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| “ | I am vengeance. I am the night. I am Batman! | „ |
| ~ Batman's most famous quote. |
| “ | You're Robin, Jason! You're not what he made you! | „ |
| ~ Batman getting through to Jason Todd. |
| “ | Gotham needs something more, something… worse to defend her. She needs a new myth, a legend more powerful than I can be right now. A legend that can only rise from the ashes of the Batman. | „ |
| ~ Batman indirectly explaining Knightfall to Catwoman |
Bruce Wayne, better known by his superhero alias Batman, is the titular main protagonist of the Batmam: Arkham franchise.
He is a vigilante that protects Gotham and its people from various supervillains by night after having his parents killed in front of him and wanting to prevent it from happening to anyone else, training himself physically and mentally from a young age to reach peak human condition in order to defeat any threats he comes across. After he is unmasked by Scarecrow on live TV, he and his butler, Alfred Pennyworth both decide to blow up the Wayne Manor to fake their deaths and find a new way to protect Gotham, using a modified version of Scarecrow's fear toxin to strike fear into criminals' hearts and continue protecting Gotham.
He was voiced by Roger Craig Smith in Arkham Origins and by the late Kevin Conroy in the Arkham series, who also voiced his DC Animated Universe counterpart.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Admirable?[]
Background[]
- He became a vigilante to protect Gotham after being traumatized by seeing his parents being gunned down in front of him, also taking in Jason Todd, Barbara Gordon, Dick Grayson and Tim Drake with him and trained them into becoming competent vigilantes that protected both Bludhaven and Gotham City.
- He often tried to protect Harvey Dent from his abusive father when they were children. Prior to leaving Gotham, he also gave Harvey the money needed to attend Law school.
Arkham Origins[]
- Upon hearing that Commissioner Loeb had been taken hostage by Black Mask, he makes it his objective to travel to Blackgate to save his life before it's too late.
- Saves Warden Joseph from a thug who wanted to torture him with a baseball bat.
- Defeats Killer Croc, allowing the GCPD to arrest him and prevent him from killing any people due to him being an assassin hired to kill Batman.
- Saves a group of hostages from Riddler's thugs at a cell tower.
- Defeats Deathstroke and tells Alfred to call the police to arrest him.
- Infiltrates the Mad Hatters hideout, rescues a hostage he kidnapped and has the GCPD arrest him.
- Defeats Copperhead and heads to the meeting where all of Black Masks (now revealed to actually be Joker) assassins will meet together to stop them, after arresting her and having the GCPD bring her in.
- Prevents Joker from blowing up a whole building full of people after he blew up an unpopulated construction site.
- Warns Alfred that Bane is coming for him in the Batcave after finding out that Bane has deduced his identity and hideout location.
- Saves a group of hostages from Firefly's men.
- Stops Firefly from blowing up a bridge, saving dozens to hundreds of lives. He then defeats him in a fight and leaves him for the GCPD to arrest.
- Resuscitates Alfred after Bane almost kills him, using his shock gloves.
- After hearing that Joker has started a riot at Blackgate, he travels there to stop him and minimalize the amount of chaos as much as possible.
- Saves Harley and 2 other hostages from some prisoners.
- Saves Gordon and Joseph's lives from Joker by temporarily stopping Bane's heart with his shock gloves to trick Joker into thinking he killed Bane, before resuscitating him and defeating him after Bane injects himself with TN-1.
- Saves Joseph's life again after he is sniped by a prisoner and assists Gordon in protecting him from oncoming prisoners.
- Defeats Joker after he flees to the chapel and gives him to Gordon so he can imprison him.
- Defeats Deadshot and saves the hostages that he took inside Gotham Merchant's Bank.
- Destroys all of Penguin's weapon caches, preventing him from enabling any gang wars or supplying anymore assassins to kill people.
- Collects all of Riddler's blackmail datapacks, preventing Gotham from suffering a societal and government collapse where many could have been killed and chaos could have been caused all over Gotham, even having a positive impact through revealing Hamilton Hill and Peter Grogan as corrupt officials working with the Maroni crime family.
- Defeats Bane's right hand, Bird, at the My Alibi nightclub and leaves him for the GCPD to arrest.
- Destroys all of Black Mask's drug caches over Gotham, then defeats him and his men inside a church.
- Defeats and returns the 20 escaped Blackgate prisoners after Gordon requests him to.
Cold Cold Heart[]
- Saves Alfred and many others after Penguin and Mr. Freeze set fire to Wayne Manor to kidnap Ferris Boyle.
- Goes to GothCorp to stop Mr. Freeze and Penguin from retrieving dangerous weapons and save Boyle.
- Saves 20 citizens from freezing to death by freeing them from their frozen states due to Mr. Freeze.
- After finding out the monster that Boyle was, he sympathizes with Freeze's motive of wanting to save his dying wife, Nora Fries and attempts to convince him to redeem himself, saying that Nora wouldn't have wanted him to become a murderer.
- Stops Boyle from killing Freeze and saves Nora's life after her cryo pod started failing, before having Boyle and Freeze put away for their crimes.
- He also heals Freeze before doing so and expresses remorse for being unable to give him the peace he deserves.
Arkham Origins Blackgate[]
- Saves a staff member from being killed by Bronze Tiger.
- Saves Bronze Tiger after Penguin sticks some of his henchmen on him to kill him after refusing to join his forces.
- Momentarily defeats and apprehends Penguin, preventing him from killing anymore people for a short while.
- Finds all of the bombs that Catwoman placed over Blackgate prison, preventing it from blowing up and killing hundreds of people.
- Apprehends Catwoman in a fight and after feeling suspicious that the task force that captured her are not honest, places a tracker on their chopper, presumably following them to put an end to their operation of recruiting villains as soldiers.
Pre Arkham Asylum[]
- Saved Dr. Sarah Cassidy from Victor Zsasz after he kidnapped her and attempted to murder her.
- Worked with Dr. Kellerman to develop an antidote to Scarecrow's fear toxin, allowing him to apprehend Scarecrow and cure all of his victims from his mind rape.
- Saved the Mayor from being blown up by Joker and apprehended him, taking him to Arkham Asylum.
- When Jason Todd went missing, Batman continuously searched for his missing sidekick. He was horribly devastated by the video Joker sent to him of him supposedly killing the boy, showing how much Bruce loved Jason despite their disagreements.
Arkham Asylum[]
- Saves a guard from being electrocuted to death by Zsasz.
- Saves 2 guards from being poisoned to death by Joker Toxin.
- Saves a guard from being crushed by an elevator from Harley Quinn.
- Rescues all of the doctors inside the Medical Facility and Aaron Cash.
- Saves Gordon from Harley and subsequently defeats Bane in a fist fight.
- Convinces Gordon to sail off Arkham Island due to being concerned for his safety and just in case Jokers threat about placing bombs all over Gotham turned out to be true so he could be there to help.
- Upon learning Joker's goal to find Dr. Young's TITAN formula so he can create an army of a thousand Banes to destroy Gotham with, he makes it his goal to find the formula and destroy it before Joker finds it.
- Saves 2 staff members, plus Cash and another guard from Joker's thugs.
- Prevents 3 thugs from entering Dr. Young's office, where the formula seemingly was.
- Saves 2 hostages from being poisoned to death by Joker.
- Rescues Dr. Young from Zsasz and comforts her when she is distressed over her near death experience, then attempts to save her from getting blown up by a trap set by Joker, but it's too late and she is killed.
- Momentarily saves 2 staff members from being beaten to death by a group of thugs.
- Rescues 2 staff members from being electrocuted to death by Harley, then he gets himself and the other 2 out before they are poisoned to death.
- Defeats Harley Quinn and apprehends her, preventing her from killing anymore of Arkham's staff members.
- Saves a janitor from a group of Jokers thugs.
- Saves 3 staff members from Jokers thugs, one from getting beaten to death and 2 others from being dropped into a bottomless pit.
- Destroys a large batch of Jokers TITAN supply and defeats 2 of his mutated henchmen.
- Warns Cash to stay away from Poison Ivy's plants as they are lethal.
- Upon hearing that Scarecrow intends to flood Gotham's catacombs with enough fear toxin to mind rape everyone in the city for years, he attempts to stop him, indirectly succeeding when Croc appears and takes Scarecrow to eat him.
- He risks his life entering Killer Croc's lair so that he can retrieve the spores he needs to create an antidote to the TITAN formula that Joker is using to create his army. He then defeats him by setting a trap for Croc and trapping him in a part of the sewer where he can't kill anyone.
- After escaping Croc's lair, he then creates the antidote and intends to stop Ivy and her plants by using it on them before her plants can kill people in Gotham.
- Disables all 3 of the water pumps to prevent Joker from spreading TITAN to Gotham through spreading it to Gotham River and killing many innocents.
- Defeats Ivy and prevents her from using her TITAN enhanced plants to destroy Gotham.
- Saves Gordon from Joker once again and finally defeats him, saving all of Gotham from being destroyed by him and his army.
- It's stated that all of the supervillains on Arkham Island are back in custody on the GCPD and the GCPD have regained control of the island following Jokers defeat.
- After he hears about Two-Face robbing a bank in Gotham, he proceeds to head towards it to stop him,
- Finds all of Riddlers trophies and deciphers all his riddles, giving his location to GCPD after finally being able to trace his location and get him arrested.
Pre Arkham City[]
- Searched for Scarecrow's body to assure if he was dead or not for a while before finally giving up after it seemed like Crane was dead.
- After learning about the Trask Twins from Two-Face, he attempts to stop them from killing hundreds of innocents at the town hall ceremony for Gotham.
- Attempted to apprehend Harley after she broke Joker out of Arkham Asylum.
- Sabotaged a TYGER shipment of weapons that both Joker and Penguin wanted for their gang war.
- Requested for Robin and Alfred to dig up all the dirt they could find on Hugo Strange so he could reveal him as a murderer.
- Suspected that Arkham City was not a good idea for a new prison due to Blackgate and Arkham Asylum being considered uninhabitable and kept a close eye on its activity until he had an excuse to break into it. He then attempted to have it shut down through a public talk as Bruce Wayne, before being captured by TYGER.
Arkham City[]
- Momentarily saves Jack Ryder from a group of thugs from being beaten to death.
- Saves Jack again from a group of criminals beating him up.
- Breaks into the Solomon Wayne Courthouse and rescues Catwoman from Two-Face.
- He then subsequently saves her again from being sniped by Joker.
- Rescues the medical team and security from Harley's thugs at the church.
- Rescues a doctor from Joker's thugs.
- Breaks into Penguin's museum and rescues 9 of the 10 undercover GCPD officers sent in by Gordon, even saving 3 of them from being frozen to death.
- Saves Mr. Freeze from further torture by freeing him from his overheated display case and gets him his suit that he needs for survival.
- Defeats Penguin and brings him to Freeze so he can punish him, then orders Freeze to stop when he feels like he is going too far, before allowing Freeze to lock him in a display case.
- Saves a doctor from Joker's thugs.
- Saves Talia al Ghul from Ra's al Ghul after he attempted to force Batman to kill him.
- He then gives Ra's the idea to destroy his Lazarus Pit so that the wrong people won't be able to get their hands on it and abuse it's power, telling him he better destroy it as his chance for redemption, or he will come back to do it himself.
- Saves Vicki Vale from a group of Joker's snipers after Joker shoots down her helicopter.
- Attempts to convince Talia to not side with Joker, knowing that he is nothing but trouble and will very likely kill her (which does end up happening later on)
- Saves 3 political prisoners from being tortured by TYGER guards.
- Infiltrates Wonder Tower, defeats Hugo Strange and Ra's al Ghul and stops Protocol 10, saving hundreds to thousands of lives and preventing the two of them from killing millions all over the planet by creating more Arkham Cities and repeat the exact same process.
- Despite everything Strange did to him, Batman still tried to save him from Ra's al Ghul, only to be rejected.
- Attempts to save Talia after she has been taken hostage by Joker.
- Defeats Clayface and permanently incapacitates him by mixing him with the Lazarus Pit, preventing him from taking form and killing anymore people.
- Stops Joker from gaining immortality by destroying the Lazarus Pit, which he undoubtedly would have used for nefarious purposes.
- Despite Joker’s insurmountable crimes he have committed, he still decides to save Joker, showing that he can be selfless and graceful at times. He even felt sorry for the Joker after he died, despite everything he did.
- Defeats Mad Hatter and stops him from taking anymore people under his mind control.
- Saves all of the medical staff and guards at the Church again after Riddler kidnapped them to force Batman to play his games, saving them from dying in slow and painful ways.
- Saves Jack Ryder again from Deadshot and subsequently defeats him after learning he had been killing people for Strange.
- Saves Mr. Freeze's wife, Nora from Joker's thugs and lets him know where she is so he can be with her.
- Defeats Zsasz after tracing his hideout location and saves 2 prisoners he kept and intended to brutally kill.
- Saves dozens of political prisoners all over Arkham City from being killed.
- Destroys all 12 TITAN containers in Arkham City so that none of the thugs can use it and defeats Bane after he attempts to kill him to keep the TITAN for himself.
- Successfully identifies Dr. Thomas Elliot as the 'Identity Thief' and plans to track him down after he is finished in Arkham City.
Harley Quinn's Revenge[]
- Infiltrates the Steel Mill and it's secret base, rescuing 2 GCPD officers while doing so.
- It's revealed in a news report that he delivered the cure to Gotham hospitals after Joker shipped his infected blood to them, saving at least 2000 people.
- Disables all of Harley's bombs in the Steel Mill after requesting for Robin to go and make sure the GCPD officers are safe.
- Assisted in the defeat of Harley along with Robin.
- While not outright expressing it, he was relieved when Robin was revealed to have survived the explosion and rescued the cops.
Pre Arkham Knight[]
- After finding out that 4 citizens were starting to become like Joker due to not being cured of his infected blood, he created special cells for them all in Panessa Studios to prevent them from causing death and destruction, building a 5th cell for himself so he could lock himself away if he ever needed to as he knew he would be unstoppable if Joker took over his body.
Arkham Knight[]
- Stays behind in Gotham to help the GCPD with the criminals after Scarecrow threatened to cloud the entire city with fear toxin to scare them off.
- Rescues a police officer from being tortured by a group of thugs.
- Defeats some of the Arkham Knight's militia tanks, allowing the GCPD to patrol the city safely momentarily.
- Takes Poison Ivy to the GCPD after finding her at Scarecrow's safehouse.
- Rescues a police officer from militia thugs.
- Rescues 2 employees from militia thugs in ACE Chemicals.
- Saves the entire Eastern Seaboard from being clouded with Scarecrow's fear toxin and prevents it from getting into Gotham City too.
- Disables a militia bomb that could have gotten many people in its blast radius killed if detonated.
- Tries to dissuade Nightwing from helping him out of fear of what would happen to him if he got involved, though he does relent.
- Attempts to save Barbara from committing suicide, not aware that it was just a hallucination that was caused by Scarecrow's fear toxin, making his intention still admirable.
- Convinces Ivy to help him stop Scarecrow from clouding all of Gotham with fear toxin, by producing a spore that can counter Scarecrow's toxin, using plants across Gotham.
- Defends one of Ivy's plants from being destroyed by the militia.
- Heads to Panessa studios to stop the Joker patients from being rescued by Harley and released to cause chaos.
- Locks Robin in a cell to prevent him from going after Scarecrow, not wanting him to die after supposedly losing Barbara and being reminded of Jason Todd's supposed death.
- Endures Scarecrow's fear toxin long enough to repair the Batmobile and assist Ivy with clearing the city of fear toxin.
- Attempts to capture the Arkham Knight, despite the odds being stacked against him.
- Successfully clears the city of fear toxin with Ivy's help.
- Defeats the Arkham Knight and after he is revealed to be Jason Todd, he apologizes for accidentally leaving him with Joker in Arkham Asylum for over a year and gives him a chance to redeem himself, which Jason comes to accept later on.
- Saves Gordon from the militia and later saves Barbara from falling to her death after Scarecrow throws her off a roof.
- Saves the entire GCPD from being sieged after Scarecrow attempted to destroy the entire building with everyone still in it.
- Turns himself in to Scarecrow after he threatened to kill Gordon and Robin if he didn't, being willing to give up the legacy of Batman and risk his life to do so.
- Asks Gordon to take off his mask to prevent Scarecrow from killing Robin, knowing that doing so would reveal his identity to the world.
- Overcomes Jokers influence within him and locks him away in the deepest part of his mind, preventing him from taking control of his body and going on a killing spree in Gotham.
- Defeats Scarecrow, saving the world from being mind raped and ripping each other apart after Scarecrow wanted to spread his fear toxin worldwide.
- Defeats Hush, saving Lucius's life at the same time.
- Changes Kirk Langstrom back to human form after he became Man-Bat, preventing him from killing anyone else after losing control of himself.
- Can determinately convince Azrael to not let himself be corrupted by The Order of St. Dumas, or take him back to GCPD after attempting to kill him.
- Saves Ryder from being sacrificed by Deacon Blackfire and takes Blackfire back to the GCPD.
- Defeats Firefly and stops him from burning down all of Gotham City.
- Defeats Professor Pyg, saving 4 people from a fate worse than death and preventing him from killing anymore people.
- Stops Penguin from supplying weapons to gangs all over Gotham, saves Nightwing from being killed by his thugs and takes him to the GCPD.
- Knowing this could be the last time he ever saw him, he also expressed how proud he is of Dick for the man he has become.
- Goes through all of Riddler's death traps and courses to rescue Catwoman after he placed a bomb collar on her and defeats him after collecting all of the Riddler trophies and solving all the riddles.
- Defeats Deathstroke and brings him back to the GCPD.
- Defeats Two-Face and his men after they attempted to rob banks all over Gotham.
- Saves 3 police officers from Mad Hatter and imprisons him in the GCPD after escaping his hypnosis.
- Can determinately let Ra's finally die after hundreds of years after making a deal with Nyssa that the League of Assassins would leave Gotham if she took control of it, which Ra's even thanks Batman for, saying he is proud of him.
- Defeats Killer Croc and takes both him and the corrupt Warden that tortured his inmates and experimented on Croc back to GCPD.
- Saves Nora from the militia and allows her to reform Freeze from his villainy, finally giving him peace despite the two only having days left to live.
- After being unmasked by Scarecrow, it's heavily implied he is continuing to protect Gotham under a new myth, using a modified version of Scarecrow's fear toxin to do so.
Post Arkham Knight[]
- He continued to protect Gotham under the same myth.
- When a sane and alternate variant of the Joker known as Darwin Halliday, aka the Red Mask, caused many dead Jokers throughout various alternate realities to suddenly return from the dead via Multiversial traveling, Batman is met with his Mainstream Counterpart who just so happened to be traveling across the Multiverse during this point. And he tasked him to take this universe's Joker down once more since he returned from the dead.
- Even though their conversation was only one panel long, Batman respected Mainstream Batman and acknowledged that they are both the same in terms of heroism.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League[]
- At some point after Arkham Knight, Bruce was convinced by Superman to join the Justice League, an elite group of superheroes dedicated to protecting the world, and embraced his new identity as a public hero.
- His hologram in the Hall of Justice shows that he's thankful for his teammates for showing him the benefits of teamwork and not pushing his allies away as means of protecting them.
- He, along with Wonder Woman, was skeptical of Brainiac's ship when it arrived in Metropolis and attempted to discourage Superman and Green Lantern from boarding it when he wanted to "negotiate". In the end, Batman was proven right when he, and everyone else apart from Wonder Woman, ended up being brainwashed.
- He left a recording for the other members of the Bat Family as to how to eliminate each respective member of the Justice League should they ever go rogue.
- He also included Jason in his recording if they could ever find him, again showing that, despite still going about his lethal ways, Bruce still cares for him like a son.
- Even when brainwashed, he still cared for his friends and teammates, as he expresses sympathy towards Green Lantern after Flash is killed by Task-Force-X and vows to avenge him. He was also upset over Wonder Woman's death despite them being on opposing sides, wishing she could have been assimilated to Brainiac's cause instead.
- Although he kills several innocent people throughout the game, psychologically tortures and attempts to kill the the Suicide Squad numerous times, he can't be put at fault for it due to him being influenced by Brainiac's mind control.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- Some of his actions make him an anti-hero, an example being when he was perfectly ok with allowing Strange to carry out Protocol 10 and kill hundreds or even thousands if it meant he could save Talia, only changing his mind because Alfred and Barbara convinced him to. Another example being when he is willing to viciously torture his enemies for information, such as threatening to turn Black Mask's pacemaker to 250bpm, pouring out the liquid nitrogen inside a plug that was keeping Mr. Freeze alive and driving over a militia members head with the Batmobile, which were all overkill, also breaking a thug's hand for no reason and dropping a thug into a Christmas tree from a high point, which could have killed them after they gave him the information he wanted in both situations and with him feeling zero remorse for any of these.
- He can be a jerk at times, as he often treats the people he talks to badly without considering their feelings, even his allies at times, an example shown when Robin rescued him and he didn't even thank him, even telling him "what kept you?" and only being concerned about the safety of the police officers, which Robin calls him out for and enjoys taunting some of his enemies when he fights or interacts with them. He also clashed with Barbara one time with his refusal to let Robin help him and locking him in a cell in Arkham Knight, which made her understandably angry with him despite his intentions being good. (However since Batman was mentally unwell due to either Joker‘s death or exposure to fear toxin, this comes off as understandable)
- He can be too violent and wrathful in his fights, routinely breaking the bones of his opponents and even threatened to break every bone in Penguin's body in a threatening tone if he didn't tell him the location of Barbara and the Arkham Knight one time and later makes the threat to outright kill him should he not stop boasting about how he nearly killed Nightwing (though the latter one was understandable given how much Bruce loves Dick like a son).
- He was going to cure Joker despite knowing that it will just lead to him killing more people and escaping prison again and again. While it's understandable that he wants to adhere to his moral code, Arkham Knight shows us that this would have caused much more trouble then it's worth, as Joker still repeatedly attempts to take over Batman's body so he can go on a massive killing spree in Gotham and finally achieve his goal of destroying it, only being stopped because Scarecrow injected Joker with Fear Toxin, which allowed Batman to defeat Joker and take back control.
- Gives Scarecrow an injection of his own Fear Toxin to give him karmic justice, but it ends up also putting Scarecrow in a fate worse then death with him being psychologically broken permanently with him feeling no remorse. While Scarecrow absolutely deserved it, this act is still extremely ruthless on Bruce's end.
External Links[]
- Batman on the Arkhamverse Wiki
- Batman on the DC Database Wiki
- Batman on the Heroes Wiki
- Batman on the Ultimate Good Wiki
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