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I considered cutting that, but Tim Burton wanted to make the story personal, and Jack Napier does that. If it was me, Joe Chill is the only person who ever kills Bruce's parents. It's a random act of violence, an act of a pitiful creature in the throes of a common crime. There's no easy justice for his parents, no super-villain.

But Burton tells a different story, and one that, for this series, I'm happy to maintain because making the first Batman film brings an emotional root to a character where emotional roots are very hard to find.
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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful