After his parents lost their jobs and starved to death in a Gotham Winter, He used the inspiration of the social community of bats huddling together for warmth to create Batman, a champion of the Proletariat.

With his friend Comrade Gordon, head of the People's Protection Militia, and with his on-again off-again insurrectionist anprim girlfriend Talia al-Ghul, he goes toe to toe with the insane and criminal members of Gotham's upper crust.

His Arch Nemisis is The Joker, a sociopathic billionaire that aims to crush class consciousness by torturing the workers with cruel crimes that he calls "jokes", and then using his wealth to evade prosecution. No one knows his true identity, but some say he was created from a terrible experiment by Peter Thiel.