12 Ways Comic Book Movies Totally Ripped Each Other Off

5. Reducing Bane To Being A Slave To His Loins

Not once but twice Bane has been shown to be more interested in his sexual organs than his traditionally voracious need to take down Batman.

Obviously, suggesting that Schumacher and Nolan's versions of the character are even remotely similar beyond their source and their muscle mass is incredibly reductive to the latter, but the sting in Bane's tale, as revealed by his back-story and commitment to Talia Al Ghul made the two unlikely close bed fellows.

There might be more subtletly and intellect in the way Nolan portrayed his version of the character, but in making the Knightfall arc no more than a step in Talia's grander plan, he made Bane a love-sick sidekick just as Schumacher's day-glo monster in Batman & Robin was presented. Both are romantically-lead pawns, manipulated for their power and threat to Batman, and both were crimes against the original character by the end.