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Bane is a brilliant world-class fighter and tactical genius who augments his great physical strength with a steroid called Venom. Raised from childhood in the Peña Duro prison on Santa Prisca, he was determined that he would destroy Batman to prove himself, and succeeded by breaking the hero's back during Knightfall. Since then he has been an international crimelord, an anti-hero, a mercenary, a government agent and even a dictator. His father is the legendary martial artist King Snake. He has been a member of the Secret Six, the Suicide Squad and the Secret Society of Super-Villains. Bane was created by Dennis O'Neil, Chuck Dixon and Graham Nolan, first appearing in Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1. (1993)

Bane was an international super-criminal who used his intellect and immense strength, enhanced by a drug called Venom, in his furious and violent pursuit for power. He once set his sights on Gotham City, making him an enemy of Batman.

Bane's father had been a revolutionary who stood up for those who had been oppressed by the government. When his father was imprisoned at the infamous Peña Dura, he escaped, and the man's son - still a child - was forced to serve the rest of his sentence for him.

For 17 years, the child that would grow to be Bane spent his entire life inside a chamber connected to the ocean within the prison, spending every day in secluded boredom and every night swimming for his life to stay afloat when the tide would come in and fill his cell. Over the years, he grew stronger, more cunning, and filled with hate for the world. Anytime Bane wasn't struggling for his life in the prison, he was studying - becoming smarter - and working out - becoming stronger - for the moment when he would finally break out. When he made it to the outside world, the man would take the name Bane and began his climb to power.

Fighting the Bat

Bane breaks the Bat

As his legend and power grew in Santa Prisca, he heard tell of Gotham City - a place of dark madness that was said to be untamable. He, however was possessed of the desire to take it and tame it. The city had a protector in Batman, though, who he had briefly fought in the past once before.

Sometime after the "War of Jokes and Riddles", Bane came to America with a plan to defeat the Bat. Releasing all the prisoners from Arkham Asylum, Batman was forced to capture them all over again, leaving him exhausted enough for Bane to strike. In their battle, Bane took Batman and broke his spine over his knee, leaving the hero paralyzed until he was later able to recover and once again defeat Bane.

Description
Bane is a brilliant world-class fighter and tactical genius who augments his great physical strength with a steroid called Venom. Raised from childhood in the Peña Duro prison on Santa Prisca, he was determined that he would destroy Batman to prove himself, and succeeded by breaking the hero's back during Knightfall. Since then he has been an international crimelord, an anti-hero, a mercenary, a government agent and even a dictator. His father is the legendary martial artist King Snake. He has been a member of the Secret Six, the Suicide Squad and the Secret Society of Super-Villains. Bane was created by Dennis O'Neil, Chuck Dixon and Graham Nolan, first appearing in Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1. (1993)

Bane was an international super-criminal who used his intellect and immense strength, enhanced by a drug called Venom, in his furious and violent pursuit for power. He once set his sights on Gotham City, making him an enemy of Batman.

Bane's father had been a revolutionary who stood up for those who had been oppressed by the government. When his father was imprisoned at the infamous Peña Dura, he escaped, and the man's son - still a child - was forced to serve the rest of his sentence for him.

For 17 years, the child that would grow to be Bane spent his entire life inside a chamber connected to the ocean within the prison, spending every day in secluded boredom and every night swimming for his life to stay afloat when the tide would come in and fill his cell. Over the years, he grew stronger, more cunning, and filled with hate for the world. Anytime Bane wasn't struggling for his life in the prison, he was studying - becoming smarter - and working out - becoming stronger - for the moment when he would finally break out. When he made it to the outside world, the man would take the name Bane and began his climb to power.

Fighting the Bat

Bane breaks the Bat

As his legend and power grew in Santa Prisca, he heard tell of Gotham City - a place of dark madness that was said to be untamable. He, however was possessed of the desire to take it and tame it. The city had a protector in Batman, though, who he had briefly fought in the past once before.

Sometime after the "War of Jokes and Riddles", Bane came to America with a plan to defeat the Bat. Releasing all the prisoners from Arkham Asylum, Batman was forced to capture them all over again, leaving him exhausted enough for Bane to strike. In their battle, Bane took Batman and broke his spine over his knee, leaving the hero paralyzed until he was later able to recover and once again defeat Bane.