First Look At Tom Hardy As Bane From The Dark Knight Rises

So, the first of the most likely incredibly long marketing campaign for The Dark Knight Rises has begun and what we got was the first look at Tom Hardy as Bane.

Thoughts? Definitely looking better than he did in 1997.

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Wish I could see his mask-thingy better.

idunno man, you can only pack on so much muscle onto a small frame.

and why Bane? My Batman lore is not that great, but the Dark Knight series seems to be about realistic portrayals of fictional villains. Its easy to believe in The Joker because its some crazy guy with face paint, but its going to be a lot harder to believe in a dude that gets to monstrous size via chemical injections.

Doesnt seem to really fit with the Dark Knight series imo.

idunno man, you can only pack on so much muscle onto a small frame.

and why Bane? My Batman lore is not that great, but the Dark Knight series seems to be about realistic portrayals of fictional villains. Its easy to believe in The Joker because its some crazy guy with face paint, but its going to be a lot harder to believe in a dude that gets to monstrous size via chemical injections.

Doesnt seem to really fit with the Dark Knight series imo.

mrbojangles25

idunno man, you can only pack on so much muscle onto a small frame.

and why Bane? My Batman lore is not that great, but the Dark Knight series seems to be about realistic portrayals of fictional villains. Its easy to believe in The Joker because its some crazy guy with face paint, but its going to be a lot harder to believe in a dude that gets to monstrous size via chemical injections.

Doesnt seem to really fit with the Dark Knight series imo.

mrbojangles25

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idunno man, you can only pack on so much muscle onto a small frame.

and why Bane? My Batman lore is not that great, but the Dark Knight series seems to be about realistic portrayals of fictional villains. Its easy to believe in The Joker because its some crazy guy with face paint, but its going to be a lot harder to believe in a dude that gets to monstrous size via chemical injections.

Doesnt seem to really fit with the Dark Knight series imo.

n00bkid

haha yeah, and I knew I was gonna catch some flack for my post :P

anyway, I take back what I said. I think the Dark Knight is more about Nolan's interpretation of Batman, not so much depicting the comics accurately. Provided the soul of the Batman series is there, I suppose he can visually, at least, do what he wishes.

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idunno man, you can only pack on so much muscle onto a small frame.

and why Bane? My Batman lore is not that great, but the Dark Knight series seems to be about realistic portrayals of fictional villains. Its easy to believe in The Joker because its some crazy guy with face paint, but its going to be a lot harder to believe in a dude that gets to monstrous size via chemical injections.

Doesnt seem to really fit with the Dark Knight series imo.

SaintLeonidas

I imagine steroids will come into play. Not only is it ripe for social commentary, but its a good analogue for realism and the comics

idunno man, you can only pack on so much muscle onto a small frame.

and why Bane? My Batman lore is not that great, but the Dark Knight series seems to be about realistic portrayals of fictional villains. Its easy to believe in The Joker because its some crazy guy with face paint, but its going to be a lot harder to believe in a dude that gets to monstrous size via chemical injections.

Doesnt seem to really fit with the Dark Knight series imo.

mrbojangles25

Bane was just an assasine for hire..not the brains...which leads me to believe he can fit in to the series nicely....Omni-Slash

did Bane have a "handler" then? Who do you think will be "the brains"? Soooo excited for this movie!

[QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"][QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]

idunno man, you can only pack on so much muscle onto a small frame.

and why Bane? My Batman lore is not that great, but the Dark Knight series seems to be about realistic portrayals of fictional villains. Its easy to believe in The Joker because its some crazy guy with face paint, but its going to be a lot harder to believe in a dude that gets to monstrous size via chemical injections.

Doesnt seem to really fit with the Dark Knight series imo.

mrbojangles25

I imagine steroids will come into play. Not only is it ripe for social commentary, but its a good analogue for realism and the comics

[QUOTE="Omni-Slash"]Bane was just an assasine for hire..not the brains...which leads me to believe he can fit in to the series nicely....mrbojangles25

did Bane have a "handler" then? Who do you think will be "the brains"? Soooo excited for this movie!

Well we know Catwoman will be in it, but is seems weird to me that she would "hire" Bane or anyone else for that matter. Serraph105

[QUOTE="Serraph105"] Well we know Catwoman will be in it, but is seems weird to me that she would "hire" Bane or anyone else for that matter. Omni-Slash

needs more veins. I wonder if they'll keep the old prison story.

idunno man, you can only pack on so much muscle onto a small frame.

and why Bane? My Batman lore is not that great, but the Dark Knight series seems to be about realistic portrayals of fictional villains. Its easy to believe in The Joker because its some crazy guy with face paint, but its going to be a lot harder to believe in a dude that gets to monstrous size via chemical injections.

Doesnt seem to really fit with the Dark Knight series imo.

mrbojangles25

Nolan's take has indeed always treaded on a more realistic formula than the comics, this'll work pretty well I think

Tom hardy has gotten pretty big. Plus there's plenty of camera tricks to make seem larger than he really is.

i dont understand what's so unrealistic with bane. A venom/ steroid that makes you bigger (maybe even just a little bit) isnt exactly that far fetched. I mean, batman had some ridiculous tank car and a crazy machine that sends sonars everywhere and allowed him to see anything he wanted.

Plus, i wonder how Ras al ghul or however you spell his name will fit in. Im guessing no lazarus pit? but doesnt that kind of take away from his character?

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idunno man, you can only pack on so much muscle onto a small frame.

and why Bane? My Batman lore is not that great, but the Dark Knight series seems to be about realistic portrayals of fictional villains. Its easy to believe in The Joker because its some crazy guy with face paint, but its going to be a lot harder to believe in a dude that gets to monstrous size via chemical injections.

Doesnt seem to really fit with the Dark Knight series imo.

SaintLeonidas

[QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"][QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]

idunno man, you can only pack on so much muscle onto a small frame.

and why Bane? My Batman lore is not that great, but the Dark Knight series seems to be about realistic portrayals of fictional villains. Its easy to believe in The Joker because its some crazy guy with face paint, but its going to be a lot harder to believe in a dude that gets to monstrous size via chemical injections.

Doesnt seem to really fit with the Dark Knight series imo.

toast_burner

idunno man, you can only pack on so much muscle onto a small frame.

and why Bane? My Batman lore is not that great, but the Dark Knight series seems to be about realistic portrayals of fictional villains. Its easy to believe in The Joker because its some crazy guy with face paint, but its going to be a lot harder to believe in a dude that gets to monstrous size via chemical injections.

Doesnt seem to really fit with the Dark Knight series imo.

mrbojangles25

I understand that aspect of your concern, but you have to remember that Nolan is obsessed with philosophy and Bane is basically an anti-Batman pushed far into the darkness. Like Batman he's highly intelligent and physically gifted, he has trained himself beyond the abilities of normal men and orchestrated a number of events in order to learn Batman's identity so he can strike out at him any time as well as using a whole host of villains in order to wear Batman down so he would be easier to defeat. He's too smart to merely confront and attempt to defeat Batman. He's driven towards a goal for action much like Batman, but his desire for revenge due to his hostile upbringing is so extreme that he cares little for the lives of others or how he affects them...the goal is everything.

The venom that he uses to amp up his abilities were actually used and abandoned by Batman as he didn't want to have to rely on anything other than his own natural abilities, but Bane sees them as a tool and pushed their use far past what they were intended for. He basically uses a great deal of Batman's tools and thought processes against him and they are used in a way that's a even darker counter-point to Batman's already dark nature. Used in that way he's a natural for Nolan's world of Batman.

i dont understand what's so unrealistic with bane. A venom/ steroid that makes you bigger (maybe even just a little bit) isnt exactly that far fetched. I mean, batman had some ridiculous tank car and a crazy machine that sends sonars everywhere and allowed him to see anything he wanted.

Plus, i wonder how Ras al ghul or however you spell his name will fit in. Im guessing no lazarus pit? but doesnt that kind of take away from his character?

bionicle_lover

idunno man, you can only pack on so much muscle onto a small frame.

and why Bane? My Batman lore is not that great, but the Dark Knight series seems to be about realistic portrayals of fictional villains. Its easy to believe in The Joker because its some crazy guy with face paint, but its going to be a lot harder to believe in a dude that gets to monstrous size via chemical injections.

Doesnt seem to really fit with the Dark Knight series imo.

mrbojangles25

as long as they don't show his muscles actually growing in seconds, it should be all good. he can be muscular, and the chemicals could just be a reflex-enhansor/pain-suppresent of some kind to turn him into an unstoppable fighter.

maybe they'll focus more on agility than crushing stuff, who knows.

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idunno man, you can only pack on so much muscle onto a small frame.

and why Bane? My Batman lore is not that great, but the Dark Knight series seems to be about realistic portrayals of fictional villains. Its easy to believe in The Joker because its some crazy guy with face paint, but its going to be a lot harder to believe in a dude that gets to monstrous size via chemical injections.

Doesnt seem to really fit with the Dark Knight series imo.

Lord_Daemon

I understand that aspect of your concern, but you have to remember that Nolan is obsessed with philosophy and Bane is basically an anti-Batman pushed far into the darkness. Like Batman he's highly intelligent and physically gifted, he has trained himself beyond the abilities of normal men and orchestrated a number of events in order to learn Batman's identity so he can strike out at him any time as well as using a whole host of villains in order to wear Batman down so he would be easier to defeat. He's too smart to merely confront and attempt to defeat Batman. He's driven towards a goal for action much like Batman, but his desire for revenge due to his hostile upbringing is so extreme that he cares little for the lives of others or how he affects them...the goal is everything.

The venom that he uses to amp up his abilities were actually used and abandoned by Batman as he didn't want to have to rely on anything other than his own natural abilities, but Bane sees them as a tool and pushed their use far past what they were intended for. He basically uses a great deal of Batman's tools and thought processes against him and they are used in a way that's a even darker counter-point to Batman's already dark nature. Used in that way he's a natural for Nolan's world of Batman.

thank you! that is exactly the explanation I was looking for :) Thank you for educating this comic noob :P