Bruce Wayne (DC Extended Universe)

"I am vengeance! I am the night! I am Batman!"

- Bruce Wayne declaring his identity to Chimera

Bruce Thomas Wayne (born February 19, 1990) is a billionaire industrialist, a founding member of the Justice League, and the CEO of Wayne Enterprises. A brash but brilliant scientist, Wayne is self-described as a genius, billionaire, playboy, and philanthropist. With his great wealth and exceptional technical knowledge, Wayne is one of the world's most powerful men and "The Golden Son of Gotham", following his parents' death and seemingly enjoys the playboy lifestyle, however, his own obsession with eradicating the criminal element often undermines any happiness Wayne might find in life. After witnessing the murder of his parents as a child at age six, Wayne resolved to rid his hometown of Gotham City, New Jersey of the criminal element that took their lives, despite possessing a strained relationship with his father. He trained extensively to achieve mental and physical perfection, in addition to mastering martial arts, detective techniques, and the criminal psychology, traveling the world for 10 years before returning back to Gotham at the age of 25. Deciding to fight crime with the aid of specialized gadgets and vehicles, Wayne operated underneath a secret cave beneath his ancestral home of Wayne Manor, and inspired by the native bat species that resided there, began to operate as the fearsome vigilante, Batman.

Wayne is the titular eponymous main protagonist of The Caped Crusader Trilogy, one of the titular protagonists of Justice League, and the overall main protagonist of the entire DC Extended Universe, being considered one of the central figures of the DCEU, with the evolution of his character being considered and described as "the defining arc of the DC Extended Universe".

Biography
"Sometimes I wonder if my father loved me. He was always more patient and kind with his own patients than me ... His own flesh and blood. I used to look on with envy and resentment, wishing I could've been respected the same way."

- Bruce Wayne wondering whether his father loved him

Troubled Childhood
Bruce Wayne was born on February 19, 1990 in Gotham City, New Jersey to Thomas and Martha Wayne. Wayne had become good friends with Alfred Pennyworth, the butler of Wayne's family, who watched over Wayne throughout all of his childhood. Wayne's early life was often dominated by the absence of his own father whom he always questioned whether he loved him. Growing up, Wayne had issues with his father who he claimed would bestow more kindness upon his patients rather than his own biological son, something Wayne resented. Since Wayne was so young, Thomas never was able to tell him his plans for him.

Despite this, Wayne still loved his father, determined to be better than the latter, something Martha approved. Wayne would also be much closer to his own mother than his father, as a result of her spending every free moment in her life with him. The love supplied to Wayne by Martha and Pennyworth, whom he began to consider a father more so than Thomas, combined with his family's fortune, caused Wayne to live an idyllic childhood, despite desiring his father's love and approval. Growing up, Wayne would sit down on the floor of Wayne Manor's entrance room, and his father would explain despite the manor itself being built upon railways, real estate, and oil, the first generation of Wayne's made their fortune as hunters, trading pelts, and skins with the French and would tell of the Wayne family history, to inspire Wayne to do great things in life, which not only highly annoyed him, but caused Wayne to doubt himself, as he wondered how he could ever measure up to his ancestors.

At an early age, Wayne quickly stole the spotlight with his brilliant and unique mind. When he was four years old, he made his first circuit board, and later at age five, built a V8 motorbike engine, with some minor help from his father. During this time, Wayne also became a fan of the hero, Zorro, and aspired to be just like him one day: A guy dressed in a costume and fighting crime. Wayne was also somewhat "nosy", and would break into Pennyworth's room in order to view his trophies, much to the latter's amusement and charagin.

Assassination of Thomas and Martha Wayne
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Personality
Witnessing the death of his parents traumatized Wayne and shook him so greatly that he swore he would devote every breath for the rest of his life to eliminate crime and criminals from Gotham City.

Abilities
While he is not the only superhero without superpowers, Bruce Wayne stands out the most, as a result of him relying only on "his own scientific knowledge, detective skills, and athletic prowess."

Family

 * Thomas Wayne - Father
 * Martha Wayne - Mother
 * Alfred Pennyworth - Butler, Confidant, Legal Guardian, Mentor, and Surrogate Father

Allies

 * Wayne Enterprises
 * Lucius Fox - Business Advisor, CFO, and Childhood Friend
 * James Gordon - Ally
 * Selina Kyle - Ally, and Love Interest

Trivia

 * According to director, producer, and screenplay writer Christopher Nolan, Bruce Wayne in his Batman guise is an extremely rough, physical person with actor Ben Affleck adding in that he identified with the character as they are both extremely angry people.
 * Batman's voice is digitally altered by a vocoder in his cowl.
 * This version of Batman's birthday is on February 19, which is a reference towards the comic version of Batman's birthday being on February 19. However their birth years are different.
 * Bruce is usually eight years old when he witnesses his parents die. However, this version is six years old, and was celebrating his birthday when he saw his parents die.
 * Batman and Aquaman both have father's named Thomas.
 * Batman and Superman both have mother's named Martha.
 * The only people who know Bruce Wayne is Batman are the Justice League, Alfred Pennyworth, Lucius Fox, Patrick Malone, and Julie Madison.
 * Bruce is the second oldest member of the original incarnation of the Justice League, being 4, 984 years younger than Diana Prince, and is two years older than Arthur Curry.
 * In addition, out of all seven founders, Batman had the most experience in fighting crime and being a superhero, as he had already been established for five years when Superman debuted, and possessed a decade's worth of experience by the time the Justice League formed.