Bruce Wayne

* Civilian
* Batman

**Bruce Wayne** is the CEO of the Wayne Foundation, the vigilante known as **Batman**, and a member of the Justice League.

## Biography

### Eary Life

Born 1994 in Gotham City, the city with the highest crime rate in the whole country, Bruce Wayne, other than most children his age in Gotham, had two loving and caring parents in the form of doctor Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha. He was also partially brought up by the family’s butler, Alfred Pennyworth, who would later become something of a father to Bruce. One night, the mob boss Vincent Falcone came to the Waynes in their mansion, begging for Thomas Wayne to save his son Carmine, who had been shot by their rival Luigi Maroni.

Having worked with Falcone in the past and having sworn the Hippocratic oath, Thomas agreed and saved the former son’s life. After the adults left him alone to rest, Bruce, now a child, went to speak to Carmine, who explained to him that criminals were a superstitious kind and that all it takes to get out of a bad situation is a flip of a coin. Bruce was then given Carmine's lucky coin as a gift by him, who claimed that they were family now.

One year later, Bruce witnessed the greatest tragedy of his life. As he and his parents were walking down an Alley where they were approached by a man with a gun. Sent by the mob to kill the Waynes, he first stole Martha's necklace, before shooting both her and her husband, leaving Bruce allive, and ran away.

### Becoming Batman

This would cause Bruce to swear on his parents grave to become a vigilante to fight the criminals who had taken root in Gotham, at all costs, though he would have the rule to never kill, no matter the circumstances. After his parents death, Bruce also inherited their whole fortune, as well as their company Wayne Foundation and all of its assets. Decades later, after having left the city in order to train and acquire the skills he needed, he returned to Gotham. With the help of his butler, police captain James Gordon, who had become a trusted ally of his, and operating from a cave below his manor, he became the vigilante Batman in 2019 at the age of 25 and started to clean up the city, fighting dangerous foes and supervillains such as Joker, Scarecrow, Penguin, the Mad Hatter and Calendar Man, along with some minor threats like Killer Croc and Killer Moth. His main goal though, remained to destroy the organized crime and all of its members, including his former friend Falcone. He also started to work together with district attorney Harvey Dent, who convinced him to bring the criminals he fought to the mental health facility Arkham Asylum, instead of the Gotham Penitentiary, so they could get the help they needed.

At some point, Batman also came into contact with the Zombie residing in the sewers, Solomon Grundy, and agreed to let him stay there as long as he didn't hurt anyone. Bruce also started to date the feline cat burglar Catwoman, alias Selina Kyle, while trying to catch her as Batman. One day, Falcone reached out to him and they agreed to meet in Falcone's tower, to discuss a possible business deal between them, though Bruce declined, not wanting to have anything to do with him or his organization.

### The Long Halloween begins

On Halloween night, Bruce was standing in one of his living rooms and debated with Alfred whether Gotham was yet to be saved or not. They then saw the Bat-Signal shining in the sky and calling for him. After his butler left the room, with Bruce talking to himself, a trait which he also often displayed when talking to Gordon, Bruce suited up and went to the GCPD headquarters to talk to the captain. There, he and Harvey Dent were already waiting for him and as he arrived, Gordon informed both of them about the recent murder of Johnny Viti, the nephew of the Carmine "the Roman" Falcone, who Harvey wanted to use as a witness to testify against him. Enraged by this, Dent blamed Falcone for this, believing he had killed bis own nephew to protect himself, though Batman wasn’t so sure about that. The three of them then made a promise to bring down Falcone no matter the cost, having Harvey work in the light and Batman from the other side, as Gordon put it.

Batman then saw Catwoman standing on a rooftop nearby, spying on them and left the other two without them noticing, similar to what Alfred had done before, and started chasing her halfway through the city. During their chase, Catwoman made it clear that she wanted him to follow her, even waiting for him from time to time. Due to his heavy equipment, Bruce nearly fell down from the roofs several times, though he managed to save himself each time.

As he finally caught up with her, the thieving cat claimed that she had him exactly where she wanted him and looked to the side. Batman then realized that she had lead him to a warehouse which housed more than a billion of Falcone’s dirty money, before he could launder it. As he was investigating the scene, Selina saw a shadowy figure sneaking up behind him and attacked it. Batman then told her to stand down, seeing as the figure was none other than Harvey, who had used a tracking signal Batman had given him. They discussed what to do with this money, whether to give it to the Gcpd as evidence or to transport it somewhere else. But due to Falcone owing most the cops and the amount being to big to transport, Catwoman to set it on fire, hurting Falcone as much as possible. After she had left, Harvey debated with him if this was the right thing to do, remembering that Gordon said he should work from the light side.

Batman then had the idea to throw a coin to decide if they should burn it or not, to which Harvey agreed. Unbeknownst to him, the coin was the same one Falcone had given Bruce decades earlier and therefore, was double sided, meaning the decision was made before the coin was even thrown. As he returned to the Batcave, Bruce saw the news report about the fire that took one and a half billion from the Falcone crime family. This action had consequences however, as in the same night, Falcone had hired a hitman named Mickey Chen to place a bomb in Dent's house, nearly killing him and his wife.

### Chasing Mickey Chen

One month later, on the night of Thanksgiving, Batman had found a lead on the attempted murderer of Harvey Dent. He used his Batmobile to chase Chen throughout the whole city, until they arrived in Chinatown, where Chen's car crashed and he was forced to flee on foot. Batman chased him into an alley and threw one of his Batarangs at him, incapacitating him. He tried to interrogate the criminal, even going so far as to punch him right into the open wound his Batarang had caused, but was interrupted by three other members of Chen's gang, the San Ho Hui, appearing.

Though they proved to be a far greater challenge than Chen, Batman was still able to take all of them out, even though he needed Catwoman's assistance for the last and biggest one. He then followed Chen's trail into the sewers, where he found that Grundy had captured him and was probably going to kill him. Batman however, was able to convince the undead Zombie to let his hostage go, so he could be alone again. He then brought Chen to the GCPD headquarters to interrogate him together with Gordon. After several attempts that all lead to Chen claiming he was innocent, Bruce grew angry and started to hurt him, but Gordon quickly intervened and prevented him from doing so, saying that everything he said would be useless if he was hurt.

Gordon then called his right hand woman Renee Montoya to take him out of the room and release him again, seeing as they had no real evidence against him. They then discussed if Harvey could have been the one who had killed Johnny Viti, due to a comment made by Mickey Chen, but regarded it as a lie and resorted back to the principle of Occam's razor. That the easiest solution, in this case Falcone being the one responsible, was often the right one. After that, they both returned home to celebrate Thanksgiving, with Bruce going back into the city again later to give Grundy a part of the dinner Alfred had prepared for him. In the same night, Chen and all of his friends and gang members were murdered by the same person who had killed Johnny Viti, named Holiday because he always struck on Holidays.

### Visit at Arkham and Christmas Eve

On December 24th, Batman and Gordon visited the Arkham Asylum in order to speak to Julian Day, the Calendar Man, whom they wanted to ask about the murder cases on the last two major holidays. With him being a criminal who operated exclusively on holidays, he seemed the logical choice for a consultant in this case. During their talk, he repeatedly mocked them and seemed to know more than he wanted to tell, but in the end, came to the conclusion that Harvey, who was absent from this meeting, was the most likely person to be Holiday. While Bruce and the captain didn’t want to hear any of this, Day did not give in and further elaborated his theory. At the end of their conversation, Day also made a comment about what a "joke" Batman's efforts of protecting the city were. The emphasis on the word joke made Batman realize that it had to have something to do with the Joker, his archnemesis, only locked up a couple of cells next to the Calendar Man. He rushed to the mad clown's cell and forced the guard to open it, and looked for him in his bed, but beneath the its sheets, he only found a mash of food from the last weeks, placed there to make it seem like he was still there. The guard then told him that Joker had threatened his child to force him to release him, before the first murder of the Holiday killings had taken place. Batman then saw the face of Harvey Dent on a newspaper lying on top of the double and quickly used his Grappling Gun to leave the building, in order to warn him.

On his way, he way contacted by Alfred in the Batmobile, who informed him that the Joker had already visited several families that night, all having the name Dent, which further demonstrated Joker's intentions. Having arrived at the Dent house, he found Harvey beaten unconscious next to his Christmas tree and after helping him recover, he asked him where the homicidal clown went, to which Dent answered that he went to Maroni. After arriving at the Maroni's Restaurant, Batman witnessed Salvatore Maroni, son of Luigi Maroni, carrying the corpse of a man into his car. A man with bleached skin and a giant grin on his face. Before he had even realized he was there, Batman incapacitated the mobster and asked him what the Joker wanted from him. Maroni answered and reported that the clown had poisoned their food with his toxin and that, while he wasn’t hungry, his friend Freddie was and was now the grinning corpse in his car.

After being asked where the Joker went, Maroni replied that before Batman's arrival in Gotham, people like the clown wouldn’t come out of the shadows, but ever since him, people like Joker, Killer Moth and Killer Croc came from everywhere. He then proposed to ask Carmine Falcone himself to find out who was killing his people, which Batman found helpful and left him to go to the Falcone Tower. There, the first thing he saw outside the front entrance was the body of Milos Grapa, Falcone’s bodyguard and next to the weapon used for his murder, along with the holiday specific souvenir, were Joker cards, lying on the ground. This made Bruce further suspect that Joker was the killer they were looking for and as he waa back in his cave, he made a list of the most likely suspects, including Falcone himseld, Maroni, Carla Viti, who was Falcone’s sister, Joker and Harvey Dent, even though he did not like that thought very much.

### New Year’s Eve

One week later on New Year’s Eve, Bruce attended a benefit party on Carmine Falcone's Yacht. There, after listening to Falcone’s speech, in which he even honorably mentioned Bruce, he met Selina again and went outside with her. They talked about how they tried to make their relationship work, but that they were to different and she said that should probably end it. Bruce agreed and let her go, before noticing that she had stolen his watch. He asked her how she did it, to which she responded that this kind of curiosity could get him killed.

He then got a message from Alfred, who informed him that the Joker had shown up again and was now attacking the New Year's parade in the heart of the city. He quickly changed into his Batsuit and left the boat in order to stop the mad psychopath. As he arrived at the scenen, he saw the Joker flying a plane through the city with tanks of his poisonous gas on the back end. He didn’t hesitate and used his grappling gun to get to the plane and tried to stop Joker from unleashing it. During their fight, he asked his adversary why he had killed Johnny Viti, Mickey Chen and Milos Grapa, but the Joker seemes to be confused by this. He claimed to be trying to kill Holiday himself, thinking that he could be the only major serial killer in town, and had planned to kill half the coty at the parade, meaning either he would have hit Holiday, or not. And if not, then he still would have killed lots of people, which made Batman even more angrier. He then explained that he and Batman were alike regarding this, that they loved a good riddle, which made Bruce think back to Falcone’s son Alberto, whom he had met when he had visited Falcone as Bruce Wayne months earlier, and how he would fit perfectly as a suspect. He then caused the plane to crash in the ocean and apprehended the Joker, leaving him for the police to collect, while he returned to the Falcone boat.

There, he interrupted a conversation between Selina and Alberto and accused him of being the serial killer Holiday, claiming that he wanted his father to take him into his inner circle and see him as a potential heir again. Alberto then said that he didn’t even want to control the family, and that he would much rather be in another city, living a normal life with a family, all while the public counted down to the new year. As they hit zero, and the next xear had begun, Alberto was shot in the chest multiple times and caused to fall over the railing. His killer, Holiday, then tried to escape, though not without being chased by Batman. Unfortunately, Holiday was able to escape with a boat and left the vigilante on the yacht. As the larger boat was returned to land, and police officers questioned the witnesses of the murder, Batman, Harvey and Gordon met in an alley to discuss what to do now regarding Falcone. They came to the conclusion to place him under police protection, but they still asking themselves: Who was Holiday?

At Alberto's funeral during the credits, Carmine again pressures Bruce to help him launder his funds. When Bruce refuses, Falcone introduces the woman accompanying him who shakes Bruce's hand. Vines emerge from under her sleeve to grab Bruce's arm, causing her eyes to turn green and the woman revealing herself to be Poison Ivy.

### Controlled by Ivy and chasing the Scarecrow

Under her control, Poison Ivy, forces Bruce to sign over his assets to Falcone, involuntarily preventing him from acting as Batman. He was eventually rescued by Catwoman, she informing him that he has been inactive for three months and that Holiday's murders have continued throughout Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, and April Fool's Day, targeting both the Falcons and the Falcons as the Maronis.

Bruce resumed his activities as Batman, on Mother's Day, he confronted the Scarecrow who had just escaped from Arkham Asylum, during the confrontation he injected Batman with the fear toxin, unable to stop him. In a toxin-induced hallucination, Batman stumbles through Gotham and ends up in Crime Alley, Catwoman finds him and takes him home, mistaking her for his mother.

### Catching Scarecrow and the Mad Hatter

Later, Bruce is visited by Gordon and Harvey to question him about Falcone's connections to his family. Bruce remembers when his father saved Falcone's life after being shot by Luigi. Bruce assures Gordon and Dent that the relationship between his family and Falcone ended after his parents died, in what he believed was retaliation for saving Carmine.

On July 4, Batman again encounters the Scarecrow and Mad Hatter while they rob the Gotham bank for Falcone, fights them but they knock him out and capture him. Batman wakes up, escapes, and defeats them in the cemetery.

### The birth of Two-Face

Later, infiltrates the Dent residence and finds Holiday's weapons and an Oxford University pennant in the basement, leading him to suspect that Harvey is the murderer, he meets with Gordon and shows him what he found. In court, Maroni accuses Harvey of being Holiday and throws acid in his face, disfiguring him. After Harvey escaped from the hospital, Batman goes to Gilda to find him, he tells her that her husband never mentioned that he had gone to Oxford, but Gilda doesn't say anything. He then returns to Arkham and interrogates Calendar-Man about the murder of Falcone's sister, Carla Viti, who had accused Harvey of being Holiday before she was murdered.

### The Justice League

Wayne later received visitors in the form of The Flash and Green Arrow.

#### Assisting Superman

Sometime after joining the Justice League, Batman would assist Superman and Supergirl in taking down Solomon Grundy. After Grundy was taken down, Batman would voice his difference of opinion about Supergirl being on Earth, as she was causing more harm than good.

## Abilities

* **Naturally Enhanced Conditioning**: Batman's bodily functions are enhanced to the very pinnacle of human potential and perfection through an extensive lifetime of rigorously intense training, meditation, and a strict-nutritional diet. Due to Bruce’s physiology being naturally augmented since his youth without the need of any special drugs, radiation or genetic engineering; his strength, speed, stamina, reflexes, agility, durability, senses, intelligence, and healing time are greatly heightened as much as possible for a normal human being. Despite being biologically human his physiology and athleticism is comparable to low-level superhuman conditioning.
* **Peak Human Strength**: Batman’s strength is at the very highest peak of human potential and is easily one of the strongest humans alive. Having intensively and extensively trained his body to its utmost limit he is said to have the strength of 10 men, possibly a dozen or more. He is capable of lifting 500kg and can break through walls, crack stole and bend steel bars. He also broke out of the grips of the monstrously strong Solomon Grundy.
* **Peak Human Speed**: He can run and move at speeds comparable to the finest human athletes. In combat he is extremely agile and evasive, supplementing his strength with sheer speed to defeat his enemies. Occasionally, Batman has shown enough speed to catch up or outrun a speeding car while running on foot.
* **Peak Human Agilit**y: His agility is far superior to an Olympic-gold athlete gymnast. He can flawlessly coordinate his body with perfect balance, flexibility, and dexterity, and leap across rooftops with precision
* **Peak Human Reflexes**: Batman's reflexes are seemingly superhuman, and are far superior to normal humans. He is able to quickly react instantaneously to simultaneous attacks from multiple enemies and dodge rapid gunfire at point-blank range on many occasions, though he can get hit if there are too many to evade.
* **Peak Human Durability**: His muscles and bones are far tougher and vastly denser than ordinary humans; making him extremely durable to certain degrees. He can endure being slammed through thick, reinforced concrete thanks to his rigorously trained physique. He is able to withstand being stabbed and shot multiple times, as well as beatings from superhumans such as Solomon Grundy. Also Batman seems to be highly resistant to the blunt trauma of surviving falls of considerable distance such as multi-story drops and falls.
* **Peak Human Stamina**: Bruce's highly trained and developed body generates muscles generate considerably less fatigue toxins then the musculature of normal human, granting him exceptional endurance and lung capacity.
* **Peak Human Intelligence**: Batman’s mental performance is at the peak of human potential, thus considerably superior to normal humans, able to use his brain more efficiently thanks to both being naturally gifted and mentally trained himself for the needed shortcuts. He can perform highly skilled detective work.
* **Peak Human Senses**: Batman's five senses are naturally enhanced to the highest limits of human perfection; making his sense of sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste extremely precise and accurate by human standard.
* **Peak Human Longevity**: Batman ages slower than normal humans due to having extremely healthy cells, without any superhuman degree. Even well into his 70's, he could maintain his youthful looks and abilities. Finally, Batman could easily live well over 150 years old since this quality was at peak-human level.
* **Master of deception/Manipulator:** Bruce is an extraordinarily skilled master of the arts of deception and manipulation, as he managed to successfully keep his identity as Batman a secret for many years. He also puts up a fake façade of him being an arrogant playboy and womanizer in order to avoid other individuals from suspecting that he is Batman. The only individuals aware of his secret identity are Alfred Pennyworth, Selina Kyle and the deceased Alberto Falcone; Alberto only discovered Bruce’ secret due to Selina accidentally saying Wayne's name in public before Falcone was killed by Holiday.
	+ **Expert driver/Pilot**: Bruce is capable of driving multiple vehicles, such as cars; as Batman, he utilizes the "Batmobile" when out on patrol.
* **Expert marksman**: As Batman, Bruce possesses an almost infallible aim, as proven when he uses his Grappling Gun, both for transportation in order to ascent rooftops, as well as to pull individuals or objects.
* **Intimidation**: As Batman, Bruce commands an intimidating presence, to the point where many criminals fear him.
* **Stealth/Infiltration/Escape artist**: Bruce is extremely secretive, being able to approach other individuals without being sensed. He can quickly vanish from sight after performing his heroic deeds.

## Equipment

### Current Equipment

* **Batmobile**: Wayne used a vehicle whenever he was out on patrol as Batman.
* **Batsuit**: Whilst fighting crime in Gotham, Wayne wore a protective black suit stylized like a bat designed to both terrify his enemies and hide his identity from them.
	+ **Utility Belt**: As Batman, Wayne carries with him a utility belt consisting primarily of a strap and buckle, that houses many pouches or cylindrical cartridges attached to its outside each containing one of his various gadgets.
		- **Batarangs**: Small bat shaped throwing knives that can be used for various reasons.
		- **Electric Charge Rifle**:
		- **Grappling Gun**: A device that allows Bruce to traverse rooftops and other structures as Batman. As well as pull objects towards him.
		- **Smoke Pellets**:
* **Gas Mask**:

### Former Equipment

* **Penguin's Umbrella**:
* **Two-Face's Coin**:

## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 Batman: The Long Halloween - Part One
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Batman: The Long Halloween - Part Two
3. ↑ Legion of Super-Heroes