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Well, if you're talking physical damage, sure.
But talking about actual traumatic, near soul crushing damage, nobody puts Bats down like The Joker.
Bane is a criminal mastermind who is, at least initially, obsessed with destroying the man/legend that is Batman. To that end, he orchestrates a city wide crime wave, involving many of Batman's worst enemies to wear Bats down, pushing things worse and worse until Batman is a tired, weary wreck, and then deducing the location of the Batcave (but not the identity of the man behind the mask, somehow), he ambushes Batman and breaks his back. Eventually Batman heals and returns to kick his ass.
Back then it was more about being the man to destroy a legend than being top dog, per se. Nowadays he's all about proving himself an evil prick even without Venom, randomly trying to corner the criminal underground, and orchestrating political upheavals in his home country or something.
edited 25th Jan '11 5:47:27 PM by KnownUnknown
And being a weirdly adorable father figure in Secret Six.
Bizarrely, I think the only adaptation so far that came close to depicting Bane as he was in Knightfall was Lego Batman of all things. His Genius Bruiser nature is alluded to here
where he is shown reading a book with one hand and easily beating Killer Croc at arm wrestling with the other, plus he can break Batman's back
. Someone did their research well...
edited 26th Jan '11 9:05:50 AM by Vox
I can see this being both epic and a welcome rejection of the tired mainstream comic-book-movie formula. After all, comic books rarely have straightforward one-villain plots, if they did, each individual plot would span only one instalment.
Ok, to clarify: Bane spent his childhood and teenage years in Prison (too long to explain why and I am tired). During that time, he read about the Batman. Essentially, he grew accostumed to his prison home, were he was the top dog. After Hugo Strange gave him the Venom Inyection, one could say he became a LITTLE crazy (but that can be speculation on my part? I dunno). The point is, he views Gotham like his prison home, and he wants to break the batman as a symbol, and for him to become the new symbol, mostly because he can't stand that there's Always Someone Better.
"I Am Bane. [b] THIS CITY IS MINE. [/b]
If you ask me, he has more than enough motivation, and of course Nolan will change him, in any case, I am more than Hyped for this movie. I had called from the beginning both Catwoman AND Bane, so naturally, I'm excited.
No, he stayed.
He told Bruce he'd help him but this was it. Bruce told him to put his name in when it was over.
When Fox does, the machine self-destructs. While this is happening you have a close-up of his face. He's smiling and almost crying Manly Tears.
This is also the point where Bruce's VO is saying that "some people deserve to have their faith rewarded."
So he'll definitely be back in Number 3.
It's not over. Not yet.Wait, hold on a second... Bane showing up could lead to a Nolanized version of Knightfall, which could lead to a Nolanized version of the avenging angel, AZRAEL!!!!
Care to critique my villain's prison escape plan?Robin Williams as Hugo Strange? Hmm. Might not be a complete disaster. He's done serious and semi-serious roles before. And let's not forget Jack Nicholson as the Joker.
It's not over. Not yet.Ain't happenin'. All we have to go on is one (very vague) tweet. Besides, Bane and Strange serve the same purpose.
I've got two guns pointed west and a broken compass.Considering the two characters aren't related at all, very easily.
I've got two guns pointed west and a broken compass.Bane's back story can be easily adapted to fit Nolan's version of the Batverse. But I am interested in the way Batman's current status as fugitive will work together with Bane's as, basically, just another mafia enforcer.
With Strange, you could have gone the way that he is a profiler/psychoanalyst hired by the GPD to track down the bat the same way you do it with serial killers and becoming obsessed with him in the process. With, Bane, this option isn't really there, unless they cut the whole criminal angle, which would greatly hurt the character, in my opinion at least.
edited 2nd Feb '11 10:07:54 AM by eX
