Ibn al Xu'ffasch (Arabic: ابن الخفّاش; literally "Son of the Bat") is the biological son of Batman and Talia al Ghul. He was developed by Mark Waid and Alex Ross for their 1996 miniseries Kingdom Come based on concepts from Mike W. Barr and Jerry Bingham's 1987 graphic novel Son of the Demon. Waid further elaborated on the character in the 1999 miniseries The Kingdom.
Multiple versions of the character have appeared under different names, most r...
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Ibn al Xu'ffasch (Arabic: ابن الخفّاش; literally "Son of the Bat") is the biological son of Batman and Talia al Ghul. He was developed by Mark Waid and Alex Ross for their 1996 miniseries Kingdom Come based on concepts from Mike W. Barr and Jerry Bingham's 1987 graphic novel Son of the Demon. Waid further elaborated on the character in the 1999 miniseries The Kingdom.
Multiple versions of the character have appeared under different names, most recently as Damian Wayne.
In the graphic novel Son of the Demon, Ra's al Ghul enlists Batman's aid in defeating a rogue assassin who had murdered Ra's al Ghul's wife, mother to Talia al Ghul, with whom Batman has shared a stormy, on-again off-again romance. During the course of the story line, Batman has time to properly romance and marry Talia; the service is performed by Ra's. Talia soon becomes pregnant, and the prospect of a family has a profound effect on Batman's demeanor, making him more risk-averse and softening his typically grim...
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