Batman (DCEU)

**Batman** is a major protagonist in the *DC Extended Universe*, first appearing in *Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice*.

## Background

Bruce Wayne is the billionaire owner of Wayne Enterprises, and a costumed and armored vigilante operating in Gotham City known as Batman. After witnessing the murder of his parents at the hands of a mugger as a child, Bruce ultimately became the fearsome vigilante Batman as an adult, beginning his crime fighting career over a decade before the alien invasion of General Zod. Through those years, he became heavily seasoned as an expert crime fighter and detective, having fought and overpowered numerous criminal adversaries, most notably the extreme psychopath Joker. He also mentored his ward and partner vigilante Dick Grayson (known as "Robin"), though the latter was eventually killed by the Joker.

Two years after witnessing the Black Zero Event, Batman grew increasingly wary of the alien hero Superman, and the two would initially fiercely battle one another (mainly due to manipulation). However, they would ultimately settle their differences and team up with Wonder Woman, together managing to take down Lex Luthor's unleashed bloodthirsty monster, Doomsday. With Superman seemingly killed by the dying monster, Batman and Wonder Woman would be inspired by his noble sacrifice to begin establishing the valiant Justice League, in order to battle any future threats to the world.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Acrobatics**
* **Peak Human Condition:** Bruce has trained his body to the maximum limits of human conditioning, as shown through his highly strenuous training routine.
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced)**
* **Driving**
	+ **Martial Arts:** Bruce is a highly accomplished combatant, and was able to swiftly and easily defeat a large amount of armed thugs. His fighting style incorperates techniques from a variety of martial arts.
		- **Boxing**
		- **Karate**
		- **Muay Thai**
		- **Tae Kwon Do**
		- **Krav Maga**
		- **Ninjitsu**
		- **Kung Fu**
		- **Judo**
* **Intimidation:** Batman has the ability to instill great fear in others. His appearance caused a group of victims to believe him to be some sort of devil.
* **Stealth:** Bruce is a master of stealth, capable of staying out of sight of enemies, and breaching high security facilities without being detected.
* **Weaponry:** Bruce is adept in the use of various weapons, such as his batarangs and multiple gadgets. He has used his grapple gun as an improvised melee weapon, and was also able to quickly pick up and use a knife as a weapon in mid-combat.
	+ **Firearms:** Bruce has displayed great marksmanship with the special guns he has constructed, such as his grapple gun, gas gun, and sniper. Bruce has also shown great skill with pistols and rifles, although this was only displayed in a nightmare of his.
	+ **Throwing:** Bruce is highly skilled in throwing his batarangs with great accuracy.
* **Genius Level Intellect:** Batman is a brilliant detective, strategist, and tactician. Given his lack of superpowers, he often uses cunning and planning to outwit his foes, rather than simply "out-fighting" them.
	+ **Tactical Analysis:** Bruce is a master at formulating and executing plans.
	+ **Investigation:** Batman is a highly skilled detective, and is capable of observation and inductive and deductive reasoning.
	+ **Interrogation:** Batman is adept in interrogation techniques, which is accompanied by his frightening appearance.
	+ **Deception:** According to Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce is quite adept at lying.
	+ **Thievery:** Bruce is capable of breaking into high security facilities, and retrieving objects, without being detected.
	+ **Mechanical Aptitude:** Bruce is proficient at combat driving, and is likely trained and proficient in basic vehicles operations.
		- **Mechanical Engineering**
	+ **Gadgetry:** Bruce is highly skilled in constructing and utilizing various gadgets.
	+ **Computer Hacking:** Bruce is a skilled hacker, as he was able to crack the firewall on Lex Luthor's database after accessing encrypted files on his servers.
	+ **Business Management:** As the CEO of Wayne Enterprises, Bruce Wayne has extensive skill and experience in business management.
	+ **Leadership:** Bruce was capable of acting as the leader of the Justice League.
	+ **Aviation:** Bruce is highly skilled in flying aircraft, such as the Batplane.
		- **Aerial Combat**
	+ **Driving:** Bruce is highly proficient at driving cars, such as the Batmobile.
	+ **Multilingualism:** Bruce is capable of speaking multiple languages.
* **Indomitable Will:** Although he has no superhuman powers, Batman's unstoppable determination and strength of will make him an extremely formidable opponent.

## Equipment

* **Batsuit:** Used to both conceal Batman's identity and frighten criminals, it possesses lead lining in the knuckles and boots to enhance strike attacks. It's composed of a Kevlar-titanium tri-weave, allowing it to deflect small arms fire and blades. The cowl possesses a voice modifier that digitally alters Batman's voice, rendering it unrecognizable. And both the suit and cape are fireproof, withstanding being burned with flamethrowers.
* **Utility Belt:** Batman's specially designed belt, with its many pouches filled with an arsenal of numerous gadgets, weapons and tools at all times, to aid Batman in his mission.
	+ **Batarang:** Used as a non-lethal alternative to firearms, and there sharp enough to pierce concrete. There used for a variety of tasks, from incapacitating opponents to breaking through windows. They also double as a calling card, left at crime scenes to serve as a psychological weapon against potential wrongdoers.
	+ **Grappling Hook:** Line-launching, multi-purpose, highly versatile, and handgun-like device, it fires a retractible, detachable line with a mechanized, magnetic, hooked or clawed end, which Batman utilizes to traverse Gotham, escape danger and remain hidden from foes, all while allowing him to scale rappel, swing, catapult, or slingshot himself along structures or across gaps. It also allows him to ascend and descend, much like an elevator or pulley system, at a harmless rate, it can also be used to pull on an enemy with great force, enough to stun and daze them or to injure them, with the end of the line also acting like a harpoon that pierces the flesh of a target.

* **Respirator Mask:** Allows him to successfully breathe in areas with limited oxygen, such as underwater.
* **Tracker Rifle:** A long range silent rifle, able to shoot tracking devices.
* **Sticky Bombs:** Small, custom-built handheld explosives that can stick to surfaces before detonating, there used to disable the firearms of Knyazev's men.
* **Smoke Grenades:** Canister-type grenades that emit massive amounts of smoke, mostly used for quick escapes.
* **Kryptonite Gas Grenades:** Smoke grenades that emit Kryptonite in gas form, especially effective against Kryptonians like Superman and Doomsday.
* **Kryptonite Spear:** A spear made of refined Kryptonite, specifically designed to kill Superman. Ironically used by Superman himself to kill Doomsday.
* **Branding Ring:** A superheated ring that brands a bat symbol into whatever surface it is pressed into, hot enough to sear into stone.
* **Cell Phone Cloner:** A phone capable of cloning the software and contacts of another, allowing Batman to both listen to the cloned phone's messages and track it.
* **Hacking Device:** Used to hack into the LexCorp servers and tap into Lex Luthor's mainframe.
* **Powered Armor Batsuit:** A powered exoskeleton version of the Batsuit, used to combat Superman, it enhances Batman's strength, making him roughly 28 times stronger, enough to effortlessly swing a weakened Superman around using his grappling gun and slam him through multiple stone columns. It also enhances Batman's durability enough that he was relatively unscathed after being tackled through a building by Superman.
* **Batcomputer:** Batman's giant and powerful multi-purpose supercomputer console, located in the Batcave, with several monitor screens, at least one monitor is equipped with thermal imaging. It's hooked up to both GCPD radios and local news stations.
* **Batmobile:** Batman's personal automotive vehicle and primary mode of transportation, it's equipped with a miniature jet engine afterburner to provide a quick thrust in pursuits and jumps. It's Completely bulletproof, able to withstand sustained fire from miniguns. It's also equipped with a front-mounted gatling gun, rear-mounted harpoon launcher, missile racks, and flare countermeasures, it's capable of autonomous control, and electric currents run along the vehicle's exterior plating, able to shock and incapacitate those unlucky enough to get too close.
* **Batwing:** Batman's personal aerial assault vehicle and a secondary mode of transportation, a tailless flying wing aircraft capable of VTOL flight and precise maneuvering in low altitudes. Powered by twin jet engines in the rear that enables supersonic speeds, it's capable of remote control from the Batcave. And is armed with rotating gatling guns and armaments of homing missiles, it contains both visible and thermal imaging systems to scan for enemy hostiles through walls or obstructions. It's composed of bulletproof metals to easily withstand sustained gunfire from miniguns.
* **Nightcrawler:** Used by Batman to access rough terrain that the Batmobile and Batwing cannot reach, it was originally designed by Batman's father, Thomas Wayne, for military use. It's a four-threaded tank with each tread on a separate leg so it can walk, it can pierce into surfaces with each leg to climb up walls or hang from a roof, and possesses gatling guns powerful enough to tear through Parademon armor.
* **Flying Fox:** Massive three-story airplane, specifically built to transport the entire Justice League, as well as the Batmobile.

## Feats

### Strength

* Capable of punching a man hard enough for them to flip in the air and smash into a wooden floor.
* Threw someone with enough force to break a wall.
* Smashed his way through a wall.
* Can battle with Parademons.
* Sent a weakened Superman flying with a kick.
* Swung Superman like a wrecking ball with a rope, destroying four large pillars.
* One punch of his holds 6.3 kN or 1420 pounds-force, the equivalent to getting hit by a battering ram.
* Made a weakened Superman bleed with his strikes.
* Knocked out a Parademon with a kick.
* Ripped apart Firefly's metallic wings with his bare hands.
* Knocked out Harley Quinn with a single punch while underwater.
* Snapped a Regime soldier's neck while restrained.

### Speed

* Fast enough to completely outclass and take down dozens of armed men before they can even react, doing many complex maneuvers in seconds.
* Blocked Superman's punches.
* Dodged blasts from a Parademon's Plasma Carbine from close range.
* Barely grappled away from a charging Doomsday.
* Blocked Plasma Carbines from multiple Parademons.

### Durability

* Suit is highly resistant to knives and bullets several of which it tanked at point blank
* Proved immune to Firefly's Flamethrower in a prequel comic.
* Tanked the explosion of KGBeast's Flamethrower tank at point blank.
* Survived being tossed by Superman into a police car with enough force to flatten the vehicle.
* Survived getting thrown through buildings numerous times by an extremely held back Superman.
* Was able to block multiple blasts from Parademons and even heat vision from Superman till it overheated, though Superman was likely holding back.

### Skills

* Operated for two decades as Batman.
* Mentored Dick Grayson until the latter's death.
* Saved a little girl during the Black Zero Event.
* Broke into the LexCorp Industries building and stole the Kryptonite within.
* Fought Superman and was able to subdue him and almost kill him.
* Defeated Anatoli Knyazev's men and rescued Martha Wayne.
* Aided Superman and Wonder Woman in fighting Doomsday, even making the monster chase him to Gotham so he could retrieve the Kryponite spear and kill him.
* Co-founded the Justice League alongside Wonder Woman.
* Used a Mother Box to resurrect Superman.
* Successfully thwarted Steppenwolf's invasion.
* Formed an insurgency to oppose an evil Superman in the Knightmare timeline.
* Managed to kill over a dozen Regime foot-soldiers, only being overwhelmed by sheer numbers, and even then, it took a Parademon to render him unconscious.
* Has brought down the Joker multiple times.

## Weaknesses

* Any weakness of a regular human, but has survived situations which would kill a normal human.
* Has a questionable mental state, suffering from paranoia and extreme anger, which led to him being easily manipulated by Lex Luthor.
	+ However, after Superman's sacrifice, Bruce regained his optimism and sense of hope, and is no longer mad.
* PTSD (Even the word "Martha" triggered flashbacks to the night his parents died, sending Bruce into a rage).
* Killed by Superman in the Knightmare timeline.
* Joss Whedon.