Bruce Wayne

## Batman

* Batman
* Bruce Wayne

**Bruce Thomas Wayne** (February 18th, 1963) is an American billionaire industrialist, notorious playboy and entrepreneur, whom dons the alias of **Batman**, the vigilante protector of **Gotham City**, a man dressed like a bat who fights against evil and strikes terror into the hearts of criminals everywhere, during night. During day, Wayne is the chief executive officer of his late parents' business, **Wayne Industries**. Despite not having any superhuman abilities, Wayne as Batman is one of the most intelligent men and greatest fighter. His physical prowess, technical ingenuity, and tactical thinking make him an incredibly dangerous opponent. As well as using numerous genius tactics, complex gadgetry, and incredible fighting skills, he is one of the most dangerous crimefighters in existence. Throughout Wayne's career as a vigilante, he has mentored three protégés, each of whom have donned alternate aliases to help fight crime within Gotham & **Blüdhaven**.

## History:

**Bruce Thomas Wayne** was born on March 30th, 1963 at Gotham State General Hospital to Dr. **Thomas Wayne** and his wife **Martha Kane-Wayne**, whom both were one of most wealthy and charitable socialites from **Gotham City**. Throughout Wayne's early childhood, he was raised by both of his parents in **Wayne Manor** and lead a happy and privileged life. However that changed, when Wayne witness his parent's murder and their murder **Joe Chill** flee before the police arrived, all at the age of nine years old. Following the incident, the Wayne families' current and only trustworthy butler, a Cold War veteran, medic and former spy **Alfred Pennyworth** adopted the boy and continue to raise Wayne in Wayne Manor. All the while, Wayne himself swore an oath to rid the city of the evil that had taken both of his parents' lives.

A few weeks following their deaths, Pennyworth noticed a young Wayne's sudden alarming obsession with using toy guns to kill the man who murdered his parents. Seeing no other option, Pennyworth sent Wayne to an Arkham rehabilitation home for boys, where he would meet and become close friends with **Harvey Dent** and **Thomas Elliot**. During Wayne's stay at the rehabilitation, he became suspicious of the rehabilitations doctor, Dr. **Hugo Strange**, whom was one of the most respected doctors within New Jersey at the time. Eventually Wayne, Dent and Elliot all worked together to successfully expose Strange as a fraud and due to the backlash being extremely severe, the rehabilitation was forced to be close down in the following weeks.

Throughout the rest of Wayne's childhood and teenage years, he would engage in intense intellectual and physical training. By training and studying in various martial arts, fields of science, criminology and detective skills. At the age of eighteen, Wayne would leave Gotham to join the **League Of Shadows/Assassins**, to further improve his physical training. He would be trained alongside **Slade Wilson** by **Ra's al Ghul**, the leader of the League. During Wayne's time with The League, he would meet the future mother of his only biological son, **Talia Al Ghul**, in which he would begin his circle of on-and-off relationships with her due to his eventual mistrust of her father. Wayne's time with The League, however, was cut short when Wayne would refuse to kill.

## Year One

After fleeing from the League and returning to Gotham, Wayne would go somewhat off the grid and began his crimefighter journey. Throughout his first couple of encounters with criminals, Wayne realized the skills he had learned throughout his life (thus far) weren't enough. Wayne would recall how most of these criminals were cowardly and irrational, and believed his disguise needs to strike terror. Deciding to use his childhood fear of beats, Wayne would assume the persona of **Batman**.

The first thing Bruce did as Batman, was locate his parent's murder Chill and investigate if there was a possible deeper motive for his parent's murder. However, it turns out that Chill simply needed the money and had no actual motive to specify kill the Wayne's parents.

*They were just at the wrong place and at the wrong time.*

During the early days of Batman, Wayne had little to no care towards his legacy as a Wayne and only cared for Batman. This would cause a temporally riff between Pennyworth and Wayne and resulted to Wayne moving out of Wayne Manor to variously apartments' on Park Row to infiltrate **The Red Hood Gang**. With Wayne "off the grid", his uncle, a colonel during World War ll that was decommissioned, **Jacob Kane** gained control of Wayne Enterprises and hired various "unfit" employees, one of these employees was **Edward Nygma**.

Following all of Wayne's Park Row apartments all being blown up simultaneously by the Red Hood Gang, Wayne survived the ordeal. Returning to Wayne Manor and Pennyworth reaffirming his support for him and bandaging his wounds. Nygma's involvement would be exposed by another colleague, **Lucius Fox**, in which he'll be arrested and charged, and Kane would resigned, leading to Wayne gaining control of Wayne Enterprises, and firing those other "unfit" employees.

One of Wayne's first huge accomplishments as Batman, was ending The Red Hood Gang's rule over Gotham by late 1992. Another one of Batman's huge accomplish was his first actual "official" investigation as the Batman on industrial tycoon **David Lambert**'s murder. During this investigation, Wayne as Batman would encounter another future lover of his, **Selina Kyle**, donned in a decently made black suit, on the streets of Gotham, gaining the name of **Catwoman** from various journalists. With more and more Batman and Catwoman sightings, journalists attention would chronicled what they knew of the mysterious vigilante and thief in front-page articles.

In early 1993, Nygma would flee from Arkham State Penitentiary as Commissioner Gillian Loeb declared the Batman a vigilante criminal. A month later, Wayne began his investigation on a series of murders that were left with riddles, whom he believed being committed by a former employee of Wayne Enterprises. Journalists would dubbed the murder as "**The Riddler**", while Wayne would ultimately confirm his suspicions that these crimes were being committed by a disgruntled **Waynetech** employee, however whom was still unknown. With Commissioner Loeb's declaration, Batman was limited on resource and resorted to Batman reluctantly allied himself with Captain **Jim Gordon**, and together they would reveal the Riddler's identify to the public. Following The Riddler's arrest due to Lucius Fox's asset in revealing The Riddler's location, Gordon would immediately advanced to the role of commissioner, following Loeb's death. While Wayne would promote Fox and form a friendship and partnership with both men. By the end of 1993, Wayne began targeting the **Falcone Crime Family**, as both Bruce Wayne and as Batman.

On April 10th, 1994, confirmed sightings and an encounter of a resurfaced Red Hood Gang member whom was now going by the alias "**The Joker**". Although the clown was stopped before he could even fully finish his plan, their first encounter would be of many. That same day of Joker's first sightings, Commissioner Gordon had token a risk and placed a **Bat-Signal** on the roof of the **Gotham City Police Deportment** district.

As more as more villains began to pop up, such as **Penguin** and **Killer Croc**, Batman began to work closely with Commissioner Gordon, Fox for technology advancements and Dent, whom was in a war on organized crime. However Dent's war on organized crime came to an abrupt end, when Dent was scarred with acid by the Joker, during the Joker's first of what would be, many of his prison escapes.

On May 12th, 1995, Wayne adopted a young circus acrobat **Dick Grayson** after witnessing his parents murder by the gangster **Tony Zucco**, whom staged Grayson's parent's death as an accident during one of their shows. Despite not knowing Wayne's secret, Grayson would often sneak out of Wayne Manor, hunting Zucco, and each time the Batman would be there to protect him. Once Wayne revealed to his ward, Grayson revealed he had figured it out already. Due to both sharing the common goal of justice, the pair began fighting crime as Batman and **Robin**.

Soon after Robin's debut, a few sightings of **Batgirl** were being spotted as the **Scarecrow** became an active criminal and gassed the **Dynamic Duo** with his **fear toxin** for the first time. After recovering from the fear toxin, Wayne would investigate and discover that Commissioner Gordon's daughter **Barbara Gordon** was Batgirl. Although at first, Wayne had attempted numerous times to stop Gordon being Batgirl, they were all unsuccessful. Eventually, he would recruit her into his crusade and she would become a valuable member within the now established, **Bat-Family**. During both, Grayson's career as Robin and Gordon's career as Batgirl, their influences as Robin & Batgirl had drastically made most of Batman's foes soften and become less lethal.

Throughout the next eight years, the trio would come into conflict with various villains of all backgrounds and remain close with one another. At some point, Grayson and Gordon would form a romantic relationship with one another, as well. However, due to the constant manipulation, deception and miscommunications over the years between Wayne and Grayson, their once close bond was becoming strained. Following the Dynamic Duo unsuccessfully saving **Mr. Freeze**, due to lack of communication between one another, Grayson quit being Robin and move to Blüdhaven, donning a new persona, **Nightwing**. Grayson, however continued his relationship with Gordon, which like many of his adopted father's relationships became, off-and-on again.

A few months following Grayson's exit, Batman began investigating smaller cases, to distract himself from the recent events that had occurred during his personal life. One of these smaller cases would be prescription drugs being stolen from Dr. **Leslie Thompkins**' office. Wayne would soon learn that culprit was simply a street orphan named **Jason Todd**. Before Batman could even confront Todd. He would be caught by Batman, attempting to steal the tires from the **batmobile**. Impressed and amused by his courage, Wayne belief in Todd's potential to reform. Lead to Wayne adopting Todd, after learning his current situation with his now dead mother and offering him the now vacant position of Robin. Once accepted, Todd became the second and somewhat final Robin.

During the first six months of Todd's career as Robin, his relationship with Wayne and Pennyworth were great, while his relationship with Gordon and Grayson weren't great. As both viewed Todd as an criminal and Grayson's replacement, nothing else. However following an encounter between Robin & Scarecrow, Todd became high from a new stronger variant of the fear toxin, leading to Wayne visiting Crane at **Arkham Asylum** for a possible cure, leaving the boy with Gordon. Her attempts at comforting Todd, would soften and drastically change her opinion on the boy. Follow the incident, Todd and Gordon became very close and formed a sibling bond. It would take Grayson another two months, to form a sibling bond with Todd and work on rebuilding his relationship with Wayne.

For the next two years, Batman, Robin, Batgirl and Nightwing became an unstoppable and feared group by criminals. Less villains were escaping due to lack of corruption within the Asylum and Gotham had become one of the most peaceful city within the United State during these two years. However as the older Todd gotten, the more he became arrogant, reckless, impulsive and hot headed. What was once a sweet, smart, caring boy that once saw the good in people began to show little to no care to the various thugs and criminals injuries he had inflicted upon. None of that would go un-noticed by anyone within the Bat-Family. As Gordon and Wayne began working on a resolution of Todd's concerning behavior, an incident involving **Felipe Gazona**'s death led to Wayne benching Todd as Robin. Despite the intense debate between Todd and Wayne about the cause of his death, Todd would nevertheless remain benched and his relationship with Wayne now strained due to the lack of trust. Gordon would become pregnant with Grayson's child at some point during all this.

On November 10th, 2005, Barbara Gordon was shot and crippled below her waist by The Joker., in her apartment.

As she was being stripped by him, her father Commissioner James Gordon was knocked out and taken away from their apartment by a few of Joker's goons. Numerous photos of Gordon, now nude were taken and sent to Batman.

For the next eight days, as Gordon laid in a coma with Grayson by her side, whom was in no mood to be Nightwing at the moment, as he had learned that Gordon had suffered a miscarriage with their child and was "permanently" crippled, the wild goose chase for the whereabouts of the Commissioner & Joker would come to and end with Todd's torture and evident death. Fortunately, Commissioner Gordon was successfully found thanks to Todd discovering it and sending the location to the Batman and GCPD. A few weeks after Todd's death, a video was sent to Wayne in which had Todd's torture.

The Joker fled to Sarajevo, Bosnia with the commissioner. Although no one knew that at the time as the Joker had given false locations within Gotham to fool the Batman.

Todd would sneak into the cave, sometime later, to learn what happened to Gordon, as he has been kept in the dark for the past couple of days. Once he witness the photos of the incident taken by The Joker, Todd became angry and vengeful, he toke his Robin suit and snuck out of Wayne Manor and bought a ticket to Sarajevo, Bosnia under the alias Jacob Heywood.