them startling Graeme Miller.
• Happy Feet, Happy Feet Two and Surfs up are three popular movies on penguins.
• The 1995 film The Pebble and the Penguin features Hubie and Marina.
• Cats Don't Dance features Peabo "Pudge" Pudgemyer.
• The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper is an animated short produced by DreamWorks Animation. The 12-minute Madagascar spin-off features the adventures of four penguins, sometimes known as the Madagascar penguins, who live in the Central Park Zoo and are trained as spies.^[13]
• The 2014 film Penguins of Madagascar features four anthropomorphised penguins as central characters.^[14]
• Mr. Popper's Penguins is a 2011 American comedy family film directed by Mark Waters, and starring Jim Carrey.^[15]
• The main character in
  Vamos a matar, compañeros
  is nicknamed penguin for ridicule.

• 3-2-1 Penguins! created by Big Idea Entertainment.
• Playboy Penguin created by Chuck Jones.
• Japanese-Soviet cartoon The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin.
• Pingu is a television show revolving around a penguin community.
• Ice King from Adventure Time has a group of penguins, all named variations of "Gunter" and who quack like ducks. One of them, in particular, is particularly mischievous.
• Pinky Penguin is an
  Bojack Horseman. He is portrayed by Patton Oswalt
  .
• Penguins of several species appear in
  Shirokuma Cafe
  .
• In the second part of the 2nd episode of anime series Urusei Yatsura. Penguins' appearance in school is just the start of a full day of panic.
• Beast Wars Neo has an alternate mode of an emperor penguin
  .
• In the DuckTales TV Series episode "Cold Ducks," part four of the TV Movie "Treasure of the Golden Suns," the ducks in that series encounter penguins.
• In the The Sopranos episode "Army of One", Uncle Junior and Tony Soprano reflect on an incident where, as a child, Jackie Aprile Jr. had nearly drowned in three inches of water at a penguin exhibit.^[16]
• In the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion, the character Misato Katsuragi has a genetically engineered penguin named Pen-pen as a pet.
• In the season 2 episode "Pawnee Zoo" of the American comedy television series Parks and Recreation, Leslie Knope marries two male penguins becoming an accidental same-sex marriage advocate. The penguins move to Ohio where their lifestyle choices are more accepted.
• In
  Power Rangers: Jungle Fury
  ), Penguin Zord appeared in the first time.
• CNN Türk showed a documentary about penguins as a form of misinformation during the Gezi Park protests.
• The Walter Lantz cartoon character Chilly Willy.

Theatre

• In the 2015 musical, Love Birds the penguins (played by humans) "Parker", "Presley", "Pewcey" and "Puck" comprise a penguin barbershop quartet.^[17]

Video games

• Penguins are the main theme for the massively multiplayer online game Club Penguin and its successor, Club Penguin Island, which both revolve around a virtual world where the players control one or more cartoon penguins.
• Chill Penguin is a character in the
  boss characters in the first game of the series
  .
• Similarly, The massively multiplayer online game Cosmic Break features penguin-based robots called Pepens.
• The two protagonists of Binary Land are penguins named Gurin and Malon.
• Some species of Pokémon are based on penguins, namely Delibird, the Piplup evolutionary line (Piplup, Prinplup, Empoleon), and Eiscue.
• Penguins appear semi-frequently as enemies in the PlayStation game
  Penta appears in the subsequent games in the series, Crash Bandicoot: Warped and Crash Team Racing
  .
• The title character of Pengo is a penguin.
• King Dedede of Kirby
  is based on a penguin.
• Tucks, common enemies in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, appear to be based on penguins.