How He Became

Bane was to serve his father's life sentence in the prison Peña Duro in Santa Prisca. In prison, he gathered a great amount of knowledge and became a body builder. With the harsh treatment of prison, he learnt to protect himself from other prisonmates. During prison, he had a teddy bear called Osito who was his only friend. Behind the bear's head was a knife so Bane could use it anytime he felt threatened. Bane was now the king of the prison, manipulating through his strength and intellect. The prison guards took note of this, and decided he should be the subject of an experiment where scientists would inject a drug called Venom. It had killed all other subjects. Bane undertook this experiment in which it nearly killed him, but he survived and he discovered that his strength increased greatly. He must take it every 12 hours though, as it causes side-effects if he doesn't.

Knightfall

Issue #497 There goes Batman's back!

He soon escaped Peña Duro along with a few friends. He soon turned to destroying Batman as he heard many tales of him during his sentence. Bane was smart enough to avoid a direct confrontation with Batman, so he punched the walls of Arkham Asylum and many criminals were let free. Batman spent three months catching them and was exhausted. He returned to his manor where Bane was waiting for him. They both fought in the Batcave where Bane broke his back and threw him down from a building. Bane was now the ruler of the criminal world, and Bruce Wayne gave up the mantle to Jean-Paul Valley. During his time as Batman, he didn't fight crime like Bruce, he once ended up killing a criminal. Jean-Paul also had a cold relationship with Robin, refusing to acknowledge him as his partner. However, during Jean-Paul's time as Batman, he confronted Bane and cut his tubes which fed him his Venom. It caused him great pain and received a severe beating but Jean-Paul let Bane live.

Legacy

Bane recovered from Venom while serving time in prison. He escaped from prison to fight with Batman to get rid of a criminal group who was distributing Venom themselves. Following these events, Bane exclaimed that he realised all the bad things he had done and urged him to see him as a good guy rather than bad. He then left Gotham to look for his father. He questioned Jesuit, a teacher of his while he served time. Jesuit told him there could've been one of four men that was his father. When looking for his father in Rome, he encountered Talia, who was the daughter of the supervillain Ra's al Ghul. Bane was introduced to him, and was so impressed that Ra's al Ghul left him as the heir. Ra's al Ghul and Bane became developed a good business relationship, unleashing a plague amongst Gotham City. Bruce Wayne was back to being Batman and defeated him, but just narrowly. Later on when they both confront each other, they usually end up in a draw, Bane not using Venom anymore. Bane soon had a fallout with Ra's al Ghul and searched the Lazarus Pit to destroy it and in the process met Black Canary.

Continuing his search for his father, it was possible that it was an American doctor. He did some more research to discover that Bruce Wayne's father had become close to Bane's mother. Bane told Batman and DNA tests were run while Bane fought alongside Batman once again. It was then revealed that Dr. Wayne was not Bane's father, and he left Gotham peacefully, Batman and Bane on good terms. Bane finally found his father, him being King Snake. Bane and Batman foiled King Snake's plan. Bane was shot trying to save Batman. Bane was then put in the Lazarus Pit and was healed once again.

Infinite Crisis and One Year Later

Bane was fighting alongside the villains and broke Judomaster's back. Bane came back one year after the Crisis and searched for the Hourmen. He discovered that there was a new and more addicting version of the drug Venom. He returns to his home and stops the drug ring operation that was distributing Venom. During his time trying to foil it, he was captured and was injected again with Venom. However, he never really had the drug in him and managed to stop the drug opertaion. He is later a member of Suicide Squad capturing villains and exiling them until he is betrayed by Rick Flag Jr. On "Hell" planet he sides with Luthor and defeats Thunder and Lightning when they try to free the Martain Manhunter.