10 Things DC Comics Wants You To Forget About Bane

5. He's From The Caribbean

Remember we mentioned the plummy accent Tom Hardy adopted when he played Bane in The Dark Knight Rises? It was hard to make out anything he was saying behind that terrifying contraption he had strapped to his gob, but one thing we knew for sure is that he wasn't from the Caribbean. We're not entirely sure where he was supposed to be from - his accent sounds like the weird English-via-South African-via Australian dialect Shia LaBeouf adopted for Nymphomaniac - but we were fairly certain that the pale and pasty bod of Hardy has never seen the sunshine of the Caribbean. Which, well, Bane also didn't for the first couple of decades of his life. Because he grew up in a prison. And they are infamously rigid with their sunbathing policies. Another part of the character which made him so interesting and distinct from the rest of Batman's enemies, however, was his origin story. He wasn't some citizen of Gotham driven mad, another novelty white guy with a gimmick. Bane was born in the fictional Caribbean Republic of Santa Prisca, son of revolutionary Edmund Dorrance, whose sentence he lived out in prison after his dad hot footed it out of there. A lot of that background informed Bane's later character, as he adopted some of his absentee father's guerilla warfare tactics in bringing down the Dark Knight and Gotham City (both in the comics and the film, come to think of it). Santa Prisca got mentioned a lot during the eighties and early nineties, as writer Denny O'Neil used it in both the Knightfall storyline and his Question series. The tourism industry seems to have dried up, however, since Bane's rarely been back and his country of origin never mentioned.