Gordon confronted them and, in a gunfight, killed the parents in self-defense. The Wrath's father is now depicted as a corrupt cop who was robbing a warehouse with his wife and so acting as a lookout.
In "Wrath Child" ( Batman Confidential #13-16), several details of the Wrath's origin underwent a retcon, including the original story taking place shortly after Dick Grayson became Robin (the original story was published the same year that Grayson became Nightwing), with Grayson missing the events because he was away at the time on an "educational holiday" (one of the various training missions Batman sent him on). Looking down from the rooftop, Batman remarks that watching Wrath's death felt like watching his own. In the course of their impersonal battle of wits, the Wrath learns Batman's secret identity as Bruce Wayne and proceeds to attack several of his friends Alfred Pennyworth is hospitalized, and Leslie Thompkins is taken hostage by the Wrath.ĭuring his rooftop showdown with Batman, one of the Wrath's explosive capsules detonates during the fight Batman's attempt to throw the Wrath off of him leads to the villain accidentally landing in his fire and falling over the edge to his death. The Wrath's target turns out to be Commissioner Gordon of the Gotham City Police which leads to the Wrath coming into conflict with Batman. When the Wrath finally returns to Gotham City, he comes to kill the man who had shot his parents. Independently of one another, Batman and the Wrath adopted strikingly similar costumes and skill-sets, although they used them for opposite purposes. Due to this, the Wrath dedicated his life to a campaign of revenge against law and law-enforcers. They were killed in a shootout with a police officer coincidentally the same day that Batman's parents were gunned down in Crime Alley.
Wrath's parents were a couple of burglars like Joe Chill, the man who shot and killed Batman's parents. His costume is also very similar to Batman's (though colored in crimson and purple with a W-insignia on the chest and cowl the W on his cowl, when seen in the right light and at the right angle, looks like the ears of the Batman's cowl). The Wrath (like Batman) is distinguished by perfectionism and obsession with what he does. The Wrath's appearance and motivation are reminiscent of Batman's, but with notable differences. The first Wrath was an enemy of Batman, described by him as his " opposite number". The original Wrath, art by Michael Golden.
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