After Batman and Robin turned him into a cartoon and The Dark Knight Rises grounded him in reality, it's the comic books where Bane truly gets to rule. Brought up in an underground prison where he was forced to serve his father's life sentence, he ultimately managed to escape and found his way to Gotham City. Utilising a substance known as Venom to make himself even stronger, Bane has the brains to go with his brute strength, and that makes him particularly dangerous. Unfortunately, not much has been done with him since he "Broke the Bat", but that remains one of the most iconic moments in the Caped Crusader's history.