All of this produced the handsome, morose man we encounter at the very beginning of "Batman Begins, " when Bruce Wayne, wandering the mountains of Asia in search of wisdom, is approached and temporarily seduced by a vigilante group called theLeagueofShadows.
Batman is believed dead by most ofthe public, is beaten and without his usual resources (even losing his faithful British butler), and most of all he has to go back to the basics, exercising in a prison and a LeagueofShadows lair while learning to find and overcome his fears again (mirroring scenes in the first half of Batman Begins).