Except, the DCAU was not quite as stringent about avoiding giving dates and times as Timm may have intended. Though precise dates for everything are impossible to know, putting Batman's famous origin in some murky area in the past, there are various dates that appear in the series, including a magazine dated and a check from The New Batman Adventures dated , that give a rough timeline.
These clues allowed one Tumblr user to create an elaborate timeline of the DCAU that puts all these minor events together to answer the big questions. The timeline puts Batman's career fighting crime as starting in the late s or early s. Since the first two Batman series span 5 years alone, given the dated magazine and the dated check, then it's clear despite Timm's intention for Batman to always be in his early to mid-thirties, that the continuity itself goes beyond that.
There are a lot of alternate realities that have seen Gotham become a much darker place than the main continuity. In one such storyline, during the robbery of Bruce Wayne and his parents, the robber ends up killing Bruce instead of his parents leading to a huge change of events. Bruce's mother, Martha ends up becoming The Joker, while his father, Thomas, becomes a much darker version of the main continuity Batman. While Marvel Comics' superheroes have always had clearly defining characteristics attached to them, DC Comics have always taken some time with theirs.
As a result, most of the iconic things attached to Batman didn't come until the s, as Bruce Wayne's background gradually started becoming clearer around that time. Gotham City was introduced, along with his incredible Bat-signal, and the Bat Cave was also added to the mix. Some of Batman's villains have been very iconic , ranging from The Joker to Bane, although they aren't the strongest supervillains he has ever come up against. Once, he fought Darkseid, a celestial being who had evil written all over him and while the Justice League failed miserably to stop him, Batman ended up creating a suit that gave him a chance to stop this unstoppable force.
And guess what? He ended up kicking Darkseid a lot of times. So, Bruce only ages a couple years in seven years of comics? Therefore, the next possible reference we can use and the primary reference that DC editors used towards the end of the Modern Age is the age of Tim Drake.
By mid , according to DC editors, he was Therefore, 4 years would have passed since Year 10, making equal Year 14 with Bruce at 40 years of age. This also confirms that Batman, according to DC writers and editors, was in his 14 th or 15 th year of costumed adventuring by This also reaffirms that DC ended the Modern Age with a 15 year timeline as opposed to my 23 year version.
This is all fine and dandy, but unfortunately, in order for this DC version of events to fit correctly into any chronology we must ignore the fact as we did regarding the life and times of Timothy Drake that seasons change, holidays come and go, and time literally is shown passing over the years. Again, we would have to assume that from the time Tim became Robin all the way up to the Red Robin storylines, only 4 years had passed.
He turns 26 in February, making him 26 when he debuts as Batman in April. Seems simple, right? Of course not. Do the math. Bruce is years-old in Bruce is 26 when he starts as Batman. Six years later Dick Grayson arrives on the scene. Dick is twelve-years-old when his folks plummet to their grisly deaths. Bruce is Four years later, Dick becomes Nightwing. Three years later, Tim becomes Robin. Nine years later during which time we have the vast amount of stories I listed above we reach the end of the Modern Age in and Bruce is DC says Bruce is We are both right.
Suddenly everyone will look up and notice that Tim is almost 30 and Bruce is getting near retirement age. Hell, we might have four more generations of Robins by then. No editor is going to be disciplined enough to maintain every aspect of the timestream, and no writer is going to let it get in the way of their Great Batman Story.
If Superman and Batman are never going to age, then DC just needs to make them not age; if Dick Grayson is never going to reach his 30s, then make him age slower; Tim Drake can age a little faster, and Damian a little faster than that, but they all have ceilings.
Age Wave. Let it just be a fundamental force of the DCU. Heartbroken, Bruce Wayne committed himself entirely towards fighting crime. However, he had yet to develop the means by which to intimidate his adversaries. A few nights later, Bruce Wayne was in his father's study mourning the loss of his parents when a bat crashed through the study window. Inspired by this incident, Bruce realized that he would garb himself in the visage of a bat Batman and the Bat-Family.
Batman's first partner was Dick Grayson , a circus acrobat whose parents were murdered by gangster Tony Zucco , a protection racketeer. With training from Bruce Wayne in both fighting and criminal science, Dick became the first hero to bear the mantle of Robin. Later on, as a young adult, Dick abandoned his Robin identity and adopted that of Nightwing, mostly working solo in Bludhaven but assisting Batman and his new partner Tim Drake , who was the second Robin, from time to time.
Tim's career came to an end when the Joker and Harley Quinn kidnapped him and tortured him into revealing secrets about Batman, and psychologically traumatized Tim into becoming J. Tim had unknowingly at the time been implanted with a high-tech chip containing the Joker's genetic code and memories, thus also became the host for the second incarnation of the Joker years later.
Though Tim was restored to sanity, Bruce forbade him from ever being his partner from that point on. When the Joker started manifesting himself in Tim, Terry McGinnis, Bruce's successor as Batman, ultimately defeated him and rescued Terry from the takeover.
Bruce on occasion also worked with Barbara Gordon , the daughter of Commissioner Gordon , in her costumed identity of Batgirl. The two also briefly dated. Batman as a member of the Justice League. Bruce became one of the founding members of the Justice League, teaming up with six other powerful heroes to deal with an alien threat that had devastated the people of Mars , whom J'onn J'onnz was a part of, and was now threatening Earth.
He chooses to mostly work part-time with the League due to Gotham City's need for him to be their protector. During his time in the Justice League, he met his Justice Lord counterpart in an alternate reality, who through his companions had made even his Gotham City a peaceful place to live in, though with the residents of Arkham Asylum lobotomized by Superman 's heat vision and with armed police handling even the most minor transgressions such as a disgruntled restaurant customer complaining about a miscalculated check.
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As he got older, Bruce started being plagued by heart problems. After his heart started acting up during an attempt to rescue Bunny Vreeland, daughter of Bruce's socialite friend Veronica Vreeland, from kidnappers, he was forced to go break his personal rule of never using a gun, just to defend himself.
Bruce decided to hang up the mantle of the Batman for good. Shortly after, he was bought out from Wayne Enterprises by Derek Powers in a hostile takeover. After all this, Bruce chose to retire to Wayne Manor, living a life of solitude with his dog Ace. Bruce and his successor. Wanting revenge on Derek Powers for killing his father, Warren McGinnis , Terry stole Bruce's advanced Batman suit and went after him as he was about to strike a deal with a foreign weapons dealer about a shipment of chemical weapons.
At first Bruce used a remote command to lock down the suit, but after Terry pointed out the parallels in their pasts, Bruce felt sympathy for him, and begrudgingly agreed to help him.
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