Joe Chill

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"We'll start with the pretty pearls around the lady's neck... now."

Joe Chill was the gunman responsible for the murder of Bruce Wayne's mother and father.

History

One fateful night, Joe Chill had just so happened to come across the wealthy Wayne family, after they had just seen The Mark of Zorro. Chill cornered them in an alley, threatening them at gunpoint and demanded that they hand their valuables over. A scuffle ensued and culminated with Chill shooting and killing the boy’s parents. Witnessing the whole ordeal, the 8-year old Bruce took it upon himself to wage personal war on crime as the masked vigilante Batman.

Many years later, Chill appeared in during Batman's Black Mercy-induced dream. Bruce and his mother witnessed his father fighting back against Chill. When Wonder Woman managed to call out to Batman to remove the Black Mercy, the situation in his dream sequence changed for the worse to Bruce's horror. In the last moments of the fantasy, Chill finally managed to overpower Bruce's father and kill him.

The Joker eventually managed to learn about Chill's role in the death of Bruce Wayne's parents and by extension the creation of Batman after torturing Tim Drake into revealing this, or at the very least, Joker deduced the circumstances behind Batman's creation after learning Batman's true identity from Drake. Joker later proceeded to mock this revelation when revealing his torture to Batman in what was ultimately their final encounter by calling it anti-climactic due to it meaning Batman was "just a little kid in a playsuit crying for mommy and daddy" while inferring it was too pathetic to even laugh about it.

Background Information

The depicted subject bears the likeness of Joe Chill from the DC Comics; however, the DCAU character was never named on-screen, or otherwise. The title of this article is conjecture based on the character's likeness.

Appearances

Justice League

• "A Better World, Part II" ^{(Mentioned Only)}

Justice League Unlimited

• "For the Man Who Has Everything" ^{(Hallucination)}

Batman Beyond

• "Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker" (indirect mention)

External links

• Joe Chill at Wikipedia
• Joe Chill at the DC Database