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Editor's note: The first episode of Telltale's Batman is out today on PC, PS4, Xbox One, X360, PS3 and mobile. We'll be looking to give you a full review once all episodes have been released, and for now here's our take on the series' opening.I've witnessed Thomas and Martha Wayne die too many times to count. I've seen them gunned down outside the Monarch Theatre by Joe Chill, sometimes by the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, sometimes because he's a hitman hired to take one or both of them out. I've read stories where Thomas is apparently alive and trying to make contact with his son, stories where there's a second Wayne son, or stories where husband and wife are saved only to be later killed by a business partner. I've learned about their lives in reverse; sometimes they're kind and generous to a fault, sometimes they make noble but ultimately poor decisions regarding city figureheads that inexorably lead to their downfall, sometimes Thomas is a cold, even cruel father who hits his child and later feels guilty about it.
There have even been alternate realities like the one where it was Bruce, not his parents, that had been gunned down - leading Thomas to become Batman and Martha to become the Joker. Even those who have never picked up a Batman comic in their life are intimately familiar with the events in Crime Alley. Many have witnessed Michael Keaton dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight and Val Kilmer having a severely negative reaction to a falling rose in the early films, and many more still have stopped by to press X and pay their respects in the Arkhamverse games. Even if you didn't know their names, you knew the integral role the Waynes played in the birth (both literal and figurative) of Batman.
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