Trivia. Unlike most interpretations of the character, Thomas Wayne, in the Telltale series, is corrupt and has ties to criminals. Though he's shown to have saved a young Carmine Falcone in flashbacks during The Long Halloween storyline, there are no other instances where Wayne was involved in a life of crime.
After reviewing the evidence presented in the film, the truth about Thomas Wayne, like most people, is complicated, and he is neither solely good nor solely bad. Part of the lesson Batman learns over the course of the film is that people, and the crimes they commit, are more complicated than he originally believed.
Thomas Wayne of the Flashpoint timeline is an alternate version Batman who hunts down criminals to protect the citizens of Gotham City. However, unlike his son, he is willing to kill the villains he faces and wields firearms.
Later, Arthur goes to Arkham State Hospital and steals his mother's records, and finds out that he was in fact adopted, and that Thomas Wayne is not his father and that Penny is not his true mother.
Thomas Wayne was a good man, who created an orphanage and helped people in need. He even gave medical atention to Carmine Falcone despite knowing he was a criminal.
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Is The Joker Thomas Wayne's son?
One of the mysteries in director Todd Phillips' Joker is whether Arthur Fleck really is the son of Thomas Wayne as his mother Penny Fleck claimed. Both Wayne himself and Alfred Pennyworth said it was untrue and that Penny was delusional, hence her eventual stay in Arkham Asylum.
As the treadmill vanishes from the scene into the timestream, Thomas cites a quote he had told Bruce after he first fell into the cave: "Waynes never stay down... they rise!" These, in fact, are Thomas' final words as he defiantly plunges himself into the anti-matter wave while the world turns white around him.
Whereas Barry Allen's opposing forces in The Flash are the corrupted future version of his younger self and destiny itself, Barry's main villain in the original Flashpoint comic storyline is Eobard Thawne a.k.a. Reverse-Flash, who kills Barry's mother and sets in motion the events that lead the Flash to travel back in ...
Flashpoint Batman was known as the most dangerous hero in his world because he didn't mess around with criminals. Unlike Batman on the main DC Earth, Flashpoint Batman had no problem killing criminals, making sure that his villains couldn't keep coming back to attack Gotham and make his life difficult.
What killed Flashpoint wasn't bad ratings or unpopularity -- it was a creative decision made by the show's team. In May of 2012, producers Anne Marie La Traverse and Bill Mustos told Flashpoint's cast and crew that the final thirteen episodes would wrap by late June of the same year.
When Spike decides to attempt a water weight transfer as a last ditch effort, Lou realizes that attempting it could result in both of their deaths. After calling his parents to tell them he loves them, Lou steps off the land mine and sacrifices himself to protect his friend.
Desperate, Wayne turned to Falcone to have the latter intimidate the reporter, only for Falcone to kill him so he could have something on the Wayne family. Wayne, wracked with guilt, threatened to reveal everything to the police; he and his wife to be killed were murdered a week later.
Thomas's letter tells Bruce that the loss he suffered has corrupted him, that he is consumed by his past and is neither a Hero or even a good man. He credits those qualities to Barry Allen, due to his ability to move past his own loss and find hope and love again, hinting perhaps that he hopes Bruce can do the same.
Despite Thomas Wayne's Batman being crucial to the Flashpoint storyline in the comics, it seems as though it has been completely omitted from The Flash, but this isn't the only casualty of the live-action adaptation.
According to Penny, Arthur was born of an affair she had with Thomas when she worked for him. She said in a flashback that Thomas' wealth, power, and influence helped to produce the claim and paperwork that Arthur was adopted.
In that issue, Batman discovers that Joe Chill, the small-time crime boss he is investigating, is none other than the man who killed his parents. Batman confronts him with the knowledge that Chill killed Thomas and Martha Wayne.
Image via Warner Bros. Key to Arthur's spiral is new information he learns from his mother Penny (Frances Conroy), with whom he lives. Arthur finds a letter Penny has written to Thomas Wayne, claiming that Wayne is Arthur's real father.
This raises the question as to why Batman was scared of Lex Luthor specifically. The reason Batman's other villains can't compare is that Lex Luthor is the literal foil to Bruce Wayne. Bruce's greatest fear is becoming the very evil he fights against every night, which explains Batman's no-kill rule.
“I'm not going to kill you. I want you to do me a favor. I want you to tell all your friends about me.” Right before delivering the iconic “I'm Batman,” line, Batman establishes himself as a presence for the criminals of Gotham City to fear.
Bruce Wayne has had numerous variations for why he selected Batman as his alter ego to fight crime. Typically the reason is that he had a fear of bats that he took over to transfer over to strike fear into his enemies.
Throughout the first season, Thomas was revealed to have committed various atrocities, including drugging Esther Cobblepot, committing people to Arkham Asylum in order to steal their lands and wealth, and had the Arkham family assassinated when they opposed his amoral actions.
Casualties. The murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne was perpetrated by mugger Joe Chill in Gotham City on the night of April 26, 1981. The incident was the main catalyst of Bruce Wayne becoming the Batman.
That includes the Joker, whose endless cycle of committing crimes, killing innocent people, being captured, and breaking out of Arkham Asylum has caused severe problems in Batman's life and Gotham City.
In Unconditional Love, the season three premiere, Leah leaves the team to deal with a family emergency. She returns in season five, in the episode Run To Me, after Raf leaves the team. It is then revealed that she left to assist her parents after the Haiti earthquake.
Initially, Lou seems to sacrifice her own life in the pursuit of killing her son. But Lou's ending scene reveals that she is alive and still watching over Hannah and Vee. She secretly keeps an eye on them because she is now a fugitive, with the CIA trying to track her down.
