Bane
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Real Identity: Unknown
Affiliation(s): None
Powers/Skills: Enhanced Physical Attributes, Photographic Memory, Polylingual, Hand to Hand Combat, and Strategy
Voiced By: Not Applicable
As a child, Bane was forced to serve his estranged father's life sentence in Santa Prisca's Pena Duro prison. Bane survived prison life and developed his abilities through the prison library and gym. He carried a teddy bear he named Osito with him at all times. The bear held a concealed knife. At age eight, Bane committed his first murder.
Over the years, he quickly garnered a reputation as "king of Pena Duro." The prison staff decided to volunteer Bane as the latest test subject for a drug called Venom. Unlike his predecessors, Bane survived and gained enhanced physical attributes. Bane used his new found power to kill everyone and escaped. He discovered his power came at a price, he needed to take more Venom every 12 hours or he would suffer great physical atrophy. Bane rigged a system of cables that relays Venom to his brain.
Bane turned his sights onto Gotham City and Batman. He was amazed at how fear reigned supreme and how criminals cowered at the mention of Batman. Bane decided to make it his mission to destroy Batman.
When President Luthor issued a modest bounty on Superman and Batman, Bane was one of the world's super villains that arose to the occasion. He saw the bounty as a legitimate way to finally destroy Batman once and for all.