Batman’s Alfred Gets the (Fake) Trailer That Gotham Deserves

The DC movie universe continues to expand , but one backstory has yet to be given its own cinematic introduction : Alfred Pennyworth , Bruce Wayne ’s Samuel Butler . A new parody preview seeks to right this wrong , and the result is a surprisingly impactful glimpse into the history of Batman ’s surrogate father .

Funny Or Die has unfreeze atrailerfor Alfred : Before Batman , a expression into the puerility of Alfred Pennyworth , an orphan who find out the pantryman trade in parliamentary law to survive . The trailer is play jolly flat , combine footage from Christopher Nolan ’s Batman trilogy and 2005 ’s Oliver Twist to showcase a young boy whose childhood tragedy inform his belated struggle with Bruce Wayne .

Alfred ’s been a part of Bruce Wayne ’s aliveness since Batman # 16 , released in 1943 , and yet we do n’t do it a band about his childhood . His life has n’t been search much outdoors of his participation with the Wayne household . Even his adult backstory has changed over the year . In many cases he ’s ex-wife - military or a former intelligence operative for the British administration , in others he ’s an actor who gave up his vocation to dish out the Wayne family in the place of his Father-God , per his die asking — which kind of puts a damper in the whole “ growing up as an orphan ” bit . That enunciate , I would give anything to get word child Alfred say , “ Please sir , may I have some more ? ” you may take in the burlesque trailer below .