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Headcanon that, when an actual Wayne is in charge of Wayne Enterprises, their profit margins shrink... because the actual Wayne family refuses to engage in looter capitalism and overrules their board of directors.

This didn’t start with the company’s founder. Alan Wayne was a classic Robber Baron who sucked Gotham dry using tactics of questionable legality and even more questionable morality to build his company. To him, these were “the price of doing business.” (Alan Wayne is very definitely in Hell, which is proven to exist in the DCU.)

Alan, unlike most Capital-C Capitalists, somehow ended up raising a son with more morals than he had. However, Thomas Wayne may have been a brilliant surgeon... but he was not necessarily the best at running a company. However, Martha Wayne nee Kane was widely reknowned as a woman you do not cross if you value your balls. She kept the board in line over the course of her marriage despite the fact that her husband was technically the primary shareholder, and with her at the helm, Gotham was able to recover from constant vampirism by the legacy of Alan Wayne.

Then Crime Alley, and suddenly the largest stockholder in Wayne Enterprises is an eight-year-old child.

The board of directors decides that this is a license to do anything they want. And with “that woman” out of the way, they do. Wayne Enterprises spends about sixteen years absolutely ravaging the economy of Gotham, holding parties while Rome burns. The Wayne fortune balloons from multi-millions into billions, and each of the board members is eyeing it hungrily, hoping to declare Bruce dead so that they can fall upon it like starving hyenas.

When Bruce returns, he at first directs The Batman’s ire against the various Gotham Mafias that are squabbling over the scraps that his company leaves behind. But it doesn’t take the world’s third-greatest detective long to look at his fortune, look at Gotham’s economy, and add two and two to get four. Over the next few years, his priority becomes shaking loose the members of his board most responsible for the disaster, in some cases going outside the law and using tactics that would make Nate Ford proud. By the time he has adopted a small circus child, Bruce has reinstated himself as the Wayne CEO... and, to the horror of Gotham’s wealthy, laid out a new direction for his company. Wayne Enterprises’ cancerous profit margins slow to a dead crawl, and Bruce begins to spend huge chunks of his personal fortune on Gotham infrastructure, opening cheap grocery stores in food deserts, and building affordable apartments in areas of the city where finding housing is otherwise nearly impossible.

After all, that money is stolen from the people of Gotham. It’s only fair that he gives it back.

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"How I love killing Waynes."

- Talon.

Batman: The court of owls.

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All-Star Western

Volume: 3 #17

Standing on Death's Doorstep

Writers: Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti

Pencils: Moritat, Staz Johnson (Backup Story)

Inks: Moritat, Staz Johnson (Backup Story)

Covers: Bill Sienkiewicz, Lovern Kindzierski

Featuring: Jonah Hex, Amadeus Arkham, Alan Wayne, Catherine Wayne, Vandal Savage, Jenny Freedom

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Revised History of the DCU: GOTHAM CITY AND THE WAYNE FAMILY V: Broken Men And A Magic Box

Before Alan Wayne left to join the Union Army, Wayne Manor was full of family, home to over a dozen brothers and cousins. When he returned, it was inhabited only by himself and the Judge, everyone else having died fighting the Civil War. Having himself been rather traumatized by the war, Alan found the combination of empty Manor and the broken shell his father had become too much to bear. He fled for lodgings in Gotham City proper, where he spent his days weighing the pros and cons of killing himself. His very distant cousin Thomas "Bad Tommy" Wayne, immortal leader of the Cult of Barbatos, was similarly going through a rough patch, albeit for very different reasons. Decades of inactivity were killing the Cult by inches; that the hated Court of Owls was suffering similar issues was of only minor consolation, since the truce prevented him from acting on their weakness. Furthermore, the truce prevented him from fully indulging his hobby of physically and psychologically torturing people, forcing him to torment only his own followers. This added an additional burden, as the Cultists began chafing under his leadership. Bad Tommy desperately needed some kind of win. But fortune smiled on him, and offered an opportunity. There lived in Gotham a family, the van Derms, who had had in their possession a box. Said box, which the van Derms had owned since Gotham's earliest days, containing an artifact of the Miagani, the native tribe who's extinction had initially planted the idea that the area was cursed. Needless to say, the Cult considered the artifact sacred to Barbatos, and ascribed all manner of mystic powers to it. However, they also believed that messing with said box would bring down the wrath of a powerful guardian spirit, which had long discouraged them from going after the box. Also, members of the family had long held friendships with members of the Court, and the last thing the Cult wanted was the Owls sniffing around something so important. But now the van Derms had left Gotham for the frontier and taken the box with them. Away from the lands where the Miagani had lived, perhaps the box's guardians would be weakened. And without doubt, away from Gotham, the Owls had no power. Of course, neither did the Cult, but again fortune smiled upon Bad Tommy, for Vandal Savage had recently taken up residence in Gotham. Savage had not done well over the past half-century; after Ra's Al Ghul had helped bring down the Conqueror Caveman's ally Napoleon, he'd sworn vengeance upon the Demon's Head. Savage had subsequently discovered the hard way that an army of psychopaths and mercenaries bound to his service by gold and fear was no match for Ra's' own army of fanatically loyal assassins. Ra's gave as good as he had gotten, and thoroughly demolished Savage's shadow empire. More; he had contrived to poison the older immortal, infecting him with a cancer that, being made of his own immortal flesh, was immune to any and every form of treatment Savage could devise. It could not kill him, and would eventually go away in a decade or two, but in the meantime, Vandal Savage suffered constant, excruciating pain. By the time Savage relocated to Gotham, he was a shadow of his former self, commanding nothing more than a criminal gang, albeit one that would be rather impressive if not compared to Savage's previous powerbase. Savage himself was steeped in depression, quaffing laudanum to keep the pain at bay and wishing he had the means to kill himself and be released from he burden his immortality had become. When Bad Tommy came to him and told him that the artifact within the van Derm's box might provide him with what he sought, he readily agreed to a partnership.

Wayne's World

Ancestor Appreciation Day: Wayne Paternal Family Line (New Earth)

It's Ancestor Appreciation Day (27 September) and so I thought it was apropos to do a photoset of the patriarchs of the Wayne Family line. Damian Wayne is one lucky fellow – he could trace his paternal linage back eight generations to his sixth great-grandfather, Darius Wayne. Hopefully, we'll get to know more about these ancestors as time goes by. Related Post:

Keeping Up With the Gotham Aristocracy (Family Day)

Wayne Patriarchs:

First Generation: Darius Wayne (Batman and Robin #10 by Andy Clarke (Upper Left)) – With his brother, Anthony Wayne, they won a critical battle against the British in the Revolutionary War. In return, they were rewarded with a large plot of land where Wayne Manor was built.

Second Generation: Charles Arwin Wayne (Not Pictured) – Charles Wayne was raised in Wayne Manor until his father, Darius Wayne, died and left to live in Boston, leaving the Manor vacant and only partially finished. He would return later in life with his sons, Solomon and Joshua Wayne, when Gotham City was more established.

Third Generation: Solomon Zachariah Wayne (Batman: Shadow of the Bat #45 by Michael Dutkiewicz (Upper Middle)) – In his teens, Solomon Wayne and his brother, Joshua Wayne, were abolitionists for the Civil War and helped established the Underground Railroad in Gotham. He later became a federal judge with an interest in architecture. Before his death, he laid out plans for the completion of Wayne Manor for his son, Alan Wayne, to accomplish.

Fourth Generation: Alan Wayne (Batman: Gates of Gotham #1 by Trevor McCarthy (Upper Right)) – The reluctant heir, Alan Wayne was the first generation born into Gotham. In time, he would create and preside over Wayne Shipping. Later in life, Theodore Cobblepot, Edward Elliot, Cameron Kane, and he would unite to modernize Gotham as an architectural landmark.

Fifth Generation: Kenneth Wayne (Batman and Robin #10 by Andy Clarke (Lower Left)) – In his short life, Kenneth Wayne became the founder and president of Wayne Chemicals. Afterwards, his wife, Laura Elizabeth would go on to run Wayne Chemicals until their eldest child, Patrick Wayne, was able to take over the presidency.

Sixth Generation: Patrick Wayne (Batman and Robin #10 by Andy Clarke (Lower Middle)) – A brilliant businessman, Patrick Wayne would become the creator of Wayne Tech which helped support both World Wars. Later, he would combine the Wayne resources to create Wayne Corp. Like his fathers before him, he also helped with the renovation of Gotham City.

Seventh Generation: Thomas Wayne (Batman: The Long Halloween #9 by Tim Sale (Lower Right)) – Born into wealth, Thomas Wayne was quite the playboy until he met his wife, Martha Kane, and settled down. In time, he became a gifted surgeon and would one day run Wayne Corp. His life was cut short when he and his wife were murdered right before their son’s eyes.

Eighth Generation: Bruce Wayne (Batman #613 by Jim Lee (Middle Left)) – After witnessing his parents' murder, Bruce would travel around the world to train to be the ultimate vigilante – Batman. He maintains his alter-ego as a playboy industrialist and philanthropist.

Ninth Generation: Damian Wayne (Batman and Robin Annual #1 by Ardian Syaf (Middle Right)) – Biological child of Bruce Wayne who was trained to be an assassin since birth and is the current Robin.