BANE: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES VS THE COMIC

 

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT BANE

Bane in DC comics

Christopher Nolan has received a tremendous amount of praise for his visionary redefined Batman franchise. His stories were new stories, his stories were unique, and his stories weren’t in the pages of any comic book, even though he states Batman: Year One as his basis for his stories.

Bane in the Dark Knight Rises

Comic book fans know that, except for a realistic tone, Year One and Nolan’s series are not even slightly close to each other.

Nolan was telling his own new stories about the Bat, just as any comic book writer does when he gets a character and his told to reinvent him. That’s exactly what Nolan did.

With Batman begins, Nolan attempted to do what nobody else in the history of DC comics ever did, and that was give us a story on Batman’s origins.

He posed this question, why would a billionaire choose to become a vigilante, what sort of person would he be, what would finally drive him to become this symbol??

Everything about it was new, it was fresh, even Scare Crow, a villain that wasn’t known to the general audiences, and to comic book fans it was a very different portrayal of the character.

Then Heath Ledger came along. After watching Batman Begins, he loved this realistic world that Nolan created, so he got into contact with Nolan and proposed his idea for the Joker. A short while after that, Jonathon Nolan (Christopher’s Brother) joined the franchise and he started panning out a screen play based on what Heath Ledger wanted his joker to be, and what Christopher Nolan wanted his film to be.

Bane takes on Batman 

At the end we got a true classic, a lynch pin in what can easily be called the best comic book film of all time, with Heath Ledger giving the best performance of his life, which was a true Oscar winning performance.

Once again, Nolan delivered an original story, with original take on characters such as Two-Face, and got the benefit of having an Heath that knew what he wanted his Joker to be. So much so, that he re-wrote all of Joker’s lines in the script to fit his vision.

However, this time around, The Dark Knight Rises is losing abit of its originality touch. Right now its getting a lot of hype based on the success of The Dark Knight and people just want to see, if Nolan can top himself, and give himself a graceful and a quite different ending to a comic book film franchise. Since the general comic book film audiences, have yet to see a character that spawned a franchise, come to a complete end. Normally, there is always hope of a sequel, this time Nolan says They will have to reboot, if they want another Batman, The Dark Knight Rises ends this franchise

We think this film will be epic, but The Dark Knight will remain the true classic of this franchise. Because, it was unique, we didn't know what to expect and we got a story about Joker and Batman, that has never played on any TV screen, read in any comic or seen anywhere. The story was unique, Joker was unique, everything about it was unique.

The Dark Knight Rises, is already showing signs of the lack of uniqueness.

One thing we did look at quite closely was the portrayal of Bane, which seems like Tom Hardy does a pretty good job of doing!! He will be a Bane unlike any other, we have ever seen. However, unlike the Joker, which was Heath Ledgers vision, Bane will be Christopher Nolan’s vision.

The Nolan Bros. decided to change his origins quite significantly but they seemed to have borrowed quite a large part of the there film straight out of the comic books.

Batman Vs Bane: Here We Go!!!

His origins is not at all like his comic book counterpart;


Bane, in the Nolan-universe;

"He is raised by Ra’s al Ghul (Bruce Wayne's old mentor, played be Liam Neeson) in which his up bringing mirrors that of Bruce Wayne. It’s a mirror of Bruce, except it’s darker and twisted.

Bane is trained to be an assassin for the League of Shadows.  He kills political figures that are deemed unfit by the LOS. Kind of a Che Guevara/ Jason Bourne type character.

Bane is described as a 'revolutionary and an assassin' who is hellbent on starting his own uprising.

In the prologue of the film (SPOILER ALERT) we will see Bane and his mercenaries hijack a military plane transporting a dictator of a country, which is in unrest (think Saddam Hussein type figure).

During the flight Bane manages to kill the leader, but he made some awful mistakes, which result in his inability to land the plane.

Bane About to Break the Bat

Because of the resulting injuries from the accident, he has to undergo complicated surgeries and that is how he winds up with that scar down his neck and the need for the mask to continuously numb the pain."

Bane in the comics;

 Bane grew up in prison and that's we're he learns how to ply his trade.

Bane Breaks The Bat

"He reads as many books as he can get his hands on, builds up his body in the prison's gym, and learns to fight in the merciless school of prison life.

Despite his circumstances, he finds teachers of various sorts during his incarceration, ranging from hardened convicts to an elderly Jesuit priest, under whose tutelage he apparently receives a classical education.

Bane murders this priest upon his return to Santa Prisca years later.

However, he commits his first murder at the age of eight, stabbing a criminal who wanted to use him to gain information about the prison.

Bane ultimately establishes himself as the "king" of Peña Dura prison. The prison's controllers take note and eventually force him to become a test subject for a mysterious drug known as Venom, which had killed all other subjects.

The Peña Dura prison Venom experiment nearly kills Bane at first, but he survives and finds that the drug vastly increases his physical strength, although he needs to take it every 12 hours (via a system of tubes pumped directly into his brain) or he will suffer debilitating side effects. Thus, Bane is both Physically and Mentally superior to whomever he faces."

The Bat is Broken, Bane Wins!!

The Parallel that we can see quite clear in the comics and in the film is that Bane hates Batman, he wants to kill Batman, and even though he is physically superior to the Bat, he wants to make sure of victory.

So Bane first decides to terrorizes the people of Gotham, so that Bruce takes notice of him. He then frees all the criminals from Jail (This would of certainty brought Joker back to reek havoc in the city, ScareCrow might have a cameo).

This causes Bruce to don the cap during daylight (Which is something he never does) in order to round up the criminals and put them back into prison before the whole city is lost to anarchy.

Batman is forced to take up crime fighting non-stop for the next three months, to help put all these criminals back behind bars, using up all of his energy and strength.

It’s at this time, that Bane visits Bruce (His quite smart he knows Bruce Wayne is Batman) at his Mansion. They fight, only this time Bruce being worn out, as he is cant really defends himself, allowing Bane to gain the upper hand and Break Batman’s back.

In the trailer, it’s clear to see that many of these aspects from the film are directly borrowed from the comic, our only question is how much???

Bane in Batman & Robin, pretty pathetic!!

With the this film having such a dark somber tone, and the tag line (the Legend Ends)... This could be one way of ending this franchise... But how will Bats defeat Bane??? And can he even beat him????

Batman, in the comics, Passes the Mantle on to someone else while he helps battle Bane with using his intellect and good strategy, since he is in a wheel chair...

Could JGL be the Next Batman?? Or Nightwing???

So, IF this does happen in the movie then maybe Joseph Gordon-Levit could be become the new Bats or NightWing, at least!!! Lol but that's just us dreaming.... But then again it could be a possibility!?? Nolan always said he wouldn't do Catwoman and Robin, and Catwoman is here, Robin might not be, but NightWing (Who is Robin, But grown up) would be a good comprise...

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Let us know what you Think?? How Bad Could this end for the Bats, In the comics it was never good when it came to Bane... Will JGL be NightWing, Bats Or remain a Cop... You tell us!!! 

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