#and all but dragging this same Catman out of a conflict while defending Nightwing's right to the mantle because that's his son

[righteousruin]

I love this conversation because it's good and funny and important all at once, but I hate, loathe, that this had to be Bane's conclusion for the sake of a poorly handled reboot to make him a straight up villain after years of Bane recovering -- It's extremely dumb because he's literally been losing his shit to the point of having several members of his team Hold Him Back over any offense against Scandal Savage. Bane's resource guarding and spontaneous, murderous temper has been a running gag the entire series. It makes no sense that it would suddenly matter regarding Spencer, except that he had to backpedal for DC to ruin his character arc in the reboot.

What makes it worse is his 'no i won't bow to any religion' when he's spent this whole arc actively citing western religious morality (and saying that being trapped in a cell with the eye of god watching you sounded 'glorious'), and his 'I'm going to hell regardless I should just do what I want and be horrible on purpose' was nipped in the bud by Scandal literally two issues prior to this. And there is no world in which I could be convinced there was no conflict with Scandal about his implants and his intention to get back on venom after everything they went through together.

Anyway yes this is another post about how much I hate reboot Bane and I just think if they were going to put him through a mid-life crisis, someone should've addressed that in canon by now.