His parents died when he was so young. Shot. Killed right in front of him. He was raised alone.

A kid
in a huge mansion. With his memories of his mother and father. He had love, and they took it from him.
He should be a killer. He should want to tear the world apart for what it did. And yet he took that pain.
That shock of death. And he turned it into hope.

— Superman src

Batman is the superhero protector of Gotham City, a tortured, brooding vigilante dressed as a bat who
fights against evil and strikes fear into the hearts of criminals everywhere. In his public identity, he
is Bruce Wayne, a billionaire industrialist and notorious playboy. Although he has no superhuman
abilities, he is one of the world's smartest men and greatest fighters. His physical prowess, technical
ingenuity, and tactical thinking make him an incredibly dangerous opponent. He is also a founding
member of the Justice League.

Contents

 1History

o 1.1Early Life

 1.1.1Later Childhood

 1.1.2Travels and Training

o 1.2Early Heroic Career

 1.2.1Batman Begins

 1.2.2The Zero Year

 1.2.3Cormac Dodge

 1.2.4Meeting Superman

o 1.3Year Two

 1.3.1The War of Jokes and Riddles

o 1.4Further Adventures

 1.4.1The First Robin

 1.4.2Zur-En-Arrh

 1.4.3Founding the Justice League

 1.4.4The Adventures Continue

 1.4.5Batgirl

 1.4.6World's Finest

 1.4.6.1The Devil Nezha

  1.4.6.2The Boy Thunder

 1.4.6.3Elementary

 1.4.7Jason Todd and Tim Drake

 1.4.8Black Adam and Khandaq

 1.4.9Batman and Son

o 1.5New 52

 1.5.1The Court of Owls

 1.5.2Death of the Family

 1.5.3The Demon Star & Gotham's Most Wanted

 1.5.4Requiem for Damian

 1.5.5Forever Evil

 1.5.6The Big Burn

 1.5.7Batman Eternal

 1.5.8Robin Rises

 1.5.9Endgame

 1.5.10Resurrection and Memory Loss

 1.5.11Darkseid War

o 1.6DC Rebirth

 1.6.1I Am Gotham, I Am Suicide, I Am Bane

 1.6.2Gotham Knights

 1.6.3The Button

 1.6.4Invasion of the Dark Multiverse

 1.6.5Rules of Engagement

 1.6.6The Wedding of Batman and Catwoman

 1.6.7Aftermath of Breakup

 1.6.8Bane's Conspiracy

 1.6.9Doomsday Clock

 1.6.10City of Bane

 1.6.11Justice/Doom War
  1.6.12Joker War

 1.6.13Ghost Stories

 1.6.14Death Metal

o 1.7Infinite Frontier

 1.7.1Urban Legends

 1.7.2The Neighborhood

 1.7.3Fear State

 1.7.4Abyss

 1.7.5Shadows of the Bat

 1.7.6Shadow War

 1.7.7Failsafe

 1.7.8Gotham Nocturne

 1.7.9Dark Crisis

 1.7.10Flashpoint Beyond

o 1.8Dawn of DC

 1.8.1The Bat-Man of Gotham

 1.8.2The Gotham War

 1.8.3Mind Bomb

 1.8.4Dark Prisons

 1.8.5Absolute Power

 1.8.6All In

 2Powers and Abilities

o 2.1Abilities

o 2.2Other Characteristics

 3Paraphernalia

o 3.1Equipment

o 3.2Transportation

o 3.3Weapons

 4Notes
  5Trivia

 6Recommended Reading

 7Related

o 7.1Footnotes

History

Early Life

Main article: Batman Origins

Bruce Wayne was born to wealthy physician Dr. Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, who were
themselves members of the prestigious Wayne and Kane families of Gotham City, respectively.

When he was three, Bruce's mother Martha was expecting a second child to be named Thomas Wayne,
Jr. However, because of her intent to find a school for the underprivileged in Gotham, she was targeted
by the manipulative Court of Owls, who arranged for her to have a car accident. She and Bruce survived,
but the accident forced Martha into premature labor, and the baby was lost.[2]

While on vacation to forget about these events, the Wayne Family butler, Jarvis Pennyworth was killed
by one of the Court of Owls' Talons. A letter he'd written to his son Alfred, warning him away from the
beleaguered Wayne family, was never delivered. As such, Alfred—who had been an actor at the Globe
Theatre at the time[3] and a military medic before that, traveled to Gotham City to take up his father's
place, serving the Waynes as butler.[4]

The Waynes' murder

As he grew older, his family's reputation made Bruce restless, and he began sneaking out of school to
visit Gotham City, where he wouldn't be so easily recognized.[5] On one such outing, when he was ten
years old, he was picked up by Officer Jim Gordon and his partner on their patrol. En route back to
the station, Bruce witnessed Jim accepting a trench coat as a bribe from a tailor—though neither
realized it was a bribe at the time—but Bruce would remember it as an indicator of Jim's character.
After his parents picked Bruce up at the police station, the Waynes went to see The Mark of Zorro at
the Monarch Theater. When the Waynes were walking home after the movie, a mugger named Joe
Chill attempted to rob them at gunpoint, and panicked, shooting both Thomas and Martha dead.[6]

Later Childhood

Following his parents' deaths, Bruce attempted to commit suicide with a razor blade. However, just
before he went through with it, he realized that this wasn't what his parents would want, and it was at
that moment Bruce vowed to spend the rest of his life warring on crime.[7]

Bruce became obsessed with the search for meaning in the loss of his parents. He thought perhaps the
mythical Court of Owls was responsible, but he never found anything to prove it.[8]

Shortly after their deaths, Bruce became obsessed with using toy guns and killing the man who
murdered his parents. Because of this, Alfred sent Bruce to an Arkham boys' rehabilitation home upstate
where he first met Harvey Dent. The boys became good friends but wouldn't realize their identities until
years later.[9]

In his youth, Bruce attended Gotham Academy. It was there that he dated Julie Madison, but his
psychological issues with his parents' deaths ultimately led to the end of their relationship. One day, he
was asked by a professor to answer a problem involving a projectile being fired at a target. This triggered
Bruce to answer the question by burning the answer on the professor's front yard.[10]

As a pre-teen, Bruce began getting into fights with a kid who was bullying Bruce's classmates. Alfred
eventually grew tired of Bruce's desire to solve his problems through aggression and told Bruce act
strategically, rather than with his fists. Bruce interpreted this by locking the bully in the school boiler
room and giving him poison ivy until the boy eventually changed schools.[11] Bruce was later expelled
from Gotham Academy and began attending Roxbury Fielding Academy.[12]

Troubled by grief, Bruce found that he couldn't function the way he was, so he hired a homeless man to
pretend to be Alfred to approve of the paperwork so that Bruce could erase his memory with
electroshock therapy, but chose not to go through with it, and to use his pain as a motivator.[13] At the
age of 18, he used his relationship with Erin McKillen[14]—a daughter of the Irish mob, and with whom he
attended Roxbury Academy[15]—to locate Joe Chill, and learned that he had simply needed the money,
and there was no deeper meaning to his parents' deaths.[16] During his final year as a student, Bruce
participated in at least one underground fight and dated a young woman named Dana, who talked him
out of becoming a police officer, noting how unsuited to the job he would be, and encouraged him to
think on a larger scale.[11] He was also psychoanalyzed by Doctor Hugo Strange, who he exposed as a
fraud.

Travels and Training

Fueled by the loss of his parents, Bruce began a global sojourn. He began in Paris, briefly training with
the world's best fencer; he would best said swordsperson after two weeks of training. Sometime later,
Bruce encountered the Grey Shadow, a French cat burglar of high renown. Though he initially intended
to turn the Shadow in, after some conversation and consideration (and no small amount of teasing), he
became her protégé. In the process of his training, the pair would rob the CEO of Sunrise Oil, Hubert
Glonet, unaware that Hubert was the notorious serial killer known to the French public as 'The
Foundling'. Bruce developed feelings for the Shadow, culminating in a kiss; however, the Shadow, who
shared his attraction, rejected him as too young. Moments later, the pair would be interrupted by
notorious manhunter Henri Ducard, who was hired by Alfred Pennyworth to track Bruce down.[17]

The trio worked together to take down the Foundling. They were successful, but the confrontation
resulted in Henri becoming hospitalized. For his own good, the Shadow fired Bruce, though they parted
amicably.

Bruce then approached Henri, seeking to learn the art of manhunting from the prolific manhunter; he
accepted, and Bruce became his assistant.[18] Bruce also became close training partners with Ducard's
son, Morgan. However, when Bruce discovered that Henri often killed his targets, he left. This caused
Henri to send Morgan after him, but Bruce managed to defeat him, throwing him into Henri's office.[19][20]

One of his earliest stops was in Tibet, where he trained in martial arts and sword fighting under Shaolin
monks.[21]

Bruce studied under Giovanni Zatara in Las Vegas, struggling to master the basic precepts of stage magic.
During this period, he became very close with Giovanni's daughter, Zatanna, with the pair striking up an
attraction. Hoping to impress Bruce, Zatanna introduced Bruce to real, arcane magic. However, Zatara
disagreed with this choice, and erased the memory of this discovery from Bruce's mind.[22]

After two months of searching, Bruce arrived at the Dojang of Master Kirigi on Paektu Mountain in North
Korea. He was wordlessly denied entry by a sentry, who shoved him to the ground; over the next few
nights, this process repeated violently until finally he was allowed entry. While training under Kirigi he
became acquainted with another acolyte of Kirigi's, one who identified himself as Anton. They bonded
over their shared desire to fight criminals, despite their differing motivations. "Anton" and Bruce, going
by 'Jack', spent almost a year atop Paektu mountain training under Kirigi.[23]

Shortly after the arrival of a new crop of an aggressive, belligerent students sent by a "benefactor" of
Kirigi's, Bruce left, leaving his training under Kirigi technically incomplete as a result of his refusal to learn
the lethal 'Vibrating Palm' technique. On his way down the mountain, Bruce was attacked by these new
students, assassins-in-training. Alone, he fought valiantly, but was on the verge of being overwhelmed
until "Anton" arrived, and together, they fought off the attackers and resolved to train together moving
forward.[23]

At the age of 19, Anton and Bruce learned how to race cars in life-or-death situations from Brazilian
criminal, Don Miguel. While there, his break-lines were cut, an action he later suspected was the
handiwork of his cohort. Bruce himself tricked Don Miguel into getting captured by police during his final
lesson.[24]

Soon afterward, Bruce and Anton were apprehended in Moscow after staking out an FSB office trying to
locate Avery Oblonsky, an ex-KGB freelance operative and held in prison for fourteen days. During their
escape from imprisonment, it was revealed that the warden who had been keeping them captive was, in
fact, a disguised Oblonsky, who agreed to train the pair in the art of disguise and manipulation. In the
process, Wayne's true identity was revealed to Anton.[25]

After training with Oblonsky, Bruce and "Anton" travelled to the wilds of northern British Columbia,
hunting down the world's greatest marksman, Luka Jungo, also known as "The Swiss Mark." The pair
trained under Luka for several months. In the process, Luka made the pair that they would swear to
never use firearms against other people. Luka, unsettled by Anton's behavior, confronted him,
proclaiming him a killer. The confrontation resulted in Luka's death at Anton's hands, and the pair
became very aware of the gulf between their motivations, coming to blows. Despite having a gun to
Bruce's head, Anton could not bring himself to shoot Bruce, and parted ways.[26]

He was also trained in stealth by an unnamed master in the Hida Mountains, in Japan.[27]

At age 21, Bruce studied the ins and outs of technological gadgetry under the guidance of the brilliant
inventor, Sergei Alexandrov.[28]

At the age of 22, Bruce travelled to the Himalayas to train with Shihan Matsuda, who taught him to fight
with the katana. He soon struck up a romance with the sword-sharpener's daughter, Mio. Matsuda
warned him against creating personal ties with others, and to embrace his darker side. Matsuda's wife,
though encouraged it, and because of Bruce's feelings for her, he inadvertently let an assassin into the
Matsuda household. In the following course of events, Bruce discovered that Mio had been hired by
Matsuda's wife to seduce him and then kill Matsuda. Both women and Matsuda himself were gravely
injured, but before he died, Matsuda warned him that death is what would come of fostering close
personal relationships.[29]

At age 24, Bruce was training in Norway, and after 28 hours of fighting a new opponent each hour,
Bruce's determination struck fear into all the Queen's men.[30] Bruce spent time with a nomadic people in
the Nigerian desert enduring grueling training. It was during this time that Alfred attempted to contact
him, but when Bruce received the phone call, he couldn't bring himself to answer.[31]

Sometime during his time abroad, Bruce also trained with Chu Chin Li and Tsunetomo, two martial arts
masters in the Far East and was also arrested for illegal base jumping at Meru Peak.[5] He was also, at
some point, trained by expert boxer (and former JSA member) Ted Grant.[32]

Towards the end of his travels, Bruce returned to study under Zatara once more. Over the course of his
renewed studies, Bruce and Zatanna encountered a demon known as Shantoz, a being that would
escape hell every twenty years to feast on the souls of those with broken hearts. This time, when the
secret of genuine magic was revealed to Bruce, he was allowed to remember, and together the pair was
eventually able to defeat the demon by using Bruce's trauma as bait. Despite the temptation, Bruce
decided against learning true magic, unwilling to pay the price it would exact on his soul.[33] During this
time, Bruce and Zatanna became inadvertently bonded through a miscast spell, and would spend the
next few decades having regular meetings in order to contain the arcane chaos their mistake wrought.[34]

Throughout Bruce's training, he constantly crossed paths Minhkhoa Khan, the man he knew as Anton.
Bruce and the man who would become Ghost-Maker became rivals, having fought on a few occasions
due to their differing opinions on killing criminals. They crossed paths while seeking training in Dublin,
Metropolis, and Morocco.[32] In Morocco, Khan killed their mentor Ouahbi, ostensibly in self-defense, like
he did Luka.[35]

Bruce continued his travels, making a stop in Mexico, where a mysterious assailant slipped him
psilocybin while he fought jaguars, and in Shanghai, where his rope was mysteriously cut, though he was
rescued at the last minute by Skyspider, a thrill seeking urban explorer who had previously mentored
him. He discovered that she had recently trained Minkkhoa Khan under the same fake name he'd used
with Bruce, "Anton."

Suspecting Khan of attempting to kill him, Bruce pressed on, seeking out Doctor Daniel Captio, an expert
mentalist who was capable of complete conscious control over both his brain and body. While under his
tutelage, Bruce was able to learn control over his body, but was unable to control his emotions.
Interested, Daniel tested him with falsified photos of the people he cared for, murdered. At that
moment, an injured Minhkhoa arrived at the door of Captio's estate; Bruce accused Minhkhoa of both
the murders and of previous attacks on Bruce himself in Rio De Janeiro, Mexico, and Shanghai; Minhkhoa
had no idea what Bruce was talking about, and expressed regret at the deaths of Luka Jungo and Master
Ouahbi. He revealed that he had been tracked and attacked as well, and had come to warn Bruce.[35]

Outside, Bruce confronted the mysterious assailant who had been tailing him across the world and who
had attacked and grievously injured Minhkhoa: Harris Zuma, AKA 'The Still', a renowned assassin in the
employ of Ra's al Ghul. They fought on the cliffside as a storm struck, and Bruce was able to channel his
fury and love, overtaking Zuma. Zuma revealed that the loved ones Bruce saw dead in the photos were
still alive, and that his employer, the Demon's Head, was offering them an invitation to train with him in
the Crystal Hills of Abu Dhabi. Bruce then confronted Doctor Captio, realizing that he had doctored the
photos that had enraged him so. After Minhkhoa recovered, the pair left Captio's manor together,
determined to seek out Ra's al Ghul.[35]

They eventually made their way to Ra's al Ghul's crystal fortress in the heart of the Rub' Al Khali Desert,
accepting his tutelage. During this period, he was introduced to Ra's daughter, Talia al Ghul, who assisted
in the training of the pair. Ra's told the pair that he intended to change the world using the principles of
"Lazarus," the supposed name of his organization, intending to build entirely self-sustained 'Lazarus
Cities'.[36]

While training, despite his rejection of the Demon Head's principles, Al Ghul became very certain that
Bruce would one day become the true heir to his ideals and organization. As such, he gifted him a small
box, supposedly containing the eye of a god.[37]

Talia and Bruce became close during this time, but Bruce's distrust of her father's methods and goals
resulted in the bond turning frosty.[36] Towards the conclusion of their training, Ra's revealed the truth of
his intentions to Bruce and Minhkhoa, and made them duel for the right to replace Harris Zuma as
second in command, the Demon's Hand. Bruce defeated Minkhoa, and Ra's allowed Zuma, Bruce's
ostensible predecessor, to remain alive, requesting that he take the unconscious Minkhoa Khan from the
Crystal Hills. He then declared Bruce to be the Demon's Heart, though Bruce did not remain with the
organization[38]; he recognized that their plans involved mass death, and planted explosives throughout
the Crystal Hills, collapsing the structure. In the process, he fought Ra's, who defeated him; however, he
was rescued by Minkhoa, who dragged him out of the collapsing cave system. Despite this, they parted
ways, swearing that Minkhoa would never enter Gotham, and that Bruce would never enter any city
Minkhoa set up shop in.[39] Before returning to Gotham, Bruce made one last stop in Argentina. While
leaving to board his plane back to Gotham, Khoa made one last attempt to convince Bruce to give up on
Gotham and join him in stopping crime around the world. Bruce refused and the two agreed to continue
with their previous agreement.[40]
After seven long years of absence, Bruce finally returned to Gotham[41] at the age of 25.[42] To formally
end his training, Bruce climbed to the top of Wayne Tower and did a base-jump off the top, resulting in a
concussion, road rash, as well as a dislocated shoulder and elbow.[43]

Early Heroic Career

In the original New 52 continuity, Zero Year was a year long event. However, following changes to the
timeline due to Rebirth, Bruce's exploits with the Red Hood Gang and Riddler were shortened to last over
the course of a few weeks in order for stories from the New Earth continuity to fit in, such as Year One
and The Man Who Laughs.

Batman Begins

With only his mission in mind and no care for his legacy as a Wayne, Bruce moved himself out of Wayne
Manor and into a brownstone on Park Row from which he based his early attempts to infiltrate the Red
Hood Gang after only six weeks back.[44] Despite trying to remain off the grid, Bruce's uncle Philip
Kane had kept tabs on him and had also gained control of Wayne Enterprises in Bruce's absence, hiring
strategist Edward Nygma, who advised him to have Bruce killed if he wouldn't play ball.[5]

Philip outed Bruce's return to the media. When Bruce refused to return to the company while his uncle
was selling weapons, Nygma advised Philip to have Bruce killed, and the Red Hood Gang soon attempted
just that by blowing up Bruce's brownstone with him inside.[28] Injured, Bruce crawled back to Wayne
Manor, where Alfred reaffirmed his support for him and bandaged his wounds.[30]

In the original New 52 continuity, Bruce decided to take on the appearance of a bat following this attack;
however, following subsequent continuity changes, this was adjusted to align with previous continuities.
[45]

During an early outing, while disguised as a veteran, Bruce encountered Selina Kyle on the streets of
Gotham; at the time, she was operating as a prostitute. They came to blows, and Selina would later
remember this as their first meeting, though Bruce would disagree for semantic reasons.[46] During this
outing, Bruce would be grievously injured, and was nursed back to health by Alfred yet again.
Afterwards, he would decide to take on the guise of a bat, presenting the concept to Alfred the following
morning. Alfred rejected it at first, but Bruce was persistent. Over the next few days, they assembled the
suit, and on the following Saturday, Bruce made his first patrol as the Batman, attracting the attention of
journalists, who chronicled what they knew of the mysterious vigilante in a front-page article in the
Arkham Post the day after.[45]

Soon afterward, industrial tycoon David Lambert was murdered, and Bruce would investigate; this would
become his first real investigation as Batman—an adventure he would later recall as the Case of the
Chemical Syndicate.[47]
The fall of Red Hood One

Using the fact that his return was outed publicly to his advantage, Bruce called a press conference
outside the ACE Chemical plant to expose the Red Hood Gang's plans to the media. The gang attempted
to disrupt it, and inside the plant, Bruce used a blackout to debut the Batsuit. Through blackmail, Philip
was recruited into the Red Hood Gang, and when he failed to kill the Batman, he was shot dead. In
fighting with Red Hood One, Batman knocked the man into a vat of chemicals, and he was thought dead.

The Zero Year

Later, Nygma returned to detonate an EMP blast that left the entire city in the dark.[42] Commissioner
Loeb declared the Batman a vigilante criminal as Bruce began investigating a series of murders
committed by a disgruntled Waynetech employee, while building a jammer to prevent another EMP
attack when power was restored.[48] The ex-employee, Dr. Karl Helfern was challenging enough that
Batman allied himself begrudgingly with Jim Gordon, and together they learned that Helfern was the
Riddler's pawn.[49] Their plan to defeat both men failed, and the jammer was destroyed such that when
the power was restored, the Riddler stole complete control of the power grid, shutting it down and
flooding the city.[50]

In the following months, the city fell into ruin, with the Riddler nightly challenging the citizens to best
him with a riddle in order to earn back civilization.[51] Allying with Jim Gordon and Lucius Fox, Batman
planned to locate the Riddler by piggybacking his signal during the challenge.[10] The plan failed, but
Batman managed to find the Riddler in the place they'd first met, and best him in a battle of wits, both
restoring power and saving the city from an inevitable air-strike. Afterwards, Bruce and Lucius began
rebuilding Wayne Enterprises.[52]

In the original New 52 continuity, Jim Gordon was then immediately advanced to the role of
commissioner; however, following subsequent continuity changes, Jim Gordon remains Captain as late as
the Joker's debut.[53]

While the city was recovering from the Riddler's attack, Batman encountered the first Mister
Bloom, Daryl Gutierrez.

Bruce would later come into conflict with the Falcone Crime Family.

Cormac Dodge
At some later point, Batman came into conflict with Cormac Dodge, who became the supervillain known
as the Escape Artist. Cormac, a master technologist, was able to hack into the early Batcave's systems
and learn a great deal about Bruce's investigations. Using this information, Cormac put Batman into
increasingly diabolical manufactured scenarios.

Cormac recruited the young, homeless Anita Jean as his prodigy but refused to let her have friends or
pets. Seeing her loneliness, Batman made her an offer, and she became an insider in Cormac's operation.
Eventually, Anita and Batman cornered Cormac atop the Gotham Incinerator Plant. Cormac threatened
to reveal Bruce's identity to the world if he was arrested, claiming that Bruce and Anita would lose
everything if he went down. Panicking, Anita shot Cormac. Bruce intensely reprimanded her, not
realizing her fragile state, and Anita subsequently appeared to commit suicide, though Bruce would learn
years later that she survived.[54]

Meeting Superman

Bruce first encountered the Kryptonian superhero Superman when Jax-Ur came to Gotham. In order to
escape the Phantom Zone, Jax-Ur began kidnapping Gotham citizens and he forced the Riddler to lure
Superman to the city. Batman shared information with Superman, but refused to work together until
Alfred disappeared. Concerned for his father figure, Bruce revealed his identity to Superman and the two
partnered directly. They tracked Jax-Ur and Riddler to the Gotham City Harbor, where a trapped was
sprung and Bruce was sent to the Phantom Zone.[55]

Year Two

The War of Jokes and Riddles

Gordon lights the Bat-Signal for the first time

Not long after the Zero Year, Batman had his first confrontation with the resurfaced Red Hood One, now
going by the name "the Joker." The clown had attempted to poison the Gotham Reservoir, only to be
stopped by the Bat.[56]

Having created a prototypical version of it during the Zero Year, Jim Gordon took the risk of placing a Bat-
Signal on the roof of the GCPD precinct.[44] Batman for a while worked closely with Jim Gordon and
Harvey Dent in a war on organized crime until Dent was scarred with acid by the criminal Erin McKillen.
[57]
Forced to choose a side

Approximately a year after his initial defeat, the Riddler broke out of prison and spurred a war between
himself and the Joker, who had lost the ability to laugh, in what would be called "the War of Jokes and
Riddles."

With each side recruiting all the villains they could to fight for them, the city was turned into a war zone
for weeks, forcing Batman to choose a side to work with in order for the casualties to stop. Batman
begrudgingly chose the Riddler and meticulously took out all of Joker's forces until only the clown was
left. When Batman predictably betrayed the Riddler, Nygma surrendered and revealed that he
orchestrated the entire war in an attempt to solve the riddle of how to make the Joker laugh again.
Furious that Riddler caused the deaths of so many innocent people for something so trivial, Batman lost
control and attempted to stab Nygma in the face with a kitchen knife, only to be stopped by the Joker
himself—this event becoming one of Batman's greatest failures.[58]

At some point after this, Catwoman, the Riddler, Killer Croc, the Penguin, the Clock King, and a
mysterious figure known as 'The Help' became embroiled in an attempt to steal a mysterious object
given to Bruce on the last day of his training by Ra's al Ghul.[59]

Further Adventures

The First Robin

Batman and Robin

Around this time, Bruce took in young circus acrobat Dick Grayson after his parents were murdered by
the gangster Tony Zucco. Without knowing Bruce's secret, Dick would sneak out of Wayne Manor at
night, hunting Zucco, and the Batman would be there to protect him every time. Eventually, when Bruce
was ready, he finally revealed his identity to his ward, but, at that point, Dick had figured it out for
himself. With the common goal of justice, the pair began fighting crime as Batman and Robin.[60] Bruce
would later admit that Dick saved his soul, believing he saved him from being consumed by rage.[61]

Soon after Robin's debut, they caught Catwoman as she attempted a heist aboard a boat in Gotham's
harbor, disguised as an old woman. Bruce considered this to be their first true meeting, despite their
previous encounters, because this was the first time they'd met as their fully realized selves.[62]

At this point, the Scarecrow became an active criminal and gassed the Dynamic Duo with his fear
toxin for the first time.

In one specific mission, Batman and Robin tracked Scarecrow's international operations by following him
to Prague. Batman realized that the Scarecrow was dealing with a child trafficker named Mother, who
planned to use his experimental "trauma toxin" to create more traumatized children to abduct. Bruce
kept this information secret from Dick, convincing him the mission was exclusively to capture Scarecrow.
Bruce contacted Mother, pretending to be interested in purchasing a replacement Robin, but the ruse
was unsuccessful. Mother escaped and remained dormant for years.[63]

During Dick's career as Robin, the tone of many of Batman's adventures changed, and many of Batman's
reoccurring foes softened, becoming less lethal; Jim Gordon described the phenomenon as Robin's
attitude 'infecting' them.

Early in Dick's career as Robin, before Bruce fully trusted Superman, the trio teamed up to take down
the Penguin, who had recruited the extra-dimensional Thunderers of Qward to act as heavies on the
advice of Lex Luthor.[64]

Zur-En-Arrh
Following an encounter with Professor Milo, Bruce seemingly hallucinated a vivid encounter with an
alien Batman called the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh. The experience terrified him, and, believing he needed a
check against mental control and attacks, he set about constructing an alternate personality that would
take control in the event of such danger, the Batman of Zurr-En-Arrh. While building this alternate self,
the Joker returned, and, worse, returned to his old ways, murdering a number of Weltamix
Pharmaceuticals security guards before taking the company's chemists hostage.[65]

The Joker who had lost his trademark mirth, was trying to force the company's chemists to create a
concoction that would cheer him up. Unfortunately, all of their anti-depressants would take weeks to
take effect, something he found unsatisfactory. Batman, his backup personality still unstable and
unfinished, confronted Joker in the midst of his own hallucinations. During the fight, the alternate
personality briefly seized control and attempted to simply kill the Joker. Though he retook control and
stopped himself from killing the Joker, feeling that buried beneath the Joker, there was still somebody
who could be healed, it became clear to him that his back-up personality didn't possess his moral lines.
As he finished constructing Zur-En-Arrh, he made sure to implement his specific moral code within the
personality.[66]

Some time later, his fragmentary memory of the Zur-En-Arrh encounter inspired him to add the iconic
'yellow circle' to his Batsuit, enclosing the Bat-Symbol.[67]

Founding the Justice League

Bruce was among founding members of the Justice League. While the team's actual first meeting is
debated, prime amongst the contenders was when the heroes who would eventually comprise the
league fought off an attack by the alien Appellaxians, which resulted in them nearly being turned into
trees before emerging victorious. The heroes, inspired by their victory, formed a team, christening it the
Justice League. One of their earliest foes was Starro the Conquerer.[68]

In the original New 52 Continuity, the Justice League formed following an invasion of Earth by Darkseid.
However, following subsequent changes to the timeline, this was supplanted with an adventure
resembling the team's Earth-One and New Earth origin. While Darkseid's invasion may have still
occurred, it seemingly did not occur in the way originally depicted.

The Adventures Continue

At some point, Bruce came into conflict with Ra's al Ghul. He fell in love with his daughter Talia,[69] and
unknowingly fathered a son with her.

A group including Carter Hall erased Bruce's memories of a critical event; this would remain unknown to
him for many years.[70]

While trailing a low-level costumed criminal to Singapore, Bruce and Dick encountered Bruce's former
rival, the Ghostmaker. Per their previous agreement, Batman and Robin reluctantly left Singapore,
knowing that Ghostmaker would capture the criminal and see to it that he was extradited back to
Gotham.

Batman once took Dick on a mission with the Justice League so that the boy could understand his worth
as part of a superhero team. Even though Robin was outclassed for most of the mission, Batman assured
the boy that, in the future, he wouldn't just be a member of the League—he was bound to be its leader.
[71]

Batgirl

Sometime later, Barbara Gordon had caught Batman's attention and was recruited into his crusade
as Batgirl. At some point, the pair would face off against Catman atop the El Payaso Candy Company
building.[72]

World's Finest

Over the course of their careers, Superman and Batman and became close allies, despite some initial
distrust and the stark difference between their methods and personalities. They would frequently
operate as partners, a pairing referred to by some as 'The World's Finest'. At some point, they fought the
tyrant Mongul MDCCXC together.

The Devil Nezha

One such outing was prompted by the unexpected team-up of the Gotham-based villain Poison Ivy and
the cyborg Metallo under the influence of the Devil Nezha. During the encounter, Metallo injected
Superman with a sample of Red Kryptonite, causing Superman to undergo a series of rapid and
horrifying transformations. Batman contacted the Doom Patrol, who rapidly arrived on the scene.
Luckily, Negative Man was able to incapacitate Superman.[73] The group was able to purge the Red
Kryptonite from Superman; Niles Caulder then identified the insignia on the vial that had been used to
inject Superman as belonging to the Devil Nezha (having recently recoverd Nezha's sword from General
Zahl themselves, and recounted the legend of Nezha's creation.

Simultaneously, several villains attacked other heroes, including the Flash, Wonder Woman, Green
Lantern, and the new hero Captain Marvel. Splitting up, Robin teamed with Supergirl, and the pair
traveled in time in order to contact the House of Ji, who had defeated and imprisoned Nezha in antiquity.
Superman and Batman traveled to Philadelphia in order to rescue Billy Batson from Felix Faust[74] Despite
some struggle, they were able to defeat Faust and rescue Billy before moving on to aid other heroes.

The pair then went to rescue Wonder Woman and the Flash, who under attack by Doctor
Alchemy and Mirror Master respectively. They defeated both villains by tricking Doctor Alchemy into
attacking Mirror Master's Mirror, only to be captured by Green Lantern, who had fallen under Nezha's
sway.[75] However, the pair was able to escape by overriding Hal Jordan's compromised willpower. The
ring, seeing them as one individual and amplified by the ambient magic produced by Nezha, fused
Batman and Superman into a single composite being.[76] Nezha did not relent, though, and sent the
heroes Black Canary, Firestorm, Martian Manhunter, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, and Red Tornado after
them. However, the fused pair was able to force Nezha towards his far-away tomb with the assistance of
the returned Supergirl. Realizing that Nezha was weak to modern technologies, the group managed to
imprison Nezha within his tomb once again with the help of a Phantom Zone Projector.[77]

Afterwards, Superman and Batman travelled back in time to the year 1892 to rescue Robin, who had
inadvertently become lost in the timestream during his trip to learn from the House of Ji. There, they
participated in a circus show undercover, and helped Robin solve an a murder before the trio returned to
the present.[78]
The Boy Thunder

Some time later, a rift opened up in the sky, and through it, David Sikela arrived, the last survivor from an
unknown Earth elsewhere in them multiverse. They quickly realized the unique properties of David's
biology gave him powers under Earth-0's sun, and brought him to Kandor to be examined by
the Kandorian scientist Kim-Da. While there, Kim-Da fabricated David a costume inspired by Hel-Oz, an
ancient Kryptonian hero. After a brief but traumatic excursion to Gotham, Robin took David to the secret
base of the Teen Titans, where he introduced the teen to his friends and partners.[79]

For a time, The Boy Thunder worked as Superman's sidekick; eventually, however, it would not last. After
several adventures in which he helped subdue an earthquake, battle Doctor Phosphorus, fight Sinestro,
and save the city from Atomic Skull, things rapidly fell apart as David was directly targeted.
The Key attacked Gotham, using a psychotropic compound to effectively lock all of its inhabitants where
they were when the attack began, including Robin and Batman, who were stuck in the Batcave. Despite
an anxiety attack, David was able to help, rescuing trapped miners. Luckily, based on Batman's
notes, Blue Beetle was able to disperse an antidote to the chemical. Unbeknownst to them, the Key was
working with the Joker, who had larger plans.[80]

David continued to study alongside Superman and Batman, struggling with anger issues and the trauma
of losing his parents and world, later admitting to Superman that he believed himself to be responsible
for his parents' death. Their heart-to-heart was interrupted by the next stage of the Joker and the Key's
plan—using Angle Man's Angler to open a door directly from the bottom of the Gotham River into the
city. Tragically, the pair used this distraction as an opportunity to kidnap David. They tortured David as
Superman and his allies desperately searched for their lost friend. Eventually, they found him, and in the
process of freeing him, David nearly killed the Joker. In the aftermath, Superman briefly considered using
Kryptonian technology designed by Kim-Da to depower David, but decided against it.

However, the Key was not yet done with David. He summoned a motley crew of villains into the Fortress
of Solitude, including Bag o' Bones, Acid Master, Doctor Phoenix, the Abominable Snowman, Ferlin
Nyxly, and Zebra-Man. In the chaos, he activated the Bleedship that brought David to Earth-0, seeing it
as the key to the multiverse. Resultingly, David was pulled out of Earth-0, sent to an unknown world in
the Multiverse—but not before a tearful goodbye with Superman, Batman, and Robin.[81]

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Man

Jason Todd and Tim Drake

Bruce, convinced that Dick was wasting his potential by remaining a sidekick to Batman, decided that
Dick needed a push out of the nest. To that end, leading up to and on the day of Dick's eighteenth
birthday, Bruce began implementing increasingly strict and draconian rules, criticizing Dick more often,
and generally attempting to push him away so that he might find himself as an independent person. As a
result, Dick Grayson quit his role as Robin and became Nightwing.

Sometime after that, Batman caught orphan Jason Todd trying to steal prescription drugs from Dr. Leslie
Thompkins. Believing that Todd had the potential to turn over a new leaf, Wayne offered him the vacant
position of Robin and, when he accepted, trained him for months. However, soon after Jason had
become active as a vigilante, he was lured into chasing a woman he believed to be his mother to
the Middle East—a setup by the Joker—and killed before Batman could save him.[82]

A legacy of Robins

After the death of Jason Todd, Batman became increasingly violent and reckless, which worried a boy
named Tim Drake. Tim, who had deduced Dick Grayson's identity as Nightwing, tried to convince Dick to
return as Robin once again in order to rein in Batman's rage. When Dick refused, Tim put on a Robin
costume to aid Batman and Nightwing in a fight against Two-Face. Tim was of vital help in that fight, and
Batman agreed to train Tim as the third Robin.[83] Tim would later leave his identity as Robin to
become Red Robin and lead the Teen Titans.[84]
Broken by Bane

In an effort to take control of Gotham City, Bane ran Batman ragged, and then broke his back.
[85]
Sometime later, Ra's al Ghul attempted to eradicate the population of Gotham City using the Ebola
Gulf-A Virus, and was thwarted by the Batman.[86]

Over the years, Batman compiled detailed contingency files on many of his allies in the Justice League,
fearing the potential damage they could inflict on the planet if controlled. The files were eventually
stolen by Ra's al Ghul, who used them to target the league to catastrophic effect. Though the League was
able to defeat Ra's, they were shaken by the experience and afterwards, for his perceived betrayal,
Batman was voted out of the league.

Though he told Superman that the contingency for a rogue Batman was the Justice League, this was a
deception[87] to even Bruce himself.[88] In truth, Batman's mental backup against psychological attacks, the
Batman of Zur-En-Arrh, created an anti-Batman contingency in the form of Failsafe,[87] a robot that would
be activated if Batman ever willingly took a life.[89] After creating Failsafe, the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh
erased his memory of how to defeat the contingency.[87] Meanwhile, Bruce himself remained blissfully
unaware of the robot's existence.[88]

Black Adam and Khandaq

Black Adam formed a group of heroes including Atom Smasher who entered Khandaq and deposed
dictator Asim Muhunnad, despite the efforts of the Justice Society.

His newly reclaimed kingdom was not entirely willing to submit to his rule; the northern tribes built a
resistance, targeting a new desalination plant in the Ahk-Ton Desert. He sent Atom Smasher to put down
this rebellion with a show of force but instructed him not to harm the rebels. Later that day, he was
confronted by Batman, who had infiltrated his palace with the intent to depose him. Out of respect,
Adam returned to his human form, wanting to fight Batman on equal ground. Batman underestimated
Adam, who fought him to a standstill using martial arts techniques only one with an extraordinarily long
life could master. Forcing a pause, Adam offered to grant Batman a portion of his power, so that he could
watch over Gotham for centuries, like Adam would with Khandaq.
Batman refused, and soon they were interrupted by the attacking rebels. Furious at Batman for
distracting him, he renewed his attack, only to realize that he needed Batman's help. While Batman
helped the palace staff and the injured within get to safety, Adam engaged the rebels with extreme
prejudice.[70]

Batman and Son

Bruce's longtime paramour, Talia Al Ghul returned to Gotham and introduced the Dark Knight to his
biological son, Damian, whom she had grown in a lab and trained to lead the League of Assassins from
birth. She intended for Bruce to train their son in the ways she could not, and in the hope of curbing his
homicidal tendencies, he took on the boy as Robin to keep a close eye on him.[90]

Not long after taking on Damian, Bruce was seemingly killed by Darkseid,[citation needed] having in fact been
sent back in time. While Nightwing eventually took on the role of Batman in his stead, training Damian as
Robin,[citation needed] Bruce fought his way forward through time.[citation needed] and upon his return, announced
that he had been privately funding the Batman, and declared the creation of Batman Incorporated.

New 52

The Court of Owls

The Court of Owls watches over Gotham

While Bruce Wayne revealed plans to revolutionize the city of Gotham, the GCPD uncovered a body with
ties to the legend of the Court of Owls and a warning of an attempt against Bruce's life.[91] Batman
believed the Court of Owls were just a legend, but after taking a meeting with an interested business
partner in Lincoln March, Bruce was nearly killed by an assassin dressed like an owl in Wayne Tower.
[92]
While investigating the assassination attempt, Batman became trapped in an underground labyrinth
where the very much real Court of Owls held him for eight days and attempted to drive him insane.
Despite this, he managed to break his way into an underground portion of the Gotham River[93] and was
found and revived from cardiac arrest by Harper Row.[94]
The Talons attack Wayne Manor

Urged on by Batman's interference, the Court of Owls elected to resurrect all of their undead Talons
from over a century of assassinations, in order to kill off several prominent Gothamites and regain full
control of Gotham City.[94] A swarm of assassins attacked Bruce Wayne at his home, but he was able to
fend them off using an emergency robot-suit in the Batcave.[95]

After tracking the Court of Owls back to their hideout, Batman found all its members dead—poisoned by
their food. Following clues to the ruins of a mental hospital, Batman learned that Lincoln March, his
former business partner, was behind the betrayal within the Court. March believed himself to be Bruce's
Wayne's younger brother, Thomas Wayne, Jr.,[2] and that, when he was a boy, he had been taken in by
the Court and raised to believe Martha Wayne was his mother. March grew to resent Bruce and took the
role of King of the Owls to win control of the city for himself and to kill Bruce. In their encounter, Lincoln
March escaped, leading Bruce to assume the Court of Owls would one day return.[4]

At that same time, a murderous vigilante called NoBody began attempting to win Bruce's son's loyalty
away from him, encouraging him to break with Batman's no-kill policy. He soon realized that this man
was Morgan Ducard, with whom he had trained in man-hunting some years ago.[96] When Damian
declined to join him, NoBody turned on him, and Batman was forced to save him. In the resulting battle,
it was Damian who made the final blow and killed NoBody,[97] causing his father to worry if he'd ever be
able to train him not to perpetuate the cycle of violence.[98]

Death of the Family

Having waited for nearly a year in hiding, the Joker reappeared at the GCPD Headquarters and killed
several officers to signal his return to Batman, and to retrieve his face from the evidence locker, which he
had cut off and left behind before his disappearance.[99] The Joker then threatened to recreate one of his
first recorded murders with Gotham's Mayor, but he killed all of the guards outside the Mayor's office
instead, leaving disturbing frowns instead of the trademark Joker smiles on their faces. Seeing a pattern
in Joker's twisted recreations of past crimes, Batman went to the ACE Chemical building, where a
distraction provided by a reluctant Harley Quinn allowed the Joker to go to Wayne Manor and attack
Alfred.[100]
The Joker returns to destroy the Bat-Family

Once free, Batman returned to the Manor to find a cassette tape revealing that Alfred had been
kidnapped and tortured. Confiding in Nightwing, Batman asked him to keep Alfred's kidnapping a secret,
insisting that the Joker had not yet deduced his identity. Meeting next at the Gotham Reservoir, the Joker
claimed that he did know everyone's identities and promised to kill each of the allies who had made
Batman weak within 72 hours.[56]

Bruce's allies compelled him to admit that after his second encounter with the Joker, he had found one
of the Joker's cards in the Batcave but had never believed that his identity was compromised. Insisting
that his allies remain safe in the cave, Batman followed a lead to Arkham Asylum, where he learned that
the Joker had taken over without being noticed.[101] There, Batman discovered that the Joker has
renovated and rearranged the building into a kind of castle, of which Batman was King, and he was
Jester. The only way to find out what happened to his kidnapped allies, whom the Joker had captured in
the interim, was to go along with the skit the madman put together and electrocute himself in his hot-
wired "throne."[102]

Batman woke at a dinner table in the Batcave surrounded by his allies, all with bandaged faces.
Removing the lids from the dinner platters in front of them, the Joker revealed each of their faces. After
discovering that the bandages and severed faces were a fake-out, Batman chased down the Joker, who
chose to fall into a chasm rather than allow Batman to reveal either of their identities and spoil his
fantasy. Despite everyone being alive and well, Bruce's insistence on keeping secrets the Joker's taunts
drove a wedge between he and his family.[103]

The Demon Star & Gotham's Most Wanted

Talia's conflict with Batman leaves their son caught in the middle

Armed with the League of Assassins' power, Leviathan began taking over the city of Gotham, and in an
effort to gain more information, Batman took on the identity of Matches Malone to infiltrate the crime
ring. He was, however, betrayed to Leviathan and sentenced to death, requiring Damian—who had been
grounded in the Batcave, to defy his father's wishes to save him.[104]

Batman was captured yet again by Man-Bat Commandos and put in a death trap by Talia, who had taken
over Wayne Tower in the meantime. Against Batman's wishes, Alfred allowed Damian to leave the
Batcave, once again, and help his father.[105] While Batman escaped his death trap, Damian faced the
villainous Leviathan agent the Heretic alone. Though he fought well, Damian was no match for it and he
was skewered on the Heretic's blade, perishing.[106]

Damian is killed by the Heretic

Thwarted in avenging his son, Bruce was thrown from the Tower, and later held a small, private funeral
for Damian, even as his city was overrun by Leviathan and the Mayor declared him a menace, forcing
Wayne Enterprises to cut funding to Batman Incorporated.[107]

Borrowing the Suit of Sorrows to face Talia and the Heretic, Batman transformed himself into a bat-
creature[108] After Batman pummeled the Heretic and discovered with disgust that he was a clone of
Damian, the Heretic escaped Batman only to be executed by Talia for failing to follow her orders.[109]

Batman and Talia came to a final confrontation in the Batcave, with the woman forcing him to choose
between taking her life or giving his life along with his city—with the trick being that she had already
poisoned him. In a bid for Batman's life, Wingman offered the Oroboro device Talia sought, as a
distraction, as the headmistress of Spyral shot her in the head, freeing the city of Leviathan's grasp.

In the aftermath, Bruce Wayne was arrested, but charges were dropped. Upon his return to the manor,
he and Alfred discovered that the corpses of both Damian and Talia had been dug up and stolen by Ra's
al Ghul.[110]

Requiem for Damian

Batman mourns Damian

Damian's death left Bruce an emotional wreck,[111] compounded by the fact that his romantic
interest, Natalya Trusevich had been murdered by the Mad Hatter when he allowed her to get close to
him.[112] He began going through the five stages of grief, beginning with denial. Bruce began alienating his
family but, after spending time with each of them however, Bruce began to accept that he had lost a son,
and that he was not completely responsible, which allowed him to see that Alfred, too, had blamed
himself and been going through pain.[113]

While attempting to recover from his grief, Batman was faced with the threat of The Wrath—a cop-killing
arms dealer who had a vendetta against the GCPD, but soon defeated him.[114]

Forever Evil

In the hopes of ridding the world of evil, Pandora tried to have members of the Justice League
open Pandora's Box for her, believing that their virtuousness would prevent the calamity that occurred
when she opened it.[115] Unbeknownst to her, a secret organization was using her as a pawn in a ploy to
have the three Justice Leagues come into conflict. The leagues split up in order to discover their own
solutions to the puzzle of Pandora's Box.[116] Batman headed the team who believed that there was a
scientific explanation for the box and its apparent effect on Superman.[117] Upon their eventual
convergence upon the box, the Leagues discovered that it was a doorway to another world, from which
the Crime Syndicate emerged, and imprisoned the majority of the Justice Leagues within the Firestorm
Matrix.[118]
Batman puts on the Sinestro Corps ring

Only Batman and Catwoman evaded the Syndicate's imprisonment and, after bringing a critically
injured Cyborg to S.T.A.R. Labs for repair, learned that Nightwing's secret identity had been revealed by
the Syndicate. Together, Batman and Catwoman decided to seek him out and rescue him from
imprisonment.[119] While searching for more resources in a Wayne Enterprises storage facility, Bruce and
Selina encountered Lex Luthor and his followers, who were also prepared to combat the Syndicate. Their
confusion at Batman's survival was smothered by the arrival of Power Ring. Hoping to counter him,
Batman donned a Sinestro Corps Ring, only to have it removed and destroyed.[120] Fortunately, Sinestro,
himself was drawn by the ring's energy, and killed Power Ring, suggesting that Batman join the Sinestro
Corps, if ever he had the opportunity to wear a yellow ring again.[121]

After being forced to follow Lex Luthor's lead, begrudgingly, the pair discovered Nightwing trapped
within an Apokoliptian device called the Murder Machine, deep within the ruins of the Justice League
Satellite. Dick warned, though, that the device he was strapped to was synced with his heart rate, such
that they would either blow up with the device, or they would have to kill him. Despite Dick's begging,
Bruce refused to leave him. More decisively, Lex chose to suffocate Dick until his heart stopped, buying
them the time to get him out of the machine and then resuscitate him.[122] He had, in fact, given Dick a
pill that would stop his heart temporarily, requiring a shot of adrenaline before brain death. Once Dick
was revived, he, Batman, and Catwoman escaped to seek out the remainder of the Justice League. With
a plan to use Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth to pull the League out of the Firestorm Matrix and Steve
Trevor out of action though, Martian Manhunter appointed Batman to be the one to wield the Lasso,
because of his connection to Wonder Woman. Using it, he saved the imprisoned heroes while Lex and
his allies defeated the Crime Syndicate.

Afterwards, despite his closeness with Catwoman, Batman insisted that they could not start a romance
together and returned home with Dick. Having been presumed dead, Batman offered him an
opportunity to take advantage of his compromised identity by joining Spyral. In the meantime, Gotham
had become a war zone between the inmates of Arkham Asylum and the inmates of Blackgate
Penitentiary the latter of whom were led by Bane.[123] As victor, Bane claimed the mantle of the Bat for
himself, requiring Batman to wrest it back from him. When Bane was safely imprisoned in Arkham, Bruce
Wayne promised funds to improve the asylum's security and to the city's restoration.[124]
The Big Burn

Soon after taking control of the city again, Batman experienced a blast from the past when Erin McKillen
returned to Gotham to meet with the other crime families to take back the city from the "freaks."
McKillen's return caused a conflict with Two-Face, who received his famous scars from McKillen. After
Batman managed to stop the two from killing each other, McKillen was arrested, her plan thwarted, and
Two-Face, disillusioned with his life, shot himself through the head.[125]

Also, around this time, Batman and his allies were mind controlled by Scarecrow and a group of
Batman's other psychologically focused foes into believing they were living in Gothtopia, an idyllic
version of Gotham. However, Batman broke free of the control before his allies did, and, not realizing the
world they were living in was fake, they targeted him for apparently losing his mind. The Bat successfully
stopped the Scarecrow and brought his friends back to reality.

Batman Eternal

When a mysterious malefactor came to Gotham City with a yearlong plot to destroy Batman's life, phase
one of the mastermind's scheme involved framing Commissioner Gordon for the murders of a derailed
train car full of people, which Batman swore to exonerate him for. Simultaneously, the mastermind
invited former Gotham mob boss Carmine Falcone back from his refuge in Hong Kong to initiate a gang
war with the Penguin, again to add another conflict on Batman's hands. However, despite the corrupt
replacement Commissioner Forbes' interference, Batman, with the help of the GCPD, captured the two
gang leaders, seemingly putting their war to an end.[126]

Arkham Asylum is destroyed

While hunting for Hush, a criminal who was hired to participate in the real mastermind's plan, Batman
had his first—albeit indirect—encounter with the Spoiler, who used him to save her from
assassin Eduardo Flamingo who had been after her because she knew something about the secret of the
attack on Gotham.[127]

Another part of the plot to wear down Batman was to resurrect the evil cult leader Deacon Blackfire in
Arkham Asylum, but this plan was (mostly) foiled by Batwing and Jim Corrigan. However, the building of
Arkham Asylum was destroyed in the process, setting its inmates loose in Gotham.[128] When Batman
finally managed to catch Hush, it was too late—Batman had been distracted so long that the real
conductor had totally cleaned out all of Batman's secret gadget caches and sold them to his enemies.
[129]
While still searching for who was behind this complicated conspiracy, Batman set his sights on Ra's al
Ghul who, also, was another red herring.[130]

Batman's allies rally around him

Upon Bruce discovered that while he'd been distracted chasing down leads, the city was on fire, and its
infrastructure had been turned against the citizens. He then, at last, received an invitation back to
Beacon Tower, to watch the end of everything he cared about. When he arrived, the one who met him
there was the Cluemaster.[131] However, despite all the Cluemaster's taunting and explanations as to how
he pulled the scheme over on Bruce, he was unexpectedly murdered by the one who had really been
behind it all—Lincoln March—the man who believes himself to be Bruce's younger brother.[132] In their
battle, Bruce found himself too weak to fight, but was bolstered when Jim Gordon called on the entire
city to take on the role of Batman and be heroes for the sake of their own city. Soon, Batman's allies
rallied around him, and it was Spoiler who beat March down—though he escaped into the sewers, only
to be caught by the Court of Owls.

Following Arkham Asylum's destruction, Batman allowed Wayne Manor to be the temporary home to its
inmates, and even went into the new asylum undercover as the dead man "Jack Shaw" to investigate a
series of murders. Despite solving the mystery, and having the opportunity to get his home back, Bruce
let the city keep the Manor until they were able to erect a permanent replacement in the wake of the
recent attack on Gotham.[133]

Robin Rises

Eventually, Batman decided at last to begin the search for Ra's al Ghul and the stolen bodies of Damian
and Talia. When Batman had finally tracked down Ra's and successfully defeated him, Damian's
sarcophagus was stolen by Glorious Godfrey and taken back to Apokolips. Ignoring the League's dissent,
he snuck onto the Satellite to steal a specialized Batsuit designed to help him survive against the threat
of Apokolips.[134]
Damian is resurrected at last

While Batman fought his way to Glorious Godfrey on Apokolips, his family decided that they would not
allow him to fight this battle alone and kidnapped Cyborg, forcing him to open a Boom Tube that would
get them to Apokolips as well. Before they left, Alfred gave each of them a new costume resembling that
of Robin to remind them who they fought for.[135] After questioning Godfrey, Batman united with his allies
and learned that Darkseid's son Kalibak was using a powerful stone known as the Chaos Crystal and
Damian's sarcophagus to power a weapon called the Chaos Cannon that could destroy an entire moon.
[136]

Batman's arrival on Apokolips roused even Darkseid himself, who challenged the determined father.
Managing to get to Damian's body, Batman thrust the charged Chaos Crystal shard into Damian's chest
and restored him.[137] Escaping Darkseid's world through a Boom Tube, it was then that they discovered
Damian's resurrection from the Chaos Crystal had given him super-human abilities.[138] which wore off
after some time.[139]

Endgame

The Joker returns, this time motivated by hatred

While recovering from an attack by the Scarecrow, Batman was attacked by a Jokerized Justice League,
signaling the Joker had returned again at last.[140] After subduing the Justice League, Batman then learned
that the newest doctor at Arkham Asylum—Eric Border—had actually been the Joker in disguise all
along. The madman, shedding his disguise in front of the hero, activated a toxin in Gotham that rendered
all of its citizens Jokerized.[141]

Looking for a cure for the new strain of toxin, Batman sought patient zero at the hospital for an antibody
but discovered that patient zero was 'Joe Chill, the murderer of his parents. After hearing many rumors
from friends and enemies alike, Batman began to believe that the Joker could possibly be immortal
thanks to an exposure to the element Dionesium, a component found in Lazarus Pits.[142]

By the time Batman had discovered the fabled pool of Dionesium that had been in the Joker's system,
the villain had found him and attacked him in the tunnels. They fought brutally until both of them were
near death, and as the cavern collapsed around them, Bruce held the Joker back from the healing pool,
forcing him to acknowledge that he had not been around for centuries as he'd claimed. Together,
Batman and the Joker died in that cave.

Resurrection and Memory Loss

When Batman's dead body was discovered in the rubble of the collapsed cavern, he suddenly came
awake, apparently revived by the Dionesium within the cavern's pit. Alfred discovered that the revival
had had the profound effect of remaking Bruce's brain from scratch—with no memories of his past life.
Alfred told him all that he felt necessary but withheld the fact that Bruce had been the Batman. Bruce—
a new man—had not wanted to know anyway.[143] He later reunited with Julie Madison, an old girlfriend
of his, and began working with her at the Lucius Fox Center for Gotham Youth in an effort to serve
Gotham.[144]

Many of Batman's former allies tried to contact Bruce, including the Justice League, but Alfred insisted
that Bruce's past as Batman remain a secret to him. Any invitation that was made for Bruce to become a
hero again was by buried by Alfred.

After seeing firsthand just how awful the effects of the new super villain Mister Bloom's attacks were,
Bruce's feelings on the issue were resolved, and he decided to accept being Batman again.[145]Despite
Alfred's efforts, Bruce made it past him to the Batcave and discovered a device his former self had built
in order to create clones who would have all of Batman's skills and memories. Bruce used the machine
to get his memories back and returned at last to the role that killed him before.[146] The newly returned
hero faced and defeated Mister Bloom and was returned the title of Batman from its current owner—Jim
Gordon.[147]

Darkseid War

Bruce returned to being Batman just in time for an intense multiverse crisis—the Anti-Monitor and
Darkseid were going to war, and they chose Earth as their battlefield.
God of Knowledge

The New God Metron, having infinite knowledge of the multiverse due to his Mobius Chair, came to the
Justice League and tried to warn them of their impending doom. As a sacrificial precaution, Batman
removed Metron from his chair and sat on himself to gain more knowledge of the war. By doing so,
Batman was filled with every answer in the galaxy, total omniscience and nigh-unlimited omnipotence.
He became the "God of Knowledge."

Batman asked the chair questions to test its knowledge, such as who his parents' murderer was. When
the chair answered correctly, he asked the identity of the Joker, of which it responded "there are three."

With his new power on the Mobius Chair, Batman patrolled Gotham. Though Jim Gordon lit the Bat-
Signal for him, Batman informed Jim it was unnecessary because now he knew every crime happening in
Gotham and every crime that would happen. Jim questioned Batman's ethics with such a power, but the
new God ignored him and harshly punished would-be criminals before they committed their crimes.

Batman discovered he couldn't change crimes in the past though when he tried to stop his parents from
being murdered. Furious, instead, he traveled to the present to the jail cell of his parent's murderer Joe
Chill. Batman angrily scolded the man and, in an effort to torture him, revealed that he—Batman—was
Bruce Wayne before teleporting away. Chill was traumatized by the incident and didn't tell anybody what
he had learned.

Batman's power had another price—he was incapable of escaping the Mobius chair. As the battle
between Darkseid and the Anti-Monitor climaxed, Green Lantern Hal Jordan made a desperate attempt
to free Batman from the chair's control by gifting him his Lantern ring, giving Batman enough willpower
to leave the chair for good.

DC Rebirth

I Am Gotham, I Am Suicide, I Am Bane

Main articles: Batman: I Am Gotham, Batman: I Am Suicide, and Batman: I Am Bane

Batman, Gotham and Gotham Girl

While reestablishing himself as the protector of Gotham, Batman was greeted by two new super-
powered heroes—Gotham and Gotham Girl—who he began to trust to serve the city.[148] However, the
two rookies soon found themselves victims of the mind-altering villain Psycho-Pirate, who was working
under the instruction of Hugo Strange.[149] Batman later discovered both men had been recruited to put a
stop to the level of crime in Gotham City by Amanda Waller, but Strange had betrayed that mission.
[150]
Psycho-Pirate drove Gotham into a rage, causing him to kill criminals in an attempt to prevent crime,
while simultaneously rendering Gotham Girl a nervous wreck. With the help of the Justice League,
Batman was able to restrain Gotham, but the overexertion of his powers killed Gotham.[151]

Batman, wanting to find Psycho-Pirate to force him to fix Gotham Girl, discovered he had escaped to
foreign nation of Santa Prisca and was under the protection of Bane. In order to get the Pirate back,
Batman was encouraged by Waller to assemble a team that was practically "suicidal." He recruited a
number of villains from Arkham Asylum: Ventriloquist, Bronze Tiger, Punch and Jewlee, and finally
Catwoman, who was being held on 237 counts of murder.[152] The mission was a success; Batman and his
team escaped with Psycho-Pirate and left Bane beaten.[153] Bruce later discovered Selina had taken the
blame for the murders in order to protect her friend Holly Robinson, who had really committed the
killings. She knew that if she took the fall, Batman would never let her die on death row and Holly's life
would be saved.[154]

Bane returned to Gotham to seek revenge on Batman for humiliating him.[154] He fought and defeated
dozens of Batman's rogues at Arkham Asylum to get to Batman, culminating in a fight between the two.
Bruce emerged victorious, albeit barely.[1]

After the Justice League were forced to team up with the Suicide Squad to fend off Maxwell
Lord's nefarious plot for peace, Batman recruited an assembly of heroes and villains he thought could do
some good to form the new Justice League of America.[155]

Gotham Knights
Batman and Batwoman lead the Gotham Knights

Batman discovered he was being monitored by surveillance equipment, and after investigating he
discovered Gotham's other heroes were being monitored as well. He recruited his cousin Kate Kane, also
known as the vigilante Batwoman, to form a new team dedicated to combating this threat. The duo
formed a boot camp for young heroes that would become known as the Gotham Knights, consisting of
Red Robin, Orphan, Spoiler and a newly reformed Clayface;[156] although the team would later recruit
Batwing and Azrael as well. The Gotham Knights fought threats such as the Colony, a U.S. government
agency dedicated to creating an army of soldiers modeled around Batman headed by Bruce's uncle (and
Kate's father) Colonel Jacob Kane,[157] the Victim Syndicate, a team of victims caught up in Batman's war
on crime who sought revenge,[158] the League of Shadows, an offshoot of the League of Assassins headed
by Lady Shiva,[159] and the Order of St. Dumas.[160]

The team fell apart after Batwoman killed Clayface, who had gone rogue and was about to destroy the
city. Batman objected to her use of lethal force, dividing the team and ultimately leading to its collapse.
[161]

The Button
Batman holding the mysterious button

Following his discovery of a mysterious button lodged in the walls of the Batcave, Bruce attempted to
research the button to no apparent avail until, one day, it had a reaction when placed near Psycho-
Pirate's mask. Seemingly connected, Reverse-Flash broke into the Batcave and began to wallop Batman
until he was mysteriously disintegrated by a being he claimed was God.[162]

In an attempt to discover who had killed Reverse-Flash and was manipulating the timestream, Batman
and the Flash used the Cosmic Treadmill to follow the button's radiation and landed in the timeline Barry
had created after he had gone back in time to save his mother. There, Bruce met the version of his father
from that reality who had himself become Batman after the death of his son.[163] Thomas Wayne
encouraged Bruce to stop being Batman, and instead seek happiness.[164] Batman and Flash managed to
escape the collapsing timeline and return to their world with the help of Jay Garrick, who was stuck in
the Speed Force.[165]

Invasion of the Dark Multiverse

Main article: Dark Nights: Metal

For some time, Bruce had been investigating the power of mysterious metals that he believed had been
impacting the world since the dawn of mankind. By the time it was too late, Batman discovered that he
had been selected by the demon Barbatos to be the vessel for his invasion of the Multiverse.[166] Over the
years, the Court of Owls, who were in fact worshipers of Barbatos, had exposed him to four of the five
heavy metals required to open the portal to the Dark Multiverse. They exposed him to the final
metal, Batmanium, which transformed Bruce into a doorway, allowing Barbatos and his army of Dark
Knights to enter.[167]
Bruce Wayne faces Barbatos in the Dark Multiverse

While his Justice League teammates fought the Dark Knights, Bruce's mind was trapped in the
nightmarish Dark Multiverse. There, Barbatos told him that he first saw Batman when he was sent back
in time to the dawn of man, and he had shaped Bruce's life in order to lead him to this point.
[168]
Superman attempted to restore Batman, but he too was captured in the Dark Multiverse.[169] With
the help of Wonder Woman and Lady Blackhawk, Batman and Superman were rescued. Batman
defeated the Batman Who Laughs, the leader of the Dark Knights, by teaming up with his most unlikely
ally, the Joker. The Over-Monitor told the Justice League of the power of the Tenth Metal, Element X—
the most powerful metal of all. Through channeling the tiny amount of Element X present in every living
human being, the heroes were able to restore the Multiverse to its normal state, however in the process
they shattered the Source Wall, the wall surrounding the Multiverse. As the League prepared to face any
and all threats this could cause, Bruce presented his plans for a new Hall of Justice.[170]

Rules of Engagement

Main article: Batman: Rules of Engagement (Rebirth) (Collected)

Batman proposes to Catwoman

Following his father's advice and motivated by a conversation with Gotham Girl, Bruce decided to seek
happiness in his life and proposed to Catwoman using the diamond she had stolen when they first met,
[171]
and she accepted.[58]

While Bruce and Catwoman temporarily left Gotham on a mission to find Holly Robinson in the country
of Khadym, Alfred informed Dick, Jason, Duke and Damian of the engagement. Despite his initial doubts,
Damian accepted his father's decision.[172] When Batman returned to Gotham, he was encouraged by
Catwoman to tell his closest friend Superman of his engagement.[173] Batman, Superman, Catwoman
and Lois Lane went on a double date; a rare occasion in which the two heroes got to spend time
together outside of crime fighting.[174]

Wonder Woman arrived in Gotham, informing Batman that The Gentle Man had decided to take them
up on an offer. Years ago, Batman and Wonder Woman discovered The Gentle Man, a man who endlessly
protected Earth from the invasion of creatures from another realm. They offered him the chance to take
his place for a day and he had decided to take them up on their offer. The Gentle Man failed to tell the
heroes that time passed differently in this realm; while they spent what felt like years in battle, mere
hours had passed on Earth.[175] While alone for so many years, Batman and Wonder Woman almost gave
in to a romantic attraction but refrained out of love for their partners. Catwoman forced The Gentle Man
to swap places with Batman and Wonder Woman once more.[176]

In an attempt to instill peace across the planet and protect Earth from destruction at humans' hands,
Poison Ivy used her command over plant matter to take control of the minds of the entire planet's
population, forcing them to live in harmony. Batman managed to inject himself and Catwoman with an
antidote, leaving them the only people unaffected.[177] Batman and Catwoman executed a plan to get to
Harley Quinn, who he theorized could be used to break Ivy's control. The plan was a success and, upon
the two women reuniting, Ivy dropped her control over humanity.[178]

The time-travelling superhero Booster Gold, inspired by Superman's adventure to an alternate reality
where Krypton survived, decided, as a wedding present to Batman, to create an alternate reality where
Bruce's parents survived. However, after altering the timeline, Booster became trapped in this new,
darker reality for two years until he was able to fix it again. Booster told Bruce about his attempted-gift
but was permanently scarred from the incident.[179]

The Wedding of Batman and Catwoman

Main article: Batman: The Wedding (Collected)

When the Joker discovered that Batman and Catwoman were getting married, he staged an attack that
he felt would ruin their wedding. Taking hostages at a cathedral, he forced Batman to play along in his
mock-ceremony. Catwoman arrived, despite Batman's request that she stay home, and she fought off
the Joker while Batman was incapacitated. As part of his plan, the Joker gave Catwoman the opportunity
to let him bleed out and die, but she refused and actively saved his life. Though the clown was stopped,
and the wedding was saved, during the fight, the Joker had gotten into Catwoman's head, sewing doubt
that maybe if Batman was happily in a loving marriage, he wouldn't be Batman anymore.
The "Wedding" Of Batman and Catwoman

Afterwards, while fighting Kite-Man, Batman suggested to Catwoman that their wedding take place that
dawn, on top of the building they were currently on—Finger Tower. The pair found a judge to officiate
the ceremony—one they felt was so much of a drunk, he'd forget their identities after the fact. Bruce
asked Alfred to be his best man and his witness, while Catwoman freed Holly Robinson from prison to
act as her maid of honor and witness.

Though everything was going as planned, Bruce briefly reconsidered the wedding but, after a little soul
searching, confidently told Alfred he was ready.

Selina had doubts of her own, as her maid of honor Holly continued to stoke Selina's fear that marriage
would ruin Batman.

That dawn, after everything had been put into place, Catwoman never arrived, leaving Bruce alone at
the altar. She gave into her fear and believed not getting married was for the best.

When Holly Robinson was returned to Arkham Asylum, she reported back to Bane that she had
successfully stopped the wedding. All the events the past few months were orchestrated by Bane to
mentally and emotionally break the Bat.

Aftermath of Breakup

Batman, after being left by Catwoman, became even more depressed than usual. During this depressed
state, he viciously went after Mister Freeze, who had been accused of murdering three women. Batman
beat him mercilessly until he confessed to the crime.[180]

When Freeze's case went to trial, coincidentally, Bruce Wayne was ordered to appear as a member of the
jury. During the case, Bruce realized that he had made a mistake—Fries was actually innocent of the
crimes—and had to convince the rest of the jury that Batman's evidence was not credible.
Charismatically arguing against himself, Bruce successfully convinced the jury to acquit Mr. Freeze.
Afterwards, needing a fresh start, Batman decided to switch out the Batsuit he commonly wore,
equipping one of his older models. He admitted he didn't want to wear the one that Catwoman left him
in anymore.[181]

When the Joker learned that the Batman Who Laughs became the way he was due to a chemical that
activated when he broke his Joker's neck, the Prime Earth clown shot himself in the heart in front of
Batman to activate the same chemical. Though Alfred managed to resuscitate the Joker after the fact,
the plan worked, and Batman was temporarily infected to become evil just like the Batman Who Laughs.
However, using Bruce Waynes from across the multiverse, Batman managed to overcome the toxin and
even defeated the original Batman Who Laughs.[182]

Bane's Conspiracy

During Bruce's jury session, Dick Grayson covered for him as Batman. After the trial, the mentor and
mentee caught up with one another, and Dick expressed interest in returning to Gotham permanently.
[183]
However, as part of Bane's ultimate plan to break Batman, the KGBeast was hired to shoot Nightwing
in the head, damaging his brain and giving him total amnesia.[184][185] More furious than ever, Batman
tracked the KGBeast to a remote location in the north and beat him senseless, leaving him to try to
survive in the harsh tundra by himself.[186]

Batman returned to Gotham and was contacted by the Penguin, who informed him that Bane was
behind everything: the wedding, the breakup, and the shooting of Nightwing. Bane had killed his favorite
penguin, and Oswald had decided to defect from his plan.[187]

Bruce, trusting the information, went after Bane in Arkham, against the authority of the GCPD, and
proceeded to beat up Bane in incarceration, despite the villain claiming he had no involvement. Jim
Gordon tried to intervene, but Batman punched him in anger.[188] Gordon, cutting ties with the Bat
entirely, destroyed the Bat-Signal with a baseball bat.[189]

In his pursuit for answers, Batman was captured by Bane, who hooked him up to a machine designed by
Dr. Crane to generate non-stop realistic nightmares. After many emotional, horrifying scenarios, Bruce
broke free from the machine and battled his way out of Arkham Asylum, tactically taking out almost
every inmate who had been let free in the downtime. However, after the fact, Batman's allies found no
evidence of the breakout when they returned to Arkham hours later, leading them to question his sanity.

Doomsday Clock

Main article: Doomsday Clock Vol 1

While Batman dealt with the growing conspiracy against him, approximately a year after Superman was
merged back into a singular being, political tensions rose in the United States due to the "Superman
Theory"—the idea that the US government was actively breeding superpowers in its citizens due to the
exponentially higher accumulation of super-powered people in the West. Simultaneously, Batman's
vigilantism was subject to widespread protests in Gotham by activists who felt the Bat's power went
unchecked. Further escalating the tension, Wayne Enterprises was financially struggling and was under
threat of being taken over by LexCorp.[190]

At this time, travelers from another dimension arrived in Gotham, looking for their peer Doctor
Manhattan, who would solve their political crisis back on their Earth. Rorschach II was assigned to
contact Batman for help in their mission and, upon finding the Batcave, shared the original Rorschach's
journal with Bruce in order to better explain the situation they were in. Batman took the time to read
the journal, decided the entire story was lunacy, and tricked Rorschach into a cell at Arkham Asylum.[191]

However, Batman learned to trust the story and, after finding and confronting Rorschach's
leader Ozymandias, Veidt deemed Batman not useful to their cause and kicked him into a group of anti-
Batman demonstrators. The protestors brought Batman to the Joker to be killed, but he was saved
by Saturn Girl and Rorschach, having been released from Arkham by the former.[192]

As political tensions continued to rise, now pitting the Earth's governments against one another, Batman
aided the travelers in hopes that Doctor Manhattan could save his world too. Batman specifically kept
the US nuke operators from overreacting and launching their weapons against Russia.

Upon summoning him, Manhattan admitted to his part in altering this world's timeline and, inspired by
the unwavering goodness of Superman, reset the timeline once again to repair the damages he had
made.

City of Bane

City of Bane

Physically and emotionally drained from all the challenges he had gone through, Bruce returned to
Wayne Manor to find Bane finally initiating his endgame plan with Alfred as his prisoner. Standing beside
Bane was his co-conspirator—an alternate-reality version of Thomas Wayne. Unprepared for another
fight, Batman was physically demolished by Bane as Alfred begged for mercy.

When Bruce awoke from unconsciousness, he found himself having been brought to a desert by his
alternate-reality father. Thomas revealed that they were on their way to a Lazarus Pit to resurrect Bruce's
mother's corpse. Though the two Waynes fought and bickered along the way, by the time they reached
the Lazarus Pit, Bruce revealed he had secretly buried Martha's corpse in the desert without Thomas
knowing. Both furious, the two men fought, and when morning arrived, only one Batman escaped the
pit and returned to Gotham: Thomas.
Back in Gotham, Bane had taken control of the city and let all of the villains loose, assigning them as his
new dystopian "police force." Batman's allies were powerless to stop the pandemonium as Bane had a
hostage: Alfred, who he threatened to kill him should any Bat-Family member enter Gotham.

Meanwhile, Bruce was stuck in the wilderness, unknown how long he had been travelling for and on the
brink of death. He only survived because he was found by Catwoman, who brought him to an apartment
in Paris and helped him recover.

Back in Gotham, Bruce's son Damian ignored Bane's warning and single-handedly snuck into Gotham to
depose Bane himself. However, Damian was captured, and, making good on his threat, Bane killed Alfred
in front of the boy, now using Robin as his new hostage.

Batman reclaims his city

Once Bruce had recovered enough at Catwoman's side, he convinced her he needed to return to
Gotham and save it from Bane's chaos. Though Selina was hesitant, she agreed and went with him; the
time they spent in Paris helped rekindle their relationship.

Upon returning to Gotham, Batman teamed up with Clayface to take down all the villains that Bane had
set free. Concurrently, Batman's allies made an attempt to rescue Damian from Bane but, despite their
best effort, they were all defeated by Thomas Wayne.

Batman eventually fought his way to Bane's location and faced off with him, one on one, no equipment
or help. Batman successfully defeated Bane by cheating, but, before Bruce had the opportunity to
physically break his opponent, Thomas Wayne betrayed them both and them unconscious.

When Bruce came to, he was shown Alfred's mangled corpse for the first time by his father. In Thomas'
eyes, his plan was complete—he had emotionally broken his son to give up being Batman. However,
Alfred's death had empowered Bruce to strike out against his alternate-reality father. After a tough fight,
Bruce reigned victorious over Thomas and swore that he was no longer his father.

Justice/Doom War
Batman took part in the first fight for the Totality, where he shrunk himself inside Superman's body to
protect him from the Totality's power. The Dark Knight had to fight against Lex Luthor, who shrunk
himself as well, and infiltrated inside the body of Clark. Bruce was deeply injured in the fight, as Lex was
powered up by the piece of the Totality he already possessed: both the Dark Knight's legs and arms were
broken.[193]

During Drowned Earth, Bruce was the only defense of the Hall of Justice, and managed to fight
the Legion of Doom alone, but in the end lost, and Luthor was able to take the Totality away from the
Justice League.[194]

During the League's expedition in the Sixth Dimension, Bruce tricked the World Forger into believing the
Dark Knight was his ally, while he gave Superman a chance to free himself up and counter the actions of
Alpheus. Batman then convinced the World Forger into becoming a part of the League's active roster.
[195]
Back on Earth, Bruce went to the future together with Wonder Woman and Superman, for a last
effort against Luthor, who turned into the Apex Predator: finding themselves against Brainiac One
Million, they were able to prevail thanks to the help of several Justice Leagues from the future, retrieving
a piece of the Totality lost in time.[196]

In the final conflict between Justice and Doom, Batman battled Luthor inside a transformed Hall, but
thanks to Perpetua's full awakening, Justice lost. Transported away by the Quintessence, Batman was
part of the League's last mission leading them to defeat Perpetua,[197] but they once again failed. Coming
back to Earth, they found their home turned into the Batman who Laughs' Metalverse.[198]

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Joker War

Main article: The Joker War

While still recovering from the loss of his mentor and father figure, Batman was dragged into a criminal
conspiracy that had lasted for years regarding a secret supervillain named the Designer, and at the same
time was forced to fight off five assassins who were after him as part of the Designer's grand scheme.
The Riddler also staged an attack on Gotham, while he was broken physically and mentally due to not
treating himself properly, being too busy trying to come up with the ultimate riddle to fool Batman.
However, Batman quickly took out most of the assassins and teamed up with Deathstroke, Catwoman,
Harley Quinn to defeat Riddler. Through all this the Joker was planning his ultimate surprise for the Dark
Knight and his Bat-Family, with the startling knowledge of their secret identities once more.
After Batman tracked down the Designer, it was revealed the Joker was playing everyone, pulling the
strings all along. He initiated his plot with his new sidekick Punchline, sending out waves of Joker rioters,
who instantly took over the city. He also injected Batman with a toxin that made him see visions of
Alfred and his parents with broken necks. Using the Designer's master plan designed for Catwoman, the
Joker even successfully stole the Wayne fortune, making himself rich. Using more of the Designer's
information, including a formula to reanimate corpses, the clown brought people back from the dead as
zombies to attack Batman and Harley.[199]

Joker's second endgame

Meanwhile, Joker was wasting Bruce's money everywhere, on things like Jokerized limos and gold chain
necklaces. Batman and Harley found their way to the rest of the Bat-Family, where they met and came
up with a plan. Bruce also regifted the Nightwing costume to Dick Grayson, who had gotten a large
portion of his memories back since his shooting.

Finally, Batman went to confront the Joker once and for all at his headquarters—ACE Chemicals. Upon
his arrival, Bruce discovered that the Joker had partially resurrected Alfred's corpse as a zombie. Though
Batman was emotionally crushed by the sight, he was forced to fight the Joker, who was wearing his own
Jokerized Batsuit.[200][201] Using Batman's gadgets against him, the Joker eventually got the upper hand on
Batman and, as he was about to finish him off, was ambushed with a bullet through the eye by Harley
Quinn. Harley then strapped bombs to both herself and Joker, forcing Batman to make the decision of
which of the two he would defuse in time. To Joker's surprise, the Bat chose Harley, apparently leaving
the Joker to die.

With the Joker War officially over, in the aftermath, Bruce discovered the Joker's bomb had been
defused, theorizing that the Joker used his bat-equipment to set himself free. Bruce reburied Alfred's
corpse with his allies.[202]

Ghost Stories
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Batman fights Red Hood again

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Batman withstands The The Magistrate's assault

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Batman becomes Batman of Zur-En-Arrh again

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Batman defeats Red Mask

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A possessed Batman brutally beats up The Joker

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Batman is kidnapped by Failsafe

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Batman The Justice League are powerless

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Powers and Abilities

Abilities
 Acrobatics: Bruce is known as one of the finest human athletes on Earth, as well as proficient in
gymnastics and acrobatics. Even before leaving to train as Batman, he was a very skilled acrobat.
[11][207]

 Athletics[174]

 Equestrianism[208]

 Genius Level Intellect: Batman is considered one of the smartest beings on the planet, alongside
Lex Luthor.[190] He owns a spectacular collection of books[209] and claims to know every book.
[210]
Batman is highly knowledgeable in various academic fields. While Bruce never attended
college, he spent years studying under several mentors in numerous scientific fields and
engaging in autodidactic studies on his own time during his global sojourn.

 Aviation[211][212]

 Business Management: Bruce has years of experience in business management. He has

thorough understanding of financial marketing and management. His industrial and
business skills are on par with Lex Luthor.

 Computer Hacking: Bruce was able to hack and record the mobile frequency of the
Suicide Squad members' brain bombs and deactivate them.[213] He can even hack into a
Green Lantern Ring and an Apokoliptian computer.[214][215][216][217]

 Criminology

 Disguise: Bruce is a master of disguise having been trained by Alfred.[218]

 Driving: Bruce was trained by Brazilian criminal, Don Miguel, in tactical driving.[219] He is
capable of driving many vehicles including cars, motorcycles & trucks, and can pilot jets,
planes, helicopters, boats and submarines.

 Escapology[106]

 Eidetic Memory: Bruce knows the "Memory Palace Technique," a strategy of memory
enhancement that allows him to treat and store memories like a museum. He was
taught this technique by Ra's al Ghul.[220] With this technique, Bruce has developed a
memory palace which allows him to store information for easier recall through a series
of mnemonic devices and images.[221]

 Gadgetry[28][222]

 Hypnosis[223]

 Hunting: Bruce learned how hunt and kill deer during his time training under Luka Jungo
in Canada.[224] While Bruce is highly skilled when it comes hunting targets in urban
environments, he admits that he's rusty when it comes to hunting in wilderness
environments.[225]

 Investigation: Hailed as the World's Greatest Detective, Batman has few equals when it
comes to forensic investigations and solving crime mysteries.[91] He is able to use even
 the smallest clues and slightest details to solve extremely difficult cases and accurately
deduce the identity of unknown criminal masterminds. He is capable of observation,
forensic investigation, and inductive and deductive reasoning of the highest caliber.
[226]
Even with prior to his detective training, Bruce was capable of deducing and
discovering one of the Court of Owls' meeting places when he was eight years old.
[227]
Human intuition is an unlearnable trait and one of Batman's most effective tools.
Given any mystery, he can arrive at the correct conclusions with a fraction of the data.[2]

 Leadership: Bruce has experienced leading the Justice League, the Outsiders and the
Bat-Family.

 Lock Picking: Bruce learned how to pick a lock when he was in grade school.[160] He can
pick handcuff locks in a few seconds,[228] and can even pick a lock with his mouth.[229]

 Multilingualism: Batman is fluent in Portuguese, Dhari, Latin,[230] Mandarin,[231] Turkish,

[232]
Russian,[233] Indonesian,[234] Greek,[3] Serbian,[235] Icelandic,[236] French,[237] Korean,[23] Sh
anghainese,[35] Spanish,[238] Gaelic,[239] Polish,[240] and Kryptonese.[241][242][243] He can also
understand American Sign Language,[9] Morse Code,[244] and Argot of the Ancient Sea
People.[245]

 Multiple Personalities: After training under Dr. Daniel Captio and learning to use his
mind to it's full potential, Bruce created an alternate personality he'd implanted within
himself, to act as a contingency and protection against psychological attacks. He named
this personality the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh. This version of Bruce has less restraint and
acts more violent than Bruce normally would.[246]

 Occultism: Batman hates magic, but has allowed himself to learn at least a one spell, as
a contingency for Superman, which is a backwards spell that allows him to summon a
magical suit of armor.[247] Batman is knowledgeable enough to instantly identify magic,
stating he can feel the sensation of it.[248] Batman was skilled also enough to read a spell
to expel a demon.[249] During his training, Bruce was taught ancient potions and
techniques for healing the body, by Ra's al Ghul.[36]

 Pedagogy: Bruce has trained multiple members of the Bat-Family in a wide variety of
subjects, including martial arts and investigation.[60]

 Prestidigitation: Bruce has some knowledge of stage magic and sleight of hand, taught
to him by Giovanni Zatara.[250]

 Science

 Chemistry[251]

 Forensic Pathology: Bruce is an expert forensic scientist.[252] He is capable of

performing autopsies.[253]

 Mechanical Engineering[254][255]

 Medical Science: Bruce was able to perform brain surgery on Two-Face that
completely negated Harvey's darker side for some time.[256] He was able to
 implant a failsafe in Jason that induces him with a sense of fear whenever he
experiences heightened adrenaline.[257]

 Robotic Engineering: Batman created the android Failsafe.[258]

 Tactical Analysis: Batman is known as one of the greatest strategists and tacticians in the
universe. His strategies are so great, that even Mister Terrific couldn’t find a flaw in his
battle plan against the Pykkt Empire, especially after going over every angle of it.[259]

 Tracking

 Indomitable Will[260]

 Interrogation: Batman is well adept in interrogation techniques, often using law enforcement
methods as well as torture.

 Intimidation: Batman is able to instill great fear into others. His ability to do this was so great, he
was capable of wielding a Yellow Lantern Ring. Sinestro even stated that he considered Batman a
worthy member of the Sinestro Corps.[120]

 Martial Arts: Batman is one of the greatest martial artists on the planet, having been trained by
the best fighters around the world, including: Ted Grant, David Cain, Henri Ducard, Master
Kirigi, H'sein Tsan,[261] Richard Dragon,[262] Talia al Ghul,[36] and Ra's al Ghul.[262] In turn, he has also
been able to pass on his learnings to his many proteges. Batwoman was able to identify at least
fourteen different styles of martial arts from watching footage of Batman fight.[263] Bruce even
learned a technique called "language of combat," wherein he can communicate with others
while fighting without speaking.[264] Thanks to his years of martial arts training, Bruce can identify
the martial art that his opponent uses against him and counter nearly any opponent.[265][266]
[267]
He is also capable of deducing when opponents are holding back in a fight.[268][269] During his
second year as Batman, Bruce traveled into space, followed by learning and mastering a variety
of alien martial arts.[270]

 Boxing: Bruce studied boxing during his time at Roxbury Fielding Academy.[16] He was
also trained in this fighting style by Wildcat.[32]

 Bam Pow: Bruce has trained in a unique fighting style that he invented to combat the
Batman Who Laughs, which Alfred calls "Bam Pow."[271]

 Dim Mak: Batman is skilled in this ancient form of martial arts where you strike vital
points of the opponent's body causing paralysis, intense and prolonged pain or death.
He knows a two-finger nerve strike technique that, if not executed perfectly and with
the precise amount of pressure, can easily kill someone.[272]

 Eskrima: Batman is highly skilled in Eskrima, capable of using a pair of metal pipes as an
improvised set of eskrima sticks. He presumebly taught this fighting style to the Robins.
[273]

 Jiu-Jitsu[274]

 Karate[275]
  Klurkor: Batman is skilled in Klurkor, a form of Kryptonian martial arts.[276]

 Krav Maga[277]

 Kung Fu[278]

 Wushu[278]

 Muay Thai[279][280]

 Mushin[281][282]

 Ninjutsu[60]

 Nitojutsu[23]

 Tae Kwon Do[283]

 Wrestling: While weary and suffering from blood loss, Bruce managed to wrestle with a
bear.[284]

 Meditation[285]

 Music: Bruce is skilled at guitar.[286]

 Peak Human Condition: Through intense training, a specialized diet, and biofeedback
treatments, Batman represents the natural pinnacle of human physical prowess. His physical
attributes roughly exceed that of an Olympic level athlete. His strength, speed, stamina, agility,
reflexes and coordination are at peak human perfection. Bruce has spent his entire life in pursuit
of physical perfection and has attained it through constant intensive training and determination.
He can hold his breath underwater for eighteen minutes,[287] and can even slow his heart rate to
slow his bleeding.[36] Bruce has also mastered a Tibetan meditation technique that allows him to
increase his body temperature to the point that he can melt snow and ice around him.[288] Due to
his contact with Dionesium, Batman was healed from all trauma and scarring received
throughout the years of crime-fighting; enhancing his peak physical prowess to newer heights.
[289][147][290]

 Peak Human Strength: Batman's strength is at the peak of human potential, far beyond
that of an ordinary human.[291][292] He's capable of kicking through trees and a
motorcycle.[293][294] He was able to lift Solomon Grundy with a single hand, someone who
weighs over five hundred pounds.[295]

 Peak Human Durability: Batman is incredibly resilient pain and injury due to his
immense training. Under the tutelage of Dr. Daniel Captio, Bruce learned how to
essentially "turn off" his pain receptors to convince his brain he isn't feeling pain.[35] This
has allowed him to perform feats such as grabbing and using a scorching hot chain,
wearing only hand wraps.[296] Batman has even been able to survive an intense fall from
outer space and harsh re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, with only minor injuries.[297]
  Peak Human Speed: Batman's speed is at the peak of human potential, far beyond that
of an ordinary human. Batman's so fast that his punches and kicks are blurs in combat.
[298]

 Peak Human Agility

 Peak Human Reflexes

 Peak Human Senses: Throughout Batman's years of fighting crime and intense training,
his senses became so heightened that he can identify magic by feeling it, detect invisible
objects, and can even see spirits like Deadman who remain unseen by normal people.[248]
[299][300]
Batman has the best senses in the entire Bat-Family, as he was the only one
capable of sensing Nightwing's presence, when the rest of them couldn't.[301] Not even
Orphan or the Flash are capable of sneaking up on Batman, without him knowing.[302] [303]
[304]

 Peak Human Stamina: Thanks to Bruce's training and experience, his stamina and
endurance has allowed him to fight for 28 hours straight.[30] He underwent and survived
the Thogal Ritual, where he spent 7 weeks in cave while undergoing a dangerous type of
meditation in order to simulate an experience of death and rebirth.[305] Bruce barely
sleeps and is capable of regularly functioning on as little as two hours of rest in order to
operate as Batman.[306]

 Toxic Immunity: Bruce has acclimated himself to most toxins and poisons.[307]

 Precognition: After receiving training from a Mongolian Pastoralist, Bruce learned how to read
the environment, to feel the subtle shifts in the Earth, in temperatures and the changing in the
wind.[308][309] He has even had a prophetic dream vision of the future.[310]

 Sewing[311]

 Stealth[312]

 Survival: Batman has excellent survival instincts and can quickly adapt to nearly any situation.
His instincts are so great, Batman was capable of surviving in outer space for approximately 11
hours utilizing only his standard equipment.[297][296]

 Swimming[313]

 Ventriloquism[314]

 Weaponry: Through his martial arts training, Bruce has become an expert in melee weaponry.
He has displayed exceptional sword fighting capability and proficiency with knives, sticks, and
various other weapons. He practices during his combat sessions to keep his skills intact, but he
prefers unarmed combat.

 Archery: Bruce learned how to hunt and kill deer with a bow and arrow from Luka Jungo
in British Columbia.[315] Bruce was able to teach Tim Drake how to use a bow and arrow.
[316]
However, Bruce admits that his archery skills are rusty.[317]

 Demolitions[318]
  Firearms: Despite his opposition to the use of firearms, Bruce is one of the world's top
ten marksmen.[319] He was trained by Luka Jungo in Canada on how to handle hand guns
and received sniper training.[320]

 Fencing: Bruce studied fencing during his time at Roxbury Fielding Academy.[16] During
the first month of his training in France, Bruce trained with someone who claimed to be
"the world's best fencer," whom he later bested after two weeks.[321]

 Swordsmanship: Bruce is a master swordsman, having been trained by both Master

Kirigi and Ra's al Ghul in sword fighting.[23][262]

 Stick Fighting: Batman is skilled in multiple stick-based martial arts, having trained the
Robins to use bo-staffs.[60][273]

 Throwing: Batman is a master marksman, capable of throwing his batarangs with

immense precision.[322]

Other Characteristics

 Missing Limb (Formerly): A battle with the Ghost-Breaker lead to the unfortunate loss of Bruce's
right hand.[323][324] He was later given a robotic hand.[325] Bruce was later given a new right hand by
the Robin of Zur-En-Arrh prior to his death.[326]

 Drug Addiction (Formerly): Bruce was addicted to Venom at one point.[327]

Paraphernalia

Equipment

 Batsuit: The costume Batman wears is composed of Kevlar and a small percentage of titanium;
it's bulletproof and resistant to various types of attack (explosions, impacts, falls, among others).
Bruce later upgraded the suit to be made of an unknown synthetic polymer stronger than Kevlar
that he designed.[328][329] It is also flame-retardant and insulated. The gloves and the boots are
reinforced to rebound the impact of punches and kicks. The gloves have some metallic blades on
their sides. The cape is super-light, and it can be used to glide. The mask has a small percentage
of lead, which shields Batman's face from X-ray powers or X-ray technology, and incorporates an
infrared and night vision viewer,[330] auditory sensors and a sonar. The mask is accessorized with
some security systems (aggravating gas, electric blasts, etc.) like the utility belt, and also
integrates an audio and video transmitter receiver device. The Batsuit can withstand
temperatures of atmospheric re-entry (1477° C/2691° F) and can absorb energy and redirect it
back at his opponents.[297][331][332][333]

 Utility Belt: Batman keeps most of his personal field equipment in a signature piece of apparel, a
yellow utility belt. The utility belt has a button to call the Batmobile, and a command for
teleportation. Over the years it has contained items such as plastic explosives, nerve toxins,
batarangs, smoke bombs, a fingerprint kit, a cutting tool, a grappling hook gun, torches, and a
"re-breather" breathing device. Superman entrusted Batman with a ring made of kryptonite, to
be used should the Man of Steel ever need to be reined in (due to being mind-controlled by a
villain, etc.). The kryptonite ring is contained in a lead pocket, in order to shield Batman from its
 radiations. Along with a portable EMP,[102] the belt also has its own automatic security systems
preventing outside users from accessing it. The belt even houses a portable spherical
device that he created, that can scan technology, levitate and identify magic.[334][335] Has a small
device that can launch out a plethora chains made out of energy to pierce and restrain
opponents.[336] It has been counted that 42 sets of items, covers at least 30 percent of how much
the Utility Belt can carry; meaning that the average belt can carry at least 140 sets of items.[157]

 Hellbat: This suit is one of the three most powerful suits that Batman has ever used. Made for
the battle, for the most extreme situations, due to Batman not having powers of his own.
Although he couldn't originally access this suit by himself, without the permission from the rest
of the Justice League.[337] Batman now has full access to the suit and can summon it to him
whenever he wants.[338] Powerful enough to contend with a demon that was capable of
containing Etrigan, beat down Kalibak and even stalemate Darkseid.[338][339][340][341]

 Batcomputer: The central focus of all of Batman's computer-based technology, wired into nearly
all of Batman's equipment. Built and manufactured by Batman, Alfred Pennyworth and Lucius
Fox. It even possesses security protocols so that only Batman and members of the Bat-Family are
allowed to use it. The Batcomputer is capable of initiating commands that involve hacking,
scanning, solving, storing and processing any information that Batman or the Bat-Family desires.
Holding a plethora of cryptic data and information, that even someone like Amanda Waller
would find valuable.[153] The communication connection and transitional frequencies can span up
to 3,137 million light years.[342][343] Bruce has even expanded its processing power and other
capabilities by adapting a bot root code known as the Genie A.I. into it, including a Mother Box.
[344][345]
It can even detect supernatural forces, such as magic energy.[346]

 Genie A.I.[347][348][349][350][351][352]

 EMP Mask: Batman carries EMP tech that he can use as holographic disguise to morph his face
to even his entire body.[91][353][354][355]

 Cybernetic Hand (Formerly): Thanks to the efforts of Bruce Wayne of Earth-31, Bruce now
possesses a bionic metal hand that he has full functional control over.[324] It is strong and emits
smoke. He's been able to snap Nightwing's Escrima Sticks like a twig, and was able to do the
same to Robin's Battle Staff. He was also able to grip his fingers into a car door and tear it off.
[257]
He recently got his hand back thanks to a clone of himself cutting off his own hand and giving
it to Bruce as a gift.[356]

 Enhanced Strength[257]

 Smoke Projection[357]

 Energy Blades: Batman has a pair of gauntlets capable of projecting powerful energy blades, that
are strong enough to combat the near-indestructible Failsafe.[357]

 Magic Gauntlets: Batman was gifted a pair of magical gauntlets by John Constantine, which
allow him to fight non-corporeal beings hand-to-hand, as he did with Gentleman Ghost.
Constantine won the gloves in a card game with a demon and gave them to Batman because he
"doesn't like fighting with his hands."[358]
  Helmet of Fate (Formerly)

 Magic

 Eldritch Blast

 Flight

 Teleportation

 Mobius Chair (Formerly)

 Black Lantern Ring (Formerly)

 Yellow Lantern Ring (Formerly)[120]

Transportation

 Batboat

 Batcycle

 Batmobile

 Batplane

 Bat-Copter

Weapons

 Batarangs: His main set of weapons. Some of these bat shaped blades are electrically or
sonically charged, while others are explosive.[359] He even carries batarangs that are made of Nth
Metal that can disrupt the presence of ghostly entities, magical creatures, and even break
enchantments.[360][361]

Notes

 Batman was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, first appearing in Detective Comics #27.
However, in the Prime Earth continuity, Batman first appeared as part of the New 52 DC
Universe in Flashpoint (Volume 2) #5 by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert.

 Batman (Bruce Wayne) appears as Batman (Prime) a playable character in the Infinite
Crisis video game.

 Other less notable aliases Bruce has used are Bee Gee,[362] Knute Brody,[363] Dormouse,[363] The
Batman Who Laughs,[182] Bat-Baby,[364] the God of Knowledge,[365] Sinestro,[citation needed] Batman of
Zur-En-Arrh,[366] Night,[367] Wilson Texlon,[368] Wolf-Batman,[369] Nightwing[370] and Nightwing II.[371]

 In The New 52, Bruce spent seven years traveling the world training, having left Gotham at
eighteen and first became Batman at the age of twenty-five.[372][373][374] However, because of DC
Rebirth, this was changed so that Bruce spent five years traveling the world training, having left
at sixteen and became Batman at age twenty-one.[11][375]
Trivia

 Dream reveals to Batman that his influence is felt throughout the dream-world. He causes
nightmares to the wicked and instills hope in people he has saved.[376]

 Batman and Gordon used the red scarlet rotary Batphone during the early years of Batman's
career to communicate with each other, a reference to the 60's series. Years later Batman
upgraded it to be a red touch-screen phone.[377][378]

 Krypto likes and trusts Batman and even though he’s more powerful than Batman; Bruce would
still try to protect Krytpo.[379]

 Bronze Tiger has acknowledged that Batman’s the superior fighter to him. Stating that he’s the
best in the world.[380]

 Midnighter has admitted that he finds Batman awesome.[381]

 Batman considers Superman his best friend, a sentiment that Superman shares as well,[382] and
his favorite superhero.[383][384][385] Bruce also believes Superman is a better man than him.[386]

 Bruce has also called Alfred Pennyworth his best friend.[387]

 Bruce provides allowances to his all of his kids, except Nightwing, who gets a stipend.[388]

 Bruce once met George Clooney and claims that Clooney owes him a favor.[389] This is a reference
to Clooney's portrayal of Bruce Wayne in the film Batman and Robin being panned by many fans.

 Bruce is a cinephile and has a Letterboxd account.[390] He's also a fan of old western films. One of
his favorite actors is Gary Cooper.[391]

 Bruce's birthday is October 7.[392]

 Bruce has been a vigilante for at least twenty-two years.[393]

 Around the time of The Joker War, Demitrius Korlee, Jr. states that it's been twenty-one
years since Batman put his father in prison.[394]

 Amanda Waller considers Batman a metahuman,[213] though he does not fit the traditional or the
expanded definition of the term.

 Bruce isn't religious. He was raised Christian, but stopped believing in God after his parents were
killed. He claims "I…put aside believing in…a deity."[395][396] Bruce also admits that at times he
wishes he could be a good Christian like his father was, but can't.[397] Bruce is Jewish on his
mother's side of the family, something his uncle Jacob and cousin Kate still celebrate.
[398]
However, Bruce always celebrates Christmas instead of Hanukkah.[399]

 Prior to losing a good portion of his fortune during the Joker War, Bruce's net worth was
estimated to be over $100 billion.[400] Bruce has since been relegated to the status of a
millionaire after he was removed from the board at Wayne Enterprises.[401] Following Zur's
defeat, Bruce acquired the money Zur stored in multiple offshore accounts, bringing his net
worth to a total of $3,120,926,002. Returning him to being a billionaire again.[402]
 Batman has been shown to carry lollipops in his Utility Belt to help and distract children at
emergency scenes.[403] Much to Dick Grayson and Superman's amusement, the lollipops were
kept next to his smoke bombs for the longest time, so Bruce promised to change what pocket he
used.[404]

 Despite all his skills, Bruce was a terrible cook for a long time, not even being able to toast a
crumpet without burning it.[405] It wasn't until after Alfred's death that he got better at it.[406][407]

 Bruce does keep shark repellent as part of his gear in the Batcave, a callback to the 1966 film.
[408]
While traveling through the multiverse, Bruce was given a replacement utility belt by
his Earth-66 counterpart that contained a canister of shark repellent that Bruce used on a pair of
rabid sharks. He believed this proved he had finally met a Batman more prepared than himself.
[324]

 Like in previous continuities, Bruce doesn't drink alcohol and instead fools people by drinking
ginger ale and apple juice.[174][409]

 Bruce visits his parents' grave once a week.[60]

 Bruce's blood type is O-.[410]

 Bruce takes his coffee black and his tea with two sugars.[411][412]

 Bruce gained his Grapple Gun on his first year acting as Batman as a gift by Lucius Fox after he
got severely injured during an fight with The Joker where he fell from an really high place. He
then stopped using a rope and a hook after this.[413]