yes, so what stops her getting shot? i've seen no notes that the lighthouse look makes her immune to bullets she's a blaster/mover not a brute her schtick could really be beaten by him aiming through the black umbrella or by shading his eyes with his top hat.
First off, if the Penguin can't see the light Purity generates, he also can't see Purity. He might as well shoot her blindfolded.
Second, she's fast.
"According to the news and my, um, inside source," Lisa spoke, referring to her power, "Purity hasn't stopped. She's doing strafing runs across the Docks. She moves too fast for anyone but Dauntless or Velocity to catch, and she hits harder than both of them combined. She's knocked down four more buildings while we've talked, I'm pretty sure. How long before she happens to knock over our hideout?"
Third, very few people would want to pop out of cover to shoot at someone whose lasers can casually demolish a building, and even fewer would survive her pointing that laser at them.
Buy the building she lives in?
Have her baby kidnapped?
Convince her that at least he isn't as bad as Kaiser, and is willing to grease the legal wheels of her attempting to go legit if she targets a few of his rivals?
A, most of those require contacts in Brockton Bay that he wouldn't have.
B, the implied scope of discussion was a more straightforward battle, not Gotham villains allying/blackmailing Brockton Bay ones to turn them against their Gotham rivals and vise versa.
(I agree that Hookwolf's trio would fit well alongside Clayface and Scarecrow and the like.)
edit should mention that the Joker upon finding out the E88 are Nazi's goes on a one clown mission to kill them all and probably succeeds if batman is busy dealing with the ABB which because of the human slavery and relatively more researchable capes he'd probably be going after them first and deal with the nazis after more research and prep because taking out the rage dragon is easier if you are a non powered human with knockout gas designed for regenerators than going after a guy that makes spikes out of any metal or a chick who's whole schtick is taking away shadows with lazers.
So, two points.
First, if the Joker doesn't get to take his plot armor with him, he's not gonna be able to defeat about a dozen parahumans plus an unclear number of unpowered but heavily-armed neo-Nazis.
B, as I argued in
this Tumblr post, the ABB didn't do much slavery before the whole "Bakuda stuck bombs in people's head to help Lung take over the city" debacle. Before that, the ABB was basically just another gang.
After that...if Gotham appears in the middle of that gang war, between Bakuda's terror campaign, the city's other villains raiding ABB safehouses every night, and
(I forget what the heroes did but it was something), I am not certain the unexplained appearance of a second city next to Brockton Bay would make front-page news.
Tres, I am irritated by the almost dogmatic assumption that Batman can beat any villain with prep time. I can't say it's an unfounded assumption—some official Batman writers do write him that way—but I find that to be a rather uninteresting way to write Batman.
"Oh, I can defeat perhaps the most dangerous known villain in New England by mixing up some knockout gas designed to affect someone whose regeneration textually makes him resistant to poisons, even though I've never met the guy and do not know how his regeneration works. It'll be a breeze, something I can do casually while preparing to fight the neo-Nazis (who do count as Nazis), even though he'll make Bane look like a careful masseuse if my knockout gas fails."
Bleh.
