Bruce Wayne

## Batman

* Batman
* Bruce Wayne

**Bruce Thomas Wayne** (February 20th, 1978) is an American billionaire industrialist, notorious playboy and entrepreneur, whom dons the alias of **Batman**, the vigilante protector of Gotham City, a man dressed like a bat who fights against evil and strikes terror into the hearts of criminals everywhere, during night. During day, Wayne is the chief executive officer of his late parents' business, Wayne Industries. Despite not having any superhuman abilities, Wayne is one of the most intelligent men and greatest fighter. His physical prowess, technical ingenuity, and tactical thinking helps make him an incredibly dangerous opponent. As well as using numerous genius tactics, complex gadgetry, and incredible fighting skills, he is one of the most dangerous crimefighters in existence. Throughout Wayne's career as a vigilante, he has mentored three protégés, each of whom have donned alternate aliases to help fight crime within **Gotham** & **Blüdhaven**.

## History

### Early Life

On February 20th, 1978, at **Gotham State General Hospital**, Bruce Thomas Wayne was born to wealthy physician Dr. **Thomas Wayne** and his wife **Martha**, whom both were members of the prestigious **Wayne** and **Kane** families of Gotham City, respectively. Both families are one of the most wealthy families and charitable families within Gotham City.

When Wayne was two years old, his mother had lost her second child following a horrific car crash that left her mentally scarred. Numerous conspires have been made about the crash for years, some even believing infamous cult **Court of Owls** were involved.

At the age of four, Wayne fell down a family well into the caves below Wayne Manor. By the time Wayne's father rescued his son, Wayne attracted the attention of several bats. Traumatized from the event, his father attempted to seal the cave numerous attempts to no avail. Giving up, the cave remained untouched for seventeen years until ultimately becoming the **Batcave**.

Due to his family's reputation, Wayne became restless, resulting in him sneaking out of school to visit a Gotham City that hadn't yet recognized him yet. However, a few months prior to his parent's death, Wayne was picked by Officer **Jim Gordon** and his partner.

On **September 28th, 1987**, Thomas & Martha Wayne with their son were fleeing home from the Monarch Theater, after a murder of a famous talk show host started an infamous **1987 Clown Riots** all around Gotham that night. To avoid rioters, the Wayne family flee to a nearby alley way, **Park Row**, where a masked protestor killed his parents after attempting to steal his mother's pearl necklace and flee. To this day, it's still unclear whom was the culprit.

Following the incident, the Wayne families' long-time servant, a Cold War veteran, medic and former spy, **Alfred Pennyworth** adopted the boy and continued to raise him in Wayne Manor.

### Later Childhood

Briefly after his parents' murder, Wayne attempted suicide with a razor blade, however before making the final fatal act, he realized that this wasn't what his parents would want, and at that moment Bruce Wayne vowed to spend the rest of his life warring on crime.

To occupy his mind from suicidal thoughts, Wayne became obsessed over whom the murder was. Constantly searching various news articles throughout Gotham City, he learned some of the rather 'popular' conspiracy theories about the identity of his parents' murderer. One theory had even mentioned the murderer could be the same man whom took part in the fatal car crash that took his unborn bother. Some had even claimed the reason the culprit was still at large was thanks to the Court of Owls. Growing desperate to occupy his mind, Wayne begin to investigate, dedicating all his time to searching for any clues of the killer of the involvement of an urban myth cult, but there were none. None to prove if the Court of Owls were involved or not, none to prove the identity of his parent's killer.

With no other choice, Wayne had to come to terms that he'll never be able to solve his parents' murder, but he didn't. Wayne grew hateful and begin using toy guns to kill the mysterious man who murdered his parents, that didn't go unnoticed by Pennyworth. Seeing no other option, Pennyworth sent Wayne to an Arkham rehabilitation home for boys, where he would meet and become close friends with **Harvey Dent** and **Thomas Elliot**.

During Wayne's stay at the rehabilitation, he became suspicious of the rehabilitations doctor, Dr. **Hugo Strange**, whom was one of the most respected doctors within New Jersey at the time. Eventually Wayne, Dent and Elliot all worked together to successfully expose Strange as a fraud and due to the backlash being extremely severe, the rehabilitation was forced to be close down in the following weeks.

During Wayne's time at **Gotham Academy**, he met **Julie Madison**, an old childhood friend that had move away years prior to his parent's murder. The pair rekindled their friendship and grew a strong bond together. However it only lasted briefly due to Wayne's psychological issues with his parents' deaths. This wouldn't be the only time that Wayne's psychological issues affected him through. As only a few days later, he was expelled over answering a professor's question about a projectile being fired at a target, by burning the answer on the professor's front yard. Leading to him attending **Roxbury Fielding Academy**, where he met **Lincoln March**, whom he would become close friends with too.

However with his grief troubling him, Wayne realized at this point, he couldn't simply function properly with the way he was, and decided to forge his document to graduate high school early, at the age of fifteen. For the next three years, Wayne began going to various martial artist classes and participated in various underground fights, often coming out as the winner. Once he turned eighteen, he had briefly thought of becoming a police officer, but realized it would be pointless with the current corruption at the time.

### Travels & Training

Remembering the oath he swore to rid the city of the evil that had taken his parents' lives. Wayne said goodbye to his surrogative father and his three close friends and left Gotham to began his global sojourn. Beginning in Paris, Wayne briefly trained with the world's best fencer and eventually best him in a sword fight after two weeks of training. A few months later, Wayne had briefly attended a few certain courses that suited him and his plan at various European universities., but ultimately dropped out after one semester.

Throughout the final years of Wayne's teenage age, he continued to studied and received training in multiple martial art styles from various instructors in different countries. Learning man-hunting from a Frenchman **Henri Ducard**, stealth and reconnaissance under a Japanese ninja and other certified shinobi, hunting under an African Bushman, kung fu by **Richard Dragon**, as well as hand-to hand combat under the tutelage of **Ted Grant**, a world-champion boxer, and **David Cain**, one of the world's premier assassins, about traditional healing disciplines under Nepalese monks and even ventriloquism under skilled practitioners.

By the time Wayne had turned twenty years old, he learned how to race cars in life-or-death situations from a former Brazilian criminal. During this time had briefly thought of joining the FBI, but knew it's regulations and conduct would make him never be to completely oppose crime. He needed to be working outside the legal system, not within it.

After Ducard offered Wayne a position within his secret organization, known as the **League of Assassins**, and a chance at the justice he sought, Wayne became convinced and joined the League. It was only a few days later when Wayne deduce that 'Henri Ducard' was merely an operational alias used by the immortal 'mastermind' of the League, **Ra's al Ghul**. Upon his recruitment into the League, Wayne caught the eye of Al Ghul's eldest **Talia Al Ghul**.

During his time in the League, he was trained in archery by another League member, **Oliver Queen**, and even began training alongside him. The duo eventually began to rise above the rest of the recruits that the League had to offered at the time. Although never being able to surpass Queen's natural talent for archery, Wayne surpassed him in hunting and fencing due to prior training. The two eventually became close friends and often went on missions together. While Queen was being trained under a different instructor, Wayne was primarily taught by **Lady Shiva**, after the League found out Wayne had already trained under Cain and surpassed his teachings.

Two years would pass until Wayne would successfully surpassed Shiva's teaching and began tutoring under Ra's himself. It was during this time, Wayne finally begin his first passionate love affair with The Demon's eldest daughter. By the time Wayne turned twenty three, he was officially inducted into the League as **Khuffash** (Translation: The Bat) and in a short time, became an elite member of the Inner Circle.

On the anniversary of the Wayne Murder, one of the main suspects was found dead in his cell at **Blackgate Prison**, having seemingly hanged himself based off the testimony of various eyewitness. It wasn't long until Ra's discovered the affair between Talia and Wayne, and gave his blessings. A ceremony was held for them and they continued to have a happy and passionate marriage as they fell deep in love, with Ra's eventually naming Wayne as his only worthy successor. However due to Wayne's no kill rule their relationship began to sour. Eventually Wayne fled the League, after refusing to assassinate **Lucius Fox**, leaving a heartbroken but vengeful woman, not knowing she was carrying his child.

Knowing it wasn't safe to return to Gotham yet, Wayne trained under his final mentor, a former bounty hunter for little over a year. However, while they tracking down a target, they were ambushed by the League. Wayne realized it was a trap and the supposed "target" was his now-estranged wife's younger sister, **Nyssa Al Ghul**. The bounty hunter was quickly disposed of by various League members, and soon began surrounding Wayne. Seeing no other choice, Wayne jumped over a cliff and was later rescued by a shaman and survived. Nyssa would be banish for failing to kill Wayne and don the alias of Raatko instead of Ah Ghul.

After recovering from his injury, Wayne made his journey back to Gotham after seven strict years of training and traveling. To formally end his training, the first thing Wayne did once he came back to Gotham, is climbed to the top of Wayne Tower and base-jump off the top. Resulting in a concussion, road rash, & a dislocated shoulder and elbow.

### Early Heroic Career

With only his mission in mind and no care for his legacy as a Wayne, he moved himself out of Wayne Manor, further straining his relationship with his surrogate father, into a brownstone on Park Row from which he based his early attempts to infiltrate the **Red Hood Gang** after only six weeks back.

Despite trying to remain off the grid, Bruce's uncle **Philip Kane** had kept tabs on him after gaining control of Wayne Enterprises due to his nephew's absence. Kane hired strategist **Edward Nygma**, who advised him to have Wayne killed if he wouldn't play ball.

With the constant vengeful League after him, Wayne realized he had no other choice but to make himself available to the media. It soon became well known that he had returned to Gotham City, making it harder for the vengeful League to assassinate him in retaliation. Quickly donning the 'billionaire playboy philanthropist' persona, he spent some of his time surrounded by women, making club appearances and donating to various charities.

However Wayne still refused to return to the company while his uncle was selling weapons, Nygma once again advised Philip to have Bruce killed, but the Red Hood Gang soon attempted just that by blowing up his brownstone with Wayne inside. Injured, Wayne crawled back to Wayne Manor, where Pennyworth reaffirmed his support for him and bandaged his wounds. For the coming days, Wayne reconnected his relationships with **Leslie Thompkins**, March and Dent. Wayne had nearly given up his plan to become a force for justice when he found happiness with a fellow college student **Andrea Beaumont**. However that happiness was cut short, when Beaumont abruptly called off their engagement under mysterious circumstances, leaving a heartbroken Wayne to dove headfirst back into the crimefighting path.

During one of Wayne's early outing, disguised as veteran, he encountered **Selina Kyle** on the streets of Gotham; whom at the time, was operating as a prostitute. Following a brief scuffle between the two, Wayne was grievously injured by a **GCPD** officer and was forced to flee. After being nursed back to health by Pennyworth, Wayne did another outing, this time disguised as a robber. It resulted to a robbery being stopped, despite the criminals did not fearing him. The criminals fearless reactions bothered Wayne, and resulted to Wayne taking on the guise of his own personal fear, bats.

Despite Pennyworth's rejection of the idea, he never less helped assemble the suit with Wayne, equipping with experimental technology from mainly **Wayne Enterprises**, curtesy of **Lucius Fox**. The following weeks, Wayne began making his patrols as the **Batman**, quickly attracting the attention of journalists, who chronicled what they knew of the mysterious vigilante.