The only adaptation of Bane I thought was done right was in Arkham Origins. He had a perfect blend of The Dark Knight Rises and comics Bane.

They basically gave bane solomon grundy's personality.

People like to complain about Tom Hardy's Bane because his version is too realistic and not comic book accurate but people tend to forget this is the bane we had the misfortunate to grow up with in live action for 15 long years until Tom Hardy's Bane finally came along so personally I will take Tom Hardy's Bane compared to this Bane any day of the week. 😂😅

Jeep Swenson was The Final Solution in WCW. It was later changed to The Ultimate Solution for obvious reasons

I'd you combined the LOOK of this bane the INTELLIGENCE of hardy bane and the VOICE of Danny trejo you'd have literally the perfect bane

They would have been better served making him Solomon Grundy. they wouldn't have even had to change that much to make it work.

Bane in this movie is pretty much that one character thrown in only for posters. Ironically they didn't even put him on a poster.

This hurts. Bane is my absolute favorite Batman villain

One thing I will admit, I really love Bane’s mask more than other Banes outside the comics

I will never get over the fact that one of the lines in this film was "That's why every Poison Ivy action figure comes with him!" That was the moment I gave up on the film.

2:51 in my opinion if they would have used a Solomon Grundy.. instead of Bane, it would have been better and her dominion over plant life would be good to use since Grundy is plant in part.

I'm grateful you made the video. It taught me a bit more about the film version of "Bane" (Can we REALLY call him that at all?) as well as providing information about the actor, Jeep Swenson. (His daughter, Viking Barbie, makes some interesting music.)

Bane should arguably be considered Batman’s scariest villain, because he’s just as smart as he is strong

At first I thought this was Accurate to the Character when I was a Kid in this Overrated Movie, but now Yeah I regret my Past Childhood Mentality since now I can see they did Bane Dirty in Batman and Robin than the Dark Knight Rises, which in my opinion isn’t one of my Favorite Batman Films.

They could have at least given Bane one scene where he speaks for himself for once and threatens to "BREAK BAT!!!". Now that would have been kind of cool, but I guess 'cool' wasn't what they were going for with this version. * sigh *

It may have been in the novelization (because of course) but I remember getting some context to why Bane was following Poison Ivy. Apparently he became addicted to the Venom and used Ivy as his supplier.

This is why it's important to really take the time to get to know characters of fiction. Take them out for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and truly get to know them and what makes them special.

“Throw punches, break stuff, and walk” Heck I do that on a daily basis.

i believe schwarzenegger getting a paper other than being big strong man is pretty cool, u get to see more of him

Anytime someone complained about Tom Hardy’s Bane and the voice I kindly reminded them of this movie and how Bane talked throughout it!

Since they made him green, they could have used Killer Crock instead of Bane.

I remember back in the day i had a dream that this bane was training Ivy how to fight. She lost multiple times but it was a strange dream to have that i still thought was interesting

Uma Thurman was so fine, in this movie lol.. On another note, Bane (appearance-wise) was spot on, you need a pro-wrestler to match the imposing look of Bane, he has to be bigger & taller than the average man.. But they made this Bane into a big dummy & I was very disappointed cause Bane is my favorite Batman villain..

that is sad that batmans second greatest villains is completly forgotten about when thinking about this movie and again with McFarlane's sdcc reveal of the batman and robin figure wave I was like "where's bane, well that sucks"

I always say that Arnold Schwarzenegger should've been Bane in Batman & Robin.

"Why, what's so bad about his wrestling na-....OH. Oh Dear."

If anybody is confused about his wrestling nickname it was the final solution. It faced controversy because of the Nazi regime which used the same name in regards to the Holocaust. They changed it to ‘the ultimate solution’ later because of this

Bane is feeling warm and fuzzy.

It's sad because he looks almost identical to the comics too. 😢 I'll just call this rendition "Bizarro Bane"

Even Scarecrow was portrayed better in "Batman Begins" than Bane was in this Movie

Imagine if this film had the comic accurate versions of the villains. Bane would be in charge for sure, or at least he'd be the biggest threat. I could see Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy taking advantage of the chaos that Bane unleashed, and loot some unguarded places. But they would probably work solo and not together.

What's ironic is that I was more afraid of Tom Hardy's Bane than Jeep Swenson's Bane precisely because the former was much more intelligent!

Just saying, if they wanted a monster man who is easily swayed via someone being nice to him...shoulda used Croc. Especially with the reptile experiments being done by Lionel Luthor

Unfortunately I have to agree with you, it's like Bane was thrown in as an afterthought. They should have given Rob something to work with.

I actually think the worst portrayal of a Batman villain is black mask in birds of pray. I’ve never seen a villain handled so poorly then how black mask was handled in that movie. Second worst is calendar man in suicide squad he was an actual joke in that movie.

I can take the nipples on the Batman and Robin suits. I can take all of Mr. Freeze's awful ice puns. I can take Uma Thurman hamming it up. I can stomach Batgirl. What I can't take is what they did to Bane in this movie. You gotta remember around that time Bane was a very hot comic book character. Nightfall had just happened so Bane was on the front of the mind of all comic readers. Adding Bane Batman and Robin just felt rushed to capitalize on Bane's popularity. Even if I didn't take anything besides his name and the venom from the comic books. While Tom Hardy as Bane wasn't perfect it was still a thousand times better than Bane from Batman and Robin.

I completely forgot he had any Line's, I mean I only watched Batman and Robin twice as a kid so that checks out

"His name is Bane"

I honestly prefer this to Tom hardy 😂 he’s just a middle eastern man with a mask in TDKR. At least he’s true to the design here.

Clearly Uma Thurman understood the assignment. She knew in what kind of movie she was.

I remember wanting to see Bane. Batman Knightfall was a big deal. Just like the death of Superman. Those comics came out just as I was getting into comic books. Seeing Bane treated as a silly dumb henchmen was annoying in a movie that was very annoying.

Ironically, there’s are 2 Batman villains who would have fit the role Bane had in this movie perfectly, 2 brutes who are pure muscle without much brains, Amygdala and Blockbuster. Using either of them would have been fine and brought more attention to lesser known Batman villains

This character feels more like he should have been Solomon Grundy, but I guess swole zombies aren't as toyetic as roided-up luchadors.

No chance man it has to be Mr. Freeze as soon as he said what killed the dinosaurs the ice age it was game over

I love your videos man. I watch any and all of them having to do with Batman or dc comics in general. Can’t wait to see the Christopher walken one. Keep up the amazing work and thank you for all the amazing content you post man. All of us appreciate you and your time making these videos for us.

As awful as his characterisation is, Bane's design is pretty good in this

I've thought a lot about what I would have done had I been in charge of the Batman features from 1989 on. There are many, many things I would have done differently but the most relevant to this video is I would have cut Bane at concept and just gone with Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy, played by Patrick Stewart and Julia Roberts. They were the obvious choices and they would have suffered if they had to share the screen with a superfluous third villain, which is what happened here

Bane is feeling warm & fuzzy!

I think it's more than some. The fact that they changed Barbara to be Alfred's niece rather than Gordon's daughter is the dumbest thing. Change just for the change is entirely pointless. Another really dumb is that traditionally Barbara keeps her identity secret even from Batman and Robin but literally the first this she does as Batgirl is reveal her secret identity. Also there's technically TWO actors who portrayed Bane in this movie and neither one of them were credited. Most of Bane's appearances were the larger drugged up version you mentioned in the video however there was another actor who had all of 2 scenes as Bane. The very first appearance of Bane was a much smaller skinny man who gets replaced by the wrestler only after the mad scientist dude injects him with Venom for the first time. He shows up again later in the movie when the tubes continuing to inject Venom into his body are cut. Michael Reid MacKay is the actor who plays Antonio Diego which is a name that's literally only spoken in the movie once by the mad scientist before reintroducing him as Bane. I don't blame you if you forgot that Bane actually had another name in that movie since it's very forgettable. Anyway, I don't think there is a good live action depiction of Bane at all. There's only been 2 versions of him and you actually have to combine those two versions in order to get one that works. This Bane LOOKS more accurate to the comics while the Dark Knight Rises version is totally unrecognizable as the character. They just randomly changed his design for no good reason. Supposedly it was to make him more realistic except the original design is base on a Mexican Luchador which is already a real thing and the Venom is actually a somewhat fictionalized version of steroids which are also a very real thing. They did exaggerate the effects for Venom and obviously changed the name. Dark Knight Rises wears a mask that's not based on anything and instead of being on drugs that make him stronger, he's on some kind of pain killers that are fed to him through the mask and would instantly stop working if he took the mask off which is also not a real thing. How can they claim to change him to make him more realistic when they took away things that were already based on real world things and replaces them with things that were entirely made up for the movie. My complaints about Dark Knight Rises Bane looks aside, the actual portrayal of the character is much closer to the comic book version with Bane actually being an intelligent character rather than a big dumb idiot. You have to combine the looks of the Batman and Robin version with the portrayal of the Dark Knight Rises version to get an actually good movie Bane. That said I'd much rather have a great portrayal with a terrible design than a great design with a terrible portrayal. So I prefer Dark Knight Rises despite how much I hate his appearance. I'm a little hesitant to actually call Bane the worst Big Screen Batman Villain though. There have been others who are much worse. Catwoman from the movie Catwoman which didn't even have anything to do with Batman... and despite her being the main character really didn't have anything to do with Catwoman either. The portrayal was wrong, the costume was wrong, the story was pretty much non-existent, it was just an excuse to put an attractive woman in a skimpy costume. The only some what interesting thing about the movie is that it kind of explains away the 3 different Catwomen from the Adam West series but the movie also takes itself way too seriously to fit in with that continuity. But yes the plot is so non-existent I remember watching it for the first time, the credits were still rolling and I was sitting there still wandering what the story was. I honestly had no clue who any of the characters were, what their motivations where, why they were fighting each other, I had no freaking what was happening the entire movie. I'd also put Scarecrow as a terrible big screen Batman villain. Johnathan Crang was actually in all three of the Christopher Nolan movies but there are so few scenes of the character that people still forget he existed at all. He played a major role in the first movie with the majority of his appearances being from Batman Begins. Even there though he's more of a plot device than an actual character. Ras Al Ghul is the one who ultimately uses his fear gas and that's really the only reason he was in the movie. I say he played a major role but his role was as a plot device so that Ras could obtain the Fear Gas. In the sequel he has except ONE SCENE where he's for some reason riding a horse and is immediately arrested. Where did he even get a horse in the middle of a large city? In the last movie he has exactly one scene where he doesn't even wear the Scarecrow mask. It's after Bane takes over the city and releases all the prisoners. Johnathan Crang put's the city's police on trial and banishes them to the ice covered waters outside the city. There's been several videos I've seen playing that scene who didn't even realize that guy was Scarecrow because that's how little of an impression he left that people don't recognize him after three movies as the same character. This guy is so bad a villain I wouldn't just call him the worst big villain but actually the worst Batman villain EVER! And Scarecrow, when he's done correctly, should not be forgettable. This is a character who should always make a lasting impression every time he's on screen. There are episodes of Batman the Animated Series where he's only a cameo that left more of a lasting impression than the movie version. Say what you want about Batman and Robin Bane being forgettable but we actually remember him enough to talk about him. When have you ever heard anyone talking about live action Scarecrow? Other than me. I'm pretty sure I'm the only person who remembers he exists.

So in batman and robin bane is just solomon grundy except it bane because at the time bane was still new villain at the time

“A laundry service that delivers. Wow.” Even if it’s ironic enjoyment, I kind of love Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Mr. freeze. It’s just the right level of cringe worthy comedy for me.

Bane is feeling warm and fuzzy

He's the dumbest bane in tv but also the coolest looking

Jeep Swenson (and us as an audience) did deserve better. RIP big guy!

Whens the last time bane been used for things other than being Muscle ? only in the comic does bane gets extended storylines with him showcasing his wits lol. on tv cartoons hes always just a brute or in most recent versions a little bit smarter but still just a bag of muscles .

Did they base Kane from the WWE on Bane from Batman and Robin? was Kane already on the scene? B&R came out in 1997

I know this movie for so long and actually just realised that Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Mr Freeze. How did I knewee know this

Feels like the only reason they put Bane in the movie was so that the villains and heroes had equal numbers

I'm pretty sure that Schwarzenegger was cast as Mr. Freeze because of his accent. It's clear from his design and writing that Schumacher was trying to ape Otto Preminger's performance in Batman '66, and Arnie had the accent to half-arse the heck out of it.

i mean the design was just perfect but he should have been a ultimate batman villiain tim burton should have be brought back to direct imagine this

This movie was a damn disgrace. And Arnold oughta' be ashamed of himself for this role.

i actually kinda like the design but his script is terrible he should have been a mastermind

The Bane voice lines actually went on longer than I thought, I thought half those were just grunts they're so difficult to understand 💀

I like the little bit from "I Think You Should Leave" 😂

I honestly like the joel batman movie. I saw it as a kid and it was like watching a living cartoon

The WORST??? What about titans scarecrow!?! He wasn’t even scarecrow while bane did a bad bane performance scarecrow just did a bad performance

here i am commenting during the intro just happy for another Vee upload

Damn, I found out Jeep literally died in the same year this movie launched

Personality-wise, I'll agree, they got it totally wrong. He acts more like Solomon Grundy than Bane. DESIGN-WISE, though, I think they nailed it. (with the yellow-green skin exception)

With how they wrote Bane for Batman and Robin they shoulda used Solomon Grundy instead

I thought this Bane was more dangerous if you catch the dialogue between Bruce and Dick they talk about when Bane and Poison Ivy first arrive at Gotham airport ten security guards attack Bane who then puts all those security guards into intensive care

As someone who’s favorite villain of all time is Bane, this incarnation of Bane not only makes me hate this movie but also is the reason why I never have and never will like Joel Schumacher

This movie could've used Rhino, and I mean the guy who worked for Scarface.

Dark Knight Rises 🤝 Batman & Robin Having terrible renditions of Bane

What was the bizarre clip where the guy doesn’t wanna be here anymore please? I can tell it was made for me

I agree that the whole movie is a mess. It’s easily my least favorite Batman movie, and Banes portrayal and just the fact that he’s only because he was popular at the time is one of the films problems. BUT (and I kind of have mixed feelings about this) he is EASILY my favorite character in that train wreck of a movie and the only thing that gives it rewatch value me personally. I just can’t get enough of his design and fight scenes. And funnily enough, his role isn’t that different from TDKR Bane.😂

At this point I don't think that WB/DC will even attempt at Bane a third time, even with James Gunn more "comic book accuracy", which is a shame, but I'm willing to take this back if they do manage a Bane in the future (I am however pissed at the fact that we won't get Batista as Bane, which again, shame)

I'm down to see vids on the other rouges gallery. Keep it up. 😁✌️

I thought his name was Vein as a kid because of this movie

My sister dated a dude working at a video rental place back in the day and he got me that same poster and the demo vhs for store use only of Little Nicky. I thought both were cool as hell

When they said Bane was going to be the main villain of Dark Knight Rises, I was like '...really?' That's because my only frame of reference for him at the time was this movie lol.

02:50 To be fair, if Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy both win you get the world of After Earth.

How was Arnold not bane??? Both brains and brawn, accent, huge.....

Batman & Robin had a TON of issues. not only with their version of Bane... remember Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr Freeze? LOL there's enough terrible content in that movie to cover, I'm sure someone has a 30 minute video on all the wacky fails in that movie.

Thoughs on dark knight bane or the animated series bane.

Are you gonna make videos on all the villains in the Lego Batman movie?

I'd love to see you make a video on the new Twisted Metal series released on Peacock.

Awesome video 😎👍 Batman And Robin and villains in the film 👎👎👎

The design was pretty good though

Tom Hardy Bane should have worn this mask, not that ridiculous face trap he stole from Jigsaw.

The depiction of Bane I grew up with... was the version from the Lego Games. As a kid, the Batman and Robin version was bad because he was green and too dumb. The Dark Knight Rises version looked boring. I didn't even care about the luchador angle I was introduced to through injustice (AKA his actual characterization.) "Whatever you build, I will break" was his personality, and I thought he was awesome.

bane isnt among my favorite batman villians but do prefer the dark knight rises version of him when it comes to a live action movie version.

Fun fact this was my introduction to Bane 😂

I thought he was ok but then again i also thought Batman & Robin was stupid fun 😆🤷‍♂️

Wow I totally forgot about Bane in B&R but he's still better than Bane in TDKR

Chemicals make him strong, forget to give him brain.

The voice of this "Bane" sounds more like Solomon Grundy growling.

4:19 I thought his name was Egghead 🤔🤔🤔

Those ideas of future video ideas listened at the end of this would be fun to see.

This makes me appreciate the dark knight rises version of bane so much more. That version wasn't perfect but at least he still felt sort of true to his character