

The corrupt government decreed that his young son would serve out the man's life sentence, and thus Bane spent his childhood and early adult life in prison. His father, Edmund Dorrance (better known as King Snake), had been a revolutionary who had escaped Santa Prisca's court system.

In the pages of Azrael, O'Neil introduced Bane's perception of Venom as both an addiction and the weakness responsible for his earlier defeats.įictional character biography Origin story īane's origin story is established in the storyline "Guttenberg". O'Neil had previously created Bane's birthplace of Santa Prisca in The Question and the drug Venom in the storyline of the same name (published in the pages of Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #16–20, and later reprinted as a trade paperback). They developed the concept of Bane after an initial idea by Batman editor Dennis O'Neil. Ĭhuck Dixon and Graham Nolan created the character for the Knightfall storyline. IGN's list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time ranked Bane as #34.
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Bane was also played by Shane West in the final season of the FOX television series Gotham. Robert Swenson portrayed Bane in the 1997 film Batman & Robin, while Tom Hardy played him in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises.

He is the son of another Batman enemy, King Snake and has a clone/daughter named Vengeance, introduced in 2021. Bane went on to kill Alfred Pennyworth in 2019 during the City of Bane storyline.

Possessing a mix of brute strength and exceptional intelligence, Bane is often credited as the only villain to have "broken the bat", defeating him both physically and mentally. Bane is usually depicted as a dangerous adversary of the superhero Batman, and belongs to the collective of enemies that make up the Batman's rogues gallery. Created by writer Chuck Dixon and artist Graham Nolan, he made his debut in Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993).
