[50] Bane retrieves Emperor Penguin for the Penguin as part of their agreement. New to DC Universe? Since then, Bane has repeatedly tried to amass not only power, but territory, whether it’s Gotham City or his home of Santa Prisca. He can snap necks and crush windpipes with ease.
Faced with the loss of the Naja-Naja, Valentina and her peers decide to silence Kobra elder Rampo, who had been trying to marshal all of Kobra's forces to retrieve the infant. So, as I terrorize Gotham, I will feed its people hope to poison their souls. Unfortunately, the careless Bird is incapacitated by the sneaky Dionysus, who alerts the local Spetsnaz claiming to have discovered terrorist activity. Bane's henchmen then capture Catwoman, Duke Thomas, Commissioner Gordon, and the Bronze Tiger to cut Batman off from his allies. During the "Knightfall" storyline, Bane, wanting Batman reduced to his weakest physical and psychological state, uses stolen munitions to destroy the walls of Arkham Asylum—allowing its deranged inmates (including the Joker, Two-Face, the Riddler, the Scarecrow, the Mad Hatter, the Ventriloquist, Firefly, Poison Ivy, Cornelius Stirk, Film Freak and Victor Zsasz) to escape into Gotham City. Raised in a prison on the island of Santa Prisca for the crimes of his father, Bane dedicated his life to honing his mind and body into a perfect weapon.In order to wage his unending war on injustice, Batman has developed his body as perfectly as he has his mind. This act of humiliation and the loss of the Psycho-Pirate causes Bane to snap and scream for Venom from the prison guards. I am 'Bane'. Soon after, his mercenaries entered a massive battle with the recently freed Gotham City Police and Bane himself fought Batman once more. Bane is finally defeated when Azrael severs the tubes that pump Venom into his bloodstream, causing severe withdrawal. Bane later finds himself unmasked and jailed with several other men including Bruce Wayne. However, this selfless action resulted in the prisoners' exacting revenge by torturing and beating him to the point that his face was mutilated and wrapped up in bandages after the doctor did what he could to save him but the doctor's fumbling attempts to repair the damage left Bane in constant agony. So easy… So simple… And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying. He ultimately established himself as the "king" of Peña Duro prison and became known as Bane. SPOILER ALERT: The below feature discusses plot points from the first issue of DCeased: Unkillables. Batman challenged him to a rematch in Skull City and attached a device to Bane's face to prevent him from drinking the Venom. Bane impulsively storms the compound their lead informed them of and easily overwhelms the armed resistance. Batman decides to release many of the inmates to fight Bane and thus buy Alfred and the Psycho-Pirate more time, but Bane easily beats the likes of Two-Face, Solomon Grundy, Amygdala, the Scarecrow, the Firefly, and the Mad Hatter, among others, before making the Riddler open a door to Batman for him.
Bane also had one of his "brother" mercenaries stay behind in order to ensure they had the expected death toll and he also promised the mercenary that "the fire rises". Reduced to little more than a wounded animal fleeing for survival, Bane is no match against the "new" Batman.
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He and Bruce escape and head in separate directions.
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Bane is eventually subdued by a heavy-duty taser after battling Damocles, the mercenaries' arrogant but highly skilled leader; Bane's trio narrowly escape their exploding van. The then expendable Daggett was then killed by him, and his body was put into a dumpster. New to DC Universe?
This is next-level entertainment! [31], Eventually, Bane resurfaces in Santa Prisca and leads the country to democratic elections. He decides to ally himself with Superman's Regime that will give him a position of power, so he aides High Councillor Superman and Wonder Woman in subduing Doomsday. Later, after Batman defeats Bane, a mysterious figure confronts the villain and informs him that the Court of Owls had undermined his plans. 2) #19, in the story "War Council". IGN's list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time ranked Bane as #34. He delivered a crippled Bruce Wayne to the Pit prison he himself was formerly imprisoned in, and stated that he wouldn't kill a man that did not fear death, as he intended to psychologically torture him with the slow demise of Gotham City with Bruce being unable to do a thing. Azrael ultimately escaped into the jungle with Nomoz and successfully, albeit painfully, overcame his addiction. A stunned Bane attempted to futilely repair the mask, but was unable to do so while Batman continued his attacks. Raised in a prison on the island of Santa Prisca for the crimes of his father, Bane dedicated his life to honing his mind and body into a perfect weapon. Portrayed by: Say it ain’t so! Bane returns to Santa Prisca to lead his army against them. The fight for Gotham just got crazier. In Outsiders #50, he appears once more to be wearing the tubing system to apply Venom. [3][7] His ambition turns to destroying Batman, about whom he had heard stories from Bird. Gotham City fascinates Bane because, like Peña Duro, fear rules Gotham – but it is the fear of Batman. Tom Hardy stands around 5'9"/5'10" (depending on the source) while. A recovered Bane held a rope around Batman's neck while Talia taunted Batman. Unknown While there, he comes across where the Talons are stored hoping to make them into his weapons. I didn't see the light until I was already a man by then it was nothing to me but blinding! Since September 2008, Bane has appeared as a regular character in the ongoing Secret Six series. Bane, believing Faraday to be a disguised Bruce Wayne, ambushes him and breaks his back. ", "Ah, yes, I was wondering what would break first. Bane ultimately gives his blessing to Dick Grayson, praying that "God help him. Some nuns take in the infant, who had been left with some money and Bane's childhood teddy bear, Osito. Robert Swenson portrayed Bane in the 1997 film Batman & Robin, while Tom Hardy played him in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises.
Not only was the Dark Knight able to easily defeat the villain, the hero nearly killed him with his far superior strength. To that end a plane full of mercenaries tailed the CIA plane whilst airborne. Christopher Nolan. While Bird watches over Dionysus, Bane and the others break into an apartment complex believed to be the heart of the Vor's operation because of its cache of weapons and money. Zombie overhears the call and snitches to Dionysus who begins to decrypt the call, already knowing it was made to Gotham, which enrages Bane. Bad The priest explains that there were four men who could possibly have been his father: a Santa Priscan revolutionary, an American doctor, an English mercenary, and a Swiss banker. Catwoman tasers Bane and escapes and Bane regroups with Zombie and Trogg to narrowly escape the arriving Spetsnaz. Bane is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.Created by Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, and Graham Nolan, he made his debut in Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993). Bane, with Batman looking on, helps foil King Snake's plans to unleash a powerful weapon upon the world. Dixon imbued Bane with an almost supernatural quality when he explained that Bane triumphed in all of his prison fights by employing these abilities, while his opponents had only rage and greed to propel them. They abduct the current Naja-Naja, a spoiled young man, while he is attending a fancy party. Batman, who has infiltrated Bane's operation, places a call to Alfred asking for a special shipment to be sent to him. Falling for the Joker again?
Consequently, Batman is forced to recapture the escapees, a mission that takes him three months and drives him to the brink of mental and physical collapse. Bane declared martial law and proclaimed that the city now belonged to the people, handing them the power of "justice" over the "corrupt" Gotham elite that had "enslaved" them. However Talia tipped off Bane and his men killed Jones subordinates while Bane himself killed Jones. However, he ended up rejoining the League of Shadows after Ra's died and Talia inherited her father's organization and forgave him for ousting Bane. Bane is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
Bane appears in the 2017 series Batman: White Knight. Alone with Batman, Bane stated that both he and Batman knew what had to happen. Batman escapes, however, and fixes his back on his own. [48] Bane enters Blackgate through the sewers to join the prisoners there.
With the fates of the other Secret Six members left ambiguous, Bane is last shown being driven away in a Gotham police van. Bane's physical appearance was defined by his mask, which inhibited the excruciating pain that agonized his body to bearable levels. custody.
Watch DC Universe’s. Bane is eventually defeated by Batman and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and returns to normal along with the other villains while in A.R.G.U.S.
The Secret Six stage a desperate last stand, but are quickly defeated. It's not about fighting. [68] In the sequel miniseries, Bane is chosen by a faction of the League of Assassins to serve as their new leader, in the belief that only he has the strength to succeed where Ra's has failed, but when Donatello attempts to travel back to Batman's universe to talk with him about his current feelings of inadequacy, the transporter instead causes Donatello to swap with Bane, resulting in Bane taking over the Foot Clan and New York after developing an enhanced Venom produced by Baxter Stockman. His first stop is in Russia to recruit the elderly but still lethal KGBeast. After Bruce met with Selina Kyle at her apartment about finding Bane, Selina offered to Bane to lead Batman into Bane's sewer lair in exchange for survival insurance. He came to regard the prison as a home, a place where he learned "the truth about despair." Bane alerts Batman to this possibility and, during the time that the DNA tests are being performed, stays at Wayne Manor and fights alongside Batman on the streets of Gotham.