Batman (Prime Earth)

"*12 years in Gotham, Alfred. How many good guys are left? How many stayed that way?*"
―Bruce Wayne to Alfred Pennyworth[src]
**Bruce Wayne** was the CEO of Wayne Enterprises and the main vigilante operating in Gotham City, known as the **Batman**. After witnessing the murder of his parents at the hands of a mugger as a child, Bruce waged a war on crime in Gotham City for over 8 years before the Black Zero Event. He also serves as the benefactor of the Justice League.

Initially confining himself to the streets of Gotham at night, the emergence of metahumans after the Black Zero Event drew Batman into the wider world of "superheroes" as he tries to keep them in check, with Superman at the top of his watchlist. At the same time, his business rival Lex Luthor is on that same mission, ending in the creation of the first living android Metallo. As Metallo went rogue, he set aside his differences with Superman and joins forces with him to shut down the menacing android, with the help of Wonder Woman.

He was later invited to assemble a team of superheroes by Superman and Wonder Woman to fight against future threats, in which he refused but informed them that he would be available if they needed him.

## Personality

Bruce Wayne is very determined and dedicated to his work of crime-fighting vigilantism. Being skilled in the art of deception, Bruce often hides his true dark (almost sociopathic) personality by maintaining a façade in public - while still serious and intelligent, he purposefully comes off as a somewhat arrogant womanizing playboy, so as to avoid anyone from suspecting that he could be the fearsome Batman.

## Abilities

* **Peak human condition**: Through intense training, specialized diet and meditation, Batman represents the absolute pinnacle of human physical prowess. His physical attributes is at the natural limits far above than that of an Olympic-level athlete that has ever competed. His strength, speed, stamina, agility, reflexes, senses, healing and endurance are at the peak of human potential and perfection.
	+ **Peak human strength**: Batman's strength allows him to physically overpower combatants, including elite-trained humans and extraterrestrial troops.
	+ **Peak human durability**: Batman is also exceptionally durable by human standards due to his intense training. His muscles and bones are vastly denser and far more resilient than an average human.
	+ **Peak human agility**: Batman's athletic prowess grants him exceptional agility, coordination, and balance while fighting and evading others. Batman is incredibly nimble and agile, and has demonstrated high levels of agility and dexterity.
	+ **Peak human stamina**: Batman's highly trained and developed body generates far fewer fatigue toxins than an ordinary human, superior in that regard to the finest Olympian athlete, able to exert himself at his peak capacity for several hours without tiring or slowing down.
	+ **Peak human metabolism**: Batman's metabolism runs several times faster than an average human's due to his strict diet and incredible workout regimen, this allows him to have a near inhuman metabolism, healing, immune system, and longevity.
* **Master martial artist**: Batman is an extraordinarily skilled hand-to-hand combatant, an infamously formidable master in multiple forms of martial arts, with 8 years of experience battling and overpowering numerous criminals and supervillains in Gotham City. His fighting style also incorporates and takes full advantage of his proper use of physical forces, momentum, and leverage, as well as his knowledge of anatomical weaknesses and pressure-points, combined with his nigh-superhuman strength, executing it all at very high speeds.
* **Throwing**: Batman is a master of throwing projectile weaponry with great accuracy and pinpoint precision, such as his signature batarangs.
* **Hand-to-hand combat**:
* **Expert marksman**: Batman is skilled his grapple guns, using them with a high degree of accuracy and precision.
* **Master spy**: In addition to being an incredible detective and a world-class fighter, Batman is extremely skilled in espionage, intelligence gathering, stealth, infiltration, and sabotage, capable of breaching high security facilities without being detected. Batman's stealth is so effective in fact, that some criminals would claim that you wouldn't even know he was there until it was already too late.
* **Master intimidator**: Batman commands an extremely fearsome presence, able to instill fear into the hearts of Gotham City's criminals and supervillains.
* **Genius-level intellect**: Batman is an extremely intelligent and eclectic polymath genius, his intellect is arguably his greatest and most formidable ability of all, as it extends itself to his nearly unparalleled tactical, deceptive, detective, criminology, scientific, engineering, hacking, combat, exploitative networking, and business skills.
	+ **Master detective**: Batman is an immensely formidable detective genius, capable of observation, forensic investigation, and psychological assessments, as well as both inductive and deductive reasoning of the highest caliber and has been claimed by many to be the "world's greatest detective".
	+ **Master tactician**: Batman is an extremely formidable tactical and strategic genius, often using cunning and planning to effectively assess combat situations and come up with effective strategies, and successfully outwit stronger and more powerful foes, rather than simply out-fighting them, using any of their exploitable weaknesses to his advantage. Hence, Batman is by far the best tactician among the Justice League.
	+ **Master deceiver**: Batman is an immensely formidable deceptive genius, a wunderkind prodigy, with Alfred Pennyworth even going so far as claiming that Batman's skills in the art of deception, ever since the age of 7.
	+ **Expert social intuit**: Batman, both as Bruce Wayne and a vigilante, has a great degree of social confidence, making him highly skilled in intuitively determining how to interact with others, gain their respect and get his point across with a calmness, eloquence, and charisma that sometimes belie his actual, usually gloomy, emotional state.
	+ **Expert actor**: Batman is exceptionally great at acting like the run-of-the-mill arrogant billionaire as to avoid anyone to suspect who he truly is.
	+ **Master engineer**: Batman is an immensely formidable genius in vehicles' operations and general engineering, since his company, Wayne Enterprises is the world's 6th leading company (after LexCorp, Kord Industries, Stagg Industries, and Queen Industries) in high-technology defense innovation.
	+ **Master hacker**: Batman is an extremely skilled genius hacker, notable for his exceptional skills of intelligence gathering, and data interpretation, as well as his superb pattern recognition and analysis skills, with only supergenius Lex Luthor known to surpass him.
	+ **Leadership**: Although not on the level of Lex Luthor in brilliance and as he admits, Superman in terms of charisma, Bruce is an extremely skilled leader, able to successfully lead and spearhead Wayne Enterprises successfully for decades, making it become among the world's most prominent companies.
	+ **Business management**: Bruce Wayne is an immensely formidable brilliant genius businessman, successfully running his father's company, Wayne Enterprises, for decades with tremendous efficiency, helping the company grow and gain more business partners. He had a net worth of **$12 billion**.
	+ **Criminology**: Batman is an extremely skilled and experienced criminologist, at least equal with Commissioner James Gordon, having great insight into and understanding of Gotham City's criminals and their mindsets, which allows him to consistently overpower and undermine their operations with extreme effectiveness.
	+ **Multilingualism**: Bruce, apart from his native English, is able to speak many other languages.
* **Driving**: Batman is a highly skilled and evasive patrol driver.
* **Aviation**: Batman is also very proficient at combat piloting.
* **Indomitable will**: Batman has tremendous determination and strength of will, which make him an extremely formidable opponent, one who absolutely refuses to hunker down and give up, even when placed against seemingly insurmountable odds.

## Facilities

* **Wayne Manor**: The stately residence of the Wayne family. Under all the expensive china and bookcases, it also serves to hide the massive underground cave used as Batman's base of operations, the Batcave.
* **Batcave**:

## Equipment

* **Batsuits**: Batman's highly durable Kevlar-titanium tri-weave protective suit and combat armor, used to compensate for his lack of invulnerability. It consists of three thin highly durable Titanium-kevlar bodysuit layers and an outer and thinner layer of durable and heatproof spandex. It is invulnerable to blades, and bullets and is also heatproof. The Batsuit's cowl also digitally alters Batman's voice, making it unrecognizable to those that know him as Bruce Wayne.

### Weapons and gadgets

* **Batarangs**: Batman's sharp, but non-lethal throwing gadgets in the shape of his symbol, wielded by Batman when carrying out different tasks, from incapacitating criminals to breaking through windows.
* **Grapple gun**: Batman's line launching, multi-purpose, highly versatile, and handgun-like device that fires a retractable, detachable line with a mechanized, magnetic, or clawed end, which Batman utilizes to traverse Gotham and escape danger, all while allowing him to swing, catapult, or slingshot himself along structures or across gaps.
* **Batcomputer**: Batman's custom giant and powerful multi-purpose supercomputer console, located in the Batcave, with several monitor screens.
* **Utility belt**:

### Vehicles

* **Batmobile**: Batman's imposing and heavily armed custom combat vehicle used by him for transportation, pursuit, and capture and one of his most powerful tools to aid in his war against crime in Gotham City.
* **Batcycle**:
* **Batplane**: Batman's aerial combat prototype vehicle with an immense amount of firepower, it is sometimes remotely piloted by Tim Drake from within the Batcave, via the Batcomputer.

## Relationships

	+ Alan Wayne - ancestor
	+ Thomas Wayne - father
	+ Martha Wayne - mother
* Batman Vigilante Family
	+ Alfred Pennyworth - legal guardian and mentor
	+ Dick Grayson/Robin/Nightwing - adoptive son
	+ Barbara Gordon
	+ Tim Drake/Robin/Red Robin - adoptive son

Allies* Gotham City Police Department
	+ James Gordon
* Bat Family
	+ Barbara Gordon
* Selina Kyle/Catwoman - love interest
* Justice League
	+ Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman - best friend and former enemy
	+ Diana Prince/Wonder Woman
	+ Barry Allen/Flash
	+ Arthur Curry/Aquaman
	+ Hal Jordan/Green Lantern
	+ J'onn J'onzz/Martian Manhunter
* Titans
* Joker - archenemy
* Harley Quinn
* Deadshot
* LexCorp
	+ Lex Luthor - business rival
	+ Mercy Graves
	+ Metallo
* Ares
* Ocean Master

## External links

* Batman (Prime Earth) on DC Database
* Batman on DC Extended Universe Wiki
* Batman on Wikipedia

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The never meet but had history off-screen