Batman

* Arkham Knight
* Nolanverse
* Bruce Wayne

**Batman** is the name of the masked vigilante who battles crime and corruption in Gotham City. Behind the mask, he is billionaire playboy philanthropist, **Bruce Wayne**, the owner of Wayne Enterprises.

In the World Protection Security Agency stories, Batman makes his first appearance in WPSA: BanG Dream! 2nd Season.

## Appearance

### Batman: Arkham Origins

In *Arkham Origins*, Batman's suit was much more armored in appearance. The whole suit appeared to be more mechanical, and cosmetic changes were made when he got gadgets like the Electrocutioner's Shock Gloves. The suits overall appearance consisted of a pair of military like pants with kevlar plating in the thigh area. The body consisted of a heavy amount of kevlar padding centered around the chest area. Batman's boots appeared identical to the later suits boot except the knee guards were made up of a strong reinforced carbon fiber / plastic material. The cowl included short ears and a smaller head shape unlike later suits.

### Cold, Cold, Heart

A week after *Arkham Origins*, Batman donned a special suit to defeat Mr. Freeze in the Cold, Cold Heart DLC. The suit appeared bulkier with more padding and kevlar, the suit also included heating systems and other special equipment. The cowl was modified with a special respirator system which would help Batman to sustain the sub zero temperature cryo gas.

### Batman: Arkham Asylum

During the events of Arkham Asylum, Batman used a simple lightweight suit which included major improvements from the previous batsuits. The suit consisted of a rubber like material with Kevlar plating centered around the bat symbol area. The cowl consisted of a rubber like material with special reinforced plating near the facial area, also the ears were extended to resemble a more bat-like creature. This suit also included black trunks, a different bat symbol unlike the Arkham City, Origins, and Knight suit. This suit was most likely a prototype which would later be improved on in Arkham City, hence why the symbol looked different. This is also further backed up by the suit not having features it had in Origins and often referred to as a Basic Batsuit and was easily damaged.

### Batman: Arkham City

During *Arkham City*, Batman's suit has been improved slightly. The changes that were made from the previous suit were the original bat symbol, new gloves and an improved detective vision. Also the cowl was improved with less facial detail unlike Arkham Asylum. The armor of the suit was improved as well as the suit was more resilient to damage.

### Batman: Arkham Knight

In the final installment of the series, Batman upgraded to a brand new Bat suit to combat the new dangers that he needed to face. The Batsuit V8.03 (and V8.04) had lots of new gadgets and features. The tri-weave bodysuit consisted of a basic skintight tear proof bodysuit which can apply pressure to injuries to stop bleeding. The major protection consists of separate movable layers of armor plating which are kept in place with steel wiring. the armor plating's inner layers are made up of a titanium-dipped tri-weave fiber mesh to provide protection from gunfire and sharp objects / knives. In between the titanium fiber, lies the Wayne-Tech MR fluids which harden in response to impact. Over the titanium fiber mesh lies a reinforced carbon fiber material which is divided into separate pieces that mold into Batman's movement allowing Batman more fluid movement when fighting thugs. Once again the bat symbol returns and is separated with the carbon fiber armor plating. Batman's cowl has also had a major overhaul, the new cowl consists of an inner layer of titanium tri-weave fiber and a outer layer of a strong carbon fiber like material which can now separate into multiple segments to easily remove the cowl. The cowl is removed via a switch located on the back of the cowl under the plating. This version of the Batsuit has been compared heavily to the Batsuit introduced in Christopher Nolan's film The Dark Knight.

## Personality

Bruce Wayne is a very aspiring character; by definition he is extremely complex due to his traumatic past and great hatred for criminals but this is abstracted because of his high morals, idealistic desire for justice and indomitable will. Witnessing his mother and father being gunned down in front him, traumatised him greatly and he swore he would end the injustice and evil that took his family from him. Moreover, Bruce has strong feelings of guilt for what he perceives as his inability to act in the situation and stop the shooter, unable to cope with said anger and guilt he would travel to the farthest regions of the world to forge these emotions into a weapon so he could do genuine good to Gotham.

As his alter-ego, Batman, Bruce is very reliant on theatricality and appearances to fool his enemies, showing the willingness to use deception and fear as well. He achieves this by being more than a man, once claiming to Gordon that criminals, although a cowardly and superstitious pack, can only become this way if they have something to fear and must be given something to be afraid of. Due to his ability to perform near-superhuman feats, Batman is often referred to as a creature or force of nature rather than a man by many of the criminals he encounter. He reflects his childhood fear of bats to his enemies by turning it into the insignia of his crusade and is master of intimidation, interrogation and scare tactics (a famous display of such skill was when he threatened to crush the head of a man with the Batmobile).

Perhaps, the most famous characteristic of Batman is his utter refusal to take a life. He knows that if he crosses that line, he will become an equal level of a monster that murdered his parents but has been pushed to break his moral code at times, especially while dealing with ruthless or psychopathic enemies with no regard of human life. This can specifically be seen with his archenemy the Joker whom constantly attempts to break his ideals and prove that he is no better than the villain himself. Likewise, he seems to have a strong empathy for mentally ill opponents and a deep love for humanity, aside from refusing to take a life, he will put his own wellbeing on the line to save people, even if they don't deserve it. In later activities, following the repeated emotional and physical loss he has suffered, Batman has shown the willingness to create a series of events in a situation or inside of an environment that may or may not be fatal to his enemies. Nonetheless, he will not allow them to die if he feels there is something he could have done to prevent it, he admits to Joker that he would have given him the cure anyway, instead of allowing him to die of his Titan poisoning. Although, he has a strong distaste for firearms (the weapons that killed his mother and father), it should be noted that the Batmobile became strongly more militaristic as it progressed, adding a cannon and rifle to its design (both of which were non-fatal). In addition, although he has ultimately kept to his rule against killing, there have been times where he came extremely close to violating this rule either out of anger or desperation. Notable examples of this are when he proceeded to electrocute Bane enough to temporarily stop his heart in order to trick the Joker into thinking he killed him (and then proceeding to restart Bane's heart afterward), proceeded to throttle the Joker at the Blackgate Chapel when the latter insinuated that Batman should kill him shortly after this (only barely stopping himself to simply punch Joker out cold), and when proceeding to nearly use the Batmobile's wheels to crush the lieutenant of the Arkham Knight's militia's head as interrogation to gather information on where the Arkham Knight and the abducted Barbara Gordon were heading.

In most regards, Batman is fiercely individualistic. He originally viewed his crusade to bring order to Gotham as a burden that he should deal with on his own, aside from Alfred, he disregarded the need for allies (which might be due to his incapability to fully open up or express trust to another person after his parents murder). However, he became more open-minded in these regards, after assistance from Alfred to defeat the Joker on Christmas Eve, he began branching out and increasing his Bat Family to assist with his goals. Batman's loner ways have not entirely changed, though, as he utterly refused help from Robin and Nightwing during Scarecrow and the Arkham Knight's siege on Gotham, even though he obviously needed their help. While Batman clearly loves all of his students as if they were his children, his relationships with them have been cold, awkward and occasionally non-existent at times.

Despite his pragmatic, grounded and calculating nature, Batman can be prone to being emotionally blinded. He equates himself responsible for every tragedy that occurs and is willing to take drastic and personal action out of fear of another loss; because of this he almost ignored Protocol 10 to save Talia from the Joker, imprionsed Tim Drake inside of a cell out of fear he would get himself killed otherwise and focusing more on rescuing Barbara from Scarecrow rather than stopping Scarecrow's master plan. Batman's emotional outbursts are usually seen in his earlier activities, a famous spectacle of such was when he confronted the murderer of a wealthy couple whom he knew and became extremely aggressive while pinning him down, so much that he almost suffocated him. Because of the similar backgrounds, lifestyle and the fact that they were killed in the same place of Thomas and Martha; losing another person he knew in the same manner at the same area, brought back as if they were being killed all over again and vents so much stress and emotion that he comes close to killing the suspect.

Beyond a terrifying demeanor, expansive skill, knowledge and experience, Batman is in reality full of self doubt and is not above fear himself. He held a tremendous terror that one bad day or false move could plunge into a level as, or even exceed the level of a monster, that which the Joker was, something that was specifically underlined when he was exposed to the Fear Toxin from Scarecrow whilst he was infected by the Joker-Virus. Although he has never taken a life, Batman does also have disturbing feelings towards some of his enemies and has come close to breaking his moral code at times. This is evident when Joker presents another opportunity to take his life after taking control of Arkham Asylum, he genuinely considers, unsheathing a Batarang and preparing to take his life before restraining himself. This was again displayed where Joker forced him to break his neck in a hallucination. Although this was the Joker's doing, it may also reflect Batman's subconscious desire to end the Clown Prince's life.

## Abilities

* **Immense Human Physical & Mental Attributes/Naturally Enhanced Physiology:** 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.
	+ **Immense Human Strength:** Batman’s strength was 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. While biologically human; Batman can apply practically superhuman force in his attacks by using highly effective strength and muscle control, which can send humans flying with one punch or kick. He can effortlessly snap steel handcuffs and chains with ease, slam through solid walls, overpower well over a dozen men with brute strength, pry open large heavy steel doors, and KO an enemy with one strike or impact. Batman has also demonstrated enough strength to instantly bend, break, or rip nailed fastened metal bars/structures apart, dismantle machines barehanded, rag doll Thomas Elliot hard enough to shatter a large table, kick Joker over 30 feet back, lift a full-grown man over his head with one arm and even throw them several meters. His highest feats of his strength were physically overpowering Killer Croc (who weighs 850+ lbs) then dragging him, lifting Bane while on TN-1 (who is well over 500 lbs) with his grapple gun and breaking out of the grips of the monstrously strong Solomon Grundy. With the Batclaw he could pull down a Titan enhanced Joker without tiring. He was also able to engage King Shark in hand-to-hand combat as well as punch through his superhumanly dense hide.
	+ **Immense Human Speed:** Batman can run and move at exceptional speeds, comparable to the finest human athletes. Batman is extremely fast with incredibly sharp reflexes, able to avoid destructively dangerous attacks such as Bane's Titan enhanced physical attacks, explosive firearms as well as simultaneous assaults from several enemies at once. Trained to be extremely nimble, his movements appear as a blur during fights, he could even match the superhuman master assassin, Deathstroke's speed in combat.
	+ **Immense Human Stamina:** Batman’s highly trained and developed body musculature generates considerably less fatigue toxins and is highly resistant to the build-up of fatigue toxins compared to an ordinary human, allowing him to be physically active for considerably long periods of time without rest. He could exert himself at peak capacity for several hours without slowing down or showing any sign of fatigue. This allows him to run for dozens of miles and fight for extremely long periods. Additionally, he can hold his breath underwater for several minutes and will not lose breath or get exhausted due to his stamina extending to his lung capacity.
	+ **Immense Human Agility:** Trained to be extremely agile he can coordinate his body with flawless balance, flexibility, and dexterity allowing him to walk on a small tightrope effortlessly, do a handstand on the edge of a building or cliff and not worry, and even walk across a dangerous bridge with ease. His amazing gymnastic and acrobatic prowess, performing feats that would be extremely difficult for a normal human. Batman also has top-notch leaping and climbing agility able to use freerunning and parkour to outmaneuver several enemies at once. The most prominent feat of his enhanced agility is his ability to perform inverted takedowns.
	+ **Immense Human Reflexes:** Batman's reflexes were at the highest peak of human potential and perfection; this means that he has advanced reactions that were far superior to normal humans and are seemingly superhuman. He could catch a fired arrow in midair, dodge fast-paced offensive attacks, and perform amazing physically defensive feats. He could even evade strikes from beings with super speed and dodge multiple gunfire at point-blank range with ease. His immense reflexes can also be used to attack and counter instead of just defensive purposes, allowing him to instantaneously react with devastating counters when fighting extraordinary quick opponents. He has dodged shuriken and throwing knives knives from behind without looking on multiple occasions, blocked several of Professor Pyg’s butcher knives being thrown at him, and evaded two rockets shot at close-range.
	+ **Immense Human Durability:** Batman’s muscles and bones are vastly harder and much more denser than a normal person, making him extremely durable by normal standards due to his training. Enhanced by superior body armor of the Batsuit, Batman can survive being hit by attacks of dangerously powerful/supernatural impact such as Killer Croc's violent assault, Bane's Titan enhanced punches, withstanding highly lethal amounts of electricity from Solomon Grundy, surviving a massively high fall from his fight with Clayface with no damage, and being sent flying through a concrete/brick wall on separate occasions. He seems resistant enough to withstand nearby explosions, gunshots & puncture wounds as well as beatings and still stand on his feet.
	+ **Immense 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. His mind is greatly enhanced through years of mental training; granting him perfect recall, accelerated learning aptitude, parallel processing, and eidetic/photographic memory. Becoming one of the most brilliant geniuses’ humanity has ever known. He could perform feats of mind comparable to computers: storing limitless amounts of information flawlessly, performing complex calculations or other similar tasks. He can master a variety of knowledge and combat skills in a few days to weeks, which would take a normal person many years to achieve mastery over. Batman could also use 100% of his concentration and highly intense focus, allowing him to push his physical and mental capabilities to their maximum potential; obstacles become minor problems while objectives grow significantly easier to accomplish.
	+ **Immense Human Senses:** Batman's five senses were 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. He can concentrate his senses to see accurately from moderately far distances, acutely touching ink on a page, hear and distinguish small sounds, have a smell capability similar to a primate and tasting more accurately than normal members of the human race. From his honed senses, Batman has great instincts, awareness, and of his surroundings and is extremely alert to danger.
	+ **Immense Human Healing:** Batman's natural healing efficiency and speed were at the absolute highest level of human potential. He has a greatly enhanced metabolism, immune system, and vitality that runs several times faster than average humans, allowing him to heal much faster than an average human. Due to extremely intense training regimen and specialized nutritional diet his body was efficient enough to fight off any microbe, foreign body and others from his body keeping him immensely healthy and immune to most infections, impurities, drugs, illnesses, sicknesses, he was genetically perfect. His immense healing ability allow him to heal multiple broken bones, torn muscles, gunshot & knife wounds and other major injuries all within a few days to weeks, and minor injuries like cuts, scrapes, and burns all within a matter of hours to days. Bruce also developed an extremely high resistance to Scarecrow's new fear toxin after being injected twice, almost borderline immunity.
		- **Immense Human Longevity:** Batman aged slower than normal humans due to having extremely healthy cells, without any superhuman degree. In addition, this power would activate when Batman was in his young-adult years and he'd look twenty-years old. Finally, Batman could easily live well over 100 years old since this quality was at peak-human level.
* **Master Martial Artist:** Bruce had rigorously trained himself in martial arts since childhood and in his young adulthood went on a journey for many years to China, Japan, Thailand, and Korea to learn and intensively trained in many highly refined forms of Asian martial arts. As a master in all known forms of martial arts, he’s fully mastered dozens of disciplines and tactics, but his main combat style is a uniquely fused brand of Boxing, Taekwondo, Kung Fu, Karate, Krav Maga, Ninjutsu, Muay Thai, Savate, Aikido, Jui-Jitsu, Judo, and Capoeira. Bruce is an extremely skilled and proficient master combatant. Practically a one-man army, in his years as a crime fighter Batman defeated countless enemies. Batman could perform punches and kicks to blocking moves, counters and throws. He could defeat extremely dangerous master fighters, such as Shiva, Deathstroke, Ra´s Al Ghul, Bane etc. Bruce can even hold his own against numerous Arkham City prisoners and Penguin's henchmen even though he's handcuffed. Bruce's immense martial arts abilities allow him to survive even the most dangerous battles.
	+ **Expert Swordsmanship:** Though he prefers not to use them, Batman is skilled with a blade as shown during his battle with Clayface.
* **Expert Marksmanship:** Batman is extremely skilled in marksmanship able to wield the batarangs with supreme accuracy and quick precision. Batman has advanced precision and can achieve smaller and distant targets depending on the location. It's said by peers that Batman's accuracy was near-impossible to miss single/multiple targets. He managed to easily hit the very small button on Killer Croc’s shock collar in Arkham Asylum, even when it was a time sensitive matter.
* **Genius-Level Intellect:** Batman is as smart as he is strong, and has honed his mind to be just as powerful as his body if not more. Using his inquisitive mind he has outsmarted his rogues gallery, the police and most, if not all, of his opponents
* **Master Tactician & Strategist:** A strategic mastermind, Batman is an extremely clever and insightful man, skillfully employed deception and tactics to defeat his enemies in the most effective ways possible. He has shown being able to outsmart Joker, Riddler, Bane, Scarecrow, Deathstroke, Penguin, all who are notorious for cunningness and intelligence. Batman can plan out strategies that would work a situation in his favor, in conjunction with [Detective Mode]. If a room has objects or devices he could use to knock out enemies, he will use them first before attempting hand-to-hand combat. He is the one of the greatest tacticians on the planet, if not the greatest.
* **Master Scientist:** Batman was a master scientist, who was highly well versed in every known field in physics, chemistry, biology, and mechanics, but particularly applied science.
* **Master Inventor:** Batman's tremendous scientific knowledge grants him the capability to invent numerous useful gadgets to assists himself as a crime fighter. He personally assembled the first Batsuit as well as devised the creation of the Batmobile. Using keen intellect and his profound understanding of science and technology, Batman can make highly improved versions of different devices and machines such as the Batwing from a prototype stealth jet, different types of Batarangs - high tech improvisation of the Australian hunting tool Boomerang - and the extremely advanced custom made Batcomputer that could perform technological functions beyond that of ordinary computers.
* **Master Detective:** Hailed as the “World's Greatest Detective”, Batman has no equal when it comes to forensic investigations and solving crime mysteries, able to use even the smallest clues and slightest details to solve extremely difficult cases and accurately deduce the identity of unknown criminal masterminds. Batman can figure out what his enemies will do based on their habits and past actions, often getting the jump on them. Batman was also an expert of criminology, for example, if there is a bird-related crime, he knows Penguin was behind it; if the number 2 was involved, Two-Face was behind the crime. The one criminal this usually fails with is Zsasz, as he had no patterns.
* **Master Physician:** Batman understands the workings of the human body, which comes in handy in fights; he can injure someone without much permanent damage to them. This is also useful for when he or an ally is injured in a fight; Batman would be able to administer first-aid on the spot. He also understanding of human biology to reverse engineer a cure for Dr. Langstrom’s Man-Bat mutation.
* **Expert Computer Hacker:** Batman can hack into almost any computer and learn what he needs from its database. Batman is at times, often helped by Oracle or Alfred with computer-related matters; however, this usually frees up his time to focus on other problems.
* **Master Spy:** His advanced and extensive Ninjutsu/Togakure-ryu training has made him a master in espionage, stealth, escape arts, infiltration, sabotage, guerilla warfare and unconventional methods. He is capable of breaching very high-level security facilities without being detected and escaping the most impossible traps. He could flawlessly infiltrate the maximum security Blackgate Prison and the high alert GCPD Jail Station with numerous armed guards with relative ease. Batman is also able to skillfully utilize his gadgets, immense physical prowess and extremely quick thinking to escape from the most dangerous environment and deadliest booby traps, he can cleverly avoid ingeniously well-planned traps due to Ninjutsu and Togakure-ryu mastery. Batman can anticipate enemy’s movements and accurately predict attacks, combine with Detective Vision Batman can locate hidden enemies and identify potential route for advance and escape.
* **Expert Interrogator:** Batman is a master interrogator, able to scare criminals into giving up information. Some techniques he uses are primarily dangling someone from a great height, threatening to leave them with a broken jaw, lies, badly beating them, and so on. If someone is already scared of Batman, he will take out any imposing figures in the immediate area to insure the snitch will talk.
* **Expert Tracking:** In conjunction with Detective Mode, Batman can track objects or people of interest.
* **Multilingualism:** Along with English, Bruce can also understand Spanish.
* **Expert Acrobat:** Batman is a superior master of Parkour and Freerunning styles of acrobatics and gymnastics, combined with his immensely trained physical strength, speed, endurance, flexibility, dexterity and reflexes, Batman is able to jump wide distances and tall heights, flit through rooftops, run on high walls, climb the tallest structures and vault through various types of obstacles, with the aid of the Grapnel Gun and parachute like cape of the Batsuit, Batman can scale the most complex terrains and freefall from immense heights safely completely unharmed.
* **Indomitable Will:** Batman had practiced intense meditation for many years, training his mind to attain immense willpower and unbreakable determination, which drives him to be able to face the most horrendous terrors and brutality ever brought upon by the most dangerous Gotham Criminals with complete calmness and composure, he has an absolute refusal to give up; he will see his goals to the end. His powerful will enable him psychologically resist being exposed to an overdose of Scarecrow's Fear Toxin, effects of Titan formula, the mind controlling technology of the Mad Hatter, Poison Ivy's pheromone seduction. He was able to not only resist the transformative effects of Titan formula, but was able to resist being fully debilitated by the Titan Disease Joker infected him with when transfusing his blood to Batman.
* **Trained in an Arsenal of Gadgets, Vehicles, and Advanced Technology**