The Batman: The History Of The Waynes And Arkhams Explained

The Batman is currently making all sorts of waves as an exciting new potential franchise for the Caped Crusader. Response has been mostly positive and many are excited to see this brand new version of Gotham City and how it will continue to grow and expand in the future. But how is a city like this formed? Well by wealthy, old-school families of course! The Batman made it a big point to mention how The Waynes and The Arkhams were two of the city’s oldest, most influential, most powerful families in the city, and they ended up merging with the marriage of Thomas Wayne and Martha Arkham. That’s a really fascinating plot point as that’s a bit of a change from main comic continuity. Martha Wayne’s maiden name is traditionally Kane, with only some later versions of the character actually being Martha Arkham. That sets the stage for an epic examination of old school power dynamics in future films, so I thought today would be a great time to examine these two mega-families.
What exactly made the Waynes and the Arkhams all powerful? What are all their skeletons in their closets? And how will these secrets and comic history carry over to live action? That’s what I’m talking about today! So join me today and don’t forget to hit that big like and subscribe button after you’re done. Oh and be sure to leave a comment or else The Batman 2 will devote a significant amount of time to showing The Waynes take a trip down Crime Alley and we don’t need that right? Better not risk it. Let’s get started!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:34 The Waynes
02:36 The Arkhams
04:30 Thomas and Martha
07:03 The Future of The Batman
09:16 Court of Owls?
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Do you think the next Batman movie will give us more details on more well-known characters?

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A super interesting story-line would be that Martha Wayne had an affair with this reporter and named their son Thomas. In Hush's backstory we see that he is child-hood friends with Bruce Wayne. I don't know if this would work for a potential sequel, Just something I thought would be an interesting plot point.

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Did they say her maiden name was Arkham, or that her family was Arkham? It could be her mother's maiden name where she was able to avoid the stigma and married a Kane.

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Thomas’ wanting for people to stop meddling in his personal affairs and it being misinterpreted is a DIRECT reference to King Henry II telling his knights, “Will someone rid me of this meddlesome priest?!” referring to Thomas Becket and how that misinterpretation can turn that person into a villain.

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I wish they would just make a compelling Court of Owls movie or story already.

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What do you think the live action version of the Court of Owls is going to be like and will it be similar or better than the League of Assassins from Christopher Nolan Dark Knight trilogy?

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What do you think this version of Batman is going to be like with his parents have different origin stories?

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