10 Awesome Comic Book Movie Moments When Characters Received Power-Ups

8. Bane

Tom Hardy€™s Bane was nearly faultless; he was terrifying, a genius, brutal and barbaric. Joel Schumacher€™s adaptation was the complete antithesis of this. He was moronic, laughable and little more than mindless muscle. He was nowhere near as captivating as Hardy, but he did receive a few moments of rapid strengthening. At the start of the film he is a condemned, scrawny prisoner who is transformed into Bane through an awry scientific experiment. This power-up is his origin, but that is of less importance than the second boost he received. Poison Ivy, who has apparently recruited Bane as an accomplice in this odd universe, pushes a button on his chest to pour more venom into his veins and cause the muscled villain to go berserk and rabidly attack pretty much everything in sight. This power-up caused Bane to go from hired muscle to a laughing stock in a film that was already risking itself with Arnie€™s pun-tastic interpretation of Mr Freeze, and Clooney€™s plain odd Batman. Although this power-up by no means improved the film, the reputation of this film was sealed by its disappointing and disastrous attempt to redesign one of Batman€™s most persistent and well known enemies.