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EDIT: Mild spoilers for TDKR under the cut. I’m sorry!!!!

dissociate replied to your post: The Dark Knight Rises thoughts under the cut….

I have minimal source material knowledge here because I am not a DC gal, so– is Bane a POC (or ambiguously probably-not-white) in the comics?

Well, Bane was born on the Caribbean Republic of Santa Prisca (a place made up for the comics but w/e). This I got from Wikipedia. Wrt his parentage, iirc his father is white? With his mother being from the islands. (So we really could/should have had two mixed people in the roles of Talia AND Bane).  But I wouldn’t quote me on it— my experience with Bane has been v. limited.

But, yeah, he is definitely unambiguously not white.


  1. dissociate said: Ah, gotcha. Not having known that I was happy when Hardy was cast because I love that guy, but whitewashing = bad. (They need to do New X-Men or AA movies and cast them properly, because diverse casts and gr8 stories).
  2. vejigante said: Yeah, it still bugs me that they didn’t even try looking for a Hispanic actor.
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