Tiny is the giant great white shark kept by the Penguin in the "Torture Chamber" of his museum, the Cyrus Pinkney's Institute for Natural History. Once part of the aquarium attraction featured at the museum, Tiny has since been utilized by the Penguin, after purchasing the building to be repurposed into his own criminal headquarters, as both a method of torture and murder and a means to dispose of bodies.
Tiny's infrequent feeding schedule and abuse at the hands of the sadistic Penguin turned the shark into a highly unstable and vicious killing machine, doing whatever it could to satisfy its appetite and survive.
Biography[]
Batman: Arkham City[]
Tiny swam around in the tank at the former Terrors of the Deep exhibit at Cyrus Pinkney's Institute for Natural History, which has been repurposed into the torture chamber for the Penguin's base. He fed on anything that entered the tank's water. When Batman was hunting for Mr. Freeze within the museum, the Penguin left three undercover cops on the frozen-over surface of the torture chamber to die of hypothermia and then be eaten by Tiny.
Batman saved the undercover cops, and went on to rescue Mr. Freeze, taking a disruptor from Freeze's suit that would disable his Freeze Cannon, which was currently being utilized by The Penguin. On his way to the Iceberg Lounge, Tiny attacks the Dark Knight for getting too close, but Batman beats the shark down, and Tiny is never to be seen again after the encounter.
Batman: Arkham Knight[]
Tiny is seen again during the GCPD Lockdown DLC story. Penguin has apparently had him moved to a large tank near his base of operations in a Blüdhaven dockyard. He can be seen facing the glass as Nightwing begins fighting off goons before swimming away. If Nightwing approaches the tank after the fight, Tiny will ram the glass with enough force to crack it before retreating again. He cannot be seen again after this.
A shark corpse with a similar model to Tiny can be found hung up beside the Falcone Shipping Antenna in the Cauldron neighbourhood of Bleake Island. It has a massive hook sticking out of his jaw, seemingly having been fished out in this location.
Trivia[]
- Enemy chatter implied that Ratcatcher was fed to Tiny after Penguin's initial attempt of executing him by having him being devoured by rats failed due to their being bored of him.
- Tiny's attacks on anything even remotely close to him, even outside his tank, imply the creature is highly unstable due to being underfed and abused, evident by his many scars, by his sadistic owner.
- In addition, as sharks, especially great whites like Tiny, have severe problems digesting humans due to their lacking the fat content necessary to power their musculature bodies to keep constantly moving in the ocean, this reinforces how he is constantly underfed and left erratic as a result.