Joseph Chilton - Earth-32 - Batman: The Dawnbreaker (2017)

A resident of Gotham City, Joseph Chilton - also known as Joe Chill - was an armed criminal responsible for holding up the Gotham socialites Thomas and Martha Wayne, as well as their young son Bruce. He proceeded to shoot and kill his marks, taking Thomas' wallet for himself.


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Turning the gun on Bruce, Joe remarked that he had got what he had come for, ordering the boy to get on his knees and close his eyes. Warning Bruce that he would get hurt if he tried anything heroic, the mugger ran off and left the grieving boy by his parents' bodies.

Stopping to catch his breath, Joe flicked through the stolen wallet. However, he is interrupted by Bruce, who has been granted the power of flight through a Green Power Ring. Stunned by the furious youth, he began to back away as he was called a "bastard," dropping the stolen wallet and begging Bruce to take the money, so long as he was saved.

He tried to flee as Bruce's Ring struggled to deliver a killing strike, looking slightly relived as he heard the device tell the young teen that he could not use lethal force. However, before he can get away, Bruce's will to avenge his parent's death overpowered the ring, allowing him to dismiss the First Law of the Green Lantern and engaging deadly weapons. He is bathed in a burning green light, screaming as his flesh is seared off, reducing the mugger into a smoking skeleton.


Appearances:

1. "Fear of the Dark" - First and Only Appearance

Thomas Wayne - Reanimated Corpse - Earth-32 - Batman: The Dawnbreaker (2017)

Having been gunned down in a dark alley during a mugging, Thomas Wayne's death had a terrible impact on his son Bruce, filling him with a void of darkness, despair and loneliness.

Bruce tried in vain to bring his father back, only for the process to reveal that it was impossible by Oan technology to revive his parents, forcing him to look for extreme measures and make a deal with the "Man Who Laughs". 

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Believing that his Green Power Ring was capable of being the most powerful weapon in the Universe, Bruce demanded that the device brought his parents back to life so that he could continue living with them. He mused that he would even give up the ring if he could successfully carry out the resurrection. 

However, despite the Power Ring being corrupted by its new owner to operate far beyond the capabilities of previous Lanterns, the symbol of will was unable to completely bring back Thomas Wayne. Instead, what was produced was a reanimated corpse barely capable of performing human speech, quickly severing the ties to the ring and collapsing back into a heap on the floor. 

Appearances:

1. "Fear of the Dark" - First and Only Appearance

Martha Wayne - Reanimated Corpse - Earth-32 - Batman: The Dawnbreaker (2017)

Murdered in front of her own son by Joseph Chilton, Bruce Wayne was left feeling hopeless and depressed by the death of Martha. However his lack of fear earned him a Green Power Ring and the beacon of willpower for the entire space sector 2814.

His desire to bring his mother back properly compelled the newly christened Dawnbreaker to join the Dark Knights as a warrior and emissary of Barbatos.


"Fear of the Dark" 

Having avenged Martha and Thomas by killing Joe Chill in cold blood, Bruce tried to use the damaged Power Ring to reanimate the corpse of his mother, hoping that they could all continue to function as a family. He went on to conclude that he would not need the ring, only desiring to have his parents love and support.

Although the ring was able to partially restore her corpse, Martha was not whole, trying desperately to express her love for her son. But she could only hold consciousness for a few minutes, collapsing at her sons feet and leaving him to start his crusade against crime and injustice in Gotham City.


Appearances:

1. "Fear of the Dark" - First and Only Appearance

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

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.


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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:

1. "Fear of the Dark" - First and Only Appearance

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

The wife of Thomas Wayne and mother of Bruce, Martha Wayne was a prominent member of the Gotham City community.

One evening while walking home down an alleyway, the whole Wayne family are held up at gunpoint by a mugger. She was shot at medium range and killed instantly, falling down to join her husband, to the horror of her son. 

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The murder of Martha Wayne caused a deep psychological trauma within the young Bruce Wayne, causing him to feel an empty void of helplessness and loneliness within him. 

After a failed attempt to resurrect her from the dead, Bruce became the Green Lantern of Sector 2814 and began killing criminals, wanting them to pay for their sins and ensure that nobody else would feel the loss that he did. 

Bruce tried to commit suicide after he killed Jim Gordan, multiple members of the Guardians of the Universe and Green Lantern Corps, stating he could not live without his parents, however this only transformed him into the being known as Dawnbreaker. 

On the condition that Martha would be properly restored to life, Dawnbreaker joined the "Man who Laughs" and the Dark Knights as a servant of Barbatos, wanting to make the people of Prime Earth's Coast City feel the pain he had felt. 

Appearances:

1. "Fear of the Dark" - First and Only Appearance

Green Lantern - Earth-32 - Batman: The Dawnbreaker (2017)

Sensing the potential to overcome great fear, a Green Power Ring was sent to the planet Earth in sector 2814, where it bonded with a young Bruce Wayne. Overpowering the device with his will for revenge and escaping the loneliness he was feeling, having just witnessed his parents being murdered right in front of him in a mugging, Wayne used the ring to kill Joseph Chilton and get revenge for their deaths. Trying and failing to bring them back, Bruce kept the ring for himself, setting out to honour his parents and fight to ensure that people would not feel the same loss and pain that he did.

Over the next three years, he would go on to become the hero known as Green Lantern, working with the police in order to rid Gotham City of crime. However, his methods were violent, believing that all criminals needed to die so that innocence could live.


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Green Lantern was summoned to the rooftop of the G.C.P.D by Commissioner Gordon, who lit the Green Power Battery. The hero told Gordon to watch his tone as the latter remarked that he wasn't expecting to see him, musing that the last police officer who showed him disrespect ended up paying for it. He listened as the Commissioner mentioned a few reports for missing people and a manhunt for the criminal known as the Scarecrow.

Before the villain could strike the city with a missile, Green Lantern used a construct to catch the weapon and send it hurtling to space, taking Scarecrow out of Earth's atmosphere and allowing the pressure to make him explode.

Green Lantern returned to Gordon a few days later, ignoring the latter's attempt to question the whereabouts of the Scarecrow, before getting a tip off that the Penguin and a few of his henchmen where operating illegally within Gotham.

Smashing through the roof of the Penguin's establishment, he used his power ring to cause a massive black out, using shadow constructs to slaughter Penguin's henchmen and disarm their boss. Green Lantern flew out of Earth's atmosphere, telling Penguin that he had had enough of his criminal operation and wasn't going to stand for it anymore, calling him "stupid" and "disgusting." He left Penguin to die, before seeking out Commissioner Gordon.

The Commissioner demanded to know what he had done to Penguin, defiantly declaring that the G.C.P.D would no longer work with Lantern because of his methods - repulsed by Bruce's actions against Detective Harvey Bullock, as well as the most recent murder of Penguin, which the hero treated as a joke. Angered by Gordon's endeavour to appeal to his former life and the realisation that he knew who he was, Lantern used his ring to obliterate Jim, noting that it was "sad" that he had been pushed to that and adding that now his daughter would have to grow up without her "father".

Before he can fly away, he is confronted by a handful of Green Lanterns and the Guardians of the Universe, who tell the renegade Lantern that he had to be stopped for his repeated abuse of his power ring and the violation of the first law of the Corps - No killing. They also expressed their concern that he could infect the whole Green Lantern Corps with his darkness, achieving something that no other Lantern could ever do. He excitedly tells them that he is not alone and had friends he could call upon to help him fight them, activating a blackout and using his shadow constructs to tear through the Corps and their founders. After decapitating the only surviving member of the onslaught, Green Lantern expressed how he could no longer cope with the loss of his parents, willing to kill himself in order to join them.

But as he walks into the lantern,  he is surrounded by a colony of bats, inspiring himself to become something new. Altering the words of his former Green Lantern Oath, he took on the identity of the Dawnbreaker.


Appearances:

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

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)