Batwing (New 52)

The Bat of Tinasha

*"Forgiveness is not the edict that will guide me. I am a creature of rage. Forged in blood and the evil of the world that created me."*

## **Summary**

**Batwing**, the superhero alias of **David Zavimbe**, is a significant figure in DC Comics' New 52 continuity. Initially, a child soldier in Africa, Zavimbe was eventually adopted by an orphanage and grew up to become a police officer. His path took a dramatic turn when he was selected by Batman to expand the crime-fighting mission of Batman Incorporated to Africa, becoming the Batman of Africa. Zavimbe's abilities as Batwing rely heavily on a technologically advanced suit, given by Batman. The suit provides him with heightened strength and durability, flight, and integrated weapons, effectively transforming Batwing into a mobile armory. Zavimbe's combat skills, detective work, and tactical ability all play significant roles in his effectiveness as a superhero. In his role as Batwing, Zavimbe faces a multitude of threats both local and global, from African warlords to international terrorists. He becomes a vital part of Batman's international network of superheroes, collaborating with various heroes on different missions. Despite the vast geographic distance, Zavimbe's relationship with Batman and his allies is defined by mutual respect and cooperation. Throughout his journey, Zavimbe experiences a series of harrowing events, including battles with his corrupted brother Isaac, who takes up the mantle of the villain Massacre. He also becomes involved in Gotham City's conflict during the "Night of the Owls" crossover event. Eventually, Zavimbe resigns from his role as Batwing, feeling unable to balance the scale of superheroics with the more immediate needs of his local community. His tenure as Batwing paints a complex picture of a hero trying to reconcile his global responsibilities with his local commitments.

## **Base**

### **Output:**

#### Physical Strength

* Even as a teenager, he is able to beat a group of child soldiers by himself.
* Busts through a wooden door into the shack that is housing Death Jack and his crew, then beating up him and his crew.
* Continues to beat up groups of thugs himself. [Alt]
* While recovering from the machete through his chest, he can still beat around Massacre.
* In the same fight, grabs Massacre by the ankle with a grapple gun, flies into the air dragging him up, and then punches him on his way down to drop him into the ceiling of a shack. After their first bout, he kicks away Massacre, brawling him to the ground.
* Busts through wooden doors and windows with his kicks.
* Batman and Batwing beat up a bunch of thugs working for Massacre.
* Batwing and Massacre brawl, fairly even with their gear playing a major role in any major hits or damage done.
* Batwing and Massacre continue to be fairly even in combat bar gear.
* Rips the door off a bus wrapped in barbed wire.
* Tackles Massacre through multiple wooden walls.
* Pulls Massacre's arms down and unarms him from his machetes using his grapples on his wrists, then kneeing him in the chin.
* Batwing and Massacre go blow-for-blow in their fight until Batwing finally breaks his mask and downs him.
* Smacks away a meta through the air.
* Restrains a Talon with a rope, then overpowering him. Once they end up in CQC, he proceeds to break his arm, and then tackle him out of the building they are in and crater a car with their landing.
* After making sure the Talon is unarmed, he ties him up and carries him away helpless, also taking a moment to knock out a kleptocrat with an elbow hit.
* Rips a light pole out from the street and uses to slam a dragon meta.
* Batwing and Nightwing storm a Chinese gangster hideout with ease.
* Carries a large meta out of his city to depower him.
* Holds up and guides a jet fighter in flight to divert it from hitting a city.
* Busts through the top of a building to make an entrance.
* When mind-controlled, he easily beats up some cops.
* Beats up some cops while in crutches.
* Easily beats his mercenary former friend in CQC.
* Busts through a large window on the side of a building.
* Craters a wall by slamming a man into it.

#### Explosives

* Seemingly flips a jeep over with an explosive he planted on the front blowing up.
* Blows up the ground below OMAC, sending him into the sewers.

#### Tasers

* Temporarily downs Massacre by unloading his suit taser on Massacre.
* Knocks out some goons.
* Fries a serial killer in a pool.

#### Projectiles

* Armed with armor-piercing tranquilizers, using them to knock out a Talon for a moment.
* Blasts the arms off a Talon with a shot from his gauntlets.
* Takes out a bunch of goons with some kind of projectile firing from his gauntlets.

### **Defense:**

#### Blunt

* Tanks a punch to the face from a Jax rip-off villain.
* Batwing and Massacre brawl, fairly even with their gear playing a major role in any major hits or damage done.
* Tanks a kick and a punch from Massacre.
* Batwing and Massacre go blow-for-blow in their fight until Batwing finally breaks his mask and downs him.
* Tanks hits from a giant samurai construct that just shattered Booster Gold's shield.
* Tanks falling into a van hard enough to crumple the top of it.
* Tanks being slammed into a car by a dragon meta, then into a billboard.
* Tanks a punch to the face.

#### Piercing

* Blocks a swing of Massacre's machete with his arm.
* Tanks slashes from a Talon with sickles.
* Automatic gunfire just bounces off him.
* Blocks hits from a dragon meta.
* Gunshots bounce off the back of his suit.
* Blocks pistol shots with ease.
* Tanks being shot by gatling autocannons.
* Takes getting shot in the leg out of his suit.

#### Energy

* Tanks a blast to the back that blew up the front of a car from Death Jack.
* Tanks a blast from some big gorilla monster.
* Survives but is knocked out by Booster Gold being forced to blast him.
* Tanks a hardlight beam from a meta.

#### Explosive

* Handles being caught in a blast from a mech suit self-destructing, the armor damaged and cracked but Batwing still operating without seemingly much issue.
* Handles being caught in a blast that blows up a boat he is in.
* Tanks being hit with an anti-aircraft missile.

#### Endurance

* Continues to fight crime despite being covered in wounds.
* Survives getting impaled through the chest with a machete by Massacre, his lung pierced, and being put into a two week coma. Once awakening, he demands to go back to fight.
* Despite not having recovered from the impalement, gets up from his bed and heads out to fight Massacre. He describes his state as "overdosed on adrenaline, hyperventilating, numbness in his limbs, and swimming in his own blood in his suit".
* Lasts through a grueling fight with Massacre and then carrying Thunder Fall to a hospital despite the wounds and bleeding from the machete impalement.
* Has no issues heading into and searching a burning house to find the dead hero inside and pulling her out.

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Even as a teenager, he is able to beat a group of child soldiers by himself.
* Attacks Death Jack and his crew at their base, taking them all on and beating them.
* Continues to beat up groups of thugs himself. [Alt]
* Closes in on a jeep with gunners firing in on him, landing on it, planting a bomb, and leaving without seemingly a single shot hitting.
* Pulls Kia away from someone trying to shoot her, then beating up the thugs working for Massacre in the building with Batman.
* Batwing and Massacre brawl, fairly even with their gear playing a major role in any major hits or damage done.
* Batwing and Massacre continue to be fairly even in combat bar gear.
* Batwing and Massacre go blow-for-blow in their fight until Batwing finally breaks his mask and downs him.
* Tackles a suicide bomber, flies into the air, and tosses him before he can blow himself up.
* Batwing and Nightwing storm a Chinese gangster hideout with ease.
* Keeps up with a jet in flight to divert it from hitting a city.
* Kidnaps a soldier at a makeshift airport so fast that the others looking at the soldier only see a blur as they suddenly disappear.
* Flies in front of gunfire aimed at an old friend.
* Blocks pistol shots with his wings.
* Easily jukes Father Lost.
* Flees the cops after blowing up the roof of the building he is in.
* Dodges gunfire from a thug.
* Flies away from and tries to avoid attacks from Sky Pirate using autocannons and missiles against him., eventually fleeing.
* Takes on two rioting prisoners by himself, then dodging a gunshot, and has to avoid gunfire as he runs.
* Easily beats his mercenary former friend in CQC.

#### Travel

* Has a suit meant for long-range travel, traveling from the DRC to Giza in under 6 hours, clocking in with a speed of at least Mach .4 being conservative with the distance and using 6 hours.

### **Misc:**

#### Gear

* Before becoming Batwing, armed with Molotov cocktails.
* Armed with projectiles that create a hardening goo over whatever it hits.
* Has liquid bandages that he can spray on wounds to help contain and coagulate the wound.
* Armed with his own batarangs.
* The grapples from his arms can grab limbs well.
* Creates and deploys a net system that blocks telepathy from Father Lost.

#### Suit

* His suit typically electrocutes whatever touches it.
* His suit can fly and has grapples.
* Has a suit meant for long-range travel, traveling from the DRC to Giza in under 6 hours, clocking in with a speed of at least Mach .4 being conservative with the distance and using 6 hours.
* The wing on his suit are detachable, as well, the suit can excrete flammable liquids and has a torch.
* His suit can unleash a sonic blast that knocks out the dragon meta attacking him.
* Can unleash a flash bang from his suit.
* Can fire bolas from his gauntlets.
* Catches a bunch of cultists fleeing with a weighted net shot from his gauntlet.
* Activated by Matu, his suit has a function to restart his nervous system to break him free from mind control.
* The suit can operate by itself, also using a hologram to appear to be operated. It using some tasers to knock out some thugs.

### **Other Feats:**

#### Respect

* His vigilante work in the Congo had earned the respect of Batman who personally visited him to make him an official member of the Batfamily.

#### Off-Screen

* David and Isaac would take on entire squads of soldiers by themselves and win.