Not only that — she's one of the main reasons he's able to control Gotham City at all. So, when we talk about a city controlled by Bane, you might ask, why doesn't Superman just come down and end it? Why doesn't the Justice League take it over? Because they've got an atom bomb. Bane's not working with someone who can shove a staff in your face, he's working with someone who can punch Green Lantern into the next galaxy.
But of course, the catch to that is, every time she uses her power she dies a little. By using her that way, he's killing her. That wasn't the only meaning of the title, however. As Batman fought his way through Bane's South American stronghold — since the villain had been using Psycho Pirate for his own ends, to cure himself of addiction to the drug Venom — he revealed via internal narration that he had once attempted suicide. This was a shocking revelation for some readers, but King thinks it's all part of who Batman is.
He was saying, 'I have no more use for Bruce Wayne. I'm now this other thing. I'm the man who wars on criminals. They care about something other than being Batman, but Batman only cares about that. You and I don't go out every night and punch people in the face because we care about things like our family and not getting punched, but Batman only cares about that. Only future issues will be able to tell whether that singular determination is enough to overcome Bane. A few years before DC Rebirth , the publisher reinvented its entire line.
Previous continuity was erased, and every comic series started off from a new issue 1. This initiative was called "the New 52," and it was accomplished through an event series titled Flashpoint in which the Flash went back in time to try to save his mother's life; in doing so, he created massive changes to the time-space continuum.
Before things settled down into the New 52 status quo, readers glimpsed an alternate what-if universe with radically changed DC heroes. The most interesting element of that Flashpoint world was that the Batman mantle was worn not by Bruce Wayne, but his father Thomas.
In that world, it was Bruce who was killed that fateful night in Crime Alley, while his father took a vow of revenge and declared a war on crime. In May , King's Batman briefly crossed over with The Flash for a story called "The Button," in which Bruce finally came face-to-face with the version of his father from this alternate dimension.
Thomas, who in this incarnation has lived his own lifetime as Batman, declared that he did not want his son doing the same. In order to do that, I'm going to throw away my entire life. I'm gonna be totally obsessed with it. I'm gonna risk my well-being every single day. I'm just gonna be in love with being a writer and only care about writing for the rest of my life,' I'd be like, 'no, no, no don't do that.
That's an absolutely horrible idea. In many ways, Bane's origin story mirrors that of Batman, a parentless child who had to overcome his fears in order to rise from his deepest beginnings a parallel emphasized in Tom King's post-Rebirth Batman series. Similarly to Bruce Wayne, Bane is incredibly intelligent, having read whatever books he could in prison, learning up to ten languages by adulthood, and mastering discipline in his self-made training regimen. In Bane's first origin story, he's said to do 1, sit-ups, 1, pull-ups, and 1, pushups every day along with practicing his own form of meditation.
Both the hero and the villain are incredibly disciplined, but one happened to be raised in a mansion while the other was born into prison. In the modern origin, Bane's cell would also flood with the tide every single night, meaning he would spend it treading water Bane's incredible strength and discipline is what would incite his transformation into the muscular villain fans know today.
The prison warden forced Bane to be a test subject for a new drug called Venom, which had killed every other test subject before him. Alas, Bane did not die but instead was bestowed with incredible strength--which he used to escape Santa Prisca with his minions Trogg, Zombie, and Bird.
Only Zombie was able to craft the Venom serum, which became vital once Bane was addicted to the drug and needed it every 12 hours to survive it's this drug that is administered through a series of tubes and a tank connected to his body. That being said, Bane is an expert tactician and master of martial arts This is why he is still considered the only villain who was able to physically and psychologically break the bat, when he famously shattered Batman's spine over his knee.
In the reality of the comic books, Bane swore off using the drug in 's Vengeance of Bane II and only wore the tubes out of habit. In the series Secret Six by Gail Simone, Bane even stated he would never use the drug again for as long as he lived. Releasing the inmates from within both Blackgate Prison and Arkham Asylum out into the city, Bane forced an increasingly pressured Batman to recapture all of his major foes in a campaign lasting several months. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!
Beaten to within an inch of his life by the increasingly brutal new Batman, Bane was defeated and once again incarcerated, except this time it was inside the walls of Blackgate Prison rather than Pena Dura.
Kicking his Venom addiction while inside Blackgate, Bane eventually escaped from prison as seen in Vengeance of Bane II: The Redemption and ended up taking down a ring of Venom suppliers before seemingly leaving Gotham for good.
It was during this arc that Bane and Bruce Wayne — now back in the Bat-suit — would finally have their rematch. With the Legacy storyline tying off strands first begun in Vengeance of Bane and Knightfall, the character of Bane now found himself at something of a crossroads.
However, despite this seeming setback, there was something far more exciting looming on the horizon…. As with every Bat-villain so far Nolan and co-plotter David Goyer have gone back to the root of the character and isolated what worked in their most successful incarnations.
From the prologue and trailer material released so far it seems that the creative team have decided to give Bane a plan and military mindset that evokes his first appearances back in Vengeance of Bane and Knightfall.
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