10 Things DC Comics Wants You To Forget About Bane

7. And He Got Taken Out Like A Chump

Including Valley's ultimate, inevitable confrontation with the man who had crippled his mentor. After Bane has installed himself as the new ruler of Gotham's criminal underworld, and finds nobody willing to stand up to him, he's pretty much got the run of the city. That is, until Valley has had his totally sweet makeover (we imagine a montage where he keeps coming out of the Bat Cave changing room with different outfits, Bruce and Dick Grayson shaking their heads until we got that...monstrosity). Jean-Paul takes a very different tack with his spin on Batman, refusing to acknowledge Robin as his partner and choosing to be a lot more violent and heavy-handed with his apprehension of bad guys. Which all comes to a head when he does, finally, stand up to Bane. That's despite Bruce Wayne's warnings not to, but then Bruce probably also told Valley not to kill people who be such a jerk to his younger brother, but the new Batman just yelled "YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD" and went ahead and did it anyway. Breaking into Bane's penthouse apartment, Batman 2.0 shoots a load of pointy things at the villain which see him lose a lot of blood. No matter, the baddie thinks. I'll just up my dose of the DC analogue of steroids, Venom. That will keep me big and strong. Which it did, and he punched Valley until he ran home crying. Except he never got those cuts looked at, and then Teen Girl Squad Batman returned to finish him off. Bane crawls around like a little baby while the new Dark Knight tears him a new one, cutting off his Venom supply and then straight up torturing him in front of the Gotham Police Department. Sort of an inauspicious defeat for such a hyped villain. Let's just not mention it again. Or Jean-Paul Valley. Or his costume. Ta.