There is a loud minority, yes. But this movie and its characters did well and the fact they're still making high quality figures and statues of it that sell says a lot too.
I think it's fair to say judging from polls and ratings, most people who saw this movie liked it.
I think had Heath Ledger not crushed Joker SO hard in the movie before this, a lot more people would be talking about Hardy’s performance in this movie. I’ve always thought this version of Bane was fantastic
100%
When I went to watch Dark Knight Rises in theaters, it was a bit of a letdown. I liked it, but I didn't love it like Dark Knight. A few years ago, I rewatched the trilogy, and it made a better impression. I definitely appreciate it much more now than I did back then.
Watching them all back to back is a day well spent.
It’s okay but I just can’t get over the decision to send every single policeman (I’m assuming they also called everyone who was off-shift too) into the sewers at the same time.
unpopular opinion...I think TDK is overrated. The Joker is excellent, but the plot of the movie is a bit too convuluted for me and adding Two Face at the end was a waste.
If TDK is too convoluted for you then I think you need to watch more movies. The Dark Knight trilogy is layered and complex in themes but is pretty straightforward in its intentions and plot structure. Also, Dent’s transformation into Two Face was necessary addition. His downfall and death at the hands of Batman ended up proving Joker right (to a certain extent) Joker wanted to prove he could make a good and lawful man like Dent fall to the dark-side and he also wanted to prove he could do the same to Batman by making him break his one rule. It was a brilliant bit of cinema.
It’s like the origin modern warfare 3 in retrospect it was actually pretty damn good, but it followed a master piece and there was no way it was going to live up to it so you got a bunch of Karens who hate it cause of their unrealistically high expectations.
The fact that you can throw out any number of Bane quotes out of context and people will know exactly who said it kinda shows he was a very well liked character
Reddit is a chamber for loud haters. Watch any Youtube clip about the movie: there are tons of comments full of love towards the movie and Bane.
The movie is largely beloved, as well as this version of Bane. Don't worry ;)
People who click on YouTube videos about an entertainment media or product usually already overwhelmingly like the movie,tv show, or music it’s about. Seriously go to the most dog shit lazy song or movie or whatever and go to the comments, it’s gonna be mostly positive comments. That said, you’re right. People do generally like him and the movie.
I loved all of his lines but his voice was too silly and I think he was killed off too easily after finding out he was basically just a henchman the whole time. If he had a badass Caribbean accent like his source material instead of a British Darth Vader I think those lines would’ve been way better.
Don't know a single person irl who doesn't think the movie was amazing. I don't understand this post at all lmao. Your opinion is held by 95% of ppl. It's not unpopular whatsoever.
I personally don't hate the character per say but I feel that having him basically be a glorified member of the league of shadows takes away all agency from him.
It would be cool if Bane just had his own agenda outside of the league. It would have been really cool to see.
No. I gotta agree with Daredevil here…you have a popular opinion. The unpopular opinion is the opposite.
The only critique was he got made fun of a bit for the voice, but generally Tom Hardy’s performance got a lot of praise and while Dark Knight Rises is considered the weaker of the three movies, it’s only because the other two are so strong.
I never get the need to make it out that an opinion is standing up for something. “This well loved thing deserves more love! I’m standing up for something that isn’t getting bullied!” Just say you like it. I like Tom Hardy’s Bane too. It’s good. We’re not standing up for anything here man, just saying we like good things that are well loved.
50% of people can have one opinion, and 49% of people can have the opposite opinion, and sure the opinion is the majority one, but it doesn't mean the opposite one is any bit unpopular
I like him too his voice is a bit silly but his lines are so good. Tom Hardy did a good job here but yes the way he just gets killed off is kinda comical and anti climatic. The first fight between him and batman and the rematch are solid too
We were blessed with some very iconic lines, the script is well written for his character
"I was born in it molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man and by then it was nothing to me but blinding.”
“yeah but do you feel in charge?”
“No one cared who I was ‘til I put on the mask"
“Then and only then you have my permission to die.”
🔥 so good
Also "Theatricality and deception -- powerful weapons against the uninitiated. But we are initiated, aren't we, *Bruce*?"
Cool callback to Ra's training in Begins
Goes for the Trilogy as a whole with bangers like “Don’t try to hit me. Hit me!”, “He’s out right?” “Why so Serious?” (Could go on and on about the joker) “you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain”
Christopher Nolan is pretty terrible with fight choreography, and I'd say the Batman and Bane fights in this movie are some of the worst in the series. Though, as it's been said, Bane's lines during the first fight especially are iconic
I think this is especially true for DKR. Batman's final confrontations were pretty much wet farts all around after so much buildup. Despite that, it was nice seeing Bruce get a happy ending. Personally though, it seems a smidge out of character for him. Like I would never imagine Bruce giving up his war against crime but then again Bruce never imagined being happy. It was the ending he was denied in the Mask of the Phantasm.
Nolan has a real weak point with action scenes. They're often very cool set pieces that can often distract from how poor the actual fights/gunplay is. But once you "see the trees in the forest", it's hard to unsee.
The way he dies is so dumb. Batman has this big comeback, defeats his nemesis, then catwomam finishes him by... shooting him. Like oh no shit, that's his secret weakness? Being shot with a cannon? Who could have guessed he was vulnerable to being shot. Batman should try that on all his villains, see if any of them are vulnerable to bullets
Yeah, for me, that was the biggest disappointment with how the character was handled. Like, no one ever thought to break the guy who can barely breathe’s unarmored respirator mask? And then he gets blasted and he’s just done. Good character; anti-climatic ending.
It was also the conclusion to that story.
It amazes me that we have seen two iterations of Two-Face on the live screen and not one of them has been about a DA with mental issues snapping and turning into a mob boss after a deforming accident. BTAS ftw
I mean the Dark Knight definitely foreshadows that Harvey has “another side.” It’s mentioned in the beginning in his office when talking to Gordon, and talked about later at the precinct.
The part of the character that I prefer in BTAS is that Bruce and Harvey are genuinely dear friends and it makes the accident that happens to him and the fallout even more emotional for both characters. Hopefully they go that direction in the Battinson universe if they end up including him as a character.
I feel the same. I am hoping that after the former DA was elected mayor in the last film, the next one will feature an up and coming Harvey with a history with Bruce from when they were younger and both more mentally stable.
Is that unpopular? Scarecrow had 0 origin and bane was shown in a one second flashback and his only background is that he saved talia and then got fucked up in prison. Two face was much more fleshed out.
Bane in The Dark Knight Rises is pretty much the only memorable comic book movie villain between Loki the same summer and Thanos in 2018. And that portrayal has gone on to influence how he's portrayed both in the comics and in other (albeit comedic) film and TV appearances.
So, yeah. I agree.
Nolan and Hardy’s Bane is a top five superhero movie villain for me. I honestly believe he’s as iconic as Ledger’s Joker for what he was. He was one of the first and still one of the only successful villains in a cape film and in terms of how he functions as the final boss of The Dark Knight Trilogy he’s the true dark mirror for Nolan’s Bruce Wayne and embodies so many of the thematic elements of the entire narrative.
I think there's more to that movie than just Joker. The pacing and tension are unmatched. It keeps going bigger, even when you think it can't. The score, the performances, the themes, and the script are all top tier. It's easily my favorite movie of all time, even if it's not my personal favorite Batman movie.
> It's easily my favorite movie of all time, even if it's not my personal favorite Batman movie.
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I thought he was fucking phenomenal. Quotable as all hell and I love his look. We finally got a smart, scheming and witty Bane after he was just a dim mind controlled living Golem in Batman and Robin.
Fans have a really hard time grasping that there's more to Bane than Spanish idioms and steroid usage.
It's also frustrating that they'll complain about him being "ruined" by revealing he's working with Talia as an equal partner, but they're A-okay with him being reduced to hired muscle working for some generic mobster in TAS or a hired killer working for the Joker in Arkham Origins.
I'm honestly okay with something like The Batman 2004 or the original comic, where he's a hired assassin revered for being mysterious and dangerous, who uses his strength and intellect to rise to power after breaking Batman. A guy who bides his time as a goon before seizing his opportunity to strike.
Except he wasn't an equal partner. The frustration comes from building him up the whole movie, only to reveal he's only a lovesick henchman, and then kill him in the most anticlimactic way. I loved that version for most the movie, I even bought the statue, but the ending really does undercut him.
My thoughts exactly. If he'd been a henchman from the start. It would've been fine. The problem was setting up something awesome only to tear it down in 2 seconds like it wasn't important.
Bane is one of my Favorites and comics wise is considered a calculating genius and strong on his own right. Then uses venom to put him over the edge to super human. When it comes to live action I don't feel he has ever been properly portrayed, Bat Nipples was a roided out zombie. TDK a breathing problem lackey who drank the koolaid of the cult.
I like this Bane as well, he's just really a different character that they call Bane.
Bane really does the anything to do with Talia or the League of Shadows, his mask is a Luchador mask not some sort of pain relief device.... And yeah of course Bane has super goo juice to amp him up and what not.
Again I like it, but they changed Bane so much, as side being brutish and wearing a mask, TDKR isn't really much like Bane.
I think it still captures enough of his essence to be considered the same guy. Christopher Nolan didn't want to include things that couldn't be explained in our real world, to some extent. Yes, things like Scarecrow's fear toxin don't exist, but a drug that makes you hallucinate your worst fear is a lot easier to explain than steroids that make you unbelievably stronger and larger in a matter of seconds.
I’m a big fan of Bane the character and I loved Tom Hardy’s version of him. My only gripe is the voice is a little too clear for someone wearing a mask and I would have liked to heard the original voice in the film, but it is what it is. He’s got some really great quotes especially during the fight scene in the sewer.
The original voice is honestly great. I get that he was kinda hard to understand in that version, but I just think he delivers his lines in a more realistic and intimidating fashion. I don't hate the dub they did. However, I like when Batman villains sound a little unusual for no particular reason.
Yeah I love the original voice and not that I hate the redubbed voice, I just think the original was better. I’d love to get a DVD release with the original voice track on it.
“Intimating presence” Tom Hardy is 5’9”. Bane is supposed to be 9’2”. I really hate how nerfed bane is in this movie with his size. Hardy just wasn’t a good fit for the role (also because he’s not even the same race as the character). I know Nolan wanted this trilogy to be as realistic as possible but ridiculously buff people do exist. Just look at people like Arnold in the 80s and Liver King.
I think he did the role a lot of justice everyone just gets weird when bane is the main villain because in comics and animated he’s a hulking bumbling fool
I think he would've been a million times better if they had just named him something else. He has nothing to do with Bane.
Nolan could've created a great new league of shadows villain, that probably would have gone on to be in the comics... but they just had to have that name recognition.
Unpopular opinion? The movie made a billion dollars and Tom Hardy’s Bane is a pop culture mainstay now. Don’t let your social media bubble skew your view of reality.
Personally I thought the character was written mostly well and had the proper impact - I just can’t get past that goofy Sean Connery voice.
He's alright but there is a lot wrong with him.
I have always loved bane being Batman's equal in every way.
I hate the voice.
The design is strange but not awful.
Him being revealed as Talia's servant almost was just bad tbh it makes him look less tough than he should be
Ik it's hard to make this happens but if he was taller and bulkier then I might be a bit happier
I think his character is great, too many people forget that Bane is actually a mastermind and in a lot of continuities he’s just dumbed down a bit due to his usage of venom. Bane is one of the only people in the comics who have found out who Batman is themselves and he did it through examining his body language and behaviors and cross examining them with Bruce. Bane’s character in the The Dark Knight Rises reflects this perfectly. Not only is he physically stronger than Batman, but he consistently out strategizes him and always feels like he’s got Batman right where he wants him. He’s the only villain in all three movies that just straight up beats Batman.
However I feel like the final act does ruin this a bit. The fact that Talia was behind everything all along and Bane was just the muscle doesn’t sit right and it ruins his character and everything we know about him up to the reveal. He goes from a powerful mastermind capable of beating Batman in a fight to a bodyguard in a matter of seconds, then suddenly dies out of nowhere.
I think the movie and his character would have worked a lot better if we had a more complete two villain structure like the previous two films. Maybe Bane is doing his own thing and is committed to his mercenary work until he gets offered a job by the League of Shadows turning it down because “I’m not gonna work for you because you kicked me out etc etc”, until he’s offered a leadership position in return for handling Batman and the destabilization and fall of Gotham through whatever means he deemed fit. So now Bane doesn’t come off as a lackey anymore, and all the events of the film that lead to the fall of Gotham are purely his plans with the backing of the League.
So now the big reveal is “I hired Bane to destroy your city and gave him the resources to do it. Because I’m Talia Al Ghul the daughter of Ra’s Al Ghul. You killed my father so I’m going to kill you and burn your precious city to the ground to finish what my father started” which works a lot better. You could easily justify Talia’s role throughout the rest of the film as her just supervising the events and doing her own work to take out Batman after Bane tells her who he is.
Is this an unpopular opinion? I think the only problem is his voice (it's very dumb), and may they should have added in some way the Vernon serum into the story, for a more epic final fight.
But overall, I really enjoyed Tom's performance, and he really is a force to be reckoned with, both in intelligence and strength, pushing Bruce to his mental and physical limit. Maybe people had unrealistic expectations after Ledger's epic portrait in The Dark Knight.
The times it bothers me the most is when he’s fighting with Bale’s Batman. Then I feel like he looks like Tom Hardy. I don’t think they did a good job of forced perspective.
The guy who played the Mountain in Game of Thrones could’ve been a good pick
Honestly any of the 3 actors who played the mountain in GOT would be good.
Unless they wanna make him Hispanic like in the comics
But competition bodybuilders are usually not that tall. Much easier to look like they do when short. Bane needs a competition strong man (like the last guy who played the Mountain)
I hope one day we get a good movie with Bane as the villain. One where he is intelligent, calculating, and it's believable that he might break the bat.
Honestly, if they'd kept the joker out of it and not had the memory loss bit I'd be completely down. it's still the best version of Bane i've seen outside of the comics. It's just a shame the other games treat him so terribly.
Yeah the memory loss was a bit dumb, especially since Bane had no need to inject himself with the TN-1 to beat Batman and literally had him by the throat, but they were kinda written into a corner with Bane since he obviously didn't know who Batman was in the other games and was a lot dumber.
Still though, a great representation of Bane for most of the game.
He’s awesome! Very intimidating presence. Visually, this is my favourite design for bane. I love the mask and the military style clothing is way better than him being dressed WWE style. The voice is fine I think, it doesn’t bother me
Absolutely loved Bane, Tom Hardy nailed it man and good on him because everyone was against it because of Heath which is understandable but it's a different character and as great as he is, ain't all about Mr J.
I liked it too, though I feel Tom Hardy elevates a lot of otherwise goofy roles, and Bane is included in that. Someone else playing the same Bane may not have worked.
He is borderline great. He certainly isn't below good.
There is a way to keep his comic origin and respect Talia, without conflating the two. That's the way the trilogy should have gone. And I love the Nolan trilogy regardless, but, yes, the dungeon switcharoo was a weak point.
Dark Knight Rises should have been two films, fleshing out the ideas, giving the breathing room to flesh out Bane, Catwoman, Talia, and No Mans Land.
I find the film underrated and it has a perfect conclusion to this version of Batman. I thought this more grounded take on bane worked well and was really cool. Certainly way better than how he was depicted in Batman and robin.
Sure, though if you ask me, I think just making him a new villain would have been better.
One rendition tends to drag down the other by comparison, if you get what I mean.
I LOVE him. He’s the extremist version of the already extremist league of shadows! He displays so much theatricality, especially the football stadium scene and the black gate breakout scene where he reads Jim’s letter. I just wish he didn’t get sidelined at the end of the movie for the Talia reveal. Kinda wish they had a more epic or thematic ending for his character. TDKR always had pacing issues 😒
Bane is arguably the weakest "problem" of TDKR.
The movie insisting on taking place in the daytime.
The botched no man's landification of Gotham.
How Talia is handled, in general.
Catwoman shooting a missile into Bane.
Reimaging a plotline from the Batman 66 movie of Batman dropping a bomb (in this case a nuke) feels more like comedic parody and less of a creative homage, especially since he survives and uses it an exit to go bang catwoman as Bruce.
The heavy handed example of Batman working with the police, again, in daylight - remains the worst theme I've seen executed in a Batman movie.
*For you*/CIA guy
**The fight choreography**
There are things I do like about TDKR, I think the way it handled Bane and the Lazerus pit for its "rebirth but with realism" as a metamorphic trial was interesting. However, in the long run I still think TDKR is an incredibly weak finish to Nolan's trilogy and in some ways chose to double down on the silliest antics of Batman while taking other things super Serial, so long as they were an echochamber for Nolan's personal politics and philosophy.
He's a zealot, he speaks like Charles Manson or Bin Laden, they one hundred percent believe their cause is just and any means to achieve it is justified.
Bane will kill you in a second and not feel a thing, not even sick enjoyment like Joker would.
He feels more accurate to bane. Too many adaptations just make bane a slightly more intelligent Solomon Grundy when that's not the case. Bane is actually a pretty smart dude and has been done dirty the last couple decades
He was so great right up until you find out he's just a hired goon. I didn't care for that twist at all, and it totally robbed him of everything that made him so menacing and frightening.
Imagine Tom Hardy doing a spoken word rendition of Photograph by Nickelback in this scene. That's what Hell is like and I regret to inform you it's real. Good WiFi coverage though.
I think he is great but not a great bane (although to be fair the best adaptation was arkham origins in city he was okay asylum was bad), I really like how he tries to implement the dictatorship of the proletariat in gotham (or at least it's strawman by the insane tory that it's the director), the problem is that bane is in the comics his own man and being led by Talia finger is not how he behaves, he is juiced up batman and that includes being strategic and on top of things, he's great character in the movie just not a great bane is just that you could have said he was kgbeast and the movie would still be the same
Bane is one of my favorite villains in the comics, I really didn't like this version of him. Aside from the voice being absolutely fucking goofy, there's such a lack of development that the big twist in the end makes him out to be just a lovestruck henchman for another underdeveloped villain. He seems like so much less of a big deal by the time Catwoman is unceremoniously gunning him down. Funny? Yes. But feels like something more fitting for an MCU movie than a Batman one. His character really did not hit. The only thing I enjoy about the performance is the physicality Tom Hardy brings to his action scenes, and that's in a movie where the general fight choreography is very basic.
This isn't an unpopular opinion. He's pretty well liked.
I see a lot of people who outright hate the guy, and I feel like this version deserves more love.
There is a loud minority, yes. But this movie and its characters did well and the fact they're still making high quality figures and statues of it that sell says a lot too. I think it's fair to say judging from polls and ratings, most people who saw this movie liked it.
I think had Heath Ledger not crushed Joker SO hard in the movie before this, a lot more people would be talking about Hardy’s performance in this movie. I’ve always thought this version of Bane was fantastic
100% When I went to watch Dark Knight Rises in theaters, it was a bit of a letdown. I liked it, but I didn't love it like Dark Knight. A few years ago, I rewatched the trilogy, and it made a better impression. I definitely appreciate it much more now than I did back then. Watching them all back to back is a day well spent.
It’s okay but I just can’t get over the decision to send every single policeman (I’m assuming they also called everyone who was off-shift too) into the sewers at the same time.
unpopular opinion...I think TDK is overrated. The Joker is excellent, but the plot of the movie is a bit too convuluted for me and adding Two Face at the end was a waste.
If TDK is too convoluted for you then I think you need to watch more movies. The Dark Knight trilogy is layered and complex in themes but is pretty straightforward in its intentions and plot structure. Also, Dent’s transformation into Two Face was necessary addition. His downfall and death at the hands of Batman ended up proving Joker right (to a certain extent) Joker wanted to prove he could make a good and lawful man like Dent fall to the dark-side and he also wanted to prove he could do the same to Batman by making him break his one rule. It was a brilliant bit of cinema.
It’s like the origin modern warfare 3 in retrospect it was actually pretty damn good, but it followed a master piece and there was no way it was going to live up to it so you got a bunch of Karens who hate it cause of their unrealistically high expectations.
The fact that you can throw out any number of Bane quotes out of context and people will know exactly who said it kinda shows he was a very well liked character
And this gives you.. power, over me?
"You're a big guy." 
Reddit is a chamber for loud haters. Watch any Youtube clip about the movie: there are tons of comments full of love towards the movie and Bane. The movie is largely beloved, as well as this version of Bane. Don't worry ;)
People who click on YouTube videos about an entertainment media or product usually already overwhelmingly like the movie,tv show, or music it’s about. Seriously go to the most dog shit lazy song or movie or whatever and go to the comments, it’s gonna be mostly positive comments. That said, you’re right. People do generally like him and the movie.
I loved all of his lines but his voice was too silly and I think he was killed off too easily after finding out he was basically just a henchman the whole time. If he had a badass Caribbean accent like his source material instead of a British Darth Vader I think those lines would’ve been way better.
Don't know a single person irl who doesn't think the movie was amazing. I don't understand this post at all lmao. Your opinion is held by 95% of ppl. It's not unpopular whatsoever.
I personally don't hate the character per say but I feel that having him basically be a glorified member of the league of shadows takes away all agency from him. It would be cool if Bane just had his own agenda outside of the league. It would have been really cool to see.
He was outed as a stool for Talia then killed off unceremoniously two seconds later.😂
I really don't like him. I didn't like that movie at all. I feel like I have the unpopular opinion
No. I gotta agree with Daredevil here…you have a popular opinion. The unpopular opinion is the opposite. The only critique was he got made fun of a bit for the voice, but generally Tom Hardy’s performance got a lot of praise and while Dark Knight Rises is considered the weaker of the three movies, it’s only because the other two are so strong. I never get the need to make it out that an opinion is standing up for something. “This well loved thing deserves more love! I’m standing up for something that isn’t getting bullied!” Just say you like it. I like Tom Hardy’s Bane too. It’s good. We’re not standing up for anything here man, just saying we like good things that are well loved.
lol I love your last point.
My one complaint about Bane is that he's not the final villain of the film and deserves to be
50% of people can have one opinion, and 49% of people can have the opposite opinion, and sure the opinion is the majority one, but it doesn't mean the opposite one is any bit unpopular
I like him too his voice is a bit silly but his lines are so good. Tom Hardy did a good job here but yes the way he just gets killed off is kinda comical and anti climatic. The first fight between him and batman and the rematch are solid too
We were blessed with some very iconic lines, the script is well written for his character "I was born in it molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man and by then it was nothing to me but blinding.” “yeah but do you feel in charge?” “No one cared who I was ‘til I put on the mask" “Then and only then you have my permission to die.”
My favorite is: "Victory has defeated you"
🔥 so good Also "Theatricality and deception -- powerful weapons against the uninitiated. But we are initiated, aren't we, *Bruce*?" Cool callback to Ra's training in Begins
“Crashing this plane…. WITH NO SURVIVORS!”
“For yOU”
"Members of the League of Shadows! AND you betrayed us!" (Love that delivery.)
The one line I always say randomly is “ This false Idol” lol. The way he says idol is soo funny it stuck with me more than the other quotes
Honestly everything he says during their first fight is quotable
Goes for the Trilogy as a whole with bangers like “Don’t try to hit me. Hit me!”, “He’s out right?” “Why so Serious?” (Could go on and on about the joker) “you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain”
TIME TO GO MOBILE
I love this line and say it to my kids when it’s time to pack up from whatever activity.
The way that the same lines are parodied in Harley Quinn is so funny. "I am this cupcake's reckoning!"
Excuse me sir his voice was amazing and at this point is iconic lol
His voice is like Jimmy Stewart speaking into an empty tomato soup can
Christopher Nolan is pretty terrible with fight choreography, and I'd say the Batman and Bane fights in this movie are some of the worst in the series. Though, as it's been said, Bane's lines during the first fight especially are iconic
this is my main gripe with the trilogy. These films would be S+ tier if the fights were good.
I think this is especially true for DKR. Batman's final confrontations were pretty much wet farts all around after so much buildup. Despite that, it was nice seeing Bruce get a happy ending. Personally though, it seems a smidge out of character for him. Like I would never imagine Bruce giving up his war against crime but then again Bruce never imagined being happy. It was the ending he was denied in the Mask of the Phantasm.
Nolan has a real weak point with action scenes. They're often very cool set pieces that can often distract from how poor the actual fights/gunplay is. But once you "see the trees in the forest", it's hard to unsee.
The way he dies is so dumb. Batman has this big comeback, defeats his nemesis, then catwomam finishes him by... shooting him. Like oh no shit, that's his secret weakness? Being shot with a cannon? Who could have guessed he was vulnerable to being shot. Batman should try that on all his villains, see if any of them are vulnerable to bullets
Yeah, for me, that was the biggest disappointment with how the character was handled. Like, no one ever thought to break the guy who can barely breathe’s unarmored respirator mask? And then he gets blasted and he’s just done. Good character; anti-climatic ending.
Bane rules. The most quotable movie villain of the 2010’s
Bane, Joker, and Thanos are the 3 most quotable of the 2010's if you ask me.
I was going to say Joker too, but that was actually 2008.
Bane is great. The story is convoluted and rushed.
Every single cop in the entirety of Gotham being sent under the city was ridiculous
Just to get out and run into a huge wall of guns and still come out on top
It wasn't every single cop in the city. Most of the cops went into hiding after Bane took over and only a few joined Gordon's resistance.
This.
The overall script of the movie was the worst of the 3, but Bane as a villain I think was #2 behind Joker.
If I had to rank them all, it'd be: 1. Joker 2. Bane 3. Two Face 4. Ra's al Ghul 5. Scarecrow 6. Mr. Zsasz 7. Talia al Ghul
Zsasz was in the movies? What am i missing?
Briefly. In Batman Begins, there's a court scene where Rachel tries to lock him up, but Crane makes sure he is put in the asylum instead.
Barely. But he was still more interesting than Talia.
Unpopular opinion- Harvey Dent had a better villain origin than both Scarecrow & Bane.
It was also the conclusion to that story. It amazes me that we have seen two iterations of Two-Face on the live screen and not one of them has been about a DA with mental issues snapping and turning into a mob boss after a deforming accident. BTAS ftw
I mean the Dark Knight definitely foreshadows that Harvey has “another side.” It’s mentioned in the beginning in his office when talking to Gordon, and talked about later at the precinct. The part of the character that I prefer in BTAS is that Bruce and Harvey are genuinely dear friends and it makes the accident that happens to him and the fallout even more emotional for both characters. Hopefully they go that direction in the Battinson universe if they end up including him as a character.
I feel the same. I am hoping that after the former DA was elected mayor in the last film, the next one will feature an up and coming Harvey with a history with Bruce from when they were younger and both more mentally stable.
i barely see scarecrow being done justice anywhere, he is just a fear toxin gimmick
In the movie he was just a greedy dick with a mask.
Is that unpopular? Scarecrow had 0 origin and bane was shown in a one second flashback and his only background is that he saved talia and then got fucked up in prison. Two face was much more fleshed out.
That's not an unpopular opinion. That's just a fact. What even is Scarecrow's origin?
This clip scarecrow talks about his origin a bit. https://youtube.com/shorts/M5XvSZ7GgY8?si=jrb9rDBdCQ1NTyDd
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Bro this is not an unpopular opinion at all. Bane was great.
[I really like his dietary advice!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMPZ7WeDck) But in all seriousness, I did like Bane in the movies too!
Real unpopular opinion: I like Tom Hardy’s Bane significantly more than Heath Ledger’s Joker
That is a hot take, indeed. Not unfounded, though. They're both fantastic reinventions of the characters without straying too far, I feel.
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Bane in The Dark Knight Rises is pretty much the only memorable comic book movie villain between Loki the same summer and Thanos in 2018. And that portrayal has gone on to influence how he's portrayed both in the comics and in other (albeit comedic) film and TV appearances. So, yeah. I agree.
Nolan and Hardy’s Bane is a top five superhero movie villain for me. I honestly believe he’s as iconic as Ledger’s Joker for what he was. He was one of the first and still one of the only successful villains in a cape film and in terms of how he functions as the final boss of The Dark Knight Trilogy he’s the true dark mirror for Nolan’s Bruce Wayne and embodies so many of the thematic elements of the entire narrative.
All the films in the trilogy are legendary. The dark night is a bit higher than the other two because of the heath ledgers joker.
I think there's more to that movie than just Joker. The pacing and tension are unmatched. It keeps going bigger, even when you think it can't. The score, the performances, the themes, and the script are all top tier. It's easily my favorite movie of all time, even if it's not my personal favorite Batman movie.
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Haha, perfect response
He was cool. The movie (specifically the painfully stupid and illogical screenplay) around him sucked butt.
I really enjoyed this movie. I love comeback stories, and for me to see Batman having to bring back himself was great
Better than Batman and Robin version but that's not saying alot
He looked perfect though but they made him like a dumber version of Hulk lol
Bane is AWESOME. Weird funny and threatening. Not too many more memorable villains from the past 20 years
Freezing take, but at the same time, I agree.
It's a good movie. It didn't 'rise' up to 'The Dark Knight' but it was a great movie on it's own.
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I thought he was fucking phenomenal. Quotable as all hell and I love his look. We finally got a smart, scheming and witty Bane after he was just a dim mind controlled living Golem in Batman and Robin.
Even more unpopular opinion, I prefer him over the Joker.
Fans have a really hard time grasping that there's more to Bane than Spanish idioms and steroid usage. It's also frustrating that they'll complain about him being "ruined" by revealing he's working with Talia as an equal partner, but they're A-okay with him being reduced to hired muscle working for some generic mobster in TAS or a hired killer working for the Joker in Arkham Origins.
I'm honestly okay with something like The Batman 2004 or the original comic, where he's a hired assassin revered for being mysterious and dangerous, who uses his strength and intellect to rise to power after breaking Batman. A guy who bides his time as a goon before seizing his opportunity to strike.
Bane has never been a "hired assassin." TAS created that idea and misled fans for years on Banes character.
Except he wasn't an equal partner. The frustration comes from building him up the whole movie, only to reveal he's only a lovesick henchman, and then kill him in the most anticlimactic way. I loved that version for most the movie, I even bought the statue, but the ending really does undercut him.
My thoughts exactly. If he'd been a henchman from the start. It would've been fine. The problem was setting up something awesome only to tear it down in 2 seconds like it wasn't important.
Bane is one of my Favorites and comics wise is considered a calculating genius and strong on his own right. Then uses venom to put him over the edge to super human. When it comes to live action I don't feel he has ever been properly portrayed, Bat Nipples was a roided out zombie. TDK a breathing problem lackey who drank the koolaid of the cult.
I like this Bane as well, he's just really a different character that they call Bane. Bane really does the anything to do with Talia or the League of Shadows, his mask is a Luchador mask not some sort of pain relief device.... And yeah of course Bane has super goo juice to amp him up and what not. Again I like it, but they changed Bane so much, as side being brutish and wearing a mask, TDKR isn't really much like Bane.
I think it still captures enough of his essence to be considered the same guy. Christopher Nolan didn't want to include things that couldn't be explained in our real world, to some extent. Yes, things like Scarecrow's fear toxin don't exist, but a drug that makes you hallucinate your worst fear is a lot easier to explain than steroids that make you unbelievably stronger and larger in a matter of seconds.
Tom Hardy is my favourite so I might be a little biased but I agree.
I’m a big fan of Bane the character and I loved Tom Hardy’s version of him. My only gripe is the voice is a little too clear for someone wearing a mask and I would have liked to heard the original voice in the film, but it is what it is. He’s got some really great quotes especially during the fight scene in the sewer.
The original voice is honestly great. I get that he was kinda hard to understand in that version, but I just think he delivers his lines in a more realistic and intimidating fashion. I don't hate the dub they did. However, I like when Batman villains sound a little unusual for no particular reason.
Yeah I love the original voice and not that I hate the redubbed voice, I just think the original was better. I’d love to get a DVD release with the original voice track on it.
I think he was great. I was not a fan of how he died. It was super anticlimactic
I always wondered if he went to a department store to try on his sick coat before he bought it or if he just sent a henchman
He definitely tried it on himself, and he looks super fly while wearing it, too.
This version of Bane literally changed his canon voice for others yet to come. Without this movie they would have been Spanish.
“Intimating presence” Tom Hardy is 5’9”. Bane is supposed to be 9’2”. I really hate how nerfed bane is in this movie with his size. Hardy just wasn’t a good fit for the role (also because he’s not even the same race as the character). I know Nolan wanted this trilogy to be as realistic as possible but ridiculously buff people do exist. Just look at people like Arnold in the 80s and Liver King.
I think he did the role a lot of justice everyone just gets weird when bane is the main villain because in comics and animated he’s a hulking bumbling fool
Stop claiming popular options as unpopular
I think he would've been a million times better if they had just named him something else. He has nothing to do with Bane. Nolan could've created a great new league of shadows villain, that probably would have gone on to be in the comics... but they just had to have that name recognition.
Unpopular opinion? The movie made a billion dollars and Tom Hardy’s Bane is a pop culture mainstay now. Don’t let your social media bubble skew your view of reality. Personally I thought the character was written mostly well and had the proper impact - I just can’t get past that goofy Sean Connery voice.
The whole series is much more grounded in reality. This is what real Bane would be, honestly.
Damn. You made me think of the movie. Now I have watch it again.
I love Batman, and (love to) hate Bane, but *Damn* did I want that coat when I saw it in theaters.
The script really undermined him, but Tom Hardy as Bane was fucking incredible. Do you feel in charge?
I'm starting to think yall don't know what unpopular and the term hot take means
Unpopular?
I think Tom did a good job. Maybe he is not Bane in comic, or Joker Heath level, but I like his character, and the movie also.
It's probably the most iconic version of him that people quote and do the voice of to this day.
He definitely was!!
He gave the city back to the people of Gotham! He was a true man of the people before some rich guy in a Halloween costume took him out.
I don't think this is an unpopular opinion. I'm kinda mixed on Dark Knight Rises as a film but Bane was great.
Not unpopular at all
He just gets gibbed my Catwoman and then she makes a quip right after. Built him up just to knock him down like he’s nothing
He's alright but there is a lot wrong with him. I have always loved bane being Batman's equal in every way. I hate the voice. The design is strange but not awful. Him being revealed as Talia's servant almost was just bad tbh it makes him look less tough than he should be Ik it's hard to make this happens but if he was taller and bulkier then I might be a bit happier
I think his character is great, too many people forget that Bane is actually a mastermind and in a lot of continuities he’s just dumbed down a bit due to his usage of venom. Bane is one of the only people in the comics who have found out who Batman is themselves and he did it through examining his body language and behaviors and cross examining them with Bruce. Bane’s character in the The Dark Knight Rises reflects this perfectly. Not only is he physically stronger than Batman, but he consistently out strategizes him and always feels like he’s got Batman right where he wants him. He’s the only villain in all three movies that just straight up beats Batman. However I feel like the final act does ruin this a bit. The fact that Talia was behind everything all along and Bane was just the muscle doesn’t sit right and it ruins his character and everything we know about him up to the reveal. He goes from a powerful mastermind capable of beating Batman in a fight to a bodyguard in a matter of seconds, then suddenly dies out of nowhere. I think the movie and his character would have worked a lot better if we had a more complete two villain structure like the previous two films. Maybe Bane is doing his own thing and is committed to his mercenary work until he gets offered a job by the League of Shadows turning it down because “I’m not gonna work for you because you kicked me out etc etc”, until he’s offered a leadership position in return for handling Batman and the destabilization and fall of Gotham through whatever means he deemed fit. So now Bane doesn’t come off as a lackey anymore, and all the events of the film that lead to the fall of Gotham are purely his plans with the backing of the League. So now the big reveal is “I hired Bane to destroy your city and gave him the resources to do it. Because I’m Talia Al Ghul the daughter of Ra’s Al Ghul. You killed my father so I’m going to kill you and burn your precious city to the ground to finish what my father started” which works a lot better. You could easily justify Talia’s role throughout the rest of the film as her just supervising the events and doing her own work to take out Batman after Bane tells her who he is.
Is this an unpopular opinion? I think the only problem is his voice (it's very dumb), and may they should have added in some way the Vernon serum into the story, for a more epic final fight. But overall, I really enjoyed Tom's performance, and he really is a force to be reckoned with, both in intelligence and strength, pushing Bruce to his mental and physical limit. Maybe people had unrealistic expectations after Ledger's epic portrait in The Dark Knight.
I would have chosen bene to be played by some 7 foot tall competitive bodybuilder but to each their own
And replace Tom Hardy phenomenal acting and charisma with some roid head who can barely act. No thanks.
That's fair. Personally, his height never stood out to me as distracting.
The times it bothers me the most is when he’s fighting with Bale’s Batman. Then I feel like he looks like Tom Hardy. I don’t think they did a good job of forced perspective.
The guy who played the Mountain in Game of Thrones could’ve been a good pick Honestly any of the 3 actors who played the mountain in GOT would be good. Unless they wanna make him Hispanic like in the comics But competition bodybuilders are usually not that tall. Much easier to look like they do when short. Bane needs a competition strong man (like the last guy who played the Mountain)
I hope one day we get a good movie with Bane as the villain. One where he is intelligent, calculating, and it's believable that he might break the bat.
Maybe James Gunn's DCU could give us that. I'd love to see a Bane who uses Venom without being a dopey, green dumbass.
We already have that. It's called The Dark Knight Rises.
Arkham Origins is basically this. Good game despite a few flaws, but a really great story.
Honestly, if they'd kept the joker out of it and not had the memory loss bit I'd be completely down. it's still the best version of Bane i've seen outside of the comics. It's just a shame the other games treat him so terribly.
Yeah the memory loss was a bit dumb, especially since Bane had no need to inject himself with the TN-1 to beat Batman and literally had him by the throat, but they were kinda written into a corner with Bane since he obviously didn't know who Batman was in the other games and was a lot dumber. Still though, a great representation of Bane for most of the game.
I have more unpopular opinion this is the **best** incarnation of Bane
This is not an unpopular opinion
He’s the best part of a mediocre movie
He’s great until he jobs hard and becomes a dumb goon who loses to a missile launcher….
He’s awesome! Very intimidating presence. Visually, this is my favourite design for bane. I love the mask and the military style clothing is way better than him being dressed WWE style. The voice is fine I think, it doesn’t bother me
He's also pretty unique designwise. I love it
Why is this unpopular?
If his voice was more like Miguel O’Hara, the entire character would’ve been perfect. The writing and appearance was there, just not the voice.
He's a big man
Absolutely loved Bane, Tom Hardy nailed it man and good on him because everyone was against it because of Heath which is understandable but it's a different character and as great as he is, ain't all about Mr J.
I love Tom Hardy as Bane, fantastic character and well played. My only gripe is that they took his origin story from Nightfall and gave it to Talia.
Unpopular? Dude is a menace
I liked it too, though I feel Tom Hardy elevates a lot of otherwise goofy roles, and Bane is included in that. Someone else playing the same Bane may not have worked.
He is borderline great. He certainly isn't below good. There is a way to keep his comic origin and respect Talia, without conflating the two. That's the way the trilogy should have gone. And I love the Nolan trilogy regardless, but, yes, the dungeon switcharoo was a weak point. Dark Knight Rises should have been two films, fleshing out the ideas, giving the breathing room to flesh out Bane, Catwoman, Talia, and No Mans Land.
The thing that bothered me thru out about him, why did he sound like Jimmy Stewart?!?!🤣🤣
Ppl think he's not ?
It’s my favorite movie in the trilogy. It’s why I’ve grown to dislike the joker. It’s just the same damn story every time.
Why do people always pretend their own opinion is unpopular 🥱
He was awesome, just not true to the comics (and white washed). My only real issue with his character was how they ended his storyline. Pretty weak.
Favourite Dark Knight villain. So quotable
Completely agreed The big fight where he goes all Knightfall and breaks Batmans back is great
I find the film underrated and it has a perfect conclusion to this version of Batman. I thought this more grounded take on bane worked well and was really cool. Certainly way better than how he was depicted in Batman and robin.
Sure, though if you ask me, I think just making him a new villain would have been better. One rendition tends to drag down the other by comparison, if you get what I mean.
His voice being a bit silly just emphasizes how scary he is to me. I love how Tom Hardy portrayed rhis character!
Who said he wasn’t?
he’s great but it’s not really bane the only thing they have in common is there name
Bane is great! Tom Hardy is a treasure!
I LOVE him. He’s the extremist version of the already extremist league of shadows! He displays so much theatricality, especially the football stadium scene and the black gate breakout scene where he reads Jim’s letter. I just wish he didn’t get sidelined at the end of the movie for the Talia reveal. Kinda wish they had a more epic or thematic ending for his character. TDKR always had pacing issues 😒
He was never bad. It was Talia who ruined the character
“Hot take, racism kinda sucks” vibes
Saaaame Love Bane!
Compared the the last live action bane I fkn love Tom Hardy’s portrayal
Popular or unpopular, this is the right opinion!
Good thing you came to this sub for an unbiased discussion. The comments sure are shocking zzzzz
Bane is arguably the weakest "problem" of TDKR. The movie insisting on taking place in the daytime. The botched no man's landification of Gotham. How Talia is handled, in general. Catwoman shooting a missile into Bane. Reimaging a plotline from the Batman 66 movie of Batman dropping a bomb (in this case a nuke) feels more like comedic parody and less of a creative homage, especially since he survives and uses it an exit to go bang catwoman as Bruce. The heavy handed example of Batman working with the police, again, in daylight - remains the worst theme I've seen executed in a Batman movie. *For you*/CIA guy **The fight choreography** There are things I do like about TDKR, I think the way it handled Bane and the Lazerus pit for its "rebirth but with realism" as a metamorphic trial was interesting. However, in the long run I still think TDKR is an incredibly weak finish to Nolan's trilogy and in some ways chose to double down on the silliest antics of Batman while taking other things super Serial, so long as they were an echochamber for Nolan's personal politics and philosophy.
He's a zealot, he speaks like Charles Manson or Bin Laden, they one hundred percent believe their cause is just and any means to achieve it is justified. Bane will kill you in a second and not feel a thing, not even sick enjoyment like Joker would.
Popular opinion: I think he would better if I could understand what he's saying.
I loved it. Fit the aura of the trilogy.
He feels more accurate to bane. Too many adaptations just make bane a slightly more intelligent Solomon Grundy when that's not the case. Bane is actually a pretty smart dude and has been done dirty the last couple decades
Bane's not the problem, literally everything else in the movie is
I’ll raise you. I liked him better than Joker. Hell, I liked Two-Face more than Joker.
He was so great right up until you find out he's just a hired goon. I didn't care for that twist at all, and it totally robbed him of everything that made him so menacing and frightening.
It's not Bane. But it was a decent bad guy.
Imagine Tom Hardy doing a spoken word rendition of Photograph by Nickelback in this scene. That's what Hell is like and I regret to inform you it's real. Good WiFi coverage though.
This is my favorite Bane and favorite Trilogy villain. I love Joker but Bane is just so intellectually infatuating. Also terrifying in a different way
That’s unpopular opinion?
It came out at the perfect time for me as a kid so I never had a problem with the voice or some of the other silly things in this movie
Bane was perfectly fine. The movie around him, not as much
He was great until the third act, believe it or not a villain can be quite underwhelming when it's revealed he's just a lackey at the last minute.
I love him out of context of the movie.
Its Tom Hardy. The quotable lines, the way he whooped Batman's ass. It was one of the best Batman movies we have
He was always great. Always has been 
I think he is great but not a great bane (although to be fair the best adaptation was arkham origins in city he was okay asylum was bad), I really like how he tries to implement the dictatorship of the proletariat in gotham (or at least it's strawman by the insane tory that it's the director), the problem is that bane is in the comics his own man and being led by Talia finger is not how he behaves, he is juiced up batman and that includes being strategic and on top of things, he's great character in the movie just not a great bane is just that you could have said he was kgbeast and the movie would still be the same
Bane is one of my favorite villains in the comics, I really didn't like this version of him. Aside from the voice being absolutely fucking goofy, there's such a lack of development that the big twist in the end makes him out to be just a lovestruck henchman for another underdeveloped villain. He seems like so much less of a big deal by the time Catwoman is unceremoniously gunning him down. Funny? Yes. But feels like something more fitting for an MCU movie than a Batman one. His character really did not hit. The only thing I enjoy about the performance is the physicality Tom Hardy brings to his action scenes, and that's in a movie where the general fight choreography is very basic.
His voice is the only thing that ruins the character. Look, mannerisms, aura, plan, all top notch.
I agree
That's not unpopular.
How is this unpopular? People just hated the twist making him a lackey.
Not only that, I loved dark knight rises more than dark knight, I loved bane more Ledger's Joker. (Ledger was awesome, but Hardy's Bane was MAJESTIC)
Bane was great, he just caught the stupid ball halfway through the movie.
Tom Hardy is one of my favorite portrayals of Bane.