Thread:Wikification/@comment-28527817-20190525183400/@comment-26833018-20190526083656

Barbatos helped instigate Batman's creation through sending instructions to his followers, who made sure that Bruce Wayne became the Batman they needed him to be. While it might be that Barbatos' forces weren’t responsible for every event in Bruce’s life that lead him to become the Dark Knight, they still had a hand in many of them which prepared Bruce into becoming the doorway that Barbatos needed to return to the Multiverse. Because of Barbatos' manipulations throughout history to make the Batman necessary for his return, he considers himself the true father of Batman.