Lore- The Banes of Earth J

## The First Bane

The first bane was one inspired by the Bane in The Dark Knight Rises. The main things he did during his reign was he bombed most of the city, and then faced off against Nightwing and Melius(Donald). In this fight nobody had yet to fight him so Bane had the advantage of them not knowing his strengths and weaknesses. Ultimately he brutally wounded Melius, and killed Nightwing. The same night Red Hood first showed up, and in a fight against Batman, broke his arm, so Batman was in no shape to go against him alone. Red Hood met up with Batgirl and the 2 of them took Dicks body to a pit, Batman figured out where they were going, so him and Huntress went to stop them. Bruce took out a special device from the car that was sort of an exoskeleton for his arm. He fought and defeated Red Hood, while Babs defeated Helena. Babs was able to convince Bruce to let her put Dick in. After hours had gone by Dick had not come out, so Batman abandoned the pit before Dick came out, leaving Babs alone and went to fight Bane alone despite knowing nothing about Bane except he easily crushed one of the best fighters he knew who had help from another highly skilled fighter. Bruce got very lucky in the fight in that he discovered an easily exploitable weakness, and then Bane blew himself up, and Bruce seemed to have also died in the explosion.

## The Second Bane

The second Bane is the kind of character that would no longer be allowed, he was far too overpowered, and everything he did was covered with things one really shouldnt do in an RP. When he first showed up he somehow brought an entire military that was quite sizable, but still stealthy enough to take over Gotham and hold it hostage before the USMC could react. He called out Batman so Dick put on the cowl, also Thomas Wayne Batman from Flashpoint universe showed up. Thomas, Dick, Spoiler, Batgirl, and Melius (Donald) all faced off against the new Bane. Without using any venom, he took no damage from any hits and easily won (this is just very poor combat RPing from Bane) Batgirl at this time wanted out and suggested she die taking Bane out with a steel beam from above, Bane then meta gamed and needlessly used Venom so he could tank that hit. He then captured Batgirl, and in response Dick (who Bane 100% believed was the real Batman, the man he came to Gotham for) offered himself in Babs' place. Bane said no, took her and his military back to Santa Prisca, there he told Batgirl he wanted to use her as leverage against Batman (the guy who he refused to take in her stead). Dick found his way to Santa Prisca, and so did Bruce. The 2 Batman fought Bane together, Bane easily winning using Venom (which this Bane says stays in the bloodstream for a very long time when the tube is cut) Dick was injured so he retreated to his NIght-Wing (basically his batjet) and fired rubber bullets at Banes head that did literally nothing. Ultimately the 2 batmen were able to somehow defeat Bane, ending his reign.

## Post-Bane (The Court)

The same person who was the 2nd Bane then became the court. He declared the talons were far superior to any League members (despite the fact they are weaker in the comics) He also made an OC he himself stated was more OP than his Bane. The Court was rather in the open in that they were just threatening anyone that was a vigilante, and specifically Catwoman for her relationship with Batman, basically acting more like the Mafia than the Court. This all led to the OC Talon taking on Batman, Nightwing, Red Robin and Robin; and easily winning for most of the fight. Dick used his NIgh-Wings harpoon to impale the Talon, because the Batfam already knew they were not alive, but instead simply animated corpses, so they could not die. At this point Bruce discovered this one specific Talon was special in that he was at least a century old, but still alive (this was a retcon by the person that made it, probably because they were not happy with what happened to their OP OC). Bruce decided to never tell Dick. A dozen talons invaded the Manor, so Bruce got in his mechsuit (the one from the night of owls) the person in charge of the court didnt want him to use any mech so soon (which makes so sense because he made it clear Bruce could maybe take 3 Talons alone and then sent a dozen) So he dropped the Court as a character.