#it's extra funny if you know bane doesn't have to rig anything he quite literally owns the country of santa prisca

[righteousruin]

I genuinely love and hate that Bane went through this intensely transformative arc in Gotham Knights with meeting his father thanks to Dr. Thompkins and Bruce, and having his life saved by Batman, and it’s meaningful to the point where he’s like ‘I’m not Bane anymore actually’, and then we don’t see him again until two random panels in infinite crisis in which he is just. Out here. Fighting heroes. Zero context between points A and B, go girl give us nothing

#and then they used that one panel of him wrecking a D-Lister for a WHOLE PLOT in checkmate I yell #I don't know what this is but he just showed up and went rawr and then they were like 'bad guy no badding' and he was like 'okay' #just some rando judo guy outfighting bane while he's on venom i can't i cAN'T #like that time magneto was a one-off villain in spider-man and they were like 'yep peter won that fight no contest' aklsdj #i admit i do love this storyline of 'you killed my father AND you rigged an election! those are equally villainous things!' #it's extra funny if you know bane doesn't have to rig anything he quite literally owns the country of santa prisca #It was his price for working for Lex Luthor in Shadow of the Bat -- it's how Batman got him to leave without confrontation #He was like 'okay but when I'm finished with Luthor he's gonna pull this so you can leave now and cash in or you can wait to fight me' #and bane was like 'lmao good point bestie i'm outtie' #sometimes loving comic book villains means knowing that some random title is gonna borrow them to try and make their title character cool #and that's okay #the one that did it best was JSA they wrote bane REALLY well for his little two-issue guest spot #like it felt really relevant to his character he was characterized really well his defeat made sense it was nicely done #ooc #silly hours #Editors Note || Analysis