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Coleman Reese was one of Bruce Wayne's employees at Wayne Enterprises.

Biography

Early Life

Coleman Reese was recruited from the graduating class of Gotham University's law school with promises of quick promotion and financial largesse. But over the next five years he was instead placed in a Wayne Enterprises law library to organize due diligence. Reese was always missing out on getting fair breaks, yet was once given that earned him a nice vacation in the south of France. But to him, a lawyer with his abilities shouldn't be stuck in a library doing chores, but in a courtroom where his eloquence, personal charm and charisma would not only be in winning cases, but also putting the best possible face on the company itself.

The Dark Knight

Now made the trust fund numbers holder in Wayne Enterprises' business deal with Lau Security Investments Holdings, Reese appeared to be more interested in money than anything else, as he was disappointed by Bruce Wayne's rejection of Lau's proposal, and finds his sleeping during the meeting an embarrassment. While assigned to diligence on the LSI Holdings deal, Reese found numerical irregularities due to the Applied Sciences division's sudden disappearance. Suspecting financial foul play, he scoured the corporate archives for information. Reese realized that Bruce Wayne was Batman when he discovered blueprints for the Tumbler. He offered to keep silent for ten million dollars each year for the rest of his life, but then decided to not speak out when Lucius Fox reminded him of Bruce Wayne's considerable wealth and influence, as well as his fighting prowess as Batman.

Later, after Bruce allowed Harvey Dent to get arrested for being Batman and the death of Rachel Dawes, Coleman was about to reveal the real identity on Gotham Tonight, but the Joker comes by via phone call, threatening to blow up a hospital if Reese wasn't killed within the hour, since the Joker doesn't want Reese to spoil the fun of the battle between himself and Batman. As a result, Reese is being targeted by several people (presumably out of fear of several of their relatives being in the local hospitals), but Bruce Wayne intervened and saved Reese's life from a madman trying to run him down with his truck. In gratitude, Reese agrees to keep Batman's identity a secret and vows never to speak of it again for good. 

Appearances

Behind the scenes

Trivia

  • Reese could be a nod to characters like Hugo Strange, Tim Drake, and Kim Basinger's portrayal of Vicki Vale, who each discovered Bruce Wayne's secret all on their own with minimal resources. In Sam Hamm's original script (prior to the Warren Skaaren re-write) Alexander Knox was the one to realize this while digging through the Gotham Globe archives. Like Reese, he attempted to blackmail Wayne into staying away from Vale.
  • On the subject of “Nod” Characters, some fans Believe he is a Riddler Easter Egg, or perhaps may have been planned to be the next villain until Nolan came up with the idea of making Bane into the main villain because Lucious Fox often addresses him as “Mr. Reese”, which sounds like the word, “Mysteries” which is what the Riddler is known for.
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