A famous surgeon in Gotham City, Thomas and his wife Martha were famous throughout numerous social circles for their philanthropy. He was the father of Bruce.Cutting down an alleyway one night on their way back home, Thomas and his family were cornered by a street mugger and held up at gunpoint. The assailant - Joseph Chilton (Joe Chill) - proceeded to kill both him and his wife right in front of their son, running off with his wallet and leaving him to bleed out onto the pavement.
"Fear of the Dark"
In response to his father's death, Bruce enacted vengeance on Chilton, using the Green Power Ring he had obtained to murder the thug in cold blood. He went one step further when he tried to use willpower to resurrect both Thomas and Martha from the grave, bringing forth malformed copies of the two that were quick to die.
Green Lantern devised a code to use lethal force in retaliation against crimes in Gotham, believing that criminals should die, so that the innocent can live without fear or pain.
Due to the darkness that had corrupted both his ring and his heart since the loneliness and guilt of being powerless to save both his parents, Bruce decided he would commit suicide by walking into his own central power battery, musing that soon they would be reunited. However this was in fact the birth of a new persona in the form of the Dawnbreaker.
Seeing how much Thomas and Martha meant to Bruce, Barbatos sent his spokesperson the "Man who Laughs" to Earth -32 with the condition that he would use his powers to properly restore them back to their original forms, only if Dawnbreaker joined his Dark Knights.
Appearances:
- "Fear of the Dark" - First and Only Appearance
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