10. Alfred Would NEVAH Give Up on Bruce
After trying his best to talk Bruce Wayne out of becoming Batman again, Alfred took a drastic step. He stood his ground and told Bruce that he would no longer assist his adoptive sons efforts as Batman. Worse yet, Alfred was leaving Wayne Manor indefinitely. Some have said this scene was a cheap way of removing Alfred from the equation during Banes eventual takeover of Gotham and preserving his role at the end of the film. The reasoning behind this evaluation is that the scene is in stark contrast to
Batman Begins in which Alfred repeatedly said he would Nevah give up on Bruce. That contrast only exists, though, depending on ones definition of giving up. There is a strong difference between giving up and employing dramatic measures to save a life. Alfred did not give up on Bruce; he simply refused to be an enabler in Bruces Batman addiction. Alfred was convinced that Bruce was using Batman as a means of self-destruction and chose not to be a participant. Giving up would have been Alfred ignoring the destructive pattern he was seeing and idly standing by while Bruce went down a destructive path. Alfred could have given up on helping Bruce see the need to move on. He could have just continued running errands for Batman waiting for a tragic inevitability. Instead, he took a stand. Alfred was willing to do anything to help Bruce, even leave him in an attempt to prevent the latter from committing suicide-by-Batman.