Catwoman Is take-it-or-leave-it for me, but Bane… BANE!!
YES!! VERY YES!
Batman NEEDS a villain who can match him now, and Bane is pretty much it.
@Mr.333:
Bane is flat. Realize that. He's all strength. A brute with limited intellect that has limited option in the way he can be portrayed.
Sigh Why must people insist on talking about something as if they know about it, when a simple Wikipedia or DC Wikia search will yield the correct information?
Bane is a genius, cold cool and calculating. He was actually raised in the walls of a prison, one that luckily had a GREAT prison library, so he spent literally all of his time reading and training his body, it was all he could do. So he's become a bona-fide Genius of moderate strength. Then they experimented on him.
They made him take a substance called "Venom" which is basically Steroids… on Steroids. That's the best way to describe them. THAT is why he's so freaking huge.
Bane is one of the smartest people in the DC Universe, to the point that Ra's Al Ghul flat out said Bane "has a mind equal to the greatest I have ever known".
@Mr.333:
Jervis Tech, on the other hand, is a more of a complex villain. He is obsessive-compulsive, highly delusional, suffers from psychotic manic depression, and can even sometimes be homicidal. It has been hinted in recent years that he is a also a pedophile, kidnapping little girls with the name "Alice". His added technological skill as a former neuron-technician only helps to make him more flexible and easy to mesh in different ways when it comes to film.
Tetch REALLY wouldn't work too terribly well with Nolan's more realistic Gotham. His one main gimmick in the comics is his Mind Control stuff, and… that wouldn't really fit here.
@Mr.333:
I swear, do Hollywood executives even read the comics they're adapting? I can't believe that, rather than giving fresh, interesting, and complex villains at chance to be brought into the spotlight, they instead opt to hash out the same villains for iconicity's sake. That's when a series starts to go downhill.
Yes, The people writing these stories do. (That's Chris & Johnathan Nolan, David S. Goyer, etc) but I Swear, do people on forums even read the comics whose adaptions they're bitching about? Because… you assuming Bane was just a moronic muscle-headed brute and then bitching about how these people "Don't read the comics" made me laugh hard.
They clearly read the comics because of how much of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were DIRECTLY Adapted from other comics. Batman Begins was clearly based on Frank Miller's Batman Year One.
The Dark Knight was pretty much a direct adaptation of Harvey Dent's Story from Batman: The Long Halloween. (Obviously removing the Holiday Killer Portions) mixed in with just a hint of the Killing Joke.
Seriously, the Long Halloween (when you ignore the Holiday Killer Parts) is about Batman, Gordon and Dent meeting atop Gotham PD and making a 3-way pact to take down the Mob together. Meanwhile, the Mob realizes they're being cornered by the Batman, so they unleash the "Freaks" on him. (In the Book, it's a cadre of Batman's Foes, in TDK it was just the Joker) in the story, it culminates with Harvey being scarred on one side of his face by Maroni and made into Two-Face.
Also, This is the final page of the book. What was one of the major marketing taglines of TDK?
I think, and wholeheartedly hope, that TDK: Rises is gonna be a loose adaptation of the Knightfall arc, with the title "The Dark Knight Rises" having the meaning of the Dark Knight Rising from the ashes of his defeat at Bane's hand at some point in the movie.
@Bill:
Actually there is one hint in Begins and that they pronounce "Ra's al Ghul' Raz'-Al-Ghul, this is different from the comics and and other media which commonly pronounce it as Ray'sh Al-Ghul. Maybe they can give the next guy the chance to play a version more akin to the comics iteration and pronounce him by that. Its possible.
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeres the thing…
Ra's was created by Denny O'Neal. Who is not Arabic.
Ra's name is Arabic for "The Demon's Head" which is written "رأس الغول" in Arabic.
I have asked multiple people what the right pronunciation is, and here's what happens.
Non-Arabic speaking Comic book fans bitch and moan and say "Denny O'Neal said it was supposed to be 'Raysh' so it's 'Raysh' God damnit!"
Every person I've spoken to who knows "Arabic" says it's supposed to be Much closer to "Raaz" as the movie put it. It's actually like "Raatz" said the same as in the movie but with a bit of a T sound thrown in there.
Like this website complete with an Audio file of the person saying it.
I, myself, do not speak Arabic. Again, this is just what I heard, but I asked people who actually spoke this language, and that's what they said. I was told that something sounding closer to "Raysh" Al Ghul would actually come closer to "The Demon's Feather"… which is not what Denny O'Neal intended his name to MEAN.
So... Yeah, it's Raaz.