Full Name: Bruce Wayne Alias: His official superhero name is Batman, but he's called differently in different places. Gotham's underground refers to him as The Bat, while the media usually uses names such as The Dark Knight or The Gotham Knight. Date of Birth: 20th of November, 1982. Appearance: Bruce Wayne, Gotham's playboy billionaire, is, as you would expect from a ladies man,rather handsome. He stands at 6'2 and weighs around 207 pounds, possessing a well built body as a result of undergoing grueling training abroad. He has a pair of piercing blue eyes and is often seen wearing a business suit in public. When he's at home, he favors sweatpants and XXXL t-shirts so as to make himself more comfortable. Bruce, during his period as a crime fighter, made several major changes to his suit. His original suit was functional at best. It surely didn't emit a Bat vibe, serving more as a simplified, temporary accessory that would help him cover his identity until he came up with something better. After a couple of months, he finally came up with the idea of Batman - a cruel reminder of a tragic past event in Gotham - this time bearing a Kevlar Bat-themed suit, infused with highly resistant fibers that would shield him from bullets and would give him a fighting chance against .50 caliber ones. The suit held itself pretty well, but overtime, Bruce's safety concerns raised. His final suit stripped him off the several human elements his old suit bore, in favor of giving him the upper hand in the battle. Practically, it's not even a suit any more - it's an armor, equipped with cutting edge technology like night and thermal vision, different kinds of shuriken-like weapons called 'batarangs', each one serving a specific purpose and last but not least - the whistler; a long-range remote device which allows Bruce to designate a path for his precious Batmobile and/or Batwing if he ever needs to bail out of a sticky situation. History: Bruce was born to the rich and famous Wayne Family, founders of Wayne Corporation and the benefactors behind a load of charity events, including the Wayne Orphanage. Simply put, he was part of a dream family, or that's what people thought. Bruce's mother, Martha Wayne, was set to have twins, but due to complications that occurred, she passed away before she could give birth to Bruce's would-be twin brother. At first, it was unknown what caused the aforementioned complications, but further investigations revealed that Hugo Strange, a doctor whom was employed by Thomas as the only caretaker in the Orphanage had injected a pregnant Martha with a sample of Slade Wilson's blood without her husband's consent. He was brutally murdered by Slade himself before the GCPD could put him to custody. After having the unwanted privilege of watching his beloved wife die a horrible death, Thomas fell into depression. His diary revealed that he attempted to kill himself more than once, but each time he was saved by his infant's son cries, who in a way gave him a reason to live. He managed his way out of depression and made it his life goal to raise Bruce properly. Sadly, he couldn't fulfill that goal, as he was killed during a tragic event called the Man-Bat Outbreak, which involved a lot of mindless mutant bat-like beasts emerging from Arkham and wrecking havoc over Gotham. The same event was also responsible for giving the young Wayne a severe bat phobia. An orphaned Bruce, stripped off his childhood, was assigned to undergo grueling training since the age of ten, being held under the supervision of The Wayne family's personal butler and former-MI6 operative Alfred Pennyworth and his acquaintance, an assassin who went by the codename Natas, real name unknown. Up until the age of eighteen, he was secretly trained by Natas and often participated in clandestine tournaments, nailing the first prize. Although it was never confirmed, it's widely believed that his ability to master whatever martial art in a period of one week stemmed from the metahuman blood his mother was injected with. At the age of twenty, Bruce finally decided to fight crime, employing a simplified version of the Bat suit and embracing the 'Masked Man' persona. However, at a visit at his parent's grave, Wayne was attacked by an unknown assailant who, oddly enough, emerged from Martha's grave. That led him to address his suit's flaws for the first time and conduct an investigation to discover the assailant's identity. Turns out while the injection killed Martha Wayne, it kept the second boy, Bruce's twin brother who was arranged to be named Thomas Wayne Jr., alive and well but imprisoned in a grave, several feet down on the ground. He only survived thanks to the injection's effect, who had a broader result on him than Bruce, for some unexplained reason. The twin didn't share Bruce's passion to fight crime, and instead developed a villainous persona under Ra's Al Ghul's tutelage, a villain called Hush, a clear reference to his inability to speak. He often tried to impersonate Bruce, but his cover got blown in all occasions. Further study showed that the Man-Bat incident had a great effect on the underground community, stirring fear and angst when so much as mentioned. He used that information to overcome his fear of bats and finally descend down the Bat-infested storage down the Wayne Manor, where he also built his Bat suit. In his beginnings as Batman, he didn't care as much for his safety as long as there were no civilian casualties and no collateral damage around, but as he ascended into his early thirties, he got more attentive to details. A 30 year old Bruce decided to retire his playboy facade shortly afterwards, and settled down with a TV reporter named Vicky Vale, whom he'd been dating for a while. He revealed his secret identity to her, making her the third person to know the Batman-Bruce Wayne link, right besides Alfred and Natas. His crimefighting career didn't cease, but he did become more careful, going as far as to build a new Bat armor that would spare him of danger. That marked the first time Bruce ever felt like he had something to lose. Power/Abilities: Genius Intellect: Bruce is a superb strategist, able to even predict the trajectory of a bullet and dodge it. He is also very adaptable, his mastery of Keysi, Muay Thai and Krav Maga being enough to prove that. With enough preparation, Bruce can even dismantle a legion of tanks. It's widely believed that some of his abilities came from the injection, but it's not confirmed. Phyiscal Fitness: Bruce is at the peak of human capabilities. The inhuman training Natas forced him to undergo gave him a toned body and enough power to hold his own against colossal fighters like Bane and Grundy. Cutting-edge equipment: Batman possesses a plethora of batarangs, each one serving different purposes. There's the smoke batarang, which emits smoke once it sticks to a surface. Incendiary batarang, designed to cause fires. Explosive batarang, designed to release a narrow explosive burst and the EMP batarang, which disables communications for twenty seconds or so. His Batmobile is built with an auto-pilot function, two cannons, the first which can be calibrated to throw smoke grenades OR knock out rounds and the second, which shoots heat-seeking missiles, only used to destroy enemy hardware. The Batwing is also designed with the same functions, and an exclusive addition; a grapple hook used to lift targets up. There's also his armor, which is highly-resistant to bullets, even .50 caliber ones and is able to withstand explosions and gives Bruce the ability to switch between thermal and night vision withal. And, let's not forget the utility belt which is equipped with a grappling hook that saved him from a lot of near-death situations in the past.