SnakeDoctor
Super Freak
Bane without the Venom is like Batman without the bat symbol. It's a key aspect of the character, and without it, just makes him an average Joe. I literally LOL'd in the theatre when Bane punched through that stone column. It was such a ridiculously absurd thing to have him do for a movie trying to take itself so seriously. That's not even addressing the issue of him walking away from the Batman fight without a mark despite getting pummeled in the face repeatedly by armored knuckles.
Like Joker's permawhite skin is a defining detail of the Joker? Eh. A character is more than a costume and a backstory. Swenson's grunting retard on venom is still much farther off than Hardy's Gotham-toppling bat-breaker without venom.
You can complain at the backstory, or the technical story, or the mask, or whatever else -- and you'd be right -- but there is simply no disputing the actions on screen.
Hardy acted and sounded more like the comic Bane than Swenson did.
SnakeDoc