Adaptations of Bane in other media | |
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![]() A mannequin of Bane from The Dark Knight Rises | |
Created by | Chuck Dixon Doug Moench Graham Nolan |
Original source | Comics published by DC Comics |
First appearance | Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993) |
Films and television | |
Film(s) | Batman & Robin (1997) The Dark Knight Rises (2012) The Lego Batman Movie (2017) Batman Ninja (2018) |
Television show(s) | Batman: The Animated Series (1994) The New Batman Adventures (1997) Superman: The Animated Series (1998) Batman Beyond (1999) The Batman (2004) Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2008) Young Justice (2010) Justice League Action (2016) Gotham (2019) Harley Quinn (2019) |
Bane, a supervillain in DC Comics and an adversary of the superhero Batman, has been adapted in various forms of media, including films, television series, and video games. The character has been portrayed in film by Robert Swenson in Batman & Robin , and Tom Hardy in 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.
Bane appears in series set in the DC Animated Universe (DCAU), voiced by Henry Silva. [6] Prior to his inclusion, the producers of Batman: The Animated Series were reluctant to use the character as they felt his comic incarnation was too gimmicky. [6]
Bane appears in the Batman: Arkham franchise, voiced primarily by Fred Tatasciore and by JB Blanc in Arkham Origins. [3]
The only one I can recommend watching is the biography on Bane. Paul Dini of Batman: The Animated Series and Denny O'Neil of DC Comics tell us just how badly Bane was written for the movie making the only thing missing here an apology from screenwriter Akiva Goldsman.
Some audience members are grumbling that they can't understand what Bane, the main villain in the final installment of the Christopher Nolan-helmed trilogy, is saying.
The Joker tells constant lies about himself and his backstory, and Nolan tells one big lie about the origin of Bane. That lie is designed to hide the film's biggest reveal, and we do eventually learn the truth about Bane. It seems fitting that in the one flashback where Nolan tells the full truth about Bane's identity, we finally catch that single glimpse of Tom Hardy's face.