

Īt around the age of 19, Bruce met the famous decathlete Victor Fries at a university as the decathlete was doing his daily training. He also studied chemistry, biology, criminology and computer design from a dozen teachers in a dozen different locations.

Along the way, Bruce became fluent across several different languages, gaining a working knowledge of several more. He also came to learn fencing in the Soviet Union and auto racing in the streets of Rome. Spending many of his adolescent years training to fight crime, Bruce learned martial arts and patience from a wizened old man in Korea while learning street smarts from a legendary man hunter in France named Ducard. Īs Bruce grew older, he forgot the memories, though his vow remained a lifetime obsession. This then convinced Alfred to finally stay with Bruce for the long term despite having no written obligations to him. While Alfred brought up Bruce's uncle Philip, the psychiatrist reiterated the uncle's statement that Alfred had a closer bond with Bruce in comparison. The psychiatrist then emphasized that it would be essential that there would be someone there to encourage Bruce to come to grips with his fate, preferably sooner rather than later. According to the psychiatrist, despite Bruce's veneer of calm acceptance, there would come a day wherein Bruce would open up and react to the memory of the ordeal. Yet for some reason he could see none in Bruce.

In his assessment, the psychiatrist told Alfred that victims of such trauma usually displayed bursts of aggression, signs of catatonia or even despair. Weeks after his parent's deaths, Bruce was examined by a psychiatrist at the Manor.

Bruce was at first scared, but then he decided to take that image and put fear into the hearts of criminals. When he got up, he saw a figure approaching him in the darkness: a giant bat. Bruce took the red book and ran out into a powerful storm, during which he fell into a centuries old cave. Out of grief, he visited his father's office and noticed a red book lying on the desk. On the night of his parents' wake, the priest's words gave the distraught Bruce no comfort. Their violent deaths of Bruce's parents fractured his psyche.īruce finding the future Batcave as a child. The gunman shot down both his mother and father for no reason right in front of him. At the age of eight, he witnessed his parents being mugged by a lone "maniac" in the dark while returning home from a night at the cinema. Freezeīruce Wayne grew up in Wayne Manor under the care of both parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne, and their butler, Alfred Pennyworth.
