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In one of those "I can't believe none of us thought to do this sooner" moments, one fan of The Dark Knight Rises has merged the masks of Batman and Bane. In an ideal world, Christian Bale would put this on and combine his Dark Knight voice with the dulcet tones of Tom Hardy's Bane, leading to roughly 10 billion "such a lovely, lovely voice" jokes on the internet...

Opinions about The Dark Knight Rises are a little bit mixed here at ComicsAlliance, but I think we can all agree that Tom Hardy's swaggering, vest-tugging portrayal of Bane is a delight. Still, there are more than a few questions left about Bane in the film, and not just about where he received his obvious Broadway musical training...

So that's one Internet discussion we can put to rest. I mean, I know it's tempting fate to say that, but the evidence is conclusive: Bane's voice was indeed modified between early screenings of The Dark Knight Rises' prologue late last year and the film that was released earlier this month...

The Dark Knight Rises arrives in theaters on July 20, but those simply longing to see Tom Hardy's Bane surf a camo Tumbler can celebrate early with the reveal of new 1/6 scale action figures from Hot Toys. That's right, Bane and his presumed version of Batman's Tumbler are getting the Hot Toys treatment, and all the trimmings that go along with it...

On sale now, Entertainment Weekly's summer movie preview for 2012 comes with quite a lot of new images and information pertaining to The Dark Knight Rises, the new Christopher Nolan film based on the Batman character created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger...

Courtesy of Entertainment Weekly comes a handful of new images from The Dark Knight Rises, the third and final chapter of writer/director Christopher Nolan's beloved Batman film cycle. Shots include a very nice closeup of Tom Hardy's Bane, revealing all the details about his mask, and a great full-torso photograph of Christian Bale's Batman that also spotlights the many intricacies of his costume.

When the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises was released on December 19, it broke the record for most downloads through the iTunes Movie Trailers site and the iTunes Trailer app, with more than 12.5 million views in 24 hours. It seems like the next 24 hours brought about 12...

As we predicted in our early review of The Dark Knight Rises prologue, actor Tom Hardy's heavily affected accent filtered through the mouth-covering mask of Bane has resulted in an immediately distinctive and eminently mockable voice. Reports indicated that director Christopher Nolan was largely satisfied with Bane's speech but that slight modifications were forthcoming...

While there has been some infinitesimal measure of divide amongst viewers of The Dark Knight Rises prologue and trailer with respect to their overall awesomeness, what is 100% unanimous is the audience's estimation of Bane: you can't understand what he's saying through that mask, at least not on the first listen...

Warner Bros. has unveiled an ominous one sheet poster for The Dark Knight Rises, showcasing Tom Hardy's Bane walking away from a shattered Batman mask beneath some even more foreboding text reading, "The Legend Ends." Following this week's screening of The Dark Knight Rises prologue, the image is especially intense for Batfans...