Thomas Wayne

**Thomas Alan Wayne, M.D.** was an American surgeon, philanthropist, and CEO of Wayne Enterprises; as well as a former CIA agent. Wayne inherited Wayne Enterprises from his father after he passed away in 1989.

On September 19, 1997, Thomas and his wife Martha were gunned down on Gotham’s Park Row, in front of the 12-year-old Bruce.

## History

### Background Information

His father Patrick disapproved of his bookish, compassionate son and unfavorably compared him to his employee Colonel Brass, but he learned to appreciate Thomas after he was hit by a car and Thomas applied first aid, saving his life. Patrick fired Brass after he discovered he had accepted a bribe from mobsters. Years after his disgrace, Brass returned to Gotham and Patrick had a heart attack during a confrontation with him. His dying wish was for Thomas to use the gold Brass had taken to do good. Thomas drove Brass out of Gotham and used the gold to fund the Wayne Foundation. Brass later returned for revenge against Thomas, but Thomas fought his henchmen and forced him to flee.

At some point, Thomas met the philanthropist Martha Arkham at a party where he vomited on her shoes. Thomas eventually apologised and the two became close.

### Pennyworth

Thomas eventually became a CIA Agent, and on a job in England he visited private security firm head Alfred Pennyworth and offered him a job, however he declined.

Later, Alfred struck a deal with the police to assassinate fascist politician James Harwood and save the government; Alfred took the deal, but became unwilling to follow through with the killing of ‘No Name’ agents Martha and Thomas. Following this, Alfred hatched a plan to flee the country for New Orleans. Alfred knocked on the door of Thomas and Martha looking for a way out of the country, and they eventually got him a plane; however he decided to stay in England at the last minute and do the right thing.

### Post-Pennyworth

Thomas subsequently helped in the mission to save fellow CIA agent and scientist Lucius Fox from the clutches of the fascists, and in the years following this Thomas managed to separate from the CIA and concentrate on the family business in America.

He studied to become a surgeon with Dr. Leslie Thompkins, who would eventually become the personal therapist to his son, Bruce; as well as open up her own clinic in Park Row. Wayne worked at Gotham General Hospital, and because of his wealth he worked there for free providing treatment for those who couldn't afford it. A frequent donor and volunteer at Gotham General Hospital; after Dr. Leslie Thompkins was shot in an attack, Thomas volunteered to fill in for her; and when the hospital was targeted with a manufactured plague, he used Wayne Enterprises resources to create a cure.

Thomas and Martha eventually married, and Martha would become estranged from her mother due to Betsy’s dislike of Thomas. Martha was pregnant when Thomas made his last humanitarian visit to Santa Prisca, which is when Bruce believed he might have fathered Bane, until a DNA test proved Thomas innocent of adultery. Thomas's coworker Eve Mackay and their maid Penny Fleck both became infatuated with him and each wrote him a minimum of five love letters, which he gave to his wife, and Martha kept them at the family's summer house as evidence of her husband’s faithfulness.

Thomas and Martha were friends with Roger and Marla Elliot, and Bruce befriended their son Tommy. None of the Waynes were aware of Tommy's homicidal tendencies, and after he arranged a car accident for his parents, which killed his father and injured his mother, Thomas defended Tommy when detective Slam Bradley suspected he was behind the accident.

Bruce once fell through a hole on the Wayne property into what would one day become the Batcave; Thomas Wayne eventually rescued his terrified son from the cave.

## Mob Association

In 1997, Thomas Wayne saved the life of gangster and future crime lord Carmine Falcone. Falcone's father, Vincent, came to Wayne Manor and begged Thomas to save his dying son, who had been shot by rivals in a gang fight. Thomas wanted to take the younger Falcone to hospital, but Vincent insisted that nobody know about the shooting; the surgery was thus performed in the dining room. After saving Carmine Falcone from death, he was offered a reward or favour, but he flatly refused, in that "to a doctor, a patient is a patient." Young Bruce Wayne watched this all in silence from afar.

Sometime the following month, however, Thomas Wayne came back to Falcone and requested a favour, which Falcone accepted. Wayne wanted a journalist silenced as they were going to expose valuable and private information concerning Martha Wayne, and linked to the Court of Owls, which would disrupt Wayne’s reputation. When this journalist disappeared, Wayne became outraged and threatened Falcone with police intervention, but instead received a lecture from Falcone about how the mafia owned the GCPD, the politicians and the unions and Gotham as a whole, and how he ultimately meant nothing.

### Murder

On the night of September 19, 1997, at 10:47pm, the Waynes were leaving the Monarch Theatre after seeing The Mark of Zorro, having exited through the back door to avoid press attention after their unborn son’s death and their return from vacation; and having left unexpectedly before the movie was finished. Pennyworth was nowhere to be seen with their lift as a result of the early departure, and so they decided to walk and catch a cab home. Instead, an assailant attempted to rob them at gunpoint, and shot both Thomas and Martha dead.

This event shocked Gotham, led to Park Row being labelled Crime Alley.

There are various theories as to the motive behind the murder. Parties ranging from a lone mugger, the Court of Owls, Carmine Falcone or the rival Maroni gangs have all been suspected.

## Chronology

* 1966 - Thomas Alan Wayne is born in Gotham City to Patrick Wayne.
* 1982 - Thomas begins training to become a CIA agent.
* 1986 - Thomas meets Martha Arkham. Thomas joins the CIA.
* 1987 - Thomas and Martha begin dating.
* 1988 - Thomas and Martha cut ties with the CIA, move back to America and get married. Martha becomes pregnant.
* 1989 - Bruce Wayne is born.
* 1996 - Martha becomes pregnant.
* 1997 - Martha loses the baby. Thomas and Martha get involved with Carmine Falcone, and are murdered shortly afterwards.