Owlman is the alternate Batman from the parallel universe Earth-3 where the world lives in fear of the Crime Syndicate, featuring evil versions of the Justice League. Their first meeting is re-imagined in the animated film: Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. He is written as a brilliant, albeit completely amoral nihilist, attempting to destroy the multiverse on principle alone.
Although there have been multiple reboots to the multiverse, Owlman’s generally accepted origin is that he is Thomas Wayne Jr., a younger brother that our universe’s Bruce Wayne never had. Thomas Jr. saw his mother and brother shot by a policeman, and much like our other Anti-Batmen, dedicated his life to opposing the law. An additional wrinkle is that his father, Thomas Sr. is now police chief, and both are obsessed with eliminating each other.
Our universe (Earth-1) has recently gained its own Owlman. Roy Raymond, Jr., grandson of a Golden Age character. A disgraced investigative journalist, he is said to be an excellent detective. In another case of “Batman predicting everything”, Alfred Pennyworth was instructed to recruit and outfit Roy to join the Outsiders during Batman’s Final Crisis disappearance.
