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Day 28 - DC Character - Bane
Bane
I hated Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises and avoided anything with Tom in it. I do not understand any fascination with him. He is as sexy as a toad to me. I really did like him as Eddie in Venom – he finally hit on a role I liked.
Bane is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Dennis O'Neil, Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, and Graham Nolan, he made his debut in Batman: Vengeance of Bane 1 (January 1993). The character is usually depicted as an adversary of the superhero Batman and belongs to the collective of enemies that make up his central rogues gallery. Possessing a mix of brute strength and exceptional intelligence, Bane is often credited as being the only villain to have "broken the bat" both physically and mentally.
IGN's list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time ranked Bane as 34.[1] The character has been substantially adapted from the comics into multiple forms of media; he has been portrayed in live-action by Robert Swenson in Batman & Robin, by Tom Hardy in The Dark Knight Rises, and by Shane West in Gotham.
More about Bane at Wikipedia.
Comic Vine has a long bio of Bane as well.
I hated Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises and avoided anything with Tom in it. I do not understand any fascination with him. He is as sexy as a toad to me. I really did like him as Eddie in Venom – he finally hit on a role I liked.
Bane is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Dennis O'Neil, Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, and Graham Nolan, he made his debut in Batman: Vengeance of Bane 1 (January 1993). The character is usually depicted as an adversary of the superhero Batman and belongs to the collective of enemies that make up his central rogues gallery. Possessing a mix of brute strength and exceptional intelligence, Bane is often credited as being the only villain to have "broken the bat" both physically and mentally.
IGN's list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time ranked Bane as 34.[1] The character has been substantially adapted from the comics into multiple forms of media; he has been portrayed in live-action by Robert Swenson in Batman & Robin, by Tom Hardy in The Dark Knight Rises, and by Shane West in Gotham.
More about Bane at Wikipedia.
Comic Vine has a long bio of Bane as well.
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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
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Eddie is the only role I've seen Hardy in that was tolerable.