Bruce Wayne

"*Bruce Wayne is more than you think. Just like how Batman is more than what meets the eye. Trust me, I've spent enough time to see it for myself.*"
—**Dick Grayson** about **Bruce Wayne**[src]

## **Batman**

* Bruce Wayne
* Batman

## Biographical Information

### Affiliation:

The Bat-Family
Justice League

### Relations:

Thomas Wayne (father; deceased)
Martha Wayne (mother; deceased)
Alfred Pennyworth (ward)

### Total:

*10 episodes*

**Bruce Wayne** (born 27th March 1988) is the renowned billionaire who currently resides in **Gotham City** and moonlights as the bat-vigilante known as **Batman**.

## Biography

### Early life (1988-1998)

Bruce Wayne was raised in Gotham City by his extremely wealthy parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne, until their untimely demise at the hands of a robber called Joe Chill. Only ten years old at the time, Bruce began dedicating his life to solving their murders and ridding the city of crime and corruption as the G.C.P.D. detective, Jim Gordon, worked tirelessly to bring closure for him.

### Searching for Joe Chill (1998-2008)

As the Bruce Wayne went through his childhood, he had apparently been to numerous schools and quickly kicked out as Alfred Pennyworth, his butler, became his legal ward and guardian and found struggle in raising him. Bruce, at this time, had begun training extensively and gathered intelligence on the criminal underbelly of Gotham on the search for Joe Chill. He eventually did, though it is unknown how the confrontation came to be nor the status of his ex-archenemy. After ten years of training, Bruce Wayne left Gotham City in a journey to take his training across the world, hoping to return when he was ready to make do on his promise to eliminate crime in the city.

### Zero Year (2017)

Bruce Wayne supposedly returned to Gotham City after nearly ten more years and began operating as the bat-themed vigilante Batman, taking the theme from his innate fear of bats. During this time he encountered numerous crazed criminals such as Scarecrow, Joker, Man-Bat, Firefly, Riddler and Two-Face, apprehending them and leading to their imprisonment within Arkham Asylum. He also found new allies, adopting a young Dick Grayson and making him his protégé under the alias Robin, and discovering Barbara Gordon's nightly activities as Batgirl.

### Darkseid's Invasion (2019)

Bruce Wayne is seen pursuing an unknown flying figure and fails to apprehend it. Believing the figure to be Man-Bat, Bruce entered Arkham Asylum and passed many of his enemies to interrogate Kirk Langstrom, much to the current warden Jeremiah Arkham's disdain. Francine Langstrom rebuffs Bruce, claiming that her husband is getting better and doesn't require his "roughhousing". However, Kirk welcomes Bruce and tells him that he's been in his cell and awake for the past 3 days. Francine corroborates his alibi and gives him video evidence, crossing off the possibility of the creature being Man-Bat. Just then, Alfred Pennyworth checks in to inform Bruce of another sighting near Crime Alley, to which he arrives in time to intercept the creature and demand answers. Realising that the creature is incapable of human speech, Bruce takes a blood sample and sends it to Alfred for analysis. In a shocking turn of events, however, Bruce is forced to back away when the creature explodes, whispering "hail Darkseid" before dying. Bruce then returns to the Batcave to check on the progress of the blood and is surprised to learn that it's alien in nature. Needing more answers, Bruce returns to Crime Alley and finds himself experiencing flashbacks to his parents' murder until a green light shines from above, showing a hovering man calling himself a Green Lantern.

## Personality

Bruce, whilst being a very reserved and silent person, has shown to have a dry sense of humour and is fiercely loyal when needed. His trauma at an early age prevented him from attaining many hobbies and thus doesn't share much "small-talk" like the other League members. Despite this, Bruce retains a strong-but-silent demeanour, possibly as an attempt to hide his thoughts and feelings from others as a strategic play. His formal etiquette is also visible, possibly as a result of his wealthy and traditional upbringing.

## Appearance

Bruce appears to be over 6-feet tall with the build of a heavyweight boxer. In contrast to his large figure, Bruce seems to be very quick and is often known to hide in the shadows behind those he talks to. Whether or not this is his attempt at gauging a reaction from his peers or just an example of his dry humour is unknown. However, Bruce's modest build often strikes unease amongst even the most experienced fighters.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Strategic Skills** - Bruce is able to form any plan necessary to defeat his opponents by using his environment or opponent to his advantage.
* **Expert Marksmanship** - Bruce shows great proficiency in ranged weapons such as the bat-claw, batarangs and stun guns.
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat** - Due to studying and mastering an impressive 127 forms of martial arts, Bruce is an expert in hand-to-hand combat in every form currently known.
* **Gadgets** - His gadgets provide Bruce a great advantage over his enemies due to their various usefulness in battle for distraction tactics and so on.
* **Peak Physique** - Bruce's 10-year training allowed him to build a daunting physique and peak performance in dexterity, speed, strength and the additional bonus of instilling fear into his opponents.
* **Wealth** - The wealth passed on to Bruce alongside the Wayne Enterprises company gives Bruce the power to create and research new gadgets and suits for his nightly activities. He also tends to use his wealth to better Gotham City as Bruce Wayne.
* **Enhanced Mental State** - During his time away from Gotham, Bruce developed a strong mental front due to psychological attacks and was able to not only control his emotions but to also manipulate and outwit his foes without laying a finger. Also, Bruce has mentioned a time where he intentionally created a new personality within himself to avoid detection or the chance of being exposed as Batman.
* **Multilingual** - Upon travelling for 10 years, Bruce has picked up and learned various languages such as Arabic, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Russian, Chinese and so on.

## Equipment

### Current equipment

* **Batman's utility belt**: As a part of the Batman suit, Bruce Wayne equips a utility belt coupled with various useful weapons and distractions.
	+ **Batarangs**: Batman uses batarangs as a method of disarming, distracting and/or maiming foes. In addition, Batman has various iterations of Batarangs each with their own purpose.
	+ **Smoke grenades**: As a distraction, Batman uses smoke grenades in order to mask his location or disorient his opponents.
* **Batmobile**: Whilst out on patrol, Batman uses the Batmobile as an apt method of transportation. The Batmobile is typically equipped with the usual weapons or defensive mechanisms as well as top-of-the-line WayneTech technology.
* **Bat-Computer**: As a part of Batman's "Bat-cave", Bruce Wayne often uses the computers within the headquarters in order to garner information or track down any criminals at large.

## Episodes

### **The Justice League**

**Season 1: Origins**

* *Pilot*
* *Parademons*
* *Birth of Cyborg*
* *New Allies*
* *Darkseid's Invasion*
* *War*
* *Anti-Life Equation*
* *United We Rise*
* *Fall of a New God*
* *Origins*

**Season 2: Throne of Atlantis**

## Trivia

* Bruce is the mentor of Barbara Gordon and Dick Grayson.
* In the years between his return to Gotham and his first battle alongside the League, Bruce has fought nearly two dozens recurring enemies.
* Bruce and Clark's relationship is shown to be one of rivalry but also of mutual respect and weariness for one another.
* Bruce seems to stick to utensils, even with burgers.
* In an episode, it is revealed that Bruce's favourite animals are, in fact, owls, with bats being his irrational fear.

## Gallery

### As Batman

Batman's first prototype suit during Zero YearBatman's suit during Darkseid's Invasion