Troubled by grief, Bruce found that he couldn't function the way he was, so he hired a homeless man to pretend to be Alfred to approve of the paperwork so that Bruce could erase his memory with electroshock therapy, but chose not to go through with it, and to use his pain as a motivator. Bruce was later expelled from Gotham Academy and began attending Roxbury Fielding Academy.

This triggered Bruce to answer the question by burning the answer on the professor's front yard. One day, he was asked by a professor to answer a problem involving a projectile being fired at a target. It was there that he dated Julie Madison, but his psychological issues with his parents' deaths ultimately led to the end of their relationship. In his youth, Bruce attended Gotham Academy. The boys became good friends but wouldn't realize their identities until years later. Because of this, Alfred sent Bruce to an Arkham boys' rehabilitation home upstate where he first met Harvey Dent. Shortly after their deaths, Bruce became obsessed with using toy guns and killing the man who murdered his parents. He thought perhaps the mythical Court of Owls was responsible, but he never found anything to prove it. īruce became obsessed with the search for meaning in the loss of his parents. However, just before he went through with it, he realized that this wasn't what his parents would want, and it was at that moment Bruce vowed to spend the rest of his life warring on crime. Later Childhoodįollowing his parents' deaths, Bruce attempted to commit suicide with a razor blade. When the Waynes were walking home after the movie, a mugger named Joe Chill attempted to rob them at gunpoint, and panicked, shooting both Thomas and Martha dead. En route back to the station, Bruce witnessed Jim accepting a trench coat as a bribe from a tailor - though neither realized it was a bribe at the time - but Bruce would remember it as an indicator of Jim's character.Īfter his parents picked Bruce up at the police station, the Waynes went to see The Mark of Zorro at the Monarch Theater. On one such outing, when he was ten years old, he was picked up by Officer Jim Gordon and his partner on their patrol. Īs he grew older, his family's reputation made Bruce restless, and he began sneaking out of school to visit Gotham City, where he wouldn't be so easily recognized. As such, Alfred - who had been an actor at the Globe Theatre at the time and a military medic before that, traveled to Gotham City to take up his father's place, serving the Waynes as butler. A letter he'd written to his son Alfred, warning him away from the beleaguered Wayne family, was never delivered. While on vacation to forget about these events, the Wayne Family butler, Jarvis Pennyworth was killed by one of the Court of Owls' Talons. She and Bruce survived, but the accident forced Martha into premature labor, and the baby was lost. However, because of her intent to find a school for the underprivileged in Gotham, she was targeted by the manipulative Court of Owls, who arranged for her to have a car accident. When he was three, Bruce's mother Martha was expecting a second child to be named Thomas Wayne, Jr. Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, who were themselves members of the prestigious Wayne and Kane families of Gotham City, respectively. 1.3.6 The Wedding of Batman and Catwomanīruce Wayne was born to wealthy physician Dr.1.3.1 I Am Gotham, I Am Suicide, I Am Bane.1.2.3 The Demon Star & Gotham's Most Wanted.1.1.9 Further Adventures of Batman and Robin.1.1.7 Year Two and the War of Jokes and Riddles.

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