10 Things You Need To Know About Black Mask

10. His Origin

Roman Sionis was born to rich but distant parents who cared more for their own social standing then they did for him. For example, the day Roman was born, a doctor dropped him on his head. His parents however, refused to sue the hospital because they didn't want to have their family name embroiled in a lawsuit.

After both his parents died, Roman took control of his father's company Janus Cosmetics. Unsurprisingly for a company run by a man with potential brain damage, they soon went bust and were bought out by Wayne Enterprises.

Enraged, Roman went to visit his family crypt where he was struck by lightning and flung head first into a gravestone.

Rather than accepting the signs that the universe clearly hates him, Roman saw this as a sign of rebirth. He smashed apart his father's ebony casket with his bare hands and fashioned a chunk into a mask.

He then embarked on a life of crime as the Black Mask, to get revenge on Wayne Enterprises and take back what he felt he was owed, setting him on a collision course with Batman.

To be fair to him though, when you can walk off two counts of severe brain trauma and a lightning strike, you're probably not going to be that afraid of mixing it up with a man dressed as a flying mammal.