10 Things Christopher Nolan Got Wrong About Batman

Bane was always going to be a tough villain for Christopher Nolan to reimagine in a grounded way, given his penchant for Mexican wrestling masks and strength-enhancing drugs, so it comes as no surprise that Tom Hardy's take on the character proved divisive when he appeared in The Dark Knight Rises.

Hardy's Bane is remembered for many of the wrong reasons, from his goofy voice to his charisma-sapping mask. Not everything about him was a disaster as there were hints of the classic comic book bad guy who broke the Batman in there.

At times, he shows off the kind of genius-level intellect and cunning that helped him stay one step ahead of the world's greatest detective at all times in the Knightfall story arc, but Nolan ultimately did Bane a huge disservice by relegating him to the rank of henchman to Marion Cotillard's Talia al Ghul in the final act.

Not only was the big Talia reveal eye-rollingly predictable, it came with the side effect of reducing one of the greatest Batman villains of all time to a lesser position.

In hindsight, Bane wasn't the best fit for the Nolanverse as there are other villains in Batman's rogues gallery the filmmaker could have reinvented. The Riddler, for instance, would have allowed Nolan to tell a very different story to either of the first two films, one which took a deep dive into the hero's detective background. Instead, this important aspect of Batman's skillset was criminally overlooked.