| “ | Wait, listen. I'll make this right. I can even the score for you with Thomas Wayne. He's the reason you're in here, not me. I'll make sure he suffers. Him and his whole family. | „ |
| ~ Joe Chill to Lew Moxon about getting revenge for Moxon's imprisonment. |
Joe Chill is the titular main antagonist of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Chill of the Night!". Like most incarnations, he is a criminal who murdered Bruce Wayne's parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne, leading Bruce to become Batman.
He was voiced by Peter Onorati.
Biography[]
Early life[]
As a young man, Joe Chill worked as hired muscle for mob boss Lew Moxon. One night, he helped Moxon rob a charity costume ball attended by Gotham City's wealthiest citizens, including Dr. Thomas Wayne and his wife, Martha. Thomas, who was dressed as a bat, managed to fight the robbers off and summoned the police, who arrested Moxon and most of his men; Chill, however, escaped.
When Chill visited Moxon in jail, Moxon accused him of botching the robbery and threatened to have him killed, but Chill offered to make things right between them by murdering Thomas Wayne. Moxon accepted the offer and told Chill to make the murder look like a mugging gone wrong. Chill later attacked the Wayne family as they were walking home from seeing The Mask of Zorro, and shot Thomas and Martha Wayne dead in front of their young son, Bruce.
After murdering the Waynes, Chill became a black market weapons dealer, selling various implements of destruction to Gotham City's criminal underworld, including its many supervillains. He escaped any legal punishment for murdering the Waynes, but, unbeknownst to him, Bruce grew up to become the masked vigilante Batman, whose war on crime included finding his parents' killer.
"Chill of the Night!"[]
On his deathbed, a penitent Moxon confesses to a priest - who is in fact Batman in disguise - that he ordered Chill to kill Thomas Wayne, although he insists that he did not want Martha dead and was horrified that Chill killed her. Batman tracks Chill down to a warehouse in which he is trying to sell a sonic laser weapon to the Joker, the Penguin, Two-Face, Poison Ivy, the Mad Hatter, Solomon Grundy, and Mr. Freeze. When Batman interrupts the sale, the supervillains flee the scene, leaving Batman and Chill alone. Batman accuses Chill of murdering his parents, taking off his mask to reveal his true identity. He then beats Chill to a pulp until he is left cowering on the floor, helpless.
Unbeknownst to Batman, Chill, and the supervillains, the supernatural beings the Phantom Stranger and the Spectre have been watching everything from another dimension, having placed a wager on whether Batman would commit murder under the right circumstances; the Spectre bet that Batman could be driven to kill if he ever found the man who murdered his parents, while the Phantom Stranger bet that Batman would never break his guiding principle - never to take a life, under any circumstances. When Batman has Chill at his mercy, the Spectre tries to influence the Dark Knight to kill him in cold blood. Batman ultimately controls his anger, however, and spares Chill's life, telling his parents' killer that he made him what he is.
Terrified, Chill runs to the supervillains' hideout seeking their protection, and excitedly blurts out that Batman told him he started fighting crime because of him. Realizing that Chill is responsible for the existence of the crimefighter who makes their lives miserable, the villains turn on him and threaten to kill him. At that moment, however, Batman appears and fights off the villains, determined to prevent a murder even if the intended victim is his parents' killer. The Joker grabs for the laser weapon, intending to kill Batman and Chill with it, but Batman knocks it out of his archenemy's hands, which causes the weapon to fire into the ceiling, which in turn causes the building to collapse. The villains escape the building, but Chill is crushed under the falling rubble; it is implied that Spectre manipulated the crumbling roof to fall on him. As he dies, Chill admits to Batman that he killed his parents, and that, in a way, Batman managed to "get him" after all.
Trivia[]
- Chills' death is a reminiscent from the mainstream universe's incarnation where he was gunned down by his own henchmen for "creating" the person responsible for their prison terms, although the difference is he did not admitted his crimes to Batman's rogues gallery and he did not die due to a falling debris.
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