User:Hatebunny/Batman PE Notes

Before the shooting
Thomas proposed to Martha in Greece, and they took their honeymoon in Barcelona. When Bruce was very young, his parents spent a while at a hotel where Martha worked on a painting, which he ruined with his hand print. Thomas asked that the painting be kept up in the hotel forever.

After the shooting
- seventeen years ago (from "2014"), the Waynes were shot.

- Bruce had a relationship with Julie Madison, but something happened to her.

Training and early years
- 13 years ago (four years after the shooting), Bruce began training in martial arts.

(backup) - at 19 years of age, Bruce was doing stunt-driving training in Rio de Janeiro with a man called Miguel. Nine years ago, according to Secret Origins #2 (but that conflicts with the age listed here).

(backup) - at 21 years of age, Bruce learned the art of invention from a Cold War era scientist named Sergei Alexandrov. He also learned that the power to do the impossible through invention allows him to create wonders - a principle he would later use in his leadership of Wayne Enterprises. 11 years ago (6 years after the shooting) according to.

Seven years ago (SO#2) he trained in swordfighting.

(Backup) - 24 years old, trained in Norway with "the queen" (eyepatch?) and though he was supposed to be learning that he can't win a war without killing, he won instead by instilling fear into every would-be combatant. Cool.

- ten years ago, bruce training in the himalayas (Mio and the league of assassins introduced BTS - confirmed in Detective #21). Backup is 7 years ago (3 years training?) when bruce returns to gotham.

The bat-family
- Backup is set 5 years ago, explaining how all of the bat-family members were inspired by Batman's existence. The Bat-signal existed.

- Dick becomes Robin somewhere in that first year.

- Four years ago, Barbara became Batgirl. After one year, she gave it up for her studies and was shot by the joker. Three years later, she was healed and returned. According to, Barbara was 17 at the time she was shot, making her 21 years old today (adding on the year since the Joker disappeared).

- (three years ago?) takes place sometime after Nightwing #0 and after Barbara's injury.

- (two years ago?) Jason's death was fairly recent as of this story.

- 18 months ago, Bruce and Damian meet for the first time.

storylines

 * 1) Zero Year (BM)
 * 2) The Big Burn (flashbacks) (BM&R)
 * 3) Faces of Death (DC) - Joker disappears/removes face.
 * 4) Born to Kill (BM&R) - Damian kills
 * 5) Knight Terrors (TDK) - not important.
 * 6) Court of Owls (BM) - Biggest deal.
 * 7) Night of the Owls (BM/All) - follows from previous.
 * 8) Scare Tactics (DC) - not important.
 * 9) Pearl (BM&R) - relationship with Damian improves.
 * 10) Cycle of Violence (TDK) - not important.
 * 11) City of Owls (BM) - Conclusion to Court.
 * 12) Demon Star (Inc) - ???
 * 13) The Villain's Journey (JL) -???
 * 14) Emperor Penguin (DC) - Ogilvy takes over from Penguin, 900 block/manbats
 * 15) Throne of Atlantis (JL) - ???
 * 16) Death of the Family (BM/All) - Joker returns, splits up family
 * 17) Gotham's Most Wanted (Inc) - Damian dies.
 * 18) Mad takes place shortly after Damian's death and during Requiem/5 stages. (TDK) - Natalya dies.
 * 19) Requiem for Damian (BM&R/all) - Batman goes through the stages of grief.
 * 20) Clay (TDK) - not important.
 * 21) The Wrath (DC) - distrust with GCPD, otherwise, not important.
 * 22) The Big Burn (present) (BM&R) - Two-Face commits suicide.
 * 23) Gothtopia (DC) - everyone gets gassed, not particularly important.
 * 24) The Grid (JL) - ???
 * 25) Trinity War (JL) - leads into forever evil.
 * 26) Forever Evil - Batman helps save the world. Dick fakes his death.
 * 27) Arkham War - during/before Forever Evil, all the baddies go loose in Gotham in Batman's absence. Bane replaces him.
 * 28) Forever Heroes (JL) - Lex finds out his identity.
 * 29) Robin Rises - Batman goes to apokolips to get his son back...
 * 30) Icarus - Batman thwarts a weird drug ring. not important.
 * 31) Batman Eternal - Gordon gets framed, Batman tries to solve the mystery and stop a gang war (so far...)
 * 32) Arkham Manor - arkham asylum destroyed and the inmates move to Wayne Manor. Batman solves a murder mystery there under an assumed identity.
 * 33) Batman #28 - a peek at post-Eternal Batman... probably fits in about here...
 * 34) Batman: Endgame - The Joker returns to visit his hatred upon Batman.

confirmed events

 * at some point, some of the events of Batman: The Long Halloween and Batman: Dark Victory occurred, as Carmine Falcone returns to the city five years later in Batman Eternal with the scars on his face from his encounter with Catwoman.