Bane (Tom Hardy)

"When Gotham is in ashes, you will have my permission to die."

- Bane

Bane will be played by Tom Hardy in The Dark Knight Rises.

The Dark Knight Rises
Bane is a terrorist that comes to Gotham with the intent of destroying it. He wears a mask that pumps gas into his system that makes him impervious to pain.

Behind the scenes

 * Currently there has been no mention of the drug Venom that Bane uses in the comics but the costume designer mentioned a type of anaesthesia administered through the mask which could be "venom".
 * Tom Hardy has described Bane as "brutal. He's a big dude who's incredibly clinical, in the fact that he has a result-based and oriented fighting style. It's not about fighting. It's about carnage. The style is heavy-handed, heavy-footed, it's nasty. Anything from small-joint manipulation to crushing skulls, crushing rib cages, stamping on shins and knees and necks and collarbones and snapping heads off and tearing his fists through chests, ripping out spinal columns. He is a terrorist in mentality as well as brutal action."
 * There have been some criticisms about Hardy's voice for Bane being difficult to understand.

Trivia

 * Bane's costume for the film is very different from his comic book counterpart who wears a Mexican wrestler's mask.
 * Tom Hardy stands around 5ft9 where Christian Bale is over 6ft. In the comics, Bane towers over Batman in height. It is yet to be seen whether this will be done through effects in the film or ignored.