In Andrew Vachss' novel Batman: The Ultimate Evil, Chill (who is never seen) is revealed to have killed Bruce Wayne's parents on the orders of an international ring of pedophiles. They wanted to silence Bruce's mother Martha, who was investigating their network of sexual slavery and child pornography.
Tim Burton's first Batman film released in 1989 contained the shocking revelation that a young Jack Napier killed the Waynes. Fans of the film know that Jack Napier would later become The Joker, adding a whole new layer to the infamous Batman/Joker rivalry.
Thomas and Martha Wayne were, by all accounts, good people. They taught their son well, and they treated their butler, Alfred Pennyworth, with impeccable kindness. However, this isn't true across the DC multiverse, and there are timelines where the Waynes were downright evil people.
The main premise behind Batman is that he was seeking answers and justice for hi parents death. Being that his parents died while he was a child it's hard for him to exact any type of effective revenge on them and it doesn't seem to fit his motivation that he would want to.
If Bruce Wayne's parents hadn't been murdered in front of him, Bruce would have been sent to college and medical school, and gone into the family trade.
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 and reveals his secret identity. The frightened Chill flees, seeks out his cohorts, explains the encounter, and begs for their protection.
He had loving parents who were gunned down when he was just a child. Their deaths left such an impact on him that he spent the rest of his life training to stop criminals and keep the same thing from happening to other people.
During Batman's funeral, it was revealed that Alfred created the identity of the Joker to antagonize Batman, presenting himself as the Dark Knight's greatest villain.
Due to Damian spending his gestation in a laboratory, he was raised by his mother, Talia, until he was 10, at which point she left him in the care of his father, Bruce, who had not been aware of his son's existence until that point in time.
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.
History. The first generation of Waynes made their fortune by trading pelts and skins with the French, when Bruce Wayne was little, his father Thomas would sit Bruce down in Wayne Manor and explain to him the origins of the Wayne Manor and his family's legacy.
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.
Doomsday as he appeared in Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey #2 (May 1994). Doomsday ranked as #46 on IGN's list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time. He is best known as the character that killed Superman in The Death of Superman story arc "Doomsday!".
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.
Wayne violently asserts that he is not Arthur's father as soon as Arthur introduces himself, and point-blank tells Arthur that he was adopted and that Penny Fleck had been committed because of her delusional belief there was something between her and Wayne.
Batman and Joker definitely aren't brothers in the comics. While the Joker movie plays very deeply with this idea, it still maintains the same stance. In the books, Joker's origin story has been a mystery. Readers have come across multiple different ones over the years.
And before he passed, he made sure that Dick Grayson would inherit all of it, with the charge to use it to better the world in ways no one else could imagine. It turns out that all this time, Alfred was almost as rich as Bruce Wayne -- perhaps even richer.
Alfred became the sole person in Batman's home who knew his secret and the primary person for Bruce to share information with. This evolved further after Crisis on Infinite Earths rewrote Batman's history. Now Alfred had been a part of Bruce's life since before his parents died, changing him from a peer to family.
After she met Bruce for the first time, however, Talia began to admire him almost immediately, and believed that he would make a valuable ally. Over time, that admiration eventually turned to infatuation.
With his last dying breath, Bruce's father called out his mother's name in a whisper while the mugger ran off into the night. From then on, Bruce was raised by the Wayne family's bodyguard, Alfred Pennyworth.
