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Wayne Bruce was a man who had been mutated into a half-bat creature, with bat-like wings on his back in addition to his arms, grayish skin, and teeth sharp enough to bite. This, in addition with a tattoo of a bat insignia on his chest, made him look very similar to Batman, a superhero whose civilian name was coincidentally “Bruce Wayne”. Wayne Bruce found the constant comparisons and confusion irritating.
He was among the people who applied for a job at the Multidimensional Finders Service when the Great Higher-Ups told the Man in Grey to open a new branch of the organisation in Scotland. Jenny Over-There and the Man in Grey's insistent comparisons to Batman drove him into a frenzy and he ended up biting the Man in Grey on the shoulder before leaving. (PROSE: Open Sourcing)
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Wayne Bruce was created as an open-source character by Carter-Ethan Rankin on June 13th, 2013. It was specified that “Bat-Sh¨t Crazy is an open source character created specifically for use by anyone. Feel free to use it any way you wish; author citations are not necessary”. The original bio given for the character gave more information about his backstory:
| Always bothered by comparisons to a certain other gentleman with a similar name, wealthy playboy Wayne Bruce decided to undergo the same experimental treatment as his twin sister. Instead of getting what he wanted, however, he got exactly what he didn't want: to become even more of a parody! The resulting effects made him... Bat-Shit Crazy! |
| —Carter-Ethan Rankin |
It is not make clear if the version seen in Open Sourcing was native to Jenny Over-There's home universe, or had dimension-travelled to get to the M.F.S. office.