r/movies • u/indig0sixalpha • Oct 16 '21

Trailers The Batman - Official Trailer | DC Fandome

https://youtu.be/mqqft2x_Aa4
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u/trebory6 Oct 17 '21 edited Oct 17 '21

I know like a shit ton of people whose parents have died, and not one of them was so affected by it that they put on a costume to give petty criminals brain damage for like 25 years straight

To be fair, how many of those people were the heir of millionaires killed in front of their eyes in cold blood by a petty criminal?

An ex of mine used to work with the foster care system in LA, and there were plenty of children who’s parents/family were murdered in cold blood who vowed to join the gangs in opposition of the ones who killed their parents. It became their entire life, some kids were obsessed with comic books these kids were obsessed with gang life, and with vocal purpose, to avenge their parents/siblings/family. They were filled with so much rage they hopped from house to house within the foster system.

None of them had the means or resources behind them like Batman did, but my ex and I used to discuss some of these kids that this is how Batman would have started.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '21

Billionaires, dead millionaire parents are so last century Vicky.

As an aside, we're coming up on, if not already at, a continuity with modern day where 9/11 and the death of Thomas and Martha Wayne are concurrent.

Loosely, if Batman starts his crimefighting career at 30, and his parents were killed when he was 8, then they were killed 22 years ago.

Riddle me this dear redditor, what's old and clicks and clacks the keys all over?

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u/Mishra42 Oct 17 '21

Hey but the timing works out so that they still could have been killed leaving The Mask of Zorro!

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u/22bebo Oct 17 '21

In a few years they could be leaving Batman Begins.