Batman

**Bruce Thomas Wayne** is CEO of Wayne Enterprises, philantrophist and in secret, vigilante of Gotham City, **Batman**.

After witnessing murder of his parents, Bruce waged war on crime with help from his legal guardian and butler, **Alfred Pennyworth**. Currently, Bruce has been Batman for 13 years.

## Batman

### Aliases

The Dark Knight
Caped Crusader
Bat of Gotham
Bats
Batsy
B-man
Brucie

### Relatives

Thomas Wayne (father, deceased)
Martha Wayne (mother, deceased)
Alfred Pennyworth (legal guardian)
Dick Grayson (adopted son)
Jason Todd (adopted son, deceased)

### Affiliation

Bat Family
Wayne family
Wayne Enterprises
Justice League

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Gotham City, New Jersey, United States of America

## Appearances

### Appears in

Batman: Caped Crusader (2023)
Batman: Old Joke (2025)
Superman: Achille's Heel (2025) (cameo)
World's Finest (2026)
The Justice League: World's Knights (2028)
Batman: Knightfall (2029)
Teen Titans (2029)

Over his years as protector of Gotham, he has faced numerous of foes from mobsters to gimmick supervillains to meta-humans. However, his most notorious enemy has been **The Joker**. Batman has also had few sidekicks, **Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon** and **Jason Todd**. After fighting with him for 5 years, Dick left Bruce to become indipendent hero and to focus more on superhero team, Titans. Barbara got crippled by The Joker, which forced her to quit being Batgirl and Jason was murdered by The Joker, after going after him alone. Tragedies made Bruce more and more bleak, but gainned his humanity more after joining Justice League and meeting new sidekick, **Tim Drake**.

## **Biography**

Bruce Wayne was born in Gotham City, New Jersey to Thomas and Martha Wayne, richest family in USA. Bruce had a happy childhood and unconditional love from his parents and trusty butler, Alfred.

### **Losing his parents**

One day in 1995, when Bruce was 9, he and his parents were walking home from movie theater after seeing Mark of Zorro whe they were confronted by criminal, Joe Chill. At first, family complied with Chill's offer, but Thomas tried to defend his wife and son by trying to attack Chill, but was shot by him. After that Martha was shot too. Chill panicked and fled the scene and left Bruce shocked and screaming in fear. At the funeral, he promised with whisper at his parents' coffins that he will avenge them.

### **Training**

After finishing college, Bruce left Gotham City to train himself on anything possible from martial arts, detective skills, psychology, chemistry, escape arts, etc. Anything Bruce tried, he excelled at. Bruce returned to Gotham late 2009.

### **Return and beginning of the Batman**

When Bruce returned and started to set up his hideout place together with Alfred and Lucius Fox. CEO of Wayne Enterprises and trusted family friend, where he could monitor crime, train, and do his investigations. Bruce was eager to go already to the streets and especially take down notorious mob boss, Carmine Falcone, whom Bruce believed to be responsible for death of his parents, but decided to wait for a while to not make anybody suspicous of him and his alter-ego to arrive at same time, but also to figure out what kind of symbol is he.

Couple months later at January 2010, one night while staying at his parents grave, Bruce saw massive swarm of bats and was startled by them, but also gainned idea and put together a suit inspired by bat and at dark alley stopping a mugger he decleared himself as Batman. Batman started to take on both street thugs, low level mobsters, Falcone's and Maroni's men, and also corrupted police officers and city officals. Some time later Batman ran into police liutenant James "Jim" Gordon, who at first was skeptical of him, but after seeing him do so much good and even going after corrupted police officers, two started to work together

### **Scarecrow appears**

Six months after Batman's debut, mysterious serial killer and terrorist, Scarecrow appeared in Gotham and was infecting people with dangerous chemical conction, Fear Toxin, which makes infected experince realistic hallusinations of their biggest fears and was using it on all kinds of people regardles where they police, criminals, or civilians. Batman managed to capture Scarecrow and reveal him as Dr. Jonathan Crane, ostrocized and misantrophic scientist ad psychologist. Crane was sent to Arkham Asylum.