(Doc Savage, though mostly marginalized today, was the Jonas Venture of the 1930s. The physical and intellectual peak of human achievement, he traveled the world taking on the greatest threats and inventing things that were decades ahead of his time. Back in his earliest appearances, Bane even had a team of three operatives to assist him, just like Doc. I’m not enough of a Doc Savage expert to draw all the parallels, but it’s been done by others, and I’m just bringing it up to show that some thought went into Bane’s development, and he wasn’t just thrown together by committee.)
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.