Everyone has that one friend—and maybe it's you!—who seriously cannot get over how ridiculously, naïvely stupid Bruce Wayne's parents must've been to go strolling down a dark, creepy back street called "Crime Alley." They—or you!—bring it up all the time. Well, here's some good news for them (and us all, really): The folks at Dorkly have offered up a couple alternative ideas for how Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man's tragic origins might've been better written.
This 16-bit-style animated clip eschews the silly "overly dramatic turning point" business in favor of showing that the people in these superheroes' families were either working on a wack child-abandonment plot (Superman's folks Jor-El and Lara Lor-Van, Peter Parker's Uncle Ben) or just kind of jerks (Bruce Wayne's parents). Sure, Uncle Ben's turn to a life of crime isn't exactly the more logical approach, but whatever, we're all for it. Better than seeing Tobey Maguire's cry face one more time, right?
