Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight remixes familiar Batman film plot points and characters into one consistent story. Penguin shifts from crime boss to mayoral hopeful with animalistic creepiness. Catwoman blends Michelle Pfeiffer’s Batman Returns portrayal with the general comic idea of a white-hat thief. Poison Ivy draws from Uma Thurman’s Batman & Robin version because that is the main on-screen template. The game notably diverges in its portrayal of Bane. Batman & Robin presents Bane as a steroided thug with limited speech, serving as dumb muscle for Poison Ivy. The comics instead emphasize Bane’s criminal mastermind status and strategic genius, including the Knightfall arc where he plans months of assaults before breaking Batman’s spine.
"Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is a pastiche of Batman stories, especially those from the films. That makes it fun to view from a modern lens, as the story reinterprets famous plot points and characters and merges them together to tell one consistent story. And thanks to that freedom, Lego Batman has seen fit to correct one of the worst and most infamous Bat-crimes in all of cinematic history."
"However, Lego Batman smartly breaks from this for its portrayal of Bane. In Batman & Robin, Bane was little more than a 'roided-up thug. (He also wears a hat.) He was dumb muscle for Poison Ivy. He barely spoke because he barely could speak. He was the Hulk from Marvel Comics, transposed into a Batman movie. And not even Smart Hulk."
"For fans of the comics, this was deeply annoying. Bane is one of Batman's greatest foes, not because he's a massive muscle man-though he is that too-but because he's also a criminal mastermind and strategic genius. The comics' Knightfall arc culminated in Bane breaking the Bat's spine over his knee like a twig, but that only happened after months of planning to systematically assault and traumatize Batman, physically exh"
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