Joe Chill

Joe Chill's History

Joe Chill was the man responsible for killing Thomas and Martha Wayne, the parents of Bruce Wayne, but was quickly arrested the very same night he murdered them.

Over the period when Bruce Wayne left Gotham, traveling the world, Chill built up a small criminal empire with a front which includes a legitimate business. He became a man of consequence.

In a hallucination, (taking place after reality was altered by Infinite Crisis) one of the first things Bruce did upon becoming the Batman was to torment Chill for weeks. Paranoid, hiring guards and living in his office, Chill lived on tenterhooks, until the night the Batman came for him. However, instead of killing him, as Chill had expected, he handed Chill the handgun with which he had killed the Waynes all those years ago. The horror of the realization that the Batman was that boy, and what his criminal associates would do to him when they found this out, drove him to take his own life.