Batman

Biodata

Power Progression

Bruce has no documented player levels. His recorded increases in combat capability come from equipment development and Titan Venom rather than Lynn’s leveling system.

Background / History

Bruce witnessed Thomas and Martha Wayne being shot in Crime Alley. Their deaths remained a recurring nightmare more than a decade later and became the starting point of his life as Batman. He swore at their graves to protect Gotham and make the city better, even at the cost of everything he possessed 64 88 132.

Alfred had intended to resign from Thomas Wayne’s service, but stayed because he could not abandon the orphaned Bruce. He raised Bruce and continued supporting him after he became Batman, believing both Gotham and Bruce still needed him 23.

As Batman, Bruce developed an extensive surveillance network, criminal database, and collection of contingency plans. Alongside his nightly patrols, he maintained a public life as a wealthy playboy and the head of Wayne Enterprises 13 14 16.

Appearance

• Original appearance: A burly man with a sharply defined jaw, pale cleft chin, and visible stubble beneath his cowl. His exposed face during Bane’s broadcast has deep blue eyes 12 76.
• Costume: Black suit or metallic Bat-Armor, a pointed-eared cowl, flowing black cape, and bat emblem. His cowl leaves his lower face exposed 12 77 87.
• Titan-enhanced form: Enlarged muscles, blood-red eyes, and a torn suit; further swelling eventually splits his armor 103 105.
• Batwoman form: A slender, curvaceous woman with fair skin, glossy black hair, and blue eyes. Later appearances retain the black cowl and Bat-Armor, with a visibly pregnant abdomen 105 106 109 133.

Personality

Bruce is intensely committed to Gotham and often treats its protection as his personal responsibility. He refuses Superman’s assistance during the Crime Syndicate crisis, insisting that Gotham’s criminals are his concern rather than the Justice League’s. His determination also leads him to fight despite severe injuries and Alfred’s warnings 87 102.

He favors investigation, preparation, and contingency planning, but Lynn repeatedly exposes the limits of his control. Bruce studies Lynn’s equipment, commissions countermeasures, and upgrades his vehicle after failed pursuits. He nevertheless struggles against abilities that bypass ordinary technology, including Lynn’s untraceable calls and identity-swapping card 2 15 18 43 68.

His attachment to family can override tactical judgment. He holds back against the brainwashed Dick, grieves openly when Alfred appears to die, and hesitates to escape Lynn’s captivity because doing so might cost Jason the promised resurrection of his parents 18 23 85.

Bruce generally seeks to apprehend criminals and bring them to justice. Lynn challenges this approach by blaming repeated prison escapes for further deaths, leaving Bruce unable to answer. His later nuclear contingency against Bane shows how extreme his preparations can become when he believes Gotham faces collapse 13 72 74.

Abilities & Skills

Detective Work and Intelligence Gathering

• Investigates criminals through surveillance, case records, personality profiles, and threat assessments 14 16.
• Maintains Batcomputer files containing five years of Gotham case clues, civic problems, and contingency plans 16.
• Identifies Mayor Carol as the figure behind Deadshot’s death before Lynn asks for help 68.
• Locates information about Lynn in A.R.G.U.S.’s database after investigating the Bat Gang and the “Tony Stark” identity 63.

Martial Arts and Stealth

• Fights with punches, counters, forearm blades, Batarangs, smoke bombs, and grappling equipment 13 72 87.
• Trains Dick Grayson in combat, including techniques Dick later uses against him while under the Court of Owls’ control 85 87.
• Uses smoke and concealed movement to attack armed Talons at Wayne Manor 87.
• Regularly appears without warning on rooftops and streetlamps, a habit retained after becoming Batwoman 63 133.
• Remains physically vulnerable: accumulated injuries include kidney damage, a fractured leg, worn knee cartilage, and twelve broken bones during the Court of Owls attack 16 87.

Supreme Willpower

Listed as a skill on Bruce’s NPC panel 105.

• Continues fighting despite injuries that alarm Alfred 16 87.
• Persists in protecting Gotham even after captivity, public exposure, and transformation 76 105 131.
• Does not provide immunity to chemical effects: fear toxin causes severe hallucinations, while Titan Venom destabilizes his mental state 103 105 132.

Always Has a Plan B

Listed as a skill on Bruce’s NPC panel 105.

• Prepares individualized countermeasures, including laughing gas or fear toxin against Lynn 16.
• Keeps Alfred and Robin at the Batcave to respond if the nuclear situation at Gotham Reservoir changes 78.
• Considers calling Superman only after Bane disables his nuclear failsafe and other rescue attempts fail 76.
• His backup plans can be disrupted independently: Lynn restrains Alfred and Dick without knowing their intended role in the reservoir response 74 78.

Titan Venom Enhancement

• Greatly increases body size and strength, allowing him to overwhelm Titan-enhanced Bane and Joker 102 103.
• Causes uncontrolled aggression; Bruce continues beating defeated opponents rather than restraining them 103.
• His NPC panel records him as mentally unstable during the resulting boss encounter 105.
• Lynn’s Gender-Swap Card ends the visible frenzy and restores Bruce’s reason while permanently changing his situation in the available chapters 105 109.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Batsuit and Bat-Armor — Standard crime-fighting equipment; later armor development specifically targets Lynn’s Iron Man capabilities 12 43.
• Cape — Shields him from Joker Gang gunfire and deflects Talon attacks 5 87.
• Batarangs — Bat-shaped throwing blades used at range and in close combat. One fails to penetrate the Batman Who Laughs Hulk’s neck muscles 12 51 87.
• Grapnel gun — Enables rapid movement, evasive swings, and movement around the collapsing airship 51 72.
• Smoke bombs — Conceal his approach against the Court of Owls 87.
• Batmobile — Armored, tank-like vehicle equipped with missiles and later nitrous boosters 6 18 64.
• Batwing — Aircraft dispatched by Alfred during the airship crisis 51.
• Communications equipment — Includes a wrist communicator, earpieces, and concealed devices. Lynn confiscates his available devices during the kidnapping 2 15.
• Batcomputer and surveillance network — Collect citywide information through cameras and listening devices; supported by satellite tracking 14 16 64.
• Wayne Manor defenses — Automated weapons intended to protect the estate; destroyed by Lynn before the Talon attack 74 87.
• Titan Venom, Laughing Gas Virus, Fear Toxin, and Kryptonite — Recorded among his possessions on his NPC panel 105.
• Nuclear bomb — Seized from Joker and retained as a last resort against Bane’s alliance. Its triggering system is disabled and control compromised 74 76 78.

Relationships

• Alfred Pennyworth — Butler, guardian, and father figure. Raises Bruce, supports his operations, and later regards Batwoman as his daughter 23 131.
• Thomas and Martha Wayne — Deceased parents whose murders motivate his mission. Lynn steals their remains and repeatedly uses the possibility of resurrection to pressure him 64 68 132.
• Dick Grayson / Robin — Student and crime-fighting partner. Bruce risks himself to recover Dick from both the Court of Owls and the Crime Syndicate 85 87 102.
• Barbara Gordon / Batgirl — Bat Family ally who attempts to rescue him during Bane’s broadcast and provides support during the Talon attack 75 76 87.
• James Gordon — Police ally trusted with his confidential contact number; mobilizes officers when Bane captures him 2 75.
• Lucius — Technical collaborator responsible for vehicle tuning and the requested anti–Iron Man armor 18 43.
• Lynn — Adversary and coercive collaborator who blackmails, impersonates, robs, and transforms him, but also intervenes against his enemies. Bruce’s later pregnancy is attributed to Lynn 15 68 78 105 145.
• Jason Todd — An orphan whose circumstances remind Bruce of his own childhood. Jason’s hope of seeing his parents again becomes leverage against Bruce during his captivity 18.
• Talia al Ghul — Former associate and Damian’s mother. Initially withholds Damian’s existence from Bruce 71.
• Damian — Child with Talia; a parentage test confirms the relationship after Bruce has become Batwoman 133.
• Superman / Clark — Justice League ally who offers help rescuing Dick. Bruce rejects that assistance, although he considers summoning Superman during Bane’s earlier victory 76 102.
• Catwoman / Selene — Former flirtation. She rejects Bruce and joins Lynn after believing defamatory stories about Batman 43.
• Joker — Longstanding enemy whose fixation includes refusing to let anyone else defeat Batman. Returns from Metropolis to attempt a rescue from Bane 2 76.
• Ra’s al Ghul — Adversary who argues that Bruce cannot overcome Gotham’s darkness alone and exploits the exhausted Bat Family’s confrontation with the Talons 72 87.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Lynn’s Arrival and Identity Theft

• Lynn’s system initially presents Batman as Gotham’s “final boss.” Lynn contacts him through an untraceable skill, demands Wayne Enterprises, and reveals knowledge of his identity 2.
• At Joker’s hideout, Lynn spreads claims that Batman secretly runs the Bat Gang. A riddle whose answer is “the Wayne Family” stuns Bruce long enough for Lynn and Willis Todd to escape with the stolen money 5 6.
• Bruce confronts Lynn over his crimes but is blasted into a wall by Iron Man Armor. Lynn then challenges his reliance on prisons before escaping 13.
• Lynn kidnaps Bruce and swaps their appearances, identities, voices, occupations, and skills for twenty-four hours. While impersonating him, Lynn accesses the Batcomputer and transfers money from Bruce’s account 15 16 18.

Airship Crisis and Renewed Pursuit

• Batman attempts to contain the Batman Who Laughs Hulk aboard a falling airship. His Batarang proves ineffective, and he is badly injured before Kara intervenes 51.
• After investigating Lynn through A.R.G.U.S., Bruce pursues him in an upgraded Batmobile. Lynn still escapes, despite missiles and attempted satellite tracking 63 64.
• Lynn later forces Bruce to identify Mayor Carol as the mastermind behind Deadshot’s death by threatening to exploit his parents’ remains 68.

Bane’s Alliance and Public Unmasking

• Bruce prepares a nuclear bomb as a final measure if he loses his decisive battle against Bane’s criminal alliance 74.
• Bane defeats him and broadcasts his captivity. Scarecrow removes his cowl, exposing Bruce Wayne as Batman to Gotham 75 76.
• Batgirl and Joker attempt a rescue but are overwhelmed. Lynn then arrives wearing Bat-Armor and borrowing Absolute Batman’s power, leading spectators to mistake him for the “true Batman” 75 76 77 78.
• Afterward, Bruce discusses a new plan for the missing nuclear bomb during a Justice League meeting 82.

Court of Owls

• Bruce attempts to reach the brainwashed Dick but holds back while Dick attacks him. Lynn eventually restores Dick’s memories through repeated blows 85.
• Batman and Robin defend Wayne Manor against William Cobb’s Talons despite Bruce’s twelve broken bones and the loss of the manor’s weapons system. Ra’s al Ghul arrives to exploit their exhaustion 87.

Titan Venom and Transformation

• When the Crime Syndicate captures Dick, Bruce rejects Superman’s assistance and infiltrates its base. Unable to defeat the enhanced Bane and Joker, he injects Titan Venom 102.
• Lincoln March screens footage of Bruce brutally beating both villains, turning public anger against Batman. One girl continues defending him because he saved her and her orphanage 103.
• Lynn confronts the unstable Bruce and uses a Gender-Swap Card. Bruce becomes a woman and regains reason; the aftermath also leaves Batwoman pregnant 105 106.
• After several days at Wayne Manor, Bruce accepts the physical reality of the transformation, though remains angry with Lynn and wants to become a man again 109 124.

Batwoman’s Capture and Damian’s Parentage

• Hush and Black Mask capture Batwoman, threaten sexual violence, and inject fear toxin. The hallucinations recreate the Waynes’ murders and imagined parental condemnation of Bruce’s transformed body and pregnancy 131 132.
• Lynn locates the warehouse, defeats the captors, frees Batwoman, and provides healing items 132.
• A reunion with Talia and Damian leads to a parentage test at Wayne Manor, confirming that Batwoman is Damian’s parent 132 133.
• Batwoman continues monitoring Lynn and later visits Zeus Securities with Alfred to put an earlier plan into action 145.

Notable Quotes

“To me, Gotham matters most!” 64

“Alfred, at least I still have a hundred and ninety-four intact bones.” 87

“I swore before my parents’ graves that I would make this city better, even if I had to stake everything I had!” 88

Trivia

• The Bat Gang is Lynn’s organization, not Batman’s hidden criminal empire. Bruce is initially bewildered by its supposed existence; Lynn later asks him to join it 5 82.
• The Batman Who Laughs Hulk is transformed Harley Quinn, not Bruce Wayne 51.
• The Absolute Batman power used against Bane belongs to Lynn’s temporary Character Card, not a documented advancement of Bruce himself 75 78.
• Lynn’s “Batman's Communicator” bypasses blocked numbers and more than ten changes to Bruce’s contact number, provided a communication device is nearby 68.
• Bruce identifies the sexual images used to blackmail him as edited photographs and eventually destroys them, though Lynn retains other leverage 68.