When the Waynes were walking home after the movie, a mugger named Joe Chill attempted to rob them at gunpoint, and panicked, shooting both Thomas and Martha dead. En route back to the station, Bruce witnessed Jim accepting a trenchcoat as a bribe from a tailor - though neither realized it was a bribe at the time - but Bruce would remember it as an indicator of Jim's character.Īfter his parents picked Bruce up at the police station, the Waynes went to see The Mark of Zorro at the Monarch Theater. On one such outing, when he was ten years old, he was picked up by Officer Jim Gordon and his partner on their patrol. Īs he grew older, his family's reputation made Bruce restless, and he began sneaking out of school to visit Gotham City, where he wouldn't be so easily recognized. As such, Alfred - who had been an actor at the Globe Theatre at the time and a military medic before that, traveled to Gotham City to take up his father's place, serving the Waynes as butler. A letter he'd written to his son Alfred, warning him away from the beleaguered Wayne family, was never delivered.

While on vacation to forget about these events, the Wayne Family butler, Jarvis Pennyworth was killed by one of the Court of Owls' Talons. She and Bruce survived, but the accident forced Martha into premature labor, and the baby was lost. However, because of her intent to found a school for the underprivileged in Gotham, she was targeted by the manipulative Court of Owls, who arranged for her to have a car accident.

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