Well another villain story doesn't have to start where Penguin left off. Go back in time again. How did the Ventriloquist/Scarface get like that? What happened in his life that he turned into a multiple personality maniacal gangster? It could be a story tha'ts developing now, or 20 years ago. It doesn't have to involve Batman until Ventriloquist/Scarface actually starts doing major sh!t. As this stuff is happening now with Penguin, he could be in Arkham, making his first puppet.I feel like after the next movie, Batman may have to be more heavily involved in any story and not sure how they can pull that off without Pattinson.
From my understanding, all this happened within weeks after the first movie. So Batman was kinda busy or maybe even out of commission for a bit after everything Rddler did and trying to rebuild the city…
Then blocks blow up underground that levels a part of the city like it’s Gaza, they find out it was the cities largest druglab that exploded and the Falcones were involved… shyt is all over the news and the Bat Signal appears meaning some big shyt is probably happening next. Maybe another villain was making a bigger play that we knew nothing about