Bane (DC)

&nbsp Bane is a villain from the Batman series. He is powered by a machine on his back that infects his body with Venom. He once managed to break the Batman`s spine. He was the only villain ever, to litteraly break the Batman. He is one of the Batman`s more formidable foe's.

Batman: Arkham Asylum
In Batman: Arkham Asylum, Bane is a prisoner of Arkham Asylum. However, he does not reside in an cell, but in the medical facility. Doctor young secretly experiments on him with a new poison, called Titan. This makes Bane even more powerfull than he already was. When Batman finds him, the Joker starts the machine on his back, thus making Bane dangerously strong. He breaks through a wall and starts fighting the Batman in the boiler room. When the boiler room starts collapsing, Batman escapes, but Bane follows him and grabs him from behind. Batman can only escape by remote controlling the Batmobile. He makes it hit Bane, who crashes into the water, along with the Batmobile. Bane calls Dr. Young "Bruja" which is Spanish for witch.

His profile in the character bios states:

Imprisoned from birth to serve his dead father`s sentence, Bane was raised inside the horrific environ of a Santa Prisca prison; his only friend in the hellhole was a teddy bear he named Osito. Finding solace in smuggled books and meditation, he developed incredible powers of concentration. When he was subjected to military experiments using a steroid codenamed Venom, his iron-forged will helped him survive when other test subjects had died, and he managed to escape. Determined to prove his worth, he sought out Batman and broke the Dark Knight`s spine. But Batman recovered and managed to best Bane, cutting of the precious Venom supply that transforms Bane into a superhuman.