Re: Hot Toys - MMS DX 02 - TDK- BATMAN full spec and pics
Is there anything special about bane? Doesn't seem to be as interesting, I was really hoping the Johnny Depp as Riddler rumours were true
Visually, I think he'll make an interesting action figure - one more to add to the Hot Toys rogues gallery. Lots of muscles. It'll be immediately obvious that he's a physical match for Batman, standing next to the Batman figure, which is something we haven't seen yet with Joker, Two-Face, and Scarecrow.
If you're asking about the character in general, then just like every character, how "special" and "interesting" he is really depends on how he's handled by the writer in question (and actor and director, as is the case with the movies).
A writer can be lazy and just use him in stories as an over-muscled thug whose only danger and drama lie in the sheer physical force he can bring to bear in a fight. Might make an interesting action scene, but that's all. A storyline like "Legacy" was a perfect example of this wasting of his potential.
But a good writer will see him for what he is from his origin story - the ultimate self-made man. He's the dark-side, evil version of Doc Savage (and thus, by extension, Batman, given the obvious influence of the Doc Savage character on the Batman character). You can see the origin in "Vengeance of Bane."
Batman took a personal tragedy and used it to inform his quest to become the perfect man (intellectually and physically), so that he could become the ultimate crimefighter. Similarly, Bane took his own tragic circumstances and backstory and used it to inform his own quest to become the perfect man (intellectually and physically) - but, unlike Batman, he does it to become the ultimate criminal.
There's a lot of story potential in a character like that, to be both a dark mirror for Bruce intellectually and physically, as well as a true physical threat.