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Control the origin, control the character, even partially. It’s why we get “the real reason (X) happened”. There might be a story there, but really they just want the ego boost to be part of canon and something writers after them are forced or even willingly use. There’s a reason Joe Chill being a simple mugger on the wrong night has taken hold in iconography in comics and from the first time it left comics to today. It’s simple and clean. It makes Bruce the victim of crime in general, not one specifically targeted to his family. Sometime comics try to hard to be complex under the mistaken belief that complexity is… I don’t know, more sophisticated or mature, maybe. It can be silly but it can also be a mistake. Just let the random mugging origin stand. It works for a reason.
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