re: Top 10 highest rated comic book movies on IMDB

And sorry to keep beating a dead horse, but this is completely in any continuity the best Batman origin story. The fact that Batman chose love over his duty to be Batman is just great, but then in the end he was damned to be Batman and be entirely consumed by darkness and vengeance. That's why he's so interesting, and why Alfred is simply horrified.

Alfred had always been hopeful he could steer his adopted son from a life of vengeance, but the second he puts on the mask, Alfred knows he has become entirely consumed by vengeance and that he has lost the kind hearted child he knew and raised. In that series, Alfred really is the only tether that keeps him from a violent mindless rage, and Alfred is thankful daily that Bruce is still remotely sane and trying to do the right thing and just treads the line of mindless violence. That scene alone is why it's among the best.