The Batwing suit is a protective suit of armor that Luke Fox wears when operating as Batwing. It was created by Luke's father, the late Lucius Fox.
History[]
During Luke Fox's childhood, he drew pictures of what a black Batman might look like; to which his father, Lucius Fox began building a suit for him based on the drawings. While developing the suit, Lucius proactively added an A.I. with his voice, personality, and memories into the suit, in the event that he would not be there to help Luke in person during the latter's future vigilante escapades.
Luke eventually uncovered the suit when Gotham City underwent a blackout; due to Black Mask. He used the suit to confront a Venom-enhanced Russell Tavaroff; saving Mary Hamilton in the process. Eventually, after the Bat Team defeated Black Mask and saved Kate Kane, Luke decided to continue using the suit as a vigilante.[1]
After Luke was done talking with his father's A.I., he realized that he was not ready to wear the suit yet. However, less than a day later, he suited up yet again in an attempt to save Mary from becoming "Poison Ivy". Mary removed Lucius' A.I. hardware from the suit, breaking Luke's arm in the process. This caused him to once again take a hiatus from the suit.[2]
Capabilities[]
Functions[]
- Identity concealment: Luke Fox uses a black bat-like mask to conceal his identity. Unlike Batwoman, Luke's entire face is covered, providing even more concealment.
- Advanced strength: The suit can amplify Luke's strength to super-human levels, allowing him to overpower normal humans and most meta-humans, such as the Venom-empowered Russell Tavaroff.[1]
- Advanced durability: The suit can withstand falls from medium heights and powerful blows from meta-humans who possesses superhuman levels of strength, such as Russell.[1]
- Advanced computer system: Inside the suit is a complete heads-up-display available to the user, equipped with a targeting system and automatic diagnostics as well as damage reports. It allows the user to pinpoint and communicate with technology such as WayneTech satellites, as well as other WayneTech gadgets.[3]
- Flight: The suit grants its user the capability of flight.[1] This also automatically breaks the fall of the user, allowing them to land on their feet from a great height.
Former functions[]
- Safe-mode: The safe-mode of the Batwing suit causes the entire suit to completely shut down instantly the moment the wearer is experiencing a major physical attack. Due to the disadvantage of losing the suit's functions in safe-mode, it was promptly shut off.[4]
- Lucius Fox A.I.: Included in the suit is an A.I. of Lucius Fox, the creator of the suit and the father of it's main wearer. The A.I was made with the purpose of assisting the user of the suit, with it also having access to information and files in the Batcave's computers. It is also somehow connected to the safe-mode. Shutting off the suit will cause the A.I. to be deactivated as well.[4]
Former weaknesses[]
- Safe-mode: Although the safe-mode of the Batwing suit causes the entire suit to completely shut down and lock up instantly the moment the wearer is experiencing a major physical attack, it cannot tell the difference between physical pain and psychological pain. Every time Luke experiences this psychological pain, the entire suit completely shuts down.[4]
Known users[]
Appearances[]
Batwoman[]
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Gallery[]
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Promotional images[]
Batwoman[]
Season 2[]
Behind the scenes[]
- In the DC comics, the Batwing suit was used by both David Zavimbe and Luke Fox.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Power"
- ↑ "How Does Your Garden Grow?"
- ↑ "Mad As a Hatter"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Loose Tooth"