Bane

BANE

Real Name: Unrevealed

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Warlord

Group Affiliation: formerly League of Assassins, Secret Society of Super-Villains

Known Relatives: unnamed father, unnamed mother (deceased)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Santa Prisca, Prime Earth

First Appearance: Batman: The Dark Knight III #6 (April, 2012)

Powers: Bane was a brilliant military strategist. Bane mainlined Venom, a drug that granted him near-superhuman strength while increasing his rage and affecting his sanity, using tubing built into his cowl. Bain was a ruthlessly efficient hand to hand combatant.

History: (Batman II #23.4 (fb) - A revolutionary seeking to overthrow the Santa Priscan government was captured and locked away. He was cunning and managed to escape, so the government put his young son in jail in his place. The boy grew to adulthood and escaped captivity. Naming himself Bane he gained superhuman strength using injections of Venom and followed in his father’s footsteps trying to overthrow the government. Bane became a folk hero, with the people praising both his strength and his will to commit whatever acts of violence he needed to to achieve his goals. Bane overthrew the government and was welcomed as a liberator by the people.

(Batman II #23.4) - With Batman being reported dead Bane planned to strike Gotham City and conquer it. To prepare he refined his Venom and tested it by inviting some of his hired hands to his home and demanding they try their best to kill him of be killed instead. Batman brutally slaughtered them, and when he was about to kill the last man he realized the man’s daughter had snuck into his house. Bane assumed it was a ploy for him to show mercy, but the girl told Bane her father beat her and her family and she wanted to watch him die. After Bane broke the man’s back the girl took Bane’s hand and said he was her hero. Bane warned her he’d kill her too if she ever touched him again. Bane and his captains Malicia and Brute loaded tanks of venom, an artillery and a small army onto a boat. Bane told the captain of the ship he wanted to reach Gotham within two days or he’d start executing the ship’s crew. Bane orchestrated a prison break at Blackgate, having sent some of his men in advance to join the prison as corrections officers. Bane’s men freed the prisoners, killed the legitimate guards and confronted warden Agatha Zorbatos. The Arkham Asylum inmates had also gotten free, and Bane didn’t want them interfering in his plan, so he had Malicia fly ahead to Gotham City in a helicopter. She had a dose of Venom and was instructed to give it to one of Bane’s guards so he could hunt down the Scarecrow. Bane wanted to make an example of him so the Arkham inmates would know they couldn’t interfere with him without major losses. As Bane’s ship arrived on Gotham’s coast he gave a speech to his men. Bane called them his apostles and said he was sending them to Gotham to show Santa Priscan dominance and violence. He thanked his men for helping him fulfill his destiny.

Comments: Created by Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench & Graham Nolan.