Alfred Pennyworth use Alfred as a hostage, only to be disabled by a well timed sucker punch from Alfred. Presumably due to his lack of superpowers, the advanced combat training Bruce's other associates have, and Alfred's age, Alfred is the only member of the "Batman Family" that Bruce does not mind using a firearm, in his case favoring a shotgun when dealing with direct attacks on his person. Current issues of the various "Batman" comics seem to indicate that Alfred is a pioneer in and has also mastered several fields of rose breeding (even creating his own, the "Pennyworth Blue"), computer programming,
Butler Cole Aspinall Butler Cole Aspinall Butler Cole Aspinall (11 November 1830 – 4 April 1875) was a British-born journalist, barrister and QC who migrated with his young wife to Melbourne Australia at first as an Editor and Writer for The Argus, but soon took up his lucrative legal practice as a defence advocate and later as a senior Victorian state politician. Aspinall was one of the chief counsel for the leaders of the 'Ballarat Riots' aka Eureka Stockade, and later defended Henry James O'Farrell for the attempted assassination of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. Butler Cole Aspinall was appointed as Attorney-General of