season episode "Penguin, Our Hero", Penn is apparently shot and killed by a street gang called the Street Demonz. In the episode "Nothing's Shocking" however, he wakes up in the GCPD morgue, treats his own injuries, and makes his way to an abandoned magic shop, where he finds an unsold ventriloquist dummy called Scarface. This triggers the creation of a split personality, with Scarface as the dominant personality. Together, Penn and Scarface approach and threaten to kill Cobblepot so the latter can become the dominant mob boss in Gotham City, but Cobblepot "kills" Scarface while his friend Edward Nygma kills Penn, arguing that he can no longer be trusted. Originally, Penn's role as the Ventriloquist was going to be cut from the fifth season due to it being shortened to 10 episodes. However, after Fox extended the season to 12 episodes, this allowed the creative team to continue with their original plan. The Arnold Wesker incarnation of the Ventriloquist and Scarface make cameo appearances in Titans, portrayed by an uncredited stunt double. DC Animated Universe The Arnold Wesker incarnation of the Ventriloquist and Scarface appear in media set in the DC Animated Universe (DCAU), both voiced by George Dzundza. The series' version of the former is a master ventriloquist who can pronounce every sound perfectly as Scarface, a decision series co-creator Bruce Timm fought for even though DC Comics wanted to maintain Scarface's speech impediment. Their henchmen, Rhino (voiced by Earl Boen) and Mugsy (voiced by Joe Piscopo in Batman: The Animated Series and Townsend Coleman in The New Batman Adventures) also appear. The Ventriloquist and Scarface first appear in Batman: The Animated Series. In the DVD commentary for their introductory episode "Read My Lips", Timm stated that the Fox Kids censors allowed the recurring destruction of Scarface because he was not a "living" character, which allowed the production staff to vent their darker impulses by finding a more gruesome way of destroying him each time, culminating in grinding him to sawdust in some fans in a later episode. The Ventriloquist and Scarface appear in The New Batman Adventures episode "Double Talk". Alternate universe incarnations of the Ventriloquist and Scarface make a cameo appearance in the Justice League two-part episode "A Better World" as one of several supervillains that Superman of the Justice Lords lobotomized to ensure peace. Film The Arnold Wesker incarnation of the Ventriloquist makes a cameo appearance