Tom Hardy is a few inches taller than how the villain is traditionally depicted (and nearly a full foot over Batman Returns actor Danny DeVito), but a Penguin who is closer in stature to Batman and even surpasses him in muscle (using current cowl-dinner Robert Pattinson for reference) could make for a refreshingly unusual showdown between the adversaries that we did not even get from the radical portrayal in Gotham, with all due respect to Robin Lord Taylor.
Born Oswald Cobblepot and named for his stocky posture and beak-like nose, the Penguin is one of the most notorious mobsters in Gotham City and has been known to show even the likes of Batman a hard time with his skills in hand-to-hand combat and his specially designed umbrella that also functions as a sword.