I AM BANE!"
Bane was also highly intelligent, with a talent for planning and careful study of his target. However, the Venom could be dangerous when used in excess; during their first encounter, Batman defeated Bane by triggering an overdose of the drug into Bane's head and stopped the flow just before Bane literally burst. When the Venom was injected into his brain (from a dispenser usually mounted on his arm, and fed through tubes connected to his mask), Bane achieved superhuman strength and endurance (although not enough to defeat Superman). ―Bane to Batman when he is defeated. Bane's abuse of Venom ultimately became his undoing in the end. He had been using Venom so frequently for so long that his body developed a dependency on it, to the point that he ultimately needed Venom just to stay alive. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Bane was a chemically-boosted assassin who was hired by Rupert Thorne to kill Batman. I am invincible! He had also schemed to supplant Thorne as head of organized crime in Bane later returned to Gotham with a new and enhanced form of Venom. In his career, Bane became fascinated by Batman, and had studied him carefully in the hope of one day defeating him. During Batman's unexplained absence from Gotham, Bane proposed an alliance with Unlike many other of Batman's enemies, Bane had no diagnosed mental problems, and was usually incarcerated at Stonegate Penitentiary instead of Decades later, Bane's constant use of Venom had degraded his body and transformed him into a wheelchair-bound invalid, who was barely able to move and needed constant infusions of Venom just to stay alive as he did not give himself permission to die. Bruce Wayne paid Bane the tribute of telling Bane was an Olympic-level athlete with immense strength even without Venom. His employment by Rupert Thorne to eliminate Batman was the job that Bane had waited for. "You cannot do this to me! Bane came close, but Batman defeated him by a slim margin. It especially worsened upon old age, as his lifelong use of the substance degraded his body and weakened him to the point that he became incapacitated, leaving him in need of a caretaker for the remainder of his life.