Batman

Batman
Biographical Information
Place of birth	Gotham City
Nationality	American
Rank	Superhero Criminal detective
Relatives	Thomas Wayne (father) Martha Wayne (mother) Damien Wayne (son)
Status	Alive
Physical Description
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Height	6ft 2 (188 cm)
Hair color	Black
Eye color	Blue
Other Information
Notable facts	Defeated the See-through Slasher
Portrayed by	Clark Bartram (Batman: Dead End)

Batman, a vigilante superhero based in Gotham City, also known as the Dark Knight, is the secret identity of Bruce Wayne, a billionaire industrialist and philanthropist who was driven to fight crime after witnessing the murder of his parents in a street mugging as a young child. To this end, Wayne modelled himself after a bat due to his own childhood fear of the creatures, a fear he wished to instil into the criminals he fought.

Batman would encounter the Yautja and Xenomorph species on numerous occasions. His first encounter was with a ruthless hunter dubbed by Gotham's press as the "See-through Slasher", which he would eventually defeat. He would go on to have subsequent run-ins with both species under differing circumstances.

Biography

Early Life

As a young boy, Bruce Wayne witnessed his parents' murder at the hands of petty criminal Joe Chill in a botched mugging. Traumatised by the event, Wayne vowed to become a vigilante and battle criminals himself so that others may be spared his fate. As he grew into adulthood, Wayne underwent intense physical and mental conditioning to become the Batman, establishing a base of operations beneath his mansion and using his massive personal wealth to equip himself with an array of advanced technologies to help him wage his one-man war on crime.

Yautja encounters

Killings in Gotham

"I said, what the hell are you playing at?"
"I'm not sure...But I think I'm starting to understand the rules."

―Commissionar James Gordon and Batman (from Batman versus Predator)

Batman with Gordon as the Predator watches from afar.

Amidst a local war between two mob bosses, Alex Yeager and Leo Brodin, who are sanctioning boxing matches against each other, the violent murder of Yeager's champion, Marcus King, saw Batman arrive at the scene and investigate the murder, alongside Commissioner James Gordon. Batman suspected that the murder was a revenge-hit from Brodin, and subsequently visited Brodin's boxing gym. Batman confronted and antagonized Brodin, putting down his cronies, but soon realized that he was not the culprit.

Batman's first encounter with the Predator.

Subsequent murders at the gym suddenly forced Batman to return there, and he was met with the aftermath of a gruesome massacre, with only an elderly, blind boxing trainer left alive. The trainer described that after brutally slaughtering the boxers there, the killer approached him and mimicked "open season" in Batman's voice, before leaving. The trainer suddenly has a hole blown through him with an energy blast, and Batman realized that the killer was following some twisted code of honor, only picking off targets deemed worth killing.

The killer struck again at Raymond Squire's 'Squire Center' whilst Yeager and Brodin were discussing matters. Just as Batman came face-to-face with the assailant, a monstrous alien creature, Brodin pulled out a Double-Barreled Shotgun and blasted the killer out of the building window.

Duel with the Predator

"Our killer. I don't believe it's of this world. I think it's on safari here in Gotham, choosing only the biggest, most powerful prey to hunt..."

―Bruce Wayne regarding the Slasher (from Batman versus Predator)

Batman is defeated by the Predator.

Bruce is treated for his grievous injuries.

With his butler, Alfred Pennyworth giving him a lead as to where to find the killer, Batman travelled to the 'Pickett's Salvage' junkyard and encountered the creature's lair - a used RV with several corpses and skulls inside. Batman witnessed the Predator return and tend to his wounds. Armed with a gas grenade, he ambushed the Predator, but his opponent was quicker and wounded Batman with a Smart Disc. Bruce managed to briefly incapacitate the hunter after dropping a pile of junk onto it using a junkyard magnet, but was taken aback and badly wounded after it blasted him with a shot from its Plasmacaster. The hunter grabbed Batman and prepared to kill him, but he had vocally overridden the Batmobile to ram into the Predator. Batman managed to escape in the vehicle with his life, but not before the hunter tossed his Combistick at him, impaling Batman in his side.

Critically wounded by his injuries, Bruce was bedridden and tended to by Alfred, all the while the Predator, now referred to as the 'See-through Slasher', began a murderous rampage across Gotham, killing Squire, Brodin and city Mayor Julius Lieberman. Bruce contacted Commissioner Gordon over the phone and informed him of the Slasher's Modus Operandi, killing only powerful prey, before cautiously suggesting that it may be targeting him soon. Though he refuted this, Gordon was suddenly attacked by the Slasher himself, though he managed to escape. Hearing Bruce's voice over the phone, the Slasher angrily challenged Batman once again.

Batman gears up in his exo-suit.

Batman faces off against the Slasher.

Second Duel against the Slasher

"B-but it's madness to face this...This monster alone, friend. Even with a...A sonar unit and reflective body armor you can't hope to --"
"Numbers make no difference to it, Jim -- And too many have died already."

―James Gordon and Batman (from Batman versus Predator)

His wounds still not fully healed, Bruce geared up in a specialized auxiliary suit and arrived atop Gotham City Police Department. Reactivating the Bat-signal as bait, Batman has Gordon's men evacuate the building, before the Slasher arrived. A brutal melee ensued, culminating in Batman kicking the Predator over the building, before ramming him with the bumper of the Batmobile and into Wayne Manor's estates. Eventually, the fight led the two into the Bat-cave, whereby the Slasher was trapped by Batman in a cage made out of titanium steel and subsequently shot with a powerful tranquilizer dart. The creature activated his Self-Destruct Device in retort, but Batman managed to deactivate it after reopening the cage and short-circuiting it with a cable. The brawl continued, and the Slasher feigned unconsciousness from the dart to get the better of Batman, striking him against the Bat-cave's giant penny and causing it to collapse onto him. Just as the Slasher was about to kill Batman, he was interrupted by Alfred, who blasted the Predator with a shot from a Blunderbuss. The Slasher grabbed Alfred, but tossed him aside, the tranquilizer taking its toll on him.

Defeating the Slasher and Encountering the Clan

"B-but what if they return, sir?"
"They won't. Not now that they've met what lives in Gotham."

―Alfred Pennyworth and Bruce (from Batman versus Predator)

Batman defeats the Slasher with a baseball bat.

Bruce is given a trophy for defeating the Slasher.

The Slasher retreated outside Wayne manor, and though Alfred protested, Batman continued his pursuit, grabbing a baseball bat from a mantle. He eventually caught up with the groggy creature, and brutally beat him. With the Slasher finally defeated, a Predator Mother Ship emerged nearby, and Batman was greeted by the Slasher's clan. The Clan Leader gave the Slasher a sword to kill himself with in a ritualistic suicide, preserving his honor in defeat. The sword was then presented to Batman, given to him by the leader as a trophy for his efforts. The ship subsequently took off, leaving Bruce and Alfred alone. Alfred questioned if the creatures were to return, though Bruce assured him that they wouldn't, knowing now what awaited them in Gotham.

Encounter with the Rogue Predator

"This one seems even bigger than the first creature...But somehow younger...More reckless and ruthless, if that's possible...More bloodthirsty."

―'Batman regarding the Bad Blood (from Batman versus Predator II: Bloodmatch)

Batman kicking away Johnny Panetti.

Some time after Bruce's first encounter with the Slasher, a five million dollar hit is placed on Batman by the gangster Manny Terraro, attracting several deadly assassins to Gotham during a heatwave. Batman eavesdrops on a drug-deal between Johnny Panetti, one of Terraro's men, and two of the latter's competitors. After Panetti killed the two, Batman ambushed Panetti and subdued him. Panetti suddenly drew a second handgun, only for his wrist to be nailed to a post by an arrow from the Huntress. Batman disapproved of her violent methods, and dismissed her company.

Later commotion at a pool hall caused Batman to investigate, only to be met with the aftermath of a bloody massacre, two corpses strung up. Batman accused Huntress, who was also at the scene, of committing the murder, but Huntress clarified that something else had attacked her and the gangsters she was eavesdropping on. Suspecting the work of another Predator, Batman suddenly noticed the bat-signal being shined from Gotham's palisades and travelled to the location, unaware that the signal was being shone by a rash, violent rogue Predator, who had violated the unofficial treaty held between the Yautja and Batman and began tracking his target in Gotham.

Batman is defeated and strung up by the Bad Blood.

Batman arrived at the palisades to be met with several decapitated heads hanging from a tree. He is suddenly attacked by the rogue, and after a brawl between the two, Batman is defeated by the Predator, younger and more aggressive than the Slasher. The Predator subsequently hung Batman on the tree, intending to behead him. However, he was saved by the Huntress, who cut him down and briefly distracted the Predator. The two retreated to the Batmobile, but the vehicle was destroyed from a bomb made by the assassin Twitch. As the Predator killed Twitch, Huntress and Batman managed to make it to her car, and they drive off safely. Huntress proposed an alliance to stop the assassins out for Batman's head, alongside their new alien threat, though Batman denied her help and returned to the batcave.

Bruce examining his assassins.

Batman subsequently trained arduously in preparation for the several assassins attracted by the five million dollar hit placed on him, and planned his next approach. Though Alfred suggested using the auxiliary suit, Batman refuted this, citing that he needed a stealthier approach.

Batman subsequently trails Huntress as she followed the Chinese assassin Song Sung to Terraro's quarters, unaware that he himself was being watched by the Predator. Batman subsequently joined the fight between Huntress and Song Sung. Just before Batman confronted Terraro, the Predator crashes through the wall and killed him, before escaping. Batman gave chase, only to encounter the headless corpse of a different Predator, and another one subsequently emerging to collect him. Noting the other Predator as non-hostile, he assumed that the others had been tracking down the rogue Predator.

Final Battle against the Predator

"Stocker -- buying us time...with his life. But the creature is unstoppable. Even dead on its feet... it still stands."

―Batman regarding the Bad Blood (from Batman versus Predator II: Bloodmatch)

After defeating the Demon-Man on the batcycle, Batman arrived at Gotham City Police Department and met with Commissionar Gordon. With the police intending to use the batsignal to lure the Predator to their location, Batman activated his scrambler to reveal the cloaked creature. However, it inadvertently revealed one of the other Predators, causing the police to open fire and the hunter to retreat. The real hunter emerged and attacked the police, before kidnapping Lieutenant Frank Stocker and fleeing retreating.

A lead from Huntress implied that the hunter's ship was located in the palisades, and the two arrived at the location to be met with the decapitated corpse of Batman's final assassin - Scarlatti. The two eventually encounter the Predator's ship, and enter it, only for Stocker to deter them, as he is being used as bait to lure them. The ship suddenly lifted, and the young hunter attacked Batman and Huntress. Batman brawls with the Predator and teamed up with Huntress to briefly overwhelm the renegade, only for it to repel them both with an energy discharge. Before managing to kill Huntress, the Predator is impaled with its Combistick by Stocker, who was subsequently killed.

Batman grapples onto the enforcer's ship to break his and Huntress' fall.

The Predator stumbled onto the ship's control panel, the combistick causing the mainframe to malfunction. The Predator ejects the two from the ship, causing them to fall from the sky. Luckily, the two witness the other Predators' ship arise from the waters. Batman managed to use the ship to break his and Huntress' fall with a well-placed grapple, and they landed in the docks whilst witnessing the ship blast the renegade's ship, killing them both in a suicide attack.

With the Predator's hunt finally over, Batman witnessed the bat-signal shine once again, this time in regards to a series of murders by the Joker. Batman and Huntress part ways, with Batman relieved with his subsequent task being a man-hunt.

Third Predator Encounter

Batman's final encounter with the Predator race would occur years later, at this point aided by his ward Robin. A series of mysterious, violent deaths clue Batman in on another Predator hunt, though he does not discuss this with Robin, who becomes increasingly frustrated by Batman's refusal to talk. Batman confides to Alfred that he does not want Robin to become another Predator mark- it is revealed that two Predators are active in the city rather than just one; an older hunter who recounts past hunts to his younger partner. Gotham's criminal population is unaware of the presence of the hunters, until Mr. Freeze is attacked at his hideout following a successful bank robbery. Though all of his associates are murdered, he is left alive- Robin tracks him down and subdues him, and Freeze reveals the hunters seemed to have not even seen him. Batman correctly deduces through this information that the Predator's vision is based on heat.

After dismissing Robin, he upgrades his exo-suit from his first Predator encounter so that it masks his body heat, then uses Wayne Enterprises as a battleground to fight the hunters, later realizing only one of the two hunters is engaging him. The other attempts to attack Tim at a drive-in movie theater, though he escapes back to Wayne Manor and survives the attack until Batman returns, having subdued the older hunter. Batman convinces the younger hunter take his kin and go home, before revealing to Robin that they were both targeted by a father-son hunting team, seeing the two as father-son warriors.

Batman then joined the rest of the Justice League of America in dealing with enhanced Yautja after they attempted to kill J'onn J'onzz. Batman went with Superman to England to track down a rogue Dominator that created the Yautja. Batman and Superman were able to take the dominator back to the Watchtower. There, they dealt with the remaining meta-predators.

Xenomorph encounters

Batman first encountered the Xenomorph when he had to travel on a "mission of mercy" near the Guatemala and Mexico borderline.  There he found a group of mercenaries. As the group went Into the jungle, the group finds a spaceship  near Mayan ruins and later discovers they have to prevent an Alien outbreak, besides saving themselves.

Following that incident, Batman encountered another that was found in 1927 in Alaska. It had been brought to Gotham city and sealed in a lab by the explorer who had found it. It was awakened by a construction crew. An army doctor named Fortune took charge of this case in Gotham city and hatched a plan to create xenomorph hybrids bred with DNA from Arkham Asylum's most notorious psychopaths. Batman was forced to fight both the soldiers and the xenomorph hybrids.

Xenomorph/Yautja encounter

Batman encountered another Yautja in Gotham at the Kaiser Steel Mill 73. Following his encounter, he was able to to find volcanic dust traces from the Andes Mountain. He traveled there and met up with Superman at Viejo Abuelo. Superman told him about a missing team of volcanologists who were actually T.D.I.. According to Batman, T.D.I.'s mission was destroy all predators visiting Earth. As Superman and Batman ventured forward, they ran into several Xenomorphs and were save by several Yautja. The Yautja held him at spear point and took Batman to their ship.

Personality and Traits

In spite of a brooding and stoic personality when in his alter-ego, Bruce possessed an indomitable will and an immense sense of justice, making it his life goal to protect the city of Gotham from crime at his own physical and phycological cost. Batman would present himself as a figure of fear towards his enemies, and would use violence to deter those from committing crime again. Despite garnering a fearsome reputation amongst Gotham's underworld, Batman arduously upheld a 'no killing' moral code that he vowed never to break, even towards the most depraved of criminals. Many notable supervillains have subsequently arisen to challenge, oppose and torment Batman, namely the Joker, an insane clown-like sociopath who serves as a foil and polar-opposite to Bruce.

When not fighting crime, Bruce Wayne presented himself as a conceited playboy to Gotham's public as a ruse - he was kind and empathetic around those he cared about who were aware of his secret identity.

Batman was a master hand-to-hand combatant and strategist, being experienced in multiple disciplines. He also used his wealth to equip himself with an almost endless number of specialized gadgets that would assist him in his fight against crime, or, in several cases, Predators and Xenomorphs.

Behind the Scenes

Batman was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger for DC Comics. He first appeared in Detective Comics, Vol. 1 #27 in 1939.

Trivia

• The 1989 cinematic adaptation of the character, titled Batman, features many supporting actors and stunt performers from the Alien franchise in its cast, including Carl Chase (Gregor in Alien³), Simon Crane (a prisoner in Alien³), Clive Curtis (stunt performer on Aliens), Christopher Fairbank (Murphy in Alien³), Leon Herbert (Boggs in Alien³), Mac McDonald (Simpson in Aliens), Mark Anthony Newman (a prisoner in Alien³), Eddie Powell (stunt performer on Alien and Aliens) and Tip Tipping (Pvt. Crowe in Aliens). It also features several scenes filmed at Acton Lane Power Station, recycling the Atmosphere Processor set from Aliens.

Appearances

• Batman versus Predator
• Illegal Aliens (mentioned only)
• Aliens vs. Predator: Deadliest of the Species (trophy wall)
• Batman versus Predator II: Bloodmatch
• Batman/Aliens
• Batman versus Predator III: Blood Ties
• JLA versus Predator
• Batman/Aliens II
• Batman: Dead End
• Superman and Batman vs. Aliens and Predator

Gallery

Batman, played by Clark Bartram, as he appears in the fan film Batman: Dead End.

Batman takes on Brodin's goons.

Batman, as he appears in Batman versus Predator II: Bloodmatch

Batman encounters an Enforcer Predator

Batman on the batcycle.

Batman and Huntress.

External links

• Batman at the Batman wiki
• Batman at the DC Database
• Batman at Wikipedia