In the prequel series Pennyworth, Bruce is revealed to have had an older sister, Samantha, who disappeared long before he was born.

After long efforts were made to create a television series based on Batman's origins with little success, Gotham was conceived by Bruno Heller and was eventually picked up by Fox.

Though the series eventually focused on James Gordon, chronicling his rise to commissioner of the Gotham City police, Bruce Wayne remained a central character.

David Mazouz went through a long audition before finally winning the role of Bruce, hearing the news after attending school one day.

[1][2][3] For the series finale, which flashes forward ten years into the future from the rest of the series, Mikhail Mudrik provides the body double for the adult Bruce in his vigilante suit during action sequences, but Mazouz provides the character's voice and is seen in the suit for closeup shots.

I don’t feel like I’m playing a kid character.In October 2022, asked alongside John Stephens as to who he would consider casting as a young 10 to 11-year-old Bruce Wayne in the Gotham and V for Vendetta prequel television series Pennyworth, while promoting its third season, Heller stated that there were no plans beyond featuring Bruce as a baby in the main plot of Pennyworth, but with regards to a future flashforward epilogue: "I think we had the best Batman out there in David Mazouz.

As the Gotham City Police Department arrives, detective Jim Gordon comforts Bruce at the scene and promises to find his parents killer.

[12] Bruce, Selina and Alfred later attend a charity ball that is infiltrated by criminals led by Jerome Valeska and Barbara Kean.

Galavan turns out to actually be the leader of the criminals, masterminding the event to make himself look like a hero while secretly planning to destroy the Wayne family.

The leader of the Court, Kathryn Monroe, offers Bruce a deal: if he stops investigating them, they will spare his life and those of his loved ones.

[17] Bruce eventually encounters and fights his doppelgänger, faces off against a resurrected Jerome, enters a relationship with Selina, and is kidnapped and trained by a mysterious Shaman, later meeting Ra's al Ghul in the process.

In the season's final scene, a masked Bruce dressed in military-grade body armor of his father's invention saves a family from a mugger.

[18] While training to fight crime as the "Dark Knight", Bruce starts investigating Ra's al Ghul, and learns that the mysterious terrorist wants to gain possession of a millennia-old dagger.

When Ivy (Peyton List) doses him with her hallucinogenic plant toxin, however, he sees a vision of a fearsome, mysterious cloaked entity – what he would be in the future  – who says he cannot escape who he really is before dissolving into a swarm of bats.

That night, he reconciles with Alfred, and prevents Ivy from killing a crowd full of Gotham's social elite at a charity auction.

When Ra's and Jeremiah reveal their plan, they both tell Bruce that they are destroying Gotham for his benefit, to help him become the "Dark Knight" he is destined to be.

After seeing Selina off to the hospital, he goes to confront Ra's and Jeremiah, who have destroyed all bridges leading outside of Gotham, turning the city into a "No Man's Land".

[24] In the series finale ten years later, Bruce returns to Gotham, which has flourished with Gordon as Commissioner of the GCPD, to celebrate the opening of the new Wayne Tower.

At the same time, a mysterious vigilante in a bat-like costume begins apprehending Gotham's wanted criminals, including Cobblepot and Nygma, now dubbed The Penguin and The Riddler, and a returned and disfigured Jeremiah, who had abducted Gordon's Daughter Barbara Lee.

This mysterious figure, whom Lucius and Alfred know is Bruce, also has a run-in with Selina, who has become a cat burglar, and has a quietly emotional exchange with her while concealed in the shadows.

After escaping a prison van, Penguin and Riddler plot their revenge on the Dark Knight, though they fear his nearby presence.

Finally, as Gordon and Bullock ignite a Searchlight, he quietly observes the city from afar atop a building, becoming Gotham's protector for years to come.