Fan Casting Bruce Wayne in CW's Gotham Knights

The fallen patriarch. Batman was Gotham's protector for over fifteen years—a master detective, tactician, and warrior who weaponized even his public persona as a drunken playboy to protect his secret. He trusted Jim Gordon with his identity, raised four protégés, and made a deal with death when Ra's al Ghul ambushed him in the Batcave. Impaled, burned, and poisoned, he sealed himself and Ra's inside and triggered the explosion. His pre-recorded Code Black message gave his children the Belfry and a final mission. Resurrected by Talia in a Lazarus Pit and brainwashed as the League's General, he broke free and sacrificed himself again—ramming the Batwing into the Pit to deny the Court of Owls immortality, telling Gotham's elite exactly who he feared most.