Bane's Strength In The Dark Knight Rises

Bane is the shiz.

@ yossarian

never looked at it that way,you're spot on with that.

@ marveluffugus

nothing else showing at your local theatre,whatever floats your boat but i would rather see a different film each time i went to the cinema & not the same one 13 times.

@Hybrid0027:

"After some research I came to the conclusion that it was most likely constructed of concrete instead of limestone or marble. A tool usually used to break concrete is a jack hammer, which on average generates at least 1,000 lbs of force per square inch while basic concrete has the durability to take around 3,000 lbs of force per square inch before breaking. After doing some math and more research....the average male adult hand is 4.3405483333333 square inches which means if it were a jack hammer tip it could generate about 4340.54833333 lbs of force, easily enough to break basic concrete. That means that Bane has the ability to punch with the force of a jack hammer, impressive".

No offence Hybrid0027, but I do feel like this is deeply flawed logic. Bone is very strong yes, but its strength is in its unique self-repairing honeycomb construction and stress and weight-bearing properties. That is far removed from saying that the human hand could punch a chunk out of a concrete column.

Bone is strong yes. Scientists have taken a cubic centimeter of it and put it under an industrial press that measured resistance, and also done the same with a cubic centimeter of concrete. The bone was far stronger due to its internal honeycomb construction. But thats far from saying that bone would perform the same when stressed in different ways like impact or pressured-twisting. There are of course many instances of people steping off a curb wrong and with only their bodyweight, fracturing or breaking ankles or legs.

Your jackhammer-technology analogy does not take into account that the technolgy also uses the force generated by hydralics concentrated into a relatively thin point and into a material that is much harder.

A fist is also many times the surface area of a jackhammer tip, with honeycombed bone a much less dense a material and swung with far less force than hydralics muster,(even if he is very strong for a Human) would in no way be able to generate the same amount of force in a swing and would not be able to punch a chunk out of a concrete column.

In my youth I punched a bedroom wall in anger, with all of my strength, and all of my fury. Believe you me - the brick wall didn't move. I forget what I was angry about way back then, but apparently on an x-ray for a later injury 12+ years later they found I had fractured a bone near my knuckle.
I hadn't felt it at all at the time and apparently it (luckily) healed back together in-place so as to be functionally perfect again.

My point is, EVEN if you don't feel it, bone STILL fractures, still breaks, and its a lot easier to do than in the movies.

This is another one of those examples in Nolan's 'school of realism' (along with Batman gliding and landing without breaking his legs) - that you've got to take with a pinch of salt and relative suspension of disbelief.

Nice try but no sale.
;)

The reason why Bane is so strong is that he feels no pain so he does not hold himself back. If regular people like us were to punch a concrete pillar we would hold ourselves back because we know that it would hurt very bad but Bane doesn't feel anything. He most likely broke his hand doing that but he would never know because he doesn't feel. Also you put in account that he is a very strong human being to begin with he is borderline super human.

I second MrReese's comment.

No matter how strong you are, a pillar will break skin and bones.

@limode:

If ya dunt reed ya wunt lurn nuffin. :)