As he made his way to the sewers, he thought about his mother and how she was so clean in every part of his life. Then she left him alone for a few minutes to organize his things into a drawer in the bedroom.įeeling guilty about letting Leslie Thompkins down, Duke climbed out the window and left the apartment behind in order to go search for his parents in the sewers. Joanne showed Duke around the dirty apartment, telling Duke that he would need to babysit the other kids and clean the bathroom. She then placed him with Joanne and Roy Dawson, after telling him that police had found some of the Joker's toxin victims wandering in the sewer system.
In the meantime, she asked him to stop picking fights and try to be respectful to his foster parents. Thompkins was placed in charge of his social case, and tried to keep him from getting into trouble by reassuring him that the police were still looking for his parents and would find them. Because of this, Duke was constantly circulated back into the foster care system.ĭr.
During his time in foster care, Duke went from an upstanding student to becoming a bit of a delinquent, receiving poor grades and racking up an extensive police record due to his investigations into his parents. Duke grew jaded after it became apparent that the authorities were not making any progress in locating his parents and, desperate to find them, began regularly breaking away from his foster homes to investigate for himself. Batman and Duke managed to make their way through the chaos on the streets of Gotham, and Batman left Duke in the care of Julia Pennyworth before setting off for a fatal showdown with the Joker Batman went missing shortly thereafter.įollowing the disappearance of his parents after the events of Batman: Endgame, Duke was placed into the foster system. Batman managed to rescue Duke and save the Thomas family from the murderous plot, but he was ultimately unable to save Duke's parents from succumbing to the mind-controlling gas Joker had released. Figuring out the vigilante's secret identity, the Joker kidnapped Duke and his family, and planned to recreate Bruce Wayne's parents' murders right in front of him using the Thomas family. Several years later, the Joker had returned to Gotham with an endgame for Batman in mind. Thanking Duke for his kindness, Wayne departed to take on the Riddler himself. Duke and Bruce Wayne met for the first time when the Thomas family rescued the unconscious billionaire when Hurricane Rene began its rampage on Gotham simultaneously during the Riddler's plot. Duke, who was a confident young student at the time, began to train his mind with brain teasers in anticipation of accepting the Riddler's challenge. Riddler told the city that if anyone could ask him a riddle that he couldn't answer, he would restore power to Gotham. When the terrorist Edward Nygma, aka the Riddler, shut off all the power in Gotham City, the madman challenged the city to get smart or die by natural selection during what would later be called the Zero Year. Duke grew up to live a relatively uneventful childhood, completely unaware of his mother's previous life. Elaine went on to become a social worker and marry Doug Thomas, a humble construction worker, and together they raised Duke in Tracey Towers in the Gotham Narrows. Prior to his birth, Elaine fled to Gotham while still pregnant with Duke in order to escape Gnomon, as well as the various secret wars between immortals involving individuals like the Immortal Man, The Infinite Woman, Ra's al Ghul and others. Duke is the biological son of Gotham City social worker Elaine Thomas and the villain known as Gnomon.
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