Why is Bruce so mean to Alfred?

It's suddenly made clear that Bruce has been pushing Alfred away out of fear. He's shut Alfred out because he's afraid of losing him. Bruce's cold treatment of Alfred wasn't because he didn't care, it was because he loved him so much that it frightened him.
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Why was Bruce fired by Alfred?

As Bruce dug into his parents' past, he found that his father had a secret office with bullet proof vests and a supercomputer... which Alfred destroyed to prevent Bruce from risking his life. Instead of listening to the man who was technically his legal guardian, Bruce fired Alfred and demanded he leave Wayne Manor.
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What is Alfred's relationship to Bruce?

In the Post-Crisis comics continuity, Alfred has been the Wayne family butler all of Bruce's life and had helped his master establish his superhero career from the beginning. In addition, he was Bruce's legal guardian and father figure following the murder of his parents.
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Is Batman rude to Alfred?

In some ways, Bruce seems to be rejecting Alfred as a father figure. There are a few moments in the movie where he almost seems cruel to Alfred. At one point, Bruce coldly tells Alfred that he isn't his father, and in another scene, he asks Alfred why he has Wayne cufflinks if he isn't a member of the family.
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What is Alfred Pennyworth IQ?

67. high IQ (not low IQ) 90.8.
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Batman: Arkham Origins - Alfred Confronts Batman (Cutscene)



Does Alfred approve of Bruce being Batman?

1 So Bad At Being Batman, He Had To Fake A Rogue's Gallery

by Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert, which re-contextualizes Batman as a horrible crimefighter suffering from depression. Alfred's disappointed in Bruce's new nightlife choice and how bad he is at it, but he's more disappointed to see his ward disappointed.
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Did Alfred teach Bruce how do you fight?

Batman Begins relied heavily on the League of Assassins to provide Bruce with his skills, but Alfred teaching Bruce how to fight makes a lot of sense given his comic book history.
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Does Alfred leave Bruce Wayne?

Alfred leaves Bruce, telling him that he has buried enough members of the Wayne family.
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What is Alfred hiding from Bruce?

Letting Bruce believe his parents were good people killed in a random attack would be the kind thing to do, which may be why Alfred spends so many years lying through his teeth. When Riddler starts digging up the truth, Bruce learns the full story of the Wayne murders and confronts Alfred for not being truthful.
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What is Alfred's secret in Batman?

Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth is Bruce Wayne's valet at Wayne Manor. He knows that Bruce is secretly Batman and aids him. Alfred Pennyworth, after a varied career, was employed as the Wayne family valet when Bruce Wayne's parents were killed.
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Why is Alfred scarred?

Serkis said he "felt very connected to the back-story" of this Alfred, who had been injured during military service before becoming assigned to the Wayne family. He added: "He was a soldier and then he was disabled from being a soldier through fighting, hence the cane and the scars on his face.
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Why does Alfred have a scar?

Director Matt Reeves envisioned the cane for Alfred, though Serkis says designing the overall costume was a group effort. “The cane was written, Matt wanted to suggest that he had been retired from the military, and I suggested the facial scars. The costume was collaborative.
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Who originally trained Batman?

He is eventually rescued by his father. After his parents' murders, Bruce decides to leave Gotham and spends his young adult years travelling to foreign countries. He is later trained by a martial arts expert at a monastery located in the mountains of Korea. At one point, Bruce is trained by a man named Henri Ducard.
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Is Alfred Pennyworth rich?

It turns out that while he lived to serve the Bat-Family, Alfred Pennyworth was, himself, a billionaire. Alfred's fortune was given to him when he became Bruce Wayne's legal guardian in the form of Wayne Industries stock.
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How old is Alfred in Batman?

He recognizes Bruce's psychosis and tries to channel it into something healthy. 25 years ago - 37-year-old Alfred Pennyworth is Bruce Wayne's only connection to the outside world while he travels the world.
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Who killed Bruce Wayne's parents?

In Batman's origin story, Joe Chill is the mugger who murders young Bruce Wayne's parents, Dr. Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne. The murder traumatizes Bruce, inspiring his vow to avenge their deaths by fighting crime as the vigilante Batman.
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Is Alfred A SAS?

Played by Jack Bannon, Alfred is a former soldier in Britain's SAS (Special Air Service) who forms a security firm. While in London, he crosses paths with the future father of Batman, Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge), and gets caught up in a conflict between two revolutionary groups.
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Does Alfred become Joker?

After realizing that Batman's other villains like Riddler and the Penguin couldn't stand a chance against him, Alfred saw the need for a new criminal mastermind to rise up and challenge Bruce. Putting on clown makeup and the signature purple suit, he became the Joker.
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Is Pennyworth connected to Gotham?

Connection to Gotham

Although it has been previously claimed that the show is standalone and unrelated to Gotham, Danny Cannon has said Pennyworth is part of the official canon of the series.
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Are the Waynes corrupt in The Batman?

Unlike most interpretations of the character, Thomas Wayne, in the Telltale series, is corrupt and has ties to criminals. Though he's shown to have saved a young Carmine Falcone in flashbacks during The Long Halloween storyline, there are no other instances where Wayne was involved in a life of crime.
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What time period is Pennyworth?

When does Pennyworth take place? Season 1 was set in 1960s London. In season 2, which takes place about a year after the events of the previous season, Alfred Pennyworth now owns a club as rising tensions in the UK sprout talk of a civil war.
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Was Batman's dad a criminal?

Thomas Wayne appears in flashbacks in Batman: The Telltale Series, voiced by Troy Baker. In this continuity, it is revealed that he was corrupt and had criminal ties to Carmine Falcone and Mayor Hamilton Hill with him bankrolling their criminal activities.
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How did the Waynes get rich?

He was a well-known surgeon, philanthropist and CEO of Wayne Enterprises (which he inherited from his own father, after his father made patients on on industrial technology, which he invested in real estate making the family billions).
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What Martha Waynes secret?

The Batman's Uncovered Truths

The film goes on to explain that Martha's mother went crazy and killed herself after murdering her own husband, Martha's father. Thomas Wayne spent lots of money to cover it up to spare Martha the shame of the Arkham name, even after she had married into the Wayne family.
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