Batman Christian Bale Batman WikiAs a man, Im flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed. But as a symbol. I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting. Bruce WaynesrcBatman is the alias and second identity of billionaire Bruce Wayne, son of Thomas and Martha Wayne. Becoming the Dark Knight, he dedicated himself to protect Gotham City. Having witnessed his parents death at the hands of a mugger as a child, Bruce traveled the world as an adult to train and understand the criminal mind in order to combat it. Mentored by Ras al Ghul, Bruce later returned to Gotham and challenged the citys crime lords, employing unusual weapons and tactics as a mysterious black garbed crusader. Despite being considered an outlaw by the GCPD, Batman defeated Carmine Falcone and The Scarecrow, and later battled against Ras al Ghul and his plan to have Gotham tear itself apart through fear. In continuing to shut down Gothams organized crime, Batman encountered and defeated the most fearsome of his adversaries, the Joker, while losing his love interest Rachel Dawes in the process. His defeat of Harvey Two Face Dent resulted in Batman going into hiding and taking the fall for Two Faces crimes in order to maintain Dents status as Gothams White Knight. As a result, Batman became a fugitive and Bruce turned into a recluse, not just as Batman but he also ended contact with associates such as Lucius Fox. Eight years later, Batman returned to fight the mercenary Bane while entrusting his business and intimacy to Miranda Tate, not knowing that she was actually Talia, the daughter of Ras al Ghul. After gaining the strength to escape imprisonment, Batman returned to defeat Bane and save Gotham from Talia completing her fathers work. Faking his death, Bruce passed on his legacy to John Blake and left Gotham to start a relationship with Selina Kyle. Dick Grayson is a vigilante in the Batman Family and the original hero known as Robin. Over the last 25 years, there have been six Batman movies, multiple cartoons, dozens of toys, at least one massively successful video game franchise, and. Romantic Horror Movies Batman: Gotham Knight ' title='Romantic Horror Movies Batman: Gotham Knight ' />Biography Origin and Early Life Your parents death was not your fault. Henri DucardsrcBruce Wayne by his murdered parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne. Born on October 1. Gotham City to Thomas Wayne, a billionaire philanthropist employed as a doctor, and Martha Kane Wayne, an Irish Catholic debutante, Bruce Wayne grew up home schooled on his parents Wayne Manor estate since there was no public school anywhere near the estate apart from them and their trusted butler Alfred Pennyworth. Although the only child in the house, his loneliness eventually changed during his fourth birthday, when his parents brought in other children for him to befriend, but most spent his party running around and yelling. This left Bruce in a best friendship with the only well behaved child among them, Rachel Dawes, who was the daughter of the mansions housekeeper and lived in housing unit nearby. Despite having play dates with the other kid over the next three years, he secretly wished to stay away from some except Rachel, who was the friend he saw the most. One day at age eight, while playing with her in the garden greenhouse, Bruce fell into a cave where he encountered a swarm of bats. His father rescued him, though Bruce developed a fear of bats the senior Wayne comforted his son by telling him that though people fall, they always have the strength to get up. Later, Bruce accompanied his parents into the city to see a new monorail system they built that just opened up for the public. Throughout the ride, his parents explained that Gotham was suffering from an economic downturn and enduring deeper into very hard times. To help its citizens, his father nearly bankrupted his company, Wayne Enterprises, to build the monorails to unite the city, with Wayne Tower as the system central core, but it didnt seem enough. While watching a performance of Mefistofele at the Gotham Opera House nearby with both his parents,Bruce got frightened by a scene featuring a bat like monster which reminded him of the bats that attacked him in the well and asked to leave. Once outside, the family was confronted by a mugger named Joe Chill, who shot both of Bruces parents for dead for causing the depression to drive him out of his job and fled just as police patrol showed up to shelter the now orphaned boy. Thomas last words to his son were to not be afraid. At the police headquarters, one of the patrolmen, Sergeant James Gordon, did his best to comfort Bruce with a coat while Police Lieutenant Gillian Loeb was able to capture Chill. Taken back home to watch as his parents bodies were buried outside, a distraught Bruce was left cared for by Alfred, who arranged that he wont be taken into social service care. He blamed himself for his parents murder if had he not been frightened, the Waynes would not have encountered Chill, though Alfred assured him it was no ones fault but Chills. At age twelve, Bruces home school days ended when he inherited enough money from his ancestors to give himself a first class education and attend Mark Twain High School in Ossaville, a town closer than Gotham. When the principle told Alfred that there was nothing more the school staff could give the boy, Bruce was scheduled to do his schoolwork with a series of tutors. His favorite subject was drama since he loved to read plays, and asked Alfred a lot of questions about drama when he learned that the butler was a child actor while growing up in England. At age fourteen, Bruce became interested in sports when he learned of a teen soccer league that just formed in the neighborhood. Although not enrolled in any of the public schools, he was somehow able to join one of the teams, but quit after his second practice since he probably wasnt the locker room type. But Bruce still had an interest in other sports, and at age sixteen, he asked Alfred if they could try skiing. Having learned of a ski resort in Vermont, the old butler phoned for reservations at a nearby lodge for their trip. Driving there, however, became hazardous when he and Bruce were caught in the middle of a blizzard, so they didnt check into the lodge until ten, when the resort was already closed and scheduled to be reopened at around six in the morning. While Alfred relaxed at the lounge, Bruce decided to ski alone and snuck out of their room before hiking to the resort in his skiing equipment. But right when he started sliding out of control down the mountain, a night watchman caught him in the act and called the rescue patrol, who found Bruce unconscious at the bottom of a shallow gorge with a bloody gash across his forehead, one of his skis lying in two pieces nearby and the other canting his leg in an unnatural angle. He was taken back to the lodge with a cast for his leg and bandage on his forehead, and rested in bed until Alfred came to check on him. Because Bruce had a broken leg and slight concussion, a doctor who Alfred conferred with concluded that if the butler wanted to take the boy back to Gotham, he would need proper transportation. So, Alfred purchased a twin rotor Sikorsky helicopter to return home with the bandaged Bruce, setting it down on a field next to Wayne Manor. That following week, the bandages came off, and the Wayne Family Physician pronounced the young Wayne intact again. Bruce refusing ownership of Wayne Manor. Bruce never thought of going skiing ever since, but his interests shifted to other athletics. He ordered a complete set of Olympic grade gymnastics gear and spent most of the summer with an instructor learning how to use them. He swam in the Olympic size pool dug behind the garden before breakfast and lifted weights for several months, but was never able to do archery or mediocre skating. Rachel sometimes joined him at the manor to swim, jump on the trampoline or hang out. Bruce enjoyed the visits until he left the city at age seventeen to attend Princeton University, where he studied Jungian archetypes and mono myths. Strawberry Shortcake: Get Well Adventure Stream on this page. But he considered such topics absolutely nonessential to any conceivable life he wanted to lead, if it wasnt plain foolish.