Turns out, the WorldвЂ™s Greatest Detective prepared for this fight well in advance вЂ“ by secretly hitting Bane with knock out drugs half an hour ago and then backing them up with sleeping darts for the main fight. A moment later, however, Bane regroups and lifts Batman above his head, screaming his iconic line, вЂњI will break you!вЂќД«efore Bane can deliver his (literal) back breaking move, however, he suddenly staggers and falls to the ground вЂ“ without Batman even needing to land another blow.

Swooping down, Batman immediately takes the offensive, knocking Bane down with a single blow. As Batman patrols Gotham City in search of Bane, he finds the super strong mastermind waiting for him on the roof. In sharp contrast to BatmanвЂ™s defeat in Knightfall, BatmanвЂ™s latest encounter with Bane occurs very briefly in the prologue. Once more, Bane attempts to break the Bat вЂ“ only to find that BatmanвЂ™s learned a trick or two since their last encounter. Most recently, Batman went up against Bane once more in the first issue of Batman: The Adventures Continue, the comic book continuation of the famous Batman: The Animated Series. Related: When SupermanвЂ™s Adopted By The Waynes, HE Becomes Batman This version saw an older Batman taken down by Tom HardyвЂ™s Bane who gravely injured Bruce WayneвЂ™s spine вЂ“ only for the Dark Knight to rebuild his body and return to take Bane down in the filmвЂ™s climax.

Taking advantage of BatmanвЂ™s exhaustion, Bane managed to shatter Bruce WayneвЂ™s back, temporarily paralyzing him and putting the crimefighter out of commission for months.Д«atmanвЂ™s defeat was so iconic that the scene was reimagined for Christopher NolanвЂ™s final Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises. After putting Batman through a grueling gauntlet of nonstop crimefighting that left the Dark Knight physically, mentally, and emotionally drained, Bane finally confronted Bruce Wayne in his own mansion. Fans remember how Batmansuffered his biggest defeat at the hands of the super strong criminal Bane in 1990s Knightfall storyline.

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