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Adaptations of Bane in other media
A mannequin of Bane from The Dark Knight Rises
Created byChuck Dixon
Doug Moench
Graham Nolan
Original sourceComics published by DC Comics
First appearanceBatman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993)
Films and television
Film(s)Batman & Robin (1997)
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003)
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009)
Justice League: Doom (2012)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
Batman Unlimited: Mechs vs. Mutants (2016)
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
Batman Ninja (2018)
Television
show(s)		Batman: The Animated Series (1994)
The New Batman Adventures (1997)
Superman: The Animated Series (1998)
Batman Beyond (1999)
The Batman (2004)
Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2008)
Young Justice (2010)
Justice League Action (2016)
Gotham (2019)
Harley Quinn

Bane was originally a comic book character and Batman's adversary, but has appeared in several other forms of media. He has been portrayed in live action by Robert Swenson in Batman & Robin, Tom Hardy in The Dark Knight Rises, and Shane West in Gotham. Henry Silva, Héctor Elizondo, Joaquim de Almeida, Ron Perlman, Clancy Brown, Michael Dorn, Danny Trejo, Carlos Alazraqui, Fred Tatasciore, Jason Liebrecht, Steve Blum, JB Blanc, Doug Benson, James Adomian, and Peter Marinker have all provided voice work for the character.

Television

Shane West as Bane as depicted in Gotham.
  • Bane appears in The Batman, voiced by Joaquim de Almeida (in "Traction"), Ron Perlman (in "Team Penguin"), and Clancy Brown (in "The Batman/Superman Story").[1][2][3] This version is a South American mercenary whose Venom-enhanced form possesses red skin.
  • Bane appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by Michael Dorn.
  • Bane appears in
    Santa Prisca
    .
  • Bane makes a non-speaking appearance in the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special as a member of the Legion of Doom.
  • Bane appears in the Teen Titans Go! episode "The Great Holiday Escape", voiced by James Adomian.
  • Bane appears in the
    Edward Nygma
    to battle the GCPD until Gordon and his allies talk the military out of following Dorrance and arrest him and Delta Force instead.
  • A robotic duplicate of Bane appears in the Justice League Action episode "System Failure".
  • An amalgamated incarnation of Bane appears in
    Commissioner Gordon
    dismantle the League, Bane questions his life choices and attends therapy in the third season.
    • Bane will appear in
      Kite Man: Hell Yeah!, voiced again by Adomian.[5]
  • Bane appears in the DC Super Hero Girls episode "#AcceptNoSubstitute", voiced by Eric Lopez. He assumes the alias of Diego Dorrance and becomes an art teacher at Metropolis High School to steal chemicals from its science lab to boost his strength.

DC Animated Universe

Bane, as he is depicted in Batman: The Animated Series (left) and subsequent appearances (right).

Bane appears in series set in the DC Animated Universe (DCAU), voiced by Henry Silva.[6] Prior to his inclusion, the producers of Batman: The Animated Series were reluctant to use the character as they felt his comic incarnation was too gimmicky.[6]

  • Bane first appears in a self-titled episode of Batman: The Animated Series, with Silva sporting a strong Latin American accent. This version is a former inmate of a Cuban prison containing the most dangerous convicts ever captured. While imprisoned, Bane was chosen as a test subject for the government project "Gilgamesh" to create super-soldiers with the drug Venom. Though the experiment was a success, Bane used his newfound superhuman abilities to escape and become a professional assassin.
  • A
    luchador mask has been traded for a black gimp
    mask.
  • Bane appears in the Superman: The Animated Series episode "Knight Time", voiced again by Silva.
  • Bane makes a non-speaking appearance in the Batman Beyond episode "The Winning Edge". By 2039, Bane's use of Venom has left him frail, comatose, and reliant on an oxygen tank and regular Venom infusions. Taking advantage of this, his physician Jackson Chappell uses his Venom to create illegal steroid patches called "slappers".[7]

Film

Live-action

Bane as he appears in Batman & Robin (1997) (left) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012) (right)

Batman & Robin

An original incarnation of Bane named Antonio Diego appears in

Mr. Freeze. This portrayal of Bane was one of many aspects of the film that received negative criticism from fans and critics alike.[8]

The Dark Knight Rises

Bane appears in

Caribbean heritage,[16] and in particular, bare-knuckle fighter Bartley Gorman.[17][18]

Bane has been described as having "the physicality of a silverback gorilla"[19][20] and is shown to have superhuman levels of strength in certain instances throughout the film, such as punching holes in limestone pillars, ripping his wrists out of handcuffs, easily breaking a soldier's neck with one hand, lifting Batman's armored body by the throat with a single outstretched arm, and cracking his impact-resistant cowl.[21] Hardy describes Bane's fighting style as "Brutal. He's a big dude who's incredibly clinical, in the fact that he has a result-based and oriented fighting style. It's not about fighting. It's about carnage. The style is heavy-handed, heavy-footed, it's nasty. Anything from small-joint manipulation to crushing skulls, crushing rib cages, stamping on shins and knees and necks."[22]

Bane is involved with the

Robespierre on steroids", a melded triad of Lenin, bin Laden and Steve Austin set on fomenting "proletarian retribution", and "the one thing that's worse than the second film's raving anarchist: a demagogue."[24][25] For his part, Nolan has said that his draft for the script was inspired by Charles Dickens' 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities, centered around the French Revolution.[26] This homage to Dickens' story is briefly illustrated by having Bane finger knit paracord (incidentally a real-life habit of Hardy's) in one scene of the film, symbolizing the Reign of Terror-based character Madame Defarge from the book.[26]

While little information is given about Bane's backstory, he is said to have been born and raised in a centuries-old foreign penitentiary known as "the Pit",

Batpod
's rockets.

Animation

Video games

Lego

Main article: Lego Batman

Batman: Arkham

Bane appears in the Batman: Arkham franchise, voiced by Fred Tatasciore in Arkham Asylum and Arkham City and by JB Blanc in Arkham Origins.[3]

  • First appearing as a boss in Batman: Arkham Asylum, this version is used as a test subject by Dr. Penelope Young to create a more powerful version of his Venom formula called "Titan" to help patients survive strenuous procedures. Having been drained of his Venom as a result, Bane is subsequently left weakened and emaciated until the Joker remotely infuses him with Venom to fight Batman. His strength restored, Bane nearly kills the Dark Knight until the latter summons his Batmobile to ram Bane into the nearby river. In a post-credits scene, Bane emerges from the river and clutches onto a floating Titan crate.
  • As of Batman: Arkham City, Bane was incarcerated in the eponymous city prison. In the side mission "Fragile Alliance", Bane enlists Batman's help in finding and destroying 12 Titan canisters that had been brought to Arkham City.[36] After Batman destroys half of the canisters and helps Bane fight off TYGER guards and other inmates, Bane reveals he intends to use his half of the canisters to strengthen himself. He attempts to kill Batman, only to be trapped in a defunct elevator before Batman destroys the remaining canisters.
  • A young Bane appears as a boss and playable character in
    Gotham City Police Department
    (GCPD).
  • A young Bane makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate. Three months after the events of Arkham Origins, Bane was incarcerated at Blackgate until Amanda Waller hires Catwoman to break him out. The latter manipulates Batman into helping her achieve her goal until Batman eventually defeats her and Bane and leaves them for the GCPD.

Other games

Merchandise

  • The DCAU incarnation of Bane, based on his Batman: The Animated Series design, received a figure in Kenner Products' tie-in toyline.[40]
  • The Batman & Robin and Legends of the Dark Knight incarnations of Bane received figures in Kenner's respective tie-in toylines.[41]
  • Bane received two figures from
    DC Direct, with one based on his appearance in Batman: Knightfall and one in the "Secret Files & Origins" series.[42]
  • Bane received two figure variants in Mattel's D.C. Superheroes line.[42]
  • Bane received a mini-figure in Lego's Bat-Tank building set as part of two-pack with the Riddler.[43]
  • The DCAU incarnation of Bane received several figures in Mattel's Justice League Unlimited toyline as part of a Matty Collector-exclusive four-pack as well as a Build-a-Figure in the DC Universe Classics line.
  • The Batman incarnation of Bane received a figure in Mattel's tie-in toyline.
  • The Dark Knight Rises incarnation of Bane received several figures from Hot Toys and Mattel as well as vinyl figures by POP Heroes and bobble heads by NECA and Wacky Wobbler.[44][45][46][47]
  • The Dark Knight Rises incarnation of Bane received a mini-figure from Lego in 2012.
  • The Dark Knight Rises incarnation of Bane received a Play Arts Kai figure from Square Enix.
  • Bane received several figures in multiple HeroClix sets, with two being dedicated to The Dark Knight Rises and Batman: Arkham Origins incarnations.
  • The Batman: Arkham incarnation of Bane, based on his designs in Arkham Asylum and Arkham Origins, received several figures from
    DC Collectibles
    .
  • The New Batman Adventures incarnation of Bane received a figure from DC Collectibles.
  • The Dark Knight Rises incarnation of Bane received a MAFEX figure in Medicom Toy's The Dark Knight Trilogy line.

Miscellaneous

  • Bane appears in the radio adaptation of Batman: Knightfall, voiced by Peter Marinker.
  • The Dark Knight Rises incarnation of Bane is parodied in the South Park episode "Insecurity".
  • Bane appears in
    Emil Hamilton reboots the rings, de-powering the inmates.[48]
  • The Injustice incarnation of Bane appears in Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Five, in which he aligns himself with Superman's Regime to gain a position of power. Superman is initially suspicious of Bane until the latter helps him and Wonder Woman subdue Doomsday. Despite his allies disagreeing with him, Superman agrees to let Bane join.
  • Bane appears in
    luchador and the dictator of Skull City, Mexico whose Venom is derived from an Aztec artifact called the Crystal Skull. After the Riddler steals the Crystal Skull, Bane allies himself with the former before challenging Batman to a wrestling match. He seemingly breaks the Dark Knight's back, but Batman reveals he hid a Batarang behind his back to prevent this. During their subsequent rematch, Batman defeats Bane and allows him to be apprehended by Skull City's luchadores, freeing the city.[49]
  • Bane appears in Silent Images's album Knightfall. This version is a militaristic Übermensch with an uncanny and almost homoerotic connection to Batman.[50][51][52]

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