Bane (DC Comics)

Bane
Bane, as he appeared during the Knightfall arc in Detective Comics #666 (July 1993), art by co-creator Graham Nolan (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), and Adrienne Roy (colors)
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceBatman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993)
Created byChuck Dixon (writer)
Graham Nolan (artist)
In-story information
SpeciesMetahuman
Team affiliationsSuicide Squad
Secret Society of Super Villains
Secret Six
League of Assassins
Legion of Doom
Abilities
  • Genius-level intellect
  • Master strategist and tactician
  • Skilled hand-to-hand combatant and marksman
  • Venom steroid grants:

Bane is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Chuck Dixon and Graham Nolan, the character first appeared in Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993). He has become one of the superhero Batman's most enduring enemies belonging to the collective of adversaries that make up his rogues gallery.

In his comic book appearances, Bane is an international criminal with a mix of brute strength and exceptional intelligence. Born and raised in the Peña Duro prison on the Caribbean island of Santa Prisca, he serves as a test subject for the super-steroid known as "Venom". Bane uses his enhanced strength to escape and heads to Gotham City, where he defeats and breaks the back of its protector, Batman. Famous for having symbolically "Broken the Bat", Bane is often credited as the only villain to have bested Batman both physically and mentally.[1]

The character has been adapted in various media incarnations, having been portrayed in film by Robert Swenson in the 1997 film Batman & Robin, and Tom Hardy in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises, and in television by Shane West in the Fox series Gotham. Henry Silva, Héctor Elizondo, Danny Trejo, Fred Tatasciore, JB Blanc, and others have provided Bane's voice in animation and video games. IGN's list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time ranked Bane as #34.[2]

  1. ^ Cowsill, Alan; Irvine, Alex; Manning, Matthew K.; McAvennie, Michael; Wallace, Daniel (2019). DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle. DK Publishing. p. 239. ISBN 978-1-4654-8578-6.
  2. ^ "Top 100 Comic Book Villains #34: Bane". IGN. Archived from the original on December 13, 2010. Retrieved December 29, 2010.

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