First Appearance: Detective Comics #27 (May 1939)
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 210 lbs
Skills: Master of 127 martial arts, peak human intellect and physicality, world's greatest detective
Allies: Dick Grayson/Robin/Nightwing, Alfred Pennyworth, Police Commissioner Jim Gordon, Clark Kent/Superman, Justice League
Batman is the alter ego of Bruce Wayne, a billionaire industrialist and philanthropist who moonlights as Gotham City's most famous vigilante. He's best known for having no superpowers whatsoever—which is kind of the whole point. Instead, he relies on his detective genius, mastery of martial arts, cutting-edge tech, vast wealth, and an almost supernatural ability to intimidate criminals into submission.
His origin is straightforward but brutal: as a kid, Bruce witnessed his parents' murder, and that trauma set him on a path to train himself into the perfect crime-fighting machine. He emerged years later in a bat costume, calculated to strike fear into Gotham's underworld.
Over the decades, he's built a network of allies—most notably his sidekick Robin, his trusty butler Alfred, and Commissioner Gordon—while accumulating one of fiction's most iconic rogues' galleries. His approach to crime-fighting comes straight out of classic pulp magazines and film noir: no superpowers, just brains, training, money, and an unwavering commitment to vengeance dressed up as justice.
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