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| NOTE: This is a composite profile of the mainstream versions of Batman who undergoes major changes to his character from the several cosmic retcons that have happened in the DC universe. |
| “ | I am vengeance! I am the night! I am BATMAN! | „ |
| ~ Batman's most famous quote |
| “ | Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot. So my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible... a . a... a bat! That's it! It's an omen. I shall become a bat! | „ |
| ~ Batman (Earth-Two) |
| “ | For amateurs, you've been diabolically clever! Seldom have any criminals caused me such grief! You've deceived me... humiliated me! The trouble is... I tend not to stay deceived and humiliated! Men like you are driven by greed! I have a stronger motivation! I hate crime... hate it with every fiber of my being! Even in a word as confused and uncertain as ours, justice still exists and whether through me or through the machinery of civilization the law justice triumphs! | „ |
| ~ Batman (Earth-One) |
| “ | The Batman can't die. He feeds on evil like yours! | „ |
| ~ Batman (New Earth) |
| “ | You think you can fool me? You think so? You can't. Because I know all the tricks. Hell, I invented them. And sooner or later... I will find you. Wherever you are... you can't hide from me. Hide in the dark. Because I live here... in the dark... in Gotham. It's my city. | „ |
| ~ Batman (Prime Earth) |
Bruce Wayne, better known as Batman, is one of the main protagonists of the DC Universe, specifically serving as the titular main protagonist of the franchise of the same name and one of the main protagonists of the Justice League franchise. He is widely considered one of the greatest superheroes of all time and is one of the most iconic fictional characters in pop culture history.
After experiencing the horrifying death of his parents at a young age, Bruce Wayne travels across the world, learning different styling by fighting and martial arts in various versions. When he came back to Gotham City, he started as a vigilante who will be later known as the legendary Batman.
The character was created by the late Bill Finger (Story-Wise) and Bob Kane (Art-Wise) in May 1939, and first appeared in Detective Comics #27 on March 30th, with of the identical retroactive treatment of that version was created by Dennis O'Neil and Dick Dillin in Justice League of America #82 on August 1970, his second mainstream version was possibly created by Don C. Cameron in Batman #27 but was likely created by Bill Finger again in Detective Comics #140 or Edmond Hamilton in Superman #76 In a more clarified establishment, third mainstream version was somewhat created by Doug Moench on Batman #392 on February 1986 and was fully established by Barbara Kesel on Batman #401 and fourth created by Geoff Johns in Flashpoint Vol 2 #5 and recreated him again in DCU: Rebirth Issue #1 on May 25th, 2016.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Admirable?[]
In General (with some version sharing)[]
- He truly cared for his parents and his butler Alfred Pennyworth, allies, and all the good people of Gotham City.
- He holds a moral code in refusing to kill his enemies (with the exception of universal-ending threats, like Darkseid) and often tries to help rehabilitate them, though this is mainly because of his New-Earth self-emphasizing this importance more than his Original and Earth-One variants. He repeatedly saves them from death as well, even irredeemably evil villains like the Joker.
- While he is taken very seriously as Batman, it is all for his representation of justice in ending chaos and mostly doesn't have Game Changer traits with his presence around non-villains.
- He works closely with the police and other heroes in his war on crime.
- He trained several sidekicks to help bring them closure in their tragedies and ensure that they wouldn't be consumed by their losses.
- He saves hundreds of lives in his war on crime.
- He inspires ordinary people to be better than themselves and rise past tragedy.
- As Bruce Wayne, he's also a philanthropist who, in several cases, uses his wealth to try and help Gotham City.
- He was one of the founding members of the Justice League, and also funds their operations, and helps them fight threats to the world.
- He meets the Admirable Standard due to helping save people and the world from threats far beyond his power level despite only being just a peak human (Even though very wealthy), and even by just his limited resources alone he was able to be comparable to the Justice Leagues own admirable actions, who are vastly more powerful than him with the exception of his Prime Earth self in using the Hellbat Armor in which he uses to its best potential.
Exclusive to each version[]
- He ended Alfred Stryker's attempts in becoming CEO of Apex chemicals who was trying to murder the employers that stand in his way of becoming Central Executive Officer.
- Brought Doctor Death to prison who was using chemical experiments that harmed lives.
- Killed the two vampires, Monk and Dala with silver bullets with one of them being Monk who was hypnotizing his former fiancée and Dala.
- Rescued Karel from Duc D'Orterre's mad experiments.
- Killed Lennox who was impersonating Sin Fang for the use of the idol statue's wealth. (In which Batman used to killed Lennox with)
- Kill Carl Kruger who used tried to use the dirigible to take over the world and took down the dirigible that was causing buildings to be destroyed and countless lives getting murdered.
- Stopped Dr. Strange from creating a fog in Gotham.
- Saved thousands of lives by eliminating the spies who were about to destroy a US Vessel and killed their leader Turg.
- After Dick's parents were murdered, Bruce adopted him as his own.
- Proved that Tony Zucco was a murderous crime lord, by taking a photo of his murder, thus getting him placed behind bars.
- He alongside Robin eliminated the criminals of the opium trade in Chinatown.
- He and Robin uncovered a murder case done by Clayface, and brought him down.
- Took down the Painter of Death.
- Saved the New York World's Fair from Dr. Hugo Vreekill.
- Ended a corrupt mayor Harliss Greer's corruption within a town.
- Cleared his name from the Puppet Master's sinister plan to frame him badly.
- Got The Joker to the State Penitentiary.
- He sacrificed himself to defeat Bill Jensen.
- As a ghost, he alongside other spirit justice league members took down some ghost thugs and tells Jakeem that someone with noble blood can stop the ghosts in England.
- Prior to donning the mantle of Batman, he fought crime as the first Robin.
- He cured the Man-Bat, aka Kirk Langstrom, and Francine Lee of their mutations, returning them to their human forms.
- When Langstrom transformed into Man-Bat again, Batman got a stronger antidote that permanently ended Langstroms transformation to Man-Bat phases.
- When Francine was about to turn into Man-Bat again, Batman made a cure to stop that from happening.
- Saved a shipping magnet from being killed by the league of assassins.
- Rescued Robin from Tzin.
- Stopped Talia from killing one of her father's scientist.
- Stopped Ra's Al Ghuls crimes from causing a deadly plague and brought him over to the authorities.
- Killed Ubu who was putting Alfreds life in danger.
- Brought the Spook to justice, ending his schemes of gimmicked scare tactics for criminals.
- Although he wasn't entirely successful in stopping Jokers killing spree, he managed to save at least some lives from his murders and almost caught the Joker.
- When the Joker poisons Batman with Joker Venom, Batman finds a way to cure himself and catches the Joker.
- As The Joker makes another escape, Batman faces him at an amusement park and takes him down.
- Uncovered the truth on who killed the man disguised as himself, with the killer being none other than The Joker.
- As Joker continued to commit even more killing sprees under a loan shark, Batman stopped him on his tracks.
- Going up against Joker and his giants' toys, Batman defeats them and The Joker.
- When Batman was about to get a giant bust carving on his face by the Joker, he found a way to get out of that situation and bring the Joker back to his cell.
- Worked together with Joker to find Penguin’s killer and showed sympathy to Joker when he genuinely grieved for Penguin.
- Stopped Two-Face from stealing treasure.
- Foiled Two-Face's blackmail plan in using an atomic bomb as a way to frame the US Government.
- Recovered a stolen code from Two-Face that could have a nuclear explosion on a city.
- Finally caught Two-Face sending him back to prison.
- Stopped Catwoman from stealing tigers.
- Teamed up with Catwoman to take down Catman from his usual thefts.
- Rescued a kidnapped king from the Penguin while teaming up alongside with Robin and Catwoman.
- When the Penguin was making mechanical models of extinct birds to kill Batman in use of committing more crimes, Batman outsmarts and catches him, sending the crime lord to prison.
- Despite how evil Joker is, Batman knew that Penguin was framing him for a crime he didn't commit and teamed up with the Joker to bring Penguin back behind bars again and cleared Joker's name, however that doesn't mean Batman was going to let Joker off the line of him being a criminal, bringing the clown to his cell as well.
- When Scarecrow made a device that would cause fear, Batman destroyed it, ending Scarecrow's scheme.
- As Scarecrow came back to come up with a more manipulative plot to get from criminals' loots, in using a stronger fear toxin which effected Batman, Batman manages to overcome while defeating Scarecrow and the thugs that were helping him.
- Getting set up by Scarecrow of the people being afraid of Batman over the drug Pheromone he had on him, Batgirl and Robin helped get of it and took down the Scarecrow.
- He helped the Justice League defeat the Anti-Monitor.
- Worked with James Gordon to end Falconi and Maroni's crime rule over Gotham.
- Risked his life to save a cat from some corrupt cops.
- Saved some corrupts cops from their burning cars because he didn't want their families to suffer.
- Saves James Gordon Jr. after the baby was kidnapped by Arnold Flass.
- Tried to convince Two-Face to spare the life of Carmine Falcone.
- Stopped Poison Ivy from killing Janice Porter.
- Prevented Sofia Falcone from killing Two-Face to avenge her father.
- Teamed up with Ra's Al Ghul and stopped Qayin from triggering a global war.
- Saved President Ronald Regan from KGBeast.
- Protected a pregnant Talia from Qayin's men.
- Saved Gordon after Jose Garzonas kidnapped him.
- Comforted Barbara after Joker crippled her.
- Saved Gordon after Joker kidnapped him in an attempt to drive him insane and offered to stay with him until the police came.
- Despite the way Joker treated the Gordons Bataman tried to reach to him and offer him a chance to change.
- Saved two twins from being killed by Two-Face after he kidnapped them.
- He allowed Tim Drake to replace Jason Todd as Robin.
- After Two-Face kidnapped Gilda's Children Batman talked him out of hurting them then agreed to tell Gilda that he chose to protect them in the end.
- He helped a homeless man named Harold Allnut by allowing him to stay in the Batcave.
- After recovering from when Bane broke his back, he returned to action and defeated Azrael after he went too far while replacing him as Batman, later defeating Bane himself.
- Helped Harvey Bullock investigate who was making an attempt on his life and stopped his landlord Nivens from killing him when Nivens turned out to be the culprit.
- In Batman: No Man's Land, he worked with varying degrees of success to end the isolation of Gotham from the rest of the USA after an earthquake.
- Convinced Gordon to spare Joker after Joker killed his wife Sarah.
- Stopped Two-Face and Rene Montoya from killing each other when the former had become obsessed with the latter.
- Revived Joker with CPR after Nightwing killed him to spare him the guilt of becoming a murderer.
- He saved Robin and Spoiler when they went after a gang who had shot one of Tim's friends.
- He comforted Tim when his father was murdered by Captain Boomerang.
- He prevented Red Hood from killing the Joker in spite of the many crimes the latter committed.
- Recruited Harvey Dent to protect the city in his absence, hoping it could help him forgive himself for the harm he caused.
- Agreed to let go of his past issues with Bullock and give him a chance to prove himself after Bullock called him out for his hypocrisy.
- He sacrificed himself to defeat Darkseid with a radian bullet.
- He rejected a Sinestro Corps ring when it attempted to induct him into the Corps.
- Sympathised with Barry Allen when he felt guilty for creating Flashpoint and assured him he would have done the same thing.
- Teamed up with the Shadow to take down the Founding.
- Stopped Penguin from killing every child in Gotham.
- Stopped Joker’s plot in Batman: Endgame.
- He forgave Joe Chill for killing his parents and was there for him in his final moments before he died.
- He saved the Multiverse from being destroyed by the Dark Knights by empowering other heroes with Element X to help fight them and defeating the Batman Who Laughs several times while working together with the Joker.
- He saved Joe Chill's life from falling into the chemical acid in becoming the next Joker, and held his hand on his death bed, as a closure assurance of forgiveness over him murdering his parents.
- He refused to give out the Joker's real name, to protect Jeannie and her son, so that the Joker would not remember who he was that would lead to him finding out where his families location.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- While he has a code against killing, he is still willing to be brutal against enemies. He is more than willing to beat criminals to a pulp, torture them, break their bones, and even has nearly killed his villains on several occasions, making him somewhat anti-heroic.
- It's also been confirmed in his earlier incarnations that he has killed villains before showing some lethal traits and has done so in a brutal fashion without remorse. Further going on point about his lethality during his Earth-Two self, he has broken this code a few times after making the rule. Some of these were so lethal that he blew up a blimp, likely killing at least a dozen if not over a hundred people inside, though these were killing countless lives with the blimp, however, he can be engagingly violent, such as when he was strangling Duc D'Orterre and throwing an idol statue on Lennox's face that caused him to fall to his death.
- To make the breaking of his no-kill-rule even more undeniable, his Earth-Two-self's cameo appearance (Who became a Zur-En-Arrh) was part of the other Batman of Zur-En-Arrh, that tried to corrupt Prime Batman to kill the Joker.
- His early self gives sadistic remarks for their demise, having humor from their beaten up or horribly-deceased state.
- He has mentally broken his criminals on more than one occasion as well, with Scarecrow and Two-Face being examples.
- He lied multiple times in claiming he never used guns, when he did use them on Monk and Dala.
- Even though he despises guns, he has used various gun-like gadgets and weapons, showing that he loopholes that "no gun" rule to his benefit multiple times.
- Although a lot of Batman's kills are justified and very much well-deserved, it's still a corrupting factor, given his over-the-top lethality and constant code-breaking.
- It is heavily implied he intentionally stopped Robin from catching The Cat, despite knowing that it was against his job to let a criminal thief escape.
- His pragmatic nature led him to devise contingency plans against the Justice League, shattering their trust in him and causing him to temporarily leave the League when the plans were revealed, though this is mainly shown with his New Earth and Prime Earth counterparts. However, this trait is different from characters with similar goals such as Amanda Waller, as his plans despite being flawed, were intended to be reactive in nature that only focused disabling another superhero if they went rouge.
- He is anti-social, condescending, stubborn, standoffish, and has trust issues, preferring to mostly work alone and being unable to maintain long-term relationships with others.
- He is extremely critical of many of his sidekicks, leading many to fall out with him. One example is when he chose his job of being solely Batman over his fatherhood with Dick Grayson, which made his sidekick quit on him.
- He threatened to destroy the planet of Apokolips to rescue Superman's cousin Kara/Supergirl from Darkseid. While Darkseid is indeed an irredeemable monster and did deserve it, this would've led to millions or billions of deaths had Batman gone through with it.
- He regularly gets involved romantically with criminals, such as Catwoman, Talia Al Ghul, Posion Ivy, and Nocturna. All of those mentioned relationships has put him in conflict of his crime-fighting duties on more than one occasion.
- Despite his heroic efforts, he's still breaking many laws and has been put under scrutiny by his Gotham patrons on multiple occasions due to his status as an Vigilante.
Trivia[]
- The only mainstream version of Bruce Wayne that didn't pass the admirable standard is Flashpoint Bruce Wayne where instead of his parents Thomas and Martha Wayne being killed by a mugger, it's Bruce who is, making that timeline of the character unable to be part of this profile due his role having severely limited chances to doing heroic feats.
- Batman is one of the few Inconsistenly Admirables to have both Pure Good and Pure Evil versions of himself, alongside SpongeBob. However, he's so far the only one whose Pure Good and Pure Evil versions come from official material rather than fan works (besides the one from Schlouden06’s Bat-Verse).
External Links[]
- Batman on the Heroes Wiki
- Batman on the Batman Wiki
- Batman (Earth-Two) on the DC Database Wiki
- Batman (Earth-One) on the DC Database Wiki
- Batman (Earth-One) on the Moral Ranking Wiki
- Batman (New Earth) on the DC Database Wiki
- Batman (Prime Earth) on the DC Database Wiki
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