Chapter 2178: Battle of Two Cities! (Part 45)

The Penguin, who had been recognized by Spider-Man, had mixed feelings.

The Penguin's eyes flashed, and he turned and walked towards the dilapidated house behind him and said, "Come in."

Peter could clearly feel the change in his attitude. From the initial precautions and vigilance, he suddenly relaxed. He didn't understand why.

But he couldn't tell Bruce on the other end of the headset a lot of his questions, because there were not many opportunities to gain the trust of such people, and the opportunity was fleeting. He had to grasp it. By the time Bruce answered his questions, the Penguin had already driven him out.

But Peter had no experience in this kind of thing. He didn't know how he should behave next to further impress the Penguin. Even if Peter knew that the Penguin could not become a good person, so he didn't make preparations to persuade people to be good, it would not be so easy to gain his trust.

Just when Peter was uneasy, he suddenly remembered that he had another killer, the great black sun would definitely be able to help him.

Peter sighed, and the gray fog spread the moment he concentrated, and he stood in front of the huge black sun again.

Peter didn't know how to pray, so he could only briefly state his confusion and emphasized.

"In fact, I don't know what kind of person he is, so I don't know how to get along with him. I don't know what he thinks now, so I don't know what to say next. Do you have any suggestions?"

Peter received the life story of the Penguin. He read it carefully and scratched his head in confusion.

He could see some problems from the Penguin's background, but these problems were obviously irreversible. Peter had no confidence in healing Oswald Cobblepot's childhood trauma in such a short time. He was never good at this.

Peter got some more information.

These materials made him more confused, because the cover of the information clearly said - "Psychoanalysis".

"God." Peter screamed, "You don't want me to learn a psychological treatment method from scratch here? This is impossible!"

Then Peter found that he couldn't get out.

He could only sigh sadly and resigned himself to looking down at the stack of information. The information was not thick at all, not even as long as Cobblepot's life story.

Peter swore that he had read the document with the most serious attitude in his life, but he still felt that the whole document could be summarized in one word - "blind guessing".

But Peter Parker was not Batman. He immediately put his fists in front of him with piety and looked at the black sun in front of him with the most sincere eyes.

"I will definitely study hard in the future, but please give me the answer this time, please, I can't understand these things without examples!"

Peter tried hard to recall the words used by his Catholic classmate when praying, and mixed some scientific terms that he was very good at, and made up a long prayer in the hope of impressing this mysterious god and getting the answer.

Isn't this how God works? Peter thought, if he still has to learn knowledge to get the answer, why doesn't he do scientific research?

Other popes can receive divine revelation directly, and he at least occupies the position of a son of God. Why does he have to study for 20 years before asking God for a solution?

Peter heard the sigh of the black sun, but he finally got the answer.

From this answer, Peter learned that the first step of psychoanalysis is to understand the attributes of the object of analysis, mainly to analyze the most significant characteristics of his personality from his past experiences, and to find the attributes related to the current situation they are facing.

Undoubtedly, the most important attribute now is that Penguin has always been indifferent to good and evil and only cares about interests, so it is not important to him who recognizes him, superheroes or super criminals.

After analyzing this point, a significant contradiction arises. Since it is not important to him who recognizes him, how can Penguin's attitude change after Spider-Man recognizes him?

From this, it is derived that what is special about Spider-Man.

There is no doubt that Spider-Man is a good person, but there are many good people in this world, why is Spider-Man special?

When Spider-Man observed Gotham, the people of Gotham were also observing him, and then they found that this guy was a good person who should not exist, extremely outrageous, and there was absolutely no fault to be found.

He is not the kind of good person who has a lot of qualifiers, the attributive is longer than the real name, and can only be identified in different occasions and time periods.

He is the kind of good man who has universal values ​​and can't be found fault with the crazy people in Gotham, and he doesn't even have the attributes of power.

The most special thing about Spider-Man is that he always calls himself a hero of ordinary people, and he did so during his time in Gotham.

He didn't go to Arkham Asylum to beat up those crazy people, although he had the ability to do so. He didn't go to the buildings that Batman often went to to watch and stop the gang fights.

What he did most often was to live in the slums, help this person fix the electrical appliances today, help that person fix the water pipes tomorrow, check one street after another, and never let go of any evil forces that bully and oppress others. He distinguished right from wrong, was righteous, and insisted on a very simple view of good and evil from beginning to end.

His view of good and evil is not the kind that has been baptized by society, knows how to compromise and tolerate, or has become less pure, but is precisely the most simple human pursuit of beauty.

And no one can accuse him of being empty and pretentious, because he practices what he preaches, and believes that he can change a little bit, help a person, no matter whether this place can be saved or not, even if I make one person's life a little better, my efforts are meaningful.

He is not even reluctant to spend 10 times the energy to make a 0.01 change. As long as he thinks it can make a difference, he will do his best to do it. He is an impeccable doer.

In the crazy and chaotic little brains of those Gotham people who were helped by him, in those philosophical speculations full of inspiration and sharp thinking, there is no word that can add color to the souls of such people.

This is not crazy enough, the crazy thing is that the Joker couldn't do it.

If Superman lifted the two threatened ships to save everyone, it was because he was both just and powerful, and didn't care what the people in the ship thought, as long as they were saved.

To some extent, he is like a sheepdog on the periphery of the flock, and he is so powerful that the wolf's sharp teeth can't hurt him at all, so he can protect the flock very well.

If it were Spider-Man, he really couldn't lift two ships at the same time, but he would definitely rush to the exploding ship before the last second of the explosion, just to save more people after the disaster.

He is the kindest and most determined leader of the flock, never leaving the flock, and always ready to sacrifice. Such a person can most impress Oswald Cobblepot, because he was once the weakest sheep in the flock.

In his life, he never met any sheepdog that could prevent the disaster, and the sheep that left the sheepfold to hike in search of hope never came back, and the awakened people with great ambitions in the flock never cared about him.

No one has ever stood with the Penguin.

The life stage of being in a vulnerable group caused great trauma to the Penguin, but Spider-Man is a hero who resolutely protects the vulnerable, and really does so, and succeeds.

These are the special attributes of the two people that can be used in the current incident, so the next step is to analyze the unique personality attributes of the Penguin.

To do personality attribute analysis, you only need to ask one question, why is the Penguin the Penguin?

In Penguin's childhood, when people mocked him, they said he looked like a short and fat penguin, and his ugly and sinister hooked nose was like a penguin's mouth.

But even if Penguin was a madman, he would not be willing to put the words that ignorant fools came up with on his head.

Penguin likes penguins very much, just like Batman likes bats very much. There is a subtle connection between their code names, because penguins and bats are both social animals.

It is not accidental that they chose such animals. Although Batman thinks bats are animals that bring fear to people, it cannot be denied that he saw the beauty and greatness of social attributes from the groups of bats.

The society of social creatures is like a signal amplifier, which makes their good and evil exaggerated to a dramatic beauty, and those who can appreciate this beauty are often those who are not accepted by their existing social society.

Oswald Cobblepot is such a person, and Bruce Wayne is also such a person.

So they imagine themselves in another social society, where they occupy a far more important position than now, gain the care and love of another kind of companions, and enjoy the warmth of a real social society.

Batman and Penguin are different. Batman sees the evil side of social creatures. Bats in groups often bring more fear to people than single bats. Therefore, when he chose to spread fear, he gave himself a code name of bat.

But humans are always more willing to analyze the social groups and family relationships of penguins, especially family relationships. In the common sense of the public, penguins have relatively stable family relationships in the animal kingdom.

And most importantly, their ethnic relationship is not more reflected in the clear class and strict superior-subordinate relationship of other social animals, but in the beautiful attribute of mutual help, especially helping the weak in the group.

Many people have seen natural documentaries. In order to keep warm, penguins will form a circle and surround the cubs in the center. The penguin parents will take turns to incubate the eggs, and sometimes even give the eggs to others to incubate.

The little penguins will go to the nursery. The adult penguins who manage the nursery may not have a blood relationship with them. They are simply entrusted by the tribe to take care of the cubs.

Even though penguin society is not all about such beautiful attributes, the information that people can accept at a certain stage of life is limited. In the common sense of most people, penguins are such animals, and Oswald Cobblepot is no exception.

Penguin chose penguins not because he accepted the contemptuous nicknames given to him by those who mocked him, nor because of pain, sadness, and extreme helplessness.

He saw the kind side of social creatures magnified by the social society of penguins. He longed for this warmth and kindness, imagining that in a certain penguin tribe, he was cared for by all the tribesmen and surrounded by a cub in the center of the circle.

The more you can't get, the more you want it, and the more you lack, the more you need to fill the gap with fantasy.

Batman received too much family love from his parents, so he longed for the harsher and crueler side of social society.

Penguin never received any love from his family, so he longed for the more tender and kind side of social society.

And this tender side is reflected in the protection of vulnerable groups.

There is no doubt that ordinary people who are threatened by criminals are the vulnerable groups in this society. Spider-Man chose to stand firmly on their side. His behavior made Penguin see the way the perfect society in his fantasy works.

So he did not accept Spider-Man, but only accepted the hero in his childhood imagination.

But Penguin also has a distorted side. The trauma brought to him by the vulnerable groups makes him want to climb up desperately. As long as he becomes a strong man, he will not be bullied.

But the road to pursuing transcendence is endless. New status and new environment will bring new dangers. Every time he climbs up a ladder again, he will find that he is still a vulnerable group in this level. What he has is still not enough.

Years of climbing have stimulated this upward trend to the new environment, lost a sense of security, and in order to gain a sense of security, he can only go up again. This cycle has become an instinct that is difficult to change.

So although he has a perfect group society in his mind, he will never stop to build this society, because he feels that he has no room and will never be safe.

All of Penguin's behaviors are derived from the need to get rid of the identity of the disadvantaged group and gain a sense of security from ascending to the next powerful class. This is the main personality attribute of Penguin that is difficult to change and the underlying behavioral logic.

Peter even began to think that this thing was not a blind guess.

Peter continued to look down like a fascination, and then he found that there was nothing behind.

Peter opened his eyes wide in shock, but no matter how he prayed, the black sun was no longer moving.

Peter was scratching his heart.

At this time, he found that he could finally leave, so he hurriedly returned to the real world, pressed the headset and said to Bruce on the other end:

"Penguin has no sense of security, what can I do to give him a sense of security?"

"...Ah?"

This is really theology