After his rich parents Thomas and Martha are either killed or paralyzed from the waist down by the evil gangster Joe Chill/Red Hood, Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to rooting out crime in Gotham City and helping to build a surprise army to help concerned citizens take back the city. With partners on the Police Force and his company Wayne Enterprise, Bruce becomes the Batman to take on varied forms of evil threatening Gotham with the help of a certain few individuals who know his true secret including Commissioner Gordon's daughter Barbara as Batgirl in a duo with Dick Grayson as Robin who form one arm of the Bat-Family - Grayson and Gordon Investigations. In first taking on organized crime families, the Bat-Family soon amasses a rogues gallery of the most eclectic and dangerous criminals to ever menace the Bat-Family and Gotham City as well.