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- The Batman is a modern-day take on the legend of the Dark Knight.
- As a result of its modernity, Bruce Wayne’s parents were killed in the year 2001.
- Fans of the film have been joking about what movie the Wayne family went to see the night Thomas and Martha were killed.
If you’ve seen The Batman by now, then you know the film is quite the modern take on The Dark Knight, as the film mentions the fact that Bruce Wayne’s parents Thomas and Martha were killed in the year 2001.
As a result of this tidbit, fans of The Batman have taken to Twitter to hilariously speculate on which 2001 film the Waynes went to see on that fateful night, with guesses ranging from The Fast and the Furious to Shrek to Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone.
What movie did the Wayne family see the night they were killed in The Batman?
#TheBatman suggests that Thomas and Martha Wayne were killed in 2001, which means it’s possible they died after taking their son to see ‘The Fast and the Furious’.
This would explain Bruce’s unwavering commitment to family.
— Eric Italiano (@eric_ital) March 23, 2022
https://twitter.com/jbillinson/status/1499589812763910148
In "The Batman," they said Bruce Wayne's parents were murdered in October of 2001. Meaning if you go by release dates, it's possible they were leaving a screening of Zoolander when it happened
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) March 20, 2022
Everyone is WRONG about what movie Bruce Wayne saw before his parents were murdered.
In Batman's opening narration, he says it is "Thursday, October 31st" which places the film in 2024 and the Waynes' murder in 2004.
The Wayne family saw Shark Tale that fateful night. pic.twitter.com/wR0Zvf2m42— Ben Crew (@BenjaminCrew1) March 19, 2022
If this new Batman is, like Robert Pattinson, 35 years old and Bruce Wayne was 8 when his parents were killed, it’s entirely possible that the movie Thomas and Martha Wayne saw just before their death was CITY SLICKERS II: THE LEGEND OF CURLY’S GOLD
— Richard Lawson (@rilaws) October 16, 2021
I think it's very possible that Thomas and Martha Wayne in #TheBatman were killed leaving a showing of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
— VENGEANCE🦇 (@BatSource1) March 9, 2022
Thomas and Martha Wayne dying at a mugger’s hands after taking their son to see Jackass Forever
— maxgrobinson.bsky.social (@DieRobinsonDie) February 1, 2022
The new Batman movie suggests that Thomas and Martha Wayne were killed in 2001, which means it’s very likely that they died taking their beloved son Bruce to the theater to see Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
— Shreemi Verma (@shreemiverma) March 8, 2022
By the sliding timeline of Batman reboots, we should eventually get a movie where Thomas and Martha Wayne were killed in 2005, which would mean they most likely died after taking Bruce to go see Batman Begins.
— Alex Zalben (@azalben) March 6, 2022
https://twitter.com/GeneralGrantW/status/1506120480352260097
In #TheBatman , Thomas and Martha Wayne were killed in October 2001. If they were leaving a musical, it would have been The Producers.
— Outa Here (@BoloBoffin) March 20, 2022
https://twitter.com/matthewsoffer/status/1503170973247447042
Wildest thing about #TheBatman is Bruce's parents being alive in 2001 when J.Lo and Ja Rule's "I'm real [murder remix] was on the top 100… meaning at some point Thomas and Martha Wayne were in the whip singing, "The way you walk, the way you move, the way you talk"
— Ghost in the HTML (@OmarHolmon) March 13, 2022
https://twitter.com/kolchak/status/1502176628956295168
Traditionally, the death of Thomas and Martha Wayne is depicted as taking place on Crime Alley in Gotham City. What the family went to see that fateful has varied over the years: in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, the family of three is seen leaving a showing of The Mask of Zorro. In Batman Begins, however, the Waynes perish following a performance of the opera Mefistofele. The Batman, though, does not specify what the Wayne family was up to the night Thomas and Martha were killed.
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The Batman — which stars Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Zoe Kravitz as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin, Paul Dano as Edward Nashton/Riddler, John Turturro as Carmine Falcone, Jeffrey Wright as Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon, Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth, and Peter Sarsgaard as Gotham District Attorney Gil Colson — is now playing in theaters.
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