Gotham: S1 ep 10 (Tharr bein spoilers)

[Scott DeWar]

I like how this show is developing with the attack on Wayne manor. Alfred is one kick butt guy!

 

[Morrus]

Wasn't be supposed to be ex-SAS or something? I'm sure I recall that from somewhere. Maybe he uses Venusian Karate like his dad.

 

[Scott DeWar]

I can see him being SAS! I like the character of Gordon too!

Maybe he uses Venusian Karate like his dad

ha ha ha! I missed the humor until i did a little digging. So, His father was a doctor, Eh?

 

[Crothian]

In one version of the comics he is ex SAS but I don't think its been defined in the show yet. I like how he knew when to punch someone and knew when not too. He is much better with dealing with a variety of situations then I had first thought.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Well, he IS a butler, after all!

 

[Richards]

Maybe he uses Venusian Karate like his dad.

I believe you mean Venusian Aikido....

Johnathan

 

[Dog Moon]

In one version of the comics he is ex SAS but I don't think its been defined in the show yet. I like how he knew when to punch someone and knew when not too. He is much better with dealing with a variety of situations then I had first thought.

Ironically, it never occurred to me to wonder before this show where exactly Bruce had received his training from.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Ironically, it never occurred to me to wonder before this show where exactly Bruce had received his training from.

I am in the same boat with this. I probably figured it to be self taught like Michael Keaton in the first Batman movie.

 

[WayneLigon]

Ironically, it never occurred to me to wonder before this show where exactly Bruce had received his training from.

Originally, he seems to be all self-trained (then again his origin is like five panels long for decades). Later in the comics, it's more like it shows in Batman Begins: Bruce looks at being a policeman and a lawyer, and decides they are both too limiting, too concerned with the law over justice. So he spends several years being trained by some of the greatest martial arts masters in the world, the greatest criminologists and forensics experts, taking what they teach him and making a synergistic whole greater than the sum of it's parts. Due to writers being writers sometimes he starts this when he's in his early teens, sometimes after he drops out of college, etc, etc. He trained under Henri Ducard, various shinobi masters, Ted Grant (the former prizefighter and the vigilante Wildcat), Oliver Queen, etc, etc. Again, various writers have him train under various peoples. Ted Grant was not added until Ted was reconned as the definitive 'go to' guy for hand-to-hand training in the DCU, for instance. Alfred being a former WWII agent and aide to the French Resistance/RAF/MI-5/whatever was something added in much much later, then slowly dropped as WWII became implausibly far away in modern times.

 

[Morrus]

Ironically, it never occurred to me to wonder before this show where exactly Bruce had received his training from.

Did you not see the Nolan Batman trilogy? The first one goes into his training a lot.