Bruce Wayne's Parents Can't Stop Dying: A Supercut

The murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne is one of the most important moments in comic book history, and as such, we have seen it unfold on screen again and again and again. Only a few retellings, including the beloved Batman: The Animated Series, have skipped it. The most recent iteration was, of course, just a couple nights ago in the pilot episode of Gotham (how did you all like that one?). To commemorate yet another scene of the future Batman’s parents getting shot in an alley after watching The Mark of Zorro, Vulture has put together this supercut of all the onscreen portrayals of the event.

What makes this video immensely more interesting than a simple edit that places all the scenes back to back, is that the video editors at Vulture play all the scenes simultaneously, matching up the first gunshot in each iteration, so we can see the subtle differences between them. It’s worth watching a few times just to take them all in, but then eat some ice cream or watch this video of pandas or just anything, ANYTHING, that will cheer you up because watching young Bruce Wayne watch his parents die over and over is kind of a downer.