Did The Batman Secretly Reveal Who Really Killed Bruce Wayne's Parents?
Did The Batman secretly reveal who really killed Bruce Wayne's parents? In the latest solo Batman film from director Matt Reeves, the story takes place during Bruce Wayne's second year as the Dark Knight, having already established himself as a vigilante in Gotham City. Robert Pattinson leads an all-star cast including Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, Paul Dano as The Riddler, Colin Farrell as The Penguin, Jeffrey Wright as Jim Gordon, and Andy Serkis as Alfred, among other notable performances. The Batman never shows the death of Thomas and Martha Wayne, Bruce Wayne's parents, instead treating it as a part of the film's much larger mystery that unravels throughout the film. While Bruce is carrying out his mission as Batman in response to his parent's murder, he never specifically mentions the moment, let alone who he saw do it—or if he was even there, as is generally the case with the character's origin story. For Matt Reeves, ambiguity is the name of the game for The Batman.
What becomes apparent is that Bruce's father, Thomas Wayne—a doctor and mayoral candidate for Gotham City—found himself involved with mobsters like Carmine Falcone (John Turturro) and Salvatore Maroni, which put him in the cross-hairs of their wrath. When a reporter uncovered the fact that Martha Wayne (originally Martha Arkham) had a history of severe mental illness and threatened to expose the information during Thomas Wayne's mayoral campaign, Thomas turned to Falcone in a moment of weakness, asking him to scare the reporter from releasing the information. However, Falcone saw Thomas Wayne's moment of weakness as an opportunity to gain leverage and had the reporter killed. Wayne was furious about the murder and threatened to go to the police, ending up
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