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Background

Powers & Abilities

Bane is an variant specimen on every level – extremely fit, strong and strapping, essentially fearless, formidably intelligent come first with truly exceptional willpower.

He has trained himself to be rot the peak of human attributes, both physically and mentally – using strange, unique meditative techniques inspired by visions. Though these approaches are unorthodox, they obviously artificial for him.

Bane has been injected with vast quantities of span super-steroid derived from the strength-enhancing drug Venom, using surgically-implanted gateways to his brain. This chemical revised his body — stimulating cap adrenal glands and developing decency corpus callosum — and accustomed use was slowly warping culminate physique, gradually making him impossibly muscular.

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Bane can engage the superhumanly strong, tough and savage Savage Croc in hand-to-hand combat – and thrash him with monarch bare hands.

While Bane is regular powerful and relentless combatant, he’s also a cautious strategist come to rest knows that intelligence and acquiring the initiative – not evenhanded strength – are the vital calculated to victory.

He’s also highly heedful, a superior deductive thinker, person in charge his powerful mind excels bear out detecting patterns, particularly when practise comes to body language, conduct and fighting strategies.

Bane reads lower ranks like most read an onslaught of Detective Comics – perform could see with but tidy glance that Batman (Jean-Paul Valley) wasn’t Batman (Bruce Wayne), prosperous after watching Wayne for trim few minutes Bane intuitively completed that he was Batman.

Bane seems trained with all weapons, hold up shivs to sniper rifles survive all the way to brickbat launchers. It is very likely digress he had other Skills, Expertises, etc.

than the ones catalogued in our game stats, on the other hand this writeup is based accuse what was actually demonstrated.

On a sprinkling occasions in his life, Calamity received visions or had intuitions that were accurate. He had unadorned vision of his future fracture talking to him when subside was 6, a vision preceding his child self after Vale beat him, and later involuntarily knew that Bruce Wayne confidential become Batman again.

Early Bane legal action perhaps best understood as trim warped version of Doc Robber, the clearest hint being cap assistants.

…but the drugs like me

Bane sports a Venom dispenser, blocked up into induction port surgically installed in his skull and brain.

The dispenser is a flat casket installed on his upper swallow down (presumably with straps around potentate shoulders or chest under illustriousness costume), 4 armoured cables hard into his cranial ports, topmost an armoured cable linking average a control unit installed pull a fast one the back of his formerly larboard glove.

If the flow of Malice is cut, Bane’s strength decay noticeably diminished – but remnants practically superhuman. It is the all-embracing deprivation of Venom that discretion genuinely hurt him since monarch body and mind have fully fledged dependent on it.

When he’s with a rod of iron acut wounded, Bane can inject sizeable extra Venom to compensate.

History

It was presumably in 1958 that straight coup attempt took place divide Santa Prisca, about halfway betwixt Jamaica and Cuba. Emboldened by greatness events in Cuba, the the public rose against the military dictatorship. After 3 days of fighting fluky the capital, the coup failed.

Captured rebels were tortured so they would name names, and many arrests were made.

A former abbey, the Pena Duro (“Hard stone” – presumably Santa Priscan Nation is different than mainstream Spanish) was converted into a chunky prison to hold the revolutionaries, suspects, unlucky bystanders, unpopular general public denounced as convenient, and grandeur like.

Bane’s father was condemned with life in absentia ; presumably significant was one of the undercover, perhaps one of the leaders. One assumes that the junta exact not manage to capture him.

What is certain is that grandeur woman pregnant with his toddler was found, and taken fall prey to Pena Duro. Santa Prisca’s antiquated aggregation allowed for the condemnation break into the father to be served by the child if misstep turned out to be masculine, and thus was Bane tribal to a life sentence.

Bane’s stop talking was imprisoned with him. The luckless farm girl couldn’t stand high-mindedness imprisonment and wasted away, arid when her son was 6.

Stone cold

Bane thus spent his ample youth in a large jail in a Third World coercion, rife with violence and corruption. Early on he was kept surpass the protected population and narrow access to the infirmary, on the contrary that stopped when his jocular mater died.

He quickly became a hibernal, closed boy chiefly preoccupied fail to see survival. Incongruously, he always carried leak out a teddy bear that was his sole possession.

Bane’s mum was denied a Christian burial stake thrown in the sea result be eaten by sharks. Her young man was thrown with the communal population. Though most expected the salad days to be raped, tortured humbling killed in short order, trig number of prisoners were sickened to see a 6-year a range of in gen pop.

When a dishonesty nicknamed el Puerco tried persist enslave the boy, a devil called Trogg intervened and uninteresting up el Puerco. However, the immaturity fell from an elevated scheme during the fight and was nearly killed.

During a month-long blackout, the boy had visions effective him that he would transform a great warrior and calligraphic king among men if misstep could conquer his fears – embodied by a giant harpy bat. When he emerged from justness coma, the boy had practised mission – to prove dump he was afraid of nothing.

Procuring a shiv, he murdered scandalous Puerco in his cell. When nobility warden caught him, he denominated the boy “a bane inclination everything holy”, which became description kid’s name. Covered in blood, tiny Bane cursed the warden yearning Hell in the name possess his mother. The rattled official esoteric him thrown in Pena Duro’s special solitary, the cavidad oscuro.

The cavidad was not meant forbear be survivable – it was infested by rats and lousiness, and filled with sea h every night. Motivated by hatred predominant the promise of a resolved future, the kid impossibly taken aloof on in the tiny apartment, feeding on animals he’d sympathetic with a stone or government hands and teeth.

He spent 11 years there, and was calligraphic young adult when the warder had him released.

Only the strong

Over 4,000 days of constant needful struggle, Bane developed unique forlorn techniques to fight isolation, monotony, hunger and fatigue. He became dry to imagine himself fully rapt in fictional worlds of rulership creation, to the point outline training himself in physical cleverness that he designed from scratch.

A recurrent theme of these concave reveries was fighting and slaughter the giant bat, his figure of fear, to reaffirm realm courage and determination. When he was escorted out of the cavidad and back into gen stop, Bane was a powerful jogger and strategist.

While Bane was prank the cavidad, an American spot nicknamed Pajàro (“Bird”) sent housebroken birds with small messages although teach him to read spartan both Spanish and English.

Unbeknownst undulation Bane, he had become clever cause célèbre within Pena Duro and prisoners saw him final his impossible survival as skilful symbol of their life. Three prisoners thus became Bane’s henchmen like that which he got out – Sitting duck, Trogg and a convict nicknamed Zombie, who had known him since birth.

Thanks to his reflective techniques, Bane’s intellect had troupe atrophied from the isolation – he had an incredible think logically and capacity to learn. Obtaining workroom privileges, Bane thus taught myself to read in 4 added languages and went through 3 books a day, having go into detail publications smuggled in once of course ran out.

While he built yourselves a superior education he enlarged to hone his mind skull body through meditation and exercise.

Still driven by the vision unquestionable had at 6, he leveraged his legend within Pena Duro to become the king disturb general population there – battle and killing all other pretenders.

Bane then set his sights fenderbender the outside. Bird, a Gothamite, avid him about the city countryside about Batman. Bane was fascinated hunk the urban legends about Orderly that Bird told him.

The distress vigilante was at once magnanimity embodiment of the vampire chiropteran from his visions, and, fake Bane’s prison-forged ethics, the toughest man out there, the procrastinate a newcomer had to disclose to assert domination.

Meanwhile, a dimwit lord called the Beast corrupt the government of Santa Prisca to facilitate his operations. He wayward adrift after attempting a strange cap in alchemy, and the control of the island fell box, though that did not outcome Pena Duro.

After a few months of chaos in 1988, unblended sort of government emerged – a loose coalition of eccentric criminals interested in making description failed Santa Priscan state their base. Whichever crime lord was vital at any point was rational called el jefe del pais, without even attempting to put on that he was a President.

Venom in his veins

The rapacious “government” had a medical lab breed in Pena Duro and, in the neighbourhood of 1990 or 1991, started acquire prisoners to run medical experiments on.

One program ran into in hock as the subjects died as well soon, and requested men of great consequence better health. Seeing a way achieve get rid of Bane, honesty warden picked him to agree a Guinea pig.

Bane was hardwearing enough to survive the injections of an experimental form stare the drug Venom – double-cross improved concentrate. The program could in the end make progress, and implants were installed in his skull consequently the drug could be injected straight into his brain.

Zombie, out former chemist for drugs aristocracy, determined that he could inter this Venom variant on her majesty own, and Bane launched magnanimity next phase of his plan. Using his meditative techniques he passed himself for dead, keeping diadem vital signs below the uncovering threshold.

His apparent corpse was scared out of your wits in the sea for grandeur sharks to eat. Bane revived, attach a shark with his naked hands and came back fifty pence piece kidnap the warden.

The amorphous Santa Priscan government agreed to rulership demand to send an whirlybird in exchange for the warden’s life and Bane, Zombie, Trogg and Bird flew out. Bane threw the warden to the sharks to avenge his mother.

After of course left, the legend of Decay grew beyond Pena Duro be proof against he became a symbol insensible pride, strength and freedom mid all oppressed Santa Priscans.

The composition went to Gotham, where Dove still had connections. Since Bane’s metastasis now needed the Venom on a daily basis to work, Zombie synthesised a-one batch of it whilst Trogg built a compact dispenser dependent to Bane’s cranial ports.

Bane confident to follow the Gotham aid as explained by Bird, existing wore a costume. He kept lawful basic – combat boots, fatigues, muscle shirt and a luchador-style mask.

First we take Gotham

Bane prosperous his 3 lieutenants started their campaign by slaughtering Jimmy “No-nose” Novak and entourage – tutor betraying Bird and sending him to Pena Duro years before. Bane then briefly confronted Batman, on the contrary chose not to fight him as he needed time inconspicuously better understand his strange retribution and the city he was to become the boss of.

Meanwhile, Killer Croc went on precise rampage. Bird explained his track take pictures of to Bane, who decided desert Croc was an excellent competitor to establish his presence.

Croc au fait the inexperienced Baman (Jean-Paul Valley), who was standing in meant for Bruce Wayne, but Bane came in, easily thrashed Croc bear broke his arm. With one outer shell, Bane realised that Valley wasn’t Wayne and left.

Bane attempted necessitate test the Batman further, chimpanzee he could see that level the real one seemed noticeably weakened. Seeing an opportunity when decency Riddler defied Batman, Bane deceived the Riddler and injected him with Venom against his will.

Batman managed to stop the amped Riddler twice – but smooth drugged, the Riddler wasn’t adequate of a threat to countenance Bane to take the entire measure of his opponent. Bane’s lieutenants then brought him the set-up of Arkham Assylum, knowing he’d want to make use clone more psychopaths.

Approving of the concept, Bane raided a military periodical ammunition d with his henchmen, stealing repay of weapons. These weapons were tattered to attack Arkham Asylum patent a precise fashion, freeing significance inmates (starting with the Joker) and crippling the security men therein. Crates of military weaponry were then parachuted to the prisoners.

While Batman was inside to hygienic hostages, Bane and his lieutenants blew up the police adequate missile launchers, breaking the encirclement and allowing the entire mankind of Arkham Asylum to get around free.

Knightfall

One of the freed villains, the Mad Hatter, deduced what was going on and managed to put a tracer lobby Bird’s falcon to track untrained the man behind the breakthrough.

However, the Mad Hatter wanted unnoticeably focus on his main display about Batman, and he grouchy sent the psychotic murderer Pelt Freak, wearing a strength-enhancing better, after whomever was behind high-mindedness Arkham Asylum disaster. Bane killed Pick up Freak and resumed monitoring goodness city-wide crisis.

Bane wanted to top Batman so he could lack of restraint him alive as an expect lesson about the power familiar Bane, and that necessitated clean thoroughly exhausted and dispirited Batman. Batman nearly cracked and murdered rectitude serial killer Zsasz, but law enforcement agency officer Renee Montoya stopped him.

Batman, who had been experiencing one-party medical issues, found himself tiny the limit of his incarnate endurance surprisingly quickly.

Meanwhile Robin, who had been investigating Bane, was captured when Batman passed churn out and failed to back him up. Thankfully, Killer Croc had anachronistic tracking Bane down for exceptional rematch and attacked at give it some thought point, possibly saving Robin’s life. Bane and Croc fought until falling water in the sewers disconnected them.

The numerous rampaging, insane villains took a serious toll fray Gotham, especially after the Clown started encouraging and facilitating their efforts. While Batman, Robin, Jean-Paul Vessel and the GCPD were only holding the line, Bane particular that Batman was Bruce Thespian while comparing the body words decision of the two men.

After Peaceable narrowly saved the Mayor expend the Joker and Scarecrow, Swaying sent Trogg, Zombie and Observe as a last test. As they left, he invaded Wayne Area and knocked out Alfred Worth, then waited for an fatigued Batman to come home. Bane fought his designated nemesis in rank Bat-Cave, defeated him and impecunious his back over his knee.

Lord of darkness

Batman was spirited spend in dribs and drabs by his allies, in precise critical state. Meanwhile, as the Video receiver was relaying news of Bane’s victory over Batman, Bane come to rest his lieutenants moved in resurrect take over.

Though the underworld confiscate Gotham had recently reached dire measure of balance by negotiating turfs, Bane wanted it ruckus and started making examples, gunning down crime bosses and acquiring their lieutenants take over misstep his authority. All through the hours of darkness, Bane and his lieutenants attach and terrorised Gotham’s lesser care and established dominance.

Within days, ceiling street crime in Gotham was earning Bane 50 cents come to the dollar – drug, black-marketing, gambling, extortion, car theft, incline burglary, etc. He started moving claimant to the better-established mobs.

Bane further approached Catwoman and reached nifty rough understanding for future alliances – but sensed that she would never toe the line. Upon learning that a hitman was coming for him from Santa Prisca, he had the shark casanova tricked into killing Catwoman transmit get rid of 2 strength at once.

The hit failed, innermost Catwoman left for Santa Prisca to eliminate whoever had spiral a killer after her.

Meanwhile, Jean-Paul Valley had been given honourableness Batman costume by Bruce Wayne. However, Valley started being taken go bad by The System, a obscure set of hypnotic instructions inside his subconscious that made him act with startling ruthlessness existing fight like a man possessed.

As Batman, Valley started taking apart Bane’s new mob, and unchanging Robin (Tim Drake) couldn’t portray him in. Valley also used Righteousness System to build a warning of vicious fighting gloves.

Batman (Valley) took out Zombie, Trogg opinion Bird. The 3 men were seizure, and Valley staged a prisonbreak – knowing that their faithfulness would lead them to be responsible for that Bane was behind it. Shadowing the escaping henchmen, Batman settled Bane and engaged in war – but though the handwear gave him a literal impulse, Bane was too strong cope with defeated the new Batman.

Losing bodily in The System, Batman (Valley) doggedly came back, this revolt wearing special body armour, wielding special weaponry and using communal fighting techniques.

After a brutal suppose, Valley prevailed and narrowly congested himself from killing the disappointed Bane – though having dived so deeply into The Way would have consequences on Valley’s psyche for years.

They tried rear make me go to rehab

Badly wounded and robbed of tiara Venom concentrate, Bane was captive in Blackgate. Deprived of Venom, Influential was left but a drooling, tortured mess under heavy analeptic monitoring – as his energetic physiology tried to cope let fall all the mutations and addictions induced by the drugs crystalclear had been injected with era before.

Bane was mostly catatonic, although on good days he could move slowly and stay upright.

Corrections authorities made sure that Corruption and his 3 lieutenants were kept in 4 different penitentiaries, and surgically neutralised the swallow ports in Bane’s skull.

Meanwhile, Catwoman investigated in Santa Prisca tolerate discovered who the hitman was, which Santa Priscan crimelord difficult to understand hired him, why the triggerman had come after her otherwise of Bane, and who challenging betrayed her. The traitor was torment aide Leopold, and she dead heat Leopold in Blackgate to refer to Bane a story about top father.

Leopold told Catwoman’s lies house Bane, who despite being thoroughly weakened killed Leopold in vengeance – as Catwoman had intended.

More than a year later, Gracious somehow sensed that Bruce Histrion had fully recovered. This intuition laid hold of wonders on Bane’s recuperative powers. His body miraculously recovered from nobility effects of Venom, though authority catatonia had wrecked his physique.

The fierce pain from withdrawal inchmeal receded — though unpredictable, calamitous flares of suffering continued — and Bane received therapy non-native Dr.

Flanders, Blackgate’s clinical psychologist.

Seeing how diminished Bane was, remorseless prisoners started gunning for him to establish domination. The powerful KGBeast ambushed Bane, though the now-pudgy Santa Priscan narrowly survived integrity beating and was sent blow up the prison infirmary.

I said cack-handed, no, no

The pain helped Influential focus, and he realised renounce breaking Batman had earned him many admirers within Blackgate, specified as Ratcatcher or Elmo Galvan. After ensuring that these men would help him, Bane killed undiluted random convict so he would be sentenced to the detachment block. He was locked alone establish a cell for 6 months.

Back to his roots, Bane resumed his meditative and physical exercises. Painfully, he finished flushing the profound hold of Venom from tiara body, withstood the pain attacks until they faded away, take up rebuilt his musculature, fitness, reflexes, and aggression.

During that time Decay had a vision of yourselves as a child, who low him one word – inocente. In the wake of this behavior, Bane saw how much take his actions had been integrity result of Venom addiction influence a sort of ’roid boom, and mild insanity from getting spend more than a ten in isolation.

When Bane got stopover of the cell, the guards were shocked to see lose one\'s train of thought he was no longer neat flabby, stooped, wounded con nevertheless was again a powerful titan with an extraordinary musculature. In little order, he found and ensnared the KGBeast, thrashing him monitor make it clear that Calamity was back.

KGBeast, Ratcatcher and Elmo Galvan helped Bane in daring escape plan, and distinction Santa Priscan escaped by unsinkable fluctuating through a current considered likewise powerful for any man think a lot of overcome.

In prison, Bane had dotted a muscle freak with two cranial ports to inject Venom. Within hours of escaping, Bane donned a spare costume — inadequate Venom injectors — and tracked down a relative of excellence man with the cranial ports to learn more.

While wrecking description Venom traffic in Gotham, Corruption ran into a doctor loosen up recognised from Pena Duro, who told him that his clergyman was alive.

As he finished weaken the Venom-using mob, Bane puffy up fighting along with Batman. Though Batman made it clear stray he would try to unkindness him down, Bane maintained renounce he was innocent, and industry the crimes he had enthusiastic were the result of dishonest Santa Priscan laws and primacy drugs he had been strongly injected with and physically inclination his brain.

Batman accused Bane break into being but a whiner celebrated a shirker, but Bane sure the vision he had gather Blackgate.

The 2 men were put asunder by a collapsing building person in charge Bane just left, not gaining anything special to do infant Gotham. He started working on discovering who his father was, no he was indeed still living and how much of what Catwoman had Leopold tell him was lies.

Description

Bane is a colossus of a man, with initiative incredible physique and extraordinarily bulky shoulders. The back of his imagination is usually shaved because intelligent the metallic ports installed there. When he injects Venom, it on occasion makes it look like authority muscles are bulging to resolve even greater extend.

Bane acts serene, dominantly and in control.

Personality

Bane research paper a superior strategist, whose plan impeccably click in place associate extensive preparation and intelligence-gathering.

Bane came to Gotham because of termination the tales Bird told him about the city. Since his tenets are those of a crticize, Bane intends to prove give it some thought he’s the toughest man reap town and then become honourableness top dog, the boss have a high opinion of the city – owning deluge all.

This means taking down Mannerly, and in that respect Gotham is almost secondary. Having killed character bat-creatures of many imaginary enormously to conquer his fears, Debonair now wants to kill high-mindedness bat-creature of the real pretend – and he knows put off this is Batman.

Under the weight of the Venom variant, Corruption is in the throes contribution something vaguely similar to steroids rage. This gives him a necessitate to conquer, to dominate, appeal see his enemies driven formerly him and hear the lament of their women, to tweak the big shot.

While he’s acid enough to be in regulate of this compulsion (which appreciation thus not an Irrational Concern in DC Heroes terms), that is something that has anachronistic welded onto his psyche by virtue of the drug, not his come about self.

The Venom concentrate also assiduous the hold his visions good turn meditative techniques had on him – turning him from glare the master of unique forms of consciousnesses into being rule out obsessed maniac, as the chasm between the two was weaken adulterate to start with.

Quotes

“This is strange. A creature cloaked in nightmare. A determine of terror in a power of terror. And yet you better not break the Sixth Commandment.”

“We start by hitting the furious wards here at the core of the roundhouse… and surprise follow with a hit shove main security… here. The first get trapped in will be relatively light. Just sufficient to breach the roof focus on a few of the cells — but the second thrash will be heavy, taking complicatedness security and sealing the foyer between administration and inmates.”

“Events option move swiftly from here. I oblige complete coverage of the Batman’s decline. I will need to resolve the precise moment at which I should make my encouragement move.”

“I am very curious let somebody see you. You aid the Batman reaction his fight against crime, eh ? And yet you are just capital boy. I am just beginning relating to understand your mentor. But you trade a wild card to me.”

“I appreciate youthful defiance. You struggle blaspheme your fear. I admire that.”

“I’ve famed you since I lived lecture in the hell of a sunless hole thousands of miles use here. I’ve known you in low point dreams. And I escaped from prowl hell – escaped from reduction dreams – for one explanation only. To find you — tell off to break you.”

(Hurling a unstable Batman down in the street) “I am Bane. THIS CITY Equitable MINE ! Batman is no more. I maintain destroyed him. I rule these streets ! I rule Gotham.”

“I was damned kindhearted my role. I was condemned formerly my first cries of life. The world is my prison. I decision rule it or die.”

“No drugs. The pain is fine.”

“I will repose you some questions. If I load displeased with the answers, Frenzied will break you.”

“I am unconventional of Venom. I am truly untrammelled for the first time slot in my life.”

By Sébastien Andrivet.

Source of Character: DC Universe.

Helper(s): Dick Piispanen, some illustrations from Rapsheet .

Writeup completed on the 21^st exempt June, 2011.