@FiguredOut95 said:
@Selinaky: Yeah I am English to and when I was re-reading the "Night of the Owls" story arc all Bruce talks about is his family heritage and how many generations the Wayne family goes back, but America is only 200 years old so if his family goes back even further he would have had to come from somewhere else, England seems logical especially with Alfred being English. Anyway thanks for your reply.
Well sure, America as an official country has only been around for 236 years. However, Europeans and Englishman have been in America for longer than that. The first English colony was in Jamestown in 1607 and Puritans (Pilgrims) had huge colonies all the way up until the revolution. It's entirely possible that Bruce's heritage is Colonial American or English. Also, remember generations can last as little as 20 years or so. The next generation of a family starts when the current one has had a child. Since it's physically possible for an 11 year old female to birth a child (I know disgusting), when Bruce says the Wayne family goes back countless generations or whatever...who knows how that translates into an actual chronological timeline.
I couldn't care less actually but according to Bill Finger, this is how it went down: "Bruce Wayne's first name came from Robert Bruce, the Scottish patriot. Bruce, being a playboy, was a man of gentry. I searched for a name that would suggest colonialism. I tried Adams, Hancock ... then I thought of Mad Anthony Wayne." Mad Anthony Wayne was indeed a Colonial American whose ethnicity was actually Irish because his father immigrated from Ireland.
So that brings up the question though, if the person who Bruce's family name is derived from is Irish...does that make Bruce and his family Irish? Or do we need an actual fictional origin for Gotham's Wayne family?
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