A brilliant military mind and strategist, Bane was denied any hope for a normal life when he was forced to rot away within a foreign prison as a child for a crime his father committed. Since his father passed away before his sentence could be completed, Bane was forced to take his place in the prison, where he toned his body and mind to perfection and was eventually subjected to military experiments. He had a height of 6'6" and a weight of 285 lbs in his standard appearance, and an estimated height of 7'5" and an estimated weight of 500 lbs after taking TN-1.