The Joker's just got out of jail and is terrorising the city
with a personalised Joker-tank constructed in his own image. Two-Face has had
all his assets seized but somehow has hold of a gigantic coin-flipping machine
which he plans to threaten city hall with. King Tut's a crazy man with a Tutankhamun
fixation but somehow has enough capital to build a giant golden death-statue
but also hire a gang of thugs dressed in custom Egyptian-themed battle garb.
Gotham's criminals are all at each other's throats all the
time. There is no kingpin of crime who sets up destitute criminals with
high-tech organisatons. So who is financing them? Alfred Pennyworth, that's
who.
Bruce Wayne's estate is worth billions, and as the Wayne
family butler, Alfred has unique and unfettered access to these funds. He is
the one man that Bruce trusts without reproach, and the one man who knows what
Bruce needs and of his fragile mental state. In Bruce, Alfred stills see that
small frightened boy, and so it is obvious he would want the best for his young charge.
By financing the high-tech weaponry and henchmen armies of
Batman's rogues gallery, Alfred ensures that Bruce is fighting the good fight,
and gives him a true purpose in life. Batman's files gives Alfred direct links
to the underworld and so he knows exactly where to inject cash. Who else would
loan penniless criminals just out of jail the million dollars needed to build a
death ray? Not a bank! Not a rival! No, only Alfred fits the bill. It is in his
best interest to see Batman constantly fighting super villains.
Remember, Alfred is not just a butler. He is a highly
skilled individual who is ex-RAF and ex-British Secret Service. How many men
has Alfred had to kill for Queen and country?
He also has experience on the dark side of the law as the villainous
Outsider. Could his mastery of Gotham's criminal underworld really be for the
good of Bruce Wayne, or could the Outsider still be active and Alfred was not
turned back to the side of good by the magic science radiation as he had
claimed?
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