User blog comment:CoolCat123450/Alpha/@comment-4867780-20141019074520/@comment-4867780-20141019235947

Don't worry about it, just a personal feeling. The quote is very right, that's notably what I tried to achieve with my own character : a balanced use of power that rejects both the self-sacrifice of altruism and the ruthless sociopathy of egotism. And you end up with a sensible fellow who manages to gets everything he wants without causing any harm.

But I wonder, Alfred gradually became borderline sociopathic precisely because he was a powerless powerless normal in a family of alpha supers. Had he a more balanced life of rising star among supers under the enlightening guidance of his heroic parents, he could have become the cosmic equivalent of Spider Man's "power equals responsability".

With this strong sense of belonging and acknowledgement from both his relative and himself, there's a high probability he would have become the greatest hero of history that would revolutionize everything, just like Superman 1 Million in DC is as god-level superhero who made his entire universe a much better place, and is worshipped as such.

Unless Alfred was a born sociopath and depowering him was the only valid move, but the swiftness with which he digested the whole revelation doesn't seem to match.

All in all, I guess that an Almighty balanced Alfred would have simply solve all problems with little effort, and there wouldn't much of a story to tell. So many in-universe problems, and always the same meta reason ^ ^;