Bane

Well since the new batman movie dark knight rises is coming out soon I will I into detail about the origin of bane( note I have not looked at the DC comics reboot so I will talk about the well known origin) so lets begin. Bane was the son of Edmund Dorrance who had been a revolutionary and escaped the court system of santa prisca. bane being born in the prison of peña Dura and due to the corrupt government made him serve his farther's sentence. Which taught him many things like to fight and street knowledge. Two interesting stories are that he committed his first murder when he was 8 who did he kill a criminal who wanted to know about the prison and that he had a teddy bear who was called Osito and could be considered his only friend in the prison which had a hole in it so he could hide a knife to kill any one who bullied him.

Then in his early adult years(note I am only guessing this but he could have been a teen when this happened.) he claimed himself the king of Peña Dura which the prison's guards took note of.
Eventually they forced him to become a test subject of the mysterious drug venom which had killed all previous subjects to it. At first the drug nearly killed Bane but he survived and found that venom helped increase his physical strength but he would have to take it every 12 hours by tubes directly into his brain or he would get side effects that would debilitate him.

Now that the origin is done it is time to give a verdict. I honestly like bane as a villain I mean he could have been portrayed as a big muscled idiot but they made him smart and powerful at the same time. One of the most famous stories involving bane is the man who broke the bat where he breaks batman's back and takes control of Gotham due to fear. This lead to batman needing to find his replacement Jean-Paul valley who would go on to be Azrael and I might review his character sometime later. But overall I find bane a good villain and a great example of how smart he is strangely in the same story when thinking of how to beat the bat he knows going head to head against the dark knight would be dumb and get him sent back to prison so he goes to Arkham and breaks the walls and lets all the villains in the asylum out to go on a rampage through Gotham. Which of course gets batman exhausted then bane strikes. Batman after catching them all goes back to the batcave to meet none other than bane who had found out who was really under the mask and breaks batman's back as stated above. So verdict 9 out of 10 because just me liking him doesn't mean he is always used correctly in stories.