When his parents were gunned down in front of him, young Bruce Wayne
resolved to rid Gotham City of the criminal element that took their
lives. He trained extensively to achieve mental and physical perfection,
in addition to mastering martial arts, detective techniques, and
criminal psychology. When he returned, Bruce was inspired by a bat in
his ancestral home of Wayne Manor. He then became Batman who fought
crime with the aid of specialized gadgets and vehicles and operated out
of a secret Batcave underneath Wayne Manor. Batman led a successful
twelve-year, crime-fighting career
born into the wealthy Wayne Family, Bruce Wayne had an idyllic
childhood, although he was given a strong sense of justice by his
moralistic and philanthropic parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne. After
their violent murder at the hands of a mugger, Bruce dedicated his life
to battling the criminal element that took their lives. He left Gotham
City for many years to train to physical and mental perfection across
the globe, with the aid of his butler, Alfred Pennyworth, by bringing
Gotham's criminals to justice as the vigilante known as Batman.
after a varied career, was employed as the Wayne family's butler when
Bruce Wayne's parents were killed. Alfred raised the young orphan and
reluctantly aided him in his quest to become Batman. His many skills,
ranging from cooking to medicine - made him Batman's staunchest ally,
along with a formal demeanor that grounded the Dark Knight and deflected
those who might otherwise suspect Bruce Wayne's true identity. Alfred
showed that he cared for Bruce as his own son, one sign of this love
being Batman's ally. Alfred stayed with his adopted son without
hesitation and continued to aid him in his war.
Raised by his parents (better known as the "Flying Graysons") in a
circus, Dick Grayson was trained to be incredibly acrobatic. His parents
were killed after criminals had failed to extort money from the circus.
Dick was soon adopted by billionaire Bruce Wayne, who shared his secret
identity and extensively trained the boy to become Batman's sidekick,
the first Robin. After he aided Batman for years, Dick eventually moved
on and became a hero in his own right. As Nightwing, he patrolled both
Gotham City and Blüdhaven, and worked with Batman no longer as a
sidekick, but as an ally.
Police Commissioner James Gordon dedicated his career to cleaning up the
corruption in the Gotham City Police Department, a goal he came a long
way toward accomplishing. Gordon was equally tough on crime, and in the
pursuit of making Gotham City safe for all its citizens, he forged an
uneasy alliance with Gotham's other top crime fighter, the mysterious
vigilante known as Batman.
The Joker is an insane, homicidal supervillain, and the arch nemesis of
Batman. His white skin, green hair and blood red lips belied the chaotic
nature that underlay his cartoonish appearance. The extremely
intelligent self-styled "Clown Prince of Crime" had no superpowers
beyond a capacity for incredible violence and a skill at creating deadly
mayhem, and frequently concocted elaborate schemes to entrap his
nemesis.
The Arkham Knight was a mysterious military villain who emerged in
Gotham City and was the antithetical version of Batman. He wore a
militaristic "Batsuit" and had an Arkham symbol on his chest. He formed
an Alliance with Scarecrow and struck a deal with Deathstroke to
transform Gotham into a city of fear and end Batman
Originally a soldier in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, Slade
Wilson was part of an experimental super-soldier program where he gained
enhanced strength, agility, healing factor and intelligence. Deathstroke
became a mercenary soon after the experiment and rapidly gained a
reputation as one of the world's greatest assassins. Following his
defeat and incarceration at the hands of Batman, Deathstroke escaped
from the maximum security wing of Blackgate Prison and worked as an ally
of Scarecrow and the Arkham Knight, serving as an advisor and overseer
of their siege of Gotham and campaign to defeat Batman both mentally and
physically, unmask him and turn Gotham City into a city of fear,
specifically.
With an obsessive need for attention and a genius-level intellect,
Edward Nigma (formerly Edward Nashton) was determined to be the most
outlandish of Gotham City's criminals, and concocted an elaborate series
of clues and riddles around his crimes. Batman had proven to be a worthy
opponent, capable of deducing the Riddler's plans, but Nigma was
dedicated to creating a mystery that the Dark Knight would not be able
to solve in time to save the hostages.
District Attorney Harvey Dent was one of Batman's strongest allies in
Gotham City until Carmine Falcone threw acid in Dent's face and
hideously scarred him. The wounds fractured Dent's psyche and he was
reborn as Two-Face: a schizoid criminal mastermind obsessed with
duality. His former good-luck charm, a "two-headed" trick silver dollar,
was damaged on one side from the attack and Dent had seized on it as a
reflection of his half-scarred visage.
Tim Drake was in the audience when the Flying Graysons were murdered,
and where he witnessed Batman leap to the scene. Inspired by Batman's
heroics, Tim closely followed the chronicles of Batman and Robin.
Eventually deducing their secret identities by using self-taught
detective skills, Tim convinced Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson - as
Nightwing - that a new Robin was needed in the never-ending battle for
justice.
Taunted and bullied in his youth, Jonathan Crane vowed to overcome his
fears through the study of psychology and biochemistry on phobias and
the nature of fear. Kicked out of the university he taught at for
experimenting on human subjects, Crane adopted the identity of the
Scarecrow, and armed himself with a specialized fear-inducing gas that
makes a person's deepest phobia become a frightening reality.
Scarecrow's ongoing reign of terror makes him one of Batman's most
recurring and psychologically dangerous foes, if not the most dangerous.
Scarecrow is, on certain occasions, more of a threat to Batman than the
Joker.
A brutal and sadistic crime lord, Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot was
known in the Gotham City Underworld as The Penguin who funded much of
its criminal operations as one of its biggest black market manufactures.
Directing his affairs from a dilapidated ship, the Final Offer, Oswald
was seen as a reputable business man to the people of Gotham, but in
reality, was a sadistic, mass murdering gang leader.
Years ago, Michael Lane was part of a program to create the ultimate
crime fighter. Instead, it turned him into an insane criminal. Thwarted
by Batman, Michael confessed his sins to a priest of the religious sect,
The Order of St. Dumas. They recruited Michael to fight evil as their
Azrael, who wore the mystical Suit of Sorrows and wielded the Sword of
Sin. Azrael appeared in the Side Mission: Watcher in the Wings in Arkham
City, and the Most Wanted Mission: Heir to the Cowl in Arkham Knight.
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