Alfred Pennyworth (Nolanverse)

Persuade Bruce to retire from his Batman persona for good and move on with a normal life (succeeded long term).

### Goodness Zone

Providing Bruce Wayne with guidance and assurance through his darkest times.

### Type of Hero

Elderly Nurturer

**Alfred J. Pennyworth** is the deuteragonist of Christopher Nolan's *The Dark Knight* trilogy.

He is the butler of Bruce Wayne, whom he has nurtured since he was born and continued to after his parents were murdered, providing him with wisdom and insight.

He was portrayed by Michael Caine.

## His Good Ranking

### His Heroic Deeds

* He assures a young Bruce Wayne that he was not responsible for the murder of his parents.
* He assists Bruce Wayne in acquiring the tools needed for him to become Batman, and suggests that he adopts a playboy persona to downplay public suspicion that he is Batman.
* He reminds Bruce not to get too carried away with his Batman persona after seeing the property destruction he was responsible for on television.
* As he returns to a burning Wayne Manor after taking Rachel home, he takes down a League of Shadows member to rescue Bruce.
* When Wayne Manor is burned down and Bruce feels like he has let his family's legacy down, Alfred assures Bruce that it is not just about the manor, and that he will never give up on him. This motivates Bruce to defeat Ra's al Ghul.
* He helps Bruce stitch up a wound caused from a dog bite.
* As Bruce is trying to understand the Joker's motives, he gives insight on what type of person he may be, based on his own personal experience in his military career in dealing with the Burmese Bandit.
* He talks Bruce out of turning himself into the police.
* He helps Bruce save Coleman Reese from getting murdered.
* He tells Bruce how he caught the Burmese Bandit, by "burning the forest down." Bruce adopts a similar idea which leads to him successfully taking down the Joker.
* He burns Rachel's letter detailing that he would marry Harvey Dent, feeling that it served him no benefit and it would cause him more pain than good.
* He encourages Bruce to get back into the world after spending so much time living in reclusion.
* When Bruce returns to being Batman after eight years of absence, he tries to talk him out of it. He remarks that he has nothing left to gain from doing so, by going to the length of abandoning him completely, feeling that it was the last resort he could do and believing it would make the difference between life and death.

### Why He Doesn't Stand Out?

* His act of catching the Burmese Bandit is offscreen and it wasn't confirmed if it was his idea to burn the forest or not. He also didn't help Gotham with Bruce Wayne's immense wealth when Bruce was away. Taking the previous two preventions into account, he fails the standards too Batman, Jim Gordon, Blake and Harvey Dent who all did more than him while only being younger and more fit.

## Trivia

* Alfred was originally on the Pure Good Wiki before it was revealed he was too standard so he was moved here.

## Navigation

Animated Features
Muriel Bagge

Live-Action Features
Beverly Marsh

Live-Action Television
Beverly Marsh

Video Games
Lightning McQueen

Shorts
Tasmanian Devil

See Also
Universal Studios Heroic Benchmarks