I am deeply torn about Tom Hardy's Bane. That movie felt like the one where Nolan's Batman really started to feel utterly ungrounded from the comics, and it was good filmmaking, but it was bad comics writing, and there's a lack of clarity on Bane's character really made the role much less interesting.
Like, so - the storyline they adapted this from, Batman:Legacy was part of the lead-up to No Man's Land in the comics, but all of that happened literally years after KnightFall where Bane had initially defeated Batman, broken his back, and then had a crisis of self where he went on an international manhunt to hunt down the men who might have been his father, and THEN met Ra's al Ghul and Talia.
The Nolanverse story is very much an AU of Bane's history, so he's much less of a self-made man and more of a pawn for Ra's al Ghul and Talia, and that's just. so. boring. It's so boring!
Bane is so much more interesting as a character motivated by his own sense of his own importance and skill. I think that in terms of personality, he truly thinks of himself as being on par with Alexander the Great or Napoleon, and the comics make the case that he's not far wrong.
That said, Tom Hardy is significantly more attractive as a bewildered sweaterman with a rude voice in his head than any other role that I think he should just lean into it a lot more.
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Like, so - the storyline they adapted this from, Batman:Legacy was part of the lead-up to No Man's Land in the comics, but all of that happened literally years after KnightFall where Bane had initially defeated Batman, broken his back, and then had a crisis of self where he went on an international manhunt to hunt down the men who might have been his father, and THEN met Ra's al Ghul and Talia.
The Nolanverse story is very much an AU of Bane's history, so he's much less of a self-made man and more of a pawn for Ra's al Ghul and Talia, and that's just. so. boring. It's so boring!
Bane is so much more interesting as a character motivated by his own sense of his own importance and skill. I think that in terms of personality, he truly thinks of himself as being on par with Alexander the Great or Napoleon, and the comics make the case that he's not far wrong.
That said, Tom Hardy is significantly more attractive as a bewildered sweaterman with a rude voice in his head than any other role that I think he should just lean into it a lot more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Legacy