Alfred Pennyworth

* Alfred
* The Shadow

Alfred is a supporting character in the Project Batman movies up to the 5th film and the main antagonist of Project Batman 5: The Shadow of Evil

## Personality

Alfred comes off as a friendly butler who gives advice and support to Batman but his true personality is one of pure evil and the desire to make Batman and the city of Gotham suffer as much as possible. Alfred has a lot of murderous urges and bloodlust which he used to be able to keep under wraps but after Project Batman 3 where his goals were starting to be set into motion, he lets his mask slip more often such as when he participated in the brutal murders of Dicksonberg and The Gangster Lord or his many outbursts during Project Batman 5. Alfred seems to gain pleasure in striking fear into his prey before murdering them as seen when he delivers cryptic and sinister videotapes to Batman before he began his rampage. At his core, Alfred is a heartless, soulless, husk of a man who merely gives the illusion of having a personality who never even gives a second thought at exploiting people for his own benefit. One could say that his inhuman desires to cause chaos and death make him less of a human being and more of a monster in the shape of a human. In the finale of PB5, Alfred seems to give some insight to his motivation about feeling oppressed by Batman and even apologizes, but what he said there was delusional as he was delirious from the burning air inside of his blimp entering his human brain. Alfred is one of the most mysterious and terrifying characters in the Project series.

## Appearances

In the first Project Batman film, Batman talks to Alfred, but you do not see his face. In the sequel, Alfred would give him instructions or talk about the situation. Alfred wouldn't talk over comms at all in Project Batman 3. In Project Batman 4, he just continues to talk to Bruce in a couple of scenes. Finally, in Project Batman 5: The Shadow of Evil, Alfred would make his first physical appearance. Being revealed as The Shadow, Alfred would torment Batman while hiding his true identity.

## History

### Early life

Not much is known about Alfred's early life or childhood, as all documentation of his past has been erased from everywhere. Alfred has not been known to have any family or friends or any relationships with people other than Batman, who he served as a butler and assistant. It can be assumed that either all of Alfred's family passed away and he was the last Pennyworth left or he murdered them all in cold blood at a young age. The lack of family or relationships in general contributes to the possibility of Alfred being an entity of pure evil. At some point, Alfred was hired by Thomas and Martha Wayne (Batman's parents) and took care of their son after their deaths (which he may or may not have had a part in). It can also be assumed that Alfred frequently murdered people in secret during this time.

### Working with Batman

Throughout the years, Alfred was Batman's loyal butler and later on, his guy in the chair. Alfred acted as a sort of father figure to Batman and Robin growing up and they both respected him a lot even after death. During this time, Alfred grew to despise them and began slowly plotting a genocide on Gotham City, the town Batman swore to protect, and to cause despair in Batman before killing him. Slowly but surely, Alfred gained connections and made preparations to build his blimp and increase his physical strength for the coming genocide. After the death of The Gangster Lord, Alfred took it upon himself to get in contact with Jonathan Dicksonberg and tell him that Batman killed his father, since Jonathan was known to be easily provoked especially at a crucial moment in his life such as this. Alfred invoked a grudge against Batman in Jonathan according to plan and proposed the two make a deal where Alfred would fund Dicksonberg's army and revenge scheme in exchange for him developing a strength enhancement injection for Alfred. Dicksonberg agreed to this and proceeded with his plot to avenge his father, the Gangster Lord.

### Project Batman 3 / The Legend of The Lazurus Pit

During the events of Project Batman 3, Alfred worked with Dicksonberg from the shadows by funding his hospital to work on ways to kill Batman and create strength enhancers based on the Dicksonberg Family Hat that Alfred would take. He also helped fund The Joker's recovery from his wounds due to using the gemstone. Dicksonberg kept records of Alfred from his time working with him which were confiscated by Alfred and later stolen by Aiden Pearce in Project Batman 6.

After the explosion of Dicksonberg's hospital, Alfred purchased the land and rebuilt it, using the hospital as a base of operations for his genocide plan and plot to kill Batman. He moved production of his blimp there as well and kept many records about various things relating to his plan and secrets about Batman, such as his involvement in Aiden Pearce's children's deaths.

In The Legend of The Lazurus Pit (The PBB), Alfred dressed up as a killer clown with "red hair in the back of his head and holding balloons" who stalked Dicksonberg to make sure that he didn't leak any information about Alfreds true identity and intentions. The clown was named Pennysworth, a combination of pennywise and pennyworth. Soon enough, Dicksonberg fell right in his lap as he invaded the Batcave with his father and Alfred had an excuse to brutally murder Dicksonberg with a gun by shooting his arms off. Batman did not notice how out of character this was for Alfred and he got away with showing his evil side.

### Gotham City Genocide Attempt

Nearly 2 years after the death of The Joker, Alfred would decide that his plan would finally be executed. Alfred started by sending Batman cryptic videos as the Shadow to make him afraid, and easier to kill. Alfred would then kill various people in Gotham City as the Shadow.

Considering all of this, Batman decides to go on vacation. Alfred learns of this and quickly gets into costume to kill Batman before he can escape. Batman runs away until being cornered, and Alfred almost kills him until The Vigilante plays a frequency Alfred is sensitive to.

Not soon after, Alfred sees Dick Grayson in Wayne Manor, searching for Batman. Alfred crushes Dick and kidnaps him.

With all of the mass murders, crimes, and robbery done by just one unknown man, Gotham goes into lockdown and evacuates all civilians to Peanuts Eat Irish Street, a safe house. Alfred attempts to enter the safe house, but is unable to due to the lights, which he is sensitive to.

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In response to this, Alfred burns Wayne Manor, causing Batman to leave the safehouse. Alfred attempts to kill Batman but is unsuccessful. Batman eventually gets to Wayne Manor, but is stalked by The Shadow until Batman comes to the conclusion that The Shadow is weak to U.V Rays. After Batman escapes and clears the smoke, Alfred approaches Bruce, telling him that he has always hated him while accidentally dropping one of his gloves. Alfred kicks Bruce out of the house.

Alfred later sees Deadpool talking to Batman. The Shadow quickly grabs Deadpool away and disappears as Batman searches for them.

In Alfred's blimp, he receives a call from Batman on Robin's phone. Alfred just screams into the phone and hangs up.

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Alfred attacks Batman from the Shadows in Wayne Manor, and quickly overpowers him. Alfred baits Batman into a grab. Alfred drags Batman his base and reveals Deadpool's torn off costume, then reveals his identity. Alfred explains Robin is in a grave and that he is sick of being Batman's slave. He also says that he has the blimp prepped for explosion. Then says that he will kill Batman. Alfred also threatens to reveal Batman's identity, until starting the countdown for the blimp. Alfred watches Batman escape then dies in the explosion of the blimp, being incinerated with every atom of his body being burned. In the end, Alfred's plan was thwarted, and Batman was not killed in a blimp crashing into the very home he was raised in.

Alfred wakes up in hell, where he is spat on.

Before his death, Alfred sent Aiden an encrypted email stating that the information about his dead children could be found at the Dicksonberg Estate hospital and that Batman was responsible for it. He also told him that what he needed for revenge would also be found there. Alfred did this as a contingency in case Batman survived but mostly to ensure the destruction of his legacy as Bruce Wayne and Wayne Enterprises as a whole. Aiden decrypted the phone a week before the events of Project Batman 6 and thus investigated the hospital.

## Legacy

Alfred's death would leave a hole in Batman's heart, leaving him a depressed mess. Batman would never recover from this until he was reversed to his state of being in the year 2005 by The Flash in Project Justice League, and lost all memory of Alfred's atrocities. In Project Joker, this Batman would go to make an A.I. recreation of Alfred based on Batman's memory of him.

## Trivia

Alfred's alter ego, The Shadow, could be compared to characters like Jason Voorhees, or Michael myers due to his stalker-ish nature, and him never running towards Batman in the entire movie. And of course, him using a knife.

Alfred has superhuman strength, and it is unknown how he gained these abilities

Alfred is weak to certain frequencies of noise, and U.V. Rays. It's unknown how he gained these weaknesses, but he was shown to evolve past them later in the movie as he is seen outside in broad daylight and survived hearing loud screams.

Alfred is unknown to be fully human or not.