Bane (DCAU)

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Bane

Played byHenry Silva
Appeared in
First appearanceBane
No. of appearances4 episodes
One movie
Current statusActive
Adapted fromBane
Characteristics
Alter egoUnknown
AffiliationsGotham city underworld
Created by
Chuck Dixon
Graham Nolan
Doug Moench

Bane, a DC Comics supervillain and the enemy of Batman who once breaks his back, has appeared as a villain on Batman: The Animated Series and its other DC animated universe spinoffs, voiced by Henry Silva in all of them but the direct-to-video Mystery of the Batwoman, in which he was voiced by Hector Elizondo.

In the DC animated universe, Bane he never achieves what he does in the comics version. Although he gets close, he fails to break Batman's back and defeat him. However, and proves to be physically superior to both Batman and Robin.

Although the charcater was adapted to the series in an episode that aired only two years after he first appeared in the comics, at first, the producers were reluctant to utilize him because they felt that characters like Doomsday or him were both gimmick characters [citation needed]. Bane was so popular that Kenner, a company that was always very slow to produce new villain action figures and would rather make dozens of variants of previous figures over and over, produced an action figure even before the first Bane episode aired.

Contents

[edit] Appearances

  1. Bane
  2. Over the Edge
  3. Knight Time (Superman: The Animated Series)
  4. The Winning Edge (Batman Beyond)

[edit] Movies

  1. Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman

[edit] DCAU biography

Bane about to break Batman's back.
Bane about to break Batman's back.
Bane in the later episodes of The Adventures of Batman & Robin in Bane, as a mercenary super assassin hired by the mob boss Rupert Thorne, the most resourceful criminal in Gotham City, to eliminate Batman. As in the comics, Bane's first action is to study Batman during a Killer Croc hit, but in order to send a message, he decides to crush the Batmobile with his bare hands and defeat the other super strong criminal himself. Then he plots with Candance to get rid of Thorne to take control over the Gotham City underworld and kidnaps Robin, who was spying on them. Bane fights Batman onboard the boat where they hide Robin and proves to be a superior and stronger fighter, but before Bane can break Batman's back as he did in the comics, Batman thrusts a crumpled batarang into the controls that inject Bane with Venom. This causes a rapid and uncontrollable feed into Bane's body before Batman pulls out the tube, stopping a fatal overdose of the drug, but leaving him thoroughly beaten. Then Batman delivers Bane to Thorne along with a tape Robin made when Candance and he were conspirating.

After that episode Bane never appears in another episode focused on him. However, he appears in a Batgirl dream sequence of The New Batman Adventures episode, Over the Edge, in which he is hired to defeat Batman by Commissioner Gordon, who now knows Batgirl is his daughter and holds Batman responsible for her death at the hands of the Scarecrow. Bane, consummate criminal that he is, decides to restructure the deal once he is freed, preferring to kill the Batman rather than capture him. After a brutal fight, Batman electrocutes him by tying his Venom tube to a broken Bat Signal, but just before he dies, he rolls the Bat Signal at both Batman and Gordon, killing them both before Batgirl wakes up.

In a Superman: The Animated Series episode, Knight Time, while Bruce Wayne / Batman are disappeared, Bane, the Mad Hatter, and the Riddler start an operation to take over the criminal world of Gotham City, but soon before the acomplish anything, Superman dressed as Batman defeat the trio with the aid of Robin. Bane managed to take a good hit at Batman, but is quite surprised when "Batman" easily overpowered him.

Bane later appeared in the animated movie Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman in which The Penguin and his partners, Carlton Duquesne and Rupert Thorne (who seems to have forgotten all about his previous conspiration and makes no reference to it) hire him as an enforcer against Batwoman during a huge arms deal with the warring country of Kasnia. At the end of the movie, Bane fails to prevent the ambushing of the deal and falls into a pit of fire after a fight with Batman, seemingly killing him, but somehow survives to appear alive in Batman Beyond.

In Batman Beyond, Bane appears to have become very wealthy, but the effects of Venom appear to have taken their toll. In the episode Terry McGinnis discovers some of his conpupils are using a new form of esteroid in the form of patches known as "slappers". When Bruce Wayne identifies the steroid as Venom, Batman (now Terry McGinnis) pays Bane a visit at his island fortress (surely the fruit of his crime activities), he learns Bane has become wheelchair-bound and almost in a vegetative stupor, needing the Venom which has ravaged his body just to stay alive due to constant abuse of the drug. His nurse, turnes out to be responsible of stealing Bane's formula and selling it as a performance enhancer/recreational drug to teenagers. The caretaker would later die from an overdose of Venom during a fight with Batman, caused by Batman hitting a box of the slappers, which fell on the caretaker and causes many of the "slappers" to stick to him at once until his body could take no more.

[edit] Design

Although the first design migh look like a simple translation of the bane concept into a Mexican wrestler, according to Paul Dini, there were some heavy Jack Kirby influences when Bruce Timm conceived the character for the series. In his early drawings, Bane looks like a mix between Graham Nolan's original concept from the comics, a Mexican wrestler and Mr. Miracle.
For The New Batman adventures, as most characters, Bane is made slimmer. The Mexican wrestler features were dropped as were the steroid back hair. Some aspects of the original Nolan concept, and Kirby influence are still around, only now with an S&M look which makes the character gain the appearance of anger and violence characteristic of the late 1980s and early 1990s comic books. Contrary to the first version for the series, Bane looks extremely pumped up all the time.

[edit] Action figure

A Bane action figure was produced by Kenner in 1994. It comes with a car defense to throw with its arms throwing action. Due to Bane's Knightfall popularity in the early 90s, the figure was released before his first appearance in the series aired and even before some more frequent characters like The Mad Hatter, Scarface and the Ventriloquist, Talia or even Harley Quinn were released.

[edit] See also

Batman: The Animated Series characters
Heroes: Batman | Alfred | Robin / Dick Grayson | Batgirl | Robin / Tim Drake
Villains: The Joker | Harley Quinn | The Penguin | Catwoman | Two-face | Poison Ivy | Rupert Thorne | The Scarecrow | Ra's Al Ghul | Talia | The Mad Hatter | The Ventriloquist and Scarface | Clayface | Killer Croc | Mr. Freeze | The Riddler | The Phantasm | Bane | Man-bat | Firefly | The Ninja | The Clock King | Baby Doll | Roxy Rocket | Hugo Strange | Doctor Milo | Maxie Zeus | The Terrible Trio | Calendar Girl | H.A.R.D.A.C. | Red Claw | Roland Daggett
Supporting Characters: James Gordon | Harvey Bullock | Summer Gleeson | Leslie Thompkins | Lucius Fox | Renee Montoya | Earl Cooper | Hamilton Hill | Andrea Beaumont | Carl Beaumont | Matthew Thorne | Thomas and Martha Wayne
Other heroes: The Creeper | Etrigan the Demon | Jonah Hex | Zatanna | Supergirl | Batwoman | The Gray Ghost

[edit] External links

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