Bane (DC)
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One day, he became curious about [[Gotham City]] and asked Bird about it who told him that it was the greatest city in the world. Bane then asked who ruled it to which Bird told him about the mysterious vigilante called the [[Batman]] who ruled the night and targeted criminals. This intrigued him and sparked his interest in meeting the Dark Knight. (Batman: Vengeance of Bane v1 #1) | One day, he became curious about [[Gotham City]] and asked Bird about it who told him that it was the greatest city in the world. Bane then asked who ruled it to which Bird told him about the mysterious vigilante called the [[Batman]] who ruled the night and targeted criminals. This intrigued him and sparked his interest in meeting the Dark Knight. (Batman: Vengeance of Bane v1 #1) | ||
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| + | Seeking to test himself, he decided to challenge one of Batman's most formidable foes which was [[Killer Croc]] where he easily bested the villain and broke several of his bones. Though Dark Knight and the Boy Wonder were present on the scene but Bane was quick to determine that this was not the true Batman where he left the scene rather than engage in a fight with them. (Batman v1 #483) | ||
He then returned to Santa Prisca where he approached Father Orestes where he asked the priest on whether he knew Bane's biological father. From the records, Orestes came to determine that it was one of four men that the Santa Prisca tribunal had sought to convict. These included '''Sebastian''' who was known as '''el Jefe de Pais''', a [[Thomas Wayne|North American doctor]], an [[King Snake|English mercenary]] and a Swiss revolutionary. (Batman: Bane of the Demon v1 #1) | He then returned to Santa Prisca where he approached Father Orestes where he asked the priest on whether he knew Bane's biological father. From the records, Orestes came to determine that it was one of four men that the Santa Prisca tribunal had sought to convict. These included '''Sebastian''' who was known as '''el Jefe de Pais''', a [[Thomas Wayne|North American doctor]], an [[King Snake|English mercenary]] and a Swiss revolutionary. (Batman: Bane of the Demon v1 #1) | ||
He later sought out the immortal [[Ra's al Ghul]] and came into the service of the Demon's Head. This saw him taking the role of '''Ubu''' and he came to be considered a potential husband for his daughter [[Talia al Ghul]]. Thus, the two were to be wed after Ra's al Ghul had used the '''Wheel of Plagues''' to create a disease that would purge much of the world's population. (Detective Comics v1 #700) | He later sought out the immortal [[Ra's al Ghul]] and came into the service of the Demon's Head. This saw him taking the role of '''Ubu''' and he came to be considered a potential husband for his daughter [[Talia al Ghul]]. Thus, the two were to be wed after Ra's al Ghul had used the '''Wheel of Plagues''' to create a disease that would purge much of the world's population. (Detective Comics v1 #700) | ||
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| + | During the Battle for [[Metropolis (DC)|Metropolis]], he joined the world's supervillains in fighting its heroes where he fought against [[Judomaster]] with him breaking the back of the martial artist. (Infinite Crisis v1 #7) | ||
===Secret Six=== | ===Secret Six=== | ||
| − | He later came to join a new incarnation of the [[Secret Six (DC)|Secret Six]] under the leadership of [[Scandal Savage]]. She came to accept a mission given to them whereby they were to take a package from the vigilante [[Tarantula (DC)|Tarantula]] [[Catalina Flores]]. (Secret Six v3 #1) | + | He later came to join a new incarnation of the [[Secret Six (DC)|Secret Six]] under the leadership of [[Scandal Savage]]. She came to accept a mission given to them whereby they were to take a package from the vigilante [[Tarantula (DC)|Tarantula]] [[Catalina Flores]]. (Secret Six v3 #1) They infiltrated a prison that held her prisoner where they had to fight against rioting supervillains. (Secret Six v3 #2) |
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On Santa Prisca, one influential person on his life was Father '''Orestes''' who would visit the prisoners at Pena Duro which was where a young Bane had met the Jesuit priest. Orestes came to be blinded by one of the inmates named Tigre and for this crime Bane had crushed the man's skull. (Batman: Bane of the Demon v1 #1) | On Santa Prisca, one influential person on his life was Father '''Orestes''' who would visit the prisoners at Pena Duro which was where a young Bane had met the Jesuit priest. Orestes came to be blinded by one of the inmates named Tigre and for this crime Bane had crushed the man's skull. (Batman: Bane of the Demon v1 #1) | ||
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| + | He came to drawn to Scandal Savage where he could feel her pain and believed that she required the love of a father in her life. (Secret Six v3 #2) | ||
===Powers and abilities=== | ===Powers and abilities=== | ||
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Within Pena Duro, he went through an intense physical regime in improving his body where he did a thousand push-ups, sit-ups and pull-ups a day. Instead of sleep, he used to meditate for four hours at night (Batman: Vengeance of Bane v1 #1) | Within Pena Duro, he went through an intense physical regime in improving his body where he did a thousand push-ups, sit-ups and pull-ups a day. Instead of sleep, he used to meditate for four hours at night (Batman: Vengeance of Bane v1 #1) | ||
| − | On Santa Prisca, he became a test subject in the army's experiments in the use of the drug known as '''Venom'''. He came to survive injections that killed five other test subjects whose hearts exploded from use. This pleased the people in charge who then performed surgery on Bane that led to implants in his skull through which the drug could be administered directly into his brain. The super-steroid drug was noted for its complexity yet ease through which it could be replicated. Within the body, it stimulated the adrenal glands whilst another ingredient targeted the corpus callosum segment of the brain thus fusing its right and left hemispheres. (Batman: Vengeance of Bane v1 #1) | + | On Santa Prisca, he became a test subject in the army's experiments in the use of the drug known as '''Venom'''. He came to survive injections that killed five other test subjects whose hearts exploded from use. This pleased the people in charge who then performed surgery on Bane that led to implants in his skull through which the drug could be administered directly into his brain. The super-steroid drug was noted for its complexity yet ease through which it could be replicated. Within the body, it stimulated the adrenal glands whilst another ingredient targeted the corpus callosum segment of the brain thus fusing its right and left hemispheres. (Batman: Vengeance of Bane v1 #1) He was able to activate the mechanism that injected him with Venom through a button on his hand. Once activated, he gained a high degree of strength allowing him to easily overpower some of his foes and allowed him to break their bones. (Batman v1 #483) |
He came to form an army of followers on Santa Prisca which he fashioned in his own image. (Talon v1 #8) With them, he gained the power that he intended to set fire to the whole world. (Batman v2 #23.4) | He came to form an army of followers on Santa Prisca which he fashioned in his own image. (Talon v1 #8) With them, he gained the power that he intended to set fire to the whole world. (Batman v2 #23.4) | ||
Among his followers included: | Among his followers included: | ||
| + | *'''Trogg''' : | ||
| + | *'''Bird''' : | ||
| + | *'''Zombie''' : | ||
*'''Malicia''' : | *'''Malicia''' : | ||
*'''Wolf-Spider''' : a male who was formerly a runner when he came to volunteer to join Bane's army where he requested his body be broken and reset to increase his strength and abilities. (Talon v1 #10) | *'''Wolf-Spider''' : a male who was formerly a runner when he came to volunteer to join Bane's army where he requested his body be broken and reset to increase his strength and abilities. (Talon v1 #10) | ||
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Bane is a male comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Bane
His heavily pregnant mother was brought to Santa Prisca to the prison of Pena Duro (Translation: The Hard Stone) where the unborn child was to be charged with the crimes of his father under the medieval codes of the island nation. Due to being a male child, he came to fall under Santa Priscan law and made to serve out his life sentence. Similarly, his mother was sent to reside in the prison walls where she was her son's guardian. As he grew, he along with his mother were in the protective care of the infirmary but she to waste away in the prison. The young boy came to learn life within the prison and knew every corner of Pena Duro including the harsh life amongst its prisoners where he saw them murdering one another. By his 6th birthday, his mother had given up on life and passed away in the infirmary where she was denied a Christian funeral and instead her body was thrown into the shark infested waters around the island. After his mothers death, the warden had the boy placed within the general population and forced to fend for himself. (Batman: Vengeance of Bane v1 #1)
As a child, he came to meet a Jesuit priest named Father Orestes where he would talk for hours with the man about books and the history of the world. (Batman: Bane of the Demon v1 #1)
One day, he became curious about Gotham City and asked Bird about it who told him that it was the greatest city in the world. Bane then asked who ruled it to which Bird told him about the mysterious vigilante called the Batman who ruled the night and targeted criminals. This intrigued him and sparked his interest in meeting the Dark Knight. (Batman: Vengeance of Bane v1 #1)
Knightfall
Seeking to test himself, he decided to challenge one of Batman's most formidable foes which was Killer Croc where he easily bested the villain and broke several of his bones. Though Dark Knight and the Boy Wonder were present on the scene but Bane was quick to determine that this was not the true Batman where he left the scene rather than engage in a fight with them. (Batman v1 #483)
He then returned to Santa Prisca where he approached Father Orestes where he asked the priest on whether he knew Bane's biological father. From the records, Orestes came to determine that it was one of four men that the Santa Prisca tribunal had sought to convict. These included Sebastian who was known as el Jefe de Pais, a North American doctor, an English mercenary and a Swiss revolutionary. (Batman: Bane of the Demon v1 #1)
He later sought out the immortal Ra's al Ghul and came into the service of the Demon's Head. This saw him taking the role of Ubu and he came to be considered a potential husband for his daughter Talia al Ghul. Thus, the two were to be wed after Ra's al Ghul had used the Wheel of Plagues to create a disease that would purge much of the world's population. (Detective Comics v1 #700)
During the Battle for Metropolis, he joined the world's supervillains in fighting its heroes where he fought against Judomaster with him breaking the back of the martial artist. (Infinite Crisis v1 #7)
Secret Six
He later came to join a new incarnation of the Secret Six under the leadership of Scandal Savage. She came to accept a mission given to them whereby they were to take a package from the vigilante Tarantula Catalina Flores. (Secret Six v3 #1) They infiltrated a prison that held her prisoner where they had to fight against rioting supervillains. (Secret Six v3 #2)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of history was created with a different timeline of events.
According to one account, his father was a revolutionary who stood up for the people against the government with his cunning always allowing him to escape them. However, his son came to take his place and came to grow up in Pena Duro prison. (Batman v2 #23.4)
At some point, Bane had formed a secret alliance with the former Grandmaster of the Court of Owls with this being Sebastian Clark. They had intended depose the current ruler of the Court where they planned to manipulate former Talon Calvin Rose for this task. However, he came to learn the true nature of Clark's plans and turned against him with Bane snapping the man's neck. Bane then returned to his island with Clark where he believed that Calvin Rose was too weak for their purpose. Instead, he had built an army on Santa Prisca which he intended to use to defeat both the Batman and the Court of Owls allowing him to take over Gotham City. (Talon v1 #8)
Afterwards, the world came under the rule of the Crime Syndicate of America who ushered all villains and criminals to rise up to claim the world. In this time, Bane made arrangements to take over Blackgate Penitentiary and freed its prisoners from their cells. (Batman v2 #23.4) In the cover of night, they take over the prison where the in-mates were to be added to his army whilst he intended to lay claim to the many sleeping Talons stored in Blackgate's sub-basement in stasis. This brought him into conflict with the in-mates of Arkham Asylum who were similarly making their own attempt at claiming Gotham City. (Forever Evil: Arkham War v1 #1)
In the aftermath, he was kept detained at a wing in Arkham Asylum where his mind was seemingly broken as a result of his earlier encounter with Batman. However, this was simply part of his plan to rule Gotham from within the prison and orchestrated his attacks against Batman from there. (Batman v3 #59)
Afterwards, the Asylum was subjected to a Joker Toxin attack that was responsible for killing 500 people that included staff and prisoners. Among the day included Bane who seemingly died from exposure to the gas in a brutal event that came to be regarded in Gotham as A-Day. (Infinite Frontier v1 #0) Following his death, people began to use the symbol of Bane as a sign of strength and as a rallying cry with banners as well as art of him being put up in Little Santa Prisca. (The Joker v2 #1)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Once, whilst in service to Ra's al Ghul, he came to take the masked identity of Ubu. (Detective Comics v1 #700)
Life in Pena Duro had made him as hard as the prison with him not crying after the death of his mother as he felt she was too weak to live in such a place. (Batman: Vengeance of Bane v1 #1)
Bane believed that strength was not measured in pounds but rather in the mind. According to him, strength was the art of exerting one's will upon the world and reshaping it to their own image. (Talon v1 #8)
He claimed that he won his fights against his enemies because he respected his prey. (Batman v2 #23.4) Bane had claimed once that he had only ever considered two people his equal with these being Batman and the other being the Demon Ra's al Ghul. (Detective Comics v1 #701)
To Santa Priscans, Bane was said to carry the soul of Santa Prisca in his hands. (Batman v2 #23.4)
His mother had been the head of a provincial rebel cell that had opposed the corrupt Santa Priscan government. (Batman: Bane of the Demon v1 #1)
As a child in prison, he carried a teddy bear he called Osito (Spanish: "little bear") which he had considered his only friend. (Batman: Vengeance of Bane v1 #1)
On Santa Prisca, one influential person on his life was Father Orestes who would visit the prisoners at Pena Duro which was where a young Bane had met the Jesuit priest. Orestes came to be blinded by one of the inmates named Tigre and for this crime Bane had crushed the man's skull. (Batman: Bane of the Demon v1 #1)
He came to drawn to Scandal Savage where he could feel her pain and believed that she required the love of a father in her life. (Secret Six v3 #2)
Powers and abilities
Within Pena Duro, he went through an intense physical regime in improving his body where he did a thousand push-ups, sit-ups and pull-ups a day. Instead of sleep, he used to meditate for four hours at night (Batman: Vengeance of Bane v1 #1)
On Santa Prisca, he became a test subject in the army's experiments in the use of the drug known as Venom. He came to survive injections that killed five other test subjects whose hearts exploded from use. This pleased the people in charge who then performed surgery on Bane that led to implants in his skull through which the drug could be administered directly into his brain. The super-steroid drug was noted for its complexity yet ease through which it could be replicated. Within the body, it stimulated the adrenal glands whilst another ingredient targeted the corpus callosum segment of the brain thus fusing its right and left hemispheres. (Batman: Vengeance of Bane v1 #1) He was able to activate the mechanism that injected him with Venom through a button on his hand. Once activated, he gained a high degree of strength allowing him to easily overpower some of his foes and allowed him to break their bones. (Batman v1 #483)
He came to form an army of followers on Santa Prisca which he fashioned in his own image. (Talon v1 #8) With them, he gained the power that he intended to set fire to the whole world. (Batman v2 #23.4)
Among his followers included:
- Trogg :
- Bird :
- Zombie :
- Malicia :
- Wolf-Spider : a male who was formerly a runner when he came to volunteer to join Bane's army where he requested his body be broken and reset to increase his strength and abilities. (Talon v1 #10)
Notes
- Bane was created by Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench and Graham Nolan where he made his first appearance in Batman: Vengeance of Bane v1 #1 (January, 1993).
- Artist Graham Nolan in The Washington Post commented on the characters creation, "Actually, Chuck Dixon came up the idea for an evil "Doc Savage" and I designed the character."
- Writer Chuck Dixon said in an interview that, "Since I was so skeptical about our success, Denny assigned me to come up with the origin of this character, who we were calling Doc Toxic at the time, and write an extra-length special for me. I think Denny was relying on my obsessive approach to this stuff. He knew I’d sweat it. The name “Bane” popped out at me while looking through a thesaurus to compile a list of possible names. That’s the name I kept coming back to when I thought of him and I eventually brought everyone else around to calling him that."
Alternate Versions
- In Old Lady Harley v1 #3 (2018), an alternate version of the character appeared in a post-apocalyptic future where the villains ruled the world. On this Earth, Bane suffered from a partially crippled body due to years of Venom abuse leaving his body near skeletal in frame. By this point, he had a pair of daughters who operated in similar costumes as him and were known as the Bane Twins. He oversaw a gladiatorial arena where contestants fought one another within the ring.
In other media
Television
- In The Batman, Bane was an antagonist in the animated series where he was a number of appearances with him being voiced by different actors. This version was a South American mercenary that was a slim man in an all black bodysuit and had a Venom injector control on his hand that transformed him into a huge red skinned super-strong individual. In "Traction", he was voiced actor Joaquim de Almeida where he was hired by three crime bosses who wanted someone to eliminate Batman. In "Team Penguin", he was voiced by actor Ron Perlman and was part of a crime crew assembled by the Penguin. In "The Batman/Superman Story", he was voiced by actor Clancy Brown in Part 1 where he was hired along with a number of other Gotham criminals to ambush Superman.
- In Harley Quinn, Bane appeared in the setting of the comedy animated television series where he was voiced by actor James Adomian.
Films
- In Batman and Robin, Bane appeared as a minor antagonist with no dialogue in the live-action film where he was portrayed by former wrestler Robert "Jeep" Swenson. This version was identified in background material as Antonio Diego.
- In Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Bane had a brief appearance in the animated film with no dialogue. He was among several supervillains that tried to claim the billion dollar bounty on Superman. During a fight with Batman, the Dark knight used a Batarang to knock out Bane's Venom tube whereupon he defeated him with a single kick.
- In The Dark Knight Rises, Bane appeared as a leading antagonist in the live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Tom Hardy.
Video games
- In Injustice: Gods Among Us, Bane appeared as a playable character in the setting of the fighting video game where he was voiced by actor Fred Tatasciore.
- In Injustice 2, Bane appeared once again in the setting of the fighting video game where he was once more voiced again by actor Fred Tatasciore.
Appearances
- Batman: Vengeance of Bane v1: (1993)
- Batman v1:
- Detective Comics v1:
- Batman: Bane of the Demon v1:
- Secret Six v3:
- Detective Comics v2:
- Batman: The Dark Knight v2:
- Talon v1:
- Forever Evil: Arkham War v1:
- Bane: Conquest v1:
- Batman Eternal v1:
- Batman v3:
- Infinite Frontier v1: (2021)
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