Ben Aldridge also portrays him in the television series Pennyworth. Notable portrayals of the character in live-action include Linus Roache in Batman Begins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Brett Cullen in Joker. Wayne returned to the main DC Universe in DC Rebirth, as a revived amalgamation of his original self killed by Joe Chill and his Flashpoint Batman self killed in " The Button".Īs a key figure in the origin of Batman, Thomas Wayne has appeared in multiple forms of film, television, and video games. Wayne was revived in Geoff Johns' alternate timeline comic Flashpoint (2011), in which he plays a major role as a hardened version of Batman, whose son was killed instead of his wife and himself, and dies again by the end of the storyline. When Wayne and his wife are murdered in a street mugging, Bruce is inspired to fight crime as the vigilante Batman. A gifted surgeon and philanthropist to Gotham City, Wayne inherited the Wayne family fortune after Patrick Wayne.
1939), the first exposition of Batman's origin story.
Wayne was introduced in Detective Comics #33 (Nov. He is the father of Bruce Wayne ( Batman), and husband of Martha Wayne as well as the paternal grandfather of Damian Wayne. Thomas Gabriel Wayne, M.D is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.