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This is a drawing I'd done of an obsecure DC Comics' Batman villain The Wrath. I'd done a journal where I said I'd do a pic of a Batman character The Batman-ized and suggested him.

The Wrath first appeared in 1984 in Batman Special # 1. He was inteded as an Anti-Batman. His origins are similar to Bruce Wayne/Batman's, but with several differences.

As Bruce's parents were rich people shot by a mugger, Warth's were burglar accidently shot by a cop (ironically, James Gordon, who'd become Batman's ally and Gotham City's Police Commissioner); Bruce dedicated his life to his cruasde for justice, Wrath opted to go against the law; Bruce became a vigilante who loathes guns, Wrath an assassin who has no problem with guns.

Ultimately, Batman and Wrath confront each other and Wrath died in a fire he'd caused after he found out that Bruce Wayne was Batman, attacked Alfred, and took Leslie Thompkins hostage.

The story is no longer canon due to Crisis on Infinite Earth, Batman: Year One (Which had Gordon transfer from Chicago shortly before Bruce became Batman) and Batman: Year Two (Pre-CoIE, Leslie Thompkins didn't know Bruce was Batman, that was a Post-Crisis notion first introduced in Y2). That said, both Batman Begins and The Batman versions of Gordon hailed from Gotham (In the Toon Zone forums talkback thread from Night and The City, when asked about the similarilies in the man from the flashback Traction, Producer/Character Design Matt Matsuda did admit that, though a coincidence, that like in Begins, the officer was Gordon).

The idea of Anti-Batman, though was used before Wrath's appearance (Killer Moth in his original, Cameron van Cleer incarnation prior to the 90s Drury Walker retcon who'd later become Charaxes) and since (Bane and JLA villain Prometheus, who has a similar origin to Wrath's)

Description
Full View is Better.

This is a drawing I'd done of an obsecure DC Comics' Batman villain The Wrath. I'd done a journal where I said I'd do a pic of a Batman character The Batman-ized and suggested him.

The Wrath first appeared in 1984 in Batman Special # 1. He was inteded as an Anti-Batman. His origins are similar to Bruce Wayne/Batman's, but with several differences.

As Bruce's parents were rich people shot by a mugger, Warth's were burglar accidently shot by a cop (ironically, James Gordon, who'd become Batman's ally and Gotham City's Police Commissioner); Bruce dedicated his life to his cruasde for justice, Wrath opted to go against the law; Bruce became a vigilante who loathes guns, Wrath an assassin who has no problem with guns.

Ultimately, Batman and Wrath confront each other and Wrath died in a fire he'd caused after he found out that Bruce Wayne was Batman, attacked Alfred, and took Leslie Thompkins hostage.

The story is no longer canon due to Crisis on Infinite Earth, Batman: Year One (Which had Gordon transfer from Chicago shortly before Bruce became Batman) and Batman: Year Two (Pre-CoIE, Leslie Thompkins didn't know Bruce was Batman, that was a Post-Crisis notion first introduced in Y2). That said, both Batman Begins and The Batman versions of Gordon hailed from Gotham (In the Toon Zone forums talkback thread from Night and The City, when asked about the similarilies in the man from the flashback Traction, Producer/Character Design Matt Matsuda did admit that, though a coincidence, that like in Begins, the officer was Gordon).

The idea of Anti-Batman, though was used before Wrath's appearance (Killer Moth in his original, Cameron van Cleer incarnation prior to the 90s Drury Walker retcon who'd later become Charaxes) and since (Bane and JLA villain Prometheus, who has a similar origin to Wrath's)