Later, he is seen perched atop a stone gargoyle, intently watching Tommy as the helicopter he was in was shot down by a missile. He secretly invaded the asylum, attacking and presumably killing Dr. Crane suspecting that he had truly died, although they had found that he was holding a ticket to 'The Mark of Zorro' that had not been seen in his cell before his 'death'.Įscaping Arkham, Bruce donned the costume and alias of Batman the Silenced and embarked on a campaign to reclaim what had been taken from him. After years of training with these inmates, Bruce initiated his plan to escape, having Napier to fake his death with the drugs and autopsy scars needed, with Tommy and Dr. Jonathan Crane he found out the truth about his parents' deaths with Alfred's help while also learning criminal psychology, disguise, spycraft, unarmed combat, how to kill without leaving a trace or to leave a message, escape artistry, and the art of detection, poison, surveillance, and much more from inmates Bruce received access to from his mole in Arkham, Jack Napier. Bruce spent most his life in Arkham as a test subject of the asylum's head, Dr. As he grew older, Tommy had Bruce transferred to Arkham Asylum while the former took control of Wayne Industries and eventually became a senator of the now-independent city-state of Gotham.

Losing his mind to the madness of grief, Bruce was declared mentally unfit and committed to an asylum.

As a result of Thomas Elliot and his family witnessing the murders, instead of growing up under Alfred's watch, Bruce was raised by the Elliots. On an unspecified version of Earth in the Dark Multiverse, the Wayne and Elliot families walked into Crime Alley after they watched 'The Mark of Zorro', where Thomas and Martha Wayne were shot and killed by Joe Chill.

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