Early Life. Before the events of Caped Crusader, Bruce Thomas Wayne lived a much similar history with his comic book counterpart, was born to his wealthy parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne in Gotham City, as the sole heir to the Wayne Family Fortune One night, he witnessed his parents get murdered by a mugger in an alleyway on their walk home from a play. His family's butler, Alfred Pennyworth, became his legal guardian and took care of him, since then as kid to as adult grow up works in wayne Enterprises your past years 1939