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Damian Wayne is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is the son of Batman and Talia al Ghul,〔''Batman'' #666 (page 2)〕〔Grant Morrison. ''Batman'' #676〕 and thus the grandson of Batman villain Ra's al Ghul. The character originally appeared as an unnamed infant in the 1987 story ''Batman: Son of the Demon'', which was at that time not considered canon. Following this, various alternate universe stories dealt with the character's life, giving him various names. In 2006, the character was reinterpreted as Damian Wayne by Grant Morrison, and introduced into the main continuity in ''Batman'' #655, the first issue of the "Batman and Son" story arc. Having grown up in a laboratory, Damian Wayne as a pre-adolescent is left by his mother in the care of his father, who previously was not aware of his son's existence. He is violent and self-important and was trained by the League of Assassins, learning to kill at a young age, which troubles the relationship with his father, who refuses to kill. However, the Dark Knight does care for his lost progeny.〔''Batman'' #658〕 After the events of ''Batman R.I.P.'' and ''Batman: Battle for the Cowl'', he takes up the identity of Robin at ten years of age,〔''Batman and Robin'' #2〕 becoming the fifth person to use the Robin identity. He first worked with Dick Grayson before going to work alongside his father, upon the original's return to the role of Batman. He continued to serve as Robin until 2013's ''Batman, Inc.'' #8, in which he is killed by the Heretic, an agent of his mother and his own artificially aged clone. But during ''Batman and Robin'' (Vol. 2) #37 in late 2014, Batman is able to resurrect Damian Wayne with a Chaos Shard. In 2013, Damian Wayne placed 25th on IGN's Top 25 Heroes of DC Comics. ==Publication history== The child from ''Son of the Demon'' was used as a backup character in various stories before appearing as Damian Wayne. In the Elseworlds story, ''The Brotherhood of the Bat'' (1995), a version named Tallant Wayne appears, who crusades against his grandfather Ra's al Ghul. ''Brotherhood of the Bat'' features a future in which Ra's al Ghul discovers the Batcave following Bruce Wayne's death, and outfits the League of Assassins in variant Batman costumes based on Wayne's rejected designs. Talia and Bruce's son join the Brotherhood in his father's costume, to destroy it from within. In ''Kingdom Come'' (1996) by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, which functioned as a possible future to the canon of the time, the child of Batman and Talia is named Ibn al Xu'ffasch, literally "Son of the Bat", and a member of Lex Luthor's inner circle. He falls in love with Nightstar, the daughter of Dick Grayson and Starfire. He works as a double agent for Batman in Luthor's organization. In the Elliot S! Maggin novelization of ''Kingdom Come'', al Xu'ffasch tells Bruce that his mother Talia is still alive and working as a Mother Superior in India, one of Mother Teresa's successors. al Xu'ffasch reappears in Waid's 1999 sequel ''The Kingdom''. In ''The Kingdom: Son of the Bat'', flashbacks shed new insights into his history: that he was reared by Ra's al Ghul to be the heir to his empire, that he eventually murdered his grandfather (cutting off his head to prevent yet another regeneration), and that he sought therapy from psychiatrist Dr. Gibson. He was eventually recruited by Rip Hunter to try to stop a madman named Gog from altering his history. He works with several other heroes of his generation - Kid Flash, the daughter of the Flash (Wally West); Nightstar (Nightwing and Starfire's child) and Offspring, the son of Plastic Man. In ''League of Batmen'' (2001), the sequel to ''Brotherhood of the Bat'', Tallant leads his own team of variant Batmen to combat the plague that was al Ghul's legacy. During the battle, Tallant discovers that his grandfather is the one who murdered his father and then cloned him. Ra's even sent the clone to murder his own daughter. Because the deaths of his parents at Ra's's hands, Tallant has completed following his father's tragic path as Batman. The new Dark Knight desires justice for his parents along with trying to stop his grandfather, while having to battle his father's murderous double. Grant Morrison's story titled ''Batman and Son'' (2006) expands upon the ''Son of the Demon'' storyline as part of a remodeling of Batman's personality after the events of ''Infinite Crisis''. In Morrison's version, the child Damian Wayne is the result of a tryst between Batman and Talia, during which the Dark Knight claims he was drugged when they were at the Tropic of Cancer, though Morrison later admitted the claim of drugging was a canonical error on his part. Since then however in issues of the Morrison penned Batman Incorporated, the drugging is reaffirmed and is once again part of Damian's origin.〔Batman Incorporated Vol. 2, #2 (June 2012)〕 The final issue of ''52'' (2008) designates the ''Kingdom Come'' alternate universe as Earth-22, thus making the Ibn al Xu'ffasch version part of the DC multiverse. ''Justice Society of America'' vol. 3 #22 (2009) reveals that he would eventually marry Nightstar with whom he would have a daughter and son. DC altered its continuity slightly as part of its 2011 relaunch, making Bruce and Talia's tryst during Damian's conception consensual. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Damian Wayne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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