Bruce Wayne

While walking home from the Monarch Theater after seeing the film Mark Of Zorro, the wealthy family of young Bruce Wayne, Martha and Thomas Wayne crossed paths with a mugger in the shadows who threatened the family for cash and jewelry. Thomas offered to give up his wallet, however the man wasn't satisfied with just the money and ordered Martha to give up her pearl necklace. Thomas attempted to defend his wife from the mugger but was shot down by the man pointing the gun, this caused Martha to grieve over her fallen husband, and order her son to run away only for her to be shot down as well. The man then pointed the gun at the petrified, young Bruce Wayne whose was in shock of what took place before his eyes, luckily the sound of police sirens caused the man to run away into the night, but not before snatching the pearl necklace from Martha's corpse. Bruce was left with the bodies of his parents lying before him as well as left with the feeling of loneliness' and darkness. From that traumatizing night on, Bruce swore an oath on the graves of his parents to rid the rest of Gotham City of the evil that took their lives. Wayne pushed his body to the point of peak physical endurance and his mind to near perfection as he prepared himself to take to streets and prey on the forces evil while cloaked in the shadows. Adopting the fearsome image of a bat and projecting his aura of fear onto his enemies, the superstitious and cowardly lot of Gotham's underworld quiver at the name and panic at the presence of the Dark Knight: The Batman.