Bane

* Task Force X

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"*Still they cry out for him... for their hero and savior! But he is broken... and Gotham is mine!*"
―Bane[src]
**Bane** was a brilliant Human Mutate world-class fighter and tactical genius who served as a member of Task Force X.

Raised from childhood in the ? prison in Mexico, he determined that he would destroy Batman to prove himself, and succeeded by breaking the hero's back during Knightfall.

augments his great physical strength with a steroid called venom.

## Biography

### Early life and living off the grid

Born to the vigilante and former mafia princess Andrea Beaumont and apparently a bodyguard who worked for her father, the man who would later be known as Bane was forced to live on the run with his fugitive mother. During his childhood, Bane carried a teddy bear he called Osito (Spanish for "little bear"), whom he considered his only friend. Unbeknownst to most, Osito had a hole in his back to hold a knife that Bane used against anyone who bullied him.

Because of the circumstances he found himself in, Bane rarely attended school but read as many books as he could get his hands on.

built up his body in the prison's gym, and learned to fight in the merciless school of prison life. Despite his circumstances, he appeared to have found teachers of various sorts during his incarceration, ranging from hardened convicts to an elderly Jesuit priest, under whose tutelage he apparently received a classical education. However, he committed his first murder at the age of eight, stabbing a criminal who wanted to use him to gain information about the prison.

### Imprisoned in Peña Duro

Bane's teenage years and early adult life were spent behind the walls of Peña Duro, an infamous prison located in Mexico, after he aided in his mother's murder of a corrupt Mexican official. Though imprisoned, his natural abilities allowed him to develop extraordinary skills within the prison's walls.

Bane ultimately established himself as the "king" of the prison. The prison's controllers took note and eventually forced him to become a test subject for a government project to create super-soldiers with the drug Venom, which had killed all other subjects. It nearly killed him as well, but he survived and found its effects enhanced his physical strength, although he needed to take it every 12 hours (via a system of cables pumped directly into his brain) or he would suffer debilitating side-effects.

Bane is tortured by a monstrous, terrifying bat creature that appears in his dreams, thus giving him an intense fear of bats.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Venom Usage**: Bane's use of the Supersteroid Venom allowed him to temporarily enhance his physical functions to superhuman levels, particularly his strength, endurance, and speed. His body's senses and healing abilities are also highly augmented. Bane needs to periodically inject himself with Venom to retain these abilities, although overuse can result in temporaral insanity.

* **Superhuman Strength**: The primary effect of Venom is that it enhances strength to low superhuman levels, depending on how much venom is injected. Bane has been shown as stronger than Batman even without the venom , and while injected as able to bend thick steel. When Bane injects the maximum amount of Venom that is considered healthy into himself, he becomes capable of lifting about 2 tons. He is ultimately capable of exceeding his limit to 35 tons, though not without temporarily losing control over himself.

* **Enhanced Speed/Reflexes**: Bane's speed and reflexes also increases when using venom, allowing him to run, move and react faster than the limits of even the finest human specimen, though these abilies vary on how much venom he takes.

* **Superhuman Stamina**: Bane's stamina increases dramatically when using the drug and is potentially unlimited, as he is constantly supplied with new energy when injecting himself.

* **Superhuman Durability**: Bane's density of his muscle, bone, and skin tissue increases dramatically when using the drug. His durability can become suffiecient enough to potentially shrug off bullets, and resist falls from great heights, temperature or pressure extremes, and blows from superhuman opponents. He has also proven capable of holding his breath for extended periods of time.

* **Superhuman Healing**: Bane can also use his Venom as a form of medicine to heal from injuries, poisons and diseases. Depending on how devastating the injury, Bane needs to inject a certain amount of Venom into himself. When faced with extreme wounds, such as many broken bones, excessive blood loss, or terminal poisons or diseases, Bane needs to inject an unhealthy amount of venom which will cause him to temporarily go berserk in order to heal properly.

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