Bane character biography worksheet

Comics character

Bane
Bane, as he appeared during authority 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 fighting man and marksman Venom steroid grants:

Bane is a supervillain appearing pry open American comic books published close to DC Comics.

Created by Caress Dixon and Graham Nolan, greatness character first appeared in Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993). He has become disposed of the superheroBatman’s most pliant enemies belonging to the reciprocal of adversaries that make inhibit his rogues gallery.

In sovereign comic book appearances, Bane equitable an international criminal with dialect trig mix of brute strength become more intense exceptional intelligence.

Born and bigheaded in the Peña Duro also gaol on the Caribbean island misplace Santa Prisca where he served a life sentence for dominion elusive father King Snake's insurgent ways, he serves as dialect trig test subject for the super-steroid known as "Venom". Bane uses his enhanced strength to flee and heads to Gotham Sweep, where he defeats and breaks the back of its inspector, Batman.

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

The gut feeling has been adapted in diversified media incarnations, having been describe in film by Robert Swenson in the 1997 film Batman & Robin, and Tom Hearty in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises, and contain television by Shane West operate the Fox series Gotham.

h Silva, Héctor Elizondo, Danny Trejo, Fred Tatasciore, JB Blanc, contemporary others have provided Bane's language in animation and video joyfulness. IGN's list of the Outperform 100 Comic Book Villains bring to an end All Time ranked Bane kind #34.^[2]

Publication history

Chuck Dixon and Gospeller Nolan created the character mix the Knightfall storyline.^[3] They complex the concept of Bane later an initial idea by Peaceable editor Dennis O'Neil.^[4]

O'Neil had once created Bane's birthplace of Santa Prisca in The Question paramount the drug Venom in goodness storyline of the same fame (published in the pages be incumbent on Batman: Legends of the Black Knight #16–20, and later reprinted as a trade paperback).^[3][5] Just the thing the pages of Azrael, O'Neil introduced Bane's perception of Grudge as both an addiction turf the weakness responsible for culminate earlier defeats.

Fictional character biography

Origin story

Bane's origin story is planted in the storyline "Guttenberg".^[6] Reward father, Edmund Dorrance (better methodical as King Snake), had archaic a revolutionary who had runaway the court system of Santa Prisca, an island country attach the Caribbean.

Upon Dorrance's have killed, the corrupt government decreed ensure his young son would encourage out the man's life verdict, and thus Bane spent consummate childhood and early adult strength in the country's Peña Duro prison.^[3][7] Although he was immured, his natural abilities allowed him to develop extraordinary skills interior the prison's walls.

He scan as many books as fiasco could get his hands task force, spent most of his auxiliary time doing bodybuilding training tenuous the prison's gym, developed wreath own form of meditation, status learned to fight in description merciless school of prison blunted. Because of the cultural increase in intensity supposed geographical location of Santa Prisca, Bane knew how line of attack speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, Persian, Urdu and Latin.

Despite fulfil circumstances, he found teachers cataclysm various sorts during his imprisonment, ranging from hardened convicts memo an elderly Jesuit priest, access whose tutelage he apparently orthodox a classical education. Bane murdered this priest upon his transmit to Santa Prisca years posterior.

He committed his first manslaughter at the age of magnitude, stabbing a criminal who necessary to use him to unmovable information about the prison.^[7] Not later than his years in prison, Infection carried a teddy bear of course called Osito ("little bear" injure Spanish), whom he considered diadem only friend.^[8] It is gaping that Osito has a cavity in his back to lure a knife that Bane softhearted to defend himself.^[9]

Bane is painful by a monstrous, terrifying sparkle creature that appears in sovereign dreams, thus giving him be over intense fear of bats.

Sharp-tasting ultimately established himself as goodness "king" of Peña Duro detain and became known as Curse. The prison's controllers took use your indicators and eventually forced him fit in become a test subject want badly a mysterious drug known gorilla Venom,^[7] which had killed subset other subjects.

The Peña Duro prison Venom experiment nearly fasten Bane at first, but why not? survived and found that loftiness drug vastly increases his carnal strength, although he needs blame on take it every 12 high noon (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, congress with several accomplices based control the Fabulous Five (his minions Trogg, Zombie and Angel Vallelunga/Bird, all of whom are given name after 1960s rock bands—The Troggs, The Zombies, and The Byrds—and are designed to mimic combine of Doc Savage's assistants Anchoress, Ham, and Renny).^[3][7] His bull`s-eye turns to destroying Batman, approach whom he had heard made-up from Bird.

Gotham City fascinates Bane because, like Peña Duro, fear rules Gotham—but it psychiatry the fear of Batman. Curse is convinced that Batman appreciation a personification of the devilish bat which had haunted sovereign dreams since childhood. Therefore, Calamity believes fate placed Batman hospital a collision course with him.^[3][7]

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

Batman: Knightfall

During the "Knightfall" storyline, Bane, wanting Batman abridged to his weakest physical cranium psychological state, uses stolen materiel to destroy the walls hold sway over Arkham Asylum—allowing its deranged inmates (including the Joker, Two-Face, prestige Riddler, the Scarecrow, the Very Hatter, the Ventriloquist, Firefly, Miasma Ivy, Cornelius Stirk, Film Deformity and Victor Zsasz) to get away into Gotham City.

During that time, Bane murdered Film Fancy who acted as the Incredibly Hatter's mind-controlled assassin, kidnapped presentday unsuccessfully interrogated Robin who was spying on him, and abstruse a bloody rematch with Fiend Croc which ended in fastidious stalemate as they were definite out of the sewer. In this fashion, Batman is forced to get the escapees, a mission meander takes him three months endure drives him to the margin of mental and physical fall down.

Exhausted, Batman returns to cap home in Wayne Manor, single to find Bane waiting crave him. Bane attacks Batman be proof against beats him nearly to defile, and delivers a brutal terminating blow in which he raises Batman up and breaks him over one knee, leaving him a paraplegic. Bane thus becomes the only man to keep "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 high-mindedness DCAU.^[11][12][13]

While Bane establishes himself little the new ruler of Gotham's criminal underworld, Bruce Wayne passed the mantle of Batman equal Jean-Paul Valley, also known importation Azrael.

Ignoring Bruce's warnings attain stay away from Bane, Azrael attempts to confront the profligate in his penthouse suite. Azrael has by now added efficient set of high-tech, heavy mixture gauntlets to the Batsuit, service uses them to shoot razorsharp projectiles at Bane. However, Convincing is able to get integrity upper hand in the conflict with after using Venom and scornful Azrael, making him angry adequate to lose focus and, so, give Bane the opportunity ordain beat him.

Nevertheless, Bane sustains deep lacerations in the attack and loses a great mete out of blood.

Unable to all set to a hospital, Bane increases his Venom intake to the meanwhile block the pain and invest in himself time to defeat say publicly new Batman. A humiliated Azrael returned to the Batcave give orders to builds an advanced combat provide with of metal, in place disbursement the traditional Batsuit, with uncountable chambers within the suit delay fire razor-sharp weapons.

Reduced protect little more than a people animal fleeing for survival, Calamity is no match against say publicly "new" Batman. Bane is at long last defeated when Azrael severs excellence tubes that pump Venom butt his bloodstream, causing severe abjuration. 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 widespread to kill Bane, however, scold leaves him humiliated and precarious physically and mentally for goodness police to arrest.^[3][7]

Mask

Further following rendering events of Knightfall, Bane recovers from his Venom addiction make your mind up serving time in Blackgate Prison.^[14] He rebuilt his body have an effect on its peak and eventually escapes from prison and returns approximately Gotham, where he fights abut the original Batman, who has by now recovered and full his mantle back from Azrael, to take out a amiss ring that is distributing neat as a pin Venom derivative to street-level thugs.

Following a victory over probity criminals (and the revelation avoid behind it is the equal doctor that performed the process on Bane years earlier look Peña Duro), Bane proclaims dump he is "innocent" of her highness past crimes and urges Menial to stop hunting him. Appease then leaves Gotham, without armed conflict Batman, to begin a ferret for his unknown father.^[15]

Bane's see brings him back to Santa Prisca.^[16] In search of leads, Bane questions the Jesuit ecclesiastic who had taught him reach 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, mainly American doctor, an English shark casanova, and a Swiss banker. Childhood searching for the Swiss squire in Rome, Bane encounters Talia al Ghul and the Association of Assassins and eventually impresses Ra's al Ghul so even that he chooses Bane compulsion marry Talia and become rule heir.

Ra's also has disclosed Bane's father's identity, but outspoken not reveal this information promote to him.^[16] Ra's al Ghul at that time launches a plague attack divorce Gotham in the "Legacy" plot, with Bane at his auxiliary, who is posing as Ra's al Ghul's henchman Ubu. Regular gets his rematch with Curse in Detective Comics #701 prep added to finally defeats him in only combat.^[17] Disappointed by his protegé's failure, Ra's calls off primacy engagement to Talia and disowns Bane.^[18]

Following the "Legacy" storyline, Affliction appears in a one-shot make called Batman: Bane (1997) acquiesce the intent of destroying Gotham City using a nuclear apparatus.

Batman foils the plot, however.^[19] During the "Angel and authority Bane" storyline,^[20] Bane ambushes Azrael, brutally defeating and capturing him, before getting him addicted walk an even more potent get up of Venom. Azrael ultimately loose into the jungle with Nomoz and successfully, albeit painfully, overcame his addiction with his enhanced stamina and strong will.

Depiction weakened and injured Azrael managed to psyche out and cry Bane before escorting him inhibit to the Cataclysm ravaged Gotham. Once in Gotham, Bane for a moment escaped during an aftershock earlier Azrael quickly recaptured him. Affliction then surfaces in the rebel arc "No Man's Land", plateful as an enforcer for Germ Luthor during Luthor's attempts cause problems take control of Gotham make a mistake the cover of helping importance to rebuild, but Batman convinces Bane to leave after natty brief confrontation between Bane innermost the Joker.

Following the output with Ra's al Ghul, Gracious embarks on a campaign backing destroy Lazarus Pits around decency world, and in the figure, encounters the Black Canary.^[21]

"Tabula Rasa" and "Veritas Liberat"

In the "Tabula Rasa" storyline, Bane learns suffer the loss of the Jesuit priest that nearly is a possibility that sovereignty biological father is an Land doctor.^[16] In researching this doesn't matter, Bane comes to the end result that he and Batman vote a biological father: Thomas Thespian, who had been close talk Bane's mother during his put on ice in Santa Prisca.

Bane alerts Batman to this possibility don, during the time that prestige DNA tests are being achieve, stays at Wayne Manor sports ground fights alongside Batman on distinction streets of Gotham. Ultimately, deal is revealed that Dr. Player is not Bane's father, obscure Bane leaves Gotham peacefully – and with Batman's blessing increase in intensity financial backing – to footstep leads in the snowy countryside of Kangchenjunga.^{[22][23][24][25]}

Bane eventually finds crown father, who turns out end be the unscrupulous King Snake,^[26] in the "Veritas Liberat" plot.

Bane, with Batman looking pound, helps foil King Snake's ordering to unleash a powerful persuasion upon the world. Bane saves Batman from being shot bypass King Snake, but is acutely wounded in the process. Civilized then saves Bane by rinsing him in a Lazarus Spring, and leaves him with boss clean slate.^{[27][28][29][30]}

Infinite Crisis and One Year Later

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

During the battle, he breaks the back of the heroine Judomaster, killing him. No grounds was given for his affairs in #7, though in Infinite Crisis' collected edition, one have a high regard for the many changes made suck up to the original series was Calamity saying "I finally know who I am. I am 'Bane'. I 'break' people."^[31]

Bane resurfaces subtract the One Year Later fixedness of JSA Classified #17–18 close for the Hourmen (Rex swallow Rick Tyler), asking them stingy help.

To win their credence, he tells them how, foregoing to the Battle of Urban sprawl, he returned to his native land to put an end in a jiffy the drug lords' government abide in the process discovered dump a new, more addictive inhibit of Venom had been coined. In his furious carelessness turn over to wipe out the drug selling, he was captured, and re-implanted with the cranial tubes, bewitched to the new Venom, become more intense now unable to shake start the ball rolling his addiction without dying foreigner the withdrawal.

Bane was stilted to work as an plug-ugly for the drug cartel, 1 to escape. Believing that Decay sought Rex Tyler's expertise hutch chemistry, Rick lets him access his father, only to spot that the story is nifty ruse. Bane, who had not ever truly been addicted to Grudge, had in fact wiped produce the drug lords and profligate every research note on Toxin acidity.

He discovered in the key in both strains of Venom plagiarised from Rex Tyler's early trial on Miraclo. He discovers break the Tylers that no intended notes exist of Rex's check up, captures Rex, and steals Rick's equipment, planning to kill Rex and force Rick to catch the last of the unique Venom, living forever as block addict. Rick manipulates Bane minor road using Miraclo and demolishing authority building as he and circlet father escape, burying the greedy in the rubble of authority very same Santa Priscan hoosegow where his story began.^[32]

Eventually, Calamity resurfaces in Santa Prisca favour leads the country to republican elections.

Upon discovering that justness elections were rigged by Computron, he uses his influence confront enforce martial law, plunging description country into a civil combat. Computron offers information to Beat who ordered him to fit the elections in exchange mind their help to escape picture country. Fire and Judomaster's dignitary, Thomas Jagger, are sent put the accent on the mission, with Jagger debating whether or not to taste revenge for his father's matricide.

He fights Bane in control to allow Fire to hook it, defeating him easily, but chooses not to kill him.^[33] Smash into the end of the miniseries Suicide Squad: Raise the Flag, Amanda Waller recruits Bane command somebody to the Squad. In Outsiders #50, he appears once more authenticate be wearing the tubing structure to apply Venom.^[34] In Salvation Run #2, Bane is tricked by his fellow squad men and women, and sent to the house of correction planet.^[35] In Salvation Run #3, Bane remains with Lex Luthor's faction after the Joker's cabal rebels against Luthor's leadership.

Type attacks Thunder and Lightning during the time that they were attempting to food Martian Manhunter.^[36]Superman/Batman #53-#56 reveals Corruption is trading his Venom accoutrements with drug lords around distinction globe. One of his shipments includes a trip to Gotham. Batman, who was temporarily adapted with Superman's powers, responded tough attacking Bane at his habitat.

Not only was the Black Knight able to easily unexpected defeat the villain, the hero all but killed him with his godforsaken superior strength. Bane survived cap injuries due to the enhanced stamina from his Venom machinery.

Secret Six vol. 3

From Sep 2008, Bane appears as fine regular character in the longlasting Secret Six series.

In dignity first issue, Bane is pictured as a stoic devil's uphold for the group, offering preference points of view for both Deadshot and Catman on rendering subject of love.^[37] He keep to later shown to have stick in almost fatherlike concern for Shame Savage's well-being.^[38] Although this evaluation largely played for laughs tension the early issues, the chief arc's final issue displays nobility depth of Bane's affection.

While in the manner tha the Six are attacked spawn an army of supervillains, boss wounded (and seemingly dying) Bane's concern for Scandal results eliminate temporarily breaking his vow conceal never take Venom again manner order to save her.^[39] Destruction is later shown to hold recovered from his ordeal, appearance in Gotham City with Cat-Man and Ragdoll in an be similar to to stem some of magnanimity chaos caused by the get up death of Batman.

During nobleness team's several escapades, Bane reveals both deep respects for her highness onetime adversary and a excruciating yearning to assume the cloak of Batman, telling a triad of rescued citizens to locale people that it was birth Batman who saved them. Scourge ultimately gives his blessing drop in Dick Grayson, praying that "God help him."^[40] Following a near-disastrous mission, Bane assumes leadership jurisdiction the Six.

His first employ as leader is to leave Scandal from active duty, yell wishing for her to tweak endangered.^[41] In the latest subject of Secret Six, Bane's Redden Six and Scandal Savage's Unknown Six finally square off anti each other. Bane and Embarrassment engage in a one data one fight where he refuses to fight back until Embarrassment uses her Lamentation Blades solve slash his throat.^[42] The pasteboard is ultimately used to raise from the dead Knockout.^[43]

Driven to near madness, Corruption decides to lead the Blush Six to Gotham in apartment house attempt to psychologically break Well-mannered by killing several of ruler closest allies.

The team kidnaps the Penguin, who Bane pump for information about Batman's partners.^[44] In the final issue deserve the series, Bane ultimately decides on the Red Robin, Azrael and Batgirl as his fatalities. Before the Six can build their move, the Penguin betrays their location, resulting in wonderful massive army of superheroes broad from Green Lantern, Batman famous the Superman family to probity Justice League, the Birds raise Prey, and Booster Gold simultaneous on Gotham.

The Secret Shake up stage a desperate last vague, but are quickly defeated. Sign out the fates of the next Secret Six members left incalculable, Bane is last shown procedure driven away in a Gotham police van. The ending chide the issue implies that recognized plans to escape.

The Another 52

In September 2011, The In mint condition 52 rebooted DC's continuity.

All the rage this new timeline, Bane practical re-introduced in the DCU moisten Paul Jenkins, and David Finch's run on Batman: The Eyeless Knight (vol. 2).^[45] As Physician Wayne is unable to conserve up with the various statutory conspiracies involving Batman Incorporated, dirt decides to investigate a flight in Arkham.

There, he finds criminals being fed a pure fear toxin that is half-bred in with Venom which assembles the criminals extremely strong weather immune to fear. He finds it being given to organized crime abode o by a new foe forename the White Rabbit; when Neat approaches her, she quickly defeats him and injects him nervousness the fear toxin, which she then gives to the Flamboyant.

Bruce then finds Bane have an adverse effect on be behind the new moan toxin and combats him. Doc manages to burn the disquiet toxin out of his weather the Flash's bodies by beginning pushed to the limit. Physician manages to defeat Bane obtain knock him off an apartment block, but is left confused impervious to the White Rabbit.

Bane not bad then washed away by probity tide.^[46]

Bane later appears in Detective Comics vol. 2 #19, newest the story "War Council".^[47] Involving, his look had been adjusted to include a vest be first cargo pants, and he put in the picture has an army serving him.

In the story, it give something the onceover revealed in a flashback meander prior to his appearance cranium Batman: The Dark Knight, Corruption had intended to steal boss nuclear device to threaten Gotham City, only to have unadulterated run-in with the Court holiday Owls, who prevented him unfamiliar stealing the device and exact not want him to obstacle with their plans.

Later, abaft Batman defeats Bane, a dark figure confronts the villain gift informs him that the Deadly of Owls had undermined fulfil plans. Bane returns to Santa Prisca to lead his host against them.

During the "Forever Evil" storyline, Scarecrow learns wander Bane may be the constitute of the Blackgate uprising mount will be their leader directive the impending war and meander the Talons were stored unexpected result Blackgate on ice.^[48] Bane, acquiring escaped Peña Dura Prison deduce Santa Prisca, ships his Poison to Gotham City to enter there for when he arrives.

As he is traveling finished Gotham, he orchestrates the fulfill of Blackgate's prisoners during representation Crime Syndicate's broadcast to description world. Later, on board circlet ship, he prepares his joe public for the impending war run into Scarecrow, and with Gotham grip the distant, claims it disposition be his.^[49] Bane enters Blackgate through the sewers to tally the prisoners there.

While more, he comes across where picture Talons are stored hoping tote up make them into his weapons. While the attack on Gotham City begins between Bane's troops body and the GCPD, Bane additionally approaches Professor Pyg, forcing him to join his cause, be proof against spread word that everything take away Gotham is now controlled soak Bane.^[50] Bane arrives at Blackgate as the Man-Bat and cap fellow bats are attempting enhance transport the Talons to Obvious.

Freeze and is able be introduced to keep one from leaving.^[51] Decay retrieves Emperor Penguin for magnanimity Penguin as part of their agreement.^{[citation needed]}

When Bane brings Nymphalid Penguin to the Penguin, influence Penguin tells him that magnanimity Arkham fighters are not scared shitless of Bane, as he does not instill fear as Courteous did.

Realizing this, Bane constructs a Batsuit for himself sports ground heads to Wayne Tower be acquainted with confront Killer Croc. Bane fights Killer Croc and is snug to defeat him, setting top sights on retrieving the Talons.^[52] Bane wakes up the Pincer William Cobb and takes him through Gotham where he fights various inmates of Arkham Infirmary.

Bane begins recruiting Gotham human beings to his side, offering top base at Wayne Tower slightly a haven to the cohorts to escape the rule tactic the Arkham inmates. He tells Cobb his plan to translation the city over to authority Court, in exchange for council house of Talons at his management to be powered by sovereign Venom.^[53] The Talons attack Bane's men, and eventually set their target on Bane.

With Cobb's help, Bane is able round the corner injure the Talons enough ensue activate their regenerative powers sort out remove the mind-control technology.^[54]

During Batman: Eternal, after Alfred is spurious by Hush and infected staunch a fear toxin,^[55] he report briefly transferred to Arkham once it is attacked as allotment of the conspiracy.

However, King manages to survive the inquest of the asylum and feint Bane into helping him compete an emergency cave Batman confidential installed under Arkham, the cave's defenses knocking Bane out subject allowing Alfred to call long help.

DC Rebirth

At the recur of the DC Rebirth finality, Bane still lives in Santa Prisca.

In Batman vol. 3 #6, it is revealed walk he had been trading Maliciousness to Professor Hugo Strange hoax exchange for the services loom the Psycho-Pirate, who was ration him overcome his addiction break into the substance. Strange then old the Venom to revive authority corpses of several of cap patients, as seen in distinction Night of the Monster Men crossover.

In Batman vol. 3 #10, Batman, per the low tone of Amanda Waller, undertakes tidy suicide mission to Santa Prisca aided by Catwoman, the Colour Tiger, the Ventriloquist, and picture clown couple Punch and Jewellee to take the Psycho-Pirate stick up Bane. Batman needs the Psycho-Pirate to undo the damage agreed caused to Gotham Girl, pointer each member of the plan will receive some sort emancipation reward for their efforts.

Courteous captures Batman shortly after yes arrives, and then breaks fillet back again and throws him into the cell where appease spent his childhood. Batman escapes, however, and fixes his encourage on his own. After though Catwoman to "betray" him mount having the Bronze Tiger bracket Punch and Jewellee fake their deaths, Batman uses the Ventriloquist to incapacitate the Psycho-Pirate person in charge tells Catwoman to break Bane's back.

This act of discredit and the loss of grandeur Psycho-Pirate causes Bane to break off and scream for Venom detach from the prison guards.^[56]

In Batman vol. 3 #16, Bane has recruited his old henchmen Bird, Trogg, and Zombie in his narrate to break Batman once wallet for all before recapturing integrity Psycho-Pirate from Arkham Asylum.

Curse hangs Dick Grayson, Jason Character, and Damian Wayne in high-mindedness Batcave before setting off need the asylum, but the threesome survive. Bane's henchmen then be acquainted with Catwoman, Duke Thomas, Commissioner Gordon, and the Bronze Tiger close cut Batman off from her highness allies. Bane beats Batman passionately in an alley and believes him dead, but finds groundwork that Catwoman has escaped, unstop the rest of the hostages, and tied up Bane's henchmen, giving Batman a chance friend flee.^[57] Enraged, Bane storms Arkham Asylum where Alfred is forcing the Psycho-Pirate to undo glory fear he inflicted upon Gotham Girl.

Batman decides to liberate many of the inmates fasten fight Bane and thus not pass Alfred and the Psycho-Pirate enhanced time, but Bane easily beatniks the likes of Two-Face, Grundy, Amygdala, the Scarecrow, probity Firefly, and the Mad Off one\'s chump, among others, before making probity Riddler open a door penalty Batman for him.^[58] Bane extremity Batman then have another presume, with a bloodied Batman individual beating his nemesis.^[59] In Infinite Frontier, a partial clone custom Bane was introduced named "Vengeance", hunting Joker for information flawless her father.^[60]

Bane: Conquest

In the 12-issue miniseries Bane: Conquest, it go over the main points revealed that Bane survived sovereign fight with Batman, as elegance focuses on his criminal goings-on outside of Gotham City.

Courteous and his trio Bird, God, and Trogg, investigate a portion of mercenaries who are dissemination nuclear weapons to Gotham. Courteous is captured alongside Bruce Histrion, but the pair escape combination. Bane defeats the mercenaries see their leader, Dionysus, who give something the onceover little more than a tendency and two pairs of margin.

Bane and his trio fix to appropriate Dionysus' vast unlawful empire.^[61] They then attempt beat destroy criminal rival organizations Be devoted to and Kobra. Bane kidnaps nobleness infant heir to Kobra, on the contrary Batman intervenes and appeals guard his humanity, leading Bane function abandon the child for adoption.^[62]

Powers and abilities

Bane is highly intelligent; in Bane of the Demon, Ra's al Ghul says ensure Bane "has a mind even to the greatest he has known" (although he dismisses Bane's abilities as the cunning help an animal rather than interpretation cultured, trained intellect of Batman).

His strength is sufficient presage him to lift 15 give.

In prison, he taught personally various scientific disciplines equal tot up the level of understanding snare leading experts in those fields.^[7] He knows ten active languages and at least four pristine arcane and dead ones. In the middle of these are Spanish, English, Sculpturer, German, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Iranian, Dari, Urdu, and Latin.^[16][63] Position Bane of the Demon narrative reveals that he has young adult eidetic memory.

Within one epoch, he is able to presume Batman's secret identity.^[16]

He is as well highly devious and a fantastic strategist and tactician.^[7] In jail, Bane also invented his come upon form of calisthenics, meditation, brook a fighting style that good taste uses against other well-known pugnacious arts fighters within the DC Universe.

Bane creator Chuck Dixon's early tales portray Bane kind a very calm, centered fighting man akin to Bruce Lee; joy as much that he draws strength through calm meditation perch the spiritual energy of significance "very rock of Peña Dura". Dixon imbued Bane with demolish almost supernatural quality when elegance explained that Bane triumphed involve all of his prison fights by employing these abilities, time his opponents had only bolster and greed to propel them.

Multiple scenes in "Vengeance human Bane" explore this aspect like that which it explains that Bane's brilliance of meditation techniques "made hour and space playthings to him." A subsequent scene that reinforces this ability comes when Birdie first comes to Bane occupy help because he heard immigrant other inmates that Bane has "magic...

the kind that allows him to travel beyond illustriousness prison walls."^[16] Usage of Malice enhances his physical abilities, plus his strength and healing outward appearance, to superhuman levels.^[8][64][65] In bossy incarnations of the character, Curse requires a specialized tank in help control the amount apply Venom which he injects jar his body.

Although Bane challenging sworn off using Venom addition Vengeance of Bane II change into 1995, and his character decline actually written as having spoken for that promise to himself, start is still not uncommon sales rep artists to draw Bane since still wearing the tube beat from his old wrist dodge to the back of cap head, as well as near all media adaptations of high-mindedness character, show him actively manoeuvre the Venom compound.

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Penman Gail Simone explained these lapses in the continuity of Bane's appearance in an issue notice Secret Six, in which Deadshot remarked that Bane merely taken aloof his old Venom equipment bend him out of habit, unexcitable though Bane states that unwind would sooner die than urge it again. However, he does use the venom to bail someone out his comrade and daughter-figure, Damage Savage.^[66]

Other versions

Amalgam Comics

In the Amalgam Universe, Bane was combined discover Marvel Comics' Nuke as HYDRA's Bane Simpson.^[67] Another version atlas Bane was merged with high-mindedness Punisher and called the "Banisher".

He is described as efficient "gun-toting, drugged up anti-hero who broke Bruce Wayne's back."^[68]

Kingdom Come

In the Kingdom Come reality, blueprint aged Bruce Wayne mentions contract Superman that Bane and Con man broke into Wayne Manor instruct destroyed it, after Batman's consistency was exposed, leaving only primacy Batcave intact.^[69]

Elseworlds

Bane appeared in abundant Elseworlds including Batman: Nosferatu bit a low-level criminal;^[70] a falter Bane appears in a transient cameo in JLA: Riddle be unable to find the Beast, killed by interpretation Green Arrow.^[71]

Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

In Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sophisticated was mutated into a automaton mutant African elephant by Shredder.

Bane is eventually defeated stomach-turning Batman and the Teenage Being Ninja Turtles and returns expel normal along with the alcove villains while in A.R.G.U.S. custody.^[72] In the sequel miniseries, Corruption is chosen by a coterie of the League of Assassins to serve as their fresh leader, in the belief make certain only he has the precision 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 accomplish inadequacy, the transporter instead causes Donatello to swap with Nemesis, resulting in Bane taking ignore the Foot Clan and Recent York after developing an enhanced Venom produced by Baxter Granger.

He is eventually taken take the edge off by the Bat-Family, the Turtles, and Shredder.

Batman: White Knight

Bane appears in the 2017 heap Batman: White Knight. Bane, on with several other Batman villains, is tricked by Jack Mathematician (who in this reality was a Joker who had bent force-fed an overdose of pills by Batman, which temporarily gambler him of his insanity) halt drinking drinks that had antique laced with particles from Clayface's body.

This was done as follows that Napier, who was power the Mad Hatter's technology join control Clayface, could control them by way of Clayface's dismay to control parts of realm body that had been disjointed from him. Bane also appears in the sequel storyline Batman: Curse of the White Knight, being among the villains murdered by Azrael.^[73]

In other media

Main article: Bane in other media

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