Batman knows a lot about Martha Wayne, but not enough. He only knows that his mother was once the eldest daughter of the Kane family. She received the most traditional elite education. After getting married, she took care of both career and family. She was a good woman. Wife and good mother.
But after truly investigating the history of the Kane family, Batman discovered that Martha Kane was actually married.
Perhaps many DC fans have only heard of the Wayne family and that Batman is extremely wealthy, but that actually happened after Batman was born. In many comic settings, for a long time, Brother Tan has four major families.
The Kane family has actually been the richest family in Gotham for the longest time, and has even been the most powerful family for a long time. It is the head of the four major families, while the Wayne family is a relatively young upstart.
The marriage of the Kane family and the Wayne family can be called a powerful alliance, or it can be said to be a joining of old and new. Since then, Gotham has been unstoppable.
One of the reasons for the decline of the Kane family is that the leader of the previous generation of the Kane family only had an only daughter, Martha. After Martha married into the Wayne family, the other children of the Kane family were relatively average and found it difficult to support the family. Only then did the Kane family gradually fall behind the Wayne family.
Coupled with the fact that this generation of the Wayne family has produced a peerless genius like Bruce, the Wayne family has developed into the giant that the industry is today all over the world.
In the era of gangster rule in Gotham, no family can be called innocent, especially those of Bruce's grandfather's generation. In a city like this, who can interact with darkness without some darkness?
Kane Sr. is very devoted to the education of his only daughter. From Thomas in the Flash universe becoming Batman, it was Martha who became the Joker. It can be seen that the two of them are evenly matched and very similar.
In most cartoon descriptions, Thomas and Martha run the Wayne family's industry together, rather than Thomas shouldering the burden alone. Martha takes care of her husband and raises children at home. They are not a traditional family where the male is the outsider and the female is the inside. structure, but a strong alliance.
When Martha was still alive, the Kane family, although slightly declining, was still a giant in Gotham City. The Wayne family did not surpass it by much, but now that Martha has returned to the Kane family, she has a look , the Kane family is almost so confused that no such person can be found.
Twenty hours is enough for a huge business empire to fall to pieces, and twenty years is enough for the situation to change and the classes to change. Although Kane is still a big family in Gotham, he is different from the huge figure of that glorious era. In comparison, it has declined a lot.
Now, they are entrenched on a small piece of land on the edge of Midtown. The leader of the Kane family's generation is Martha's cousin. He was a little slower to react when the war started, and a little slower when moving, which caused them to The family headquarters was not even located in the most prosperous area of the Kane family's business, but was squeezed into a nearby block.
Martha, who had just finished arguing with her husband, was already in a bad mood, and when she went back and saw this scene, she was even more furious. She and Thomas were more tactful when they quarreled, because they had been married for many years and shared weal and woe, and now they were reunited after a long separation. Of course, you can't say it too harshly.
But how could the temper of the only daughter of the top big family at that time, a wealthy lady who had been groomed as an heir since childhood, be so good? Martha's background meant that no matter what, she would never be the kind of woman who would marry into a wealthy family and be the kind of woman who would swallow her humiliation and marry into a wealthy family. It was even less possible for her to look at the face of her junior, not to mention that this junior was extremely stupid.
With a few words, Martha made the stupid cousin turn livid, and then she stopped caring about him. She quickly counted the number of people, checked the reserve materials, checked the arms inventory, and then tightened the defense line of the station so that the hyenas who wanted to take advantage of the situation had no chance. .
The more Martha checked, the more anxious and angry she became. She had been dead for more than 20 years. How could the Kane family be like this?
Martha immediately decided that she could not continue like this. This was no longer a question of whether the Kane family could be revitalized, but whether the family's name could be preserved and prevented from being eliminated by the times.
Unlike this generation of family leaders who are in a hurry, Martha's education was originally in the context of gang rule. She learned about territory, mergers, and street fighting.
Simply put, my lord, times have changed again.
Martha and Thomas were originally from the gangster era, and they happened to be dying when Gotham's era changed.
During the time when Falcone was fighting in Gotham, they had watched the fireworks falling to the ground. When they saw the artillery fire, didn't the beautiful scenery they were familiar with when they were children come back?
Therefore, Martha organized the manpower, distributed equipment, and made tactical arrangements with ease, preparing to attack Huanglong.
Martha's cousin has always planned to take back the streets where the Kane family's industries are concentrated, but Martha is full of contempt for this idea, and her decision-making is full of gangster style.
What is a gang? The gangster means that whatever I can grab is my property, who cares what the name of this property is?
What is a gang? Gangsters spend the least amount of money to do the biggest thing. If they can rob a hundred, they will never rob fifty. If they can rob the best, they won't rob the bad.
So who owns the best and highest quality industry in the entire Zhongcheng District?
Martha simply declared war on the Wayne family. Not ten minutes after the declaration of war was sent out, the Wayne family's motorcade was suddenly intercepted by the Kane family while they were eating hot pot and singing songs.
In fact, with the assets of the Wayne family, there should have been no rivals in Gotham City for a long time. However, Bruce Wayne could not act too far ahead. In order to disguise himself, he deliberately slowed down the fight by half a beat. After that, he didn’t take any special trouble to maintain his territory.
This led to the fact that when Thomas took over, the defense of the base was pretty good, but the logistics and transportation system was a semi-finished product, and due to raw material sanctions, the chemical plant, the lifeblood of the economy, was also in a semi-standstill state.
Thomas was so angry. In fact, he could understand Bruce's need to hide his clumsiness. He knew without even thinking that Bruce in this world would definitely become Batman. In order not to reveal his identity, it was understandable that his development would be slower.
However, being beaten by his wife was related to a man's self-esteem. Thomas was so angry that he directly showed up to take over the Wayne Group's business and became the direct leader of the Wayne family.
Not to be outdone, he sent people to directly surround the small residence of the Kane family, betting that the Kane family would not have so many supplies to waste with him. However, Martha contacted her former close friend, now silent Thomas. Elliot's biological aunt, Fanessa Elliot, stabbed the Wayne family station from behind.
Immediately afterwards, Thomas repeated his old trick and contacted the Sullivan family, which runs a casino in Gotham, blocking the traffic link between the two Kane family locations, weakening the connection between the two places, and preventing the smooth completion of their internal circulation system. .
The two of them had a great time fighting back and forth. More importantly, they were born in the gangster era and were very familiar with this kind of facts. The young leaders of other families in Gotham were dazzled and stunned. In the final analysis, you Dad will always be your dad.
But Batman is in a rather awkward position. His current thoughts can be summarized as: Can anyone pay attention to me?
What should you do if your middle-aged parents not only want a divorce but also start a fight? It's quite a rush to wait online.
And soon, Batman had something important to do again. Thomas and Martha finally thought of him, but it was better not to think of him.
A dilemma that every child will experience is when parents quarrel and ask you who you want to be with. Batman never dreamed that others would have to face this kind of problem in middle age.
"Bruce, listen to me, your mother is very irritable right now. I have explained it to her before. I just hope that Wayne Group can have a good heir, so I pay too much attention to Damian." , but I didn’t neglect the other children, Dick and Jason both liked me.”
"As for smoking and drinking, withdrawal also requires a process. I was very busy in that universe before and was under a lot of pressure. I really didn't have time to pay attention to this, but she just didn't listen to my explanation."
"You have to work with me to calm her down. What can't a family sit together and talk about? You're right, Bruce."
As soon as Batman put the phone down, the phone rang again, and Martha's urgent voice came from the other side.
"Little Bruce, you have to come here quickly. Your father has given up everything for business. If this continues, those children will definitely be sad because of what he has done."
"There is also the problem of his smoking and drinking. If nothing else, Aisha has just entered kindergarten. Is it appropriate for him to go home smelling like cigarettes? What if it intoxicates the child?"
"The girlfriend of Bruce from that universe also often comes to Wayne Manor. If he gets so drunk that others see him in bad shape, if word gets out, will the reputation of the Wayne family and the Kane family be ruined?"
"We need to resolutely put an end to his disregard for the family, and more importantly, get him to get out of his precious business and listen to us. What can't a family sit down and talk about? You're right, Bruce? .”
Batman doesn't feel right.
Because while they were saying "What can't we sit down and talk about as a family?", they were almost throwing missiles at each other's heads. What on earth were they doing? ? ?
In fact, this is also caused by the cognitive gap. In the era of Batman's parents, this level of gang violence was normal. This city has never been reasonable. Any crime is an amplified version. How many gang families are there? Is it reasonable for two streets to start small wars with each other?
Therefore, in Thomas and Martha's view, although they may be venting the anger of the quarrel, at best they are testing and warning each other.
But when Batman was born, the gang was in its infancy, the hierarchy was completely solidified, and there was nothing to fight for. Gotham was full of lifelessness. He had never seen such a battle.
To put it bluntly, he has to accept the fact that his parents have been dead for many years, right?
But he was stunned for a moment, and Thomas and Martha used their wisdom and knowledge to let Batman see what it means to be united in the heyday of gangsters.
When they found that the warnings and temptations were fruitless, and their sons did not express their opinions, both of them became surprisingly angry, and the result was that they both showed their true skills.
Although the Kane family, Gotham's old aristocracy, was in decline, they still had some connections. After making private contacts, Martha summoned almost all the old wealthy people in Gotham. Taking advantage of their large bases and manpower, they broke through the Wayne family's logistics blockade in one fell swoop. On this basis, a complete logistics system was built, and it also directly occupied Gotham's largest dock so far.
As old moneymen, they know best the methods of collusion between government and business. Martha spent a large amount of money as a political donation to Mayor Oswald Cobot, and at the same time strongly supported the construction of his deep-water port. Cobot For a time, the limelight was unparalleled, and the old nobles also followed suit.
Thomas took full advantage of his abundant liquidity and fully participated in the arms industry, gambling and smuggling industries, and then used economic warfare to force the other party to reduce the overall shareholding ratio of urban industrial construction, constantly eroding the other party's industrial scale. .
So what is Batman doing?
He mixed things up at both ends.
There is no other way. If he doesn't interfere with these two people, they will really start to fight. If there is a real fight and they become enemies, there is only one advantage, and that is that the clown who is now locked up in the Batcave can die happily.
Therefore, Batman had to run around. Wayne picked up the food while he turned the tables, Kane drank the water while he drove the car, his father listened to the cards and he touched the cards, and his mother raised a glass and he drank first. Anyway, as long as none of them can achieve anything, the crisis It will be solved naturally.
But in fact, this is a bit like parents quarreling at home, and the child blows up the stove. The quarrel is indeed over, and then it’s time to fry the meat.
Thomas and Martha finished the operation and realized at the same time, why is something wrong with this matter? Why can't they start a fight after they've been busy for a long time?
So, on a dark and stormy night, as soon as Batman returned home, he saw Thomas and Martha sitting on the sofa, while Alfred winked at him from the side.
If Batman knows Alfred well, his eyes should say "Run away!" at this time.
There is no time skip button in reality
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(End of chapter)
