Batman's alter ego, Bruce Wayne, is an old-money heir and the owner of Wayne Enterprises, a massive international-technology conglomerate.

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Instead, make him beloved by the public and donating to charity all of the time, and definitely make him a hands-on businessman at Wayne Enterprises.

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Wayne Enterprises finds out and fires him, so Victor Fries steals all of his data and research from Wayne Enterprises and convinces the Pentagon to give him a large amount of cash to develop a big secret weapon project.

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The squad is now seen for what it is: a group of committed but unexceptional players, albeit enlivened, as with many collective English enterprises (governments, armies) by one dashing individual, the striker Wayne Rooney.

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