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While many inGotham , and indeed , Batman himself , would considerJokerto be the metropolis ’s most dangerous criminal creative thinker , they would all be fools to discountBane . While Joker has certainly captured the public eye in both Gotham and the real world , Bane has formally just surpassed the Clown Prince of Crime as Gotham ’s deadliest criminal mind .

Over the course of the Joker serial , James Gordon has check the on-key nature of the DC world , and the fact that a hush-hush cabal of radical - wealthy cannibals exist and protect each other . This cabal influences governments , corporations , and religious organizations . EnterCressida , Gordon ’s point of tangency within the Court of Owls ; her father was kick out from his leadership position within the Court of Owls , Cressida found herself on the political campaign from both the Court and the connection . She wanted retaliation , but she lacked the intellect to put together a water - tight plan to add both organizations down . So , she sought out the supervillain who did possess such a knavish mind , Bane .

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InJoker#14 by James Tynion IV and Giuseppe Camuncoli , James Gordon ’s quest to stop Joker once and for allbegins reaching its thrilling termination in Hooper County , Texas . As Gordon puddle his last preparation for one last play against the sadistic Sampson kin , he last sees the gravid pic and determines who is genuinely behind his present predicament , and the withering A - Day flack . After joining all the pieces of the mystifier , Gordon decide that the Einstein behind A - Clarence Day , and sicking the cannibalistic internet and Sampson home on Joker is none other than Bane , who is alive and well !

With Cressida ’s assist , Bane executed A - daylight in a way to both frame Joker and rile the Clown Prince of Crime up to strap out at The connection . Thebody discovered in Bane ’s cell was a clonestolen from the connection , part of their research into creating a new generation of designer supervillains they could hold . Bane get it on how Joker would respond , and played him like a fiddle to draw out the connection and the Sampsons .   While historically Joker has always been Batman ’s rival and Gotham ’s most feared villain , in recent history Bane has clearly dethroned the Clown as Gotham ’s prominent badness . In late age , Bane gain ascendency of the city , killed Alfred , and now stimulate the A - solar day Massacre which pushed the city into the authoritarian weapons system of the Magistrate . Bane was always meant to be as cute as he is physically imposing , yet his late issue history has understandably taken the character to new heights , and cemented his place at the top of Gotham ’s underworld .

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Joker may be Batman ’s most iconic foe , yet as Gotham and the Caped Crusader are likely to find out soon , Bane has become the city ’s de facto greatest mastermind . As Gordon ’s deeply personal quest reaching it ’s resolution in the forsaken Hooper County , Texas , he realizes that all the recent misfortune that his befallen Batman , and indeedGotham , was part ofBane’schilling grand blueprint and desire for conquest .

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