Bruce Wayne (Earth-1)

Visionary

Genius

American Patriot

The Prodigal Son

Vigilante (in secret)

Harvard University (formerly)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (formerly)

Paris-Sorbonne University (formerly)

Princeton University (formerly)

Stanford University (formerly)

Cambridge University (formerly)

Yale University (formerly)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Paris-Sorbonne University

Princeton University

Stanford University

Cambridge University

Yale University

Alfred Pennyworth (Surrogate Father)

Jacob Kane (maternal uncle)

Gabi Kane (maternal aunt-by-marriage)

Beth Kane (maternal cousin)

Kate Kane (maternal cousin)

**Bruce Thomas Wayne** (born February 19, 2000) is a well-known billionaire industrialist, playboy, philanthropist, and the CEO and owner of Wayne Enterprises. He is the son of the late Thomas and Martha Wayne and the surrogate son and master of Alfred Pennyworth. A brash but brilliant businessman, with his great wealth and exceptional scientific knowledge, Bruce is one of the world's most powerful men and seemingly enjoys the playboy lifestyle, presenting himself as an irresponsible and arrogant playboy and womanizer, although that persona is nothing but a façade that he created in order to cover his double life.

After witnessing his parents' death at the hands of a mugger at a young age, Bruce swore vengeance against all criminals, an oath tempered by justice, for which he trained himself physically and intellectually to wage war on crime in Gotham City.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Troubled Childhood

Bruce Thomas Wayne was born on Saturday, February 19, 2000 in Gotham City, New Jersey to Thomas and Martha Wayne. Bruce had become good friends with Alfred Pennyworth, the butler of the Wayne Family, who watched over Bruce all of his childhood.

At an early age, Bruce quickly stole the spotlight with his brilliant and unique mind. When he was four years old, he made his first circuit board. By his sixth birthday, he built a V8 motorbike engine. Between the ages of twelve and twenty, he graduated *summa cum laude* from the Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Harvard, M.I.T., Paris-Sorbonne University, Princeton, Stanford, Cambridge, and Yale University.

#### Losing His Parents

On February 19, 2006, on Bruce's sixth birthday, he begged his parents to go to the Monarch Theater to watch the Rouben Mamoulian adaptation of *The Mark of Zorro*. However, he eventually grew frightened by the film's violent scenes and asked to leave. Once outside, Bruce and his parents began to walk home from the Monarch Theater when they were confronted by a mugger who shot and killed Bruce's parents in front of him. From then on, Bruce was raised by Alfred. Bruce became driven in grief over their deaths. Charles Palpatine, Thomas' business partner, then took over as interim CEO of Wayne Enterprises, the family company of Bruce Wayne, until Bruce would become of age to assume the role.

### Training

In the following years, Bruce grew up inspired to make himself a symbol of fear within the heart of crime in Gotham City, training himself beyond the heights of physical and mental perfection, mastering business skills, engineering, the sciences, and martial arts, among other disciplines.

### CEO of Wayne Enterprises

#### Rebuilding the Company

On his eighteenth birthday, Bruce inherited Wayne Enterprises, becoming the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company in history. Having built himself a custom mansion, Bruce made an A.I. system that helped out in the system named PENNYWORTH, after Alfred's surname, whom he had often credited for helping to raise him.

Under Bruce's leadership, with the aid of Charles, Wayne Enterprises quickly thrived and became one of the most advanced companies in the world, creating new forms of weapons technologies that seemed highly futuristic to most looking on at the weapons.

## Personality

Many people in the media think that Bruce Wayne is only just an egocentric playboy. As an adult, he is renowned for being casually arrogant, apathetic, callous, and a hedonist who enjoyed the finer things in life, namely gambling, partying, flirting, and (apparently) drinking. However, it is shown that Bruce does care for his people, especially his remaining family and friends. Eccentric, brilliant, outgoing, and cocky, Bruce is a classic playboy, with his wealth, power, and natural charm allowing him to get just about any woman he wants.

Bruce is also known for being exceptionally intelligent and innovative. His intelligence has earned him the "DaVinci of Our Time" nickname and his inventions for Wayne Enterprises have revolutionized technology for mankind. His past as a businessman had turned him into a very pragmatic individual, always taking the quickest, most efficient way out of a problem. This pragmatism extended to his fighting style.

## Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect**: Bruce Wayne is one of the smartest humans in the world and is a genius of phenomenally outstanding, wunderkind level intellect (known to be a polymath and bibliophile, making numerous eclectic references), quite possibly the most intelligent human being in the world, with his phenomenally eclectic intellect virtually unrivaled, with Bruce standing out even among other geniuses (notably intellectually outclassing his genius father even in the latter's field of medicine). Due to his mental training and being naturally gifted, he has acquired an instant learning aptitude, parallel multitasking, an eidetic/photographic memory, accelerated reading, and a far more powerful memory. As a result, he is known by the nickname, "The DaVinci of Our Time". Bruce's tremendously eclectic genius extends itself to his prolific, nearly unparalleled memory, oligarchical business, demagogic, mechanical engineering, scientific, and social skills. Throughout his life, Bruce has accomplished numerous intellectual feats.
	+ **Eidetic Memory**: Bruce's mind works in the same way as a computer with unlimited storage capacity, only much faster, able to perform several mental functions at once without losing any focus on any of them. He could instantly recall specific information with incredible speed and accuracy, storing everything in a photographic memory and retrieve it immediately without the typical human pause for a thought.
	+ **Master Businessman**: Bruce is a phenomenally brilliant genius oligarchical businessman, a wunderkind prodigy as a child. He is widely regarded as possibly the greatest businessman in the world. At the age of eighteen, Bruce took over Wayne Enterprises due to his parents' deaths and having come of age, thereby becoming the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company in history. Since then, Bruce helped the company grow, managing to successfully change Wayne Enterprises from an old-science dinosaur into a cutting-edge technology giant (in a stupendous, what some call a superhuman, business feat), allowing the company to grow to massive heights, and gain more business partners, which gives him a tremendous amount of oligarchical influence and respect in the business world, in addition to Bruce being able to considerably expand the already massive amount of wealth inherited by him from his family to phenomenal levels that makes him quite possibly the wealthiest individual in the world, to the point where his company easily surpasses even the likes of Lionel Luthor's LuthorCorp (alongside Ted Kord's Kord Industries and Robert Queens' Queens Consolidated), in terms of wealth, R&D budget, and in the field of business contracts, with Wayne Enterprises eventually becoming the largest tech conglomerate in the world under his leadership, as well as the world's premiere company in high-tech defense innovation. Bruce is therefore extremely well-respected in the business world, able to command people's attention when he spoke on economic matters by virtue of the fact that he was savvy enough to have, over the years, built up Wayne Enterprises into the premier weapons supplier to the U.S. military for years. He is known for having his employees' loyalty, as well as his impeccable business ethics. However, upon his return, Bruce strives to be environmentally responsible in his businesses, such as turning away from making weapons.
	+ **Master Demagogue**: Bruce is a superbly skilled demagogic genius, masterfully appealing to popular desires and the prejudices when addressing people, often championing the causes of the common people, with his usage of rational arguments making Bruce's methods even more effective. Indeed, his Wayne Enterprises' mission statement and motto is: "Racing to the Future."
	+ **Master Engineer**: Bruce is an extremely talented, phenomenally brilliant, and prolific genius engineer, computer scientist, computer programmer, cryptographer, and robotics technician, a wunderkind prodigy as a child, having been able to make many complicated inventions at a young age, building his first circuit board at age four and his first engine at age six and at some point in his childhood, built Dum-E and U, his personal lab assistants before going on to construct numerous innovative Wayne Enterprises weapons for the U.S. military as an adult, as well as leading Wayne Enterprises to become the largest tech conglomerate in the world, as well as becoming the world's premiere high-tech defense innovation company (surpassing Kord Industries, LuthorCorp, and Queens Consolidated), specializing in new disruptive technologies. Bruce is equally brilliant in software and holographic engineering, with his custom-built mansion being highly technology-integrated and wired to be run through his personal A.I. assistant, PENNYWORTH, whom Bruce created from scratch.
	+ **Master Scientist**: An extraordinarily brilliant and phenomenally skilled scientific genius prodigy, Bruce is ingeniously resourceful, knowledgeable, and brilliant in a vast array of scientific fields, particularly applied science, but also physics, having graduated *summa cum laude* from the Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Harvard, M.I.T., Paris-Sorbonne University, Princeton, Stanford, Cambridge, and Yale University, between the ages of twelve and twenty.
	+ **Master Social Intuit**: Bruce has an incredible degree of social confidence and mastery in intuitively determining how to interact with others, gain their respect, and get his point across with calmness, eloquence, and charisma. Hence, Bruce diplomatically greeted the press upon his return to Gotham City (despite them, somewhat insensitively reminding him of his parents' deaths).
* **Master Martial Artist**: Bruce Wayne is an extraordinarily skilled combatant, highly experienced in hand-to-hand combat, and an infamously formidable master of a vast array of martial arts, possessing extensive levels of knowledge of melee combat, having rigorously training himself in martial arts at a young age. He continued training himself, eventually becoming an exceptionally fit man extremely skilled in martial arts. Using these skills, Bruce was able to fight crime as a vigilante. Hence, he could single-handedly take down twelve criminals at once (despite not having yet fully recovered from his wounds at the time, as noted by Luke Fox). Bruce's fighting style incorporates Boxing, Escrima, Judo, Jujutsu, Keysi Fighting Method, Krav Maga, and Mixed Martial Arts.

## Trivia

* Bruce Wayne is stated to be 6'4" and weighs 216 lbs.
* Bruce Wayne's official networth prior to taking over Wayne Enterprises stood at $22.1 billion. After taking over Wayne Enterprises, his networth changed to $200, 444, 480, 000 (nearly nine times greater).
* Bruce Wayne owns a plethora of books: *Alice in Wonderland*, *Degas*, *The Golden Bible*, *The Joys of Wine*, *Lolita*, *The Midnight Ride*, *The Wizard of Oz*, and many more. He keeps them in a bookshelf in his office at Wayne Enterprises.

## Behind the Scenes

* In the main DC Comics continuity, Bruce Wayne was created by Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger and first appeared in *Detective Comics* #27 (May 1939). Originally referred to as "The Bat-Man" and still referred to as "The Batman", the character is additionally known as "The Caped Crusader", "The Dark Knight", and "The World's Greatest Detective", among other titles. He is a vigilante superhero known as Batman, the protector of Gotham City, and a man dressed as a bat who fights against evil and strikes terror into the hearts of criminals everywhere. Batman became a very popular character soon after his introduction and gained his own comic book title, *Batman*, in 1940. An American cultural icon, Batman has been licensed and adapted into a variety of media, from radio to television and film, and appears on a variety of merchandise sold all over the world, such as toys and video-games. The character has also intrigued psychiatrists, with many trying to understand the character's psyche.
* The Batverse version of Bruce Wayne is the eighth live-action incarnation of the character, following the incarnations portrayed by Lewis Wilson, Robert Lowery, Adam West, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Cloonie, and Christian Bale.