>> I think I'm just going to have to call this a divergence point. The time of death for Bruce's mother does vary across canon. So for this series, it was toddler age. <<

Yaay, thank you! Now I can let that particular version of canon slip into total obscurity, just like that episode of "Judging Amy" a friend convinced me to sit through. Y'know, the stuff that deserves to be subsumed in the morass of "vague bits of pop culture" everyone seems to accumulate?