Y'all are serious?
take look at this guy!
PROFILE: BATMAN / BRUCE WAYNE
Real name: Bruce Wayne
Occupation: Industrialist, Philanthropist
Base of Operations: Gotham City
Marital Status: Single
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 210
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
First Appearance: DETECTIVE COMICS #27 (May, 1939)
ORIGIN...
One night, while returning after seeing the feature The Mask of Zorro with his father Thomas Wayne and his mother Martha, Bruce Wayne experienced the tragedy on Crime Alley that would change his life forever. An anonymous criminal shot and killed the young boy's parents. Bruce was determined to seek justice for all and make sure nothing like this ever happened again. During his youth he traveled the world and learned many different fight skills from many different teachers, ranging from David Cain to Zatara . After training, Bruce decided it was time to fulfill the promise he made to his parents. Not only was he after justice, but he also sought vengeance. Believing that criminals were a superstitious, cowardly lot. He needed a persona that would strike fear into their evil hearts. Luckily, he saw a bat one day. Thus, Batman was born.
ALLIES...
Throughout his career, Batman has established quite a list of allies. He has been a friend to James Gordon since he began his "knight life-" pun intended. He also worked with then District Attorney Harvey Dent. He has had many protégés as well. The first was fellow orphan Dick Grayson, a former circus performer. Bruce trained Dick and let him take up the mantle of Robin. Their relationship has been more of a student/teacher one rather than a father/son. After a time of tension, Dick left Bruce's side and eventually became Nightwing. Barbara Gordon/Batgirl also fought under Batman's wing(yea, more puns!). Batman now uses the wheelchair-bound Barbara Gordon as an informant, under the identity of Oracle. He took in another Robin after Dick left: the ill-fated Jason Todd. On a search for his biological mother, Jason was killed, brutally, by the Joker, along with his new-found mother. It was a long and tense time before the Dark Knight took on a new partner. Tim Drake became the new Robin after realizing that Batman needed someone to lighten him up and failing to get Dick to rejoin with him. Helena Bertinelli/Huntress is another vigilante, but she constantly fails to meet the standards set by Batman. During No Man's Land, she donned the persona of the new Batgirl. Batman eventually stripped her of her title and handed it to Cassandra Cain, mute daughter of David Cain. Cassandra was raised learning about combat and is an amazingly skilled fighter. Commissioner Gordon has since retired, but Batman still has sufficient help with the aide of his masked allies, even the ones he doesn't want.
ENEMIES...
Batman has an established set of rogues, as well. There are the Joker(homicidal psychopath), Catwoman(cat burglar/sometime ally and love interest), Two-face(former D.A. Harvey Dent), Ra's Al Ghul and his daughter Talia(genocidal madman and his loyal daughter), Poison Ivy(vixen, deadly to the touch), Riddler(man of many questions), Mr. Freeze(his name says it all), Harley Quinn(Joker obsessed, ex-psychiatrist), Dr. Hugo Strange(mad scientist), Man-bat(DNA experiment gone wrong), the Penguin(oddly proportioned businessman), and Bane(big guy, very big)-just to name a few.
LOVE INTERESTS...
Bruce Wayne/Batman has also had a history of love interests: Catwoman/Selina Kyle, Talia al Ghul, Vicki Vale, Julie Madison, Silver St. Cloud, Dr. Shondra Kinsolving, Vesper Fairchild, and more. Bruce also had an interesting relationship with Sasha Bordeaux, a bodyguard assigned to him. At times, she would don a costume as well and go along with him as an unnamed vigilante when night fell.
MORE PROFILE FACTS...
- Wears a Fire-Proof Suit
- Has A Radio Comnlink to the Batcave
- Wears Triple Weave Kevlar
- Has Night-vision-Goggles in his Cowl
- Cowl and cape contructed of Bullet-proof kevlar
- Bat-ears serve as antennae
- Tools/Weapons include grappling hook gun, throwing blades, sedative blow-gun darts, gas and smoke pellets, underwater re-breather, lock-picks, first-aid supplies sonic singnaller to attract clouds of bats, weighted tips in the cape.
- mater-level skill set in all known forms of hand-to-hand combat, as well as fencing, knife-fighting, and archery.
- able to move silently (even below the range of Superman's hearing).
Oh boy...must...keep...total geekdom at bay... must get... a life!
