39 Facts About Bruce Wayne

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Bruce Wayne is one of the most commercially successful superheroes, and his likeness has been licensed and featured in various media and merchandise sold around the world; this includes toy lines such as Lego Batman and video games like the Batman: Arkham series.

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Bruce Wayne had two stiff wings that were sticking out, looking like bat wings.

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Bruce Wayne felt that he had not used his creative potential to its fullest and that success had passed him by.

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Bruce Wayne recalled Finger resenting his position, stating in a 2005 interview with The Comics Journal:.

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Bruce Wayne brought in artist Carmine Infantino to help overhaul the character.

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In 2010, the storyline Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne saw Bruce travel through history, eventually returning to the present day.

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Bruce Wayne decided to take his crime-fighting cause globally, which is the central focus of Batman Incorporated.

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DC Comics would later announce that Grayson would be the main character in Batman, Detective Comics, and Batman and Robin, while Bruce Wayne would be the main character in Batman Incorporated.

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Also, Bruce Wayne appeared in another ongoing series, Batman: The Dark Knight.

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Bruce Wayne is the only character to be identified as Batman and is featured in Batman, Detective Comics, Batman and Robin, and Batman: The Dark Knight.

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However, Bruce Wayne is soon revealed to be alive, albeit now with almost total amnesia of his life as Batman and only remembering his life as Bruce Wayne through what he has learned from Alfred.

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Bruce Wayne finds happiness and proposes to his girlfriend, Julie Madison, but Mr Bloom heavily injures Jim Gordon and takes control of Gotham City and threatens to destroy the city by energizing a particle reactor to create a "strange star" to swallow the city.

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Bruce Wayne discovers the truth that he was Batman and after talking to a stranger who smiles a lot he forces Alfred to implant his memories as Batman, but at the cost of his memories as the reborn Bruce Wayne.

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In public, he frequently appears in the company of high-status women, which encourages tabloid gossip while feigning near-drunkenness with consuming large quantities of disguised ginger ale since Bruce Wayne is actually a strict teetotaler to maintain his physical and mental prowess.

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Bruce Wayne's principles include the desire to prevent future harm and a vow not to kill.

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Bruce Wayne believes that our actions define us, we fail for a reason and anything is possible.

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17.

Bruce Wayne serves as Bruce Wayne's loyal father figure and is one of the few persons to know his secret identity.

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18.

Bruce Wayne is sometimes portrayed as a sidekick to Batman and the only other resident of Wayne Manor aside from Bruce.

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Bruce Wayne used the Joker's old persona, the Red Hood, and became an antihero vigilante with no qualms about using firearms or deadly force.

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20.

Bruce Wayne went on to star in his own comic series, and currently goes by the Red Robin, a variation on the traditional Robin persona.

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21.

Bruce Wayne has been portrayed as being romantically linked with many women throughout his various incarnations.

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However, the relationship ends when Bruce Wayne rejects her advances twice; once as Bruce Wayne and once as Batman.

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23.

Bruce Wayne receives a terminal medical diagnosis, and Selina cares for him until his death.

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24.

Bruce Wayne has traveled the world acquiring the skills needed to aid him in his endeavors as Batman.

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25.

Bruce Wayne has fully utilized his photographic memory to master a total of 127 different forms of martial arts including, but not limited to, Aikido, boxing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Capoeira, Eskrima, fencing, Gatka, Hapkido, Jeet Kune Do, Judo, Kalaripayattu, Karate, Kenjutsu, Kenpo, kickboxing, Kobudo, Krav Maga, Kyudo, Muay Thai, Ninjutsu, Pankration, Sambo, Savate, Silat, Taekwondo, wrestling, numerous different styles of Wushu, and Yaw-Yan.

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Bruce Wayne is a master of disguise, multilingual, and an expert in espionage, often gathering information under the identity of a notorious gangster named Matches Malone.

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Bruce Wayne engages in intense intellectual and physical training; however, he realizes that these skills alone would not be enough.

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28.

Bruce Wayne holds the position of police commissioner until he is killed during one final adventure as Batman.

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Dick and Damian continue as Batman and Robin, and in the crossover storyline "Blackest Night", what appears to be Bruce Wayne's corpse is reanimated as a Black Lantern zombie, but is later shown that Bruce Wayne's corpse is one of Darkseid's failed Batman clones.

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Bruce subsequently returned in Morrison's miniseries Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne, which depicted his travels through time from prehistory to present-day Gotham.

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31.

Gordon attempts to fight a new villain called Mr Bloom, while Bruce Wayne, regains his memories with the help of Alfred Pennyworth and Julie Madison.

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Once with his memories, Bruce Wayne becomes Batman again and defeats Mr Bloom with the help of Gordon.

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33.

In Superman: American Alien, a 2016 comic that shows an alternate retelling of Superman's origin, Bruce Wayne is training under Ra's al Ghul when he is told about someone posing as him at a birthday party thrown for him, causing Bruce to become interested in this person.

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34.

Donning his costume, Bruce Wayne confronts Clark but is quickly overpowered, and is shocked when none of his equipment harms Clark.

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35.

Jean-Paul Valley, aka Azrael, is actually the real Wayne descendant, which Bruce only learns from Jack Napier right before Jack forces Harley Quinn to kill him as the Joker will not let him kill himself.

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Bruce Wayne is at once an icon and a commodity: the perfect cultural artefact for the 21st century.

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37.

Bruce Wayne identifies a homophobic element to the vigor with which mainstream fandom rejects the possibility of a gay reading of the character.

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Langley argues that Bruce Wayne confronts his own darkness early in life; he chooses to use it to instill fear in wrongdoers, with his bright and dark sides working together to fight evil.

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Bruce Wayne's examined the possibility of several mental health issues, including dissociative identity disorder, obsessive–compulsive disorder, and several others.

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