What if bruce wayne died

They might hit the button when it starts. Jim Gordon : When what starts? Batman : War. Alfred : If you're seriously considering going back out there, you should hear the rumors surrounding Bane. Bruce Wayne : I'm all ears.

Alfred : There is a prison in a more ancient part of the world, a pit where men are thrown to suffer and die. But sometimes a man rises from the darkness. Sometimes the pit sends something back. Bruce Wayne : Bane. Alfred : Right. Born and raised in hell on earth. Bruce Wayne : Born in prison? Alfred : No one knows why or how he escaped, but they do know that once he did he was trained by Ra's Al Ghul, your mentor.

Alfred : And then he was excommunicated. And any man who is too extreme for Ra's Al Ghul is not to be trifled with. Gangbanger : [Two street thugs catch a little boy that has stolen an apple from them] You steal from us, you little bastard? Selina Kyle : You boys know you can't come into my neighborhood without asking politely.

The boy watches as she knocks both thugs out]. Selina Kyle : Never steal anything from someone you can't outrun, kid.

Bruce Wayne : Pretty generous, for a thief. Selina Kyle : I thought they killed you. Bruce Wayne : Not yet.

Selina Kyle : If you're expecting an apology Bruce Wayne : It wouldn't suit you. Jim Gordon : [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone. Bruce Wayne : The Batman wasn't needed anymore.

We won. Jim Gordon : Based on a lie. Now this evil The Batman has to come back. Bruce Wayne : What if he doesn't exist any more? Jim Gordon : He must Catwoman : He's behind you. Mercenary : Who? Batman : Me. Bruce Wayne : Mind if I cut in? Bruce Wayne : Oh, you don't seem happy to see me. Selina Kyle : You were supposed to be a shut-in. Bruce Wayne : I felt like some fresh air.

Selina Kyle : Why didn't you call the police? Bruce Wayne : I have a powerful friend who deals with things like this.

Bruce Wayne : That's a brazen costume for a cat burglar. Selina Kyle : Yeah? Who are you pretending to be? Bruce Wayne : Bruce Wayne, eccentric billionaire. Who's your date? Selina Kyle : His wife's in Ibiza. She left her diamonds behind, though. Worried they might get stolen. Bruce Wayne : Mm. It's pronounced Ibeetha. You wouldn't want any of these folks realizing you're a crook, not a social climber. Selina Kyle : You think I care what anyone in this room thinks of me?

Bruce Wayne : I doubt you care what anyone in any room thinks of you. Selina Kyle : Don't condescend, Mr. You don't know a thing about me. Which means that either you're saving for retirement, or you're in deep with the wrong people. Selina Kyle : You don't get to judge me just because you were born in the master bedroom of Wayne Manor.

Selina Kyle : I started out doing what I had to. Once you've done what you had to, they'll never let you do what you want to. Bruce Wayne : Start fresh. Selina Kyle : There's no fresh start in today's world. Any twelve-year-old with a cell phone could find out what you did. Everything we do is collated and quantified. Everything sticks. Bruce Wayne : Is that how you justify stealing? Selina Kyle : I take what I need to from those who have more than enough.

I don't stand on the shoulders of people with less. Bruce Wayne : Robin Hood? Selina Kyle : I think I do more to help someone than most of the people in this room. Than you. Bruce Wayne : I think maybe you're assuming a little too much.

Selina Kyle : Maybe you're being unrealistic about what's really in your pants other than your wallet. Bruce Wayne : Ouch. Bruce Wayne : [to Lucius Fox] I need you to get me back in the game.

Bane : So, you came back to die with your city. Batman : No. I came back to stop you. Catwoman : [holding a gun to Daggett's head as Bane's henchmen approach her] Stay back! Catwoman : I'm not bluffing! Batman : They know! They just don't care. Catwoman : [Batman kicks a gun out of Catwoman's hand] You've gotta be kidding me! Batman : No guns, no killing.

Catwoman : Where's the fun in that? Alfred Pennyworth : Is it really painful? But Dick was a cool Batman. I would like to see a story where Tim, Dick, and Jason all 3 take don the cowl and have to fight and figure out who's most deserving.

He was the choice when Bruce was travelling through time and he will be the right answer if Bruce dies permenatly. Or if he doesn't want then Tim.

Jason Todd became a bad guy the red hood. I think many great points have been made. I feel if it happened right this second, then Tim Drake would fit the role of Batman best. He wouldn't be the same Batman though. They could look at it as he needs to be bailed out of bad situations. They may no longer fear Batman on his own, and that would be a hard thing to always battle both physically and mentally, and it even undermines the idea of Batman as a whole.

I think Damian would be an interesting Batman. Once he matures he could fit the role. Physically and mentally he may be the best choice for it because he would have the largest ability to produce fear in those he fights. I feel like Bruce's death could always be a motivating factor in his fight against crime, and that one day he could come to terms with it just as Bruce does with his parents death in Tomasi's Batman and Robin run.

It'd be coming full-circle or at least hearkening back to those stories. People Say Jason would never touch the,Which is true but post 52 id say its for a different reason he wouldnt take it if you offered it to him.

I see Damian really maturing in the future and realizes he's not Batman but he can carry on his legacy in his own way and become sort of like Dick Grayson and makes a new persona.

It's Tim or Dick. I just don't see Damian or Jason ever becoming a great detective to the level of Bruce, not to the extent that Tim or Dick do. Also, just a thought, I just heard a theory that fits with why it is so hard to choose, each of the robins represents a different aspect of Bruce, Dick represents the agility and lighthearted aspect of him, Jason is the brute force and rage, Tim is his intellect and timidness, and Damien represents the assassin skill and pride.

That why nobody can agree on who will become Batman, they are all essentially a part of Bruce but not the whole. Every person's perception of what aspect best represents Batman influences who they choose.

Also, to note pre new 52 Stephanie brown could conceivably be the adaptive aspect of Bruce with her being the flighty part of him that never wants to settle down hence why Bruce Wayne can't hold onto a girlfriend, Robin, or costume for very long but first, Brown is retconned out of the red green and yellow costume for the new Second, this thread is for robins that can become batman, and I'm gonna take a shot in the dark that most agree with me that Stephanie Brown will probably never become batman for various reasons.

Possible Dick, Damian, Tim, or Cassandra But It will just end with Terry being the New Batman. Terry McGinnis. He has the drive, he constantly improves his skill, he doesn't join the Justice League for the same basic reason Bruce never became a full-timer. Not only is he one of his biological sons but he was raised kinda by Bruce for a while as he mentored him. And most importantly he has the heart of Batman without having all of his darkness.

Please Log In to post. A recent teaser image shared by the team behind Gotham Knights appears to shed some light on what, exactly, happened to Bruce Wayne as well as hinting at the potential challenges faced by his surviving family. A post recently uploaded to the official Gotham Knights Twitter account appears to show a heavily damaged copy of the Gotham Gazette reporting on Bruce Wayne's death.

While the original game reveal trailer made it clear that Bruce Wayne seems to have died in an explosion, the teaser image goes a step further by reporting that he died in a "freak accident. Apparently, the explosion collapsed Wayne Manor, killing Bruce Wayne. Before he died, destroyed the Batcave and everything it contained, triggering an automatic message that explained the situation to the motley collection of heroes, antiheroes, and occasional villains known as the Batfamily.

Continuing to keep a close eye on Victor Fries' projects, when Bruce learned of the scientists dementia and obsession with Nora Fields , he terminated the man. After Pamela Isley presented her idea of using pheromones to sway people to Wayne Enterprises' products, a disgusted Bruce terminated her on the spot. On Valentines Day, Batman met the leather clad burglar, the Catwoman , for the first time.

With some quick research, Batman quickly identified her as Selina Kyle. While out in Gotham, Bruce watched as bullies beat up a poor kid. Approached by journalist Clark Kent , Bruce was questioned on three murders that occured in the Metropolis branch of Wayne Enterprises. Heading to Metropolis to investigate Ralph Mangubat , Batman was forced to deal with experimental WayneTech robotics and a possessed Catwoman until the Superman showed up.

While trying to hold off Superman, though, Batman was teleported to Earth 2 where he met his counterpart and learned of his alternate history. Learning of Kaiyo the Trickster and the Chaos Shard , Batman and Superman found themselves disagreeing with their Earth 2 counterparts. Although they failed to stop the destruction of the Chaos Shard, Batman and Superman managed to convince Kaiyo to retreat to Earth 0.

Taking Batman and Superman back to Earth 0, Kaiyo also wiped their memories of their adventure on Earth 2. Heading back to watch the poor kid stand up to his bullies, Bruce again chatted with Clark Kent, none the wiser about Kaiyo's manipulations. A few days later, Batman found himself chasing a member of the Parademon Army on the rooftops of Gotham.

When Green Lantern caled the Flash to help them hold off the Kryptonian, the heroes soon found themselves joined by Wonder Woman and holding off the Parademon Army. The ragtag team of heroes was then joined by Aquaman and Cyborg , with all of them being forced to defend Earth from Darkseid. Bringing Superman back to Earth, Batman and the rest of the heroes managed to defeat Darkseid in his Parademon Invasion of Earth and shunt the evil God back to Apokolips.

Later, the heroes were officially hailed as such in a press conference led by the president of the United States of America. After recovering a Mother Box from the battlefield, Batman continued Dick's training. Finding Tony Zucco's acid, Batman was finally able to link him to the murder of Dick's parents but unfortunately, Zucco ended up presumed dead by this time. After defeating the Monk in Gotham, Batman joined up with the rest of the heroes and the Martian Manhunter to defeat Starro the Conquerer.

After defeating Starro, Batman and the rest of the heroes began to operate under the monikor of the Justice League. Managing to succesfully shut down the Roman's Mob operations in Gotham, Batman inadvertently allowed Penguin to win the gang war.

Batman was unable to apprehend Falcone, though, and the Roman fled to Hong Kong. In order to dispel rumors that Bruce Wayne was Batman, Bruce orchestrated several ruses to the public to dissociate his two identities. Bruce's former employee Pamela Isley returned as the eco-terrorist Poison Ivy.

Batman was only able to stop Poison Ivy through sheer willpower alone, barely able to withstand her pheromone powers. Realizing that despite his termination, Victor Fries had continued to toil away at WayneTech, Bruce showed up personally to stop the mad scientist from reanimating Nora Fields. However, in the accient that ensued, Fries' metagene activated and he dubbed himself the supervillain Mr. Realizing Freeze to be his most powerful enemy yet, Batman was only able to defeat the manic madman by running him over with the Batmobile.

Batman's next target ended up being none other than Penguin, who due to the departure of Falcone had become Gotham's top gangster. After a brutal murder in a jewlery heist, Batman immediately suspected the notorious Cobblepot. Although the arrest only lasted one day, Batman's war with the Penguin prompted him to march straight into the Iceberg Lounge to stop the gangster.

Once again, though, Batman was unable to make sure that Oswald Cobblepot stayed in prison for too long but did prove that nobody in Gotham was untouchable anymore. After the arrest of Cobblepot, Batman was faced with fighting another monstrous metahuman: the former movie star Clayface.

After publicly announcing the rebuilding of poor neighborhoods in the Narrows , Bruce was personally approached by Peter Duggio to help deal with the gangs. However, due to the audience, Bruce was unable to hear all of Duggie's pleas. Shortly after defeating Killer Croc , Batman found the body of Duggie in a swamp and immediately suspected the Penguin of the murder.

After determining Penguin's innocence, Batman was informed by Duggio's cousin, Daryl Gutierrez , that Peter went missing after meeting with Mr. Batman then fought a Talon , but dismissed it as somebody playing on the legend of the Court of Owls. Two small time gangsters, Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum caught Batman's attention and he easily defeated them.

With his cases growing more and more bizarre, Batman started recording these in the Black Casebook. After a disagreement with Robin over the metahuman villain Tusk , Batman temporarily fired his partner but after Robin helped stop Tusk, gladly rehired him. Introducing Robin to Gordon, Batman's interactions with the commissioner would be tense whenever Robin was around.

Unable to prevent Scarecrow from leaving, Batman calmed down a self-deprecating Robin. Putting on their suits, the two ascended to Wayne Manor where Alfred was hosting a police fundraiser gala. Learning Dossey had bought his wife in Prague, a suspicious Batman soon discovered Maxwell and his wife Alicia Dossey to have been murdered in their apartment by David Cain.

Briefly questioning as to whether he was raising Dick or using him as a soldier, Bruce put his worries aside and headed off to Prague. Setting up a makeshift Batcave in some catacombs, Batman and Robin fought some of scarecrows thugs.

Attending a black and white gala, Bruce received an invitation to meet with a woman known only as Mother. Having Dick scout for Scarecrow at a ballet, Bruce secretly met with Mother and pretended to be seeking a wife.

After sending Dick to deal with Scarecrow's henchmen, Bruce had another meeting with Mother who revealed her knowledge of his activites as Batman. After being attacked by David Cain, Bruce was offered a better Robin by Mother but after being injured, was forced to escape. After having an argument with Dick, Bruce suited up as Batman, and met with Mother at the Nursery where he accepted her offer.

Finding Scarecrow's factory on the outskirts of Prague, Batman decided not to attack until he could use Crane against Mother. After Scarecrow retreated to Cairo, Batman was also invited to the city by Mother, told that if he killed a child's parents he could have his perfect Robin. Arriving in Cairo, Batman and Robin immediately defeated Scarecrow and Batman ordered Robin to take the supervillain back to Gotham and have Harvey Dent incarcerate him. Remaining in Cairo, Batman used rubber bullets to stage an execution of a child's parents to try and fool Mother.

After his ruse was discovered, Batman fought back against Mother and David Cain but was unable to stop the murder of Miranda Row. Thinking Mother to have commit suicide via a cyanide pill, Batman fled the Cairo police and later snuck into a morgue to affirm that Mother was indeed dead.

Returning to Gotham City, Batman and Robin proceeded to have a number of adventures including fighting Deadshot and the Penguin. After Erin McKillen escaped from prison, Batman tried to stop her but was unable to catch her. Unable to get Mother off of his mind, Batman arranged for Superman to watch over Robin as he linked Mother to the former state of Gardevia. Learning of Mother's origin from Ms. Marchenko , a satisfied Batman returned to Gotham.

Thinking to take in Miranda Row's children, Batman decided against it and instead tried to strongarm her criminal husband Marcus Row into legitimacy. With Mother's case wrapped up, Batman deleted a flash drive containing information on her, although he did archive one part of the file. Batman's next nemesis ended up being Hugo Strange , a famous psychiatrist and former friend of Dr. Although Batman stopped Strange, he was unable to keep him incarcerated.

Shortly afterwards, Batman was forced to apprehend Paul Dekker , another friend of Dr. After officially introducing Robin to Superman, Batman teamed up with the Man of Steel to defeat a recently escaped Blockbuster. Building a hypothalmus inhibitor, Batman and Robin managed to use it to use it to significantly weaken Blockbuster enough for Superman to stop him.

Batman then introduced Robin to the Green Lantern. Learning Lew Moxon to be responsible for high profile murders, Batman and Robin pursued the old time gangster. However, Batman was unable to apprehend Moxon as the murderer was run down by a car during the encounter.

Batman and Robin's next target was the Cluemaster and after cracking the Cluemaster's Code, the Dynamic Duo fought the villain at the Sprang Bridge but were unable to apprehend him. Eventually figuring out the Cluemaster's secret identity, Batman allowed the villain to get away with it when learning of the Cluemaster's daughter, Stephanie Brown. Afterwards, though, the League ended up having a disagreement and then a fight with the Martian Manhunter that ended their alliance.

Meeting with the League at a warehouse, Batman discussed with Superman the Justice League's responsibility in dealing with international situations. After Superman's public identity of Clark Kent was assumed killed by Nimrod the Hunter , Batman told him to find a way to return to the identity. Not long after, Batman was introduced to Superman's ally Jimmy Olsen.

Batman and the rest of the Justice League soon founded a headquarters known as the Hall of Justice. On patrol with Robin, Batman was encountered by Catwoman who noted how happy he seemed. Soon after, Batman saved his cousin Kate Rebecca Kane from a mugger. Batman and Superman later teamed up to fight the Supremacists , with Batman having to save Jimmy Olsen.

Batman and Robin then stopped the Joker and several other supervillains from killing genius Carter Nichols. After helping the Justice League easily defeat the Key , Batman apprehended the Ventriloquist and took up the identity of Matches Malone to infiltrate the Gotham underworld. Despite falling in love with Kathy, Bruce's heart was broken when Kathy decided to retire as Bat-Woman and leave the Family. Batman later learned that Kathy got involved with the League of Assassins and was killed by Bronze Tiger.

Billionaire John Mayhew attempted to recruit Batman and Robin into his Club of Heroes , but once assembled, the venture failed and the Club disbanded in half an hour. During an encounter with agents of Spyral , Batman was sprayed with a strange gas and lucidly dreamed that he was on a planet called Zurr-en-Arrh. Batman underwent sensory deprivation and psychoanalysis tests led by Simon Hurt , who used Zurr-en-Arrh as the trigger for a post-hypnotic suggestion planted in Bruce's brain.

After a lengthy deprivation test, Batman dreamed that Robin had been killed by an alien. Afterward, due to hypnosis, Batman forgot even meeting Hurt and went on to resume his normal life.

Although groggy, when pitted against three imposter Batmen, Batman still managed to easily defeat them. Managing to retain some memory of the fight, Batman wrote it off as a hallucination in the Black Casebook. Bruce and Dick soon started operating out of a penthouse atop Wayne Tower with the Bat-Bunker below the building. The Family did not stop using the Batcave, though, and soon returned to using it much more over the Bat-Bunker.

After an escaped Joker poisoned the Wayon Housing Projects , the Family teamed up to bring the clown prince of crime to justice. Batman then took down and apprehended the Joker's insane sidekick, former Arkham psychiatrist Harley Quinn. Freeze, Poison Ivy, the Riddler and the Penguin. Despite the odds being stacked against them, the Dynamic Duo emerged victorious. Batman and Robin later dealt with the Reaper.

After the Justice League defeated the Royal Flush Gang , they moved out of the Hall of Justice and started operating in a satellite called the Watchtower. Bringing Robin with him to the Watchtower, Batman was called with the rest of the League to a mission to aid Superman deal with threats from the Bleed. After saving the day, Batman told Robin that one day he would take over the Justice League.

After stopping Dr. Phosphorous , Batman joined up with the Justice League and ended up being too busy to help Robin and some of his fellow teenage superheroes fight Mr. Ultimately, this started to put a strain on Batman's relationship with Robin and he subsequently refused to let Dick aid him on a case involving Catwoman.

After the battle, the Family failed to capture the Joker prompting Batman and Robin to head after the supervillain. In the subsequent entanglement with the clown prince, an injured Robin realized that he had been driven away by Batman and quit. With Dick abandoning the title of Robin, Bruce put the uniform on display in the Batcave and watched as Dick became Nightwing.

Continuing his pursuit of the Joker, Batman fought Willis Todd , one of the clown prince's lead henchmen. Willis' son, Jason Todd , ended up in the care of Leslie Thompkins but when he tried to steal from her, Batman caught him red handed. Convinced by Leslie to be lenient on Jason, Bruce took the boy in as his legal ward and revealed to him his operations as Batman while also offering Jason the position of Robin.

Starting an intensive six month training course with Jason, Bruce began to mold the boy into an incredible athlete. Bruce also made sure to include education and schooling as a part of Jason's training. Batman also watched Nightwing patrol with Batgirl from afar but could not bring himself to fix the fractured Family.

Batman then had an encounter with Deathstroke the Terminator and defeated the Spellbinder. After going out on patrol with Batgirl, Batman watched her mess up and retire as a vigilante, weakening the Family by a tremendous degree.

With Catwoman, Batman stopped the Film Freak. Batman then introduced Robin to Superman and together they defeated an alien threat, with Jason even saving Superman's life. After Jason expressed mistrust with Superman, Bruce revealed that he and Jason had not gained each other's full trust. Batman then easily defeated the "master" assassin KGBeast. Trying to repair his relationship with Jason, Bruce decided to skip patrol one day to watch a movie with his sick ward.

Batman also founded the strike team known as the Outsiders , but his involvement in their operations was shortlived.

After another battle with Black Mask, Batman fought and defeated the Boss. After an adventure with Booster Gold , Batman ended up admiring the man from the future.

Batman was then kidnapped and held prisoner by Deacon Joseph Blackfire , but managed to break free in time to watch Blackfire be killed by his followers. After the Joker stole the psychic siphon and teamed up with Catwoman, Clayface, Mr. Freeze, Penguin and Two-Face, it was the team of Batman and Robin that stopped the heinous partnership. Batman and Robin's partnership ended up strained when Robin decided to take down Two-Face by himself.

On a mission in Santa Prisca , Robin screwed up so badly that Batman refused to speak with him for a week. As Robin started to get overly angry and use excessive violence, Batman tried to gain control of his partner but was unable to do anything. Bruce's attempts at connecting with Jason also failed miserably and the two ended up arguing instead. With Jason's arrogance and unwillingness to follow orders having had reached an apex, Batman temporarily suspended him from night patrols and relegated him to monitor watch.

After Jason went missing, Batman realized that he had gone off to save his mother, Catherine Todd , from the Joker. Finding Jason's location, Batman arrived seconds too late to stop Robin from dying. Only days after, the Joker paralyzed Barbara and tortured Commissioner Gordon, further shattering the Family despite Batman finally bringing his arch-enemy to justice.

Visiting Barbara in the hospital, Batman held her hand in a solemn silence for the entire night, contemplating his future. After being visited by Nightwing in the Batcave, Bruce, who had begun to rot in purgatory, rejected his original partner. Losing control over his actions, Batman began to wound, injure, maim and disfigure criminals to an excessively violent degree. Although he tried to push Nightwing away once more, Batman was surprised when Dick refused to let him go.

Alerted by Alfred to the activities of a boy named Tim , Bruce was impressed by the young boy's intelligence. Due to Jason's recent death, Bruce refused to listen to Alfred's suggestions of training Tim as Robin.

Nonetheless, Batman was impressed by Tim's tenacity. After Tim made enemies with the Penguin, Batman arrived to save his family from the death squad sent by Cobblepot. With Tim's parents forced to go into witness protection, Tim became Bruce's legal ward and Batman's newest partner: Red Robin.

Unlike Jason or Dick, Bruce allowed Tim to join him on patrol right away but still made him complete a training course. Together, Red Robin, Nightwing and Batman managed to bring Two-Face to justice and the Family finally began to recover from its tragedies. Placing an emphasis on detective work while training Tim, Bruce taught him how to use several cipher codes to crack encrypted information.

After stopping Victor Zsasz , Batman learned that the villain was manipulating the Arkham system and teamed up with Nightwing to stop him once again. While continuing Red Robin's training, Batman also had to deal with the Electrocutioner. After Superman died fighting Doomsday , Batman aided the rest of the Justice League mourned for their friend.

After Superman's resurrection, Batman and the rest of the League built a cell capable of holding Doomsday, despite it being trapped in the Phantom Zone. Batman then faced off against his most powerful and intelligent villain to date: Bane.

Using Venom , Bane managed to defeat Batman and inflict severe spinal injury. Spending nearly four months rehabbing his spine, Batman reached out to Nightwing and Red Robin, finally repairing the bond of the Family.

Fully healed, Batman bounced back, defeated Bane and forced his rival out of the city. In order to defeat the League of Assassins, the Family went on a global battle in which they ultimatley ended up victorious. When Hal Jordan went insane and evil due to Parallax , Batman was present alongside John Stewart to watch Jordan reclaim his heroism and defeat the parasite.

However, Jordan's time with Parallax prompted Batman to start assembling emergency contingency items to use against his fellow superheroes in case they too went evil. Batman also started assembling several different Batsuits to use against the members of the Justice League, specifically Superman. Batman also began to create several Bat-Bunkers all across Gotham and more Batcaves across the country, with weapons caches giving him access to aid almost anywhere in the city.

When a large earthquake struck Gotham, despite the city not facing severe damage, the Family became occupied fighting off looters taking advantage of the situation. Batman fought supervillains Philo Zeiss and the Mortician while also meeting the superhero Orpheus.

After years of flirting, Batman finally gave in to Catwoman's advances and began a sexual relationship with her, much to the dismay of the Family. Batman was then personally attacked by a new supervillain, Hush and barely managed to come out victorious. Upon beating Hush, Batman was faced with a sobering revelation, that the villain was none other than his childhood friend Thomas Elliot. While fighting Clayface, Batman received aid from Superman who told him of a dead alien that crashed on the moon.

While Superman headed off to the Scorch Space , Batman fought against the dead alien's father and Lobo. As Superman tossed Lobo into deep space, Batman manipulated the dead alien's father into getting arrested by the Green Lantern Corps. Launching the Human Kinematic Program , Batman provided the Family with the means to surveil Gotham how they pleased before leaving to undertake a Thogal Ritual. The first stage of the ritual was a vision quest, taking place in a desert and keeping Bruce there for a few days.

The second stage, called Yangti, took Bruce to Nanda Parbat and allowed him to remember the Zurr-en-Arrh trigger word although he still could not remember Simon Hurt. Fearing the trigger word would allow him enemies to take control of him, Batman created a backup persona which would activate when his own mind failed.

While undergoing the ritual, Batman had a horrifying vision of the dystopian Future and became determined to stop it from ever coming true. Revealing to Batman their son, Damian Wayne , Talia gave Bruce an opportunity to bond with his child. Bruce was shocked, however, that Damian was a killer who injured Alfred, murdered the Spook and nearly killed Red Robin.

With Damian ending up back in the care of Talia, Batman took his mind off things by teaming up with Jim Corrigan to stop a supernatural threat. Attending a high society gala at Arkham Asylum, Bruce learned firsthand from the drunken ramblings of Byron Meredith the sadistic treatments used by the doctors under Jeremiah Arkham. Bruce also began to date Jezebel Jet , a high profile model, but refused to reveal to her his identity as Batman.

Attacked by Josef Muller , a Batman imposter, Batman easily won but was rushed and defeated by Branca , another Batman imposter. Consulting the Black Casebook, Batman realized his first fight with three imposters was real and not a hallucination.

Although he survived the attack, Batman had no idea how to fight the Black Glove and returned to Gotham. Just as he made it back, though, the Family was spurred into another conflict with Ra's al Ghul and were forced to team up with the Seven Men of Death to stop the Sensei.

As the Black Glove began to make waves in the Gotham underworld, Batman was attacked by Michael Lane , his third imposter, and finally remembered the name Simon Hurt. However, his backup persona, the Batman of Zurr-en-Arrh allowed him to eventually regain enough of himself.

Shaking off the backup persona, Batman and the Family teamed up to finally defeat the Black Glove. In the aftermath, Bruce was once again given custody of Damian and began to make serious attempts to nurture his son. Teaching him how to operate in Gotham, the two fought Mr.

Freeze and Killer Croc together. Just as the two began to bond, though, Batman was called on a Justice League mission where Cyborg's Boom Tube malfunctioned. Sent to Apokolips, Batman was captured by Darkseid and a false cloned corpse was sent back to Earth. Hit by the Omega Sanction and bonded to the Hyper-Adapter , Bruce was sent back in time and slowly began to make his way back to the present.

First arriving in prehistory, Bruce time jumped to a Puritanical Gotham and eventually time jumped to the era of piracy. After continually evading the Hyper-Adapter and clawing his way to the s and then , Bruce manipulated Simon Hurt and Carter Nichols to get to the Vanishing Point. From there he finally returned to his time, where the Justice League helped him defeat the Hyper-Adapter, allowing him to return to Gotham just in time. After a short vacation, Bruce revealed to the Family about the Thogal Ritual, the hellish Future, his time travels.

Maintaining that the Family had to do anything necessary to stop the Future, Bruce also returned to his head position at Wayne Enterprises. In a private board meeting, Bruce announced his plans to unveil a global network of crime fighting agents called Batman Incorporated with himself and Lucius Fox in charge of the operation. Having dinner with Damian and Alfred at Wayne Manor, Bruce desperately attempted to connect with his son like Dick did but found it difficult to do so.

Learning of Leviathan , a decades old criminal group constantly at odds with Leviathan, Bruce suited up as Batman and Damian did so as Robin to investigate. Heading to Yemen, the two met the metahumans Traktir and Spidra. While Batman tried to reason with Traktir, Damian ended up heading elsewhere, disobeying Bruce's orders. Convincing Traktir and Spidra to join Batman Incorporated, upon returning to the Batcave, Bruce found working with Damian as his Robin to absurdly difficult.

Reaching out to the Outsiders, Batman reincorporated his strike team to be a part of Batman Incorporated.

After acquiring a giant photonic crystal made out of meta-materials, Bruce gave it to Lucius Fox for study. While working in the Batcave, Batman was met by the Flash who revealed to him his adventures in Flashpoint and of the Flashpoint Timeline. With Damian left as his only Robin, Batman and son tried to stop a robbery at Gotham State University but were once again unable to function together. Heading to France to try and recruit the Musketeer , Batman ende dup instead making the Nightrunner Batman Incorporated's newest agent.