10 Weird Things Left Out Of Comic Book Movies

9. No Luchador Mask For Bane

We still have a lot of questions about The Dark Knight Rises, a couple of years on - What's Christopher Nolan saying about the Occupy movement? Why did all the police in Gotham go underground? Is Batman the bad guy? - but one of the biggest was, simply, "what the hell is Bane saying?" Tom Hardy's intercontinental villain was hampered by both a weird accent and the ape-like gas mask he wore over his big bald bonce.

Nolan's version of the Caped Crusader seemed to want to distance itself from its comic book source material as much as possible, because it was serious business stuff for adults, not that kiddy superhero stuff. It still had a guy in a rubber bat suit punching a clown, and flying around in a magic plane, but ssshhh. Just go with it. The director did, admittedly, do his best to try and translate the ridiculous, larger-than-life superhero world into a more realistic setting, with slight tweaks like changing Batman's outfit from grey spandex to a sort of military get-up, with kevlar armour and knee pads and the like.

They made a similar change with Bane in the third film, because his mask in the funnybooks was actually even weirder than the gas mask arrangement in The Dark Knight Rises. For some reason, which never really got explained properly, the comic Bane wore a luchador mask. Like a Mexican wrestler. He is not a Mexican wrestler. He is a huge dude who broke Batman's back. Probably would have had less of an impact if he was wearing a Mexican wrestler mask, huh?