There's something that's been bugging me about a scene in The Joker. Spoilers ahead:
Now, Alfred (the butler), in a past Batman movie spoke about hunting jewel thieves in Burma. Given his British-sounding accent and the nature of "hunting thieves" I made the assumption he was SAS or something (why someone might go from British SF to a life of servitude, I don't know but...).
Yet, in the Joker movie he just stood there while the joker choked him though a wrought iron gate. A gate that could be easily used to break bones, dislocate joints or simply break the hold the joker had on Alfred.
What, exactly, is Alfred's backstory?