Aesop Amnesia: Batman has learned to be more open and caring to his children (especially Nightwing) so often that this trope might as well be called A Batman Family Aesop. Batman is able to take on numerous people at a time. He is a top martial artist who is trained. Action Hero: Batman is involved in plenty of action. Also one of the most feared combatants in the DC Universe. Action Dad: He has five kids: three adopted sons, a biological son, and (recently) an adopted daughter. Batman is feared and renowned throughout the DC Universe from both heroes and villains, with good reason, even earning the respect of beings as powerful as Superman and Darkseid. The Ace: It's THE BATMAN we're talking about here. The fact that no one acknowledges it or calls Bruce out on it just makes it worse. Bringing Jason to the place where he died to try and induce a flashback of his resurrection so he can bring Damian back to life, attacking and beating down Jason (who, by that point, wasn't even bothering to try and fight back) so badly that he nearly died and needed months of recovery, kicking him out of Gotham and effectively abandoning him - and that's not even getting into the victim blaming of Jason's death. Bruce since the start of Rebirth (and even before that) has been a terrible parent to Jason Todd, regardless of your opinion of Jason himself. Later on, this is only made worse by Dick's fear to return home without Batman's permission after he loses contact with him, and his claim when he returns that he had to do it because he's the oldest and so he shouldered it so the other Robins wouldn't have to. There's also that one time he beat Dick Grayson, who was still getting over Damian's death, and had recently been unmasked, killed, and brought back to life, into the ground until he agreed to go undercover at Spyral. Abusive Parents: It must be stressed that this depends on the writer, but Batman is just as capable of deliberately manipulating the kids he acts as a father figure to (for an example, see pretty much everytime he used Steph and Tim to manipulate each other) as he is at being a well-intentioned father figure who sometimes makes mistakes due to his own emotional issues. Indeed, the overwhelming popularity and critical acclaim of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns was one of the major influences on the rise of the '90s Anti-Hero in the first place (As well as The Dark Age of Comic Books in general). '90s Anti-Hero: Ever wonder why Azrael (AKA Batman II/AzBats) was brought in? It was due to Bats demonstrating way too much of this trope in the eighties ( The Killing Joke is a prime example). 
Terry, Azrael, and Dick typically need an addendum to the name if you're talking about them. If anyone ever just refers to "Batman", they're referring to Bruce. Various other characters have taken up the mantle. Note that while Bruce Wayne is the most famous and most shown Batman, he is by no means the only one. After the New 52 reboot, Bruce is back to being Gotham's Batman. As expected of as popular a character as he, he came back, and he decided to make the Batman idea an international organization called Batman, Inc, while leaving the title of Gotham's Batman to his first Robin Dick Grayson. After an attempt to kill Darkseid, Bruce Wayne was ultimately 'killed' by the Omega Sanction which sent his soul into an endless loop of lives, each one worse than the last.
Barely escaping, he was tortured by the New God Darkseid to be used as a template for new soldiers. He was the target of the villainous organization, the Black Glove, who wished to break him utterly and kill him. Following his Heel Realization, Bruce took off for a year in order to rebuild Batman. Unfortunately, due to the growing cynicism in the DC Universe, Batman began to distrust others more and more, which was ultimately addressed in Infinite Crisis, where the Brother Eye satellite he created was responsible for the creation and control of the metahuman-hunting cyborgs, the O.M.A.C.s. As years went on, Bruce has joined many superteams in the fight against crime, most notably the Justice League of America and the Outsiders.
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