A memory unfolds - Darkseid's final showdown with the Batman, and the Batman being struck with the Omega Beams. How can he convince the Caped Crusader he’s on the level? Its eventual co-opting by Maxwell Lord is one of the main events that leads o the Infinite Crisis miniseries, which again restructures DC continuity. Two men came out of the drink - a young man who won't speak, and a defiant black-haired fellow. Superman, Hal Jordan, Booster Gold, and Rip Hunter return from the end of time to find Hunter's stolen time sphere that the Architect/Bruce Wayne took from them. Scarecrow reveals he will spread his new toxin across the Eastern Seaboard with blimps, so Batman slips the counteragent he developed into Scarecrow's toxin.
As soon as they are about to escape Arkham, however, Scarecrow ambushes them, having brainwashed Batman's allies. Batman works solo until the decade's close, when Tim Drake becomes the new Robin. From his utility belt, Bruce takes a medicine capsule and dons the pelt of a giant bat to wear on his body. With the cave collapsing from explosives set off, Batman stopped Joker from escaping by holding him away from the pool, which was blocked with the falling rock. Later, Batman is outfitted with a straitjacket ant brought to a mental hospital headed by Jonathan Crane, who he believes is responsible for the mystery. Blackbeard was reported hanged two months later. Batman believes the best help for Superman is through science to which Wonder Woman believes the answer is with the mythical box she believes is fact. Batman defeats the Talon but decides against killing him; instead, he escapes from the maze, although he loses consciousness. In that moment, the Joker broadcasts a message on live TV, saying that he will kill Mayor Hady. When Drake informs him of events that have occurred in his absence (Grayson taking over as Batman, Damian Wayne becoming the new Robin), Wayne demands he stop trying to force him to remember as this is what Darkseid wants. Later, a man named Clayton Parker commits suicide despite Batman's efforts. In Infinite Crisis #7, Alexander Luthor, Jr. mentions that in the newly-rewritten history of the "New Earth", created in the previous issue, the murderer of Martha and Thomas Wayne - again, Joe Chill - was captured, thus undoing the retcon created after Zero Hour. Previously, he had defeated the Joker and sent him to prison, where an unnamed person surgically removed his face. Batman pursues Joker to the edge of a large drop.
Though he found Alfred and discovered his life after his parents' deaths, Bruce was not told of his life of vigilantism and seemed to remain ignorant of it, instead deciding to settle down and find a life of happiness with his old flame, Julie Madison. When he enters the house, however, Batman finds that every member of the Court is dead. As several of Batman's allies call, offering assistance in taking down the Joker, Batman declines, saying that whatever the Joker is planning, it is between him and Batman. He refrains from killing, as he feels this would not make him any better than the criminals he fights. The plan succeeds, and Bruce falls into a coma. Not wanting to hurt his allies, Batman is forced to throw the fight. At dawn, the Black Pirate emerges from the cave with Jack Valor. All their friends (and a few enemies?) As the hunt rages on, Batman runs “a fowl” of Oswald Cobblepot. Bruce Wayne was eventually discovered, having survived when exposed to Dionesium during his time burried, he suffered from amnesia, causing him to forget his entire life. Freeze, Scarecrow and Clayface. Nekron also referred to the skull as "Bruce Wayne", knowing that the body was not authentic. Batman believes he does not know and is only manipulating them because of his kidnapping of Alfred. There, he asks Batman about the man he killed and Batman proceeds to tell him about Doctor Light and his family. All of this comes with a single injunction: "Remember". When Thomas and Martha died, Willowwood lost its funding and the place began treating its children cruelly. What happened to the boy who wanted to be Bruce Wayne? Once Wayne would return to present time and subdue the Sanction/Architects from trying to destroy the universe, he would use every foundation he laid through time to regain the memories he forced himself to forget.