THE PROBLEM WITH THE DARK KNIGHT'S BANE 

In my opinion the best and most accurate depiction of Bane outside the comics is from the Arkham Origins video game. They really managed to expertly portray Bane's intelligence and struggle with Venom as well as his Santa Priscan background in that game.

The best thing about him is just how incredibly quotable he is: "Peace has cost you your strength. Victory has defeated you." "The shadows betray you because they belong to me." "Speak of the Devil, and he shall appear." "Do you feel in charge?" "I'm necessary evil." "No one cared who I was until I put on the mask." "Once Gotham is ashes, then you have my permission to die."

RIP Kevin Conroy you will surely be missed after putting so much joy into our hearts.

I actually liked this bane. I always thought the hate was unjust and that he was a genuinely great villain throughout

I freaking love Bane in this movie. I think Tom Hardy is fantastic, I genuinely love the voice, because it's genuinely menacing while also being hilarious, and they nailed his dominating mental and physical prowess, his eloquent speech, and his calculating nature. The only problem is that he was sidelined and labeled as a henchman to a much dumber, less menacing, less interesting villain whose death was somehow even worse than his.

I absolutely love Bane in Dark Knight Rises just because of the voice. He always sounded muffled and yet the other characters react like noo not that when they should actually go what I can't understand you. And I love how he reveals the letter and he's basically like I'm the villain and I have a letter written by Commisiner Gordon with no actual proof it's written by commisiner Gordon saying oh I did I'm responsible for Harvey Dent's death and everyone just goes oh my gosh did he really do it. I don't think I can trust Gordon anymore

Rest In Peace Kevin Conroy, you're so lucky you got to have him in your outros :( ❤️

I loved his voice acting. It was the best part and it makes sense because of the mask. I didn’t even know people hated it

i love Banes voice, it’s comical but also has gravitas and weight to it imo

I enjoyed the Bane’s voice, the combination of highly articulate and nondenominational accent gave me international villain vibes I am the league of shadows

“I am the league of shadows.” I’ve been loving this series!

I love his voice, far more interesting and distinct than just giving him a typical "gruff big guy" voice.

*_”Why are you here?”_* “ANSWER HIM!” *_”I was asking you.”_* 👁👄👁

Bane's death in TDKR is so instantaneously-quick and unmemorable that even after watching the film several times, this video is actually what Made me realize how and when he dies in the movie. That's pretty bad for a character who is the catalyst for almost every event in the movie.

I was part of the crowd of that stadium scene at Heinz Field. It was shot in the middle of July, it was hot as balls, and we were wearing cold weather clothing for most of the shoot. Let me tell you when Bane came out and made that announcement none of us could understand a word he said.

I think what could have made the reveal at the end better was Talia saying she told Bane to deal with Batman. However he wanted. She just needed Gotham to fall and to destroy it in the end. Bane could have eluded a couple of times and hints that he wasn't the mastermind out of it all. And then after Bane was shot a later scene shows him being imprisoned. Bane's whole job of the movie is basically to break Batman physically, mentally, and spirituality.

Came here just to watch your outro with Kevin, we all loved that man so much.

Bane's voice was the best part of the film

I genuinely read Bane with this voice now. I like it. But I get that it's an acquired taste.

I came across your channel about 2 days ago and pretty much binged watched all your Batman videos. I gotta say: I might not agree with everything but I honor the fact that you are very precise in your wording, separating things like writing, performance and looks. Wish more people would approach the Batman lore with this attitude. Good job, Vee!

This was my one of three legitimate complaints with The Dark Knight Rises: Talia was revealed to be the mastermind. She should have been Bane’s “Ace-in-the-hole” against Bruce.

Tom Hardy’s Bane is my favorite official version of Bane, outside of the comics, though he obviously could still be a lot better. I actually like the voice, even though it is dumb, partly because it’s unique, partly because I kinda do like hearing it, and partly because of Tom Hardy’s reasoning for using it. The actual words he chooses to say are also just really good and feel like Bane, and his mannerisms are really good too. The way he acts is also just how Bane is. As for his overall design, I like it, but I think it would have been better if his vest was black instead of tan, as that would have been closer to comics while not looking campy. I am bothered by the Talia thing, but not to the same extent as most people, and honestly I feel like he was still acting on his own. Like Talia was his boss, but he was allowed to go about the plan however he felt was best. I see Talia as more of Bane’s supervisor, while Bane’s a team lead. 8/10 for Tom Hardy’s Bane. He’s not the best we could possibly get, but I think he’s the best we have gotten officially. There is one fan version of Bane I’ve seen that I actually like better, but if we’re only counting the official ones, then we haven’t done better yet, though we most definitely can. Sorry for the tldr

I love this version of Bane and his voice. I thought his voice was generally liked. I guess I've been misunderstanding the memes.

I couldn't help but laugh when I heard Bane's voice in the dark knight rises. He sounded a bit too much like Deckard Cain in the Diablo games. I was always waiting to hear "hello my friend, stay a while and listen"

Legendary performance by Tom . Best villain monologue in the swears

Bane has the best memes of the trilogy

Never change your outro please 🙏🏾 R.I.P Kevin Conroy

I loved this Bane. His voice is what makes him stand out and makes since with the mask. To me the mask and jacket Bane of this movie is Iconic. Picking on his voice and even Batman’s voice never made any sense to me when the movie overall was so good and at that time it was so rare to get a good superhero movie. Some people will hate anything if it’s not exactly how they wanted it to be because that’s how they saw it as a kid and loved it

I honestly love Bane's voice. It's admittedly strange, but I think that's part of what makes it somewhat menacing and unsettling. It's a strange mix of old-timey tough guy with a certain musical, almost feminine cadence at times. It flows from charismatic to creepy seamlessly in my opinion.

RIP Kevin conroy I'm so sick rn still can't believe it

I think bane is underrated as a movie villain. He super quotable. I like Tom hardy performance & the voice

You know what happened Vee you need to address it for the batman fans RIP Kevin Conroy/THE Batman

I love this bane, his voice may be his weakest attribute but it's also his strongest in a way. I am the league of shadows

I think Bane's mask may have been the reason why he didn't feel any of Batman's attacks in the first fight.

Rest in peace Kevin

It never really came across that way to me. I always understood it as Bane was set loose by Talia on Gotham, his methodology and tactics his own, with Talia benefiting and moving in secret.

I was one of the few people who never had a problem with his voice, but yes, I never liked how quickly and easy he was killed off, especially given then length of the film.

I applaud you for being one of the few people who actually criticize these movies. Too many people shy away from pointing out the flaws

I think it’s perfect for what they were going for because I’m the movie his mouth was torn to shreds so bad that he had permanent nerve damage so bad he needed the mask or he would be crippled by the pain so him to have that weird voice made it much more believable

Here is one of my issues I have with Dark Knight rises. Bruce Wayne is gonna to go into retirement over a girl who was not going to wait on him.

Actually, I'd say Catwoman was one of the villains that Nolan portrayed most accurately. Anne Hathaway's Selina is (for the most part) completely amoral, as all cats are. Too many Catwoman interpretations show her as either diabolically evil or almost completely good; she should be smack in the middle morally.

My issues with this bane is that Nolan failed to fully understand him by ignoring his Hispanic heritage no mention of venom in any way and not fully utilizing his intelligence by making him a henchman my perfect live action bane would be a combination of Batman and Robin’s bane and the dark knight rises bane that doesn’t mean he has to dress like a wrestler but for me he would feel more like bane cause they had a missed opportunity to have the mask be a way of him getting the venom but venom was completely ignored it’s a key element of the character as much as his intelligence

I'm so happy I watched this movie dubbed in my language (Brazilian Portuguese), bro he sounds MENACING, Guilherme Briggs voice for Bane was on point. He sounds agressive but yet so calm, calculated, like he is in absolute control, PLUS, you can actually hear what he is saying xD

One of my favorite lines of his, “Time To Go Mobile.”

Tom Hardeys Bane is easly my favourite Version of him. Didnt knew some people hated his voice.

There is also the storytelling issue. They want us to get all fired up for the great, fateful showdown between these two great nemeses that are Batman and Bane when Bane did not appear in this trilogy until its last part! Sure, the League of Shadows was Batman's bane (pun intended) since the beginning, but Bane himself is absent from the first two movies entirely; he's not even hinted at. He is a completely new hire, probably an afterthought, an attempt to fill in the void left by Joker whose absence is never explained.

I always hated that Nolan turned him into a fanboy of Ra's Al Ghul and a SIMP of Talia. And his defeat is so awful. What a waste

I'm so happy that we can laugh at this voice. The Harley Quinn cartoon has made this voice so funny that I can not imagine hearing that voice in a non-comedic context.

The problem with DKR's Bane is that he doesn't use Venom, his voice pitch makes him sound like a 60s Bond villain like Goldfinger, he's 2nd in command to Talia when he should be 2nd to no one, and his death sucked

When I 1st heard his voice in the plane scene I thought it was Darth Vader

Lmao I love banes voice, because its so funny, and easily poked fun at, but it doesnt take away from it, to me it was a creative choice that i could appreciate and even enjoy.

I am the league of shadows 😁😁 love this video and thank you so much for slamming the voice!! I've honestly not heard anyone else comment on it...and I honestly burst out laughing in the cinema when I heard it 😂

I think this Bane is very good as an imposing big villain who feels like Batman’s final challenge in the trilogy, I just wish they went with a different voice for him

He's a more articulate and fashionable version of 1997's Bane. Even 15 years after the film WB still had no idea how to adapt this character to film.

I just got done watching the Joker one and was saying hope he does a bane vid and came to the channel and here it was haha

It's a bad sign when Bane's voice makes me crack up when he's breaking Batman's back. It's like listening to a maniacal Prof. Zoidberg on steroids 🤣

The LuchaMask would have worked perfectly fine for the Dark Knight movies.

Looks like Nolan has a fetish for characters with bizarre voices.

REST IN PEACE CONROY

It’s funny how a luchador mask is “unrealistic” where in this established world there is a man fighting crime while dressed as a bat.

I lowkey love his voice lmao

I grew up on this trilogy so I’m biased with pretty much everything about it. I can understand the distain for the voice that bale choices for his Batman and while on paper it can sound like something that will just go completely wrong and not resonate with people, I found his voice to be really great from the begins to rises. Although the only time for me it was goofy was at the end of rises when he starts beating bane and asking him where the trigger is. I got a good chuckle from that. But overall I loved his Batman and the entire trilogy

I really liked the voice of bane. for me it was fun. kind of a guilty plesure

I really enjoy this Bane voice. Not only is it in line with the sort of League of Shadows training that Bruce Wayne got (transcending being a man and becoming a symbol), it also reminds me of these eccentric, totalitarian leaders who create this cult of personality around themselves to represent their idea or myth. Look at a Benito Mussolini speech, the guy talks, moves and makes the faces of a total weirdo. But he did it so confidently that people respected the confidence. Projecting a strong personality and OWNING it confidently, especially when you're in a position of power, demands the respect of your subordinates and throws your opponents off-guard. Imagine sitting in that football stadium, seeing a guy looking like that walking into the field, and then announcing that voice with that voice. You would have no idea what's going on and that's the point. People don't just parody what's silly, they parody what makes a big impression on a big number of people. That what people know. I don't think the countless of parodies necessarily say what you claim they say. You don't have to like the sound of it, or even agree with the direction or concept. But it as a creative idea makes _perfect sense_ considering who this Bane is.

R.I.P. Kevin "Cameo" Conroyalty

I loved this bane outside the voice Because instead of making him jus strong they made him extremely intelligent a combination of brain and brawn

I guess I'm the exception because I really like his voice

Well we know he's all about that darkness life.

One of my issues I have with this trilogy is Rā's al Ghūl not being Arabic as he is described in the comics. Also, the name Rā's al Ghūl is Arabic for "The Demon's Head". The Arabic pronunciation for the first syllable is "Rah-us". The character's creator however chose to use the Hebrew pronunciation "Raysh" which is the one I was most familiar with from watching Batman the animated series growing up and I wish that's the one they had gone with. Also while I thought Tom Hardy's performance was very intimidating as Bane, I still would have preferred if they had cast an actor that represented Bane's Caribbean heritage.

Bane's voice always reminds me of Gary Oldman in Hannibal.

VOICE OF BATMAN DIED.... I THOUGHT OF YOU WHEN I FOUND OUT.... KNOWING YOU HAVE HIM IN YOUR OUTRO.....

My beef lies more with the lack of venom (not always necessary but would have been nice at some point) and the fact that he destroys Batman in the first fight but Batman can suddenly go toe to toe with him in round two. Definitely much better than the cartoonish version in Batman & Robin.

He sounds like the worst impressions of Morgan Freeman spoken through an NYTSA subway loudspeaker

the volume levels are all over the place on this upload.

The voice introduced mystery.

I freaking love his voice and delivery. You'd be hard pressed to get any more iconic than that.

Bane's such a badass, but he needs a mask that feeds him constant painkillers??? WTF NOLAN!!!

Pick apart Ra’s, Talia, and Scarecrow. A character who’s supposed to be immortal reduced to an idea. Talia only being Talia in the last few minutes of the movie and Scarecrow being reduced to a background villain in all the movies.

When you said Red Herring i was thinking of Fred from A Puppy Named Scooby Doo, i look at the screen and he was right there.

I'm so glad they didn't do the venom or the wrestling mask. What I keep hearing is, "How come you made this movie instead of the movie I wanted?" You're expecting what you want, instead of what an artist can give you. That shouldn't be an alternative. This wasn't a mistake, this was meant to be a grounded take on the entire pantheon.

I AM THE LEAGUE OF SHADOOOWS! Id love to see a video essay on The Dark Knight's Robin execution.

I think a further implication is the mask affects his voice. That one little line we get before his injuries, he sounds nothing like what he does now.

I usually don’t care about race swapping, but turning bane into a British gentleman really irked me since bane is Hispanic and I would have preferred that along with the classic wrestler mask instead of the rebreather

I wouldn't have had a problem with Bane's voice if it weren't so muffled that I had trouble understanding what he said a lot of the time. Plus, even when I could understand him, the muffled sound often sounded awkward and made him sound somewhat silly. If the muffling of his voice weren't there, the voice was decent, with an really interesting and menacing accent and sound to it.

To be fair, Bane being killed by Catwoman was a shout-out to something from the comics, Bane is the one villain Batman has NEVER beaten personally. In comics, it was Azrael who beat him. In TDKR, Batman woulda beaten Bane had Talia not intervened so Catwoman gets the win and Batman never defeats Bane. And yes, Bane being relegated at the end to being Talia's muscle instead of being the Big Bad mastermind he was marketed as really did Bane dirty.

I'm more looking forward to hear your thoughts about The Dark Knight's Catwoman and Alfred.

As a Bane fan I've been waiting for this

Yeah banes goofy voice was krazi😂

I love doing the Bane voice. It's fun and boisterous. I actually can tolerate it more than the "Bat-voice." The weirdness of it somehow works, but it does remind me of the famous Seinfeld episode with the "Helloooo" voice, La la la.

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well, when it comes to the voice. Bane is from the shadows and the story they present he doesn't get much social interaction so it makes sense his talking is weird.

@11:20 R.I.P. Kevin Conroy The Voice of Batman, Joker is crying right now

Mentally I was coming off of the Bane from Batman and Robin, so this Bane was such leagues beyond that atrocious bastardization of one of my favorite villains that I could forgive all of the failings. I though Nolan's adaptation was pretty cleanly done, especially to avoid the super strength that Venom would produce. He was intelligent, principled, and ruthless and a physical monster, all the things that Bane should be. And Bane did join the League of Shadows/Assassins in the comics basically taking the place Ra's always wanted Bruce to have. I actually enjoyed the voice. It's a little funny yes, but Bane's threat doesn't come from his voice. That, "Do you feel in charge?" is all the threat and menace a villain needs. And Bane sounded polite because Bane was polite (takes his helmet back from terrified stock broler) "Thank you." Bane had one of my favorite character traits in a villain, he was convinced his actions were for the greater good.

I could never take this Bane seriously. Him explaining the plot with the bomb sounded like a camp councillor explaining a fun game.

I AM the League of Shadows. (But you already know that The Dark Knight's Robin is NOT EVEN ROBIN; if you would like me to tell you how Robin should have been incorporated into Nolan's Dark Knight's trilogy, please respond.)

i don't think Bane looks like a chump or is an afterthought or inconsequential to the plot by the Talia reveal. They changed the origin story of Bane in Dark Knight Rises in the reveal. He was rewritten as Talia's protector in the pit, and the only reason Bane is ex-communicated from the League of Shadows is because Bane is too painful a reminder for Raul Al Ghoul losing his family to the pit. This paints Bane as a tragic villian. There's goodness in him, because he saved Talia as a child, and feels loyalty towards her. But his evil is born out of this love. Every evil, cruel, and savage thing he does is to enact her vision. This not only preserves his agency, it gives the character this duality of love and evil that makes for a great character study. They did him dirty in that death scene tho

we could always headcanon that bane and talia had similar goals and were working together towards different goals lol

Everything you critize Bane for is why he was my favorite character in the film! Such an underrated performance as iconic as Michelle Pfeiffer and Heath Ledger!

I thought Bane was pretty solid for the most part

It's funny for me to watch these videos and see you talk about bad voices, because I didn't have this problem. Since I watched these movies dubbed in portuguese, all I got were good voices that were clear to hear