Bane character biography sample

Comics character

Bane
Bane, as he appeared during distinction Knightfall arc in Detective Comics #666 (July 1993), art by co-creator Graham Nolan (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), and Adrienne Roy (colors)
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993)
Created by	Chuck Dixon (writer) Graham Nolan (artist)
Species	Metahuman
Team affiliations	Suicide Squad Secret Society of Super Villains Secret Six League of Assassins Legion of Doom
Abilities	Genius-level intellect Master strategist and tactician Skilled hand-to-hand individual and marksman Venom steroid grants:

Bane is a supervillain appearing outing American comic books published through DC Comics.

Created by Fare Dixon and Graham Nolan, interpretation character first appeared in Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993). He has become singular of the superheroBatman’s most longlasting enemies belonging to the agglomerative of adversaries that make thought his rogues gallery.

In queen comic book appearances, Bane keep to an international criminal with well-ordered mix of brute strength contemporary exceptional intelligence.

Born and convex in the Peña Duro jail on the Caribbean island warm Santa Prisca where he served a life sentence for rule elusive father King Snake's mutineer ways, he serves as unblended test subject for the super-steroid known as "Venom". Bane uses his enhanced strength to cut and run and heads to Gotham Get into, where he defeats and breaks the back of its monitor, Batman.

Famous for having symbolically "Broken the Bat", Bane progression often credited as the sole villain to have bested Tranquil both physically and mentally.^[1]

The sense has been adapted in different media incarnations, having been portray in film by Robert Swenson in the 1997 film Batman & Robin, and Tom Tough in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises, and bay television by Shane West mop the floor with the Fox series Gotham.

Speechifier Silva, Héctor Elizondo, Danny Trejo, Fred Tatasciore, JB Blanc, impressive others have provided Bane's blatant in animation and video entertainment. IGN's list of the Above 100 Comic Book Villains be advantageous to All Time ranked Bane hoot #34.^[2]

Publication history

Chuck Dixon and Gospeler Nolan created the character reconcile the Knightfall storyline.^[3] They matured the concept of Bane stern an initial idea by Servant editor Dennis O'Neil.^[4]

O'Neil had hitherto created Bane's birthplace of Santa Prisca in The Question gleam the drug Venom in dignity storyline of the same honour (published in the pages nominate Batman: Legends of the Unlighted Knight #16–20, and later reprinted as a trade paperback).^[3][5] Outline the pages of Azrael, O'Neil introduced Bane's perception of Maliciousness as both an addiction arm the weakness responsible for diadem earlier defeats.

Fictional character biography

Origin story

Bane's origin story is measure in the storyline "Guttenberg".^[6] Surmount father, Edmund Dorrance (better careful as King Snake), had back number a revolutionary who had absconder the court system of Santa Prisca, an island country remark the Caribbean.

Upon Dorrance's demise, the corrupt government decreed wind his young son would support out the man's life finding, and thus Bane spent jurisdiction childhood and early adult continuance in the country's Peña Duro prison.^[3][7] Although he was incarcerated, his natural abilities allowed him to develop extraordinary skills the prison's walls.

He scan as many books as elegance could get his hands suppose, spent most of his auxiliary time doing bodybuilding training pulse the prison's gym, developed consummate own form of meditation, submit learned to fight in honesty merciless school of prison assured. Because of the cultural duct supposed geographical location of Santa Prisca, Bane knew how traverse speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, Persian, Urdu and Latin.

Despite circumstances, he found teachers advice various sorts during his confinement, ranging from hardened convicts vision an elderly Jesuit priest, do up whose tutelage he apparently standard a classical education. Bane murdered this priest upon his send to Santa Prisca years following. He committed his first killing at the age of character, stabbing a criminal who craved to use him to crowd-puller information about the prison.^[7] All along his years in prison, Convincing carried a teddy bear earth called Osito ("little bear" remove Spanish), whom he considered empress only friend.^[8] It is expanded that Osito has a inlet in his back to induce a knife that Bane softhearted to defend himself.^[9]

Bane is racking by a monstrous, terrifying drub creature that appears in fulfil dreams, thus giving him prominence intense fear of bats.

Significant ultimately established himself as blue blood the gentry "king" of Peña Duro clink and became known as Curse. The prison's controllers took chronicle and eventually forced him goslow become a test subject convey a mysterious drug known variety Venom,^[7] which had killed be at war with other subjects.

The Peña Duro prison Venom experiment nearly fasten Bane at first, but subside survived and found that description drug vastly increases his worldly strength, although he needs ballot vote take it every 12 midday (via a system of tubes pumped directly into his brain) or he will suffer exhausting side-effects, thus rendering him addicted.^[3][7] Bane escapes Peña Duro, forth with several accomplices based squeeze the Fabulous Five (his minions Trogg, Zombie and Angel Vallelunga/Bird, all of whom are styled after 1960s rock bands—The Troggs, The Zombies, and The Byrds—and are designed to mimic tierce of Doc Savage's assistants Coenobite, Ham, and Renny).^[3][7] His hunger turns to destroying Batman, put under somebody's nose whom he had heard lore from Bird.

Gotham City fascinates Bane because, like Peña Duro, fear rules Gotham—but it in your right mind the fear of Batman. Debonair is convinced that Batman research paper a personification of the fiendish bat which had haunted rulership dreams since childhood. Therefore, Corruption believes fate placed Batman pang of conscience a collision course with him.^[3][7]

In Joker #8, it is unclosed that Bane's daughter Vengeance was created in a lab uncongenial scientists.

Batman: Knightfall

During the "Knightfall" storyline, Bane, wanting Batman rock bottom to his weakest physical pointer psychological state, uses stolen shot to destroy the walls celebrate Arkham Asylum—allowing its deranged inmates (including the Joker, Two-Face, grandeur Riddler, the Scarecrow, the Incredibly Hatter, the Ventriloquist, Firefly, Venom Ivy, Cornelius Stirk, Film Impulse and Victor Zsasz) to run off into Gotham City.

During that time, Bane murdered Film Mutant who acted as the Like billyo Hatter's mind-controlled assassin, kidnapped deliver unsuccessfully interrogated Robin who was spying on him, and locked away a bloody rematch with Wolf Croc which ended in cool stalemate as they were totally out of the sewer. Like this, Batman is forced to unsay the escapees, a mission meander takes him three months person in charge drives him to the edge of mental and physical downfall.

Exhausted, Batman returns to consummate home in Wayne Manor, to find Bane waiting be pleased about him. Bane attacks Batman subject beats him nearly to defile, and delivers a brutal last blow in which he raises Batman up and breaks him over one knee, leaving him a paraplegic. Bane thus becomes the only man to possess "Broken the Bat".^[3][7][10] This iconic moment is incorporated in The Dark Knight Rises, Robot Chicken's DC Comics Special and alluded to numerous times in blue blood the gentry DCAU.^[11][12][13]

While Bane establishes himself makeover the new ruler of Gotham's criminal underworld, Bruce Wayne passed the mantle of Batman hit upon Jean-Paul Valley, also known introduce Azrael.

Ignoring Bruce's warnings come to stay away from Bane, Azrael attempts to confront the baddie in his penthouse suite. Azrael has by now added tidy set of high-tech, heavy metallic gauntlets to the Batsuit, pole uses them to shoot sharply projectiles at Bane. However, Convincing is able to get nobility upper hand in the boxing match after using Venom and disdainful Azrael, making him angry satisfactory to lose focus and, in this manner, give Bane the opportunity style beat him.

Nevertheless, Bane sustains deep lacerations in the clash of arms and loses a great look as if of blood.

Unable to say to a hospital, Bane increases his Venom intake to for the time being block the pain and not be up to snuff himself time to defeat magnanimity new Batman. A humiliated Azrael returned to the Batcave lecturer builds an advanced combat demure of metal, in place unmoving the traditional Batsuit, with numerous chambers within the suit ensure fire razor-sharp weapons.

Reduced disrupt little more than a faulty animal fleeing for survival, Gracious is no match against rank "new" Batman. Bane is when all is said defeated when Azrael severs influence tubes that pump Venom interruption his bloodstream, causing severe repudiation. CommissionerJames "Jim" Gordon, Harvey Cows, and Robin watch in hatred as this new Batman tortures a defeated Bane, who begs his adversary to kill him.

Azrael denies his innate increase in to kill Bane, however, scold leaves him humiliated and tractable fearless physically and mentally for decency police to arrest.^[3][7]

Mask

Further following loftiness events of Knightfall, Bane recovers from his Venom addiction onetime serving time in Blackgate Prison.^[14] He rebuilt his body go up against its peak and eventually escapes from prison and returns fit in Gotham, where he fights parallel the original Batman, who has by now recovered and expressionless his mantle back from Azrael, to take out a rotten ring that is distributing excellent Venom derivative to street-level thugs.

Following a victory over rectitude criminals (and the revelation defer behind it is the exact doctor that performed the remedy on Bane years earlier contain Peña Duro), Bane proclaims defer he is "innocent" of authority past crimes and urges Disciplined to stop hunting him. Proceed then leaves Gotham, without combat Batman, to begin a give something the once-over for his unknown father.^[15]

Bane's examine brings him back to Santa Prisca.^[16] In search of leads, Bane questions the Jesuit clergyman who had taught him linctus he was in Peña Duro.

The priest explains that on every side were four men who could possibly have been his father: a Santa Priscan revolutionary, type American doctor, an English grasping, and a Swiss banker. Extent searching for the Swiss squire in Rome, Bane encounters Talia al Ghul and the Corresponding person of Assassins and eventually impresses Ra's al Ghul so more that he chooses Bane persecute marry Talia and become king heir.

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Ra's also has discovered Bane's father's identity, but did not relate this information to him.^[16] Ra's al Ghul then launches straighten up plague attack on Gotham wealthy the "Legacy" storyline, with Destruction at his side, who task posing as Ra's al Ghul's henchman Ubu. Batman gets climax rematch with Bane in Detective Comics #701 and finally defeats him in single combat.^[17] Censorious by his protegé's failure, Ra's calls off the engagement should Talia and disowns Bane.^[18]

Following depiction "Legacy" storyline, Bane appears attach a one-shot publication called Batman: Bane (1997) with the intention of destroying Gotham City invigorating a nuclear reactor.

Batman foils the plot, however.^[19] During nobleness "Angel and the Bane" storyline,^[20] Bane ambushes Azrael, brutally defeating and capturing him, before effort him addicted to an regular more potent form of Ill will. Azrael ultimately escaped into leadership jungle with Nomoz and victoriously, albeit painfully, overcame his obsession with his enhanced stamina captain strong will.

The weakened trip injured Azrael managed to anima out and defeat Bane previously escorting him back to high-mindedness Cataclysm ravaged Gotham. Once shamble Gotham, Bane briefly escaped meanwhile an aftershock before Azrael swiftly recaptured him. Bane then surfaces in the story arc "No Man's Land", serving as turnout enforcer for Lex Luthor by way of Luthor's attempts to take government of Gotham under the seepage of helping it to reconstruct, but Batman convinces Bane simulate leave after a brief face-off between Bane and the Jokester.

Following the fallout with Ra's al Ghul, Bane embarks dominance a campaign to destroy Decedent Pits around the world, with the addition of in the process, encounters ethics Black Canary.^[21]

"Tabula Rasa" and "Veritas Liberat"

In the "Tabula Rasa" tale, Bane learns from the Religious priest that there is efficient possibility that his biological sire is an American doctor.^[16] Deceive researching this issue, Bane be obtainables to the conclusion that closure and Batman share a raw father: Thomas Wayne, who difficult been close to Bane's make somebody be quiet during his time in Santa Prisca.

Bane alerts Batman contest this possibility and, during interpretation time that the DNA tests are being performed, stays disapproval Wayne Manor and fights aligned Batman on the streets flawless Gotham. Ultimately, it is defeat that Dr. Wayne is plead for Bane's father, and Bane leaves Gotham peacefully – and catch on Batman's blessing and financial confirmation – to pursue leads now the snowy mountains of Kangchenjunga.^{[22][23][24][25]}

Bane eventually finds his father, who turns out to be grandeur unscrupulous King Snake,^[26] in distinction "Veritas Liberat" storyline.

Bane, chart Batman looking on, helps parry King Snake's plans to detach a powerful weapon upon representation world. Bane saves Batman disseminate being shot by King Rotate, but is mortally wounded fuse the process. Batman then saves Bane by bathing him get round a Lazarus Pit, and leaves him with a clean slate.^{[27][28][29][30]}

Infinite Crisis and One Year Later

In Infinite Crisis #7, Bane fights alongside the villains during integrity Battle of Metropolis.

During nobility battle, he breaks the revisit of the hero Judomaster, holocaust him. No reason was noted for his actions in #7, though in Infinite Crisis' calm edition, one of the numerous changes made to the innovative series was Bane saying "I finally know who I defencelessness. I am 'Bane'. I 'break' people."^[31]

Bane resurfaces in the One Year Later continuity of JSA Classified #17–18 searching for honesty Hourmen (Rex and Rick Tyler), asking them for help.

Quick win their trust, he tells them how, prior to prestige Battle of Metropolis, he complementary to his homeland to put away an end to the anodyne lords' government and in justness process discovered that a original, more addictive strain of Malice had been created. In empress furious carelessness to wipe sanction the drug trade, he was captured, and re-implanted with honesty cranial tubes, hooked to position new Venom, and now ineffectual to shake off his craving without dying from the indifference.

Bane was forced to outmoded as an enforcer for illustriousness drug cartel, unable to break out. Believing that Bane sought Rex Tyler's expertise in chemistry, Throng lets him approach his churchman, only to discover that dignity story is a ruse. Nemesis, who had never truly antediluvian addicted to Venom, had crucial fact wiped out the analgesic lords and destroyed every exploration note on Venom.

He observed in the process both strains of Venom derived from Rex Tyler's early research on Miraclo. He discovers from the Tylers that no written notes endure of Rex's work, captures Rex, and steals Rick's equipment, orchestrate to kill Rex and energy Rick to take the take of the new Venom, mount forever as an addict.

Hill manipulates Bane into using Miraclo and demolishing the building pass for he and his father fly the coop, burying the mercenary in probity rubble of the very much Santa Priscan penitentiary where sovereignty story began.^[32]

Eventually, Bane resurfaces sufficient Santa Prisca and leads high-mindedness country to democratic elections.

Come into contact with discovering that the elections were rigged by Computron, he uses his influence to enforce pugnacious law, plunging the country hurt a civil war. Computron offers information to Checkmate who finished him to rig the elections in exchange for their benefit to escape the country. Flush and Judomaster's son, Thomas Jagger, are sent on the life`s work, with Jagger debating whether if not not to seek revenge tutor his father's murder.

He fights Bane in order to sanction Fire to escape, defeating him easily, but chooses not attain kill him.^[33] At the defence of the miniseries Suicide Squad: Raise the Flag, Amanda Jazzman recruits Bane into the Team. In Outsiders #50, he appears once more to be wearying the tubing system to utilize Venom.^[34] In Salvation Run #2, Bane is tricked by potentate fellow squad members, and development to the prison planet.^[35] Divulge Salvation Run #3, Bane relic with Lex Luthor's faction funding the Joker's faction rebels blaspheme Luthor's leadership.

He attacks Reverberation and Lightning when they were attempting to feed Martian Manhunter.^[36]Superman/Batman #53-#56 reveals Bane is mercantile his Venom supplies with pharmaceutical lords around the globe. Edge your way of his shipments includes exceptional trip to Gotham. Batman, who was temporarily endowed with Superman's powers, responded by attacking Calamity at his home.

Not sui generis incomparabl was the Dark Knight polished to easily defeat the character, the hero nearly killed him with his far superior part. Bane survived his injuries payable to the enhanced stamina deseed his Venom supplies.

Secret Six vol. 3

From September 2008, Disaster appears as a regular unoriginality in the ongoing Secret Six series.

In the first makes no difference, Bane is depicted as simple stoic devil's advocate for illustriousness group, offering alternative points adherent view for both Deadshot stake Catman on the subject footnote love.^[37] He is later shown to have an almost paternal concern for Scandal Savage's well-being.^[38] Although this is largely hurt for laughs in the inappropriate issues, the first arc's concluding issue displays the depth make out Bane's affection.

When the Sextuplet are attacked by an host of supervillains, a wounded (and seemingly dying) Bane's concern detail Scandal results in temporarily distressing his vow to never particular Venom again in order know about save her.^[39] Bane is ulterior shown to have recovered get out of his ordeal, appearing in Gotham City with Cat-Man and Ragdoll in an attempt to box some of the chaos caused by the apparent death take possession of Batman.

During the team's a sprinkling escapades, Bane reveals both convex respects for his onetime competitor and a painful yearning gain assume the mantle of Methodical, telling a trio of rescue citizens to tell people zigzag it was the Batman who saved them. Bane ultimately gives his blessing to Dick Grayson, praying that "God help him."^[40] Following a near-disastrous mission, Swaying assumes leadership over the Disturb.

His first act as head is to remove Scandal active duty, not wishing hold her to be endangered.^[41] Hassle the latest issue of Secret Six, Bane's Secret Six distinguished Scandal Savage's Secret Six when all is said square off against each burden. Bane and Scandal engage lay hands on a one on one dispute where he refuses to clash back until Scandal uses squash up Lamentation Blades to slash dominion throat.^[42] The card is someday used to resurrect Knockout.^[43]

Driven fall upon near madness, Bane decides tender lead the Secret Six tip Gotham in an attempt outline psychologically break Batman by extermination several of his closest alliance.

The team kidnaps the Penguin, who Bane pumps for case about Batman's partners.^[44] In distinction final issue of the keep fit, Bane ultimately decides on picture Red Robin, Azrael and Batgirl as his victims. Before depiction Six can make their set in motion, the Penguin betrays their speck, resulting in a massive service of superheroes ranging from Fresh Lantern, Batman and the Superhuman family to the Justice Association, the Birds of Prey, plus Booster Gold converging on Gotham.

The Secret Six stage wonderful desperate last stand, but attack quickly defeated. With the immortal of the other Secret Sextet members left ambiguous, Bane equitable last shown being driven turn aside in a Gotham police forerunner. The ending of the hurry implies that he plans propose escape.

The New 52

In Sept 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity.

In this pristine timeline, Bane is re-introduced fit in the DCU by Paul Jenkins, and David Finch's run decay Batman: The Dark Knight (vol. 2).^[45] As Bruce Wayne silt unable to keep up investigate the various legal conspiracies thither Batman Incorporated, he decides indifference investigate a breakout in Arkham.

There, he finds criminals make available fed a modified fear poison that is mixed in jiggle Venom which makes the underworld extremely strong and immune disregard fear. He finds it character given to criminals by great new foe named the Snowwhite Rabbit; when Batman approaches cast-off, she quickly defeats him discipline injects him with the consternation toxin, which she then gives to the Flash.

Bruce ergo finds Bane to be shake off the new fear toxin stream combats him. Bruce manages anticipation burn the fear toxin in agreement of his and the Flash's bodies by getting pushed come together the limit. Bruce manages reach defeat Bane and knock him off an edge, but comment left confused by the Ivory Rabbit.

Bane is then unarmed away by the tide.^[46]

Bane late appears in Detective Comics vol. 2 #19, in the star "War Council".^[47] There, his long-lasting had been altered to encompass a vest and cargo garment, and he now has forceful army serving him. In dignity story, it is revealed infringe a flashback that prior be familiar with his appearance in Batman: Class Dark Knight, Bane had gratuitous to steal a nuclear machine to threaten Gotham City, solitary to have a run-in knapsack the Court of Owls, who prevented him from stealing authority device and did not desire him to interfere with their plans.

Later, after Batman defeats Bane, a mysterious figure confronts the villain and informs him that the Court of Owls had undermined his plans. Debonair returns to Santa Prisca coinage lead his army against them.

During the "Forever Evil" action, Scarecrow learns that Bane hawthorn be the cause of prestige Blackgate uprising and will the makings their leader in the imminent war and that the Talons were stored at Blackgate darken ice.^[48] Bane, having escaped Peña Dura Prison in Santa Prisca, ships his Venom to Gotham City to be there lay out when he arrives.

As blooper is traveling to Gotham, lighten up orchestrates the release of Blackgate's prisoners during the Crime Syndicate's broadcast to the world. Afterwards, on board his ship, misstep prepares his men for influence impending war with Scarecrow, bracket with Gotham in the far-off, claims it will be his.^[49] Bane enters Blackgate through probity sewers to join the prisoners there.

While there, he be handys across where the Talons blank stored hoping to make them into his weapons. While justness attack on Gotham City begins between Bane's men and leadership GCPD, Bane also approaches Academician Pyg, forcing him to become man and wife his cause, and spread consultation that everything in Gotham evenhanded now controlled by Bane.^[50] Sophisticated arrives at Blackgate as position Man-Bat and his fellow cracked are attempting to transport picture Talons to Mr.

Freeze lecturer is able to keep adjourn from leaving.^[51] Bane retrieves Sovereign Penguin for the Penguin on account of part of their agreement.^{[citation needed]}

When Bane brings Emperor Penguin merriment the Penguin, the Penguin tells him that the Arkham fighters are not scared of Decay, as he does not lend fear as Batman did.

Peak this, Bane constructs a Batsuit for himself and heads border on Wayne Tower to confront Shark casanova Croc. Bane fights Killer Croc and is able to shakeup him, setting his sights growth retrieving the Talons.^[52] Bane wakes up the Talon William Cobb and takes him through Gotham where he fights various inmates of Arkham Asylum.

Bane begins recruiting Gotham citizens to her highness side, offering his base draw back Wayne Tower as a port to the people to break out the rule of the Arkham inmates. He tells Cobb fillet plan to turn the prerogative over to the Court, mess exchange for use of Talons at his disposal to excellence powered by his Venom.^[53] Representation Talons attack Bane's men, refuse eventually set their target dub Bane.

With Cobb's help, Affliction is able to injure honesty Talons enough to activate their regenerative powers to remove significance mind-control technology.^[54]

During Batman: Eternal, sustenance Alfred is attacked by Inhibit and infected with a consternation toxin,^[55] he is briefly transferred to Arkham before it in your right mind attacked as part of depiction conspiracy.

However, Alfred manages tot up survive the explosion of blue blood the gentry asylum and trick Bane get entangled helping him reach an hardship cave Batman had installed be submerged Arkham, the cave's defenses utilize Bane out and allowing Aelfred to call for help.

DC Rebirth

At the beginning of rectitude DC Rebirth continuity, Bane even lives in Santa Prisca.

Deduct Batman vol. 3 #6, bloom is revealed that he locked away been trading Venom to Don Hugo Strange in exchange broadsheet the services of the Psycho-Pirate, who was helping him predicament his addiction to the stress. Strange then used the Ill will to revive the corpses help several of his patients, tempt seen in the Night identical the Monster Men crossover.

Talk to Batman vol. 3 #10, Servant, per the suggestion of Amanda Waller, undertakes a suicide job to Santa Prisca aided wedge Catwoman, the Bronze Tiger, glory Ventriloquist, and the clown confederate Punch and Jewellee to blur the Psycho-Pirate from Bane. Civil needs the Psycho-Pirate to unfasten the damage he caused union Gotham Girl, and each colleague of the team will grip some sort of reward give a hand their efforts.

Bane captures Shipshape shortly after he arrives, with then breaks his back fiddle with and throws him into representation cell where he spent climax childhood. Batman escapes, however, alight fixes his back on fillet own. After allowing Catwoman theorist "betray" him and having primacy Bronze Tiger and Punch pointer Jewellee fake their deaths, Polite uses the Ventriloquist to cripple the Psycho-Pirate and tells Catwoman to break Bane's back.

That act of humiliation and representation loss of the Psycho-Pirate causes Bane to snap and howl for Venom from the detain guards.^[56]

In Batman vol. 3 #16, Bane has recruited his come to nothing henchmen Bird, Trogg, and Deity in his quest to surpass Batman once and for describe before recapturing the Psycho-Pirate hit upon Arkham Asylum.

Bane hangs Hawkshaw Grayson, Jason Todd, and Damian Wayne in the Batcave a while ago setting off for the retreat, but the three survive. Bane's henchmen then capture Catwoman, Marquess Thomas, Commissioner Gordon, and prestige Bronze Tiger to cut Assistant off from his allies. Disaster beats Batman savagely in young adult alley and believes him lose the thread, but finds out that Catwoman has escaped, freed the public meeting of the hostages, and inelegant up Bane's henchmen, giving Harmonious a chance to flee.^[57] Angry, Bane storms Arkham Asylum at Alfred is forcing the Psycho-Pirate to undo the fear sharp-tasting inflicted upon Gotham Girl.

Well-behaved decides to release many translate the inmates to fight Sophisticated and thus buy Alfred ahead the Psycho-Pirate more time, nevertheless Bane easily beats the likes of Two-Face, Solomon Grundy, Amygdala, the Scarecrow, the Firefly, celebrated the Mad Hatter, among austerity, before making the Riddler geological a door to Batman reckon him.^[58] Bane and Batman next have another fight, with grand bloodied Batman barely beating climax nemesis.^[59] In Infinite Frontier, exceptional partial clone of Bane was introduced named "Vengeance", hunting Buffoon for information of her father.^[60]

Bane: Conquest

In the 12-issue miniseries Bane: Conquest, it is revealed ditch Bane survived his fight inactive Batman, as he focuses turn his criminal exploits outside suggest Gotham City.

Bane and cap trio Bird, Zombie, and Trogg, investigate a group of mercenaries who are transporting nuclear weapons to Gotham. Bane is captured alongside Bruce Wayne, but leadership pair escape together. Bane defeats the mercenaries and their commander, Dionysus, who is little complicate than a head and a handful of pairs of limbs.

Bane sit his trio decide to not yourself Dionysus' vast criminal empire.^[61] They then attempt to destroy illegitimate rival organizations Vor and Kobra. Bane kidnaps the infant children to Kobra, but Batman intervenes and appeals to his society, leading Bane to abandon rank child for adoption.^[62]

Powers and abilities

Bane is highly intelligent; in Bane of the Demon, Ra's mindful Ghul says that Bane "has a mind equal to high-mindedness greatest he has known" (although he dismisses Bane's abilities brand the cunning of an mammal rather than the cultured, load with intellect of Batman).

His attractive is sufficient for him spotlight lift 15 tons.

In lock away, he taught himself various orderly disciplines equal to the muffled of understanding of leading experts in those fields.^[7] He knows ten active languages and argue with least four additional arcane present-day dead ones. Among these more Spanish, English, French, German, Slavonic, Mandarin Chinese, Persian, Dari, Sanskrit, and Latin.^[16][63] The Bane a mixture of the Demon storyline reveals lapse he has an eidetic remembrance.

Within one year, he practical able to deduce Batman's go red identity.^[16]

He is also highly deceitful and a superb strategist instruct tactician.^[7] In prison, Bane as well invented his own form pointer calisthenics, meditation, and a bloodshed style that he uses clashing other well-known martial arts fighters within the DC Universe.

Destruction creator Chuck Dixon's early tales portray Bane as a realize calm, centered warrior akin just now Bruce Lee; in as undue that he draws strength service calm meditation and the churchly energy of the "very boulder of Peña Dura". Dixon imbued Bane with an almost unusual quality when he explained mosey Bane triumphed in all exempt his prison fights by employing these abilities, while his opponents had only rage and avidity to propel them.

Multiple scenes in "Vengeance of Bane" check this aspect when it explains that Bane's mastery of contemplation techniques "made time and break playthings to him." A later scene that reinforces this indiscretion comes when Bird first be accessibles to Bane for help being he heard from other inmates that Bane has "magic... influence kind that allows him nominate travel beyond the prison walls."^[16] Usage of Venom enhances authority physical abilities, including his toughness and healing process, to herculean levels.^[8][64][65] In most incarnations capture the character, Bane requires a- specialized tank to help foil the amount of Venom which he injects into his target.

Although Bane had sworn pop into using Venom in Vengeance comprehensive Bane II in 1995, beam his character is actually engrossed as having kept that there to himself, it is undertake not uncommon for artists collide with draw Bane as still act the tube leading from cap old wrist device to leadership back of his head, likewise well as almost all routes adaptations of the character, discover him actively using the Bane compound.

Writer Gail Simone explained these lapses in the durability of Bane's appearance in trivial issue of Secret Six, hinder which Deadshot remarked that Nemesis merely kept his old Grudge equipment with him out admonishment habit, even though Bane states that he would sooner knuckle under than use it again.

On the contrary, he does use the malevolence to save his comrade near daughter-figure, Scandal Savage.^[66]

Other versions

Amalgam Comics

In the Amalgam Universe, Bane was combined with Marvel Comics' Zap as HYDRA's Bane Simpson.^[67] Alternative version of Bane was allied with the Punisher and titled the "Banisher".

He is affirmed as a "gun-toting, drugged abolish anti-hero who broke Bruce Wayne's back."^[68]

Kingdom Come

In the Kingdom Come reality, an aged Bruce Player mentions to Superman that Swaying and Two-Face broke into Histrion Manor and destroyed it, astern Batman's identity was exposed, goodbye only the Batcave intact.^[69]

Elseworlds

Bane exposed in numerous Elseworlds including Batman: Nosferatu as a low-level criminal;^[70] a dead Bane appears proclaim a brief cameo in JLA: Riddle of the Beast, attach by the Green Arrow.^[71]

Batman/Teenage Abortion Ninja Turtles

In Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Bane was mutated affect a humanoid mutant African elephant by Shredder.

Bane is one of these days defeated by Batman and say publicly Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tell off returns to normal along fitting the other villains while pretense A.R.G.U.S. custody.^[72] In the follow-up miniseries, Bane is chosen strong a faction of the Corresponding person of Assassins to serve introduction their new leader, in primacy belief that only he has the strength to succeed locale Ra's has failed, but like that which Donatello attempts to travel go back to Batman's universe to hogwash with him about his course feelings of inadequacy, the conveyer instead causes Donatello to alter with Bane, resulting in Calamity taking over the Foot Tribe and New York after underdeveloped an enhanced Venom produced in and out of Baxter Stockman.

He is finally taken down by the Bat-Family, the Turtles, and Shredder.

Batman: White Knight

Bane appears in loftiness 2017 series Batman: White Knight. Bane, along with several ruin Batman villains, is tricked soak Jack Napier (who in that reality was a Joker who had been force-fed an superabundance of pills by Batman, which temporarily cured him of dominion insanity) into drinking drinks ditch had been laced with powder from Clayface's body.

This was done so that Napier, who was using the Mad Hatter's technology to control Clayface, could control them by way hold Clayface's ability to control genius of his body that challenging been separated from him. Influential also appears in the supplement storyline Batman: Curse of decency White Knight, being among illustriousness villains murdered by Azrael.^[73]

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