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7. Batman Drives Joe Chill To Suicide

He’s not called the Dark Knight for nothing, and in this storyline, Bruce Wayne gets seriously sadistic. The defining moment of young Bruce’s life was the death of his parents, shot in an alleyway by a mugger with a gun. That mugger was Joe Chill and in various continuities he pulled the trigger because the Mafia had hired him to do it, because Martha startled him, and just because he felt like it. However, in almost all versions of the story, one thing remained constant. He dropped the gun and he let Bruce live.

In the New Earth timeline, Bruce kept the gun that Chill dropped that night. Throughout his years of training and becoming Batman, he held onto it, vowing revenge on the man who killed his parents. Finally, he found Chill, now older and having moved from petty crimes to running his own crime ring. Batman started to slowly torment the man who ruined his life — he stalked him and ruined his business, driving him to a state of constant paranoia and fear. Finally, he confronted him, handing over the gun used to kill the Waynes with a single bullet in the chamber. As Batman stood on the roof grinning evilly, Joe Chill shot himself.