He even appears in video games – in the last three years, he appeared in both LEGO Batman (in which you can make him throw people so high up in the air that they never come down) and Arkham Asylum. In the latter, he’s the unwilling victim of a more powerful version of Venom that turns its users into monsters. (The fact that the only way that Batman beats him is by knocking him over with the Batmobile should tell you a lot about why this is my favorite game ever.)
I like Bane quite a bit, but I can’t immediately figure out how he fits into Christopher Nolan’s Bat-mythos. While Tom Hardy is an excellent actor, it’s hard to picture him as any traditional version of Bane. Even if he buffs up to a ridiculous degree, I can’t see him hefting Christian Bale over his head and breaking his spine. Clearly, the new movie won’t be an adaptation of Knightfall, and I can’t imagine that back-breaking plays any role in it. (Wouldn’t it be weird if Nolan actually made a Batman movie where the second act was devoted to Bruce Wayne’s physical therapy?)
My favorite part of this was that Bane was in prison serving his father’s life sentence.
That never fails to crack me up – it’s a pretty sweet system of criminal justice. “Man, that guy’s hard to catch. Wait, he’s got a kid? Let’s just lock him up. You want to get a sandwich?”
In a way, it makes SOME sense. Maybe his parental guilt would lead him to turn himself in.