BATMAN

BATMAN

Real Name: Bruce Wayne

Alias: Batman (a.k.a. The Dark Knight a.k.a. The Caped Crusader)

Title: The Dark Knight

Identity: Secret (known to some allies from his home dimension)

Age: 42

Species: Human


Physical Appearance:

Bruce Wayne is considered by and large to be tall, dark, and handsome standing at 6’2” tall and weighting 210lbs, all of it solid muscle. With a dazzling smile that still holds some boyish charm, a square jaw straight out of an action movie, and intense, soulful blue eyes the clean cut Wayne frequents the most eligible bachelor lists despite the fact that his dark hair is beginning to show signs of gray. He almost always wears a tailored black suit, unless on one of his famous outings with a model or Hollywood actress.

By night he sheds the trappings of Bruce Wayne and dons the mantle of the Batman, his true self. His incredibly defined physique adds to the menacing air created by the pitch black body armor and pointy eared cowl. With a scalloped cape that resembles the wings of a bat, he transforms from billionaire playboy to creature of the night. Though he has a variety of batsuits each only adds to the inhuman quality of the legend he has created.


Personality: Bruce Wayne is a charming, business savvy individual used to the excesses and privilege wealth offers. Something of a womanizer who can at times seem quite clueless, few know that Wayne is merely a disguise, an act to hide the keen mind beneath. The Batman, the identity Bruce considers his true face, is dark, brooding, and stoic. He trusts next to no one, insists on having a plan to defeat everyone he meets, and is ruled by order and discipline. Though he does possess a dry and very dark sense of humor it rarely shows as he works to maintain an image that criminals and allies alike find unsettling. A loner at heart, Batman will often withhold information from allies until it is needed and uses his strategic genius to maneuver people around a battlefield like a master chess player. He has placed his mission of justice above any kind of real life outside of being Batman and has over the years, grown colder and more distant.



Powers: N/A



Abilities:

Indomitable Will: his unwillingness to surrender or give into fear makes Batman a force to be reckoned with. His determination is unending, allowing him to fight through immense pain and find solutions to problems, while allowing him some resistance to mind controlling powers.

Peak Human Conditioning: Batman keeps himself in the best shape possible for a human to achieve, training endlessly to maintain his stamina and strength.

Master Combatant: Batman is a master of multiple forms of martial arts making him one of the deadliest, most efficient hand-to-hand combatants alive. He is also proficient in the use of most weapons, including the deadly variety that he refuses to actually utilize himself. Furthermore, as a trained ninja, he is an expert at stealth and acrobatics. To go along with these combat skills he also knows a great deal about things to aid in battle including defensive driving, pressure points, and escapology.

Investigation: a trained detective with a keen mind for details and noticing what others do not, Batman is one of the best detectives in existence.

Interrogation: knowing many of the same techniques as law enforcement officials but utilizing fear as a motivator, Batman is an expert at getting criminals to talk.

Genius Level Intellect: Bruce is incredibly intelligent. He speaks multiple languages, can build his own technology as well as understand the technology of others, has a deep knowledge of chemistry, biology, and the medical field. He has even invented new compounds and pushed the boundaries computer sciences.

Weapons/Equipment:

Batsuit- the Batsuit not only enables Batman to resemble a human sized bat in order to terrorize criminals, but also provides protections against the various dangers he may face. With Kevlar and a unique composite weave it protects against small arms fire and provides minimal protection from blunt force attacks. It is insulated against electricity, yet releases an electrical pulse should someone attempt to remove the cowl. It is also coated in a substance to make the suit fire resistant up to a point. The gauntlets are reinforced to help deflect blades while also housing other equipment such as the holographic communication display. His cape allows for limited gliding capabilities. The cowl itself conceals Batman’s identity, houses a communication array/ear piece, and allows for different vision modes while maintaining a heads-up display. Back in his universe it linked to the Batcomputer, something he has yet to replicate on new world.

Utility Belt- custom designed with protective measures to prevent others from removing it, the belt houses many of Batman’s gadgets and has a lead lined pouch for containing the kryptonite ring entrusted to him by Superman.

Batarangs- the Dark Knight’s trademark gadget, these throwing weapons are used in a manner similar to shuriken in order to disarm opponents or otherwise damage them in a non-lethal manner, an alternative to using firearms for a long distance attack.

Bolas: use to ensnare enemies either tying their feet to prevent them from running or to restrain them.

Batclaw- a powerful attachment for his grapple gun it allows him to reach otherwise inaccessible areas, to remove strong vent covers, pull down weakened walls, or even to snare an enemy. In addition he has multiple jumplines.

Smoke Pellets-used for distraction and stealth the pellets are a hold over from his ninja training, releasing smoke when thrown.

Explosive Gel- a gel substance with miniature explosive caps in it that can be triggered from a distance. The radius and energy output is too weak to be lethal under most circumstances.

Freeze Cluster Grenade- modified from a design created by Mr. Freeze, the sub-zero temperature blast weapon encases the target in ice.

Remote Electrical Gun- a collapsible rifle that fires small electrically charged discs that can either disable enemies or short out electrical systems.

Remote Hacking Device: a device that allows him to wirelessly connect to and hack different networks. It has been recalibrated to work on systems in the new world, although it takes more time than before.

Rebreather-used both for breathing underwater and blocking out airborne pathogens.

Detective Vision- an advanced forensics examination device built into the cowl, it allows Batman to zoom in on objects, have built in night vision, trace scent particles, holographic crime scene reconstruction, thermal signature detection, and limited x-ray vision.

Tracers: GPS linked tracking devices.

Batmobile- the only piece of equipment from his world (not carried on his person) to survive being rippled into new world, the Batmobile is a bat themed car used as Batman’s primary mode of transportation. It is incredibly fast and has a variety of built in weaponry including side-mounted grappling hook launchers, projectile explosive disc launchers, bomb dispensers, forward mounted guns equipped with rubber bullets, an exhaust after-burner, and an emergency “Batmissile” mode that sheds all exterior material aside from the fuselage. It can be summoned via remote command. Updates to the design may be possible as Batman regains his fortune on New Earth.


History:

A single night would change young Bruce Wayne forever. At the age of 8, while leaving the theater he witnessed his mother Martha and father Thomas, gunned down while taking a short cut through Gotham’s infamous Crime Alley. It was then and there that Bruce Wayne vowed to fight injustice, to protect anyone else in Gotham from ever suffering as he had. After several dark years in which his butler Alfred became the closest thing to a father figure he had, he embarked on a quest to acquire the skills necessary to combat crime.Using his family fortune to travel the globe, learning martial arts, the art of detection, and more from the best teachers available he transformed himself into something dark and dangerous.

Years later, he would return to Gotham, using the skills he had to combat the crime that was eating the city like a cancer. To do so he needed to become a symbol, a myth and legend that the criminal underworld would fear. The answer came to him when a bat crashed into his study, reminding him of his childhood fear of the nocturnal creatures. From that night forth he was the Batman, the Dark Knight protector of Gotham City. At first he worked towards dismantling the mob families that controlled the city and the corrupt police department, finding an ally in Jim Gordon, a cop recently transferred to Gotham from the mean streets of Chicago and the only uncorrupt officer on the force. Soon however, his mission grew to new levels of urgency as new breeds of criminals descended on the city. Wearing masks and costumes of their own, these new so-called supervillains pushed the Dark Knight to the limit.

As he battled every insane and twisted thing Gotham could throw at him, Batman grew to accept that his mission was both never ending and something he could not do alone. To that end he adopted young orphan Dick Grayson, training the boy to fight as Robin the Boy Wonder in an attempt to help the boy come to grips with his own tragedy. His list of allies would continue to expand, not only as more members joined the Bat Family, but also with the emergence of the Justice League, a group of super powered heroes who came together to face threats larger than themselves.

Over the years he faced many hardships, lost allies, and acquired a colorful rogues gallery consisting of the worst humanity had to offer. His difficult personality combined with his lack of trust in people ither than himself has periodically caused rifts between himself and his allies. Nevertheless, Gotham always knew that it had a silent guardian watching over them…until now.

When Nightwing went missing, Batman dropped everything to investigate. Weeks upon weeks of searching left him empty handed save for reports of glowing portals periodically appearing at random around the globe and rumors of one such gateway opening in Bludhaven along one of the routes Nightwing patrolled frequently. Witnessing the damage these dimensional rifts caused Batman feared Nightwing dead, caught in one of the violent portals.

Researching for days on end without so much as a break to eat, Batman had developed a program to track the breaches. Unfortunately it was compeleted too late to warn him of the portal opening in the center of the Batcave. As Wayne Manor and the cave fell apart around him, Batman and the visiting Wonder Woman took refuge in an older Batmobile. Devoured by a breach they found themselves on a New Earth.

Now in a strange new world without any allies and lacking the resources he had in Gotham, Batman continues to investigate the source of the dimensional disturbances in hopes of finding a way home. Since his investigation could take years, Bruce has decided to operate out of Chicago, a crime ridden city that is as close as the New World has to a Gotham, while he rebuilds from scratch. In this new world he has gone back to how he started, a lone vigilante, an urban legend of an inhuman creature leaping across rooftops, making criminals feel safe only once the sun comes up.


Weaknesses:

Man in a Suit: at the end of the day Batman is a human in a suit, susceptible to injury and illness the same as any other man. His greatest strength is also his greatest weakness, because despite being a mortal man there is no threat, no danger he will not face even if he cannot overcome it.

Unwillingness to Kill: Batman has vowed never to take a human life and as such will put himself in danger in an attempt to bring enemies in alive so that the judicial system can handle them. This can be used against him by an intelligent adversary.

Failure: Bruce fears failure above all else. Failing in his mission, failing those few people he considers friends and family, and in turn failing his dead parents.


Other Information: My Batman is a combination of the Arkhamverse Batman and Batman The Animated Series/JLU Batman. I also take a good deal of inspiration from The Dark Knight Returns as Batman is older and very violent.

OOC Information
OOC Name: Rift
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