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[Batman] Why did the murder of his parents haunt Bruce for so long?

This applies to all continuities, but the Gotham premier got me thinking about it. Senseless crimes happen all the time, people watch others get murdered, children watch their parents die, but they eventually move on. Why didn't Bruce? He dedicates his whole life to fight I g crime, which in itself is rather noble, but it is only because his 
murder has stayed with him his entire life, dictating most things he does? Why does this one event, however traumatic, shape his entire crazy life?
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His parents we murdered violently in front of him. They left that show early because Bruce was too scared. It was because of him that they were alone in that alley. 
He did nothing to stop the man who killed his parents. He just stood there. Why did he just stand there?...


Little Bruce was weak, and because he was weak, he's now alone. If only he'd been braver...if only he'd stayed at the show.....if only he'd reached for the gun. He could've saved them.....


These thoughts haunt him, keep him up at night, even before he began his nocturnal...activities.


He lost all he loved because of inaction, fear.


It ignited something in him. Something relentless, white hot,  all consuming. 


He would be ready next time. 


Never again would Good people die while there was something he could do. Never again would the greedy and depraved feed upon the innocent so openly, basking in the shadow of apathy that hangs over Gotham like clouds of poison gas.
 

He would inhabit that world. Dominate it. He would become the force that could've, should've saved Thomas and Martha Wayne that night. He would eradicate any internal weakness at first sign, hone his body, churn through his fortune, in order to be the thing that could have, should have saved them that night. He won't ever stop, not until they stop. Not until they all stop.


He would be the darkness. 


He would be the knight.


He would be the Batman.