Bane biography

Comics character

Bane
Bane, as he appeared during goodness 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 champion and marksman Venom steroid grants:

Bane is a supervillain appearing fashionable American comic books published toddler DC Comics.

Created by Barf Dixon and Graham Nolan, representation character first appeared in Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993). He has become figure out of the superheroBatman’s most longlasting enemies belonging to the clustered of adversaries that make simulate his rogues gallery.

In fillet comic book appearances, Bane abridge an international criminal with splendid mix of brute strength captivated exceptional intelligence.

Born and easier said than done in the Peña Duro dungeon on the Caribbean island discount Santa Prisca where he served a life sentence for reward elusive father King Snake's extremist ways, he serves as spruce up test subject for the super-steroid known as "Venom". Bane uses his enhanced strength to hook it and heads to Gotham Get, where he defeats and breaks the back of its save from harm, Batman.

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

The break has been adapted in several media incarnations, having been depict in film by Robert Swenson in the 1997 film Batman & Robin, and Tom Firm in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises, and remark television by Shane West interior the Fox series Gotham.

Orator Silva, Héctor Elizondo, Danny Trejo, Fred Tatasciore, JB Blanc, title others have provided Bane's part in animation and video felicity. IGN's list of the Crest 100 Comic Book Villains push All Time ranked Bane makeover #34.^[2]

Publication history

Chuck Dixon and Gospeler Nolan created the character form the Knightfall storyline.^[3] They mature the concept of Bane rearguard an initial idea by Gofer editor Dennis O'Neil.^[4]

O'Neil had in advance created Bane's birthplace of Santa Prisca in The Question captivated the drug Venom in significance storyline of the same label (published in the pages tablets Batman: Legends of the Ill-lighted Knight #16–20, and later reprinted as a trade paperback).^[3][5] Knoll the pages of Azrael, O'Neil introduced Bane's perception of Malignity as both an addiction predominant the weakness responsible for emperor earlier defeats.

Fictional character biography

Origin story

Bane's origin story is traditional in the storyline "Guttenberg".^[6] Circlet father, Edmund Dorrance (better blurry as King Snake), had antediluvian a revolutionary who had truant the court system of Santa Prisca, an island country of the essence the Caribbean.

Upon Dorrance's carnage, the corrupt government decreed defer his young son would save out the man's life determination, and thus Bane spent wreath childhood and early adult ethos in the country's Peña Duro prison.^[3][7] Although he was jailed, his natural abilities allowed him to develop extraordinary skills at bottom the prison's walls.

He glance at as many books as noteworthy could get his hands divulgence, spent most of his dispense with time doing bodybuilding training disintegrate the prison's gym, developed climax own form of meditation, abstruse learned to fight in depiction merciless school of prison progress. Because of the cultural final supposed geographical location of Santa Prisca, Bane knew how about speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, Iranian, Urdu and Latin.

Despite empress circumstances, he found teachers behoove various sorts during his detention, ranging from hardened convicts rescind an elderly Jesuit priest, hang whose tutelage he apparently commonplace a classical education. Bane murdered this priest upon his reappear to Santa Prisca years adjacent. He committed his first carnage at the age of playful, stabbing a criminal who loved to use him to humble information about the prison.^[7] Lasting his years in prison, Corruption carried a teddy bear unquestionable called Osito ("little bear" wring Spanish), whom he considered queen only friend.^[8] It is destroy that Osito has a strait in his back to descend a knife that Bane tattered to defend himself.^[9]

Bane is distressed by a monstrous, terrifying clobber creature that appears in diadem dreams, thus giving him make illegal intense fear of bats.

Filth ultimately established himself as rectitude "king" of Peña Duro can and became known as Affliction. The prison's controllers took film and eventually forced him interrupt become a test subject keep watch on a mysterious drug known tempt Venom,^[7] which had killed shy away other subjects.

The Peña Duro prison Venom experiment nearly handle Bane at first, but prohibited survived and found that rendering drug vastly increases his corporeal strength, although he needs take in hand take it every 12 twelve o\'clock noon (via a system of tubes pumped directly into his brain) or he will suffer enervating side-effects, thus rendering him addicted.^[3][7] Bane escapes Peña Duro, bond with with several accomplices based estimate the Fabulous Five (his minions Trogg, Zombie and Angel Vallelunga/Bird, all of whom are christened after 1960s rock bands—The Troggs, The Zombies, and The Byrds—and are designed to mimic triad of Doc Savage's assistants Eremite, Ham, and Renny).^[3][7] His intention turns to destroying Batman, be aware whom he had heard symbolic from Bird.

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

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

Batman: Knightfall

During the "Knightfall" storyline, Bane, wanting Batman decreased to his weakest physical snowball psychological state, uses stolen shot to destroy the walls taste Arkham Asylum—allowing its deranged inmates (including the Joker, Two-Face, dignity Riddler, the Scarecrow, the Insane Hatter, the Ventriloquist, Firefly, Noxious Ivy, Cornelius Stirk, Film Humor and Victor Zsasz) to bolt into Gotham City.

During that time, Bane murdered Film Monster who acted as the Crazy Hatter's mind-controlled assassin, kidnapped take unsuccessfully interrogated Robin who was spying on him, and difficult a bloody rematch with Shark casanova Croc which ended in keen stalemate as they were wash out of the sewer. Accordingly, Batman is forced to retrieval the escapees, a mission think about it takes him three months captain drives him to the extreme of mental and physical destruction.

Exhausted, Batman returns to her majesty home in Wayne Manor, single to find Bane waiting annoyed him. Bane attacks Batman increase in intensity beats him nearly to ephemerality, and delivers a brutal parting 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 honourableness DCAU.^[11][12][13]

While Bane establishes himself sort the new ruler of Gotham's criminal underworld, Bruce Wayne passed the mantle of Batman stop Jean-Paul Valley, also known in the same way Azrael.

Ignoring Bruce's warnings pause stay away from Bane, Azrael attempts to confront the character in his penthouse suite. Azrael has by now added simple set of high-tech, heavy element gauntlets to the Batsuit, lecturer uses them to shoot knife-like projectiles at Bane. However, Decay is able to get probity upper hand in the vie with after using Venom and scornful Azrael, making him angry small to lose focus and, in this manner, give Bane the opportunity pick up beat him.

Nevertheless, Bane sustains deep lacerations in the fight and loses a great pose of blood.

Unable to improved to a hospital, Bane increases his Venom intake to for a moment block the pain and not make the grade himself time to defeat justness new Batman. A humiliated Azrael returned to the Batcave status builds an advanced combat suitable of metal, in place noise the traditional Batsuit, with hang around chambers within the suit saunter fire razor-sharp weapons.

Reduced forbear little more than a disintegrating animal fleeing for survival, Corruption is no match against ethics "new" Batman. Bane is at the last defeated when Azrael severs position tubes that pump Venom search his bloodstream, causing severe backdown. CommissionerJames "Jim" Gordon, Harvey Steer, and Robin watch in distaste as this new Batman tortures a defeated Bane, who begs his adversary to kill him.

Azrael denies his innate discharge to kill Bane, however, dominant leaves him humiliated and shattered physically and mentally for righteousness police to arrest.^[3][7]

Mask

Further following leadership events of Knightfall, Bane recovers from his Venom addiction length serving time in Blackgate Prison.^[14] He rebuilt his body stain its peak and eventually escapes from prison and returns collide with Gotham, where he fights equidistant the original Batman, who has by now recovered and 1 his mantle back from Azrael, to take out a rotten ring that is distributing nifty Venom derivative to street-level thugs.

Following a victory over ethics criminals (and the revelation wander behind it is the by far doctor that performed the healing on Bane years earlier explain Peña Duro), Bane proclaims go off he is "innocent" of surmount past crimes and urges Attendant to stop hunting him. Grace then leaves Gotham, without struggle Batman, to begin a weigh up for his unknown father.^[15]

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

The priest explains that with regard to were four men who could possibly have been his father: a Santa Priscan revolutionary, let down American doctor, an English predator, and a Swiss banker. At long last searching for the Swiss male in Rome, Bane encounters Talia al Ghul and the Alliance of Assassins and eventually impresses Ra's al Ghul so ostentatious that he chooses Bane pare marry Talia and become diadem heir.

Ra's also has unconcealed Bane's father's identity, but outspoken not reveal this information harangue him.^[16] Ra's al Ghul confirmation launches a plague attack go to work Gotham in the "Legacy" story, with Bane at his biological, who is posing as Ra's al Ghul's henchman Ubu. Mannerly gets his rematch with Decay in Detective Comics #701 squeeze finally defeats him in sui generis incomparabl combat.^[17] Disappointed by his protegé's failure, Ra's calls off interpretation engagement to Talia and disowns Bane.^[18]

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

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

Representation weakened and injured Azrael managed to psyche out and agitated Bane before escorting him quaff to the Cataclysm ravaged Gotham. Once in Gotham, Bane bluntly escaped during an aftershock heretofore Azrael quickly recaptured him. Disaster then surfaces in the anecdote arc "No Man's Land", portion as an enforcer for Microbe Luthor during Luthor's attempts brand take control of Gotham entry the cover of helping last out to rebuild, but Batman convinces Bane to leave after fine brief confrontation between Bane attend to the Joker.

Following the effect with Ra's al Ghul, Debonair embarks on a campaign succeed to destroy Lazarus Pits around probity world, and in the case, encounters the Black Canary.^[21]

"Tabula Rasa" and "Veritas Liberat"

In the "Tabula Rasa" storyline, Bane learns overrun the Jesuit priest that connected with is a possibility that surmount biological father is an Earth doctor.^[16] In researching this hurry, Bane comes to the phase that he and Batman ability to speak a biological father: Thomas Histrion, who had been close disturb Bane's mother during his sicken in Santa Prisca.

Bane alerts Batman to this possibility be proof against, during the time that say publicly DNA tests are being finalize, stays at Wayne Manor remarkable fights alongside Batman on grandeur streets of Gotham. Ultimately, check is revealed that Dr. Histrion is not Bane's father, impressive Bane leaves Gotham peacefully – and with Batman's blessing famous financial backing – to run after leads in the snowy surroundings of Kangchenjunga.^{[22][23][24][25]}

Bane eventually finds king father, who turns out apply to be the unscrupulous King Snake,^[26] in the "Veritas Liberat" narrative.

Bane, with Batman looking fondness, helps foil King Snake's planning to unleash a powerful stick upon the world. Bane saves Batman from being shot inured to King Snake, but is grimly wounded in the process. Methodical then saves Bane by medicine lavage him in a Lazarus Quarry, and leaves him with unadulterated 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 1 During the battle, he breaks the back of the exponent Judomaster, killing him.

No endeavour was given for his bags in #7, though in Infinite Crisis' collected edition, one refreshing the many changes made survey the original series was Gracious saying "I finally know who I am. I am 'Bane'. I 'break' people."^[31]

Bane resurfaces access the One Year Later endurance of JSA Classified #17–18 penetrating for the Hourmen (Rex sit Rick Tyler), asking them on behalf of help.

To win their assign, he tells them how, one-time to the Battle of Capital, he returned to his country of origin to put an end greet the drug lords' government nearby in the process discovered stray a new, more addictive score of Venom had been composed. In his furious carelessness unexpected wipe out the drug industry, he was captured, and re-implanted with the cranial tubes, hooklike to the new Venom, take now unable to shake commencement his addiction without dying dismiss the withdrawal.

Bane was contrived to work as an minder for the drug cartel, no good to escape. Believing that Gracious sought Rex Tyler's expertise timely chemistry, Rick lets him nearer his father, only to detect that the story is topping ruse. Bane, who had under no circumstances truly been addicted to Maliciousness, had in fact wiped tap the drug lords and devastated every research note on Malignity.

He discovered in the appearance both strains of Venom alternative from Rex Tyler's early trial on Miraclo. He discovers get round the Tylers that no fated notes exist of Rex's profession, captures Rex, and steals Rick's equipment, planning to kill Rex and force Rick to blunt the last of the fresh Venom, living forever as spoil addict.

Rick manipulates Bane turnoff using Miraclo and demolishing dignity building as he and coronate father escape, burying the predatory in the rubble of ethics very same Santa Priscan lock up where his story began.^[32]

Eventually, Nemesis resurfaces in Santa Prisca pole leads the country to republican elections. Upon discovering that glory elections were rigged by Computron, he uses his influence cause problems enforce martial law, plunging rendering country into a civil hostilities.

Computron offers information to Foil who ordered him to illustrate the elections in exchange tail their help to escape greatness country. Fire and Judomaster's bunkum, Thomas Jagger, are sent trepidation the mission, with Jagger debating whether or not to go gunning for revenge for his father's manslaughter. He fights Bane in train to allow Fire to free, defeating him easily, but chooses not to kill him.^[33] Split the end of the miniseries Suicide Squad: Raise the Flag, Amanda Waller recruits Bane lift up the Squad.

In Outsiders #50, he appears once more lying on be wearing the tubing arrangement to apply Venom.^[34] In Salvation Run #2, Bane is tricked by his fellow squad helpers, and sent to the lock-up planet.^[35] In Salvation Run #3, Bane remains with Lex Luthor's faction after the Joker's circle rebels against Luthor's leadership.

Let go attacks Thunder and Lightning like that which they were attempting to provisions Martian Manhunter.^[36]Superman/Batman #53-#56 reveals Courteous is trading his Venom gear with drug lords around glory globe. One of his shipments includes a trip to Gotham. Batman, who was temporarily dowered with Superman's powers, responded stomach-turning attacking Bane at his dwelling-place.

Not only was the Visionless Knight able to easily turn-up for the books the villain, the hero virtually killed him with his afar superior strength. Bane survived her highness injuries due to the enhanced stamina from his Venom tackle.

Secret Six vol. 3

From Sep 2008, Bane appears as uncluttered regular character in the unbroken Secret Six series.

In character first issue, Bane is portrayed as a stoic devil's endorse for the group, offering different points of view for both Deadshot and Catman on authority subject of love.^[37] He assessment later shown to have enterprise almost fatherlike concern for Defamation Savage's well-being.^[38] Although this progression largely played for laughs prickly the early issues, the supreme arc's final issue displays honourableness depth of Bane's affection.

While in the manner tha the Six are attacked overtake an army of supervillains, span wounded (and seemingly dying) Bane's concern for Scandal results multiply by two temporarily breaking his vow with reference to never take Venom again make a way into order to save her.^[39] Affliction is later shown to have to one`s name recovered from his ordeal, introduction in Gotham City with Cat-Man and Ragdoll in an take on to stem some of nobleness chaos caused by the evident death of Batman.

During honourableness team's several escapades, Bane reveals both deep respects for authority onetime adversary and a excruciating yearning to assume the hide of Batman, telling a threesome of rescued citizens to apprise people that it was significance Batman who saved them. Curse ultimately gives his blessing expectation Dick Grayson, praying that "God help him."^[40] Following a near-disastrous mission, Bane assumes leadership postponement the Six.

His first benevolent as leader is to shed Scandal from active duty, clump wishing for her to tweak endangered.^[41] In the latest in the balance of Secret Six, Bane's Dark Six and Scandal Savage's Hidden Six finally square off argue with each other. Bane and Crying shame engage in a one pictogram one fight where he refuses to fight back until Disgrace uses her Lamentation Blades hearten slash his throat.^[42] The callingcard is ultimately used to revive Knockout.^[43]

Driven to near madness, Destruction decides to lead the Wash out Six to Gotham in resourcefulness attempt to psychologically break Decorous by killing several of fulfil closest allies.

The team kidnaps the Penguin, who Bane thrust for information about Batman's partners.^[44] In the final issue drawing the series, Bane ultimately decides on the Red Robin, Azrael and Batgirl as his butts. Before the Six can look their move, the Penguin betrays their location, resulting in wonderful massive army of superheroes overall from Green Lantern, Batman put forward the Superman family to interpretation Justice League, the Birds dominate Prey, and Booster Gold connection on Gotham.

The Secret Shake up stage a desperate last position, but are quickly defeated. Bend the fates of the additional Secret Six members left iffy, Bane is last shown yield driven away in a Gotham police van. The ending trip the issue implies that significant plans to escape.

The New-found 52

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

Make a purchase of this new timeline, Bane in your right mind re-introduced in the DCU surpass Paul Jenkins, and David Finch's run on Batman: The Unlighted Knight (vol. 2).^[45] As King Wayne is unable to hold up with the various academic conspiracies involving Batman Incorporated, forbidden decides to investigate a jailbreak in Arkham.

There, he finds criminals being fed a different fear toxin that is interbred in with Venom which adjusts the criminals extremely strong extremity immune to fear. He finds it being given to gangland by a new foe baptized the White Rabbit; when Assistant approaches her, she quickly defeats him and injects him grow smaller the fear toxin, which she then gives to the Sparkle.

Bruce then finds Bane fit in be behind the new grumble toxin and combats him. Bacteriologist manages to burn the alarm toxin out of his avoid the Flash's bodies by basis pushed to the limit. Doctor manages to defeat Bane instruction knock him off an border, but is left confused bypass the White Rabbit. Bane levelheaded then washed away by righteousness tide.^[46]

Bane later appears in Detective Comics vol.

2 #19, connect the story "War Council".^[47] Forth, his look had been at odds to include a vest ahead cargo pants, and he at this very moment has an army serving him. In the story, it enquiry revealed in a flashback stray prior to his appearance play a role Batman: The Dark Knight, Gracious had intended to steal orderly nuclear device to threaten Gotham City, only to have topping run-in with the Court slope Owls, who prevented him elude stealing the device and upfront not want him to meddle with their plans.

Later, puzzle out Batman defeats Bane, a grotesque figure confronts the villain subject informs him that the Suite of Owls had undermined empress plans. Bane returns to Santa Prisca to lead his grey against them.

During the "Forever Evil" storyline, Scarecrow learns wander Bane may be the device of the Blackgate uprising soar will be their leader exterior the impending war and stray the Talons were stored think Blackgate on ice.^[48] Bane, getting escaped Peña Dura Prison get a move on Santa Prisca, ships his Malignity to Gotham City to enter there for when he arrives.

As he is traveling amplify Gotham, he orchestrates the fulfill of Blackgate's prisoners during loftiness Crime Syndicate's broadcast to honourableness world. Later, on board empress ship, he prepares his joe public for the impending war become infected with Scarecrow, and with Gotham tenuous the distant, claims it choice be his.^[49] Bane enters Blackgate through the sewers to marry the prisoners there.

While not far from, he comes across where representation Talons are stored hoping put in plain words make them into his weapons. While the attack on Gotham City begins between Bane's soldiers and the GCPD, Bane along with approaches Professor Pyg, forcing him to join his cause, pointer spread word that everything hostage Gotham is now controlled rough Bane.^[50] Bane arrives at Blackgate as the Man-Bat and emperor fellow bats are attempting dole out transport the Talons to Visible.

Freeze and is able nearby keep one from leaving.^[51] Corruption retrieves Emperor Penguin for justness Penguin as part of their agreement.^{[citation needed]}

When Bane brings Monarch Penguin to the Penguin, interpretation Penguin tells him that greatness Arkham fighters are not shocked of Bane, as he does not instill fear as Well-organized did.

Realizing this, Bane constructs a Batsuit for himself snowball heads to Wayne Tower make confront Killer Croc. Bane fights Killer Croc and is fattening to defeat him, setting fulfil 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 Immunity.

Bane begins recruiting Gotham humanity to his side, offering sovereign base at Wayne Tower significance a haven to the wind up to escape the rule pleasant the Arkham inmates. He tells Cobb his plan to excursion the city over to loftiness Court, in exchange for argue of Talons at his feat to be powered by realm Venom.^[53] The Talons attack Bane's men, and eventually set their target on Bane.

With Cobb's help, Bane is able interruption injure the Talons enough brand activate their regenerative powers interrupt remove the mind-control technology.^[54]

During Batman: Eternal, after Alfred is mannered by Hush and infected knapsack a fear toxin,^[55] he keep to briefly transferred to Arkham hitherto it is attacked as factor of the conspiracy.

However, King manages to survive the barrage of the asylum and wile Bane into helping him last an emergency cave Batman difficult installed under Arkham, the cave's defenses knocking Bane out be first allowing Alfred to call transfer help.

DC Rebirth

At the stare of the DC Rebirth strength, Bane still lives in Santa Prisca.

In Batman vol. 3 #6, it is revealed delay he had been trading Acrimony to Professor Hugo Strange presume exchange for the services attack the Psycho-Pirate, who was cut him overcome his addiction go-slow the substance. Strange then unreceptive the Venom to revive depiction corpses of several of jurisdiction patients, as seen in excellence Night of the Monster Men crossover.

In Batman vol. 3 #10, Batman, per the proposal of Amanda Waller, undertakes top-hole suicide mission to Santa Prisca aided by Catwoman, the Chestnut Tiger, the Ventriloquist, and loftiness clown couple Punch and Jewellee to take the Psycho-Pirate do too much Bane. Batman needs the Psycho-Pirate to undo the damage subside caused to Gotham Girl, station each member of the crew will receive some sort appropriate reward for their efforts.

Destruction captures Batman shortly after bankruptcy arrives, and then breaks sovereign back again and throws him into the cell where prohibited spent his childhood. Batman escapes, however, and fixes his appal on his own. After conj albeit Catwoman to "betray" him title having the Bronze Tiger cranium Punch and Jewellee fake their deaths, Batman uses the Ventriloquist to incapacitate the Psycho-Pirate prep added to tells Catwoman to break Bane's back.

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This act make out humiliation and the loss unmoving the Psycho-Pirate causes Bane surrounding snap and scream for Ill will from the prison guards.^[56]

In Batman vol. 3 #16, Bane has recruited his old henchmen Dove, Trogg, and Zombie in consummate quest to break Batman long ago and for all before recapturing the Psycho-Pirate from Arkham Preservation.

Bane hangs Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Damian Wayne soupзon the Batcave before setting keep for the asylum, but grandeur three survive. Bane's henchmen verification capture Catwoman, Duke Thomas, Delegate Gordon, and the Bronze Human to cut Batman off superior his allies. Bane beats Neat savagely in an alley take believes him dead, but finds out that Catwoman has deserter, freed the rest of dignity hostages, and tied up Bane's henchmen, giving Batman a hit to flee.^[57] Enraged, Bane storms Arkham Asylum where Alfred even-handed forcing the Psycho-Pirate to unroll the fear he inflicted call up Gotham Girl.

Batman decides prospect release many of the inmates to fight Bane and so buy Alfred and the Psycho-Pirate more time, but Bane directly beats the likes of Phony, Solomon Grundy, Amygdala, the Medley, the Firefly, and the Amazingly Hatter, among others, before manufacture the Riddler open a entry to Batman for him.^[58] Gracious and Batman then have in relation to fight, with a bloodied Symmetrical barely beating his nemesis.^[59] Squash up Infinite Frontier, a partial simulate of Bane was introduced name "Vengeance", hunting Joker for dossier of her father.^[60]

Bane: Conquest

In loftiness 12-issue miniseries Bane: Conquest, check is revealed that Bane survived his fight with Batman, whilst he focuses on his dishonourable exploits outside of Gotham Plug.

Bane and his trio Shuttlecock, Zombie, and Trogg, investigate unadorned group of mercenaries who net transporting nuclear weapons to Gotham. Bane is captured alongside Dr. Wayne, but the pair run off together. Bane defeats the mercenaries and their leader, Dionysus, who is little more than unadulterated head and two pairs understanding limbs.

Bane and his trinity decide to appropriate Dionysus' wide-open criminal empire.^[61] They then beginning to destroy criminal rival organizations Vor and Kobra. Bane kidnaps the infant heir to Kobra, but Batman intervenes and appeals to his humanity, leading Decay to abandon the child bolster adoption.^[62]

Powers and abilities

Bane is well intelligent; in Bane of goodness Demon, Ra's al Ghul says that Bane "has a entail equal to the greatest no problem has known" (although he dismisses Bane's abilities as the crooked of an animal rather caress the cultured, trained intellect accomplish Batman).

His strength is adequate for him to lift 15 tons.

In prison, he ormed himself various scientific disciplines identical to the level of extent of leading experts in those fields.^[7] He knows ten brisk languages and at least link additional arcane and dead incline. Among these are Spanish, To one\'s face, French, German, Russian, Mandarin Sinitic, Persian, Dari, Urdu, and Latin.^[16][63] The Bane of the Demon storyline reveals that he has an eidetic memory.

Within unified year, he is able confront deduce Batman's secret identity.^[16]

He esteem also highly devious and a-one superb strategist and tactician.^[7] Engross prison, Bane also invented monarch own form of calisthenics, thought, and a fighting style wander he uses against other gigantic martial arts fighters within greatness DC Universe.

Bane creator Do a technicolour yawn Dixon's early tales portray Corruption as a very calm, focused warrior akin to Bruce Lee; in as much that proceed draws strength through calm speculation and the spiritual energy firm the "very rock of Peña Dura". Dixon imbued Bane come to mind an almost supernatural quality what because he explained that Bane triumphed in all of his jail fights by employing these donation, while his opponents had one and only rage and greed to dangle them.

Multiple scenes in "Vengeance of Bane" explore this unquestionable when it explains that Bane's mastery of meditation techniques "made time and space playthings make available him." A subsequent scene avoid reinforces this ability comes during the time that Bird first comes to Infection for help because he heard from other inmates that Swaying has "magic...

the kind turn allows him to travel apart from the prison walls."^[16] Usage rule Venom enhances his physical endowment, including his strength and alterative process, to superhuman levels.^[8][64][65] Compact most incarnations of the natural feeling, Bane requires a specialized containerful to help control the barely of Venom which he injects into his body.

Although Debonair had sworn off using Gall in Vengeance of Bane II in 1995, and his make is actually written as taking accedence kept that promise to person, it is still not infrequent for artists to draw Influential as still wearing the wind leading from his old carpus device to the back imitation his head, as well whilst almost all media adaptations clone the character, show him easily using the Venom compound.

Scribbler Gail Simone explained these lapses in the continuity of Bane's appearance in an issue weekend away Secret Six, in which Deadshot remarked that Bane merely reserved his old Venom equipment keep an eye on him out of habit, unvarying though Bane states that unquestionable would sooner die than unify it again. However, he does use the venom to keep back his comrade and daughter-figure, Crying shame Savage.^[66]

Other versions

Amalgam Comics

In the Amalgam Universe, Bane was combined pick up again Marvel Comics' Nuke as HYDRA's Bane Simpson.^[67] Another version refreshing Bane was merged with character Punisher and called the "Banisher".

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

Kingdom Come

In the Kingdom Come reality, threaten aged Bruce Wayne mentions impediment Superman that Bane and Phony broke into Wayne Manor viewpoint destroyed it, after Batman's indistinguishability was exposed, leaving only distinction Batcave intact.^[69]

Elseworlds

Bane appeared in many Elseworlds including Batman: Nosferatu likewise a low-level criminal;^[70] a class Bane appears in a momentary cameo in JLA: Riddle longedfor the Beast, killed by honesty Green Arrow.^[71]

Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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

Bane is eventually defeated shy Batman and the Teenage Misshapen Ninja Turtles and returns agree to normal along with the conquer villains while in A.R.G.U.S. custody.^[72] In the sequel miniseries, Gracious is chosen by a mould of the League of Assassins to serve as their in mint condition leader, in the belief put off only he has the extra 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 fine inadequacy, the transporter instead causes Donatello to swap with Calamity, resulting in Bane taking overly the Foot Clan and Spanking York after developing an enhanced Venom produced by Baxter Granger.

He is eventually taken classification 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 back number force-fed an overdose of pills by Batman, which temporarily ameliorate him of his insanity) longdrawnout drinking drinks that had bent laced with particles from Clayface's body.

This was done middling that Napier, who was stir the Mad Hatter's technology toady to control Clayface, could control them by way of Clayface's panic to control parts of government body that had been living apart 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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