Bruce Wayne - Earth-32 - Batman: The Dawnbreaker (2017)

The son of a prominent family within Gotham City, Bruce Wayne watched as his parents were gunned down right in front of him by a mugger. He was unmoved by their deaths, feeling as though he had been swallowed up by a "dark void" and making him incapable of feeling fear as he chased after Joseph Chilton (Joe Chill) - the man responsible for killing Thomas and Martha Wayne. A Green Power Ring appeared before him and welcomed him into the Green Lantern Corps as it flew onto his finger.


"Fear of the Dark" 

Mastering the ability to fly, Bruce pursued Chill, coming across the mugger as he was flicking through Thomas' stolen wallet. He yelled that he was no longer a helpless kid, promising the older man that he was going to kill him.  However, Bruce's ring tells him that due to the First Law of the Green Lantern Corps, a Green Power Ring is unable to be used as a hostile weapon.

Due to Bruce's inner darkness, the young boy is able to corrupt his ring, creating a skeletal alien construct to hunt down and kill Chill as he attempted to flee. He justified the action saying that Joe needed to die for what he had done to his parents.

Returning to the alleyway where the two were gunned down, Bruce attempted to resurrect his dead parents. He mused that he would give up his power ring, describing it as the "most powerful weapon in the Universe" for his parents to be alive. However, he could only bring their corpses back to life for mere minutes, allowing him to see that what he had brought back were only the shells of Thomas and Martha. His hope began to waver and he felt alone. He allowed the press to believe that he was dead, turning his back on his birth name and old life and setting out to bring his own brand of Justice to his home town.

Bruce took on the mantle of the Green Lantern, becoming known as a hero throughout Gotham. However he believed that criminals should die, particularly since innocent people like his parents were dying all the time by their hands. He had been operating for three years since his parents had been gunned down.

Having eventually murdered a small portion of the Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians of the Universe, Bruce tried to commit suicide by walking into Green Power Battery he set up on the roof of the G.C.P.D Building - believing that his life was full of darkness and that he was still the scared little boy that had fallen into a cave full of Bats beneath Wayne Manor.

However when he emerged from the Lantern he shed both his identity as Bruce Wayne and Green Lantern, taking on the mantle Dawnbreaker, joining the "Man who Laughs" as a servant of Barbatos on the condition that he would have the power to bring his parents back. The void in his heart was so intense that he began hating the rest of the world, wanting to make the Multiverse feel as lonely and helpless as he had been.


Appearances:

1. "Fear of the Dark" - First and Only Appearance (As Bruce Wayne/Origin)