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Originally Posted by SymbiSpidey

Yeah, not that I've read a ton of Batman comics with Bane in it, but I've heard the whole venom thing isn't as synonymous with the character as the video games and cartoons would lead us to believe.

This should probably be the last post regarding DC stuff here (for a while anyway) but you're not wrong that media interpretations of Bane tend to accentuate his reliance on drugs. The idea of the character representing drug addiction is significant but often in short-term media like video games, cartoons, and movies they don't bother showing the part where Bane eventually improves himself by facing his addiction and overcoming it. There's also the part where writers find it easier or more comfortable to just toss Bane into the dumb strong guy trope so you wind up with many versions of the character that are stupid, scrawny guys who do drugs to turn into beefed up roid-monsters. Dr Kain wasn't wrong when he noted that Bane was introduced as a gimmick, it was DC saying "hey everybody look at this new character who just beat the crap out of Batman!" but when you get past that I think there have been some great nuggets that validate Bane's continued existence in the comics and his position as one of Batman's more prominent villains.