Batman knew a great deal about Martha Wayne, but not enough. He only knew that his mother had once been the eldest daughter of the Kane Family, received the most traditional elite education, balanced her career and family after marriage, and had been a good wife and mother.
But after actually looking into the Kane Family's history, Batman discovered that Martha Kane had married beneath her status back then.
Perhaps many DC fans had only heard of the Wayne Family, only knew that Batman was richer than nations, but that had only happened after Batman was born. In the settings of many comics, Gotham had possessed Four Great Families for a long time.
The Kane Family had actually been Gotham's wealthiest family for the longest time, and for an extended period, the most powerful and influential as well. They had stood at the head of the Four Great Families, while the Wayne Family had been relatively young nouveau riche.
The marriage alliance between the Kane Family and the Wayne Family could be called a union of two powerhouses, or a joining of old and new. From then on, no one in Gotham could stand against them.
One reason for the Kane Family's decline was that the previous generation's leader had only one daughter, Martha. After Martha married into the Wayne Family, the other Kane descendants proved rather mediocre and could not support the family, allowing the Kane Family to gradually fall behind the Wayne Family.
Then Bruce, an unparalleled genius, emerged in this generation of the Wayne Family, allowing the family to grow into the global industrial behemoth it was today.
In Gotham during the era of Mafia rule, no family could truly be called clean. Especially among people from Bruce's grandfather's generation—in a city like this, who could avoid