“With your death, I will find peace”
Sideshow and Prime 1 are proud to present the Bane – Mercenary Version 1:3 Scale Statue from Batman: Arkham Origins.
The deadly assassin is crafted in roughly 1:3 scale with exceptional attention to detail. He towers over 34 inches tall and includes an interchangeable unmasked portrait.
Bane is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Batman. The character’s origin was in Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993), and was created by Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, and Graham Nolan.
Known for his mix of brute strength and exceptional intelligence, the character is often credited as being the only villain to have “Broken the Bat”. IGN’s list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time ranked Bane as #34. Bane was portrayed by Robert Swenson in the 1997 film Batman & Robin and by Tom Hardy in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises.
Bane is highly intelligent; in Bane of the Demon, Ra’s al Ghul says that Bane “has a mind equal to the greatest he has known” (although he dismisses Bane’s intellect as the cunning of an animal rather than the cultured, trained intellect of Batman). His strength gives him more ways to go against Batman. Bane has shown to be capable of lifting 15 tons. In prison, he taught himself various scientific disciplines equal to the level of understanding of leading experts in those fields. He knows six active languages and at least two additional arcane and dead ones. Among these are Spanish, English, Persian, and Latin. The Bane of the Demon storyline reveals that he has an eidetic memory. Within one year, he is able to deduce Batman’s secret identity.
He is also highly devious and a superb strategist and tactician. In prison, Bane also invented his own form of calisthenics, meditation, and a fighting style that he uses against other well-known martial arts fighters within the DC Universe. Bane creator Chuck Dixon’s early tales portray Bane as a very calm, centered warrior akin to Bruce Lee; in as much that he draws strength through calm meditation, and the spiritual energy of the “very rock of Peña Dura”. Dixon imbued Bane with an almost supernatural quality when he explained that Bane triumphed in all of his prison fights by employing these abilities, while his opponents had only rage and greed to propel them. Multiple scenes in “Vengeance of Bane” explore this aspect when it explains that Bane’s mastery of meditation techniques “made time and space playthings to him.” A subsequent scene that reinforces this ability comes when Bird first comes to Bane for help, because he heard from other inmates that Bane has “magic… the kind that allows him to travel beyond the prison walls.” Usage of Venom enhances his physical abilities, including his strength and healing process, to superhuman levels.
Although Bane had sworn off using Venom in Vengeance of Bane II in 1995, and his character is actually written as having kept that promise to himself, it is still not uncommon for artists to draw Bane as still wearing the tube leading from his old wrist device to the back of his head, as well as almost all media adaptations of the character show him actively using the Venom compound. Writer Gail Simone explained these lapses in the continuity of Bane’s appearance in an issue of Secret Six, in which Deadshot remarked that Bane merely kept his old Venom equipment with him out of habit, even though Bane states that he would sooner die than use it again.
One of eight assassins contracted to kill the Batman, only Bane is fueled by a fanatic need to conquer Gotham City to forge his own criminal empire.
- Expected to Ship
- Apr 2017 – Jun 2017
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