then manifested itself after he and his parents left the opera house.
Once they got out of the building and into an alley, they are confronted by a mugger, Joe Chill, who shot both of Bruce’s parents and left them for dead.
Naturally he was so distraught by the incident, but he felt traumatized to the point where he blames himself for their murder saying that if he hadn’t gotten scared by the bats, this wouldn’t have happened. Alfred is left to take care of him and tells Bruce that his parent’s death was not his fault and was purely a crime on which he had no control. As he grew older, he started feeling less guilty and more angry about the incident. He even freely admits to this by saying “My anger outweighs my guilt (Nolan, C. 2005).” When he attended a hearing that decided whether they would release the man who murdered his parents from prison early or not, Bruce planned to kill him by shooting him without any eye witnesses, but it was too late as somebody else did it for him. When confiding to his friend Rachel, he insisted that his parents deserved justice and that he got what came to him. This stressor affected him to the point that it drove him to consider murdering someone. He even told Rachel “All these years I wanted to kill him. Now I can’t (Nolan, C. 2005).” He never freely talked to anyone close to him after that and he left Gotham to join a vigilante group to begin combat training in order to fulfill his goal of preventing any further crime in
Gotham.