Bruce Wayne

"Bruce gave me a great piece of advice once. Grow into the person you needed as a kid."

- Kate Kane

Bruce Wayne (born February 19) is a well-known billionaire from Gotham, as well as the former owner of Wayne Enterprises. He is also the cousin of Kate Kane. He was also known as the vigilante Batman, often stylized as the Dark Knight.

Becoming Batman
Sometime after his parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne, died, Bruce committed himself to being the vigilante Batman.

Kane family car crash
After having been Batman long enough for the public to be aware of him, Bruce was in pursuit of a school bus that had been hijacked by his adversary the Joker in January 2003. Through happenstance, the bus impacted a car that contained Bruce's two cousins and aunt, which caused the car to to crash on a bridge. He tactically two hooks with his grapple gun at his family's car, which was about to fall off of the bridge, allowing Kate to escape. He quickly left to save the children on the bus that crashed into the Kanes' car. However, the part of the car his grapple was attached to separated from the rest of the car, causing Beth and his aunt to fall into the river below. Bruce searched for their bodies, but was only able to find his aunt's. Due to Kate thinking that Batman didn't care about the rest of her family, Bruce took it upon himself to comfort his cousin as himself, which Kate greatly appreciated. Despite the two being family, Bruce never told her his secret identity.

Wayne Enterprises
At some point, Bruce began working at Wayne Enterprises, eventually employing Luke Fox, with whom he shared his secret identity. Presumably due to a violation of his trust, he fired Luke once, but eventually reinstated him. In his office, Bruce kept the necklace his mother wore on the night of her death in a display case. The case also functioned as an entrance into an elevator that lead to an underground base where Bruce kept his Batman suit and gadgets.

Disappearance
Around 2015, Bruce left Gotham City for unknown reasons, also leaving behind his identity as Batman

Bruce's cousin, Kate Kane, was left in charge of his properties in Gotham.

Legacy
Batman's existance was never fully confirmed to the public, making him a myth. While most individuals (including Barry Allen) believed that he did exist, other individual (like Oliver Queen) believed that Batman was never real, but in fact an urban legend created by the GCPD in order to scare the criminals of the city.

Personality
According to Luke Fox; Bruce is a very caring and selfless individual, as he not only cares about protecting the citizens of Gotham from criminals, but also members of his family as well, Bruce has a very close relationship with his cousin, Kate Kane, as he provided her with emotional support; following the death of her mother and the apparent death of her sister, Beth Kane respectively.

Abilities

 * Peak of human physical condition: As a vigilante, Bruce is in top physical condition.
 * Skilled gadgeteering: Bruce is a skilled user of gadgets, carrying tons of those to fight crime.
 * Intimidation: As a vigilante, Bruce is as just as intimidating to criminals as to those he protects from them.

Former equipment
"Guy had the best tech on the planet."

- Kate Kane to Luke Fox


 * Batman suit: Whilst fighting crime in Gotham, Bruce wore a protective, black suit that also hid his identity from his enemies. After his disappearance, he abandoned the suit and it was later redesigned by Luke Fox and utilised by Kate Kane as Batwoman.
 * Grapple gun: As Batman, Bruce uses a length of monofilament wire attached to a spool.

Trivia

 * It has been implied by Luke Fox that Bruce has left Gotham in order to discover what went wrong in the accident, regarding his failure to prevent the death of Gabi Kane and the apparent death of Beth Kane respectively.

Behind the scenes

 * In the DC comics, Bruce Wayne is a vigilante hero known as Batman, the protector of Gotham City, a man dressed like a bat who fights against evil and strikes terror into the hearts of criminals everywhere. He is also a former mentor of Dick Grayson/Nightwing, who is the protector of Blüdhaven. He is also an occasional ally of Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, Barry Allen/Flash, and Clark Kent/Superman, the latter third of whom is his most frequent ally.
 * In the original script for, it was not Bruce Wayne but some other unrelated person's name on it. Stephen Amell himself suggested Bruce Wayne's name on the script after receiving approval from Warner Bros. Entertainment CEO Kevin Tsujihara, Greg Berlanti and DC Entertainment executive Geoff Johns.