![]() His family often overlapped with another that also held a lot of power in Gotham, the Waynes, who weren't very fond of Abraham himself, especially Thomas Wayne who despised the man. As a billionaire, he did many things over the years: he took three companies public and tore them apart, flew a private jet, hiked Kilimanjaro, won two America's Cups, among likely many others.Īt some point, Abraham had a son with an unknown woman, this son was named Kirk, who Abraham always saw as a failure. Somehow, some way (though likely mostly through questionable means), Abraham became a very successful individual in Gotham City, earning his first million dollars by the age of 22 and his first billion by 30. According to Alfred, what set Batman apart from him was a moral compass. When his company was developing the new Man-Bat serum, he told them not to trash the faulty version they came across, but to dump it in Africa since no one was watchin, even with a 13% possibility of blindness being a side-effect.Ībraham is a very hard man, much like Batman, sharing toughness, discipline and determination. His hatred went as far as threatening to kill him if he got in his way, and as shown during his attacks to homeless shelters, Abraham has no qualms about killing young people or children, especially if they're homeless, who he sees as the dirty side of Gotham who take a toll on the city and who he must clean up, the people who don't contribute and won't be missed, those with no relatives to stay on top of the police, to press charges or to bring influence to bear. ![]() He despised his own son for never measuring up, for lacking his ambition and for not being as stoic, focused or disciplined as his rival's son (Bruce) who he held great affection for, perhaps because he reminded him of himself. Whereas Thomas gave his life blood to Gotham, Abraham and his corporations always sucked from it. Loathed by his rival Thomas Wayne as well as Thomas' wife Martha as explained by Lucius Fox and Alfred Pennyworth to Bruce Wayne, he described Abraham as the perfect foil to Thomas and Patriarch Biopharmaceuticals being the precise opposite of Wayne Enterprises. ![]() That's a lot of dollar signs.Ībraham is a very greedy and despicable man, with nerves of steel, focus and ambition, qualities he seemingly always had. There are thirty-three million people in the world who have some form of deafness. Me, on the other hand, I don't see people as deaf or disabled. Kirk understood this, sure, but he couldn't see past the top of his test tube. Lets deaf folks hear ultrasonic frequencies, navigate via biosonics, echolocation. Helps regrow the tympanic membrane, stimulate the auditory nerves. Microchiropteran bat DNA is a valuable resource. His eyes were red and his hair was the same color he had in human form, but his skin changed to match that same color. Only a few pieces of his clothing remain after the transformation. He was nearly twice as tall as he was in human form while as Man-Bat, with a wingspan many times that of his own height. He has tan (pale shade of brown in the first part of the story, blonde in the second) colored hair and eyebrows, and only a handful of wrinkles in spite of his age (which are drawn more pronouncedly in the second part of the story).Īs the new Man-Bat, Abraham is much larger than his son or anyone else who has ever taken the serum, with bigger muscles, enormous jaws and a much thicker neck. While still bulky in the following issue, he appears to look quite smaller. When he's first seen in issue #28, he is depicted as a very large and extremely muscular man. A very prolific and cold man, Abraham injected himself with the Man-Bat serum to find new thrills and became the new and most dangerous incarnation of Man-Bat in the New 52 continuity.Ībraham as seen in Issue #29, drawn by Jorge Lucasĭespite being twice as old as his son (for reference, Kirk in the New 52 continuity is somewhere between his 20s and 30s), Abraham still keeps himself in excellent condition due to his training regiment. He's the father of Kirk Langstrom, the original Man-Bat, a corporate raider and the CEO of Patriarch Biopharmaceuticals. ~ Abraham threatens and warns his son Kirk.Ībraham Langstrom, better known as Man-Bat, is the main villain of issues #28 and #29 of the Batman: The Dark Knight (2011) series, titled Corporate Raider and In The Shadow respectively. I've held your head above water long enough. The only thing of your own and still you required me to take it over, to improve it, to give it wings and make it soar. Your Man-Bat was a weakling, easily beaten, easily broken. How embarassed I'd be to have you at my knee. I remember at the club, when we'd cross paths with the "great" Thomas Wayne.
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