this sociopath and underworld crime lord
is best known for his long-running
vendetta with Bruce Wayne and Catwoman
weird sir we can’t ID him no
fingerprints no distinguishing marks and
we can’t get the mask off welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we will explore
the comic book origins of Roman sea Onis
otherwise known as the black mask as
with most comic book characters there
are often reimagining and different
versions to a character’s past we have
chosen to primarily follow the storyline
which unfolded in 1985 s Batman number
386 and which was expanded upon in 2002
s Catwoman 16 and 2010 s Batman number
697 Roman sea Onis was once the son of a
wealthy Gotham family that made its
fortune creating cosmetic products
however his parents didn’t care for
wealth instead they were preoccupied
with their status among Gotham’s elite
because of this they cozied themselves
up with the likes of the Wayne family
and forced Roman to befriend their son
Bruce Roman felt that his parents were
living behind a mask the last straw came
when they forbid him from dating the
company secretary with whom he had
fallen in love enraged Roman burned his
parents to death in a fire he
subsequently inherited their cosmetics
corporation and became obsessed with
collecting masks however he was soon
forced to resign after one of his
decisions led to the creation of a
deadly skin product and caused the
company’s subsequent buyout by Wayne
Industries deprived of his legacy he
swore vengeance on Bruce Wayne as he
became increasingly unstable and
deranged he was motivated to dig up his
father’s grave and create a skull-like
mask from the wood of the coffin taking
up the identity of the black mask
he began exacting his revenge by
targeting the executives of Wayne tech
with the help of his gang of masked
henchmen called the false face society
he killed the executives using the same
hazardous cosmetics he had once
manufactured Batman responded by hunting
down and dismantling the false face
Society this led to a confrontation in
which black mask and Batman sparred in
the ruins of the seoane his family home
black mask
attempted to kill Batman by starting a
fire but he himself was burned and the
flames fused the mask to his face black
mask was then apprehended and sent to
Arkham Asylum however he soon escaped
and resumed his evil deeds most notably
he rebuilt the false face society and
became the leader of a cult
and allied with the penguin the black
mask also launched more attacks on Wayne
industries and started a drug
trafficking ring in Gotham’s East End
consequently Catwoman who had sworn to
protect that part of the city began
stealing his money in order to help the
poor and whose money is that your money
my money
mine black mouse took it upon himself to
teach her a lesson
he brutally murdered her brother-in-law
and made her sister eat pieces of the
corpse
Catwoman then faced off with the villain
after which he fell to his apparent
death
however the black mask survived he
eventually re-emerged to become the
undisputed leader of a power vacuum
Batman had created within the criminal
underworld
Catwoman ultimately tracked Black Mask
down and took her revenge Roman see onus
is death led the insane head of the
asylum dr. Jeremiah Arkham to adopt the
black mask persona and fill his shoes in
the underworld as a result the greatest
criminal strategist in Batman’s rogues
gallery continues to cause trouble for
The Dark Knight and Gotham citizens in
response to his rising popularity among
Batman fans the black mask continues to
appear in various forms of media
these include his role in the 2010
animated feature Batman under the Red
Hood as well as in the Arkham series of
video games first you fall then Gotham
is best known for his long-running
vendetta with Bruce Wayne and Catwoman
weird sir we can’t ID him no
fingerprints no distinguishing marks and
we can’t get the mask off welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we will explore
the comic book origins of Roman sea Onis
otherwise known as the black mask as
with most comic book characters there
are often reimagining and different
versions to a character’s past we have
chosen to primarily follow the storyline
which unfolded in 1985 s Batman number
386 and which was expanded upon in 2002
s Catwoman 16 and 2010 s Batman number
697 Roman sea Onis was once the son of a
wealthy Gotham family that made its
fortune creating cosmetic products
however his parents didn’t care for
wealth instead they were preoccupied
with their status among Gotham’s elite
because of this they cozied themselves
up with the likes of the Wayne family
and forced Roman to befriend their son
Bruce Roman felt that his parents were
living behind a mask the last straw came
when they forbid him from dating the
company secretary with whom he had
fallen in love enraged Roman burned his
parents to death in a fire he
subsequently inherited their cosmetics
corporation and became obsessed with
collecting masks however he was soon
forced to resign after one of his
decisions led to the creation of a
deadly skin product and caused the
company’s subsequent buyout by Wayne
Industries deprived of his legacy he
swore vengeance on Bruce Wayne as he
became increasingly unstable and
deranged he was motivated to dig up his
father’s grave and create a skull-like
mask from the wood of the coffin taking
up the identity of the black mask
he began exacting his revenge by
targeting the executives of Wayne tech
with the help of his gang of masked
henchmen called the false face society
he killed the executives using the same
hazardous cosmetics he had once
manufactured Batman responded by hunting
down and dismantling the false face
Society this led to a confrontation in
which black mask and Batman sparred in
the ruins of the seoane his family home
black mask
attempted to kill Batman by starting a
fire but he himself was burned and the
flames fused the mask to his face black
mask was then apprehended and sent to
Arkham Asylum however he soon escaped
and resumed his evil deeds most notably
he rebuilt the false face society and
became the leader of a cult
and allied with the penguin the black
mask also launched more attacks on Wayne
industries and started a drug
trafficking ring in Gotham’s East End
consequently Catwoman who had sworn to
protect that part of the city began
stealing his money in order to help the
poor and whose money is that your money
my money
mine black mouse took it upon himself to
teach her a lesson
he brutally murdered her brother-in-law
and made her sister eat pieces of the
corpse
Catwoman then faced off with the villain
after which he fell to his apparent
death
however the black mask survived he
eventually re-emerged to become the
undisputed leader of a power vacuum
Batman had created within the criminal
underworld
Catwoman ultimately tracked Black Mask
down and took her revenge Roman see onus
is death led the insane head of the
asylum dr. Jeremiah Arkham to adopt the
black mask persona and fill his shoes in
the underworld as a result the greatest
criminal strategist in Batman’s rogues
gallery continues to cause trouble for
The Dark Knight and Gotham citizens in
response to his rising popularity among
Batman fans the black mask continues to
appear in various forms of media
these include his role in the 2010
animated feature Batman under the Red
Hood as well as in the Arkham series of
video games first you fall then Gotham
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