So I have been avoiding spoilers for The Dark Knight Rises but two things came to mind when I was in the shower...
1) In Batman Begins when Batman tells Commissioner Gordon that it wasn't Cranes master plan to poison the city he says something like..."no its something worse" Could he be in fact alluding to Bane, considering he thought Ras was dead?
2) The Mask that Bane uses... what if he uses it because of the fire Bruce caused at the League of Shadows house in the mountains in Batman Begins... Maybe Bruce was the direct cause of Banes respiratory problems?
Anyways I wouldn't go in depth because I have a knack of getting carried away, but just like Huggy Bear I lay it out for yall to play it out...