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Bruce Wayne with a portrait of his deceased parents in Batman vol. 3, #9 (December 2016). Art by Mikel Janín. Art by Mikel Janín. Dr. Wayne's role in his son's future vigilante career is expanded upon in "The First Batman", a Silver Age tale from Detective Comics #235, which reveals that Dr. Wayne attacks and defeats hoodlums while dressed ...
In Tim Burton's Batman, Joe Chill robs Bruce Wayne's parents before his associate Jack Napier shoots them both. Later in the film, Napier becomes the Joker after his first encounter with Batman; Bruce recalls the memory of Chill's cries and realizes that Napier was the murderer of his parents. The two foes later realize that they "made each other".
Batman's early adventures drew inspiration from contemporary pulp fiction and characters like Zorro and the Shadow, establishing Batman as a master detective with a dark, brooding persona driven by the murder of his parents.
In Batman #208 (January/February 1969), it is revealed that both Joe and Max had changed their name to Chill from Chilton and that their mother was the housekeeper to Bruce Wayne's uncle Philip, who became Bruce's primary guardian after his parents' deaths. As Philip was often away on business, Mrs. Chilton played the primary parental role in ...
He, like the Batman, had lost his parents to a Gotham crime at an early age. Nocturna: Doug Moench Don Newton Gene Colan: Detective Comics #529 (August 1983) Natalia Knight (originally called Natasha in the three-issue arc that introduces her) is a thief and manipulator whose skin was bleached pale white by an experimental laser in a work ...
Martha Wayne (née Kane) [2] is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.She is the mother of Bruce Wayne (Batman), and wife of Dr. Thomas Wayne as well as the paternal grandmother of Damian Wayne, the fifth Robin.
The "Friends" actor's love of Batman started when he was a boy — and he used it to connect with his dad. Later, as he battled addiction, he related to Batman rising time and again.
Batman was born under the cruel and repressive regime of Joseph Stalin, as an adult he decided to overthrow the Russian government and avenge the death of his parents. Although Batman conducts many secret attacks against the government, he accepts Luthor's offer and decidesD to focus on destroying Superman.