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Batman (real name Bruce Wayne) is the main character of the 2021 superhero movie, Batman: The Long Halloween. He is a tortured and brutal genius vigilante protecting Gotham City from the criminals inhabiting it. He was instrumental in defeating Holiday and Two-Face. He's also Selina Kyle's boyfriend, better known as Catwoman.
He is voiced by Jensen Ackles, who also voiced Jason Todd/Red Hood in Batman: Under the Red Hood, and portrayed Dean Winchester in Supernatural.
Biography[]
Origins[]
After witnessing the murder of his parents at the hands of a mugger as a child, Bruce waged a war on crime in Gotham City, which he trained himself physically and intellectually to become Gotham's protector, the vigilante known as Batman. In his public identity, he was also a billionaire industrialist and notorious playboy.
The Long Halloween[]
Batman met James Gordon and Harvey Dent up on the rooftop of GCPD headquarters one night, and they swore that they would bring down the Gotham Organized Crime syndicates led by Carmine Falcone and Sal Maroni, that were completely controlling the city. They also agreed that they would never break them, and become as bad as the evil they fought against. Meanwhile, a serial killer named Holiday began stalking prominent Mafiosos and shooting them dead. There was suspicion immediately cast on the three men in the triumvirate, and the possibility that it might be someone trying to remove their competition. Batman Villains were replacing the traditional gangsters, and the underground was slowly being taken over by costumed freaks with no respect for the old ways. Batman's presence was arguably the cause of this. Amongst the killings Falcone's son Alberto was murdered. Bruce went on his first date with Selina Kyle around this time, who flirted with him as Catwoman by night unaware of his alter-ego.
Falcone later employed Batman Villains in his activities. He and Maroni each believed the other was responsible for Holiday, and their gang wars tore Gotham apart. Harvey became a leading suspect because of his vindictive attitude towards criminals. Bruce was also suspected of involvement with the Roman's organization. Thomas Waynehad reluctantly performed emergency surgery on a young Carmine Falcone for bullet wounds and indebted him, making him indirectly responsible for the Roman's empire. Harvey later admitted this was a mistake, and Maroni brought himself into custody with the intention of spilling his secrets before he was killed. At the trial, Maroni smuggled in a bottle of acid and threw it at Dent's face during the prosecution, leaving him horribly disfigured. This also drove him insane, and he escaped from the hospital. They arrived at the conclusion that Harvey was Holiday, and Batman attempted to find him after he escaped.
While Gordon was transporting the gangster to a different cell, Holiday appeared and shot Maroni in the head. Batman was disguised as the guard accompanying them, and he beat Holiday down. Harvey reappeared calling himself Two-Face, taking a team of villains into the Roman's private office. As the two leaders battled, Batman arrived and put most of the criminals down, but he was unable to stop Two-Face from shooting Falcone twice in the head. Then, Batman, Gordon and Dent, had a final meeting on the rooftop of GCPD headquarters. Dent was accused of betraying the things he believed in, but he insisted that his methods were the only ones that actually got rid of Falcone and he did what he needed to. He was then arrested and Batman discovered that holiday was Gilda Dent.
Justice League: Warworld[]
Batman is abducted and brainwashed to live in a prehistoric dimension within Warworld. He is saved by Superman, with whom he helped rescue Wonder Woman. They discover the architect of their abduction and brainwashing was the intergalactic warlord, Mongul. Together, the Trinity defeat Mongul. Before they can celebrate their triumph, they are summoned by Harbinger; she informed them that their struggle in Warworld was nothing in comparison to the upcoming threat.
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part One[]
Batman is among numerous multiversal superheroes summoned by Harbinger at the behest of the Monitor, who brought them to his satellite for the purpose of preparation and strategy in dealing with a wave of antimatter that destroys every universe once it reaches its Earth.
With the Question, Batman realised that the gathered champions have skills, knowledge, and powers that are compatible in a manner that would achieve a solution to the threat. Thus, scientists, scholars, and demi-gods work together to discover such solution.
The Flash took Iris West and Amazo into the Speed Force so they have enough time to complete construction on the universal tuning tower, a structure that will make Earth intangible, thus the antimatter wave will pass without destroying its universe. Iris died from old age shortly before enough power had been gathered to charge the tower; Flash, thanks to Amazo's sacrifice, is able to complete and activate the tower, therefore the antimatter doesn't destroy reality.
However, a side effect seemed to be that any individual from a future timeline ceased to exist, as they disintegrated with the only warning being a psychic pulse of pain felt by telepaths and empaths.
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part Two[]
Batman had taken the recently orphaned Dick Grayson into his care, although temporarily, as he believed his vigilante life wouldn't allow him to provide a safe and attentive care that the boy would need.
While the universal tuning tower prevented destruction via the antimatter wave, it was revealed that the wave was only one of multiple more that periodically threaten existence, unless the tower made Earth intangible again; the cycle continued, avoiding oblivion, but merely evading doom, since the source of the antimatter was still unclear.
The Joker recruited Soloman Grundy and Killer Croc into defending him, while he used a tank in an attempt to destroy the Earth-1 universal tuning tower. Batman tries to explain that the universe would be doomed without the tower, but the Joker simply dismisses it as not knowing unless he destroys it. As Batman is distracted by fighting the zombie and reptilian man, Joker aims at the tower. Before Joker can fire, an explosive is thrown into the tank, forcing him to abandon the vehicle. A Bat Family from separate universes had arrived for support, which included Dick Grayson (Robin), Helena Wayne (Huntress), Barbara Gordon (Batgirl), and Damian Wayne (Robin); they help Batman overcome the villains. The Joker and his two allies are arrested, and presumably sent back to Arkham.
While the multiversal Bat visitors try to converse with Batman, he is horrified at the idea that he had alternate selves that were willing to recruit children into his war on crime; he also refused to accept their explanations that they agreed to join their Batmans, and helping protect Gotham was a fulfilling purpose. Still rejecting their reasons, Batman declared he will send his version of Dick Grayson, preventing any chance of him becoming Robin, so Batman will never be as "foolish" as his alternate reality counterparts.
Eventually, the force projecting the antimatter waves eventually sends shadow demons to attack the universes under the protection of a universal tuning tower. The shadow demons are destroyed by powerful sources of light or enough physical damage, however, they gradually reform, ready to attack again with no noticeable injuries. The multiversal Bat family coordinate well in holding back the shadow demons, however, from Monitor's satellite, an Anti-Monitor allied Psycho-Pirate began sending negative emotions across the multiverse. Psycho-Pirate's emotions of mistrust, insecurity, paranoia, rage, and hatred sabotage the defending teams, with the Bat family falling into fighting each other instead of the shadow demons.
Eventually, all of the shadow demons gather to Earth-1, with all of them combining into a giant humanoid figure, which made the heroes realise the shadow demons weren't individual creatures, but a part of one massive entity: the Anti-Monitor. The Anti-Monitor grew a protective shell that prevented its weakness to strong light from being a factor. The defenders cease fighting each other as their attention is drawn to the immense invader.
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part Three[]
While Psycho-Pirate had manipulated Supergirl into killing the Monitor, the cosmic entity's death unleashed a beneficial powerful surge of billions of years of energy that spread to every Earth's tuning tower, transporting the Monitor's satellite and the Earths away from existence, thus the Anti-Monitor is left alone in the cosmos. The surviving realities were transported into an extradimensional reality known as the Bleed.
For 8 months, the surviving Earths were relatively safe, however, subject to frequent natural disasters due to the inherently unstable nature of the Bleed. Suddenly, the Anti-Monitor began breaking through into the Bleed, managing to destroy an Earth each time, before being pushed back out. The reason was that Lex Luthor and the Legion of Doom had captured Psycho-Pirate, and had been torturing him for information and access to communicate with the Anti-Monitor; Luthor sacrificed "less important" Earths as to gather data on the entity as to discover a method of destroying it. Despite the heroes on the Monitor's satellite being disgusted, they relent to Luthor's logic and allow him to continue.
Seeking the origin of the Crisis, Batman sought out John Constantine, locating him on a Wild West world; he was accompanied by heroes including Dr. Fate, as the magical hero had powers that would allow access to Constantine's mind if needed. In a seance, Fate sent Batman and Constantine into the latter's mind to rediscover memories that were lost due to torture by the Spectre over millennia. Constantine and Batman witness the memory of the final moments of the preceding reality of the DC Animated Movie Universe, whereupon Constantine remembered that he cast two spells on the Flash before the Flashpoint; one was to guide him to ancient Apokolips, and the second was a spell that cut a piece of his own soul onto the Flash, allowing the mental explorers to follow the speedster. Flash entered the nursery of an infant Darkseid, with the order to kill the New God, but as Barry lacked that ruthlessness, Constantine's second spell was already active, which was an instant death curse.
Darkseid's death caused unintended repercussions because he was a fixed point in time that had to exist as long as the universe exist, but his demise caused a fracture in reality to make one universe in which lived, and one in which he was dead; however, existence continued to endlessly split into new branches, thus the multiverse. Since a multiverse was structurally unsound, the more branches created, the most unstable reality became; inevitably, the multiverse would overwhelm existence, leading to the collapse of everything. To prevent this, the immune system of reality arose to prevent the collapse, with it being the Anti-Monitor, with its malevolence hiding its purpose to actually save the universe by destroying the multiverse before the ultimate collapse.
While the Warworld piloted by Martian Manhunter managed to pierce the Anti-Monitor, and Supergirl sacrificed herself to unleash 52 suns worth of energy absorbed to destroy the giant entity, it was revealed that there were thousands, potentially limitless, more Anti-Monitors that were gradually encroaching the Bleed to complete the erasure of the multiverse.
Due to Constantine's memories, the sorcerer and Batman realised that the multiverse can't be saved, with the only option creating a new universe separate, which would combine all variants into new lives and wouldn't be targeted by the Anti-Monitors. Dr. Light with help from Martian Manhunter, was able to locate the Miracle Machine, the device banished to a hidden plane of reality to prevent Brainiac's attempt to remake reality in his image with it. Wonder Woman sacrificed her immortal life to provide the energy of divinity that was needed to power the Miracle Machine.
The Miracle Machine created a veil that would allow versions of people to be transplanted into new lives in what was called a monoverse by Constantine. The multiversal Bat Family bid farewell to Batman, expressing gratitude to him, even though he wasn't the ones they knew; Batman himself admitted that he now understood why his alternate self took in friends, noting that their original Batmans would be proud, and he returned their hope that they would reunite in the new Earth, even though they would have no memories of their prior worlds or each other.
All heroes and villains passed through the veil, except for Constantine who acknowledged that his actions inadvertently resulted in too much death to be forgiven, so accepted continued servitude to the Spectre, who removes them both into a safe spiritual realm; the Anti-Monitors release a final tidal wave of antimatter across creation that wiped out the multiverse, and the abandoned Psycho-Pirate who peacefully died due to the silence.
Within the safety of the nascent monoverse, a child known as Princess Diana of Themiscrya walked balanced along a guard rail, which her mother Hippolyta criticised, but was more bemused by her daughter's fearlessness.
Trivia[]
- He is the rebooted version from the DCAMU, which explains why he never had a Bat Family. Batman is notorious in most media for being able to create mental blocks and backup psyches; it wouldn't be too far fetched to think he prepared a mental block against having Bat Family, since they all died.
- In the original The Long Halloween comic, Batman and Catwoman had a flirtatious but adversarial relationship, with her joining the villains assembled by Two-Face, whereas the film adaptation had them as on and off partners.
