Batman (DC Comics character)/The Dark Knight Returns

Bruce Wayne (b. 1931) was an American vigilante of the 20th century. After the 1940The film Wayne is shown to have attended on the night of his parents' deaths, "The Mark of Zorro", was released on 8 November 1940. assassination of his parents Thomas and Martha Wayne, Wayne trained as a vigilante, eventually becoming the crimefighter Batman. However, in 1986With math dictating that Wayne was born in 1931 and dialogue declaring him to have been 55 at the time of his 'death', the setting must have been 1986., in response to an attempted mugging he evaded, the failed rehabilitation of Harvey Dent, and being retraumatised by a flashback to the death of his parents, Wayne decided to resume his vigilante activities. He foiled Dent's extortion plot, the Joker's terrorist plot to destroy Gotham's Twin Towers, and defeated the leader of the Mutants. His continuing activities earned him the attention of both the public and the government, and after the death of the Joker and Batman's seizure of power over Gotham in the aftermath of the failed Corto Maltese nuclear strike, the embarassed Reagan administration ordered Superman to capture or kill Batman. Wayne had prepared for this eventuality, however, and used the fight as a cover to fake his death and prepare the Sons of Batman to become a well-trained private army.
Three years later, Batman dispatched his armies to overturn Lex Luthor's shadow government. They freed the Flash and the Atom, and psychologically humbled Superman, convincing him to become a dictatorial autocrat that would rule over Earth. Wayne then abandoned his stance against murder personally kill the traitorous Dick Grayson.
== Notes ==
=== Behind the Scenes ===
* Batman was created by American comic book writer and artist Frank Miller.McFarlane Reveals New DC Comics The Dark Knight Returns Batman - Tyler Roberts - 16 August 2024 - Bleeding Cool - Retrieved 18 September 2024 
== Links ==
* Batman on the DC Database
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