Nolan's Dark Knight Rises Repeated Batman & Robin's Dumbest Mistake
This supervillain could become iconic through the movies, but his previously invincible image was just destroyed.
Superhero stories would not be very popular without their main component – villains. Would anyone be interested in Spider-Man catching common thieves?
Probably not. If there is a superhero, there must be a villain to fight. And Batman is no exception.
All in all, Batman got a dozen different movies, and if in some the villains were simply amazing, in others they turned out to be just mediocre. And Bane is the clearest example of such a wasted potential.
Throughout his comic book history, Bane has earned the status of a supervillain, having defeated Batman himself.
Bane owes his superpowers to a substance called Venom, a supersteroid that gives him superhuman physical abilities, including incredible stamina, speed, the ability to lift enormous weights, and, of course, super-fast regeneration.
At the same time, Bane is stronger than Batman even without the Venom. In the movie Batman & Robin, Bane had just a disastrously bad incarnation.
The movie itself is considered by many to be the most disappointing among all the Batman installments, and this can easily be traced back to its eleven Golden Raspberry nominations, of which it won one.
The worst villains in terms of quality are collected in this movie. The worst of the worst is Bane, as the way he is portrayed is at odds with how he is portrayed in the comics.
Wrestler Jeep Swenson who played Bane fits the physical requirements of the role, but his character has been reduced to "stupid and petty criminal who works as Poison Ivy's chauffeur".
This Bane is a prime example of a product of an era when Hollywood had no respect for comic books.
Christopher Nolan, having decided to include Bane in his Dark Knight Rises, created his own Bane based on the comic book, which, unlike Batman & Robin, was incomparably closer to the original source.
Although Bane is initially presented to the viewers as a relatively versatile and interesting hero, by the end of the movie his importance is again reduced to that of a pawn of the main villain Talia al Ghul.
What frustrated fans the most was that there were attempts to fix the character's portrayal, and they were good, but the final twist of the movie simply undid that character development.
While Nolan should be given some credit for the revelation of Bane, it is still a far cry from the way he was in the comics.